Billy Claude

I agree that they probably prepared some stuff for Allen to look at but I would hope that they asked him to pick 6 or 7 that he would like to work with and not one.

I am sure you are right that he can contribute in that manner. What you described seems to be a low floor to me for a draft pick at the top of the second round.

After watching that video, the answer to the OP's question appears to be "Fact: Keon Coleman is not a separator". He is covered pretty tightly on almost every pass. Some of it might be due to poor QB play but definitely not all it. The more important question is can he become a separator with better coaching. I assume moving from school to school and changing coachng staffs didn't help but sometimes Beane is unduly confident in what the coaching staff can do.

The scouts spent hours and hours evaluating each player, watching tape, interviewing the player, talking to their coaches, looking at combine data, discussing the player with each other, comparing the player to other players etc. How much time did you think Allen spent on this? They probably gave him 10 minute highlight video and a one page summary of seven or eight guys and asked him for his impressions. Maybe a three hours altogether tops. He was probably okay with most of them since it is hard for me to believe that Bills scouts wouldn't be able to rule out guys that definitely won't be a fit with their QB. Do you get feedback from your franchise QB? Sure, but I definitely hope that they didn't decide on passing over Worthy and Legette because Allen was banging the table for Coleman. That is not Allen's job. My guess is that he would have also been perfectly okay with Worthy and Legette and the "Allen wanted Coleman" business is just a bit of stupid but relatively harmless PR.

I certainly hope that Allen was not involved in this pick. That is not his job. If the Bills picked Coleman because Allen wanted him then Beane definitely needs to be fired. My guess is that the involvement by Allen was prefunctory, sort of like King Charles officially has to approve all legislation before it becomes law. Coleman fits the high ceiling low floor profile of most early round Beane picks. Except for the 40 time, he is a freakish athlete whose college stats are not super impressive. Examples include Allen, Edmunds, Brown, Knox, Elam, and Rousseau. They are betting on that can teach him to separate in the pros. Hopefully they are right.

No to more Jets oline rejects. Every one the Bills havehad has been beyond terrible.

I do worry that the front office is not paying to Allen's strengths. Allen does not like the short game. He loses patience with it too easily. It also requires a lot of pre-snap reads and ball placement which not his forte. Allen displayed more patience at the end of last season, maybe he will keep it up. However, Allen is also not great at the long bombs. Yes, you can find instance of crucial drops but it is not all the receivers fault. He just doesn't put enough air under the ball. In any case long bombs is not a strategy any team can rely on consistently. What Allen is great at is the intermediate 10 to 25 yard pass. Until recently Diggs had been pivotal in that role. Hopefully they have a replacement. It is certainly not clear that is the case.

Aren't these the things that Josh Allen is not very good at? Are they trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? This is what is puzzling to me. It was like when Dennison came in and decided to run the WCO with Tyrod Taylor.

Agree. Beane usually gives you a good idea of the broad strokes of his thinking and very rarely tells an outright lie. Definitely much less likely to tell a bald face lie than other GMs. The only exception I can think of is the Kair Elam year when he claimed the Bills were not lasered focused on a CB when they clearly were.

The Bengals were incredibly lucky in 2021. Every Bengal playoff game was incredibly close. In the wild-card game, the Raiders had three shots at tying (or winning) the game from the Bengals 9-yard line with 30 seconds left. In the divisional game against the Titans, Tannehill threw two 4th quarter interceptions including one with 40 seconds left at mid field that set up the Bengals game winning field goal and in the conference championship, one could argue the Chiefs were emotionally spent from the 13 second game. The 2021 Bengals were probably the weakest AFC team in the Super Bowl in about 20 years.

Perhaps a little context. First, it is not official, it is just a rumor. Second, the Giants are celebrating their 100th year next year and as pointed out by Gregg, these are their uniforms from 1933, so this is likely a one time thing as a part of the 100th year celebration.

Bad idea. When is the last time a nostaglia hire has worked? Lou Saban?

The Broncos are picking up half of Zach's salary of 5.5M. This was the surprising thing to me. I would have have thought any trade would have resulted in Jets eating at least 4M of the 5.5M. https://sports.yahoo.com/jets-broncos-split-zach-wilsons-193402288.html

Well, not to nitpick, but you were the one referring to how much money Mr. Irrelevant in your original argument.

How is Larry Fitzgerald a diva? I don't remember him as having that reputation at all, if anything his reputation was the opposite. Also, the original poster was questioning whether there were any diva WRs who won a Super Bowl. Fitzgerald never won a Super Bowl.