Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Yes understand there's a cap hit, but thought I read his guaranteed money this season was $900k and next year $1000M relatively small numbers by today's standards. Didn't think he got a huge signing bonus so didn't think overall the cap hit would be too bad. My question though just in general, can you outright cut an injured player and not cost any money other than the cap hit? Is that allowed? OK just saw Limeaids reply, so they can cut him but would be an injury settlement and believe then the rules are the Bills are the one team that can NOT resign him this season. Wasn't there a QB a few seasons back the Bills cut in pre-season, not injured then resigned after week 1, that way didn't have to guarantee full years salary?

Except in College with a relatively handful of games each week, the first three weeks, the big boys tend to take turns playing the "Sisters of Divine Intervention" If you eliminate pre-season, I think you will see an increase in injuries the first couple of weeks of the regular season too then.

Would be kind of ironic if Allan is the first of this draft class to be named the starter as he was the one supposedly least ready to start. Addmittedly I still have some concerns as in per-season all he's been seeing are the rubber bullets. How will he actually hold up when the real ones start to fly?

May also have been they knew this years draft 2018, likely was going to produce 4 to 5 elite QB's so let the seaosn play out and then decide what to do May also be he didn't think the team would have done as well last year as they did and would have had a much better draft pick than they had.

Can they just cut him, or is that not allowed since he's hurt? Can't see wasting an "IR possible to return slot on him."

Agree, think you sign a young guy who would welcome two preseason games of exposure, hoping down the road some team were to pick him up, basically an audition tape. Or even back to Buffalo if one of their other starters got hurt dow nthe road. Assuming AJ hadn't got hurt, I think the Bills would have kept all three QB's on the 53, but like most teams on game day, one is in-active So effectively you have two QB's to get through any given game. If one of those two were to get hurt then the following week, the in-active 2rd string QB would be active. Unless the Bills really think AJ should be their starting QB, you could just as easily cut him and just go with two active QB's on any given week, but would like a 3rd guy for the next two preseason games. On Sept 1st, you cut AJ and the new guy and if either Allen or Peterman were to get hurt, hope at least one of those two you cut were available to resign.

And hopefully find an article written by someone who does agree with your opinion, so then can say, see this guy does get it. It amazes me how say anything bad about the Bills, he's terrible, knows nothing, but then when someone writes something bad about someone on another team and he's a hero. They're not talent evaluators.... Says a guy who's posts on internet message boards LOL Remember, you and everyone here are fans, short for fanatic! That's the key word, we're all fanatics, nothing more, nothing less.

I'd prefer to see Peterman only because I don't know how good/bad the O-line really is. Last week they looked good, last night, bad. In pre-season there's little schemeing going on, but that works both ways fro the Bill's O-line and the DL too. So how will they really look and hold up against a regular season game plan? Don't want to see a rookie out there with a bad line in front of him. Admittedly I'm more thinking about the regular season than next week, but whomever starts next week will also likely start against Baltimore too. Hmmm.... Just read the Kiper posts above, sounds like we think alike.

well figure the TV is pretty safe as not enough horsepower inside for the Russians to even care.

I used Reddit, got it to work, actually was even able to type web address in on TV and watched it on big screen with really good quality. Had trouble though as many of the Reddit links produced pop outs and they were covering the middle of the screen and couldn't figure out how to move them using TV remote as mouse. Limits what you can do quite a bit it seems. And if you'd click on the "X" to close the pop out, it would go to anther page instead. Finally found a clean link without pop out, quality was real good no lag at at all.

Funny part about a thread like this is, if you were to talk with non Bills fans (and will say non NE fans too) living in Western NY, they will tell you this is exactly how Bills fans are too! Everyone thinks the fans of other teams are smug and arrogant and the more the team wins, the worse they are.

I don't know does he? Whether he starts this season or not doesn't change the amount of money he'll earn. I realize these are all very high ego types of people, but Allen does seem pretty well grounded. Look at the grave yard of NFL QB's over the years who started as rookies and never did well. You'll always wonder would they have benefited from sitting a year. Not to say that he hasn't come to the conclusion that in the long run he'd be better off sitting and watching for a year. And yes if he plays poorly tomorrow night, then he likely wouldn't have a chance to start, but even with a good performance unless the other two look terrible or get hurt, he still may not start. I'm sure too that McD remembers what happened last year with Petermann so likely would be more cautious with starting him barring some miracle performance. So to sum it up, I don't think either point are beyond doubt. And speaking of Fridays game, who is it being broadcast by? (since I'm not local) and start time?

I think the problem with the defense is other teams figured it out, so he devised new ways to overcome it. Likely if you ran a computer simulation, his counter tactics would be very successful. But when you aks real people to carry it out, it became way to complex, particularly with reduced practice time which is part of today's NFL. Doubt he'll ever head coach again or even get a job as a DC, position coach, probably if he wanted it, but not sure he wants it that bad. I think his ship has sailed!

Agree in general, but this was a one time thing, so to call him a headcase is a huge stretch based on very little other than a one time incident. He certainly struggled last year catchign the ball, but that doesn't in any way make him a head case either.

With regards to the TE, sounds like Croom's weakest area is blocking, but has O'Leary been any better in that area either? Sounds like both make be better at filling the role of pass catching TE than blocking on running plays, but also sounds like Croom is also a little better at catching the ball. And hows the blocking part compare? With regards to the TE, sounds like Croom's weakest area is blocking, but has O'Leary been any better in that area either? Sounds like both make be better at filling the role of pass catching TE than blocking on running plays, but also sounds like Croom is also a little better at catching the ball. And hows the blocking part compare?

With the exception of #2 practically every team in the league is in trouble when they need to start playing backups due to injury. With regards to #2 really doubt the "wheels of NFL justice" will move that fast. Add appeals into things, would be surprised if he were to get suspended this season. Unless all of a sudden they find the guy who broke in, likely this thing will drag on for awhile. From what you read about the whole thing, likely may be one of these cases that the police aren't bothering spending many resources trying to solve either as sounds like a "divorce gone bad" without ever getting actually married. My prediction is next year either he's with another team or if back with the Bills, the team will use a fairly high draft pick on a RB. And while O-line and particularly WR can take a couple of years to learn the game RB is the one position that rookies can become a star.

Yeah kind of agree, can't see them carrying 4 TE and 7 WR, pick one or the other, drop that total to 10 and pick up another body elsewhere maybe secondary or OL

Yes but everyone has heard of his father so that automatically elevates him to a 2nd rounder!

I read one article yesterday titled something along the lines of best and worst of the Thursday night games. Peterman and Benjamin combo made the best of the day highlights, but Allen was on the worst list for bad throws, inaccurate, etc which is funny now reading this

Justice to be served! In other words drop a large bundle of cash on my front porch and I'll forget everything that happened!

I wonder if you could put a bubble over it to make it into a year round facility?

20 years ago or so holding out was the "in thing" today's it's really not! So why would the Bills want a guy who's holding out, knowing there's a good chance you sign him now and in another 3 to 4 years when he's now become underpaid, he'll do the same thing here. And please don't suggest he won't hold out here because he's a hometown kid.

Just ask Yeesus, he'll tell you they are terrible! He knows!!

A while back(2017??) recall hearing the head of the NFL union Demarrus Smith is it, on the radio talking about guaranteed contracts, didn't sound like he was a huge fan as stated a number of down sides to them. Don't recall too much of what he said anymore other than an offshoot could be much shorter contracts, more one year deals. Didn't sound like he ready to start banging on the table to demand them as there were downsides to them.

What concerns me the most about this is he's my keeper on my Fantasy team. Don't need out of shape players the first couple of weeks then gets hurt.