Curiosity Question: Who Supports the Trade Made to Land Watkins

[Fletch]

Curiosity question.

This isn't a thread about whether or not Watkins is good, he is good, no question. There are questions as to how good, particularly in comparison to his rookie peers, but this isn't even about that.

The question is: Would you rather have Watkins, or any other rookie WR besides Evans, who wasn't available with our original 9th overall pick, and our 1st and 4th in 2015 back?

							Games		Receiving
Rk		Year	Age	Draft	Tm	Lg	G	GS	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Y/G	Ctch%
1	Mike Evans	2014	21	1-7	TAM	NFL	10	10	82	49	841	17.16	8	84.1	59.8
2	Kelvin Benjamin	2014	23	1-28	CAR	NFL	11	10	98	52	768	14.77	8	69.8	53.1
3	Sammy Watkins	2014	21	1-4	BUF	NFL	11	11	89	48	684	14.25	5	62.2	53.9
4	Jordan Matthews	2014	22	2-42	PHI	NFL	11	7	77	50	635	12.70	6	57.7	64.9
5	Odell Beckham	2014	22	1-12	NYG	NFL	7	6	59	41	609	14.85	5	87.0	69.5
6	Brandin Cooks	2014	21	1-20	NOR	NFL	10	7	69	53	550	10.38	3	55.0	76.8
7	Allen Robinson	2014	21	2-61	JAX	NFL	10	8	81	48	548	11.42	2	54.8	59.3
8	Taylor Gabriel	2014	23		CLE	NFL	11	1	57	30	540	18.00	1	49.1	52.6
9	John Brown	2014	24	3-91	ARI	NFL	11	3	70	37	529	14.30	5	48.1	52.9

[Fletch]

By the way, here are Watkins' rankings in the above table.

Starts: 1st
Targets: 2nd
Receptions: 5th
Yards: 3rd
Yards-per-catch: 6th
TDs: 3-way tie for 4th
YPG: 4th
Catch %: 6th

of 9 spots

[trapezeus]

if the bills traded their first and fourth to stop fletch from posting, i'd say we got quite a steal!

[Mr. Pink]

Can you imagine the uproar if the Bills stayed put and took Kelvin Benjamin?

I'm not that impressed with him as most of his work has been done in garbage time when the Panthers are well out of games.

Beckham Jr has surprised me, didn't think he'd have as much impact or be as good at the NFL level as he is.

None of the guys would have stat lines much different than Watkins here though, it's not that Watkins isn't open or drops the ball frequently...the QBs seemingly don't even look his way through stretches. Last night was a huge example of this. Also, the Bills might be the only team in the NFL who don't run bubble screens, a play in which Watkins excelled at while at Clemson.

Sure it would be great if the team had their first next year but who's to say they would have used it wisely anyway? As far as any of us know, they would have used that pick to take Melvin Gordon to replace Spiller.

[Novacane]

Did you really need to start another one of these threads? Hindsight being 20/20 I'd of stayed pat and taken Beckham. He's the only one that's on par with Sammy talent wise IMO. I don't care what stats you post.

[trapezeus]

Mr. Pink, just wait until there is another hindsight decision to be made. Fletch will be there telling us exactly what he'd do. while he supported taking benjamin at 9 he didn't say boo about beckham until he made that sensational catch. now he's a big beckham supporter.

It's pretty easy being fletch/very wide right because they just recall tiny bits when convenient and post stats without delving into the actual meaning of the stats

[Fletch]

if the bills traded their first and fourth to stop fletch from posting, i'd say we got quite a steal!

That's the problem with you, you keep repeating this over and over and over again. Don't you have anything else to say beside many of the obvious comments that you make?

"Our D played great last night". Gee, really Sherlock.

LOL

[Fletch]

Mr. Pink, just wait until there is another hindsight decision to be made. Fletch will be there telling us exactly what he'd do. while he supported taking benjamin at 9 he didn't say boo about beckham until he made that sensational catch. now he's a big beckham supporter.

It's pretty easy being fletch/very wide right because they just recall tiny bits when convenient and post stats without delving into the actual meaning of the stats

That's right, I will, just as I was when I was out on an island suggesting that Spiller wasn't the same special player that many people say Watkins is.

You're right trapezeus, I will be, except it will be more like what I wouldn't have done. I'll take my track record against this front office's track record any time.

[trapezeus]

and everyone else here was on board with the FO the entire time. you are a fool.

[Fletch]

and everyone else here was on board with the FO the entire time. you are a fool.

They were regarding Spiller.

Who's the fool?

[trapezeus]

they weren't. everyone said, "he seems like an ok player, but there are a lot of needs elsewhere, we already have lynch and jackson." go pull up the actual threads. you also weren't posting here at the time as often as you do now.

but this is also a nice piece of revisionist history on your part.

[Novacane]

. I'll take my track record against this front office's track record any time.

Most of us would. If the Bills had just let this board vote on their draft picks they'd be miles ahead of where they are now.

[Novacane]

They were regarding Spiller.

Who's the fool?

Do you know the difference between some and everyone?

[k-oneputt]

Most of us would. If the Bills had just let this board vote on their draft picks they'd be miles ahead of where they are now.

You mean we wouldn't have drafted Whitner, Maybin, McGahee, Manuel,........

[Night Train]

[Mr. Miyagi]

Hindsight is 20-20. Surely we should've also drafted Russell Wilson instead of TJ Graham, and Brian Cushing over Aaron Maybin.

[k-oneputt]

I know this board wanted Ngata over Whitner.

[better days]

At least the Bills did not draft Ebron who many wanted the Bills to draft.

He just SUCKS.

[Mr. Pink]

I know this board wanted Ngata over Whitner.

And Mangold over McCargo.

[yordad]

Hindsight vision is always better. I supported it at the time.