Coach Tuesday

This article really sold me on Butler: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/futures/2019/futures-hakeem-butler

Dude, he gave the reason in his post, can you not read? Both of them played defensive tackle at Alabama and are projected to go top-five.

A thread about the third-string punter? Which mistakenly assumes Crossman is still around? Is it July?

There was a mid season video of McD chewing out RayRay for not taking practice seriously enough - he remained in the doghouse from that time onward and I don’t see him making it in the league unless his attitude changes.

Don’t see him being the type to put in the work it takes to be great.

The Zay discussion should be dropped from this thread, just like... ah never mind.

Great thread!!

Yeah, that would be a very underwhelming draft, to me...

I think I got a computer virus in my body just by reading that.

No one else seems to have asked so I will: What are you doing perusing Ryan Groy’s Wikipedia page? On a random Sunday morning no less??

Bosa I sort of get - if you think he's a generational passrusher. Even then, though, I don't think I'd pull the trigger. Let's say he's as good as his brother - would you trade two #1 picks and a 2nd and change for San Diego's Bosa? I wouldn't... And I sure wouldn't trade all of that to move up a few spots for an interior lineman. Again, BEST CASE scenario is the pick pans out and you owe $100+ million to an interior lineman in 4-5 years, and you still don't necessarily have a real offense...

You would trade next year’s first to move up for an interior lineman? Really? Has that ever happened in the history of the league? I don’t know about this. I’d much rather trade down and pick up extra picks on day 2. Too many needs. They still have to build a modern offense. An interior lineman just doesn’t seem like enough value.

Florida is fake news.

They literally do not have a single star player on the roster. It would make some sense. Hate to give up next year’s first but if they think they’ve found their QB, all options should be on the table.

Noted.

Right?? Now I’m wondering if it’s really Alpha...

“Safe” isn’t what I’m looking for in the top ten.

Bringing in another young QB via draft or trade isn’t a bad idea - it’s a good idea to hedge. The issue with Rosen is he’s such a different type of QB than Allen that you’d need to have two different offenses installed. Rosen can’t sub in for the part of Allen to run the b-squad to get them ready during the week, because he’s a totally different type of player.

The Pegulas have the Management Yips. They've made so many bad decisions, and have achieved so little success, that they've effectively "froze." Terry admitted as much when he said "Something needs to change, but we don't know what." They don't know what to do, and seem blind or stubborn about bringing in a czar for either organization who would direct them about what to do. Both organizations have been rife with dysfunction during their tenure, and the "horizontal" (more diagonal) reporting structures they've created have led to chaos and a lack of clarity of roles. And they continue to learn on the job - and allow rookie GMs and rookie coaches to do the same, all at the fans' expense. They are really nice people. They may be the worst owners in professional sports.

Trading for Coleman didn’t hurt them? They paid Coleman what, $3.5M for his tryout? How much did Gaines get from Cleveland, again? And yet ... the bigger mistake may have been giving up on Coleman so quickly, while holding on to a washed Benjamin for a couple more months and then having to pay Deonte Thompson. Now Coleman’s career is potentially getting on track with the Giants. So there’s an example of damning yourself when you do and when you don’t! You want to talk about CONTEXT? Here is a partial list of the guys Beane acquired - with draft picks and money - who "weren't who we thought they were": AJ McCarron Corey Coleman Jeremy Kerley Kelvin Benjamin Vontae Davis Trent Murphy and maybe Star, Newhouse, and Phillip Gaines Some of these players (Davis, Kerley, Benjamin and Murphy) were counted on to START. Meanwhile you have to dig deep to find a Beane acquisition who made a positive impact. At this rate, BADOL is right that Beane's 2019 FA class needs to produce some keepers. If Terry Pegula had a pulse, he'd be grilling Beane about ROI. You think Jerry Jones or Handy Kraft would be ok with that list and production? Here is my prediction: if the 2019 class's success rate is less than 50%, McDermott - who has shown himself to be adaptable and icy cold when it comes to loyalty to underproducing coaches (a positive trait IMO) - will make a power move to replace Beane with another hand-picked GM, or himself.

Just like the Bengals employ “character arbitrage,” Beane seems to use “injury arbitrage.” Buying distressed assets only works if your medical evals are spot-on. So far with the Bills I’ve seen little evidence of that. I guess we’ll see.

Vontae Davis's corpse ring a bell? How about AJ McCarron?

You know what would be the most Bills-y thing ever? Gaines and Johnson colliding during training camp and concussing each other...

We are off topic a bit but - Foster was exposed to waivers early in the season, then spent time working with Allen and on the practice squad and somehow developed the ability to track the ball in the air. I’ve been watching football for all my life and I’ve NEVER seen a receiver show so much improvement on tracking the long ball, so quickly. It’s borderline unheard of. The Bills themselves didn’t think he could do it which is why they put him on waivers. So I guess kudos to SkyDiver and the rest of you who predicted, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary and the team’s own actions, that Foster would develop into something... but color me skeptical that it was anything more than a lucky guess.

I don't disagree - his saving grace, so far, is adaptability. The great coaches have it - it's a necessary survival trait. It takes a certain amount of coldness, you've got to be willing to axe loyal acolytes if they're not performing. McD has done this - firing Castillo and stripping Frazier (temporarily) of playcalling duties were ice-cold maneuvers designed to save McD's own hide - which I found refreshing and encouraging.