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That’s great, too bad he won’t see the field this year now due to missing TC and McD being afraid of young talent, but at least he has a shot to be inactive on game days now.

Spoken like someone from Ohio.

All reports say otherwise on his work ethic, so I don’t know where you get that.

I see what you did there. Well done. Jerry Hughes was so bad they took Kelvin Shepard for him and he turned into a stud here. I honestly think Elam still can do well. With what Dallas has gotten out of lesser talent at CB, I don’t know if he could have found a better place. I won’t be shocked to see him really take off.

I’m hoping we throw on of the youngest secondaries in the league on the field. There was a huge lack of talent last year and they have enough guys to replace all of those incumbents. I doubt they will bc McD is afraid to lose, not playing to win, so I expect more of the same.

I am saying the fans of both teams are biased towards their own guy. I agree Allen is the better passer, and I’ll stand on the soap box all day that Lamar is a far better long ball passer, he has touch that Allen simply does not. Allen misses a LOT of deep shots, so much so that that basically took it out of the playbook. That doesn’t mean he can’t throw a 35 yard dime into and impossible window from his back foot and a guy hanging in his waste, he absolutely can. But given a chance to throw the nice arching bomb to a spot down field for a WR to catch in stride, he’s not very good at all. He’s unquestionably the worst of the best QBs at it. He’s great, but touch is still not his best attribute. Lamar, for all his lesser abilities in the passing game throws a much better deep ball. I think you are confusing “big time throws” with deep ball. Not the same thing.

Both are great, Allen is the better passer, Jackson is maybe the best runner we have ever seen at QB and is a good passer at this point. The biggest difference is Allen is a finisher and Jackson hasn’t proved he can do it on the big stage. I’d take Allen all day, everyday, but some of that is simply bias. Both are HOF bound, both are game changers, both have had mediocre receiving and mediocre offensive coaches, both have carried their teams as far as one guy can. I’m happy as can be with Allen, but if the Bills had taken Jackson, 95% of the people here claiming Allen is clearly better, would be making the opposite claim if Jackson were a Bill. They impact the game in slightly different ways, but the stats don’t lie (too much), they are pretty even overall. Jackson gets more “easy” passes due to the scheme and the threat of him running past you if you don’t contain him. He’s also a more accurate deep ball passer and I don’t care who wants to argue that, just go watch him. When a guy is running open, Jackson puts it on them, Josh is not a great deep ball passer, even though he can probably throw the ball 75 yards falling backwards, his touch isn’t great.. actually it’s not even good. Allen is an absolute Brute FORCE, you can’t tackle the guy with anyone less than a lineman 1 on 1 and 99.9% of linemen can’t catch him. He gets a lot of short rushing TDs bc of this. His scramble game might be the best ever (Mahomes is stupid good too), he can make throws that only 1% of people to ever play in the NFL can make. Most importantly, with the game on the line, there’s nobody in the league I’d trade him for.

He’ll end up being paid like Dak, vastly over market and way too much guaranteed bc Jerruh thinks he’s getting a bargain and over pays literally everyone.

Actually… they really didn’t. Just over 4k in yards for JA is all you even have to look at to know the receiving wasn’t good.

So you would purpose trying to draft the franchise QB then waste a 1st round pick on a #1 WR rental so you have a proven guy? Sounds good, what could go wrong?

Nah, both great players, but Strahan was arguably the best at his position for a few years and Thurman was always behind Emmit , Sanders, etc.

He’s better of banging balls in the basement than banging bartenders, so I think he might just get his simulator.

It was a bad year for a guy of his capabilities, I have to believe it was mostly injury related, but some of it is just plain underperforming. I know if you aren’t 100% neither is your focus, so I’ll give him a pass, but watching that 4th down drop more is just painful. Kelce makes that play 99% of the time, maybe Kincaid does too and that’s the 1%. I don’t know for sure, but I know that was every bit as costly of a drop as Andrews’ in the end zone. After his rookie year, the bar was set pretty high and he rolled under it last season. Hopefully, he’s back healthy, the OC can recognize talent and he gets REAL targets. I’d like to see him and Shakir torture teams over the middle and open up things on the outside for Palmer and Coleman. I think we have the guys to run a very similar offense to the Patriots’ glory days, with an added dimension of JA17 taking off as he sees fit. Is Brady good enough to scheme that? We shall see.

Kinda like the Bills should have drafted one w the Diggs situation?

It’s like listening to Mike Tyson speak… the word you wanted there is “redemption”, Lamar. Do Raven fans eat crow or Raven? Is Carpaccio an option?

Isn’t it funny how the crowd in the stadium actually makes it more entertaining to watch? It’s the same game, same teams etc, yet somehow just having people that have nothing to do with the game being there, it’s way more entertaining. I don’t understand it, but it’s clearly true.

Close enough for me. I might have a few of them flip flopped, but the tiers look right.

I think the average fan forgets this. We are talking about world class athletes, in their prime physical condition, at their absolute dumbest time of their lives. They do not simply work out and study film all off season. Is there risk in basketball? Yep. However, I’d be far more concerned about 100 other activities I can think of off the top of my head.

Thats NOT this team. Thats not the schedule they get to play, etc. That was the definition of a fluke. McD does tend to get quite a bit from mediocre talent on D, I give him props. The issue is, that mediocre talent isn’t enough to get them over the hump when it matters. There’s not a single difference maker on the D at any position. The only one you can even argue for is Benford and though he’s really good, he’s no game breaker. For the D to be as good as it has been with so little real talent out there, McD has done a great job. McBeane? Well somebody needs to explain the lack of talent.. whiff after whiff on early defensive picks is just not helping. Thankfully they have gotten some late in the draft that have worked out.

Take away JA17 and this is a 5-6 win team if you are being objective. The OL is the only unit on the team that is above average and it’s certain that JA pads their stats a little by being nearly impossible to sack. The WRs are a pathetically weak group, TEs are average (with potential for better), RBs are good, but again, make them the focal point by taking away JA, they aren’t carrying anything. The defense is mediocre against good teams and if teams felt comfortable running and imposing their will, not fearing JA putting 30+ on them, they get mauled. I have hopes for the DL being better and helping the LBs be able to move around and be effective again. Thats all speculation at this point and the secondary is a huge question mark, we know of exactly two guys who would be starters on other teams. Maybe the draft has made that better, maybe not. JA makes this team, it’s not a question and it’s not debatable in my eyes. He IS the most VALUABLE player to any team in the league. I feel he is worth 2-3 more wins than Mahomes is to KC and I’d say 4-5 more than Jackson for Baltimore. Baltimore was still reasonable before Henry, with guys that can’t even win back up jobs now.

that list of guys being available is exactly why Cook won’t get his wish. He’s not going to get paid big when there are lots of other options out there.

It makes perfect sense, there is a market price for replacement. Where some positions are in higher demand, the price will be higher. —- by your logic —— RB is valued higher than a kicker, but kickers out score them every year, and there’s only 32 jobs in the whole league, clearly kickers should cost more, make it make sense!

He’ll get the job, the owner already made them draft him, if you think he won’t force them to play him, I think you are mistaken. I can not for the life of me understand what they were doing drafting Gabriel, dude is a priority undrafted FA at best. What a waste of picks to not only take him, but then trade UP to take a better QB after him.

Spot on. The reality, the Ravens beat the Ravens in the playoffs and that’s really their biggest fault as a whole. They have been pretty dominant in the regular season, but Lamar has not shown to be the same guy in the playoffs. I’m happy the Bills got the turnovers they did, but to expect that to happen again, not likely. We’re in not for Lamar crapping himself in the first half and a dropped pass that Andrews catches 98% of the time, that game is one the Bills certainly didn’t go out an stomp the Ravens. I’d be so candid as to call it a bit lucky to have gotten the win.

Cincy usually starts off painfully slow, I’m with you. Once they get clicking it’s hard to stop them. Regardless of what the numbers from last year say, I don’t trust the Bills to match their point total if it becomes a shoot out. Their weapons are still far better and Burrow vs Allen is basically a push. Baltimore is the type of offense that should come out of the gate hitting on most of their cylinders. They are made in the running game, Jackson gets chunk plays on the most basic routes that are usually a result of busted coverage. That’s the hardest things for any team to stop early in the year, especially when the Bills are expected to be rolling out a lot of new defensive players. I don’t like the matchup. I’d rather see them around week 10 as a little bit of a gauge yourself game. The rookies would be up to speed, Jackson and Henry will have taken a few more hits and aren’t quite as dynamic. The same thing can be said of the Bills I suppose, but the Bills aren’t a power running team aside from Allen and again, aren’t as explosive either. Allen is the guy I want all day every day, but Jackson is more explosive as a runner and tends to get more big chunks passing because for everything he’s not, he is very good at deep balls, especially when guys are running wide open, which happens a lot because he has to be spied and Henry doesn’t allow you to play a soft zone without getting you run over. I know I’m in the minority, but I consider Baltimore the biggest hurdle in the AFC. Jackson hasn’t been great in the playoffs, so there’s that, but KC is on the decline a bit and Buffalo is trending up, I THINK they can get over that hump. Baltimore is a bad matchup on paper.