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Also, generally true of any large market. I'd imagine that big stars in LA, Chicago, Dallas, NY, Boston, Philadelphia would make more in endorsements in the local markets than Buffalo, GB, Cleveland, Cincinnati....

Allen is the QB. He's going to get 100x the discussion anyone else is. That who the whole team sees as its leader / face of franchise. I don't think we see players speak about anyone in a similar manner; Hyde, Poyer, Milano, Diggs, Morse, Dawkins??

Not sure what's going on at the Chiefs board, but if that was a Bills player this thread would be on page 18 with the vitriol being hurled at him

I haven't seen his highlights in a long time, but looking at that brief clip, it made me think of Cole Beasley

That would be pre-McB... Whaley and Rex Ryan would have had to have the same foresight to develop someone like that

I was at that game as well! It was my wife's b-day present for me. She held out and was a trooper through a miserable rainy day, so she forever gets credit for that! I agree that the energy picked up when Allen entered the game. He held his own in an unexpected appearance as described by OP. Great journey from there on......

Living outside of Buffalo, I've watched more Sabres this past year on ESPN+ than I have in the last 5+ years combined

One of my favorite players and all-time best trade! if the Bills win SB this year the ONLY regret that I would have is that he wasn't on the team. Never know, if there's a few injuries maybe we'll make a move for him at the trade deadline to shore up pass rush for "future considerations"

You should probably update the title to this thread adding an '!' after the word "released". Your enthusiasm warrants it!

I don't want to belabor it as I have much respect for Bill's insights, but a miss of a few slots in the top 5 penalizes almost as much 2+ round misses on QBs that people were projecting going in the 1st

Very happy with both of the first two picks, but have to go with Shakir. Its always sweeter when you feel like you really swiped someone with a later round pick. We'll see how it turns out!

I always read @GunnerBill posts as he has excellent insight, but is that the best way to evaluate? There's a big point slide scale across Round 1. Won't that over-penalize for inaccuracy at the top of the round vs. those at the bottom. Make a mistake on one guy in the top 10, Stingley was picked much higher than many expected, and you've blown the whole mock. Perhaps some of these guys in the lower end of your list did much better later in the round, where the picking is far more difficult.

Bills will not be picking at #25. They're trading back and selecting Breece Hall w/ pick #3x (maybe #32 w/ Lions or early 2nd round)

Doesn't the tweet on Ronaldo's say that its "the Niall Quinn statue". Who is this guy.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Quinn

Actually the source for this story is...... Spencer Brown,

Isn't that the strategy that we mostly navigated through the drought? Fitzpatrick and Tyrod scream out as the types of QB that it could theoretically work with. We had the best rushing attack in the league for a few years with Shady + Tyrod. But we ended up with .500 teams with just Tyrod barely making playoffs once, because of Dalton/Boyd heroics.... and then 1 and done in playoffs. I think the strategy could get you to a fringe wild-card team, but not much further. Even if they had beaten Jacksonville in playoffs, I have a hard time believing they had any shot at winning SB

I'm confused.... OJ's 2000 yard season was in 1973, he was traded in after 1977 season and had retired by 1980 when this game is?!? Also, the most exciting 1:47 seconds of football just happened in January the last time you saw them play...

Perhaps a brief summary of what is interesting about this particular game without having to watch it for two hours??

As someone who doesn't know jack about college football, I'm a big consumer of mocks. They lead me to watch YouTube videos of players the Bills may pick. By the time draft-time rolls around I have a pretty good idea of who's going where and what their needs were. While any given mock itself may have been inaccurate, the process of seeing them in the two month leading up to the draft are great for the fan experience. That's all they're meant to be... entertainment for us fans

Hasn't the McKissic $ been consumed by the tsunami of the last couple days?

Right, but there weren't any rumors of a LB like Jack being available either. We all believed that Barclay would be our backup QB last year, until the moment they announced they were signing Trubisky There's a thread every week on TBD about getting rid of Edmunds. Here's the opportunity now. Trade him and sign Jack

Hmmm....

No move is executed until the first day of the NFL league year (March 16). By then every team has to be cap compliant including any trade that they would be completing on that day. Until then all trades that you're hearing about are agreed to in principle, but not yet executed. For example, Wilson can't report to the Bronco facility yet

This one probably belongs in the "what was your worst hot take on TSW ever" thread from a week or two ago.... this board lit up when that tweet came out. And 90% of the takes wanted him on the Bills

The video of Allen's second start and famous upset of the Vikings popped up on my YouTube feed. I hadn't seen these highlights in a long time, but it got me thinking about young QBs. Lots of teams are wondering or hoping the can get the next Josh Allen, with the common refrain that he "sucked" his rookie season, but then steadily improved to become what he's been in year 3/4. Admittedly his stats weren't off the charts that first season. But looking at these game highlights his affect goes way beyond hurdling Barr, it shows all the ingredients of the guy we see today. These highlights don't look all that different from a game he might have had this season. While not every game looked like this as a rookie, he also had impressive games against the Jaguars and two against the Dolphins where won AFC Player of the Week to close the season. So teams can think they have the next JA17, but he looked impressive right from that first season....