PetermansRedemption

Phillip Nelson, yikes.

TJ Hockenson is quickly becoming my primary draft crush. I prefer a trade down and getting him that way. But I wouldn’t even mind a slight reach and grabbing him at 9.

The AAF isn’t competing against the NFL. Directly from Ebersol’s mouth. He realized leagues fail when competing against the NFL. And yes, 3 and 4 star recruits are who they need to market to. Start picking up a few of them a year. Like I’ve said twice already. The choice isn’t as obvious as you seem to believe. Have you read USFL, football for a buck? It’s a good lesson. One large lesson is that money talks. Your choice is go to college, play for free for 3 years and get drafted. While doing some school work in the process. Or go play football for 3 years for 85k a year and get drafted.

I completely disagree. 4 practice squad players per team would definitely increase interest. There are plenty of die hard Bills fans (myself included) who would watch for one single player. You aren’t converting many casual fans but you never had much of a chance to do that anyways. Of course you aren’t recruiting the top 50 HS players in the country. Your sweet spot are the top of the next echelon. If you have a scholarship offer from, say, a UB or 30-60th ranked school. You can go take that scholarship, pretend to work on a college degree, and play football for free. Or you can go, not worry about any semblance of school work, and make 85k a year. Oh, and your talents are still showcased for the NFL draft. Perhaps even more because your playing in a league where 80% of players have had an NFL contract at some point.

What I am most excited about this year? Not having the worry about a QB battle or drafting a QB or signing a QB. I don’t remember the last time I went into a season feeling that good. Nice to be able to do anything in the draft and not have to fight for one of the QB’s. Or hope to sign a journeyman free agent QB ala Keenum. Great position to be in picking top 10 in the draft with QB not a worry.

If that’s the “deep” free agent market I would rather draft our TE

Are we sure that’s it? Because I sure feel I could be fired at my job if I perform political activism at it. I was thinking it was more along the lines that collusion between two businesses is illegal, irrespective of the part being negwtively impacted. In this case two (or more) independent businesses (the nfl franchises) colluded with each other to negatively impact a party (Kapernick). From my brief research on the subject over the past twenty minutes this is what I’ve gathered. However, like I said, I’m completely unsure.

Forgive me if this is something I should know, but I’m having a heck of a time understanding why this is illegal. If someone could explain this for me, I would be very grateful.

If they can keep developing this league, it should succeed. A few key points need to happen. They need to target high school kids with the option of making 85k a year for 3 years and then getting drafted, instead of working for 3 years for free and having to do some semblance of classes and schoolwork. If I had no interest in getting a college degree I would certainly choose the former. The AAF also needs to have an agreement with the NFL, where NFL teams can loan practice squad players to the AAF. Since there are 32 nfl teams and only 8 AAF teams it would be around 4 teams per AAF team. And of course you don’t want the AAF filled with all practice squad players so you would need to cap it at 1 per team or so. This would give hardcore fans of those teams a vested interest in watching. I would certainly watch the Birmingham Iron if the Bills had Cam Phillips down there. Other than that, I feel the AAF has a pretty good base. If they can swing those two points I think this league could succeed for a long time.

I am fine with having Carter and Bojorquez battle it out in camp. Two of Bojorquez’s big errors are easily correctable. He heard the wrong call and thought fake punt on one, a mistake I’m sure he will never make again. He fumbled a snap too, but I’m willing to overlook a rookie mistake. If he can improve his consistency a bit he will be just fine. If he hits it right he absolutely booms it. Also can’t overlook the fact that we will have a far better special teams coach (because whoever they hired can’t be any worse than Crossman).

Then absolutely sign me up for Pierre Garçon

They can bring as many as they want to camp. Let them all battle it out. I just wouldn’t pay Pierre Garçon much to be one.

I don’t have much interest in this one. I don’t see him as much better than what we have. If he wants to come in on a no money guaranteed deal and battle it out with the rest of our 4-8 receivers then I suppose I could get behind it. I envision next year being Rd1/2 draft pick, Robert Foster, Zay Jones and I’m perfectly fine with that.

I expect him to be injured the vast majority of the year.

I would bet this QB draft turns into any other, “average”. You’ll get 1-2 decent starters out of it. Maybe one guy will surprise and actually be good. The rest will bust. Ho hum just another year in the NFL draft. Major tanking is not really a thing in the NFL. With no draft lottery you have to out tank 31 other teams, while keeping your job in the process. It is next to impossible to accurately tank and keep your job. Elway hasn’t drafted a good QB since... ever. He’s tried it five times and failed miserably. Actually, looking back, maybe he just realizes he’s terrible at drafting QB’s?

I just cannot see the value of a first round TE, espeically in the top 15. He needs to be a can’t miss impact player to be drafted that high as a TE. I would need to know I’m getting one of the best in the league at the TE position, if not the best.

It is completely fair to review mock draft accuracy immediately after the draft. The picks have happened, you can compare them to someone’s mock quite easily.

I would literally back up the truck. Let him name his price.

I would have bet money Elway had finally learned his lesson about re-tread QB’s and was going to draft one this season.

I like how they act that the speculation isn’t based in reality. Like their new head coach hasn’t publicly said he would take Kyler Murray first overall. Either way he’s a liar. He was either lying then or he is lying now.

Im the opposite. Bell is free, Brown would cost an asset. I would take Bell and stay far away from Brown.

I’d offer him one on the Bills. I see very little reason Kyle wouldn’t succeed as a coach.

Yikes. That mock would have been horrendous for the Bills ?

Would the fans not go nuts with anticipation for the opening play? I think it’s far more interesting to have an opening pass or run than it is to have the opening play be a kickoff. Half the time, literally half the time, you get the kickoff going into the end zone and then a commercial.

People still watch baseball?