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  1. Just now, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

    time will tell but I still wouldn't compare them to manuel/orton.

    In the context of today? You have a high draft pick sophomore that won some games and made some splashy plays, but had enough negatives to not be considered a sure thing  and a journeyman backup who's played very well on occasions. I mean, how much closer can you get?

    Are you sure it's not just because the other guys didn't work out? 

  2. 2 hours ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

    this is hilarious and I'd bet 10 to 1 it was the full intent of getting the obvious reaction to such a ridiculous take. good job


    Not really. No one really knows yet whether Allen is going to stick in this league or flame out in 3 years. He's in a long line of players who had ups and downs their first year and needs to take big strides in his sophomore season. Nationally, we're considered to have a bottom 5 QB situation. If you spend too much time around here you though, you'd think we already had Mahomes wearing #17.

    Preseason has been encouraging so far, but last was pretty balanced good and bad, not unlike Manuel's rookie year.

  3. 3 hours ago, billsbackto81 said:

    No, he's not an NFL caliber QB on any level.

    We picked up Barkley off the scrap heap and he's 10X the QB Jackson is. That alone should tell you something. If at any time we need our 3rd string QB to bail us out during the season then the season is in essence over. 

    The difference is Barkley was talked about as a potential #1 overall pick prior to his final season. They were worlds apart in development and expectations coming out of college. Jackson was pretty heavily talked about as a day 2 pick. The fact that he went undrafted was kind of a shock, even  if it doesn't look like it now.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:

    Given what we’ve seen of him, he’d be an unquestioned Lock -if he even understood the game like an 8 year old in America. Not trying to be facetious. He’s learning the most basic concepts of the game just in the last few months. Running away from the wall of blockers he had for a free trip to the end zone and not knowing what to do after scoring shows this. It’s kinda unbelievable, but I’m sure I’m the same way with the intricacies of Rugby. I mean, we played ‘Kill the Guy with the Ball’ when we were young. Rugby looks like the same thing to me. This is a very strange situation, but handing him a spot on the 53 without a basic understanding of the game is even crazier -incredible exploits notwithstanding.


    It's an uphill climb for sure. I've always been a little curious why NFL teams don't employ personal trainers to turn guys with freak skills into legitimate players. Not sure if it's a CBA thing or they just don't view it as a worthy thing to do, but I'd like to believe if this guy had a personal coach that just taught him football day and night that he could be electric.  

  5. 1 minute ago, Chandler#81 said:

    ^. ^ 

    I apologize. I did misread your post.

    It's all good. I've been a pretty heavy skeptic of this squad, so I guess it's easy to take what I said the wrong way.

    I really hope they can find a way to keep Wade on this team while he learns the position. I don't think we have another back that can run like him right now.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Chandler#81 said:

    Poyer, Hyde, Edmunds, Milano, Hughes, Oliver, Star L, T. Johnson, Tre White, Morse, McCoy, Ford, Roberts & Dawkins are replacement level players? That’s a far cry from chanting Super Bowl, let alone ridiculously biased and uniformed. 

     

    I’m letting you know. 

    First of all, you misread my post - what i said was "Outside of Zay Jones I don't think there's a cut they would make that would qualify as surprising". 

    There are a ton of players that don't fit into a bucket of guys they would cut - in other terms, they're virtual locks to make the team. Guys like Allen, Morse, Edmunds, Star, White, Oliver, Hughes, Milano, Borwn, Beasley, Kroft, Knox, Ford, Alexander, Murphy. etc.

    Among the guys that aren't complete locks to make the team, I think any of them could be cut and it wouldn't be a shock. That is unless you'd consider McCoy getting cut a shock, but I wouldn't.

    We don't have any cap-casualty type players left, or young kids that are going to force a long time vet off the team in my opinion.

     

    And yes, outside of handful of proven players we have or guys with 1-2 years of experience most of them are replacement level guys including our entire 2nd string and lower defense, every WR below #2, our entire offensive line besides Dawkins and Morse (who is at serious risk of never playing again), our TE group (except the rookies) and our entire RB committee. It doesn't mean by default that they won't play well or be good down the road.

  7. I really feel bad for Jackson. He has insane physical gifts, but he isn't anywhere near NFL ready. There really should be a path for kids to go back to school that have expectations of being drafted that don't, because the NFL doesn't have a system in place for these guys. From what I understand, NFL Practice squads aren't really designed to help guys develop.

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  8. The performance thus far is encouraging, but it's something we've seen many times before. The monkey on the back of this team throughout their history is how they handle adversity. From our 4 SB's, to the Music City Miracle, to the Willie Parker coming out show, the Monday Night Meltdown, 5-2 to 6-10, etc. The pre-season by design caters to the opposite of that.

    I want to know if McDermott has developed better football instincts for adjusting gameplans at half time, when to challenge, punt vs go, etc.

    Can Allen be the first guy in 25+ years that we can expect to win us the game with a minute left at his own 20?

    Do we have the heart on this defensive group to steal games away in the final moments?

    Will anyone on this team stand up and become one of the most feared at their position?

    I don't think you can answer any of those things in pre-season and I think it's the biggest thing that separates teams that regularly run deep into the season and those that finish 6-10 to 9-7.

    Unrelated: Christian Wade has to make this team right?

  9. 2 hours ago, unbillievable said:

     

    I blame Trump.

    Trump is the reason Kaep was benched for Gabbert, then forced to void his own contract.

     

     

    Not the reason any of that happened, but 100% of the reason he isn't signed. If you followed the stock market, you'd see that. This country lost A trillion dollars because of a tweet this week.

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  10. Outside of Zay Jones I don't think there's a cut they would make that would qualify as surprising. No real tenured vets. No high draft picks on the bubble outside of Shaq. This team is mostly a bunch of replacement level players at this point. They could cut any of them or none of them and it wouldn't shock me either way

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  11. 3 minutes ago, njbuff said:

     

    If he did everything you say he does................. he would be a starting QB in the NFL. Case Closed.

     

    He started all his this crap because he became an irrelevant back up QB.

     

    Enough bro. Stop it.

     

    No, he'd still be a starting qb if this country wasn't overrun with closeted and open racists who get sad pants when someone said this country has problems. Of and something about troops or whatever.

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  12. 8 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

     

    Lamar Jackson hasn’t been benched for Blaine Gabbert yet.  

     

    Stop it.  

     

    How the hell hell would be wipe the floor with Mariota ?    Are you drunk ?    What does he do better than Mariota or Jackson? 

     

    Complete ???? post.    

    Wins games, throw TDs, doesn't throw ints, and lead his team to back to back NFC championship games and a superbowl appearance. Shall I go on?

    Jackson can't even throw a football and Tenn has been a dumpster fire ever since he got there.

    The guy who benched him for gabbert was pretty immediately laughed out of the league too. I wouldn't use that as your shining example.

  13. Just now, njbuff said:

     

    No agenda whatsoever.

     

    He isn't a starting caliber NFL QB.

     

    Sure he can be a back up, but he isn't worth the headache to be a back up QB.

     

    Again, HE IS NOT A STARTING QB IN THE NFL.

     

    If you think he is worth the headache to an NFL team, then you are the one with the agenda.


    Do you think Lamar Jackson or Marcus Mariota are starting NFL QBs? He wipes the floor with both of them.

    Btw, blasting all-caps doesn't validate your point. It just makes you look like a jim that can't use the internet.

  14. 2 hours ago, njbuff said:

     

    Who cares. He chose his bed. Now he lies in it.

     

    And, do you forget that he IS a horrific QB.

    If he stepped on a field today he'd be one of the top 35 QBs in the league - minimum. Your take is utterly ridiculous and hides an obvious agenda

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