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Lotulelei, obviously. Fills a need with plenty of talent and should anchor this team at DT for years to come

Keep on goin with your feigned arrogant objectivity, Thurm You must be stalking me, now. Are you secretly hoping the team drafts Allen so we can keep up our relationship?

Nooooooooooooo!!!!! Allen is seriously the ONLY QB I won't be excited about if we draft. I'll get behind the pick eventually, but I really really don't want us to draft him. Mayfield/Darnold/Rosen/Jackson damn well better be our targets. No more of these raw talents drafted purely based on physical potential!!!

McCarron with this contract because it makes it that much easier for a rookie we draft to start at any point, including potentially week 1 in 2018. We got McCarron for less than 1/3rd of the price of what Taylor would have cost us this year. We have a great QB situation for a 1st round rookie to come in and compete against some legit competition rather than a JAG like Savage or Moore so that if the rookie wins the job out the gate, we have a really good backup QB. Win win

I'm just so freakin excited! Even in signing McCarron, it's very obvious that were still going to draft a QB at worst at 12 if not trading into the top five, which is still what I think we're going to do. As long as we can get Mayfield or Darnold or Rosen or Jackson, I'm super stoked! If we trade up to draft Allen, I'm running head-first into a wall.

Yes we will. That's what all these moves acquiring draft picks has been for. QB at 12 if not a trade up into the top 5.

Just curious... are certain posters (*ahem* ) complaining that we are bringing in another team's backup to start for us again and how it's groundhog day? I kid... I kid... love all around today

Is that what it is? What if he starts only every game of 2018? This is incredible.... sooooOOOOOOoooooo glad we didn't go after Foles.

Uhhh... no, he's not. I've been clamoring about Mayfield and Darnold, but signing McCarron gives me pause in my previous confidence we're inevitably trading into the top 5. So, if we aren't I hope we target Jackson, who's 4th on my QB wish list rather than Allen.

Holy crap!!! Even better

If it's really 2 years for $16.5 million this is awesome!!! But if it's a sign we're targeting a project QB I really hope it's Jackson.

Looked at the first and last page... Cost? Man I hope this doesn't mean we're targeting Allen.

I hope so... it sure looks like it. I don't think Beane and McDermott would be sitting on their hands like this if they didn't already have a damn good idea what they were doing at QB.

Man... gotta have a quick trigger finger today!

I would really be fine with Siemian. He'd be a backup QB who could start in a pinch if needed to start the year. And he's immensely cheaper than McCarron. At this point it's pretty clear that Beane's intention is to draft our long term Franchise QB.

Well that seemed pretty obvious based on moving up. Ever since we acquired all those draft picks in last year's draft and then over the summer, I figured the Bills were destined to trade up for a QB in this draft. That was my initial feeling when it all happened. Of course, I second-guessed that and third-guessed it and 27th-guessed it, but ultimately, it's obvious Buffalo is going up to draft Mayfield/Darnold/Rosen. Just say NO to Allen!!!

Remember how absolutely no one linked the Bears to Trubisky last year? That's what I'm hoping is going on here. Mayfield, in terms of leadership and intangibles and competitive fire and "chip-on-his-shoulder" mentality all combined with very underrated physical attributes really make him look, to me, like he's going to be the best NFL QB of this bunch.

Not exactly the truth... just your opinion, because I'd argue that trading down to acquire at least 2 first round draft picks (and probably one more later round pick) to help shore up the OL in front of your potential All-World QB wouldn't be "mucking up" his first draft. OR Trading the QB he inherited with a questionable injury history even if he's medically cleared for players/draft picks while drafting one of the 2-3 best QBs in one of the seemingly best draft classes in decades doesn't seem like "mucking up" his first draft. There's a price for everything. The Colts pick at #3 and/or Andrew Luck I'm sure are in play. And given McDermott's and Beane's pretty obvious intent to get a Franchise QB this offseason, they would be one of probably just 3 or 4 teams we'll realistically be dealing with.

Seriously??? Unless Luck's shoulder is completely shot and/or a medical team rules he needs another surgery, the answer is obviously Andrew Luck... duuuuhhhh.

Holy crap... are there posters seriously arguing Allen's going to be the best in this draft class?! Ummm.... have you watched the NFL lately? Rookie QBs play and take fire in year 1. The best way for a QB to learn the game is on field experience with the bullets firing. Countless QBs have said this. And NFL rules are so QB friendly nowadays you can easily afford to do so if your team isn't in complete shambles and it's not a "project QB;" like Allen, who should sit if we draft him.

Hey guys... sooooo anyone think this ideal scenario I laid out in December might play out? Do we trade up with the Colts to draft a QB? Or, in an even more earth-shattering move, do we trade for Andrew Luck? Stay tuned

Yes yes yes yes!!!!!

As long as it's Mayfield/Darnold/Rosen as that top drafted QB, I'd be fine with it. Maybe McDermott can bring Joe Webb back as the #3 QB. Peterman would clearly be the backup at that point. Build up the team with talent, otherwise.

Thurm. Without question you are just incredible at evasive maneuvers. You were obviously and pretty clearly implying something by mentioning Duccasse, Humber and Zay Jones in the same breath as Taylor. So you respond to Stank's post that says this: And try to act as though he finally gets you when you still imply, pretty obviously, that Taylor's role was minimal and could be fairly compared with players like Humber, Ducasse, and Jones, which is absolutely preposterous. You are the King of wiggling out of admitting you say stupid stuff, which makes you look even worse than when you initially say it. As for my previous predictions regarding Taylor. Yep, ya got me. I predicted Taylor would still be on the roster unless the Bills had a clear and obvious upgrade. But it looks like with all our draft moves it's clear we're going to be drafting that upgrade in the draft somewhere likely in the top 5 when we trade up. I also predicted he'd still be on the roster because I didn't think the McDermott and Beane would get good value in a trade for him and they weren't just going to give a capable starting QB away for peanuts, unlike what some wanted them to do. So yes, I was wrong predicting Taylor would still be on the roster (even though I said they would definitely try trading him before his bonus was due and probably in an effort to move up in the draft ) and wrong predicting Taylor would still be on the roster until we had a clear and obvious upgrade (I don't even know if I said that this guy had to be on the roster at the time he was let go of... but you clearly want to be right, so I'll give you that technicality... even though they're obviously arguing that clear and obvious upgrade in the draft ) to take over at QB. So good for you Thurm. You're right on technicalities even if you ended up making a "dumb-on-the-face-of-it" comparison between Taylor and Duccasse/Humber/Jones

Who cares about rushing the rookie on the field at this point? Unless it's Jackson or Allen, let Mayfield/Darnold/Rosen start day 1 and take their lumps. It's what QBs do nowadays. KC last year was an anomaly. High 1st round rookie QBs don't need this time on the bench anymore and we can use the money we save from not spending a lot of money on McCown or McCarron on other positions like OL to strengthen the team and surround our young QB with more talent to succeed.