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Do you also think that filling out brackets erodes college basketball fandom?

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You’re not wrong, but what nobody is considering is that not having a cap is an even bigger advantage for the Chiefs. Both Dak and Pat making $20 million leaves both teams with a ton of money to build the rest of the roster up. If Pat makes $40 million and Dak makes $38 million, Dallas is even farther behind. It would be to the Chiefs advantage to drive up QB salaries as high as possible for the whole league.

When 90% of the fanbase is saying they’d make a trade, that’s a pretty good sign that the trade is unrealistic. The Cardinals aren’t giving away David Johnson plus a third round pick for nothing. They know they aren’t competing this year, so they can eat the money this year and get a better draft slot next year. Why would they give up picks during a rebuild?

So the best way to find star players is to draft them in the middle rounds. I’ll remember that when everyone here is blaming the offense’s struggles on lack of weapons for Josh. The Bills have such a great track record of finding WRs that there’s no need to draft a blue chipper. Just shake the third round game breaking WR tree and grab as many as you can carry.

Neither Minnesota nor Arizona would be dumb enough to make that trade.

Diggs would cost pick 22 at a minimum. Number 1 receivers who are 26 years old with below market contracts don’t come cheap despite what some tweet said.

You get average at best talent drafting skill position players in mid rounds. Everyone on here talks about how Allen and Mahomes would look if you switched their supporting casts. Then when there’s a potentially elite target that costs what potentially elite targets cost, suddenly everyone’s fine with Great Value brand weapons. What does that have to do with anything? The Chiefs didn’t draft a QB in the first round for 34 years because the last one busted so hard. Should they have passed on Mahomes because a previous GM made a bad pick? If McBeane thinks he’s the goods, then pull the trigger. The team was a hair away from winning the first playoff game in 25 years. The offense put up 19 points in 5 quarters against a team that gave up 7 TDs in 3 quarters a week later. Adding a true #1 receiver makes every other matchup on the field more favorable. The team’s window is officially open. If Josh is the guy, he’s going to start getting really expensive in 2 years. It’s time to put a finished product on the field now.

Golladay has had a catch percentage between 56% and 59% every year of his career. His production is the result of volume rather than efficiency. 116 targets last year resulted in only 65 catches. Compare that to Diggs who had 63 catches on only 94 targets. Golladay's TD # this year was exceptional, but that's an outlier this far in his career. That one start notwithstanding, there's nothing particularly special about him. He's a lower tier #1. Diggs is a much better player.

People are looking at this backwards. Mahomes having a market setting contract helps the Chiefs more than it hurts them because he's actually worth it. If Pat gets $40,000,000 someone like Carson Wentz who is only 50% as good is still going to get 90% of that amount. Would you rather have Mahomes at $40m or Wentz at $36m? That's an easy win for the teams that have legit stars. The teams with good but not elite QBs on second and third contracts are the ones who are going to be hurt the most by this. That's part of the reason this is such a huge year for Josh. If he has a season in 2020 similar to or slightly better than 2019, what do you do with him? He's going to command $35,000,000 a year for 5 years. Do you pay him?

Yeah. He's been really bad to this point in his career. One of the lowest rated QBs both years and dead last in completion percentage both years. I don't know if that's ever been done before. That i still think he has a puncher's chance of being a franchise QB is not in any way extreme. Talking MVP is extreme.

Yeah. I realize that the homers around here think that pegging Allen as only having a 40% chance of being a franchise QB is an extreme take. Funny that nobody here is predicting that Mitch Trubisky is going to be a factor in the MVP race. I can promise you that the average non Bills fan has a lower opinion of Allen than I do, though.

This thread is basically a terrible take contest on both sides. I get routinely criticized for my opinion on Allen, and I'm the most moderate one on here. To this point, he's been a terrible QB that has shown flashes of greatness but who also makes way too many negative plays. The game is clearly too fast for him at times, and he has a tendency to panic. He also has a bad habit of tucking his elbow to his body and short arming passes, especially on deep throws. There's the bad side of Josh. The potential is real, though. If he's going to unlock it, it's going to be this year. A year ago, he was 150-1 for MVP, so his stock has risen since then. After his third season as a starter, there shouldn't be anything left to debate. There's no need to use the word "potential" every again. He will be what the back of his football card says he is. Whether that will be a franchise QB or a placeholder for the next guy in 2021 is yet to be determined. As for me, I give him about a 40% chance of being the man. I would have said about 10% when he was drafted and about 25% after last season. He's tough to figure out.

Why would Jackson have more longevity issues than Josh? Allen has been injured constantly throughout his playing career. He broke his collarbone in high school. He broke his right clavicle in 7 places in his first college start. He missed multiple games his last year in college due to a sprained shoulder. He missed multiple games his rookie season, and he got knocked out of the Patriots game this year.

If the draft was done again, Lamar would go first. I don't think there would be any more of a consensus after that today than there was back then. You can pick the other three out of a hat. Allen would likely fetch a late first rounder or early second today, IMO. Rosen might bring a half full bag of footballs.

Let's just say that Beane were to shop Allen for picks. What do you think he would receive in return?

This board just has a bizarre habit of saying that every player not on the Bills is garbage. This goes double for former Bills. Triple for former Bills who were major contributors on Super Bowl winners.

This is a terribly misinformed take. He's generally regarded as one of best WRs in the game at getting yards after the catch. He had 141 in a single game this year which was the highest total in a decade. People forget how young he still is as well. He's actually younger than Cooper Kupp. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/curtisrush/2020/02/03/super-bowl-star-sammy-watkins-is-a-reminder-of-what-the-buffalo-bills-once-had-and-gave-up/amp/

There's no such thing as trying to get out of a contract. It wasn't guaranteed, so they will just cut him off that's what they want. I'm literally watching the Super Bowl parade broadcast live from Kansas City as I type this. If they're disappointed about signing him, they're putting on a very good poker face.

You can say that again. Who in the world is giving up picks to take on Carr’s salary? The FA market is flooded with QBs that could be had without giving up draft capital.

Mahomes and Allen are similar runners. Josh would be well advised to watch Pat play and adopt some of his tendencies suc as keeping his eyes downfield when breaking contain, ball security, and getting OOB or sliding unless it’s absolutely necessary (like a TD right before halftime in the AFCCG). Taking hits to gain an additional 4 yards of field position simply isn’t a worthwhile trade.

There’s a really good chance that this happens. Usually receivers who have put up 400 yards of offense in the past 2 seasons of postseason play get benched in the Super Bowl. Why would Andy Reid want to utilize the guy who has been literally the most productive postseason receiver in the league in the biggest game of the year, right?

How is a jump ball “on the money”? By your definition, every Hail Mary is on the money. Just because someone is capable of throwing a flutterball high enough in the air that a receiver (and multiple defenders) can camp out under it doesn’t mean the pass was good. It was a bad throw and a worse decision. DiMarco didn’t catch a single pass beyond the LOS all season. He’s not Randy Moss. He’s a blocking fullback. That play was 100% on Josh. It boggles the mind that people can watch Tom Brady win 75 straight games against the Bills precisely because he doesn’t make stupid decisions and still think that JA was playing winning football. The Texans defense is garbage. The Chiefs scored 51 points in a 36 minute stretch the following week. There is absolutely no way the Texans should have won that game. It was like both teams were trying to give the game away, and Buffalo found a way to get it done. If New England runs that play 100 times, Brady makes the jump ball throw to the fullback exactly 0 times. He either hits Brown as he comes out of his break (the correct read) or he checks it down to Singletary (who is one missed open field tackle away from a huge gain). That was a well designed play that turned into a clown show. There is no doubt that JA has all the physical tools to be great, but he doesn’t have the mental part figured out yet. He may get there, and if he does, people will look back at games like this and be embarrassed by the fact that they blamed the loss on things like fullbacks not catching jump balls 40 yards downfield while sandwiched between two defensive backs.

It’s a four man rush. Just because Watt was literally quadruple teamed doesn’t mean he wasn’t rushing. And Allen absolutely could have thrown it away. He could have literally spiked it into the ground, as Singletary was an eligible receiver. He did the second worst thing he could have done by running straight backwards and out of FG range. The worst thing he could have done was randomly throw the ball backwards.

For everyone who thinks Singletary needs a lot more snaps, watch this on a loop. Josh HAS to get rid of that ball, but DS crapped his pants there. (And Matt Parrino needs some help counting to four.)