dave mcbride

You gotta trademark this phrase. So true!

A few things here: first, the Jets were 1-7, not 6-2 in the first half. Secondly, the Bills would have annihilated them in the last game if it had mattered. The Jets were horrible in that game against our backups. Finally, their final 8 opponents were, in sequence, the Giants, the Redskins, the Raiders, the Bengals, the Dolphins (who were totally screwed by an BS overturned no-PI call that cost them the game), Baltimore, a Pittsburgh team with no offense by the end of the season, and a Bills team resting its most important starters. All of those teams were bad save for the Ravens, who destroyed them. (The Bills were bad because they were playing backups.)

He's including UCLA.

All he says is that "he has talent" - nothing more, nothing less. The thing is, he is talented. He throws a beautiful ball, is accurate, is technically sound, and has good size. That might not translate into good in the NFL because so much else goes into it, but he is without question talented.

He's gotta crank out a couple of pieces a day, it seems. Mistakes happen. Not really a biggie. He's a Josh Allen fan and interviewed before the 2019 season.

Nice find. Thanks! (might want to update the original post to prevent angry responses directed at Breer!)

He doesn't actually say Rosen is good; he says he hasn't had a chance and has had 5 coordinators in 5 seasons. Which is true. This comment from Breer is absolutely true, and it's why the Bills need to think about upgrading: Backup quarterbacks matter. You know the story of Tannehill. He bailed out a team that was ready to win in so many places, but also on course to pay for missing on a QB taken second overall five years ago. You probably haven’t heard as much on Matt Moore, who the Chiefs lured from a scouting job with the Dolphins when Chad Henne got hurt. Moore went 2-1 in place of Mahomes, if you include the game where Mahomes dislocated his kneecap. And you can argue his ability to lead a game-winning drive against a stout Vikings defense in Week 9 helped Kansas City win the Super Bowl. If the Chiefs didn't win that one, they wouldn't have gotten the bye, and they would've had to play the Titans in the wild-card round and go to Foxborough to play the Patriots in the divisional round. I’m not saying they wouldn’t have won it all anyway. But it would’ve been a lot tougher. And on the flip side, the Steelers’ mess of a backup quarterback situation felled a season in which they finally found a way to fix a defense that’s been wobbly for close to a decade, only to lose Ben Roethlisberger early on. Which makes me think…

Actually, Breer, who I read every week, is in my opinion the best columnist in the business. This is probably just a mistake.

He's going to go into the Eagles HOF. If they want him, he's likely to stay. You do realize the irony in offering Peters the RT spot, right?

The interesting thing about Hill is that he skews this entire conversation. He's probably the most remarkable and dangerous athlete playing at the WR position in the past decade or so. He has a 40.5 inch vertical (which is incredible) to go with 4.2+ speed and second-to-none short area quickness. Julio Jones would be the number 2 WR on that team.

I'm not opposed to getting Perriman, but while he ran his 40 a nanosecond faster than Hill, he is not the threat Hill is. Hill's short-area quickness and dime-cutting ability are off-the-charts great. Plus, height is one thing, but vertical is another and just as important. Hill's leaping ability is completely insane. Perriman's vertical is 36.5, and Hill's is an unbelievable 40.5. Basically, he plays taller than Perriman because he can jump way higher. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000001065506/Next-Gen-Stats-Measuring-Tyreek-Hill-s-vertical-leap-on-46-yard-TD-grab

If you go further back in the thread, in the televised interview with him after the SB ended, he basically said he was joking.

I don't know about that. I don't have the answer for who he really is as a player, but the physical talent is so patently obvious that I keep thinking that one of these years, he's going to bust it open and put up huge numbers. It probably won't happen on KC because Hill is a complete physical freak and basically uncoverable. That said, Watkins would be the most talented receiver on probably 25 teams in the NFL. He's more talented by far than any receiver in the AFC East, with Devante Parker a distant second. But maybe he never pulls it off. He is still pretty young, though.

It bears repeating that in his four last postseason games, Watkins has 416 yards and is averaging 21.9 yards per touch.

Reason #4,105 why people shouldn't gamble: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-liv-patrick-mahomes-kneel-downs-at-end-of-game-result-in-bad-beat-for-bettors/

The most Josh Allen play of the day was when Jimmy G Josh Allened that bomb to Sanders, who was wide open and set to score an easy TD.

Interesting video comparison, and Revis's comment about Sherman turns out to have been prescient (and let's not forget that Watkins absolutely owned Revis in the 2015 season finale): https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-sammy-watkins-richard-sherman-super-bowl-davante-adams-20200203-y34lmnkdcfgtzn6yyil7hnmerq-story.html

Terrell Davis had 1140 rushing yards in 8 postseason games, which prorates to over 2280 rushing yards in a 16-game season (and he did it against the best competition). The postseason absolutely should factor into evaluations, and he is the greatest rusher in postseason history. He also won a SB MVP, of course.

Yet he had another strong postseason game. In has last four postseason games, he has 423 yards.

He had the flu in the previous game and was out because of that.

The Marlins experience colors my view of Miami fans. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-marlins/fl-sp-marlins-cardinals-separate-wed-20190613-fm3wy2jbnvgppfrmct5erak35a-story.html

I think Arrowhead and New Era (1973) are basically the same age.

I used to feel this way. Not anymore. Miami has a weak fan base. I don't blame people from there; I just think that settlement patterns in the South (more spread out) plus such a large portion of elderly people makes a difference. Also, society in Miami is pretty atomized - a constant in-flow of transients/new arrivals. Agreed - forgot to include Charlotte. I meant to.

One thing I'll say about Georgia: man, is youth baseball big there. Like, really big, and it's something I know a lot about. It's partly because of Perfect Game, youth baseball's biggest tournament franchise, which has its home base there. I spent a week at a Perfect Game tournament in Atlanta between my son's junior and senior HS years, and my god, what an eye opener. Hundreds of teams from all over the country, plus MLB scouts everywhere. After that, I began to investigate, and I noticed that Georgia-based players are HEAVILY over-represented on MLB rosters. It is unbelievable how many MLB players that state pumps out. The Braves do reasonably well: https://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball/how-braves-attendance-measured-2019/xQLIFZHfwx78yp3E6LKSZM/

I feel this way about every team in SEC territory except the Saints. Fan bases in Nashville, Carolina, Jax, TB, and ATL are all very, very soft. I'll throw Miami in there too. The Dolphins' stadium always looks half empty (and let's not forget the Marlins and the Rays).