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Totally agree. Patience will pay off with Josh. I know he makes some bad decisions/throws, but that is part of the growing process; I want to see McDermott and Daboll let Josh sling it and not try to manage the game. I suspect that may have been a big part of the problem last year, that Josh was trying to be too careful with the long ball.

$3k, that is my best offer. It said OBO...

Who gets wacked first, Chris Collinsworth or LaDanian Tomlinson? Both hate the Bills.

Where did I say that? Try reading a least a few posts up and you'll see my preference as to Flacco vs Barkley for backup.

If your backup didn't at lease somewhat blow, he would be a starter somewhere else. See Nick Foles. Both Barkley and Flacco suck at this point; Barkley is more durable, but Flacco has demonstrated that he can perform in big situations. Most likely Barkley will be here this year and that is it; the coaching staff needs him to hold down the fort and help bring Fromm along.

You and @ScottLaw both have valid points on the backup QB situation. Given a choice between Flacco and Barkley, I'd have to go with Flacco. Flacco has proven he can get the job done, though not always consistently; Barkley hasn't proven much of anything. The Pats game when Josh went out with a concussion is an example of Barkley not being able to finish off a drive and get the Bills a win. Barkley is indeed a borderline NFL player from the same draft class as EJ Manuel. As far as Flacco being one hit away from retiring at halftime, that is true. How about an offensive line that can pass protect and/or blocking schemes that make this possible? McD/Daboll/Beane?

Thank you to those who served and currently serve. To those that made the ultimate sacrifice, we can never repay you, only God can.

Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmunds. We all better hope this is the case.

Trent Murphy and Star L.

So Hauska is gone by the end of camp?

Winfield, Pat Williams, and Jason Peters. All huge mistakes previous regimes made in letting go.

If McDermott can get to a SB with the coordinators he has now, I'll eat crow. Until then, our OC and SpT coordinators remain suspect. Daboll's issues have been well discussed, though Heath Farwell not as much. There was two occasions of blocked punts this past year, the second one where the Patriots saw a blocking vulnerability which didn't get fixed from prior weeks and they took advantage of it.

Nobody twisted McDermott's arm in choosing Dennison as the HC; that was still his choice. McD could have picked someone else, but he didn't most likely because no current or former Carolina Panther offensive assistants or coordinators were available. McD is on his second OC and SpT coordinator in four years. Not a good record, which screams McDermott is a DC, not HC.

Fitz, beside being a very intelligent guy, has been playing pro football for what....13 years? He can grasp these complex plays. Josh, not so much as this was really the first year the coaching staff committed to him as a starter. I think Josh was drinking from a firehose, either by design or not. Playcalling was another problem...

Doesn't Daboll have the same problem? I recall John Brown mentioning that this offense is the most complex he has been in.

One last paycheck before retirement.

But again, the NFL is not going to regulate the salaries of lesser tier QBs. They will make what their teams give them, whether the team uses the Dak and Goff precedents or not. I get your point about being in QB purgatory, a number of teams will have that problem. I also don't think a Goff, Tannehill, or Alex Smith would have solved our drought problem; the coaching problem needed to be solved, first.

What is the league going to do about this? Teams don't have to pay the Jerod Goffs of the world $30M/yr. You can go out and get another QB.

You're right, the defense will suffer if you pay one offensive player that much and surround him with other higher than average paid players; unless the cap goes > $200M very quickly. I wasn't aware of that proposed rule change change. I can see the plusses and minuses in this. The plus is that there is less debate about was it a legal catch. The negative is that the offense receives more preference, and yes, we will start to see more game scores in the 40s.

Great. I look forward to game scores in the 77-74 range. I'll quit watching and following if that happens.

He started out as an intern then regional scout in the mid 1990s. Grier graduated from UMass Amherst.

He would have been 17 or 18 at the time of the 2015 season SB. As another poster pointed out, Epenesa noted that he didn't follow football growing up. I guess as a fan, I knew McD and Beane were former Panthers, like I know that Chris Grier and Brian Flores were former Pats.

Wouldn't draft prospects want to get some background knowledge of the organization they are interviewing? I'm just thinking of this like a job interview, which I could be wrong in my assumption.

You don't have to surf football boards to know when half the current staff was formerly part of an organization.

I'm a bit shocked that Epenesa didn't know McD and Beane were part of the Carolina Panther organization during that SB.