Motor to Texans

[Thurman#1]

  On 3/20/2023 at 9:29 PM, FireChans said:

 

 

I know I always said he was super overrated but a 1 year deal for "up to" 3.75 means his market was harrible.

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This is officially the eight billionth case of a person finding that ambiguous evidence supports his already-existing bias. And that's just on this board.

 

Confirmation bias wins again.

 

$3.5M is 21st in the league. It will depend how much of it is incentives and how easy or difficult they are to achieve. 

 

But it's much easier to say, "See, I was right," whether or not there's much evidence you are.

Edited March 21, 2023 by Thurman#1

[Toyo321]

Hey wish him well.  He always played hard for us.

[Thurman#1]

  On 3/20/2023 at 11:29 PM, Rigotz said:

It’s crazy that people still don’t understand why we didn’t, even after Beane said they’re looking for a different body type.

 

We did not need Motor on offense. The skill set we needed was short distance running, pass blocking, and/or Special Teams. Motor is none of those things. Why would we make an offer?

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"We did not need Motor on offense," you say? Nah. Again, you can't say that from the evidence, and in fact it doesn't really make sense.

 

We didn't need him enough to pay the market value for him. Or we needed other skills more than we needed his. That's what this shows.

 

Oh, and Singletary is a very good pass blocker. It's one of the main reasons they've like him so much for these four years. 

 

Best of luck to him in all of his future endeavors. He gave it his all.

[BBFL]

  On 3/21/2023 at 2:32 AM, Toyo321 said:

Hey wish him well.  He always played hard for us.

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Share the exact same sentiments. 
 

Believe he has a career year in Houston… 1300 APY; 1060 rushing/240 receiving. 10 TDs. 

[SCBills]

Interesting to see how hype Texans fans are about signing him.  
 

I didn’t want him back … at all, but he is an interesting back.   Does almost everything average to above average, elite short area shiftiness, but lacks anything really threatening to the defense. 

[BBFL]

Devin has always reminded me of Warrick Dunn / DeAngelo Williams. Tough runners who are team guys and always willing to do what they can to help the team. Sad to see him go but an upgrade can surely be found. 

[John from Riverside]

Good luck motor. Thank you for everything.

[Airseven]

I bet Beane wanted Singletary and pivoted to Harris once Singletary chose the Texans. Beane worries me.

[Locomark]

Wow a prove it deal with a dog team, he certainly wasn’t getting the love was he? 

[1ManRaid]

  On 3/20/2023 at 9:39 PM, ColoradoBills said:

That's it Bills fans.  It is going to mean if Beane signs a big dollar UFA before the draft it costs a 3rd round pick next year.

I doubt strongly he gives that up.  He's only going to sign vet minimum type guys to bring to camp to compete.

We can take a break from FA and look to the draft.

 

After the draft I see the RB signed.

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Lol, about that...

 

I don't understand why some people are so obsessed with the idea of comp picks, or the notion of believing Beane actively wants them.  Must be closet Patriot fans.

[FireChans]

  On 3/21/2023 at 2:24 AM, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

This is officially the eight billionth case of a person finding that ambiguous evidence supports his already-existing bias. And that's just on this board.

 

Confirmation bias wins again.

 

$3.5M is 21st in the league. It will depend how much of it is incentives and how easy or difficult they are to achieve. 

 

But it's much easier to say, "See, I was right," whether or not there's much evidence you are.

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So wait, your contention is that this is a lucrative contract?

  On 3/21/2023 at 2:43 AM, BBFL said:

Share the exact same sentiments. 
 

Believe he has a career year in Houston… 1300 APY; 1060 rushing/240 receiving. 10 TDs. 

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They have a cheaper starter already who had more APY last year than Devin has ever had in any year in his career.

[NickelCity]

  On 3/21/2023 at 4:20 AM, Airseven said:

I bet Beane wanted Singletary and pivoted to Harris once Singletary chose the Texans. Beane worries me.

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You? Worried about the Bills?

[BBFL]

  On 3/21/2023 at 5:17 AM, FireChans said:

So wait, your contention is that this is a lucrative contract?

They have a cheaper starter already who had more APY last year than Devin has ever had in any year in his career.

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You’re right. My bad. Totally forgot about Pierce. Might have been because he was injured to close out the season… who knows how. Thanks for pointing that out. I retract the estimation for Devin 😂

[John from Riverside]

  On 3/21/2023 at 4:20 AM, Airseven said:

I bet Beane wanted Singletary and pivoted to Harris once Singletary chose the Texans. Beane worries me.

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The executive of the year worries you

 

hmmmm

[BillsFanSD]

I've always really liked Singletary, but at the same time I never expected the Bills to re-sign him.  If we could reliably pluck a Singletary-like player from the 3rd round every 3-4 years, I'd rather go that route.  Of course, we've seen that that's easier said than done, but still.

 

I hope he does well in Houston.  I'll be pulling for him.

[entropyrules]

  On 3/20/2023 at 9:37 PM, HappyDays said:

3rd round comp pick here we come! I'm assuming Sherfield came in under $1.75 million.

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Sorry - hate to beat a dead horse but per league rules any Bills comp picks go to the Patriots

[SCBills]

  On 3/21/2023 at 4:20 AM, Airseven said:

I bet Beane wanted Singletary and pivoted to Harris once Singletary chose the Texans. Beane worries me.

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If Beane wanted Singletary back, I’d be worried.  
 

However it happened, (and I suspect we didn’t make a huge effort to get DS back) we ended up with a RB that makes way more sense for us. 

Cook / Harris / Hines is a pretty dynamic RB room.   Harris gives us power and pass blocking. Cook & Hines give us speed and pass catching.  
 

Singletary is a do it all RB that does nothing at a high level.  He was redundant and would have held back our Offense. 

[Saxum]

  On 3/20/2023 at 9:37 PM, ngbills said:

The guy our coaches chose to get PT over the two guys still on our roster leaves. The response is "look I knew he sucks, nobody wants to pay him". What does this say about the guys we have on our roster to replace him and our coaches? I didn't really care if motor resigned. But its always funny how subtraction is celebrated as we get better. 

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Reminds me of Coach McD where he dumped a number of coaches and players to get fresh faces.   Some of fresh faces lasted one year.

Should not be needing to do this on Superbowl capable team.

[Mr. WEO]

  On 3/21/2023 at 11:53 AM, SCBills said:

If Beane wanted Singletary back, I’d be worried.  
 

However it happened, (and I suspect we didn’t make a huge effort to get DS back) we ended up with a RB that makes way more sense for us. 

Cook / Harris / Hines is a pretty dynamic RB room.   Harris gives us power and pass blocking. Cook & Hines give us speed and pass catching.  
 

Singletary is a do it all RB that does nothing at a high level.  He was redundant and would have held back our Offense. 

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Hines isn't even that.

[machine gun kelly]

I’m happy for him.  I hope he’s able to get lots of playing time down there.  That team is a dumpster fire, so hopefully he can provide some kind of running game.