We took a chance on Allen who was a raw talent with questions regarding his throwing consistency. Sometimes you just never know. There are players that can be coached into better mechanics and change their career trajectory completely.
I don't think Beane has any intention of replacing Spencer Brown at this point based how he went on and on about how he was impressed with his progress in his most recent presser.
I was about to disagree with your assessment that Allen would still have 12 Prime years left but looking back at a lot of the top tier QBs from our league it seems a lot of them had some of their best seasons towards the end of their career while pushing 40. These guys all have 5000+ passing yd seasons after age 36.
Ben Roethlisberger
Aaron Rodgers
Peyton Manning (holds single season record for both yards and TDs at age 37)
Tom Brady
Drew Brees
Beane didn't seem like he was really targeting a big name playmaker RB judging by his presser. Sounded more like he was talking more about adding depth when replying to question about adding a bigger size RB.
Imagine the Bills OL as a bridge where a section has collapsed..and isntead of repairing the bridge they want to try and bring in a bus that can fly over it.
31 teams in the NFL HAVE to lose each year. Not sure where you're going with this unless you want the league to hand out 31 participation Lombardi trophies.
We'll never fix the run game 'til we improve the OL. We improve the OL Singletary and Cook just get better. So does the passing game. If there's no market out there for Singletary then hopefully that means we just get him back for a more team friendly deal. Focusing too heavily on RB is misplaced priorities IMO. We have bigger needs at guard, WR2 and MLB still. That being said if we were to grab Bijan Robinson at 27 this year I would not be upset as there just isn't anyone great at the other positions we need early on.
How many slot receivers do we need? McKenzie, Crowder, Shakir, Hines? This better not be the big move at WR that Beane is making this offseason.
I was perfectly happy handing the slot position over to Shakir full time. We need WR2