The 2023 - ??? Edmunds Report

[Coach Tuesday]

Simps treating TSW like Twitter (X).

[FireChans]

25 minutes ago, Billl said:

He's got 24 tackles and 2 TFLs in two games so far.  That's not exactly terrible.

Watch the games. Aaron Jones took his lunch money

Edited September 19, 2023 by FireChans

[NewEra]

31 minutes ago, Billl said:

He's got 24 tackles and 2 TFLs in two games so far.  That's not exactly terrible.

I remember when Preston Brown led the league in tackles.  
 

He’s been pretty poop 💩 according to my bear fan friends. 

[Scott7975]

I don't think it was a wasted draft pick. He wasn't great but he wasn't terrible either and started here for his whole rookie contract. Definitely was not worth paying that money though.

[Forward Progress]

52 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

He is not a wasted draft pick, played pretty well than his free agency offer was not worth matching.

See ya-

 

... and will become a compensatory 3rd round pick next year because he played himself into a big $ contract.

 

We need more wasted picks like this one.

[Fleezoid]

Every time a new Edmunds thread is born, Patriots get a compensatory pick.

[RobbRiddick]

52 minutes ago, DJB said:

Im already prepping for the next one . Will be posting soon

Do the one about whether we should have re-signed Winfield first

[Tierlifer]

17 minutes ago, dorquemada said:

 

we should probably retire his number at this point

Have him be the honorable ribbon cutter at the new stadium when it officially opens and lead the team out of the tunnel for the first game. 

[Patrick Duffy]

55 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

He is not a wasted draft pick, played pretty well than his free agency offer was not worth matching.

See ya-

3 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:

I don't think it was a wasted draft pick. He wasn't great but he wasn't terrible either and started here for his whole rookie contract. Definitely was not worth paying that money though.

 

What about " a wasted 1st round draft pick"? 

[HOUSE]

4 minutes ago, Patrick Duffy said:

 

What about " a wasted 1st round draft pick"? 

He was drafted #16 so not really .

He pretty much played ad expected

[corta765]

1 hour ago, K-9 said:

Really? Another Edmunds thread? Really? 

 

Listen the football bible says now that Jeff Tuel, Duke Williams, Christian Wade, Nathan Peterman, Tyrod Taylor, and Chris Hogan have departed and time has moved forward someone else needs to take the mantle of the most annoying constant Bill/Ex Bill Threads that never seem to go away.

[GottaRun]

1 hour ago, DJB said:

Im already prepping for the next one . Will be posting soon

Can you post yours at 7:45?  I want to post one at 8:45 and I'd like to give you a good hour to get to 40 pages.

[corta765]

46 minutes ago, mrags said:

Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah. Every single year since he was drafted. At some point people will just realize he is who he is and it’s not going to change. 
 

 

fwiw he’s not terrible. But definitely not worth what he’s making. Was t worth a day one draft pick either. 

 

I would disagree he wasn't worth a day one draft pick. The biggest plus of Edmunds is he has size few players do that allow for the potential of incredibly great plays to occur. The Miami playoff game deflected pass is an example of this. The flipside is his instincts have always been average and he could get caught out of position easily at times as the following week vs CIN showed.

 

If your a GM I can 100% buying though on a guy like this who was super young with freakishly great physical tools. He became a good to at times very good pro bowl caliber LB, BUT he never reached the heights either I think you would have wanted if your paying that money and last year was the only season I would say he truly made some impact plays I can remember. By comparison Milano has been doing that since day 1 and I can literally go back from that time on those moments. For the money he is being paid it is that of an All Pro and I doubt he ever reaches that level or honestly last years level again especially now on a Bears defense that is less talented and far less put together then what he got in Buffalo. The pressure is now squarely on him to be the pillar or one of the top 2-3 pillars of that defense. But overall the Bills got a very solid 5 year player for not much financially and if you can consistently get that out of your draft picks that is pretty good. You can't sign everyone and the Bills made the right choice in the guy they paid at LB.

[FireChans]

8 minutes ago, corta765 said:

 

I would disagree he wasn't worth a day one draft pick. The biggest plus of Edmunds is he has size few players do that allow for the potential of incredibly great plays to occur. The Miami playoff game deflected pass is an example of this. The flipside is his instincts have always been average and he could get caught out of position easily at times as the following week vs CIN showed.

 

If your a GM I can 100% buying though on a guy like this who was super young with freakishly great physical tools. He became a good to at times very good pro bowl caliber LB, BUT he never reached the heights either I think you would have wanted if your paying that money and last year was the only season I would say he truly made some impact plays I can remember. By comparison Milano has been doing that since day 1 and I can literally go back from that time on those moments. For the money he is being paid it is that of an All Pro and I doubt he ever reaches that level or honestly last years level again especially now on a Bears defense that is less talented and far less put together then what he got in Buffalo. The pressure is now squarely on him to be the pillar or one of the top 2-3 pillars of that defense. But overall the Bills got a very solid 5 year player for not much financially and if you can consistently get that out of your draft picks that is pretty good. You can't sign everyone and the Bills made the right choice in the guy they paid at LB.

If the player isn't worth a second contract, they aren't worth trading up in the first round for.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

20 minutes ago, corta765 said:

 

Listen the football bible says now that Jeff Tuel, Duke Williams, Christian Wade, Nathan Peterman, Tyrod Taylor, and Chris Hogan have departed and time has moved forward someone else needs to take the mantle of the most annoying constant Bill/Ex Bill Threads that never seem to go away.

"I suggest you reconsider that list to include one of the finest WRs who ever attended Alabama, and was woefully cast aside by the Buffalo Bills:  Robert Foster, you lop eared varmints!"

[Chandler#81]

1 hour ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:

 

I don't think so. Although I do think people are too easy on McD around here, I think there actually has been a fair amount of criticism for the resources that have been poured into the D without results when they could've gone to the offense. 

Too easy on McD? He’s now coached 100 games for the Bills and his 63 wins are the all time best in franchise history.

[K D]

He took the $ to play on the worst team in the NFL. We would never hear from him again if not for threads like this. He's completely irrelevant now. If $ is more important to him than winning then let him go. We wouldn't want someone like him anyways. It was pretty clear he was all about potential and he was never going to be that player he was projected to be

[Buffalo Streaker]

Give the guy a break.  He's only 19.

[JerseyBills]

1 hour ago, colin said:

it was 100% right to let him walk, bernard looks like a good pick so far this season (so far, i am not sold he's our long term answer), but he was far from a bad or wasted pick.

 

5 years starting at MLB on a top D is way over expectation for even a 1st round pick.  he's just simply not as good of a football player as he is of an athlete.

No brainer. I appreciate what he did on his rookie deal though. 

 

Milano looks better than ever next to Bernard.  Not sure it's for that reason but he looks phenomenal and Bernard is showing little to no drop off

[NewEra]

59 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

He was drafted #16 so not really .

He pretty much played ad expected

You think? 16th overall comes with higher expectations imo.   I was disappointed with him.  Considering his god given size and athleticism plus being the son of a solid nfl

player, I was expecting him to create turnovers and have a nose for the ball.  Forcing fumbles, interceptions, tipped passes, strip sacks etc.  He was the complete opposite as he just doesn’t seem to have the instincts or an extra gear.  
 

He played very well in his contract year and did his family good.  The bears FO is 💩 Worthy of an 11-12m contract imo