FireChans

I do not know a GM in the league that wouldn’t catch flak for extending a player 2 years early, and then trading that player before he played a snap on that extension. Crappy situation but when you double down on a volatile, mercurial WR as your only guy in the room, you can get burned.

I know a guy who might take this bet.

Who did the Chiefs hire outside of echo chambers? Spags? That was 5 years ago. Since then, they kept EB as their OC and when he left, they brought back Matt Nagy who started there. The Niners have again promoted internally on the defensive side since 2017. They didn’t last year and they fired the dude immediately and replaced him with a guy internally. The Eagles built an entire new staff in 2021 because they fired everyone. When Steichen and Gannon got poached, they promoted internally at OC. They hired an outside DC and basically fired him midseason. The Ravens promoted Roman to OC internally. He spent 17-18 as an offensive assistant until he got the OC job. Wink Martindale was the LB coach there for 5 years before he got the DC job which he held for years. After they fired him, they went external. McDonald got poached and they replaced him with their inside LB coach, again, promoting internally. So yeah, most good teams mostly promote internally, just like the Bills.

Like I said, firing a coordinator every two years is pretty stark. other teams in our weight class aren’t really turning over coordinators at that rate, and the ones that do we have a pretty poor outlook on their future (Eagles/Cowboys). im probably considered more of a McD guy than most, but that’s a lot of hiring and firings.

I am really torn on this. i think there’s an argument to take a Keon type WR who you expect to develop over a year or two. The comp is Davante Adams who doesn’t blossom right away. I don’t see it with Keon but if Beane and co do, then there’s some logic behind it not being a big deal. The other issue is that Mack Hollins is high on the depth chart at all, but that’s not necessarily reflective on Keon’s value.

Yeah kinda. you are forgetting that he hired Dennison, Crossman and Dorsey.

Firing a coordinator every other season is pretty stark lol.

Do they? Shanny lost Saleh and promoted Demeco internally. Lost Demeco and hired Wilks externally. Fired Wilks and hired Sorensen internally. His offensive coaching tree is littered with internal promotions. The Pats were very similar. BOB worked his way up to OC when Josh McDaniels left. When McDaniels got fired, he came back immediately. Teams with high staff turnover (read: bad teams) do a lot of external hires. Teams that are not bad don’t really seem to do the same.

Inside the top 50 is a very funny way to describe the 49th best safety in football. That’s, by definition, below average. Putting aside that judging safeties on sacks is on its face pretty bizarre, tied for ninth on the Bills for sacks was 1.5. Aka a half sack less than Boogie Basham. Let’s talk the counting stats that aren’t addressed here: 2022 passes defensed. Hamlin had 2. Tied with Von Miller and Boogie Basham. Less than Elam and Siran Neal. Let’s talk advanced stats. Hamlin was targeted in coverage 35 times on the year. Resulting in 25 completions (71%) 454 (!) yards, a 142 passer rating, and 3 TD’s. It’s cool he had some success on safety blitzes. He blitzed 16 times on the year. He was terrible in coverage and terrible in run defense.

No. Diggs himself said that his thoughts about leaving the team started prior to the season. Anything short of a SB win and he was out. Heck, he didn’t want to win games in Brady’s offense in a lesser role, he may have wanted out regardless.

That's certainly a plausible explanation. I don't know how much Brady would have been a driving force of such a change compared to McD.

I think Diggs was still the highest targeted WR by a lot after Brady took over. IMO, cutting down Diggs and Davis targets some and giving them more to Shakir/Kincaid preceded Brady. Kincaid started seeing ~6-8 targets per game after NE1 and stayed basically around there for the rest of the year. Shakir went from 30% of offensive snaps and 1 target per game to 60%+ snaps and 4-6 targets per game around NE1/TB and again, continued from there. Even Josh running preceded Brady a bit. He had 22 rushes in the first 6 games, a little under 4 per game. He had 7 for both NE1 and TB and finished the back half of the year averaging a little over 8 rushes a game. I used to think Brady cut down on Diggs/Davis and took the shackles off Josh right around Denver as well, but just looking at the numbers, he kinda just finished the adjustments that Dorsey had started to make. This actually makes me feel better about Brady.

What was TO’s problem? Or Antonio Brown’s? I don’t know if the diva/personality disorder trend in WR’s is overblown or not, but there’s no doubt that the position has its fair share of malcontents in NFL history. And unwarranted malcontents at that. Diggs appears to be continuing that trend and imo that’s why no team will really claim him as theirs if he does make the HOF.

Hamlin played much more the Johnson and was a key reason the Bills run defense was terrible in 2022. He was constantly taking bad angles or whiffing. I don’t want to harp on the kid too much because of everything he has gone through but he did not put a lot of good tape out there. Splitting hairs if he was mediocre or bad also does not interest me. I don’t think he’s a starting S at the NFL level. He’s exactly what he has been, a backup late round pick.

1. I don't think Brandon Beane is finding lots of high-quality starters in rounds 4 or later. 2. BB does do a good job of finding role players and guys who belong on NFL rosters in the later rounds. He is probably above league average in this regard. 3. The problem with finding role players and guys who belong on NFL rosters in the NFL being your greatest skill, is that you have a roster that is filled with role players and not difference makers. IRT players on the active roster drafted 4th or later (not counting UDFA) the Bills have 13 and KC has 13. The Niners have 20. The Bills have Taron Johnson and Shakir (potentially) as impact players. The Chiefs have Trey Smith and Isaiah Pacheco. The Niners have Hufunga, Dre Greenlaw, George Kittle, Brock Purdy. If you are gonna make a living on late round guys, some of them have to hit pretty big.

Hamlin was terrible when he replaced Hyde all season 2 years ago. Rapp is a human missile with poor body control. Spending a second rounder on Bishop and not having him take a starting job immediately is disappointing. By process of elimination, I feel the best about Mike Edwards.

It’s all going as I predicted. An injury away from starting Mack Hollins (lol) as a WR in Josh Allen’s prime. to be fair, I said starting in the playoffs so it looks like I was a little overly optimistic.

Can I keep my victory lap going?

Ahem: Redux

Ahem.

These posts are just delightful.

I think so?

Hollywood Brown is better than Curtis Samuel.

Prepare to be gaslit that this is a depth problem not a talent problem. ignoring that the argument has been how deep we are for MONTHS lol

I think there’s lots of dudes with crotch rot in NFL locker rooms.