Player Spotlight: Lee Evans (1 Viewer)

[Aaron Rudnicki]

according to the Buffalo News today, these 3 players all have 1 year left on their contracts:JP LosmanWillis McGaheeLee EvansI'd imagine that Evans and Losman would be a much bigger priority to sign to an extension this offseason. They could always stick a franchise tag on McGahee to keep him around for an extra year, but I also wouldn't mind seeing them shop him this offseason to see if they can get good value in a trade.another thing to consider for next year is that the Bills look like they will have another very difficult schedule

The Bills home games are against: New England, Miami, the New York Jets, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, the New York Giants and Denver. The road games are against: New England, Miami, the New York Jets, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington and Jacksonville.

They also had a very difficult schedule this season though so I guess it was a good learning experience.

The Bills wound up playing one of the toughest schedules in the league. Their opponents had a record of 147-109, a .574 winning percentage. They played eight games against defenses ranked in the top eight in the NFL. They played six games against division winners.

 

[Holy Schneikes]

Moulds loss will break down this way:

2005Moulds = 81/816/4

65% of those stats will disappear... ie the passing game for the bills will get worse.

The other 35% that remains will be spread between the new #2 WR or (WR's), the TE, and the RB.

This happens all the time... yet every year people try to give away a departed player's yards like they are a given.

According to your "projections", that would put the Bills at 2321 yards passing, which in most years would put them well behind the last place team for the year. In the last 5 years, only two teams have passed for less than 2400 yards, both in 2005 (the woefull Bears and the outrageously awful 9ers).Realistically, 2600 yards will be about as bad as it gets, and a more realistic but still quite low number would be about 3000 yards. A nice chunk of those yards will go to Evans who is by far the best receiver on the team.

As usual, you take a decent point and exaggerate it to the point of absurdity.

Evans will put up 1000 yards and 9 TDs fairly easily.

I've done a lot of research on this topic. You are right in that 2321 might be too low but it is not so uncommon that it is impossible. Both the Bears and Niners last year were at 2201 or lower. The Texans threw for a measly 2661 last season. This Bills last year only threw for 2852.

If you look back at all the cases through history, most of the time when you have a good WR leave, passing stats drop for that team the following year. This is very logical. Add that to the fact that when there is a sub-par QB involved the numbers get even worse.

To say realistic number for the Bills is 3,000 yards passing makes me . That would be a huge year for them.

I'm going to say their range next year is between 2300 and 2600 pretty safely.

This one is particularly funny.The Bills passed for 3051 yards this year (3000 sounds familiar doesn't it?) and "shockingly" most of them went to Evans. The Falcons had the lowest passing total at 2682 (also sounds familiar as my "worst case" projection).

This one was almost as good as the Ron Dayne pimping the last two years (by the way, can't wait for next year's preseason Dayne pimping - he did have a couple of good games).

 

[GroveDiesel]

according to the Buffalo News today, these 3 players all have 1 year left on their contracts:JP LosmanWillis McGaheeLee EvansI'd imagine that Evans and Losman would be a much bigger priority to sign to an extension this offseason. They could always stick a franchise tag on McGahee to keep him around for an extra year, but I also wouldn't mind seeing them shop him this offseason to see if they can get good value in a trade.another thing to consider for next year is that the Bills look like they will have another very difficult schedule

The Bills home games are against: New England, Miami, the New York Jets, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, the New York Giants and Denver. The road games are against: New England, Miami, the New York Jets, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington and Jacksonville.

They also had a very difficult schedule this season though so I guess it was a good learning experience.

The Bills wound up playing one of the toughest schedules in the league. Their opponents had a record of 147-109, a .574 winning percentage. They played eight games against defenses ranked in the top eight in the NFL. They played six games against division winners.

They didn't just play "one" of the toughest schedules in the league, they played THE toughest schedule in the league. Their opponents' winning percentage of .574 was the highest in the league. EIGHT of their 16 games were against teams that made it to the playoffs (including 6 games against division winners). Coincidentally, those 5 division winners happened to have the 5 best records in the NFL this season. Ouch.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

They didn't just play "one" of the toughest schedules in the league, they played THE toughest schedule in the league. Their opponents' winning percentage of .574 was the highest in the league. EIGHT of their 16 games were against teams that made it to the playoffs (including 6 games against division winners). Coincidentally, those 5 division winners happened to have the 5 best records in the NFL this season. Ouch.

still doesn't excuse losing to the Lions, Jets, or Titans.

 

[GroveDiesel]

They didn't just play "one" of the toughest schedules in the league, they played THE toughest schedule in the league. Their opponents' winning percentage of .574 was the highest in the league. EIGHT of their 16 games were against teams that made it to the playoffs (including 6 games against division winners). Coincidentally, those 5 division winners happened to have the 5 best records in the NFL this season. Ouch.

still doesn't excuse losing to the Lions, Jets, or Titans.

Agreed. The Lions one is the one that really kills me. The Jets are a fairly decent team that managed to make the playoffs and the Titans put on quite a show in the second half of the season. But to lose to the Lions? That one definitely makes me The only positive spin I can put on that is that it was near the beginning of the season when Losman was still fairly shaky and everyone was still learning new offensive and defensive schemes. Still, the play of the Bills in that game was just

 

[GroveDiesel]

One last post on Evans:

For the full 17 week season, Evans finished 7th in fantasy scoring in one league I'm in (for WRs of course) and 8th in my PPR league. In my non-PPR league where he finished 7th, he was just 3 points away from being the #4 ranked fantasy football WR.

And I know, take away his 38 point game, blah blah blah. I looked at the top games for each of the 6 guys that finished in front of him and if we're going to play that game you have to take away these points for each of these guys too:

Marvin Harrison - 26

Terrell Owens - 22

Reggie Wayne - 31

Donald Driver - 24

Torry Holt - 33

Chad Johnson - 38

So let's not play that game.

 

[Joe T]

How's Lee Evans looking this year?

:crickets:

 

[RedRaiders]

He'll have a 38 point week coming up so his averages will look respectable. You don't win FFL championships with Lee Evans on your team. I'd rather start a guy like Wes Welker every week.

 

[Joe T]

4 catches for 22 yards?

That can't be right.

 

[Sid G]

You don't win FFL championships with Lee Evans on your team.

Maybe you don't, but I have.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

With very little commenting...

50 receptions

800 yards

8 TDs

paleeeez80-1100-11

Lossman @ QB.......... My numbers mirror Knowledge Reigns Supreme.

A year late, but this is looking good. JP Losman is who I THOUGHT he was.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

You don't win FFL championships with Lee Evans on your team.

Maybe you don't, but I have.

:whoosh:

 

[One]

Maybe you don't, but I have.

hmm.. he kicked butt for me too. I traded for him around this time last season.However, I'm just not sure I'd feel good with him as my #1 receiver, where he was being targeted in most drafts I was in. The guy's success depends solely on the longball and Losman having enough time to get it there.

Yesterday he barely missed holding onto a bomb in the endzone (couldn't gain enough control before hitting the ground.), but had it connected this thread would still be on page 10.

I'm actually trying to trade for him as we speak. The Bills will be behind often and Losman will let it rain.. one has to connect.

You don't win FFL championships with Lee Evans on your team.

I managed 2.

 

[NeverEnough]

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