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mushypeaches

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  1. What's going to be interesting is as Josh gets older and his athletic abilities start to decline (as to when he's just a great athlete for the position and not a FREAK athlete), how his game evolves.  He's worked a ton on being able to read defenses and become a smart passer, and an excellent leader, so I think it's quite possible that his stats never again approach 2020 levels (especially in rushing), but he continues to be a top 5 QB.  

  2. 5 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:

    I actually don't blame Howard here. The fins in the last few years have signed guys to big deals and cut/traded them a year later. I said when they cut Van Noy and Lawson after giving them 4 year deals that players won't trust the FO anymore and will hold out or want more guarantees in their contracts. Its why I think Flores style is gonna get old quick, especially if Tua doesn't pan out

     

    Holding out 1 year into a 5 year deal isn't great, but I understand the position of the player, given the recent FO moves lately.

     

    Looks like a lot of this nonsense is really becoming a trend with Miami.  After the first year, when everyone was so high on Flores for coaxing a few wins out of a talentless team, their personnel practices seems to be wearing real thin with their actual personnel.  If they regress back to a 7 win team this year, it's definitely a possibility that he doesn't see year 4 of his contract.  

  3. I get that they tried to take the classic "opposite direction" approach when hiring Dan Campbell, after having the dessicated hobo corpse of Matt Patricia the last couple of years.  But the shelf life for these rah-rah coaches is usually very short. 

     

    I can't see this guy even lasting 2.5 years once the injuries inevitably pile up and his guys start to tune him out

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  4. 39 minutes ago, Billl said:

    The team doesn’t really need immediate starters.  I think it was a great draft that will pay off in the short term with rotational value and depth in the short term and starters in the long term.  I’m stunned to see so many people down on this class.

     

    I wouldn't be stunned - people like sexy names at the top of the draft and at premium positions.  I'm sure the fanbase got all fired up about our great draft when we traded up for Sammy Watkins.  Or how about when we picked CJ Spiller, Marshawn Lynch, and Willis McGahee?  Or when we won the offseason when we traded for Lesean McCoy?  

     

    No thanks, I'll take this draft any day of the week

  5. Every year, I become a bigger fan of Beane's team building strategy

     

    Free Agency is to plug immediate holes and find plug & play starters and high snap count rotation players

     

    Draft is for development, depth, and future backfills

     

    Obviously there are some exceptions, especially in the first round of the draft, but this is exactly how you build a sustainable, competitive roster.

     

    Once you begin to "need" the draft to find multiple starters each year, it means that your current talent isn't performing or you're top-heavy vs the cap

     

    I enjoy not being in that boat any longer

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  6. Fun fact - this is the first Bills draft since the pre-salary cap era of 1991 that we signed 3 of our original picks to 2nd contracts

     

    It has always felt like this, more than anything else, contributed to the long period of mediocrity, and indirectly to all of the bad free-agent spends as well.

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  7. I'm in the boat of letting the draft come to us this year.  We have a lot of young cheap depth that's going to age out in the next 1-2 years that's going to need to be replaced.  It takes cheap draft picks to do that.  

     

    Yes, I'd like to win, but I don't want to become this top-heavy have/have-not club either.  That's the quickest path back to 6 win purgatory

     

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