I'm always willing to believe reporting that suggest Pegs is an idiot. Graham took that confirmation bias for a spin for sure.Graham already walking back on the message of his article, even though he knew damn well that those carefully chosen words would serve as the clickbait for readers.
The shitty part is that despite the clarification about the "message" of his article, the dumb echo chamber has already begun:
Sal is the only reporter I go to for Bills news.
I don't consider op-eds and journalism to be one in the same. Journalism, to me, should have emotion stripped away from the material being presented. At the core, there may be a fundamental belief, but the writing should be backed largely by facts/statistics/data. We can argue the validity of the data being presented, but I shouldn't have the writer in my face as I'm trying to wade through the argument.
Bishop. Though if Keon was a 2-way player that would really be a story.
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There is an advantage to 12 offensive sets. There is also an advantage to not really having a set #1 receiver.
This is a great "Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?" situation.
Given the turnover at safety and the lack of proven depth at boundary CB, I think that DB is an underdiscussed position where there are questions entering this season. The same goes for DE.
Was it our elite CB in Douglas, or our by all accounts great CB in Benford on the boundary that is an issue? How about Elam that has actually played well in games? Now if you wanted to specify safety, I could listen to that.
The issue at CB is that neither Douglas nor Benford have gone without missing time over their careers. And behind them they have Elam who while a talented 1st round pick, has been disappointing thus far in his NFL career.
| CB | Snaps |
| Benford | 824 |
| Douglas | 503 |
| Jackson | 463 |
| White | 182 |
| Elam | 157 |
| Ingram | 8 |
| Norman | 5 |
The thing about Elam is, he has played well every time he was in the lineup. Something about him the coaches did not like and would not play him. Perhaps it was his use of hands, maybe it is the reliance on zone scheme which he doesn't excel at, but he is a good CB.
