Basically agree. Coleman has shown enough flashes that I'm hopeful for his development. In hindsight, I'd rather have picked Sam Laporta than Kincaid if we were going TE though. You can rarely go wrong getting an Iowa TE and so far he's been better.
Barring a catastrophic injury to his arm I don't see why that has to be the case. They maybe should cut back on running him in the next year or two, but I don't see why he couldn't thrive in a similar pass heavy offense as Cincinnati runs with Joe Burrow.
They traded up to get Kincaid. This year was a significant regression. He’s a below average starting tight end, due to his blocking being worse than nearly all our WR’s. As a TE, that’s a big part of your job. Not to mention the receiving was not up to par this year.
Definitely agree Coleman faded down the stretch this year considerably. I think this season was better from Kincaid personally. We used him completely wrong his rookie year. This season was still disappointing from him but was at least a step in the right direction IMO as we started to use him more downfield.
that same ref changed his spot on the field every time he ran it to mark a ball.
His season high was fifty something, nothing downfield, we never miss him when he's out...
It's honestly shocking, but Kincaid was actually targeted downfield more than any other TE in the league this year and his average target yardage was like 7th highest in the league for a TE.
at the end of the day, they had the ball down 3 with a few minutes to go. They needed a well executed drive, a touchdown with almost nothing left on the game clock that would have also forced KC to use their time outs if they were going to actually win. I mean KC could have scored a TD with no time outs and maybe 30 seconds left? Would have to be 10-15 seconds really. They still would have found a way to launch a hail mary that would have been a 50/50 shot. That was the only way the Bills were going to win.
It's always hard to tell if the story is more that the secondary gave up separation quickly enough that the pass rush didn't matter vs. the pass rush actually failing to generate any pressure. I think it was probably more of the former last night, but the line also really struggled to contain Mahomes in the pocket (granted that's much easier said than done). At any rate, Groot had a good season and finally went from a guy that was known for finishing plays after his teammates generate pressure to actually generating it himself. Oliver took a step back from being arguably elite the year before but is still pretty good. Epenesa and Von were both fine (but Von obviously grossly overpaid for being just fine; I have to assume he'll be cut this offseason). Still room for upgrades on the line though, especially at the DT spot next to Oliver.
Could easily be 2-2 in these playoff games if you just swapped Oliver with Chris Jones.
A lot of teams can say that when comparing themselves to the Eagles. They easily have the most talent in the NFL position by position. They're better than KC too. They just don't have Mahomes.
Did I read that you are a Saints fan? Looks like they will hire Moore or McCarthy at this point?
I've checked out since they signed Carr. Their ineptitude is the main reason I've followed Buffalo more recently. Loomis is 70 and been there 25 years. It's time for him to retire. The entire organization needs to start out fresh and bottom out. They've been in cap hell since well before Brees retirement.
