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I hope they do activate Duke this week if Barkley starts for Allen while in protocol. He has been practicing with Barkley on the squad and in preseason a lot this year hasn't he? Never be a better time to give Duke a shot to prove it or lose it. Can't be much worse than Zay has ever been.

Allen's Physical & Mental Tools Josh Allen has all the physical tools to be a Franchise QB. But he does not seem to be developing the mental tools required to be a Franchise QB. He is not learning from his mistakes, learning to have patience, and the displaying the mental maturity required to play winning football consistently. Watching Brady safely throwing the ball away today multiple times highlighted what it takes mentally to be a real Franchise QB. Is Allen just not capable mentally? Is he unwilling to learn? Is he not being properly coached to develop the mentality? He has incredible physical skills and talent greater than most other NFL QBs. That is without question. But he does not seem to be developing the discipline and maturity required to go with those physical talents. He is NOT a rookie anymore. How much longer should we accept excuses and pretend that he is developing the required mental maturity and discipline needed to go with those skills? Will better coaching and tougher love help? Being able to pull your team out of a deep hole that you yourself dug at the end of every game may be exciting to watch, but it does not win you championships. We are wasting a D that is playing Lights Out game after game.

Wayyy too early in the season to judge either QB. Give it time. The thing that impressed me most about Allen in his progression this year was his throwing the ball away safely under pressure in the 2nd game. That was one of his worst traits last year, knowing when, and when not to, force the ball, or taking off running too soon. Hope to see more out of that in Allen to see his progression.

I still see nothing in the trade for Clowney that benefits him if he goes to Miami. It will be strictly a one year rental. Why would he go there when the team has no chance of winning for a few years, as the team is in tear down mode. If he can agree to a trade that benefits his team, and him he gets 16 million, why not hold out to make it happen. Why not force the team to trade him to a team he wants to play on, and may have the opportunity to sign a future rich new contract with next year. Playing on a gutted tear down team opens himself up to a much greater chance of injury, and no chance of post season or winning. Hard to enjoy playing or to be motivated in Miami. And it will not help Miami to be a winner. He has no trade value to them as he is a one year rental on a team that is in teardown mode.

I blame the coaching for the unacceptable amount and the types of penalties. The holding on ST with a fair catch called was unacceptable. Coaches are responsible for fielding a disciplined team. This was a sloppy, unprepared and undisciplined group. Especially on ST and Offense. I am not talking about the 2s and 3s, you might expect that from them. It is the #1s I'm talking about.

Special teams, looked more like tryouts for the Special Olympics. And none of them qualified. (Except for "Money") And get a real NFL punter.

I think posters here are confusing a draft grade on a particular draft selection with a grade on how well a player performs compared to their peers. It is not just a player's performance compared to their peers. It is look back at how others who were also available at the slot he was drafted at, and a comparison of how well they also performed at their position. It also is affected by what the expectations of the team and the fans were when he was drafted. And how well he met them. It also depends on how high the player was drafted. And any other draft capital expended by his team to draft him when they did. He is a solid player at his position. He is about average when just taking his actual performance on the field. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a solid, average player in the NFL. The NFL is the best of the best. It is expectations and comparisons that he has no control over or don't reflect directly on him that affect the draft grade. It is more of a hindsight judgment and grade on the management of the team that drafted him, not on his own performance or ability.

I agree. He is a decent guy who tries hard. He is just not NFL material, but maybe he can find a niche in a lower league. He seems to excel against lesser players in preseason. He deserves a little glory for his efforts.

i don't get the logic. The man was obviously mentally ill at the time. He is being suspended for being mentally ill. That is different from choosing to beat your wife, or choosing to drink and drive. If he is still mentally ill, then don't let him play the game. That makes sense. Judge him medically unfit and don't let him play. You don't punish someone for being ill. What a message the NFL is sending about dealing with mental illness. A suspension is a punishment. Punishing someone for a mental illness does not provide a deterrent, you don't choose to get ill. You declare him still ill and get him help. Punishment is inappropriate, and is it even legal?

Gotta agree with this, unless Allen is injured. If this team is less than 8-8 and Allen is not injured, either he was a bad pick, or they really are an incompetent coach/GM tandem.Their whole "process" is that they do not count on any one "superstar" other than the QB. It is a total team effort. If they are less than 8-8 and Allen is not injured, they really messed up, since it means a LOT of players are under-performing, not just one, and that means either bad coaching or poor player selection. No cap excuses this year. No excuses that you were saddled with someone else's bad contracts, or bad choices. It is all on McBeane to win or fail.

I don't care what he does outside the stadium as long as he can play the game. He is hired to play football, period. Not to be a boy scout or a choir boy in his free time. He has to answer to different authorities outside the stadium and the game. Whatever he does, if he does it and it and it does not affect his performance or availability on game day it is none of my business. I don't confuse the two. He is hired to play football on the field. I don't care if he has to do community service or even spend weekends in jail if he can still make to all the games and perform well there. His personal life is his own personal problem.

I don't care about chips or attitude. All I care is can they properly do their assigned tasks in the game, get separation, catch the ball, and extend the play.

About a better fan experience... bull.... Just be honest for once. It is "All About The Benjamins" for the Pegulas pure and simple!

The Bills started out strong with their first pick, but only a real fool could have passed up having Oliver fall into your lap. I accept the trade up for Cody, I think he will be a decent player. Still McBeane gave away a similar quality player last year in Glenn, so I'm not sure we moved forward as a team from a year ago with the pick. Cody has about the same ceiling as Glenn did, only Cody is not a premium position LT like Glenn was, he is a possible average RT, or maybe a very good RG. After that we overpaid for two players. Neither was a difference maker, neither with a high ceiling. Both may be good role players, but neither was a prize or a major piece of the future. The cost in extra choices was too much. Now we are drained of useful draft capital for the rest of the draft. We started out with a bang, and ended up with a whimper. I am not devastated by the draft, but disappointed by the results considering the potential it held going into day 2. I still question the ability of McBeane to properly evaluate and draft offensive talent. Time will tell.

Just remember: "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is an expression commonly used in the United States that refers to a person who believes in a possibly doomed or dangerous idea because of perceived potential high rewards... The phrase derives from the November 1978 Jonestown deaths in Guyana in which over 900 members of the Peoples Temple died by drinking a powdered drink mix laced with cyanide.” ?

What? Your lack of logic astounds me. In 2018 the league basic cap space was 177 million. Beane chose to waste 68 million of that in dead cap. Handicapping the team in 2018 in a wild gamble that giving it up, along with any hope of success that year would give him a bounty of cap space the next year. Wasting almost 40 % of your cap space paying players that are playing against you while not having enough cap space that year to put together a competitive team is good use of cap space in 2018? I call it reckless gamble. It all will depend on his other huge gamble on Allen. If Allen quickly becomes a successful franchise QB, Beane will be judged a successful gambler. If not, he will be judged a reckless loser.

And a smart guy would not simply toss out Beane's whole first year and give him a mulligan for no logical reason. If I owned a business an employee who wasted a whole year and required a 12 month mulligan would not still be employed by me.

Desperate fans wishing so long for salvation after spending decades of being a fan of one of the worst run teams in the league tend to overreact when declaring a savior. It is too early to tell how good a GM Beane will turn out to be. How many times over the years have fans here raved about winning the off season only to have the team stink it up in the real season? So far Beane is responsible for one horrible season record. A rookie QB that may, or may not turn out to be a winner. Let's wait till the real season is over and see what our win loss record is, and if, or how far, we went in the playoffs before we judge his performance. Winning the off season is not the goal in the NFL. Neither premature adulation or premature ***** are a good thing.

If this is the case why not build outside the perimeter walls? Put the restrooms and the food/drink areas at or above ground level surrounding the stadium perimeter walls.You don't need field sight lines from the bathrooms. Concession workers and space do not require game site lines. And outside the perimeter walls you don't have to worry about any added structures affecting existing field site lines. If you absolutely need to be able to eat and watch the game in a concession area, that is what video screens are for. Or create a special concession seating area within the perimeter walls with site lines and remove some regular seating. Just charge enough for the privilege of using this premium concession area to increase owner profits over what they would get from the old seating. Problem fixed without having to spend over a billion on an unneeded new taxpayer funded stadium.

We have discussed this at length here at TBD for many years. The fact is that there is no historic or future design plan that would ever justify itself economically as a revenue generator in WNY. There has never been a Football stadium built anywhere in the USA in modern history that has ever returned the taxpayers their investment in revenue or economic development returns. The economics will never work for the taxpayers no matter what design you use. Trickle down economic benefits have always been and will be a purely political fantasy.

I remember someone here giving us the real reason the Pegula's want a new stadium. It is not about the stadium suitability, the suitability of the stadium for the players or the game of football, the fans, or a better fan experience. It is all about profit. It is much, much harder psychologically to convince fans to pay a lot more to attend a game at a renovated stadium than it is to with a brand new one in a different location. If it is renovated one, it is easier for the fan to compare it to what they had in the old stadium. The new stadium in a new location makes it easier to distract and confuse the fan about what is honestly a fair and reasonable cost to them to attend the game. If our government stopped paying welfare to billionaires so they could make more money, there would be no conversation. We would get the best stadium for the best bang for the buck. A business would make the decision based on logic, not just say it really does not matter what the cost is. As the owner I get all the benefits, and someone else pays the costs. It is a win, win for the billionaires.

How does it make sense to roll over money to next year if we are in fact in a projected great cap situation next year? It is not like you are getting interest on cap roll overs. Spend it now and make this season count. Otherwise a foolish waste of resources needed to win.

I question your player board if you have Metcalf as BPA at 9. With his injury history and lack of agility showing at the combine, he is not even BPA on my WR board. No WR this year would be my board at 9. Now a mid to late round 1st would be a different story, and it wouldn't be Metcalf at WR.

I am not an all your eggs in one basket guy. Allen has potential, but has not become a HOF Franchise guy yet. We all want him to be it, but time will tell if he will ever be that guy. We always need a Plan B, C and D in life. Whoever we get should build the team toward the future, whomever that future QB may turns out to be. Allen or otherwise!

How are the two related? Two different revenue streams and expenditure streams. Taxpayer funds and Team Owner funds. Totally unrelated, which you already know. ??