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True. But if we got last Darnold could pull an Eli Manning on us.

Both Edmonton and Toronto won the lottery. We finished last 2 years in a row and had two teams jump ahead of us.

This is Buffalo. Neither.

Because Whaley can't express himself properly. I always interpreted it as, "we were close." Every year is different and I think it's obvious Bills either don't think they are close or don't care. They are trying to build "something sustainable" now.

What is offense? What is a QB? Bills don't need those things...

Kyle Williams retires. Gilmore franchise tagged and traded. Tyrod option not picked up. Robert Woods gone.

McDermott said he knows how to build a defense, "brick by brick." This has been known for a while but the Bills are starting to drop more hints through their PR guys.

If there's another Dak Prescott coming through the college ranks, NFL clubs would be well-advised to snap him up before the fourth round of the draft this time. Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, who is preparing to face Texas Tech star quarterback Patrick Mahomes on Saturday, sees some similarities between Mahomes and the Dallas Cowboys rookie. But he's not so sure Mahomes will be sitting around until the last day of the draft the way Prescott did. "I think he's a potential first-round pick. He reminds me a lot of Dak Prescott, when we played Dak and Mississippi State when he was younger," Gundy said of Mahomes in his Monday news conference. "The style of play, body, strength, speed, ability to throw in different positions, it reminds me a lot of him." http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000735997/article/mike-gundy-compares-patrick-mahomes-to-dak-prescott

Anyone that listens to John Murphy show recently knows the Bills are starting to sell a rebuild, reset. Go for greatness, etc

Who do you rate higher than Mahomes?

Yeah, people would rather clean toilets than take this job. Good, maybe we'll get lucky by accident. Jared Goff could be the next Kyle Boller.

So if our list was 1.McCoy 2.Childress 3.Olson who is next?

This makes me so HAPPY!!!!!

Talk this play down because it’s in air raid offense if you please, but this is a prime example of a quarterback effortlessly flowing through the reads given to him. Mahomes makes this throw on his third read- quite contrary to the “one read” title he will eventually be hit with. As Mahomes begins to drop back, he peeks over to his right to simultaneously check on the slot receiver running the vertical route and the outside receiver waiting at the line of scrimmage as a check down option. Mahomes then subtly glances to his far left so that he can work his progression from the outside-in. Shortly thereafter, Mahomes decides that his wider options would not give the play the best chance of success, so he turns to the receiver running a deep crosser over the middle and delivers a strike. Everything about this play is textbook. Mahomes’s timing from one read to the next is perfect and the throw is equally as impressive. It’s hard to knock Mahomes for the system he plays in when he operates it so well... Judge the Player, Not the System Patrick Mahomes is often penalized for the system he played in. Texas Tech’s offensive system and relative talent level forced Mahomes to become a willy nilly scrambler who took a lot aggressive shots down the field. Mahomes had to be Texas Tech’s offense, the offense lived and died through him. Lost in all of Mahomes’s heroic efforts is a player who is smart, highly aware and able to play one step ahead of the defense. Mahomes is not just a scrambling quarterback, he is an underappreciated pocket passer who happens to also be an excellent scrambling quarterback. http://www.qbmecca.com/patrick-mahomes/

Mahomes offensive system hurts him. That's why we have a chance to get him. Bills should outsmart other teams for a change.

Mahomes ran head coach Kliff Kingsbury's "Air Raid" offense in college, a system that uses tempo and spreads out the defense with four or five receivers on every down, almost always placing the quarterback in the shotgun. Mahomes threw 50 times per game in 2016, many of them quick screens to his running back or wide receivers on slants—plays that are staples of an Air Raid offense, which rarely uses a playbook and typically employs just 25-30 plays, each with slight variations. All of these things can scare NFL talent evaluators. But Mahomes happens to be one of the most physically gifted quarterbacks in the draft. His father Pat spent 11 years playing Major League Baseball, and the younger Mahomes received every last one of his dad's athletic genes. He played three sports in high school, excelling at the trifecta of football, basketball and baseball; but he thrived most on the diamond as a pitcher who possessed a 95-mph fastball. Mahomes was so good on the mound that the Detroit Tigers drafted him out of high school. He continued to play baseball as a freshman at Texas Tech before he decided to focus solely on football, where his physical abilities were on breathtaking display every Saturday. His numbers are amazing. This season, Mahomes passed for 5,052 yards and 41 touchdowns, then ran for 12 more. He threw for 734 yards in a loss against Oklahoma—no, that's not a typo. Mahomes' most tantalizing attribute is his Herculean arm strength, as evidenced by the 65-yard bomb he launched from his knees back in April (see the above video). His deep balls are pristine, even if he's off-balance when he throws. Look at this dime below. http://www.stack.com/a/meet-patrick-mahomes-ii-the-two-sport-freak-whos-already-the-talk-of-the-2017-nfl-draft

Thank you. If you were focused on mechanics you would have not drafted Phillip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers, and Dak Prescott. Can he make NFL throws? Is he accurate?

Yes, you are probably right. Cardale is the guy you grab at the end of the draft as another body and hope the light turns on. It seldom does.

The one thing I don't worry about is that our defense will be too complicated. Frazier was known for very simple schemes. Players will play fast. Let's just hope we do enough to confuse QB's and bring pressure without reaching Rex levels of complexity.

If TT is the answer why can't Whaley say he has found his QB? Doesn't sound like a vote of confidence to me. Yeah, we've found him...maybe.

He is not a can't miss prospect. None of the QB's are. I would roll with Mahomes if I wanted to try to hit on a QB. He will be dinged for mechanics (I don't care if he is accurate and he is). He will be dropped because of the offense he is in. Great, that's the opportunity to get him cheap. He has good size, strong arm, fast release, mobility, and fast footwork. Ball comes out fast. I like that.

Except that is not a good scouting report on Mahomes.

The Bills have spent 2 picks on QB's in the first two rounds over the last 20 years or so. That is criminal negligence from a draft priority and Whaley has been there many of these years.

Doesn't go through progressions? He does and did it for 10,000 yards over the last 2 years. He is scanning the field. It's not an NFL offense but most college QB's don't play in one.

Do you or do you not think the Bills should prioritize QB scouting, drafting, and development? I think all three need to happen along with an offensive system installed to maximize that QB's talent. None. The mistake was to draft a QB based on need.