Mack Hollins signs with Patriots

[HereComesTheReignAgain]

5 minutes ago, BuffaloMatt said:

Most TD receptions 2024. Special teams beast. SMH

1.8 receptions per game.  22 yards per game.

[PS 56]

I was really hoping we could get him to stay.  This is a upsetting news...

 

[rajinka]

1 hour ago, HereComesTheReignAgain said:

1.8 receptions per game.  22 yards per game.

For real.  ppl are acting like we let prime diggs walk.  

[3rdand12]

2 hours ago, PS 56 said:

I was really hoping we could get him to stay.  This is a upsetting news...

 

I was surprised actually.

[BuffaloBillyG]

12 pages over a guy this time last year nobody cares about or wanted😂😂

 

This board would have melted the day Bruce, Thurman and Andre were cut... 😂 

[3rdand12]

2 hours ago, BananaB said:

The uproar over losing Mack is hilarious. Bills fans fall in love with average players though. 

Time honored tradition around here.

 But Dude made some sweet plays for us. Recall when we would be " hoping "G Davis" and then Samuel and Cooper would catch the critical pass ?

Hollins caught those. and ran pretty fast too

Did he ever fumble ?

 If Josh couldn't find Shakir? I bet he looked for Hollins.

Again , color me surprised on this one. And to the Patriots to add insult lol

7 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

12 pages over a guy this time last year nobody cares about or wanted😂😂

 

This board would have melted the day Bruce, Thurman and Andre were cut... 😂 

Some of us did.

Dark days those, very.

[BuffaloBillyG]

2 minutes ago, 3rdand12 said:

Time honored tradition around here.

 But Dude made some sweet plays for us. Recall when we would be " hoping "G Davis" and then Samuel and Cooper would catch the critical pass ?

Hollins caught those. and ran pretty fast too

Did he ever fumble ?

 If Josh couldn't find Shakir? I bet he looked for Hollins.

Again , color me surprised on this one. And to the Patriots to add insult lol

Some of us did.

Dark days those, very.

I just finished looking at the 27 page "Bills sign Mack Hollins thread. I'd say it was about 70-30 for the we don't want him thread. Until the last 5-10 pages. It's hysterical.

[ColoradoBills]

9 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

I just finished looking at the 27 page "Bills sign Mack Hollins thread. I'd say it was about 70-30 for the we don't want him thread. Until the last 5-10 pages. It's hysterical.

 

I wonder how many who didn't then now do.

[slaphappy]

The guys life hacks were more famous than he was... Unique personality.. average football player.

[Albany,n.y.]

The Barefoot Boy

By John Greenleaf Whittier
Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
With thy turned-up pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With thy red lip, redder still
Kissed by strawberries on the hill;
With the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim’s jaunty grace;
From my heart I give thee joy,—
I was once a barefoot boy!
Prince thou art,—the grown-up man
Only is republican.
Let the million-dollared ride!
Barefoot, trudging at his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy
In the reach of ear and eye,—
Outward sunshine, inward joy:
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!

Oh for boyhood’s painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor’s rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools,
Of the wild bee’s morning chase,
Of the wild-flower’s time and place,
Flight of fowl and habitude
Of the tenants of the wood;
How the tortoise bears his shell,
How the woodchuck digs his cell,
And the ground-mole sinks his well;
How the robin feeds her young,
How the oriole’s nest is hung;
Where the whitest lilies blow,
Where the freshest berries grow,
Where the ground-nut trails its vine,
Where the wood-grape’s clusters shine;
Of the black wasp’s cunning way,
Mason of his walls of clay,
And the architectural plans
Of gray hornet artisans!
For, eschewing books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks;
Hand in hand with her he walks,
Face to face with her he talks,
Part and parcel of her joy,—
Blessings on the barefoot boy!

Oh for boyhood’s time of June,
Crowding years in one brief moon,
When all things I heard or saw,
Me, their master, waited for.
I was rich in flowers and trees,
Humming-birds and honey-bees;
For my sport the squirrel played,
Plied the snouted mole his spade;
For my taste the blackberry cone
Purpled over hedge and stone;
Laughed the brook for my delight
Through the day and through the night,
Whispering at the garden wall,
Talked with me from fall to fall;
Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond,
Mine the walnut slopes beyond,
Mine, on bending orchard trees,
Apples of Hesperides!
Still as my horizon grew,
Larger grew my riches too;
All the world I saw or knew
Seemed a complex Chinese toy,
Fashioned for a barefoot boy!

Oh for festal dainties spread,
Like my bowl of milk and bread;
Pewter spoon and bowl of wood,
On the door-stone, gray and rude!
O’er me, like a regal tent,
Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent,
Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,
Looped in many a wind-swung fold;
While for music came the play
Of the pied frogs’ orchestra;
And, to light the noisy choir,
Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
I was monarch: pomp and joy
Waited on the barefoot boy!

Cheerily, then, my little man,
Live and laugh, as boyhood can!
Though the flinty slopes be hard,
Stubble-speared the new-mown sward,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptisms of the dew;
Every evening from thy feet
Shall the cool wind kiss the heat:
All too soon these feet must hide
In the prison cells of pride,
Lose the freedom of the sod,
Like a colt’s for work be shod,
Made to tread the mills of toil,
Up and down in ceaseless moil:
Happy if their track be found
Never on forbidden ground;
Happy if they sink not in
Quick and treacherous sands of sin.
Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
Ere it passes, barefoot boy!

[MAJBobby]

Took a year with Josh Allen and made some $$$$. 
 

31 receptions for Under 400 yards is easily replicated with a league min deal 

[BuffaloMatt]

3 hours ago, HereComesTheReignAgain said:

1.8 receptions per game.  22 yards per game.

I get it. But made big plays when called on!

[gobills404]

I’ll never forget when he sonned the DPOY in the playoffs

 

[Since1981]

2 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

Took a year with Josh Allen and made some $$$$. 
 

31 receptions for Under 400 yards is easily replicated with a league min deal 

Yep. Josh makes $ for all (except me/tickets) But his entertainment value alone?!!

seriously, if this had been any drought year…would have blown up even more (e.g., Fitz)

3 hours ago, rajinka said:

prime diggs walk.  

Diggs was toxic

Mack is good vibes

we couldn’t over pay for him, unfortunately. But super for his wallet. 

[Beck Water]

On 3/10/2025 at 6:16 PM, Low Positive said:

Pats fans on X hate the signing. 

 

Media too.  Watching them melt down is oddly satisfying.

 

Pats got a solid player, and Hollins got a solid payday.

Edited 13 hours ago by Beck Water

[BobbyC81]

I guess $4Mil is the going rate for an experienced.

 

Our old buddy Zay Jones, coming off a season with 8 recs for 84 yards, got $4.4M to return to Cardinals.   Bwahaha, 😂

Edited 13 hours ago by BobbyC81