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They were competitive w DiVito at QB, to me, this is more players than coaching, BUT you do have to coach what you have, so is it all Jones or is the play calling just not suited to the players there? I don’t have the answer, but it’s the question one has to answer to make a good choice.

Maybe, but unless he guaranteed he could make Daniel’s something, I question if it’s justified (yet), that roster is weak.. Schoen should be on the hot seat though.

The Browns are going to have to blow it up and start over. You could see Garrett was visibly disgusted already in the first game of the year. When the best player and leader in your team is having to be talked off the ledge on the sideline before the end of the first game, it’s going to be trouble. I wouldn’t be shocked to hear Garrett beat the crap out of Watson and left him behind a dumpster by week 8. The contract restructure makes it all the more curious, they are going to be so screwed, they can’t do anything. They might as well unload the talent they have for picks, release Watson and start over if they can’t turn it around this year.

This is pure gold.

You guess? Tell me you would feel the same if roles were reversed. That was a bad no call as much as the slide calls were both wrong.

Yeah, I suppose that’s true as well. The product sucks for 2 weeks into the year now bc of the joke they made of the preseason.

One of the worst officiating jobs I’ve seen in a long time. At very least I can’t believe they didn’t make the PI call on the last play. So many missed/blown calls throughout. The Bills played pretty poorly and got a win, so I’m happy, but it’s not their fault they got it.

Going to be tough to dig themselves out of the 0-3+ they will be before he can get back, Willis is awful.

Don’t ya think there is something of a giant gap between “consistently has team in position to win Superbowl” and “not a top 10 GM”? For the fact that you are making it a zero ground proposition, I can only assume you want self assurance of your position and this poll is worthless at best.

Let’s hope he shines, haven’t seen a lot thus far, but he’s got the tools to do it. If he can’t, we will be doing some LB shopping this coming offseason.

Its official, first NewEra, now you and I agreeing, hell is definitely frozen. DS absolutely was the starter and Cook didn’t earn that right. I’m really high on Davis and think this might be a mistake to have him behind Ty, but ultimately the talent will show on the field and may the best player earn the reps. I sure hope he’s ready to hold that clipboard for the whole season.

I had him one year, hated my team so much. I since have made it a point to draft JA in the first round so I can cheer properly all year. Last year I had JA, Kincaid and Davis (who I benched about week 8 and never played again), then I only hated it when I saw the ball go to a TE and it happened to be Knox. So this year I just decided not to play at all bc I hated having to root for teams I didn’t want to.

Well, we know the Devil is cold this week 😂. I am with you, I don’t have any clue how this game will play out, but I don’t consider it a sure thing. I didn’t take the Bills in a survivor pick em contest, even though it was one of the top choices.

Week one always sees goofy outcomes, I don’t feel great about this game for a number of reasons. Murray is a PITA to defend, they have some talent on the outside and the Bills are rolling out new safties, new WRs, basically a new offense, with a new D coordinator and minus Milano again. This may not be a cake walk.

Virtually every WR who’s played with Allen has their best season ever. I would be shocked if Samuel (health allowing) doesn’t break out for over 1k this year. He’s a talent, he’s had miserable QBs and a lot of injuries. I’m more concerned with him staying on the field than what he can do. Steph is going to be in a competition for passes, he has other guys who need to get fed around him too. I expect him and Nico to both have good numbers, while Dell and Shultz will take a significant amount of targets as well. I think it’s quite plausible to have Samuel end up with better numbers simply because he will get a larger share of the targets.

Your numbers are wrong, he’s not getting 45M, he’s getting 76M for 3 years. On no planet are you getting a WR for 15M a year right now, that’s the basis of the whole problem, he didn’t want to play for the 15M he was going to make this year so he guaranteed himself a pay day. His option bonuses take effect at the start of next year and make it 76M, they aren’t parting with him and eating the contract before then and it’s injury guaranteed. The 49ers had all the leverage, teams are tapped out at this point in the season AND they had him under contract, his options were limited, he either had to play for 15M this year or sit out and lose it. The 9ers had to agree to a trade AND he had to go to a team that had room to fit him this year. That left very few options. Also, if things continue, his 42M cap hit in 27 isn’t necessarily out of question, but assuming it is, it’s actually better for him to hit FA again or renegotiate. So he’s coming out with at least 76M for 3 years and got a fat check right now, vs playing for his 15 this year and risking injury/poor performance etc that could have dramatically hurt his value. Would he get more on the open market? Yes. Would you really gamble all that guaranteed money, trying to get another 10-15%? Really not worth it.

They had all the leverage, his only option was to uproot his whole life and go play for a loser team, OR get paid an absurd amount of money to play for a winning team. He wouldn’t play for half of his market value this year, but he also didn’t want to give that money up. He’s lucky they kept that big of an offer on the table. Hopkins is better and struggled to get paid. I don’t think Steph is going to find a hot market for his services.

We disagree on what a hit is. In the first round, if they aren’t an impact player, I don’t consider it a hit. Allen is the only first round player that is a true impact player. Oliver is a good player, as is Groot, but nobody is worrying about them. They are average starters. That’s not a bad outcome, but with Oliver being a top 10 pick, he’s a disappointment. Elam is a bust, Kincaid is promising, we’ll see, same for Torrence. AJE is a JAG. Diggs trade.. I really consider it a loss because the benefit of a first round pick is 5 years of cost control and Diggs wasn’t here 5 years and was immediately paid and then paid again and now is taking 30M in cap to play for another contender in the AFC. So objectively, the Diggs trade was a disaster. I don’t think Beane is doing a bad job on the whole, but his inability to find anyone of real impact outside of Josh is the difference between rings and watching KC win another. The lack of talent on the roster is what caused the Von signing, after burning 2 high picks on that very position the year before, so you wasted a draft and burned massive amounts of cap on the same position, that is the type of thing that’s sets you back big time, and it has.

Well, they have those guys, sooo

Then you also need to acknowledge, at this point, it’s a pattern of not finding impact players early in the draft. Something is odd, they do find a lot of guys late, yet continue to whiff early.

I think there are only two reasonable explanations for this post 1) Blind Homerism or 2) you are/are related to Beane. There hasn’t been a single game played and you are giving him credit for hits we haven’t seen yet and already forgiving the misses you already assume he has. Sounds typical.

The MNF line up is trash this year

Allen had an ELITE SEASON, not a nice finish to one, there’s a big difference. Remember everyone crowing Baker the greatest thing ever after his rookie year? Winston? Etc, so many guys start out pretty well and then the league has tape, Love has so many bad tendencies, his going to have a very rough year this year IMO.

Have we not learned to not judge a QB for half a season of production yet? I may be wrong, but I see him as someone who hopes to be as good as Dak.

I can see the argument for Stroud, even if it’s just the contract end of it. Love? Now THAT is the most overrated QB/possibly player in the entire league. The Packers are going to regret that contract real quick. Come back at the end of the year and quote me as being dead wrong, but that guy is no where near an elite QB as it stands.