dave mcbride

I am not sure of your point. Clemson is utterly filled to the rim with players who loudly identify as Christian. Sweeney wants those players. I don’t Chip Kelly cares, and the atmosphere at a place like UCLA or Cal is worlds away from the SEC.

Clemson is a state school.

Honestly, I’d say places like UCLA, Berkeley, and maybe Stanford.

Height should always factor in wingspan. It's why Hakeem Olajuwon, who was 6'10", played like he was 7'1".

Monson has the Bills taking Ojulari too in his latest PFF mock: https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2021-nfl-mock-draft-new-england-patriots-trade-up-mac-jones-cincinnati-bengals-jamarr-chase. 30. BUFFALO BILLS: EDGE AZEEZ OJULARI, GEORGIA Buffalo has been looking for a complement to Jerry Hughes on the edge for so many years that the team is almost needing to also find his replacement. Azeez Ojulari is arguably the best pure speed rusher in the entire draft, earning a 91.7 PFF pass-rush grade against true pass sets this past season. He is a little undersized and slight, and he may be limited to a situational role initially, but that’s something Buffalo has been crying out for.

It's like you didn't even read my post!

Enh. He’s probably not going to the HOF, but it’d be pigheaded to argue that he wasn’t one of the greatest postseason performers of this era.

I can't name all of them, but a couple of these are easy. Ex-Bill Antowain Smith was the lead back for the first couple, and then Corey Dillon had monster season in 2004. First round pick Sony Michel had a great postseason run in 2018 too to go along with a strong rookie season. And there's always Legarrette Blount, who led the league in rushing TDs in 2016 and steamrolled the Bills a couple of times in the mid-2010s.

All the draft profiles of Ossai I've read say he's a 3-4 edge player. That's not the defense we run, of course. Why do think they could take him in spite of the scheme mismatch?

Just to play devil’s advocate here, with skydiving and bungie jumping, you aren’t really worrying about a broken leg or torn ACL, which you might well get from pickup basketball and dirt bike riding. Mistakes in the former two categories tend to produce more starkly existential outcomes, and you kinda have to throw your hands up at that. It’s not like you’ll be missing the guy for a season or haggling about contract payments for a player injured in an unapproved offseason activity. Basically, the potential outcomes lie almost solely on the extremes: healthy and alive or dead.

There was not one single post-snap penalty called on Houston all game despite the fact that Jerry Hughes was held repeatedly (just one example). And it was basically a five-quarter game.

Without a doubt, my least favorite Patriot ever is Walt Coleman. Not even close.

The crime rate among NFL players is heavily affected by the fact that they have median salaries of $860,000 per year. Moreover, I am talking specifically about violent crime (and violent crime only; beat in mind that non-violent drug offenses make up a huge percentage of arrests): “Though NFL players had a higher arrest rate for violent crimes during six of the 14 years studied, ...” And this is despite the fact that they are far more financially secure than the general population. And wealthy NFL players aren’t doing stickups on the street. Also: “Note that murder scores relatively high, but the raw numbers are extremely low (there are two in the database, though a third case — domestic in nature — resulted in suicide). But there are 83 domestic violence arrests, making it by far the NFL’s worst category — with a relative arrest rate of 55.4 percent. Although this is still lower than the national average, it’s extremely high relative to expectations. That 55.4 percent is more than four times worse than the league’s arrest rate for all offenses (13 percent), and domestic violence accounts for 48 percent of arrests for violent crimes among NFL players, compared to our estimated 21 percent nationally. Moreover, relative to the income level (top 1 percent) and poverty rate (0 percent) of NFL players, the domestic violence arrest rate is downright extraordinary. According to a 2002 Bureau of Justice Statistics Reportcovering 1993 to 1998, the domestic victimization rate for women in households with income greater than $75,000 (3.3 per 100,000) was about 39 percent of the overall rate (8.4 per 100,000), and less than 20 percent of the rate for women ages 20 to 34. That report doesn’t include cross-tabs, and it’s a little out of date (more current data is harder to find because more recent BJS reports on the issue do not include income breakdowns), but that sub-20 percent relative victimization among high-income households is consistent with the NFL’s 13 percent relative arrest rate overall (arrest disparities between income levels are probably even greater than victimization rates).” https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rate-of-domestic-violence-arrests-among-nfl-players/

Yup. You have to a real affinity for violence to succeed in the NFL, and as I’ve said for years and years, “if not for the NFL, jail” for a distressingly high percentage of players. To expect people to be rewarded for that level of extreme violence 20 Sundays a year plus lots of practices and then to be able to immediately turn it off is ignoring human nature.

6.40 https://www.nfl.com/prospects/josh-allen/3200414c-4c52-9264-bedc-c4ddaf201fe7

Yeah, agreed. I also think that Darnold is an upgrade from Bridgewater, who is never going to get any better than he currently is. Bridgewater will never be anything more than a better-than-average backup (meaning he's still pretty valuable!), but Darnold promises more than that. It's still an open question whether he pans out, but he has a lot more upside than Bridgewater. Moreover, Ruhle can't have another losing season or the sharks will start circling.

I am not sure of the substantive point you are trying to make (other than snark). The Bills hired a SB-caliber DC and have gone to the playoffs in 3 of the past 4 seasons after going 17 straight years of not making the playoffs. Also, Joe Douglas worked in the Ravens personnel department for 16 years and was the VP of player personnel with the Eagles when they built a juggernaut beginning in 2016. The Eagles had the best roster in the league in 2017.

Things can turn on a dime with the right management. They were 1-15 in 1996 under Kotite, and then Parcells came in and changed the culture. They had only 3 losing seasons over the next 15 years, 7 playoff appearances, and 3 championship game appearances. They may have that now. I like their coach a lot, and Joe Douglas knows what he's doing.

He literally had the greatest season by a Bills receiver in franchise history, and I include Moulds’ 1998 season here. He is also likely the primary reason why Allen’s completion percentage skyrocketed upward — he is practically always open. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!

Ask your friend about the parade of horribles since Jeff Garcia. As I said in one of my other posts in this thread, too many fans think the only two categories are “great” and “sucks!”

Yup. Austin has had a bad career despite hanging around for a long time. There was so much buzz about him too the year he came out.

Stefon Diggs is without a doubt an elite talent. It’s not even arguable. He has literally been one of the most uncoversble receivers in the league a few years running, and the advance stats prove it.

Why do you think he goes undrafted?

I don’t think he’s great; I think he’s good. There is a big range between “great” and “sucks,” although a lot of fans seem unaware of this. I think Shanahan obviously wants what he thinks is a better option, but my point is that Garappolo would represent a significant upgrade for the Pats. He is very good playing in tight-end driven offenses, and NE has the personnel for that now. Garappolo isn’t going to win a super bowl by himself, but in the right situation can be positive piece of the puzzle. You have to admit that he’s a lot better of an option than Newton. In my view, NE is likely to make the playoffs with him at the helm given the roster and their superior coaching. That’s obviously bad for the Bills because it autmatically means two very difficult divisional games for them.

That’s missing my point. I do think that if Mac Jones is there, there is a solid chance they take him. However, at 15, I just know if anyone will be available. I don’t know if the Niners want Jones or Lance. That’s the big question. If Jones, I wonder if any of the QBs get out of the top 10.