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Yeah, and now he's got a lot of incentive to provide by stepping up. LOL

I gotta tell ya, that's the impression I've gotten.

A trade-up 1st as well. Davis is better than most realize. Not saying that it's an elite group, but at some point, despite being unpopular, if you're going to trade-up to get a TE in the 1st, drop $52M on another TE, have one of the most expensive WRs in the league as a FA, you'd better get some production out of the unit, otherwise we need to talk Beane, which few want to do. Our RBs are a downgrade from last season as we will see. At the end of the day though, it's all going to depend upon Dorsey and the chemistry between him and Josh. If that's there, unlike last season, then we have the potential to be the best offense in the league. I wouldn't put money on it, but that potential is there.

Was Edwards put on IR for his concussion? I don't see anything else. That shouldn't be an impediment for this season. The bigger indicator is his 1-year $1.7M contract, a Beane specialty, which doesn't exactly scream out talent. Contrasted with McGovern's 3-year $23M deal in particular. I don't see Edwards unseating McGovern. If he does it won't bode well for Beane.

The WRs are way too low. The detailed team report and independent position rankings seem a bit ridiculous. To point out a couple, I mean we're really ranked behind Chicago and Baltimore for WRs? Really?! For the most part seems reasonable tho, although Von Miller essentially is the ED, and Milano essentially is the LB. Both are impact, but it also assumes that Miller at 34 and returning from a serious injury will be 100% or close to it, and that age hasn't factored in. He's also got Allen throwing for 4-6 fewer TDs than he has in any of the last three seasons. Not sure I see that unless Dorsey really f's up. In other predictions that won't sit well with most here, he's got Cook rushing for 689, Harris for 507. For WRs he has Davis at only 765 and Shakir as the third leading WR with 322. Kincaid 494/4. He's got Torrence backing up McGovern at LG with Bates starting at RG. Not sure I see Torrence not starting as a 2nd round pick. Bates is OK but he's hardly great and certainly not worth ignoring a 2nd-round OL pick that many had being taken in the 1st-round. If those are the numbers that we put up given the circumstances I don't see Dorsey surviving the turk. After smoking a bowl, or what?

At least they're out of the Breaking Wind phase. I'd like to know when more detailed "renderings" are coming. Every other NFL stadium that's gone up has posted far greater details at this, and past, stages of progress.

After it's completed, invite a Fins fan over to walk all around the deck first checking for loose boards. Kind of like a food tester. Indeed. And where I live, finding quality workmanship is even more difficult, so while I do enjoy doing those things myself, it's also nice to know that the job got properly done.

Or hire him and make him wear an Allen jersey while he does the work.

Exactly! Now, pick any QBs from those eras and put 'em on this team in place of Allen. How would we be? Everything's some shrewd move, until it isn't.

Or Montez Sweat or several others from much bigger SEC or other programs and far better battle tested.

Agreed, but also not sure why Beane gets a pass while Allen carries his water. As I always say, imagine if some of our former teams had had Allen. Let's not forget, it's all about "The Process." Amen!

LOL, indeed. I'm no investigator but it would seem to me that when a girl wipes here face after someone kisses her it's not a positive thing.

LOL, what's that pic from?

Who knows, this will be his 4th season with us. He's another Carolina dragover that coached under McD. I guess if you think he's overachieved with the talent we have on the DL, then he's good. If he's underachieved, then I guess he's not good. If the playoffs is any indication ... The play of the D in general was notably worse with Miller out. Our averages plummeted and against far worse offensive talent too. Jones twice, Fields, White, and Thompson which makes the downturn worse than it actually was.

Josh is like a grand-slam. Not sure how you would define "knocked out of the park," but White I'd put there. Gilmore maybe? And ultimately of the GM if we want to be fully honest.

He was more of a late-2nd or 3rd-round pick.

Good point, but who knows, maybe he's not seeing Oliver do these things now and for OTAs and he's firing a bow shot as a wake-up call. Keep in mind, the coaches are going to be feeling some pressure this year, if not from our fanbase then from the national media. They obviously want to put their best foot forward. I don't see our defense being ranked among the top-10 this year with the vacancies at LB, a mediocre DL, and a much stronger slate of offensive opponents on our schedule than we've faced on McD's entire watch. The offense may be our best ever, it also may end up being merely a good top-5 offense again. I don't think we're going to get much help from our D during the regular season, which already struggles in the playoffs.

Probably should have consulted the cat instead. ... and I'm a dog person.

That's because when he did it in college he did most of his damage against a few siht schools and against substandard collegiate talent. We should have scouted that more accurately.

Consistency is how biggest issue. He'll pay two, maybe three fantastic games every season, then he plays mediocre ball for half of the rest and disappears altogether for the others. I would think that he would have to play an absolutely monster season for us to pay him what some other team will otherwise. Who's sees that happening. I guess Oliver becoming the next Aaron Donald has officially been put to bed.

We'll see. He was second in the team in yards-from-scrimmage and 1st-downs. I don't think that Harris will outperform him. I suppose together Cook and Harris may outperform what he and Cook did last season.

Yeah, well so do a lot of players now. Florida for the tax-free status, and us, well, because we're the Bills and have Allen. Did anyone tell him that we can only afford servers wages now, ... although he'd get tips too.

Agree generally, but in this case everything that Jackson's doing is largely because of who Patrick is, and his connection with his older brother paves the way for him to be in many of the situations that he ends up being in where he behaves like a jackass. For example, if I were Patrick at this point I'd A, tell my wife to distance herself from Jackson so that I wouldn't end up getting sued because she gets dragged into something stupid like Jackson's prone to getting himself into, and B, tell Jackson that he's too big of a distraction to have him come to the stadium for games anymore, home or away. Presumably that would get him to pull his head out of his ass. If not, oh well, then let him keep it in there. I don't think anyone would give a siht about Jackson, which is what he wants, the attention, if he wasn't in situations related to Patrick.

Roger That was more or less my point, and agreed, he sucked last season, but lest we forget, he only played a handful of games late in the season in the cold. My point was that even if he rebounds to 80% of what he was hell be decent. It's the rest of the secondary that we should be worried about first. ... and we need some of Beane's draftees to step up. More reason than ever offensively. Not so much defensively speaking.

There's definitely an element of enabling in there. Anytime I think of situations like this, the very first question that comes to mind is what they would be doing if they didn't have the publicity that they have from whatever they have it from. Take this dcikhead, I mean what would he be doing otherwise in life w/o Mahomes being a superstar. I can't imagine much.