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I say you do that. That's actually a reasonable deal for a healthy Luck considering we never saw Glenn on the field in 2017.

Draft any of the 6 guys slated as potential 1st round QBs except for Allen!!! Oh please don't draft Allen!!! No more EJ Manuel "ball of clay you can mold" type QBs!!!

Last year people thought Goff and Wentz weren't worth the #1 or #2 pick. It's still so early in the process. The fact that at this moment there are legitimately still 6 QBs being talked about as 1st round picks is pretty incredible, I think. And with guys like Arians saying this is the best draft in years, if the odds of hitting are high like it was in '83 and '04... let's just hope McDermott & Beane target the right guy

Wow... we're in very different places... 2018 Super Bowl Champions baby!!! Exactly! This is just differences in how people approach sports... I'm still on a high from our first playoff season in 17 years and the fact that we finally have a coach who wasn't just saying he was going to change the culture... he actually did change it. Good things to come, folks

Sooooo... I think this is just dependent on whoever you are as a person. I admit, I'm just an optimistic person... maybe bordering on being a Pollyanna at times Personally, I think our future is incredibly bright. I think this is going to be maybe the most interesting draft for the Bills in all my years being a Bills fan. I think Beane and McDermott are going to target who they want in the 1st at QB and they're going to just go and get him. Coaching trumps talent That, I feel, is the lesson from 2017. It's one I think the Patriots have been teaching us for years, but everyone just points to who they have at QB and give the QB more credit than the coaching. I've always disagreed with that. This year, McDermott proved to me that a simple and serious culture change can do so much for a team in terms of winning. The Vikings and Rams (and over the last few games the Eagles) have proven to me that if you get the right offensive or defensive system and coaches in place and get your players disciplined enough to play within that system, you can be wildly successful. We're bound to get our players in this draft and in FA to upgrade the team. We have 5 picks in the first 3 rounds and 8 picks in the first 5 rounds. I'm stoked! Whoever's under center or playing at whatever positions next year... I think McDermott has shifted this team into a higher gear and (I know it's waaaaayyyy early) I think we're going to be a better team than this past year and in the playoffs. Super optimistic about this offseason I guess I just drank a helluva lot more than you and I'm still drunk right now

Because this is reportedly one of the deepest QB draft classes in a very very long time and we can probably get our long term answer at the position there. Why is everyone obsessed with blaaaahhhh vet QBs who basically don't stand a chance of being Elite? Time to stop settling for diamonds in the rough we find through trade or FA or late in the draft (Edwards, Fitz, Tyrod) and shoot for the stars and trade UP in the 1st round (thinking back to the fact that we traded down for a QB no one seemed to want still makes me kinda sick) to get whichever QB we want. There might be 6 1st round QBs this year. That's crazy!

It happened in the Chargers game I remember. There was a pick-6 for the taking on one of those sideline passes from Peterman for one of the Chargers' DBs and he just couldn't catch it. That would have been 6 INTs in that half.

Agreed... I actually choked up reading AW's article. Heartbroken for that guy.

Holy crap look how open Thompson was!!! Thanks for this clip... I hadn't rewatched the play since the day of the game... I just remember my progression of my thought process on that play... "He's wide ope... should I go to the bathroom while this ball is in the air... ? Awww crap!!!" That pass has been the reason I've been saying since the Summer that Peterman wouldn't be a starter. Dude doesn't have the arm strength to make one of the most common throws in the modern NFL.

What I love about this is the wildly different numbers that come to the same conclusion. The order is exactly the same. Jackson was most negatively impacted by his WRs dropping balls, which should boost his stock up a little. Darnold was least negatively impacted by his WRs dropping balls, which, given his already kinda concerning completion %, might add to whatever red flags there are about him. Absolutely. But it's also why it's good for one set of eyes to look across the board at subjective things like drops so that you have a fairly accurate "ranking" at least of the QBs. Whoever evaluated the drops from these 2 separate places had the exact same order with just Rosen and Mayfield flip-flopped, but still within one spot of each other. I think that's interesting.

Here's something interesting from the Josh Allen thread breakdown article: https://www.diehards.com/national/film-room-josh-allen-good-bad-ugly-mysterious-nfl-draft-prospect/amp?__twitter_impression=true "Allen’s drop percentage was 7.84 percent in 2017, per ProFootballFocus. That total puts him 20th among draft-eligible quarterbacks. It’s a figure that pales in comparison to Baker Mayfield’s 9.49 percent, Rosen’s 11 percent, and Lamar Jackson’s 12.4 percent (Yeesh, can we please get Lamar some help?)." and also "Allen, like many of this year’s top quarterbacks, namely Lamar Jackson and Josh Rosen , is able to flip the strength of the offensive formation, or kill one play at the line of scrimmage and flip to another (run to pass or vice versa)." Meh... maybe I'm warming up to Jackson a bit

"Quick outs and deep outs were a constant part of the Wyoming offense. He’s as good an out-ball thrower as you will ever evaluate," Who does that sound like the opposite of?

Holy crap! Mayfield or Rudolph, please

Give up? If Taylor is still the Bills starting QB this season, I'll still have high hopes for the season and him under Dabol. But what fool wouldn't want Andrew Luck instead... assuming he's healthy? And I'm hoping for Darnold or Mayfield in the draft a little more realistically... I'm sure in the next 2 1/2 months another draft choice will coerce me... I should probably add Rudolph to the list because I like him, too. But if it's Taylor for one more year, I'll enjoy the year.

I said "other veteran/FA/trade," but only if it's Andrew Luck. If not him, my #2 is Sam Darnold or Baker Mayfield. If not them, my #3 for week one of this year is probably Tyrod Taylor.

Ummmmmmm.... seriously? No to Luck????? I say... HELL YEAH BABY!!!

A simple "I'm sorry, I miss read your post." Or simply "my bad!" is all you needed here in order to apologize for twisting what was otherwise a very clear post rhetorically simply because of the messenger. Say it 100 times in front of a mirror for practice... "My bad!"

Oooooooohhhhhhhh damn! Touched a nerve there I guess Ummmm, it is a fact, though Taylor is bound to the Bills unless the Bills decide to cut or trade him. How is that not true?

Doubling down I see... still honestly think it's only a 5% chance we retain Taylor

You'd lose that bet... you realize Dennison was fired, right? What tells you McCarron is an upgrade over Taylor? All 79 career passes? Then why didn't every defense he played against just contain him and make him be a QB Nonono... John was right. It was an idiotic exaggeration

Nah... I'll hope for 2015 or better and Dabol being an offensive genius if Taylor starts, thanks

Why did you think that game decided it for him? That question isn't just for you, it's for countless posters who legitimately thought that after the Jags game. Sorry folks, Taylor's one of the 32 best QBs in the NFL at the moment and is bound to the Bills for one more year at a fair price. I still think we upgrade in the draft. We might even trade Taylor as part of a package to move up, though that's seemingly a lot less likely. McDermott is an Andy Reid disciple. Looks like he might follow in his footsteps. Thank you... exactly a point word for word I've been arguing for a looooooonnnng time

Wow... well okay then. None other than every QB has clunkers

If Dabol can pull production out of Taylor at least equal to 2015 somehow and we upgrade at some key positions, why.... we could like... not just make the playoffs, but even win a game or two!