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It does. It will be interesting to see this offense. I don’t think Josh has reached his ultimate potential of winning presnap or even post snap yet. Making the “correct” read methodically is not a way I’d describe as his game, but again part of that is talent related. He was playing pitch and catch when Diggs and Beasley were elite and Dabs was designing the plays. He now has no elite target, but several with potential. We really need two of his young guys to step up significantly imo

Oh I know, just having a discussion! Pickens is really good imo but probably wouldn't be sent back or even Shanny's choice as a WR because of his headspace. Aiyuk is actually crazy because there were lots of whispers coming out that he was in Shanny's doghouse and on the trading block in 21 because he wouldn't buy in to run blocking. They stuck with him, he bought in a bit, and he blossomed and he's back on his way out. Things change fast. If I was the Browns, I would try to keep Cooper too. Go all in on making the Watson experiment work. If it's a bust (which it likely will be) jettison everybody for assets.

It makes a blockbuster trade for Aiyuk now kinda silly though from a team building perspective. The Browns make more sense as they are tied to Watson as the guy, even though he sucks. They kinda have to try to make it work and blow it all up in 26 if it doesn't. They don't, actually. You can get franchise QB's without tanking. What you do need to do is make a concerted, multi-year investment in acquiring a potential franchise QB. Which they refuse to do because they love winning 8-9 games and getting smoked in the WC round.

I guess my point is that Josh being 9th in 2020 and 3rd in 2022 matches up quite well with the complete loss of a slot receiving threat.

Sorry, do you mean this season or in general? If you look at Allen's air yards, in particular his IAY/A, he had the second highest of his career in 2022, when Dorsey the EPA merchant went for bigger plays and they had basically no slot threat. 2023 for IAY/A was still higher than 2020 and 2021, which again tracks with a great slot threat eating targets with Beasley whereas Shakir was basically not used for the first half of 2023. The bread and butter for the 2020/2021 teams was killing defenses with Diggs/Beasley. Diggs lived in the intermediate and occasional deep stuff and Beasley made teams pay short to intermediate while Davis/Brown/Sanders ran deeps and comebacks when Allen scrambled. I think the IAY/A will be low this season because of the talent, not vice versa, imo.

Here is the litmus test. If X former Bills won a Super Bowl, would I be happy for them? Diggs: no Tre White: yes. He’s a mercenary. Thank him for his service and bid adieu.

I find it odd MVS is one of the having fun out there guys. Seems like he has neither the contract or pedigree to dictate such behavior.

Geared this season or in general? not sure I agree with the second if so.

By Stephen Hauschka? It was.

Just to be clear, I wasn’t making you a target. I was calling the article stupid and jokingly saying it’s only purpose is to give you a chance to bump your thread to continue clown on the Browns for giving Watson that ridiculous bag. A poorly written post, I suppose. But the intention was not malicious in any way.

In fairness, he tried. The 19 OL was better than 18, but it would be hard to be worse. the 20 OL was our best OL in a while, and probably the best of Josh’s career here except for 23. It is not as simple as “overpay 5 good OL players.” It’s unaffordable. Beane’s philosophy for OL was being in like 8 guys on decent money, cut/trade who doesn’t stick. It was a money waster but they cobbled something together and they had dudes like Daryl Williams playing like borderline All-Pros or Spain who was a fine RG for cheap. It just didn’t last. but yes, I fear that Beane has skated because he drafted Josh. And that’s fine if that’s your argument. But the rest of the team is massively overrated.

this is a terrible article. nearly every athlete ever has given the “block out the noise and focus on the team” answer. I swear, these articles exist to keep @DrDawkinstein going. “Can you believe Deshaun Watson didn’t come out and say he’s sorry he abused all those women at a random TC interview AGAIN this year?”

He’s going to be on AC during the season my man.

That’s not surprising tbh

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In the biz, we call this a verbal headshot. Oof.

If you are on a blood thinner, you probably shouldn’t play contact sports.

Knox is the best separator on the team?

Is this sarcastic?

Put another way, if the Bills had signed Mooney this off-season, is he penciled in as the starter at the boundary on day 1 of camp? I think he is, comfortably.

Fields averages 166 yards passing per game. Bridgewater was terrible “just trust me bro.” Come on bro.

Samuel’s 800 yard season came on a season where his team was 18th in the NFL in passing yards. He was behind 2 other 1k yard receivers in Chosen and Moore. It was also in 2020. Mooney’s 1000 yard season, he was on a team that was 30th in passing yards and 29th in attempts. He was the only WR to break 500 yards. And it was in 2021. Field > Bridgewater as a passer is such a bad take, it’s shocking. Teddy had a 10 year career after a terrible knee injury that almost ended his career. Fields is 3 years removed from being a first round pick and was traded for a 6th, after starting all of 22 and getting his team the first overall pick. Come on bro.

I think contract/market or draft position is probably as close to objective as we can get as observers. Like we don’t argue that Coleman is better than MHJ, right? He might be, sure but we know that MHJ was WR1 in the draft and Coleman was not. So ultimately while contract isn’t perfect, and nothing is, what we do know is that Mooney commanded $5M more than Samuel despite worst numbers. Which would point to me that he had a higher market, which would also point to that he is thought of as more valuable. I like Samuel a lot. Him and Mooney were actually both my wishlist targets prior to the off-season. I thought Mooney was going to be completely undervalued by the league because he was held back by arguably the worst passer in the league. I was wrong, clearly the league saw what I saw, which is a guy who was held back by his garbage QB. So yes, I think Mooney would walk in as WR1 in this room. His 1k yard season with Fields was more impressive than Samuel’s 800 yard season. Imo.

Um Darnell Mooney got $13M AAV. That’s more than any player on the Bills. Samuel, our #1 paid WR got $8M AAV. He put up 1k yards with a QB who can’t throw the ball. That’s better than any season any of the Bills WR’s have ever had. Do you think he got paid $5M more than Samuel because the NFL thought he was a worse player or a better player? Honest question.

That’s what Vegas says. The real question about the Falcons is their defense. They only have a few names on a unit that wasn’t very good last year and they used their nice draft pick on a position that won’t play for 2 years outside of injury. That was the whole commotion, they tried to do two timelines and it may cost them in the short term (or pay off in the long run.)