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I think you're a little too salty about this. People often react in a sensitive manner when a cherished dream is threatened. I agree it was poor play, not anything ethnic, that was behind his benching, but I would cut Taylor some slack. It is the ever willing parasites in the media with an agenda that deserve complete contempt and disdain.

I definitely prefer Young and Elway as the model to Cam.

I notice you don't dispute posting pictures of your feet on the internet ?

Lot of folks think greatness overcomes impediments or they say, "Well, maybe not as great numbers, but he'd still be terrific." And because you can't disprove (or prove) a counter-factual, it's impossible to refute. I think fortune plays a large role in destiny. No one can anticipate exactly how an individual will react in different circumstances or project a freak injury. I am not convinced Mahomes would have experienced success here, though I lobbied for us to draft him. What we know: Mahomes was given a red-shirt year to learn, surrounded by excellent coaching and offensive personnel. We also know Allen was thought to need a redshirt year, was thrown into the fire with not much surrounding help. I think his performance was clearly improved after returning from injury. There's reason to be hopeful Allen will be a genuine franchise qb. Everything else is guesswork.

That parrot keeps repeating the same tired inaccuracies in every Josh Allen thread. Normally he invites everyone to flame away. He might as well say Polly want a cracker. Nobody cares.

Nice parable. Thanks for sharing.

I suppose you can always make that argument. One can discover numerous places in a game where alternative results would have changed the outcome. Still, it's a bitter way to lose out on a chance at a championship.

Well, I feel sorry for Saints fans, though of course, sports is never a justification for violence or radical despair.

You're missing out on plenty of opportunities.

I am only guessing, but as an expert in metaphysics, I suspect it is reincarnation angst. He was angry in his past life and just got here. First thing he does is look in the mirror only to discover the same ugly mug. That's got to be disappointing.

McDermott needs to grow a beard so they all match.

Enjoy your insights regarding potential draft picks. I pray you are doing well. I have suffered from dysthymia for decades, so I have compassion for and empathize with folks who struggle. I keep hearing that Dawkins would likely be a superlative LG. I'd like to get D. Williams for RT and Paradis or Morse, depending on scheme, for C.

Well, I don't know a damn thing about gymnastics, but I'd give that a ten, too.

And he got banned for doing it so aggressively. I also advocated strongly for Mahomes, but it's not a moot point that his success has been fostered by exceptional coaching, a redshirt year to sit and learn, and very good talent on the offensive side of the ball. I liked Allen before the draft and if Beane does this off-season what the Rams and Bears did for their young qbs in terms of significantly upgrading surrounding talent, I suspect the chagrin over passing on Mahomes will substantially disappear, because Allen certainly has the potential to be very good, critics notwithstanding.

They might care about Brown quitting on the Steelers. He's proven to be disruptive to team chemistry. Maybe they don't care about personal business, but I think it goes against the notion of the team as a big family that they appear to be trying to instill. I agree about AJ, Julio and rb most likely in the draft. I like Josh Jacobs, btw.

Then let's hope he is there at #9. Good to hear from you, btw. The other day I was just wondering what happened to you.

Right, even if you automated the system, there would have to be some kind of algorithm to select what constitutes information and that remains ultimately a human interpretive decision. The notion that technology can somehow evade the need for interpretation and thus the conflict of human differences is naive at best.

Antonio Brown would certainly constitute a big splash. He is the antithesis of a "process" guy and has bad history with Poyer, so highly doubtful that happens. I think Oline will be the free agent focus, as it should be.

I have confidence McDermott knows D and that White and Edmunds are likely key pieces in building a top-tier defense. Mahomes has to score a lot, because the KC defense is likely to give up 35 points. If Allen turns into a more athletic Big Ben and the D is good, that's a recipe for post-season appearances and success.

I would go after Ja' Wuan James and Darryl Williams at RT. Paradis and Morse at Center. If we can fill those two positions in free agency, it gives us much more flexibility entering the draft.

The rhetoric of your question is just as liable to indicate significant bias -- and I like Mahomes and argued right up to the 2017 draft that we should take him. I'm also thrilled with Josh Allen. They may both end up being superlative qbs. Mahomes may regress, get better, maintain stellar play for years. Allen does not have the surrounding talent or likely coaching staff, given Reid's exceptional abilities. Projecting based on potential is all one can do after a rookie season which involved a subpar oline, injury, and very limited receiver, rb, and te talent. Is recognizing that "propping up" Josh?

He's also more of a natural leader. He doesn't rub people the wrong way. In fact, he seems to inspire loyalty and effort and this as a raw rookie.

I think Beane probably needs to use draft capital to somehow come away with two first rounders if he wants a shot at Jacobs. I really like him. One of the Alabama fellas here said he reminded him of a lesser Thurman Thomas. I just think we also need to come away with DL, OL, or WR as well in the first. If we somehow got Metcalf and Jacobs with some solid oline adds in free agency, this team looks a lot better. (Oh, and T. J. Hockenson, the other Iowa TE, would be nice later in the draft.)

Mahomes got to sit a year, is surrounded by much better talent, and is coached by a fella who is generally considered an elite offensive mind. I'd like to see where Allen is with significant talent upgrades. I'm not bashing Mahomes. I pushed hard in 2017 for the Bills to draft him. I still think the "transcendent talent" label is premature. Let's see how he does in playoffs and with a few more years of history. He may justify such a claim, but I personally think Allen can be a top five qb if all goes well.

I understand. It's fun so long as folks remember the contextual variables that make it a more complicated assessment of counter-factuals than a comparison of "objective facts." And of course, a snapshot now may look quite different with a few more years of historical data, and even then, the "what if" game can never undo the basic reality that distinct particulars interact in incalculable ways. There's no doubt many likely scenarios where Tom Brady is drafted by a different team and washes out of the league.