PFF: best & worst vs Bills

[top dawg]

Thanks to our friends at Panthers Wire (which some of y'all try to rag on), we have a snapshot of the best and worst of Friday night. The sample size is relatively small, and many if not most of the Bills' ones weren't playing--and it was preseason--so take the grades with a grain of salt (and remember that context matters). 

1. LG Brady Christensen: 86.6
2. RG Austin Corbett: 79.3
3. OT Dennis Daley: 75.3
4. LT Ikem Ekwonu: 72.5
5. QB Baker Mayfield: 68.6

25. WR Rashard Higgins: 51.7
26. OL Cade Mays: 49.7
27. TE Josh Babicz: 38.8
28. RG Deonte Brown: 37.0
29. QB Sam Darnold: 30.2

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1. DT Bravvion Roy: 93.4
2. LB Frankie Luvu: 92.5
3. DT Derrick Brown: 92.1
4. LB Damien Wilson: 90.2
5. LB Cory Littleton: 87.5

28. S Juston Burris: 53.1
29. DE Brian Burns: 52.0
30. CB Kalon Barnes: 51.5
31. CB CJ Henderson: 41.1
32. LB Josh Watson: 28.8

 

A few reflections:

-Our LB corps keeps proving that its potential is pretty damned good. I'm saying it: Luvu is the real deal!

-Ickey seems to be moving right along.

-Poor Sam

-Not quite sure what happened to Henderson (Jackson did say he "played like ass" in his not-impressed thread). Maybe his legs aren't all the way back.

-What can Brown do for you? Not too much, it seems.

--Mays was bad at OT, but OG can work. 

"Mays and Brown find themselves in the bottom five. The former allowed one pressure over 23 snaps at left guard and eight at 8 tackle."

 

-BC is developing nicely.

-I think that it's time to upgrade Burris

-Slow down on your trip to Hollywood (decent depth, nada más).

 

Comments (including overreactions)

 

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Edited August 28, 2022 by top dawg

[MHS831]

Burris, Deonte Brown might struggle to get a spot.  I was a bit disappointed by Cade Mays, but--very much like BC--they are playing him at one position one week, another the following week.  That has to be confusing. I am of the mindset that you develop a player at one position and then you expose him to another.  But I am no Matt Rhule.

It does seem as though the OL depth is becoming clear---Mays, Jordan, Elf (he is not starting over Bozeman) and maybe Erving---but I am not sure I would keep Erving.   He reminds me of the Marty Hurney method of self promotion---overpay an average player in hopes that plays up to the contract.

 

[top dawg]

4 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

Burris, Deonte Brown might struggle to get a spot.  I was a bit disappointed by Cade Mays, but--very much like BC--they are playing him at one position one week, another the following week.  That has to be confusing. I am of the mindset that you develop a player at one position and then you expose him to another.  But I am no Matt Rhule.

It does seem as though the OL depth is becoming clear---Mays, Jordan, Elf (he is not starting over Bozeman) and maybe Erving---but I am not sure I would keep Erving.   He reminds me of the Marty Hurney method of self promotion---overpay an average player in hopes that plays up to the contract.

 

The only thing that's going to get rid of Erving is the Rhule Curse [Does anyone need explanation?], but Irving seems like he's immune to it. Rhule genuinely seems to value Erving as a lineman. "He's so athletic! He can play any position..."

[L-TownCat]

If Derrick Brown is a dump truck, then Deonte Brown is a dumpster truck… and it’s currently on fire.

[Adb6368]

1 hour ago, top dawg said:

 

-I think that it's time to upgrade Burris

We have. He’s not starting anymore. 

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, top dawg said:

The only thing that's going to get rid of Erving is the Rhule Curse [Does anyone need explanation?], but Irving seems like he's immune to it. Rhule genuinely seems to value Erving as a lineman. "He's so athletic! He can play any position..."

I will never understand the infatuation Rhule had or has with him. It defies all logic and reasoning.

[ChuckWag78]

"-Poor Sam"

This was my thought exactly when I saw the scores. 

[Riverboat Ron]

5 minutes ago, ChuckWag78 said:

"-Poor Sam"

This was my thought exactly when I saw the scores. 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a QB drafted that high try hard but still suck. Unlike most high drafted busts it’s not laziness or injury that killed his career, he just doesn’t have the intangibles you want in a QB much less as a team leader. He’s basically the living form of “Bad Luck Brian”.

[Wundrbread33]

I swear when I chose to focus on Mays, he was finishing blocks by burying his man in the dirt. 
 

Good timing I guess. 

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Riverboat Ron said:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a QB drafted that high try hard but still suck. Unlike most high drafted busts it’s not laziness or injury that killed his career, he just doesn’t have the intangibles you want in a QB much less as a team leader. He’s basically the living form of “Bad Luck Brian”.

He is so ill-suited to being an NFL QB that you wonder how anyone scouted him and didn't pick up on it?

It's wild.

[Panthers Rhule]

It's good to see positions that are or were considered weaknesses shine in the preseason. Top players were on the OL and at QB, and DL and LB. That's a pleasant surprise. 

[TheCasillas]

27 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

He is so ill-suited to being an NFL QB that you wonder how anyone scouted him and didn't pick up on it?

It's wild.

They all probably thought the same thing “we can coach this kid to be good”

[NAS]

Brown is a bust eh? 

[top dawg]

6 minutes ago, NAS said:

Brown is a bust eh? 

Can't really be a bust if you were a day-three draft  project to begin with. He's a dissapointment, but that's simply because some were strongly rooting for the big fella.