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I 1st heard of Fromm from the Netflix series QB1 Beyond The Lights. If you want to see what kinda player Jake is, start off from watching that series. Dude has a good head on his shoulders, is a total team 1st guy & will fit in perfectly here. I like it

Jets been having a solid draft so far

Yeah its a shortened season, but it also means every game is that much more important & if we won the Super Bowl it'd mean we won those crucial games more than anyone else. So on one hand you can say it'd be less legit bcuz of 8 games, on the other hand you can say it'd be more difficult given the less margin for error & time to get the ship rolling. I for sure would be perfectly fine with winning the 'Bowl & i'm sure any teams fans would

Yeah i never once thought or heard of any interest from anyone between the Bills & Cam. It just doesn't make any sense with where both are at right now. Now maybe in the future if/when Cam is no longer a starter candidate possibly, but not now. One team however that i've heard mentioned a bunch is the Pats. However after they went after Hoyer, it seems they're content having him & Stidham battle it out for the starting job. Some team will take a flyer on Cam tho. I just don't expect much from him at this point in his career. But i'm glad the Bills aren't interested, even though i don't think they ever were.

According to the BR article, Jim Nagy said: "if Miami were to offer 3 1st rd picks, the Bengals should make that deal". It doesn't say thats what the rumor is or that Miami will do that. They do hold 3 1st rd picks for sure, but they're not saying thats what the rumor is. Just that they're looking to move up & IF they offered all 3 then Cinci should take it. Thats a bit different than "Miami is rumored to be offering 3 1st rd picks" https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2882393-joe-burrow-rumors-exec-says-dolphins-trading-3-firsts-to-bengals-is-too-much

For the last time, nobody is gonna trade for Higgins because he is a Free Agent. The link posted above shows right here for 2020 he's a UFA And if thats not enough proof for ya, NFL.com has him listed under the FA's for WR's All that being said I probably wouldn't be too excited if we picked him up. But if it was on a cheap Bills-friendly deal, who am i to go against our wise ole savior Beane?

I have a good friend who is a Chargers fan & he dogs Gordon the most. Says Gordon has fumble issues, disappears for games & has a poor attitude & gives questionable effort. From the way he goes off on Gordon, i'd rather we target someone else. However i think its all for naught as i can't imagine Beane giving Gordon the contract he's after... i just can't imagine it... (just watch Beane dishes out a Star-like contract to MG for 4 years & 36 million) haha... Please no

i'd rather have Hyde make the team than Taiwan Jones... who we just gave a 1 year deal to.

Angela Merkel today out of Germany said their country could expect up to 70% of their population to become infected. Seeing varied numbers around the globe, but theyre all in that range https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51835856

i read this the other day, an Australian team of experts ran 6 predictive models on what we can expect worldwide, and their most favorable prediction was 15 million dead worldwide & $2.4 Trillion lost to GDP. Who knows if its correct or not & i obviously hope it isnt, but this whole thing is something we havent full grasped yet as to its significance. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-toll-global-gdp-loss-australian-national-university-study-2020-3?op=1

Hopefully this subsides before the NFL season starts but i fear we're just at the beginning of this whole thing. I imagine at the very least the NFL Draft will take place without any fans present... hopefully! I need to see who we pick up! haha.. stay safe TBD!

NBA just suspended their season... news coming in quick tonight

Hopefully... The virus should subside a bit with the summer like with what happened with the Spanish Flu. Its just that the Spanish Flu mutated over that summer, came back & killed some 600,000 people when it came back in the fall. So it could be gone, or it might not. Either way all we can do is take it 1 day at a time, take our precautions & hope for the best.

Why settle for just those 2 when you could've packaged Shaq for Derrick Henry? <=== sarcasm Seriously now, that sounds great & all but I don't even think your trade gets accepted on Madden, yet alone in the real life NFL. Also the idea of trading him last year just doesn't make much sense either. The Bills were weak at DE while trying to make a run at the playoffs, so you're gonna trade away from that position & make it weaker? We just wouldn't have done that nor should we have, and at the end of the day we didn't. Given the circumstances at the time, it was the right decision not to exercise Shaq's 5th year option... because he hadn't shown enough on the field that warranted it. And now if Shaq will accept a fair deal somewhere in the $7-8 mil/per range i believe we'll extend him. But if he wants more in the $10 per range then I think we spend that money elsewhere, since he hasn't shown that he's worth that, at least imo. But we do have a history of overpaying certain players so really anythings possible i suppose.

When we were trying to make the playoffs?

And thank the Gods for that!

Aaron Schobel, Eric Moulds, Brian Moorman, Terrence McGee, Marshawn Lynch... done

It started in 2003 when Matt Mauck led them to their 1st National Championship. Here's an article showing who's worn it since. https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2015/08/08/became-lsu-tradition/31352635/ https://fanbuzz.com/college-football/sec/lsu/lsu-jersey-18/

Ha i was wondering if you were gonna share the link. I immediately thought about the discussion here. But i too found the article lacking details to help explain the reasons for our lack of success running them. On a side note, i recently found a way to get around the TBN paywall so i was able to read the article. Its a site that removes clutter from webpages to make it easier to read the content & for the hell of it i tried a BN article & what do u know, not only did it make the article easier to read, but it negated their paywall somehow. Its not what the site was intended for but hey i'll take it. I'd share it for others but it's probably not a good idea to. But going forward into next season I really hope we solve our screen pass issues so we can put a few into the game play every week. Especially considering how i fully expect an upgrade or 2 on the oline with more athletic lineman. We need to get Devin in space & make defenses think twice before they go all out on Josh.

Hey you said "run like SF" so i just made the point that you dont need a 1st rd back to have success, because they havent needed one. But you're right here, most of the top 10 rushers in the league are 1st rd picks for sure. But if u go out to top 15 the numbers change as 7 of those are not. However. More important imo than top rushers are the top rushing teams. It does no good if you have Nick Chubb but still finish 6-10. Out of the top 10 rushing teams, how many of those have a 1st rd back leading the way? It's 2. 2 teams out of 10. Tennessee & Dallas (Im not counting Baltimore because of Lamar). So once again that shows you don't need a 1st rd back to have success running the ball. As a matter of fact it kinda shows the inverse, that you're more successful without one. As long as you build your offense in other areas. Oline, TEs, WR's etc. At this point would i hate us getting one? No not really. But it seems like a luxury pick where we have so many other areas to improve that would serve us better as a whole (as a team), since wins matter most & not personal stats. And as i just showed, you don't necessarily need a 1st rd back to be one of the top rushing teams in the league. As the top rushing teams dont even have one. Now you can hangup

A running attack like SF? Where 2 out of their 3 rb's were not even drafted? Only Tevin Coleman was drafted & he was in the 3rd round. If anything SF's success has shown what is possible without having to draft a RB early in the draft.

I'm not big on signing Olsen for a lot of the reasons already stated. BUT, if signing Olsen means we cut Kroft & Smith & he takes over the mentoring/veteran role, & is good for at least 500 yards & 5 tds, & he signs for less than $5 Mil? Then i can be a buyer of that. But if we throw out a 3 year 18 Mil deal at Olsen then oh hell no!

Good idea making a thread for this, hopefully someone will have some good information. Perhaps we need to contact one of the All-22 guys about it. I searched on their site for about 40 minutes & couldnt find much, but someone like that would have to have something to say about it i'd think. Its hard to find good info on it & when theres a possible source its behind a paywall. But in my digging i see its been an issue with Allen going back to Wyoming. Theres the remark from Mel Kiper back around the Draft while comparing all those QB's & talking about Allens accuracy numbers being less than 60%. And Mel said if he was throwing more screen passes & easy throws like that, his % would easily be over 60%. But while digging up info on it I see those passes were a problem for him back then too, so perhaps thats why their OC didn't call them as much either. An excerpt from the editor of Star Tribune, the newspaper from Wyoming: “Like, we saw this Pat Mahomes last year with similar ability to make incredible sort of trick-shot throws, and you’ll see that with Allen, where you’ll be like, ‘Oh my god. There’s not five other human beings on planet Earth that could have done that,’ and maybe there’s even less. But he’ll do that, and a play or two later, it’ll be a screen pass, and Allen will just kind of turn to his left and fire an absolute 100 mile per hour fastball when he just should have been throwing a little lollipop and getting it to his running back.” Time after time thats the issue. Where his fastball will get to the RB before the blockers do to setup the play downfield so it looks like the blockers aren't in their correct position. Theres multiple video clips from google & twitter showing this from him or from preseason reporters watching him in practice. The ball just sails. Later in the year i mentioned in that other thread how i saw Allen overcompensate for this by going 180 degrees the other direction. Meaning floating the ball higher in the air where it seemed it took 10 seconds for the ball to arrive. Its like his arm is a loaded shotgun all the time & if you ask him to throw it gently he ends up forcing it somehow, being mindful that he needs to adjust & it throws everything it off. I don't think you want your QB to be overthinking his mechanics or throwing motion in the middle of a throw, you want it to be natural & just get there. So I think its something that can be worked on & must be worked on. Theres interviews with Daboll talking about the need to get Josh more completions with the short stuff. "Easy" throws that help get him in a rhythm. The season before, Allen averaged 10 completions per game within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage while the NFL average as a whole was over 16 completions a game on passes of that distance. Last year was the year they were supposedly gonna work on that but i still didnt see enough of them... at all. Aside from screen plays. We should have at a minimum of 5-6 set throwing plays with Beasley, dedicated plays thruout every game. Easy layups if you will to get Cole going & Allen in that rhythm once again. Kinda like how Brady would do with Edelman. 5 to 6 at a minimum.

Thats a lot of info there & appreciate you putting that together. The RPO bit is surprising. There are tons of NFL stat sites/articles that all state we use a lot of it. I'll post a random image that i found that gives a general overview of such at the end here. But it sure seemed that we used a lot of it while watching the games. I mean you look up Tom Bradys RPO numbers & according to PFR, Allen used the RPO only 11 more times the whole year than Brady did? That just doesn't make sense. There has to be something theyre missing or we're missing with how those numbers are calculated versus what Josh is doing on those plays. While writing this i did some digging & came across an All-22 film room article breaking down Allen's RPO's. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/9/13/17854442/buffalo-bills-all-22-film-room-whats-an-rpo-run-pass-option-zone-read-packaged-plays From the breakdowns & not knowing what Allen's presnap reads were, its hard to tell if a play is in fact an RPO or if its a Zone Read or something else entirely. So on the surface it may look like we run a lot of them but its just that the cadence of the motion is the same? Or on the flipside perhaps the advanced stats for RPO's are less than actual because theres no real way for a stats site to know what Allens presnap reads were? Idk. But overall i do think it makes sense for us to use them without a doubt. It just requires Allen to be able to make quick on the fly decisions with where to go with the ball. And sometimes it worked out great & others not so much. But when we're running on all cylinders with that play, with so many moving parts its gotta be hell for a defense to defend. I think of Lamar Jackson & how deadly he became from executing that play as well as he did.

What made me laugh were the random threads that would pop up here asking if we should try to bring Sammy back to the Bills. An idea as likely as signing Brady to mentor Josh. Tbh i dont care what Sammy has to say. We invested in him as a player & gave him every opportunity as we counted on him & it didnt work out. Now he's on one of the most explosive offenses in the league. I wish him no ill will but just like the Tyrod Taylors of Bills history, i'm burned out on all that bs & over it.