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Tuesday morning in Mobile Dion Dawkins Jersey ,ties at the 2019 Senior Bowl. As tradition holds, the day began with scouts and journalists packed into an auditorium, where NFL prospects walked onto a stage in their underwear, one by one. The height and weight measuring sets a baseline for NFL teams with specific size requirements on their rosters, but it’s only one facet of the pre-draft prospect profile.As a whole, the height-weight-length measurements were strong across the board at this year’s weigh-in. Very few players emerged with disappointing measurements, with the exception of a few telegraphed before the event. The offensive line group was especially impressive - no Tyrannosaurus arms to be seen, and only one player outside the preferred 300-350 pound weight range across the two teams. The full list of player measurements can be seen here, courtesy of Optimum Scouting, but below we’ve listed the highlights and lowlights from Tuesday’s event.Winner: Tyree Jackson, QB, BuffaloIt’s possible no player’s weigh-in impressed the NFL’s scouts as much as Jackson, who elicited hushed discussions when he stepped up to the measuring tape. Jackson stood a massive 6’7” and 249 pounds, and added ten-inch hands and 35-inch arms to his profile. The measurements were exactly as advertised, and helped explain how Jackson generates easy velocity on his throws.Loser: Hunter Renfrow, WR, ClemsonIt wouldn’t surprise anyone who’s watched Renfrow play for the Tigers over the last ten years, but the scrappy former walk-on measured up like a club football player instead of a future NFL starter. At 5’10”, 175 pounds, with 7 3鈦? inch hands and 29-inch arms, Renfrow falls below many size thresholds Youth Kyle Williams Jersey , even for a slot receiver.Winner: Donald Parham, TE, StetsonParham towered over his FCS foes en route to 148 catches, 2,024 yards, and 13 touchdowns in his last 25 career games, and the gargantuan hybrid TE-WR is the largest player appearing at the Senior Bowl. He measured 6 feet 8 3/8 inches and 243 pounds, along with vinelike 36.1-inch arms with 10.5-inch hands. All that’s left is to prove his receiving talent can stand up with the big boys in FBS.Loser: Sutton Smith, OLB, Northern IllinoisAn outstanding redshirt junior season earned Smith a late call-up to the Senior Bowl, but he might be a man without a position in the NFL. His best traits in college were his pass rushing quickness and moveset, but Smith measured six feet tall, 234 pounds, with arms less than 31 inches long. That makes him a long shot to deal with NFL offensive tackles.Winner: Andre Dillard, OT, Washington StateDillard’s quick feet earned him accolades in Mike Leach’s pass-heavy offense, and he’s hoping to push his stock into first round territory this week. Measuring a hair under six-foot-five, with 34-inch arms, and weighing 310 pounds, Dillard scraped by the size thresholds for NFL offensive tackles.Loser: Isaiah Buggs, DL White Micah Hyde Jersey , AlabamaWith Raekwon Davis returning to school and Quinnen Williams a redshirt sophomore, the Senior Bowl was a chance for Isaiah Buggs to stand out apart from his Crimson Tide teammates. The weigh-in was a poor start for the lineman. Listed at 6’5” 286 pounds, Buggs measured 6’2” 295, with sub-31 inch arms. Teams might’ve expected a player who could flex between defensive end and defensive tackle, but those measurements will pigeonhole him as an interior lineman only.Winner: Charles Omenihu, DE, TexasAny of a number of defensive ends could’ve earned this recognition, but Omenihu earns props for his outstanding length. At a shade under 6’6” and 274 pounds, he has the size 4-3 teams would look for at defensive end. He also recorded 36.5-inch arms, the longest of the event—which gives him a nearly 85-inch wingspan.Pressure on Brian Daboll to stick the landing as new Bills offensive coordinator Week 1 of the 2018 NFL regular season is upon us, and the Buffalo Bills will be kicking off their season-opening matchup with the Baltimore Ravens in just a few short hours. If you have tiny shivers of excitement running down your spine right now, you are not even remotely alone.For the first time in nearly two decades, the Bills are entering a regular season with playoff-level expectations facing them. That’s what happens when a team ends a 17-year playoff drought: the standard raises. Buffalo is still, however, very much a team in transition as year two of the Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott era commences: the roster is still very much in turnover phase, there’s a new franchise quarterback in the pipeline, and McDermott is still trying to iron out his coaching philosophy on the offensive side of the ball.Every Bills fan has his or her own primary point of focus entering the new year. Speaking personally, mine is that last point from the previous paragraph. Yes, I’ll be paying attention to the general, overall look of the team, how the new additions (chiefly rookie middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds) perform White Phillip Gaines Jersey , and the rest of the major talking points you’ve all read about at length this offseason. But the men I am most eager to evaluate are offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, and by extension, the man who hired him this past winter.Daboll is Buffalo’s fourth offensive coordinator in the past four years, following in the footsteps of Rick Dennison (fired by McDermott after the 2017 season), Anthony Lynn (who took the head coaching job in San Diego Los Angeles after the Bills fired Rex Ryan), and Greg Roman (who Ryan unceremoniously canned after the first two weeks of the 2016 regular season). He’s also a coach that the Bills aggressively pursued for the role; the team announced the hiring of Daboll just two days after announcing Dennison had been relieved of his duties.This was an important hire for McDermott, and one that he ultimately did not waste time in making. Now that the Bills are taking on the important, dual-focused work of turning Josh Allen into a franchise quarterback, as well as improving an offense that has not finished in the Top 10 in total offense since 2000 (and was No. 29 a year ago), it is imperative that Daboll stick the landing and manage to stay around for, say, at least a second season.His job won’t be an easy one, despite having a future Hall of Fame running back on the roster to work with. The Bills have a challenging schedule ahead of them this season, starting with today’s Ravens outfit that is setting out to erase the sting of their own season-ending breakdown in Week 17 last season - one that cost them a playoff berth, and paved the way for the Bills’, instead.Nathan Peterman was named Buffalo’s starting quarterback earlier this week. He won the job after outplaying Allen and the since-traded AJ McCarron by a considerable margin this preseason, completing over 80 percent of his passes with three touchdowns and one (tipped) interception. He clearly has the best command of Daboll’s offense at the moment, which is why he’s playing over the highest-drafted quarterback in Bills franchise history.That said, Peterman is merely keeping the seat warm for Allen, and it is his job, as well as his play-caller’s Youth Kelvin Benjamin Jersey , to try to turn this into the best problem the Bills have ever had. If the Bills are going to have success offensively against not only the Ravens, but a slew of other highly-talented defenses coming up on the schedule, it will be because Peterman is playing well, and because Daboll is putting him and the rest of the Bills’ meager skill talent in position to succeed.It’s a big ask. Peterman, for as well as he played this summer, is still one of the least-experienced starting quarterbacks in the league. The Bills are replacing three very skilled and tenured starters from their offensive line, and that unit’s play ranged from dodgy to awful in preseason action. Beyond star tailback LeSean McCoy, the Bills do not have a skill position player that is going to require significant game-planning focus for opponents. It’s going to take a smoke-and-mirrors effort for Daboll to turn this offense into a respectable unit, and it’s going to take patience on McDermott’s part to let Daboll try to establish some sort of consistency in his role.With so many questions surrounding the Bills’ offensive coordinator position in general, Peterman and the timing of Allen’s ascent, the offensive line, and the viability of the skill position pool beyond McCoy, expectations for this unit are understandably much lower than they are for the team as a whole. More than anything else, the Bills really need to start to build a consistent foundation offensively this season. There can’t be a revolving door anymore. That effort - or, at least, our evaluation of it - begins in earnest at 1:00 this afternoon. |
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