HiddenInLight
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If AJ McCarron plays great then we have a guy that can play well as a backup if he can't outplay McCarron. Also it allows Allen to sit on the bench and learn until he is ready to outplay AJ. If that never happens, at least we took a swing. You miss every shot you don't take.
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Honestly, some of the behavior does need to be toned down a little bit. People are going to hurt themselves. That being said, i don't think making more laws and cracking down on the lot owners is the answer. I think the answer is having a larger police presence in and around the stadium. Anybody walking in the game that is too shitfaced to control themselves gets turned away. Anybody who gets to that point during the game gets ejected. Give the security guards doing bag searches and running the metal detectors the ability to deny entry. IMO it's as simple as forcing people to cut back on the drinking before the game. Let people do what they want on private property, but the second they try and get into the game make it known that that level of intoxication is unacceptable.
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TBH at this point it is what it is. Those tweets were deleted in January when whoever was taking care of his draft prep found them. The fact that they were saved and released at a later date proves that it was somebody with a vested interest in him falling. That points to Buffalo, Arizona, Miami, or NE. IMO it likely wasn't Buffalo, because that just seems out of character for everybody on our staff unless it was Russ Brandon, who seems like he'd do something like that. Personally I believe it was Arizona. They entered this draft with almost no draft capital to make a trade, and knew they'd be fighting between 1 and 4 other teams to trade up for him. Knowing they won't win a bidding war against anybody it makes sense that they would do something desperate like that to try and knock him off of a few other teams boards. If not Arizona it may have likely been NE. NE seems to like the low floor high ceiling boom/bust type of QB prospects, and IMO they are getting increasingly desperate to find a Brady replacement. I think the rumblings about how things are going down in NE have at least some basis on truth.
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He looks good. It seems like he was able to make some plays without a grate group of guys to catch the ball. That being said, when Charles Clay is healthy, that is going to be a lethal target for him. Additionally, I think he is going to love Benjamin in the end zone. If we could get ourselves a burner to play outside, across from Benjamin, we'll have a pretty decent receiver corps when healthy.
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Trading him doesn't provide any cap relief at all. Why get rid of talent with no real reward?
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19 hours ago, USABuffaloFan said:
So Allen, with all the skills in the world, is mediocre actually playing in college with easy competition and McCarron with a 36-4 record and 2 Championships, with average arm, over achieves and has a stellar college career get no chance at being better even though he actually played better with stiffer competition. I fail to see the logic! Now I am hoping Bills can coachup Allen to McCarron's level than we can talk about who is better. Right now Allen is way behind McCarron who has 4 training camps, a 2-1 NFL record keeping Bengals in the playoff hunt and almost a win in the playoffs. It is amazing how QB's records and stats are ignored sometimes but elevated others to fit a narrative.
I see what you did.
I was a 90+ Math/Science student and 70-80 English/History student. This site needs grammar check. Spell check works fine. Sometimes I miss these things.
Your reply had nothing to do with my response. All I was saying is that right now, the best we can assume without seeing McCarron in our offense taking snaps is that he is going to be at best, slightly worse then Andy Dalton. Assuming the Bengals' coaches aren't incompetant, since we took their backup quarterback, it stands to logic that he will be not as good as their starter, otherwise he would be the starter. As for Allen, my response didn't really have much to do with him, except point out that he shouldn't start until he gives us a better chance to win then AJ.
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29 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
You could argue that when Dalton got the huge contract he was playing regardless of what McCarron could do
You could argue that no sane coach/gm/team would field their second best guy just because he's getting paid more.
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"Giselle do you promise that if I wear these shorts you will let me wear pants around the house instead of a skirt?"
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Just now, BuffaloHokie13 said:
Dalton was excellent in 2015 (when he had the supporting cast), average in 2016, and below average in 2017.
Whatever Dalton is, personally I don't watch enough of him to know, AJ is somewhere lower on the spectrum. Otherwise he would be their starter and Dalton would be the one on another team.
1 minute ago, MJS said:You don't have much of a choice. But John Murphy is 100 times better than those two clowns. Of course, he's still not great and people around here call him a homer, but he's better than those two guys. Also, Sal Capaccio is pretty good. Those guys are on WGR as well.
With Steve Tasker on the show it's become one giant Bills circle jerk. Hard to listen to.
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1 minute ago, whatdrought said:
Best case scenario: AJ lights it up for 10 games and puts us in the hunt for the playoffs, gets a minor injury (not that I wish injury on anyone) like a non-throwing wrist or something easy to bounce back from, Allen plays 6 games and goes crazy showing all his potential and leading us into the playoffs and beating the Pats in the wildcard round.
Off season we trade AJ for a second and are well on our way.
I'll be honest, best case scenario is that AJ comes out and sets the league on fire, and STILL gets overtaken by Allen at the Bye. Allen shows the coaches in practice and TC that he's ready to go and better then AJ. Bills bench AJ and are lead to their first superbowl win by this crazy rookie player who then goes on to have a HOF career winning more superbowls then Tom Brady, without any of the cheating. AJ gets traded in the offseason to the Browns for their first overall pick because they have inexplicably been unable to win a single game for the second year in a row.
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Honestly, what is Dalton? An above average starter in this league? IMO McCarron falls somewhere under wherever Dalton sits on the scale. He likely won't be better, as otherwise he would be starting for the Bengals. How much worse is the matter up for interpretation. Personally I see him as an average starter. Good enough to hold down the fort until Allen is either ready or becomes clear that he is not the answer (Hopefully the former).
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Honestly, I'd love to see AJ come out playing like a probowler this year. I'd love to see the same thing with Allen. That being said, as long as our starter is helping us win games instead of causing us to lose games I don't care what name is on the back of the Jersey. Personally, I think AJ comes out playing like an average QB option, maybe giving a little less upside then Andy Dalton would give. Allen sits on the bench for at least half the year, if not all season, and wins the starting job next year. Peterman doesn't likely finish the year on the roster.
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1 hour ago, Clyde Smith said:
It’s not cause he’s vegan. A lot of blacks I know don’t eat pork.
A lot of NFL Players eat Turkey Bacon for the protein.
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Sounds like he has some good hands, which seems to be his best trait other then the fact that he is versatile. Good trait to have I guess. Maybe coach him up?
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Just now, Ifartalot said:
What Arizona gave up to trade up for Rosen did make it look like the Bills overpaid for Allen.
To be fair at that point they had already lost the bidding war, so were likely able to negotiate down the price, with nobody else looking to trade up, which is what happened with the bills. As much as it sucks to give so much value up for the move, I completely understand why they did it.
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I'm sorry but that little blerb makes him sound like a petulant baby just because he doesn't like Josh Allen. Whatever happened to professionalism in major sports news outlets?
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Allen and Wentz is my guess. IIRC I think EJ ran a faster 40 time.
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I went into the draft saying anybody but Allen. After sleeping on it, I feel a little better. He's our QB of the future for better or for worse. On the bright side, he does do one thing we were all screaming at Tyrod to do, which is trust your receivers. He throws those contested balls, and may shine with Benjamin on the roster. In the mean time we have AJ McCarron on the roster to act as a bridge until he is ready to start, and hopefully he won't trip over a rubber mat and end his career. At this point I'm willing to keep an open mind on our new QB.
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Or maybe Beane already had a deal in place with the Giants.
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I'd prefer retractable roof, as the weather in buffalo for the first half of the year is actually really nice. It only starts to get about halfway through the year.
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The guy is basically a young EJ Manuel. Everything that happens around this guy reminds me of EJ, Hype started to really take off after the senior bowl. People talking about how he could go very early despite the fact that they have a 2nd round grade on him. He has all the measurables you want and a great arm, but not great accuracy. His mechanics need a lot of work.....They are all things that we said about EJ right before he was drafted. I was in the EJ camp at the time, but I really don't want to go through that again. I'm tired of never being able to come back in a game because we can't move the ball in the pass game. I'm tired of considering a 200 yard game exceptional. Lets get a real QB and make this team relevant again.
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37 minutes ago, Tyrod's friend said:
I based the response on Bandit's reasonable limitations of on the salary capped years.
Second, the main point in my post was that Bandit's sample itself had 38 QBs drafted in after the 3rd round. I will stand on that being a reasonable basis for making a conclusion.
Finally, at the end of the day neither you nor Bandit account for the fact that using a top pick on a QB doesn't come without a cost. Between 2011 and 2016, All-Pro appearances by non-QB drafted in the top round far outpace QBs. In point of fact, there are very likely at least two (reasonably enough, three) Hall of Fame players drafted in the first round in that time period and I highly doubt you'll see one QB.
You don't get to use that first round designation for free. All players drafted in the first round are more likely to be successful than players later. A failure to use that pick wisely on a QB doesn't only stagnate the offense - you likely ruined your chances in other ways.
Cheers.How many of those players were on teams that already had franchise quarterbacks, or played on the team with one for the majority of their careers? My bet is a lot. H.O.F. guys and pro-bowlers usually play for good teams. Good teams have franchise quarterbacks.
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Honestly I feel like this is people trying to make trouble where there is none. That being said, it doesn't matter how he feels about personnel, as it's not his job to worry about that.
Draft Analyst Joe Marino of FanRag Sports on Bills Draft, Allen
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Wasn't one of the strengths listed that he was good at processing information?