theRalph

The current regime has done nothing but reshape the roster and break a generation long playoff drought. Now they’ve drafted the most promising QB since J.K. There is no filament connecting them to earlier regimes. Rinse your brain of these myths and join us. All Bills fans deserve compassion. Especially haters. Rosen is a punk. He would’ve never survived The Process...he couldn’t even be a pro when he was 4th off the board...he ranted like a spoiled insolent dip schmit. All of you that wanted Rosen really don’t have any idea that it WAS NEVER A REMOTE POSSIBILITY.

Don’t know about a Russ B - Josh tweets connection. But who leaked the tweets? Why the day before? Who benefitted? Did the Bills themselves leak the tweets to drive Allen down the board? Maybe the Cards?

Haters gonna hate. Hate on pal.

Why? Because some analytics nerd said so? Because that’s what you’ve been told? Mason Rudolph is a mess. Not Allen. He is a natural thrower and has made great footwork strides even at the Senior Bowl. He completely outplayed Mayfield at the SB.

How do we really know how bad our receivers are? It was used as Tyrod’s excuse. But don’t great QBs make their receivers look better?? I’m betting Benjamin, Jones, Holmes, and Streater look better this season with AJ or Josh. And though the pin heads think the roster ends with the draft, the Bills will bring in a name receiver well before camp.

As I stated yesterday, it’s drought effects. Bless these host’s hearts...they were ruined by the drought. The Bills are just fine.

I am completely exasperated with WGR550 and especially Pontiff Schopp and his loyal sidekick Bulldog. Bovada released the over/under for the number of games the fresh class of QBs will start. Allen is at the top at 10.5 games. The Pontiff completely dismisses this - because Allen is the least ready to start in the NFL. This is utter horse-hockey. To wit: - Allen played in a pro style offense with a lot of power to change plays and call protections. He operated from under center and the shotgun. He was not in a pass-happy spread offense that afforded the many attempts that, say, Mayfield had (Allen 270, Mayfield 440 in 2017). -Allen was under pressure A LOT at Wyoming with a bad O-Line. And yet he won 8 games in both 2016 and 2017. -Though WGR looked under rocks to find draft analysts, many premier observers of the game listed him as the best QB (Prisco, Mayock, Phil Simms for example) -The accuracy question is crap. I watched all his games. He generally put balls right on the receivers unless he was under great pressure or throwing on the run, but sailed balls are few. Watch Wyoming vs. Oregon. There are at least three drops in the first quarter. Josh Allen is not a messy project. And you're likely a Bills' fan, so you want to know the truth. WATCH THE GAMES. Allen is Money and will start 9/9/18, as I have been maintaining on this forum. And Schopp: Decide for yourself rather than listen to the draftniks. Were they truly excellent talent evaluators - they would be in the NFL and not behind a computer. Out.

Establish an agreed to catch radius and determine through video analysis how many balls were within it. Accuracy, to me, is a measure of how close you are to your intended target...as we perceive it. Then you'd have to factor in pressure situations that would aggravate accuracy. Haven't heard anyone quote a stat the percentage of throws made under pressure. I watched all the tape and Josh Allen is an accurate passer.

I don't believe it's as much about playing too soon as it is the team a QB plays for. In the 20 drafts preceding this one there were 27 QBs selected with a top five pick. At least half of these I term "franchise" QBs. Trading up is more in vogue today, but in many of the drafts I studied, top five picks went to lousy teams that didn't properly develop the player, whenever they started. Development has far more to do with a bust than does the scouting process.

Did you not read my post??

I agree...but he's played with a lot of adversity already. I think QBs from prolific, winning college programs haven't necessarily faced that kind of adversity. But they all do in the NFL.

It's Monday and the flow of calls bashing the Josh Allen pick continue. I wonder how many of these callers have actually watched the games and the scouting vids and blogs covering Allen. It feels like drought effects on fans still linger, even though the drought is now history. I define fan drought effects as a a predisposition of looking at anything the team does with negativity, because they've become conditioned to it over a generation of no playoffs. Things have changed. McDermott and Beane in their time so far have done nothing but make smart moves. They have reshaped the locker room. They broke the drought with maybe the last version of the Bills one would have expected. They are certainly and systematically changing the franchise with their process. And yet their selections are being criticized as if they are still Ryan and Whaley. Nix and Gailey. And so on. I watched everything I could find on Josh Allen prior to the draft and then watched it all again after. He is an accurate passer. Period. Completion percentage as a measure of accuracy is horsecrap. Allen was under pressure a lot. I see dropped passes. And under certain pressure he, at times, takes off a bit early. But he generally moves in the pocket well, with a Brady-esque hop avoiding pressure. He releases a football with up to a 74 mph fingertip speed. His release time is an insane .388 seconds. He does not throw balls in the dirt. He has a great football IQ and has run a pro style offense. He was not in a pass-happy college spread that benefitted the stats of some other draftees - like Mayfield. Allen completed 152 of 270 attempts in 2017 for a 56% completion percentage. Had he completed 23 more of these, he has a 65% average. Over 10 games, that's 2.3 drops per game. I saw more than that. The drought is over. Don't look back. Josh Allen, on his way to becoming the most prolific QB in Bills history, will start 9/9/18. Bash away!!

No insider knowledge. Bucky Brooks reported this almost 2 weeks ago. Pegula's jet did, in fact travel to and return from Cleveland last evening. I could be wrong on the pick costs...but I'm certain of this 1-5 alignment. Arranged by 3 teams that own 4 out of the 5 top picks. I don't know those guys...so I don't know what you mean.

A seismic draft day trade is occurring, engineered by Brandon Beane. The word is finally out that the Browns will select Baker Mayfield with the first pick. The Bills who have targeted Sam Darnold for months, sent a team to Cleveland yesterday on the Pegula jet that returned last night. That meeting completed the deal that's unfolding, the same one hinted at by nfl.com analyst Bucky Brooks last week. The Bills have traded the 12th pick, 56th .and 95th pick to Denver in exchange for the 5th pick. The Bills then swap picks with the Giants 2nd overall, giving the Giants the 5th pick and the 53rd pick. Then the Giants swap with the Browns and surrender that 53rd pick for the right to draft two spots down from their original slot and still take Barkley. And the Browns, at 5 can either draft Chubb or trade down further. Truly believe these guys have worked together to fairly distribute the picks so that each team can take the guy they really want. The Draft 1. Cleveland Browns select Baker Mayfield - Dorsey traded for Tyrod Taylor for a reason, and not simply because Tyrod finally led the Bills to the playoffs leaving the Browns as the team with the longest playoff drought. Other signings like Jarvis Landry seem to hint at an offense with a moving QB. Mayfield fits the profile of someone to groom to step into a Tyrod style offense, but one where throws are actually attempted. Another hint to this selection is the fact that Hue Jackson will coach another season in 2018. It makes sense to keep your offensive guru head coach when you've signed a mobile QB and are drafting another mobile QB with scary accuracy. 2. Buffalo Bills select Sam Darnold. Brandon Beane engineers a skyscraper trade to secure the QB they really want. It was a must to get in front of the Jets, as they likey select Darnold if he is still there at #3. The Bills have coveted Darnold since before the news in August that there was high interest. The trade is the story of the draft. Now it's Daboll's turn to create an offense. 3. New York Jets Select Josh Rosen - Newly promoted Jet's Offensive Coordinator Jeremy Bates had been the quarterbacks coach. Jet's ownership wants results from Todd Bowles, and Bowles responds with "give me a quarterback, not a project"...such as Hackenberg or even Geno Smith. Bowles has a serviceable starter in Josh McCown, but Josh Rosen is reportedly the most NFL ready prospect and gives Bowles a ready made Game 5 starter. Rosen is perfect for the Jets and New York City. 4. New York Giants select Saquon Barkley - There is a great belief that Eli Manning can still win in New York. Barkley is the perfect weapon for Manning. The Giants work with Brandon Beane and get the guy they wanted all along plus a second round pick. The Bills still select again in the first round with their original 22nd pick. 5. Cleveland Browns select Bradley Chubb - The Browns grab the best player in the draft for the second year in a row....or they trade #5 pick to Arizona Cardinals in exchange for Cards #15, #47 and their 2019 first round pick, whereupon the Cards would select...Josh Allen.

It was a rhetorical statement. And your reply was most derogatory. If you reside in a state that has bottle deposits, return a few and buy yourself a clue.

No need to make personal attacks, !@#$tard. oops....that slipped.

Exactly. Great point.

In these heady times During which the bills future is being decided, please refrain from posting your tripe.

There are holes on every team. There will always be holes on every team. And, in this case, the Bills proactively created some of those holes. It, indeed, is happening.

Some of us are waking at 3AM every day to see if the Bills have further traded up. That hasn't occurred as yet, but a 10-ton hint to this part of "the process" was dropped yesterday when reports surfaced that the Bills' top evaluators would travel to USC to work out Sam Darnold this Friday. When I heard this from Mike Schopp, I was compelled to call to say that the Bills must know they can get to #1 or #2, or why would you spend valuable pre-draft time vetting a QB you've no chance of drafting. Mike agreed, as did morning host Jeremy White this morning. Howard Simon questions, though, how can the Bills get to 1 or 2 from 12? Well, here's a bold prediction: 1. Browns select Josh Allen with the first pick. 2. Browns trade the 4th pick to the Bills with a big price tag. We've all heard what that price might be (12, 22, 53, 65...hopefully not 2019 first rounder also). 3. Bill trade the Giants the 4th pick, plus their remaining 2nd round pick (56) for the #2 pick. 4. Bills select Sam Darnold with the second pick. 5. Jets select one of the remaining QBs with the third pick. 4. Giants either select Bradley Chubb with the fourth pick, or trade down a few slots with any QB hungry team, with the assurance that Chubb will be available at 5, 6, or 7...maybe further. We'll see.

Seriously?? SMH. In response: 1. QBs drafted 6 - 32 also outnumber those drafted 1 - 5. 2. QBs drafted 1 - 5 go to poorer teams, so less SBs is natural 3. Picks 1 - 5 were used, since that's been the basis of the Bill's trade-up scenario

Thx! But...um...Eli is most certainly a franchise quarterback.

I am going to. Mike irritates the **** out of me lately.

I think not. But he's not even among the 14 in my mind.

Not really crazy at all. Many highly selected QBs are ruined by the ****ty teams that draft them. Four most likely will go, perhaps in the top 10 picks...and that's unprecedented.