oldmanfan

There is a middle ground here that the vast majority of Americans agree upon. You can honor the second amendment and the right to bear arms, while regulating the types of arms one can own. The Supreme Court recognized this in the Heller decision. It's the people on the fringe that are absurd. On one hand you have the nuts who are convinced that if you ban semi-automatic and automatic weapons it means Big Government will walk into your house and take over. And there's the nut cases who believe that all guns are horrible ad that they need to be banned from the earth even tough responsible gun owners do just fine. It is time for the rational 90% of folks to stand up and be heard. I plan to be more active in this area, because I'm sick of seeing these senseless shootings. Expand background checks and make them universal. Expand the abilities of families to have troubled individuals get mandated help, even if they are of legal age to refuse. More police at schools. Severe punishment for those making social media threats. Reinstate the ban on automatic weapons, and ban large magazines and these bump stocks that allow one to shoot hundreds of bullets. A And call out stupidity when you see it. I sent something to call out Rubio when he said gun laws would not have prevented the Florida tragedy. Bull. it's simple math. If you have a gun that can shoot hundreds of bullets in a set time, to do much more damage then if you have a gun that shoots maybe 10-12. It's math a second grader can do, and it's time to call out that kind of stupidity from politicians and others.

Good catch. I meant Bill. Thanks.

When it comes to Mel Kiper, I am a fan of Jim Tobin

Wonder why they couldn't just let him retire.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I hope the fan's opinions are not their first priority. But whomever will be their guy they'll have very weighty expectations placed on them. I just wonder if they factor that in in any way

Physical attributes aside, I would think one of the things the brain trust at OBD should be looking at is the psychology of whom they wind up getting for their QB. Whomever they pick either through FA or the draft is coming into a situation where there is a fan base starved for a winner, and who are even more starved for a QB that they can get behind and see as the hero to the team, and to the city. Those are pretty sizeable expectations, and I'm wondering what opinions are, of the options out there, which guys might be able to handle those kinds of pressures.

I agree it doesn't matter who we pick. Because the top 4 all have flaws and none of them are can't miss kind of guys. Be because historically around of high first round QBsvdon't pan out.50%

It's a slow time right now and while talking about the draft is about all we have to do, all the different mocks and experts and op-eds don't change the one basic reality going on. If Beane sees a guy he feels will be the answer at QB, he'll do what he needs to do to get in position to take him. If not he'll likely get a decent FA and build with all the picks. He has said on a number of occasions they need a QB. The question is whether he feels one of the guys is a can't miss type and only he knows that. Everything else is just pure conjecture.

All this stuff is just white noise

No one cares, first of all. Second, no one knows what they're thinking. These sites just guess to get hits.

Some of us older folks could educate you on some great players you're missing. Too bad your mind is so closed off, you could learn something.

It's a shame some of the younger folk never got to see the AFL Bills, or the OJ years. You missed seeing a number of great players.

Tom Sestak. Mike Stratton.

I think people need to get past this idea that you have to draft a QB in round 1. We have done so twice in the drought period, Manuel and Losman, and both picks were bad. Ultimately you have to rely on the ability of the scouts and front office personnel to make good judgments on these guys. So let's say they feel Darnold is a can't miss guy (I would disagree, but they do a helluva lot more work on this than I do). Beane should then use his draft pick capital to move up and do what it takes to get him. But let's say that after scouting they feel a guy like a Mike White has as good a potential as the supposed top 4 guys. Then they'd be foolish to waste picks in round 1 when you can get him in round 2. We can all sit here and debate what they should or should not do in the draft (and that's fun, until someone claims they alone have the answers), but remember the front office guys, scouts, etc. have invested a ton more time in evaluations, plus these guys do it for a living and have done so for years. And even given that, if you look at top QB picks over the years only about 50% of guys taken round 1 become long term starters, and an even smaller percentage become that kind of start player every team looks for. My personal view? It comes down to how you play poker, and I'm a conservative poker player. If I'm holding two pair, I'll go with that as opposed to trying to draw to an inside straight. My two pair would be a FA QB that you have watched and know that he has a given skill set that you can work with. Ideally for me it would be Cousins; I think he's poised to be a really top tier QB (more a three of a kind or a straight for a poker hand). But if his price is too high, or if he elects to sign elsewhere, then give me a Bridgewater or a Bradford or maybe a McCarron, and then draft a kid like a White and use the majority of your picks to build up our fronts on both sides of the ball. I'll ride with my two pair, because I win more than I lose doing so.

It's a vast right wing conspiracy

Cookie and Carleton each were sort of HB/FB. I always looked at Wray more as the FB since Cookie got more carries usually.

Don't know how long you've followed the Bills, but you have to have Jim Braxton and Wray Carleton on any list of great Bills FBs.

A nice analysis, but the question is whether the Bills see any of the supposed top guys this year as the kind of QB they have to have and would thus use a lot of picks to move up. My guess is not. But we'll see.

Please. Eyeballing something is a judgment. Actually measuring something and giving it a defined value is math. My reading says they give about a half yard from the tackle. The ref said fine and that's all that matters.

No, actually it is not. Unless you are going to give the refs tape measures to align guys every play it is a judgment. So no it is not cut and dried.

It is a judgment call. The ref on the field had a better view and judged it as OK. The WR checked with him on it. Let it go.

I am glad they changed the rookie pay scale so you don't break the bank on first year QBs that gave a high probability of not working out. Great analysis by the OP. QBs will always get a lot of $$$, nature of the beast. That's why I'd like to see Cousins here; you know he's able to play at a high level in the league so pay him the going rate and move ahead.

Cousins and McD is what I wrote. You need to actually read what posters write before criticizing. Read the si article and you'll see how he and McD would be a great match.

The entire league sees us as you do? Please. And Denver isn't missing pieces? Please. With respect to Cousins, read the article about him in si a couple months ago. He and McD would practically be soulmates.