Coach Tuesday

Weaver, Dugger and Jefferson seem to be standing out based on the reports I’ve been reading.

Beane's view, I believe, is that as long as you're willing to move around the draft board to get the guy you want at a "value," it's ok to draft for need. That's probably correct, for the most part - but you've convinced me that Rounds 1-2 need to also be about premium positions that aren't available in free agency. The fact that Ford was picked relative to where he *should* have gone doesn't mean it was a sound resource management decision.

.500 career winning percentage and (correct me if I'm wrong) never led the NFL in passing during his career. No way.

Moreso positional value versus upside. You can find a good right tackle/guard combo in the 5th round or free agency. Trading up in Round 2 for that position was asinine.

Higgins needs a ton of time in the weight room before he’ll be able to get off press coverage. He is really slight in his shoulders. He’s got a Justin Hunter or James Hardy body (RIP).

Yeah Ruggs is gonna be a monster in the NFL. After the testing I bet he goes top 15.

Dude threw what, 8 passes? I don’t have any thoughts.

Sammy has not lived up to his contract in KC and I expect they’ll move on this offseason (and I also suspect he ends up back in the AFC East). He has never lived up to his draft status and remains a high ceiling player who doesn’t seem to want to or know how to be great. Those things are true. It is also true that the McBeane regime royally screwed up the offense and roster by failing to exercise his option and ultimately trading him away with nothing to fill the void - they still have not filled the void. All of these things can be true. Sammy is long gone and probably never coming back and probably never achieving his potential so that aspect of this discussion is moot and should be closed forever. What remains relevant however are legitimate concerns about this regime’s priorities and competencies when it comes to building an offense. Simply put the jury is still out. Can they scout and draft good players on offense? Other than Singletary they’ve mostly struck out. Does their pro personnel department know how to find hidden gems like Mostert? Do they have a sound and sustainable approach to winning games, which includes scoring points? McD continues to give lip service to the need to score more points then insists on roster decisions that favor “leadership in the position groups” over talent on offense. These guys were very fortunate not to screw up their raw rookie QB with the borderline criminally negligent supporting cast they surrounded him with (no line, QB coach, vet QB mentor in camp, decent WR, etc.) - Allen is an extremely tough, intelligent, resilient player and person which saved their hides because many other young QBs would’ve been permanently screwed up after that sh-show. So that probably saved McBeane’s job. We all need to hope they make the most of their mulligan and not mistake their good luck for skill or sound strategy.

Well yeah but if you’re still employed in California...

Odd choice. He once clubbed a teammate nearly to death with a folding chair during a film room session. Not the guy I’d pick to be put in a room with!

I was high on Shenault but if he doesn’t block on running plays forget it, I’m out. That’s really just a deal breaker for me.

I would posit that you also have to be able to do at least one thing really well, as your go-to and your fallback. The Bills' offense didn't have that kind of bedrock strength.

My man Corta bringing it as usual.

...he asked the witness, holding pictures of Nate Peterman and Kelvin Benjamin he was about to mark as exhibits for his cross-examination.

IMO the biggest issue with the Bills' line is that they're being asked to do too much in Daboll's "multiple" attack. They're talented. Tennessee's line is talented, too, but they're in a much more simplified scheme. That said, regardless of scheme, there is no excuse for letting a jailbreak happen against a 3-man rush late in the game in Houston - that was some combination of fatigue and confusion.

My biggest playcalling issue - purely anecdotally, I may be 100% wrong - is that he seems to lose his feel for the game between the 40s. He's great a scheming them out of it when they're pinned deep, and his redzone play calling for the most part is good. But midfield is where things seemed to stall out last year, to my untrained eye. They'd work hard to cross midfield and then he'd inexplicably call some stupid end-around or two straight power runs with Gore and the drive would end.

It also could be as simple as, you have a smart QB with all of the athletic tools he'd ever need - you try to harness them all. Contrast that to what Arthur Smith is doing with a more limited passer - sometimes keeping it simple is the best approach and sometimes coaches get too enticed by athletic ability. Put another way, sometimes I think it's better for everyone, including the coaches, if you're boxed in by an athlete's known ceiling because it forces you to conform your system to it...

This dude is a Class A moron. He seriously is as dumb as a bag of sand.

I don't think that's at all how it works. These guys talk to each other all the time and a coach is rarely going to have on his list someone who he hasn't spoken to (directly, or indirectly via an agent or mutual contact) before putting them on their prospect list. Too much is at stake for a coach to do that without any kind of assurances or checks.

Yup. These requests typically don't come out of the ether. Another scenario is that he encouraged Judge to make the request because he was genuinely wondering whether/how much he's valued at OBD...

Historically bad QB class seems really premature to me - I wouldn’t write off Baker or Darnold yet and Allen and Jackson are already playoff QBs...

As was his dad articulate and intelligent. But there is/was an undercurrent of bizarre behavior. Brown Jr. showed up wildly unprepared for the Combine - the biggest job interview of his life - and was widely panned for having one of the worst performances of all-time. He benched pressed 14 times among many other bad testing outcomes, and offered bizarre explanations for it (for example he blamed his bench press weakness on his “breathing routine”). Good player but something is off.

Wonder if Daboll wanted to pursue it.

Tough SOB

No question. Just like his dad. A lunatic but he can play.