White Linen

He wanted the Bills to move to Toronto.

He's going to be awesome and I can't stand he's with the Jets.

This post tells me you're not fully committed to analytics or don't understand it. Analytics is going beyond the completions percentage, dissecting it, so that you understand what caused/effected it. They did that and so have a lot of posters here. That's how we know the inaccuracy narrative is BS. Every draft pick also has a certain amount of "gut" involved also. This is true because analytics lie all the time, so if you go with that, you'll lose just as many times as going with your gut.

Really, that's how you see Ryan? He seems like a pretty tough competitor to me with plenty of grind to him.

I don't like the Jim Kelly comparisons to Rosen. It's such a different personality. Kelly was a typical 1980's cocky jock (what we used to call em) - he was a tough guy with a ton of prick to him. Does that sound like Rosen to anybody? He seems fragile and whiney, not a grinding rough and tough SOB. Which was absolutely Kelly from the beginning.

You know his PR person, said man you have to get people to like you. The opinion of you must be squashed during this pre-draft process. They worked on it and worked on it and he still couldn't.

Correct. No question about it - that it was intentional.

It may be all that matters (relativity). I'm just saying that's not the raise he received in context.

He got a 1.28% raise based on the cap %. 19.25 million / 30 million = 35.8% raise

Pretty close. Last contract was 15.65% of the 2013 cap and this one is 16.93% of the 2018 cap.

Yikes

His tackle for loss percentage is the lowest of the four - he has no chance of making it in the NFL.

I wouldn't call it lying but all GM's are overly considerate when asked why they didn't draft another player they could have. It lends to not knowing their actual feelings about the player.

I feel the same way - happy with what we have.

I started to respond with actual thought but it's just not worth it. Ok, it's not possible for QB's to improve. Actually the good ones improve in accuracy often. While throwing more passes. Rodgers, Ryan, Wilson, Brady, Brees all have. I just picked those in a row, so there wasn't one that didn't that I picked. I'm sure there's more that have and maybe only a few that haven't . It's actually common for the good ones to improve - so absolutely no reason Allen can't, especially since he's already not inaccurate.

Thank you and I agree. I wish more people would take the time to see there's an argument against this accuracy mantra being placed on Allen.

The biggest issue to overcome is still allowing on side kicks for the opportunity to get the ball back. If not, the team down by more than 8 points has no chance to win if there's less than about a minute 30.

Oh ok, I thought you believing the same unproven rhetoric. My apologies. The climb doesn't disappear for any college player drafted - you're right. I just wanted to be sure to say his isn't any higher of a climb.

No, you don't get it. You're believing things that aren't as simple as look at this number, etc. They all have an uphill climb and are all likely to fail. Their mountains aren't smaller because another team drafted them. It's also a near certainty the best to worst will not be in order they were drafted. For your own good stop believing we got the worst one and now we have to just hope he overcomes how bad he is. This just isn't true. We drafted a prospect just like all the other teams and he has as much good about him as the others.

Of course I'm reacting to the phrasing because it was phrased incorrectly. I guess you can look at it that way but I think some of the finer details are important.

Of course, but that wasn't an opinion. He stated that as a fact - then lets talk about how to deal with the biggest risk.... Too many people just think it is, period, and they're wrong. No one knows who's the riskiest pick let alone specifically in each round. What's wrong with saying the Bills didn't have a shot at Mayfield or Darnold and they chose Allen over Rosen and Jackson? No, it's got to be that he knows something he literally can't. This has been challenged several different ways. Some just want to believe what every one else says, so...

I just disagree and so does history. No one on this planet can accurately determine risk factor of college QB's in total. Chris Trapasso now has the ability to not only do that but rank them in order by round?

Stopped reading after this: By drafting Josh Allen, the Bills took the biggest risk of all the teams that selected a quarterback in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

Everyone is qualified at their job if Josh Allen becomes really good.

I'm fine with Ivory filling that role for now.