Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

And then you'll have a QB and another QB and another QB and no idea if any of them are any good. Explain to me how you're ever going to develop them with the limited practice time you get in the off season in today's NFL. If as you suggest 3 years running you take a QB and from the sound of it I'd assume you're advocating using a high pick each time if you think you want someone who has a good chance to develop into a franchise QB. So by now would have 3 QB's all drafted high so can't risk waiving any of them, when wil lthey get playing time. Allan certainly didn't light it up last year so guess based on your thinking we should have crafted another this year. Best one available when we picked would have been Haskins or maybe Drew Lock in the 2nd and maybe kept Peterman. So now in training camp I'd assume you'd alternate time with 1st team and who starts pre-season games. Great way to make sure near of them is any way ready. Assume Allen with a year more experience wins out and starts, with lack of 100% playing time he may have had another so-so year. And who would they have learned from? Or do you plan to carry a 4th vet QB to teach the three "rookies" what's going on. Lot to read hear, make it easy sum it up in two words; Dumb idea! And how do i know that, because teams rarely do that. I could go with maybe every third year as by then you'll know if the last guy looks decent or not, maybe 2nd year, but anything sooner than that like the every year merry-go-round is just a waste of picks. So assuming you had picked one in 2017 I wouldn't want to pick another in 2018, plus wouldn't have even had the extra picks from all the trades to move up.

Actually no I didn't think much about Mckenzie making the team. To your point "He's had success everywhere he's gone", then why didn't he go right straight to the NFL. I'm hoping he works out, but skeptical of a guy who couldn't make the NFL prior. Sounds like it was mainly around the maturity issue, maybe that has improved, will see. Everyone sounds mature in shorts and t Shirts. Lets see his maturity level when the hitting starts and playing games..

Kind of chuckled a bit reading a comment in the article from Beane he was talking about Dorsey the QB coach and how competitive he is. Beane mentioned that he see's it in the pickup basketball games the coach must have. Made me think, could you imagine back in the 90's Mary Levy, Walk Corey, Ted M, and say Bill Polian hooping it up? Maybe a game of wheelchair ball! Walt likely would have poked someone in the eye with the swizzle stick anyway.

The problem with everything you mention is how's that translate to going up against NFL competition? Sure he can high point the ball, but now the CB's are bigger and faster and may just step in front of him. How will it match up, will find out soon enough.

Just don't put it on that guy from Denver who use to always pee his pants during games.

The only thing that worries me about this is most of the plays were with his legs. If he can start making them with his arm, I'd agree. And I do think there will be improvement too, the question is how much. If he can bump his completion percentage up just 5%, that could be enough. With the weapons added, I don't think that's out of reach either.

I'd argue it was one amazing year. 2nd year they won in spite of him more often than not compliments of an outstanding defense.

Damm could have saved $10. I ordered it for the $25 price couple weeks back. My take on it is, has many well written articles, if you're looking for an overall good sports "magazine" it's well worth it. But as far as much localized Bills coverage, sorry for the haters, but the BN far exceeds at least in quantity. For the price I paid a good deal, thought I saw the full price is over $100 a year which is what I'd assume I'd pay next year to renew. Well that ain't happening at that price. If they offered me $50 for the year, likely would do it, but not higher unless things change. The Blitz at $36 a year is still a good deal for quite a bit of Bills coverage IMO. And to the people who state "I refuse to pay for online content" so did you steal newspapers all your life? My wife thinks its disgusting that I take the phone in the can with me News papers have ads but you still pay for it too.

I'm guessing his thinking on the Jet's is Darnold will take at least another year or two to reach his prime, assuming he is the real deal. But by then guys like Bell and others will be too far on the downslide. Even if Flores and Rosen turn out to be the real deal, way too many other holes on Miami to be taken seriously. They'd have to hit real big on all their draft picks. And if you want to give Flores the benefit of the doubt because he's from NE, then you have to give him doubtful marks on hitting on all their draft picks. NE hasn't won all their Super Bowls of late due to great drafting. More getting vets to sign for less for a chance to win a ring and overall good cap management and even that part I'm not certain of, but assume it's worked out as that's allowed them to sign all these guys. Just way to many questions in Miami at this point to have any idea.

OK, right team, wrong guy!

I could live with it as a one time thing, but overall I think overall the NFL HOF is too easy to get admitted too while MLB is too hard for selection.

Wasn't he the guy who head butted the goal post in some game?

The one thing that may slow down Allen's development is all the churn on the O-line. Likely during camp will different players going ion and out, then even once the line is set will take some time to jell. The 2 things that will help some are the most experienced guy is their center so he may help settle things down and excluding Ford, the rest are vets with quite few years under their belt. But still overall, may take some time and that could hurt Allen some the first few games.

I just see a path where the O-line looks real good in run blocking and are giving Allan enough time, but he's missing guys left and right. And Singletery looks like a good signing. At some point, could even see them switching to Barkley if that were to happen at least for a couple of games. But while the amateur fan would be calling for McD's head, think you still look at say the problem is one guy, and with the high failure rate of rookie QB's personally I think would be crazy to then can him and start over again.

I think an interesting thing to know, (which likely we will never know) is how many Bills players will some how see this,and the next time Jackson shows up in the locker room, he'll find about 50 bottles of blue cheese dressing in his locker.

Why do you think there's low odds in that? What I mean by rest of team looking good, the defense was already looking good last year, so slight improvement there or even stay the same. If the O-line looks like they know what they are doing, the new players look solid, Knox, Brown and Beasley look like good signings, and Singleley the RB looks like a good pick. Granted if Allan struggles bad it would be hard to evaluate the WR either way, but regardless of Allens play can certainly judge the defense, O- line and RB.

If I look at Yeldon, Croom, and Bolden, I'd rank Bolden last of those three as far as what overall strength they can give the team so would rather see one of the other two kept over him and go with just 5 WR. Can make the argument to that Croom is kind of a WR type of TE anyway. Wouldn't be shocked to see Sirles kept instead of Teller as he can play guard and tackle. If you're only keeping 8 lineman, better be versatile. Same with keeping Neal as a CB, he could still play safety, so maybe cut one of the safeties then and have Neal as the 4th safety. Could you get away with J Johnson to the PS? Would he clear waivers?? May depend on his pre-season level of play

I think that completely wasted Lawson's rookie year and carried over to his 2nd season. Last year was the first time he even came close to looking like a high drafted player. Will see what this season brings.

Was that the surgery that Lawson had his rookie year? He still played part of it thought I thought??

I'd think a huge major bad season like less than 3 wins more than that likely gets him at least a fourth season to start. If next year by Nov, they are like 2-10 then maybe gets the boot then or by year end. Beane likely survives and hires a new coach. GM's usually get at least two coaches to burn through. Extended Playoffs this year likely gets him extended or a .500 record this year puts in a wait and see what next year brings. 9-7 or better next year probably gets him extended then. Also depends alot on what happens around him. Lets assume Allen's a bust but the rest of the team is looking better, then maybe he stays. The failure rate of rookie QB's is easily 50% so firing a guy for picking the wrong QB would be really dumb and shows the likelihood of any future success is low as the owner would be clueless to fire for that reason.

Yeah so what, it still about talent regardless of how you acquire it. In fact could argue even more important now as if you screw up on FA signing, the cap hit can mess you up for the next few years. In the case of Payton, he won the Super Bowl was it around 2010, since then hasn't been back and had some years they didn't make the playoffs 7-9 three years in a row and 4 out of 5. Last year was much better and should have been i n the Super Bowl, why, because he finally got some talent on the defensive side. I'll grant you Bellichick is the exception, but still question what would he have done without Brady.

I think it's the opposite, it's all about talent. Look at how many teams over the years never won, the team gets a new GM, fixes the roster and they start winning. A few examples, NY Giants, from the early 60's to around 1980, lose every year, bring in George Young, they start winning, NY Mets, bring in Frank Cashen in the early 80's and they turn around years of losing. Detroit Red Wings were bad from around 1960 till they brought in a new GM, think it was around 1990 or so, then started winning again. A couple close to home, Marv Levy went to 4 straight Super Bowls, admittedly never won any, but 4 straight has never been done by anyone else. Does that make him the greatest coach of all time. I wouldn't put him in the top 10 and if I thought some more, probably not even the top 20. Scotty Bowman won 4 Stanley Cups in Montreal as coach, but he wanted to be the GM too so comes to Buffalo, roster was made over twice in the years he was here, but they never came close to winning the Cup. If it's all about coaching how could he not have won? There are a couple of exceptions like NE where they have never had that much overall talent, but even there could argue he does have the best QB in the league. I do think coaching may get you a couple more wins each year in the NFL, and will agree you typically need top level coaching to win it all, (likely the Bills problem in the 90's) but without the players you won't go anywhere. In the case of poor talent coaching may not even generate any additional wins, just makes them play better.

But the problem there is offensively could be 7 of the 11 starters are new. So it's the same system, but how well will the new players execute it. May depend alot on how many nicked up players during pre-season and how much time all 11 have to work together. On the other hand new players does make it a bit tougher for NY too as they don't know exactly what the new players will do in the system. Defensively same players for the most part, same system, so do give the Bills the advantage there. And the defense was good to start with, where as offensively the team struggled last year overall.

I think for many kids in particular the average ones, once they hit around 12 or 13, the kids will tell the parents to shut up, you're embarrassing me. But the real superstars are playing on these travel teams and there all the parents are doing it, so it's no longer embarrassing, it just becomes the norm. Organized sports is likely worse as there the parents are paying for the kids to play and at the high levels with paid coaches, the parents indirectly are paying the coaches salary. I'd think school sports would be a little easier as at least the school does have some control over access, at least at practices and things. And then parents see these as examples and figure if it's OK for them to do it, it's OK for me too. I use to ref HS and club volleyball. That wasn't too bad as often the parents didn't understand the rules enough to even know what's going on to complain. And most often when they did scream and yell it was on something that if they actually knew the rules would have realized it was legal. I also thought volleyball was easier to control as other than maybe golf, it's the closest thing to a non contact sport. I think thats where the trouble starts, soccer and basketball are probably the worsted as in theory they are non-contact sports, But in reality far from it and things can more easily escalate out of control from there.

True, but too many here also don't get the idea of a columnists job. As soon as they write something negative, the gloves come off. It's worse than calling their girlfriend ugly. Yes, that is likely the case, though even the pessimism is better than the "I've got to be right" crowd.