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I'm not sure Brady held them back, either. He was very limited in a few areas, but he still throws a really nice ball and makes lightning quick decisions. Stay tuned...

I'd make a friendly bet that the Dolphins will finish ahead of the Jets this year. Darnold is out of excuses and is going to be exposed this year as a journeyman level QB.

I'll celebrate the Pats' demise as soon as we take the division from them, and not a second sooner. Beating them head-to-head once or twice would be good, too. I think they will be highly competitive this year and will be much better than the Jests. It will be interesting to see what they do at QB.

Does anyone else think the Jests are going to be the worst team in the AFCE by far this fall? Obviously we still need to see what they do at QB, but I think the Phins are going to be highly competitive this year.

Correct. The team is also in a position where Diggs is expected to be one of the last pieces of the puzzle, and we're not in the market for a QB. It's unlikely that a guy taken at 22 is going to match Diggs's production over the next two years, which are the last two years of cheap Josh Allen quarterbacking. It looks like a good trade for both teams.

I don't see him retiring anytime soon. Belichick strikes me as the kind of guy who has very few real interests outside of football and will not retire until he's forced to. I also suspect he believes (rightly or wrongly) that TB held the team back last year and that the Pats can do even better in 2020 without him. And I'm sure he's the type of guy who would love to prove that he can win big without Brady. He might be right.

So we never beat him...exactly what I was afraid of when we lost that last game in NE...

I will never understand that play. Never. Have you ever heard any of the three “blockers” explain themselves? I’m going to predict that they don’t stay at 54.

Yep, I was rooting hard for that pick not to be used on another defender. Hurts to give up that first round pick in such a WR-rich draft, but this shows that the Bills are in “win now” mode, which is exactly where they should be going into Josh’s third year. I hope they don’t ignore the possibility of taking another WR at 54 now.

Addison is seven years older than Shaq. Is he better than Shaq?

I think the Niners will be looking to trade back, since they have no picks in rounds 2-4. 13 is the perfect spot for someone who wants one of the top 3 receivers.

This aged very poorly. As usual, people vastly over-estimate the amount of draft capital that high-priced veterans can command.

It shows how deep the 2020 WR draft class is. Texans think they can replace Hopkins with a second rounder.

And as a second-round pick, no fifth year option...

I thought it was too soon for Reed to be a F/A. He would be a great signing for someone...

Crap.

Very few scouts have Taylor rated ahead of DeAndre Swift, so to say Taylor is the best back in the draft and “it’s not even close” is simply foolish. He was a major fumbler in college, on a very large sample size, and guys like that don’t magically learn to hang onto the ball in the NFL. Then there’s the whole Wisconsin RB thing, which is very real, I’m afraid. I’m not saying Taylor will last to pick 54, but I wouldn’t take him there.

No way. Taylor is a very good back but he has a lot of wear on the tread, fumbles WAY too much, reportedly is very poor in pass protection, and is not a good receiver. I doubt he’s even a consideration for Beane at 54. There will be a ton of good backs to choose from when our third and fourth round picks roll around.

10 vs 22? I highly doubt it, and especially not in a draft like this one. The list of WR busts in the top 15 picks is very long, especially the past 3 or 4 years.

That's the point. In this draft, the guy you are giving up three premium picks for doesn't have a much greater chance of becoming elite than the guy you could take at 22, or even 54. And thank God for that...

Look, reportedly there are 20 or more WRs in this draft who have a third-round grade or better. No one--not you, not Brandon Beane, not Bill Belichick--knows which of these guys are going to be true difference-makers in the NFL, especially when we're trying to make distinctions among the top 5 or 6 guys. The best way to find a "difference maker" is to take two or three of them with your premium picks rather than rolling the dice on one guy.

So use all our premium picks to move up for a WR in the deepest WR draft in memory? Hard pass.

That's why the return man almost always just lets the kick land in the endzone if he doesn't plan to return it. This knucklehead didn't, but the league bailed him out.

Your argument would be more persuasive if there wasn't already a specific rule in place for how a player with the ball "gives himself up." Hint: it does not include merely tossing the ball to the nearest official. You are correct, sir.

It was an illegal forward pass--not a fumble. Because it was an illegal forward pass, it was a dead ball as soon as it hit the ground. Because the illegal forward pass occurred in the Texans' end zone, it's a safety. It would have properly been called a Bills TD if (1) the Bills intercepted the illegal forward pass and returned it for a TD or (2) it was a fumble that the Bills recovered in the Texans' endzone.