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Not seeing anyone else reporting it yet but this guy generally isn't fake news.

He will definitely be undersized in some matchups. Hope is that his athleticism helps make up for it; he's generally been a good rim protector at least but his rebounding numbers are pretty poor.

Actual insider info: we're making a push for Emmanuel Stephen from Arizona to be our backup C. Pretty raw player but 7 foot with athleticism. We'll see if we get it done but it sounds like that's who we've set our sights on. William Kyle to be the starting center and this kid to be the backup.

Everything I've heard is that we just were not prepared for the NIL era at all and we are confident we know what we're doing now and at least for these next two years, should have plenty of money to go around. Carmelo is making sure the school is well-supported while Kiyan is here. Also, no insider info on this one, but just from what I've read about the guys that we've reached out to, my guess would be Jerry Deng is a name to keep an eye on. Grew up in Rochester before moving away and even when he transferred to Florida State, hes continued to bring up how much he loved and misses Rochester and he absolutely fits the mold that Autry is looking for. I just feel like this is a match that makes sense.

Some people that are in the know are saying Naithan George from GA Tech is our #1 target for PG and our assistant coaches just started following him on social media so we'll see what comes of that. Lot of teams interested in him.

His shooting numbers inside the arc, from 3 point land, and at the free throw line over the last few years are all elite. I'll take my chances on that every time even if the competition wasn't the best.

Unfortunately I don't have any other names that I feel strongly about. I had never gotten information from the guy that initially mentioned William Kyle, but that name was so out of left field that I felt like he couldn't be making it up. Nate Kingz and Dishon Jackson are the other two names he said to keep an eye on and then the buzz around Kingz came in shortly after that. Haven't heard anyone else corroborate Dishon but still keeping an eye on that one given the guy's track record out of nowhere lol. Desmond Claude was a name that someone else mentioned to me and they've been reliable in the past. I don't think Claude has entered the portal yet though.

Apparently some buzz that we're talking to Nate Kingz, sharpshooter from Oregon State and Dishon Jackson, big man from Iowa State.

Committed.

Apparently the guy that we're secretly targeting scores a bit more than Dedan, but yeah, I've seen some other fans floating Dedan's name around as a guy they'd like to add. I still don't know who it is, but my best guess is that it's one of the following (listed in my guess as to the order of likelihood): Desmond Claude, USC Xaivian Lee, Princeton Jaland Lowe, Pittsburgh TK Simpkins, Elon Ryan Conwell, Xavier Langston Reynolds, Northern Colorado I'm also fairly certain but don't know for sure that we're trying to get Quincy Ballard to come back home to be our starting C for next year.

Starting to hear buzz that William Kyle from UCLA is one of our transfer targets. My assumption is he'd be a depth PF/C type.

Haven't been posting here lately but the only one I was surprised by was Cuffe but I suspect he was told there wouldn't be a role for him next season. Supposedly we should be hearing leaks about who we're targeting for PG sometime this week. Sounds like we intend to spend a good amount of money on whoever it is.

I think this is all fair, though Worthy was still trending up over the 2nd half of the season (a couple invisible portions of games notwithstanding). Worthy was ultimately better than Coleman in year 1, though there was a handful of rookie WRs better than both of them this year, including one or two that were drafted after them). We'll see if that continues to be the case moving forwards. Coleman looked pretty promising earlier in the year before he got hurt; hopefully he'll continue to improve over the offseason and turn into a good starter for us. I certainly recognize some people's frustrations with him, especially over the 2nd half of the year when he was mostly invisible. I think it was a solid rookie season overall though, especially given how young and raw he is. It just so happens that this class was very, very good so merely being solid is still outside the top 5 rookie WRs.

Not sure to be honest, but the teams that have made it that far in the playoffs without really ever having a high scoring game the way the Chiefs did this season is pretty rare too.

Honestly could say this for pretty much all of our receiving options. Kincaid - revealed torn PCL and other knee injuries that he was playing through Coleman - missed several games and simply didn't look like the same player once he returned Cooper - rumors of him having to spend a ton of time with the training staff/weirdly underutilized (could maybe explain it as we went run-heavy and he's not as good a run blocker as Mack and Coleman but I'm skeptical that's the real reason) Samuel - turf toe or whatever it was that he had in the preseason is notoriously a nagging injury and particular important for his specific skill set and he was not moving like his usual self for like 80% of the season Entirely possible and maybe even likely that Kincaid and Coleman just aren't going to pan out the way we hoped, Cooper is over the hill, and Samuel just isn't as good as we thought he was, but there's at least a chance that all of them look much better next season. I assume Kincaid, Coleman, and Samuel will all be back and be given decent opportunity to prove themselves. Cooper probably walking but we'll see.

From a talent perspective, that would be a gigantic upgrade. He's obviously got a lot of issues that arguably make the talent not worth it though.

Saying he wasn't great is underselling it a bit. The only coach in NFL history with a worse winning percentage is Hue Jackson.

@GunnerBill Where are you at in your scouting process right now? Curious if you have some guys you already like/some guys you've circled to keep an eye on but haven't really finished scouting yet. I haven't seriously scouted the WRs at all this year, but just from watching some of the games on TV, Xavier Restrepo is one guy that I could easily see outplaying his draft position. But I know he's been comped by some to Khalil Shakir which obviously implies maybe too redundant of a skillset. The homer in me wouldn't mind seeing Jackson Meeks as a Day 3 pick.

You said he contributed far more than Coleman which is objectively false. If you want to argue that his per snap production being a rounding error higher than Coleman's suggests Worthy is a slam dunk and Coleman is a bust, so be it I guess but it's a silly take. If you simply think Worthy will continue to improve, Coleman will not, and as a result, Worthy will ultimately be a much better player long-term, I'm not going to argue you on that. But they were essentially equals as rookies; both okay but not as good as some of their peers (Nabers, Harrison, Thomas, McConkey, etc.) Then again, they were two of the youngest WRs in the draft and both considered to be raw so they never should have been expected to outperform more finished products like McConkey in their rookie season.

If I'm crunching the numbers right, we can convert base salary to bonuses for Josh and Dion to free up roughly $18 million (getting us to $15 mil in cap space) and then can cut Von to get up into the 30s. Don't have a ton of roster spots to fill so that space could theoretically go a long ways.

They were pretty much exactly equals if we're talking about this season. Coleman missed a handful of games, but Worthy averaged 43.6 yards per game to Coleman's 43.4 and if you care more about a per snap basis, Worthy was at 0.98 yards per snap compared to Coleman's 0.94. Essentially the same PFF grade, with Coleman being slightly higher than Worthy (68.8 vs. 65.2). Worthy was better tonight, and Coleman definitely faded down the stretch this season while Worthy improved, but to answer your question, no, Worthy did not contribute far more this season.

Regarding the screen, Josh saw them loading up to blitz and audibled to it. Probably 9 times out of 10, that goes for a first down. Karloftis or however you spell it made a great read and got over there in time to shut it down.

To be fair, Dungy ultimately did win a Super Bowl and is a literal Hall of Fame coach (and probably better historically than Gruden). And Tampa didn't have a young Gruden in the wings either; they traded multiple 1st and multiple 2nd round picks to get him.

I think there comes a time where you have to consider making a move and just hoping something different clicks a little better. Having said that, I think this was probably the best coaching year of McDermott's career and I think he's somewhere around the 4th-10th best coach in the league right now. Not much room for an upgrade and a ton of space for a downgrade. But you don't necessarily need an upgrade. Anyways, I personally would not move on from him this offseason and I don't think Buffalo will, but I get it if fans want to.