BadLandsMeanie

Here is one nobody will like. But it has to be something nobody in Buffalo will like, otherwise teams won't hand over a top pick! Nobody is going to be enticed by including Cordy Glenn and his giant cap number. (Unless we eat a bunch of it that I am not aware of) I think Tre White, and a first and a second this year (2018) might get us where we need to be. Tre White and two firsts this year I think would do it for sure. And for sure I agree with Polish Dave we have to get the O-line. Without the O-line being highly upgraded there is no reason to even bother getting a QB prospect.

This topic would be an interesting one for a series of fact based articles. I would enjoy reading that. Unfortunately that won't happen because The Buffalo News doesn't do work like that. That would take at least a whole solid work week and then another week or two to write the articles. Plus you couldn't have that kind of people around the place. You couldn't trust them. That is a big problem to me. A very big one. TBN doesn't have any respected old steady upstanding reputable reporters any more. So who is going to even consider trusting them? I think that costs us readers a lot of quality insight and information. Anyway I guess the next best thing is to pretend we know and come up with hypotheses about what they are doing in there. Come to think of it, I think it would be interesting to see what they do at TBN. In a different way . What do they do there? When I look at the size of their sports staff and compare that with the output, I can't imagine what they do with most of their time. Are they actually part time I wonder? Those guys and it is just that nobody tells us that? Anyway I do enjoy the board here because some of the posters do that more in depth thoughtful work that I might otherwise never get to see. So that is a lucky thing! I will say Shaw I hope you are wrong about them already having most of the QB research done etc. QB is what makes me toss and turn at night. The thought that they are going screw up the QB decision. I know people say it is just one aspect, but show me another mistake they can make, that can take 15 years to fix, and I won't worry as much about the QB choice!

To be fair, your way is like putting a VW Bug engine into a Formula One. Which has been the Bills Formula Loss for 20 years now

Isn't analytics what they use to keep showing us that Tyrod Taylor is a top ten QB?

6 feet tall is a problem And PFF are the ones who rated Tyrod Taylor one below Aaron Rodgers.

You scoff if you want to professor science. I say maybe there is something to omens and stuff! Why we always got to have people with the goofy names? It's like they are ready made punchlines. We have it hard enough being Bills fans. But no. We get Mike "Mularkey". We just had to get a Mularkey. And of everybody, they just had to have "Lossman" And Chan Gailey. I don't which was worse, "Chan" or "Gailey" Then Doug "Boney" Marroney. He did some boning alright. 4 million bucks worth. Then E. Manuel. What, they found that kid in a manger? With "Buddy Nix" as a wise man. Buddy is a strange name for a 70 year old man. And that isn't even considering the "Nix". As in nix the idea of this guy as our GM. Now we got a "Beane". So here comes the QB crop and we have Sam Darnold which is maybe not as bad as Lossman but it isn't good either. Or "Baker Mayfield". Who names their kid "Baker"? I never heard of a kid being named Baker. And Baker Mayfield sounds like a cupcake company.

Im sick of QBs with bad omen names. "Loss-man" now "Darn"-old I wouldnt take him!

From reading this I gather that we Bills fans have been so warped by our collective experience with our abysmal team that we all agree that winning a Superbowl and having two good starting quarterbacks is a terrible situation to be in. How will the Eagles staff ever cope? There doesn't seem to be any way out?!?! God help them.

If you are right I agree with you I don' know much about this crop of Qbs because I haven't watched much college football.

I don't want to think too much about McD's juices. That leads to puns about "Kissin Cousins", Crossman's remark about his "fabulous loving touch", and why nobody will actually come out and say what "the process" actually is, and then it goes downhill from there. But in my mind Cousins isn't as big of a gamble as he may appear. I will be making a big post about Qbs including aspects of that which few will read and no one will agree with, sometime in the next while when I get the ambition to write it. In short though I would be ok if they went and got Cousins. So long as the use the picks to get him a top notch line. And I will be ok if they trade a bunch of picks to get a guy in the draft that they like. So long as he doesn't turn out to have EXACTLY the long term shortcomings that the scouting reports say he has. That bugs me. But a if they trade a host of picks for a guy with a legit 50/50 chance, I am ok with that. Yes. The Eagles had two Qb's who can play. That is why they were not finished when their starter went down. No Foles = no championship for them. The Vikings had Keenum who filled in for Bradford who was filling in for Bridgewater. The Raiders had one starter and our former starter as backup, "all in with EJ" which is why they were done when Carr went down. The Bills have no starter at all. Im am hoping the Bills stop being the stupidest team in the NFL.

It's true. It's true I say! The only reason people in Buffalo don't appreciate Tyrod is because they don't know good when they see it! Bu golly I hope any other team GM who is reading this gets on the phone right away and steals him from us for a 2nd round pick. And they should do it quick too before the Bills come to their senses! You should do it right now before some other teams gets there first!

Obviously I dont want them to trade up for a guy that they do not want.

I agree we are more than just a QB away. But look at it my way a second. How many years are there where there are no defensive players worth drafting? I would say none. Same with offense. Except quarterback. There are years with no good ones, at all. How many years with no decent free agent quarterbacks to get? I would say there are almost never good ones available in free agency. Whereas there is very often a good crop of free agent players at other spots. I also think the more we build and strengthen at the pother spots, the better the record will be, and we will pick even lower and have even less chance at a good prospect. I don't want them to spend a couple of years building the team and then still be a quarterback away. The "quarterback away" can last forever. Everything else you can take care of with just a little intelligence and a little luck. Can you at least see it my way a little bit?

Only you could make a post about that there is nothing to make a post about! And you have 3 pages of replies so far. Pretty cool. For the naysayers, at least he isn't writing about nothing and pretending it is something like the sports people. Then again he has that luxury since he doesn't get paid to. Help me out here. Lots of posters have your same opinion. I can't understand it at all. Don't you think that is just what we have been doing for 20 years now? Avoiding the big risk and being losers because of it? Ask the freaking homecoming queen to the prom for gods sake. Take a freaking chance. What is so wrong with that idea? Hep me understand if you care to please.

The OP is close enough to the overall trend to make some judgments though the exact percentages may not be perfect. Here's one trouble. Guys who are not drafted with an eye towards being starters, do not get the practice that top picks do. And it can be a VERY big imbalance. Maybe a drastic case but one summer in camp the Bills projected starter got maybe 50 reps in the main 11 on 11 drills. The third QB got 2. 2 reps in a 2 1/2 hour practice. They don't get the coaching. They don't get the practice. A backup may well get ZERO regular season game time for years. So it could be said, and is being said, because I am saying it, that NFL teams Blow at developing backups as a general rule. So a guy picked in the 5th round might be doomed from the start because he hasn't got it. Or he might be doomed because they do not get remotely the same opportunity to learn and grow and develop. I think that needs to be factored in to the numbers. Don't worry if you don't read, pay attention to, or care whet I posted here! I will make the point again as part of another post I plan to make someday.

This is like saying money can't buy you happiness. It can't. But it is better to be rich and sad than poor and sad.

No he didn't. "Dawson was hired by the Buffalo Bills in May 2017 to be Assistant Director of College Scouting." The draft is in April Bub. If you want to zing me, fine. But at least have your basic facts straight. Everybody knows they fired the entire scouting department the day after the 2017 draft. I mean that one isn't even hard. How the heck did you miss that?? General manager Doug Whaley and entire scouting department fired the day after the draft? Ring a bell?

I have never lost ONE single NFL game. Not one. Because I throw the ball even less than Tyrod does.

I dunnno, I think it is easy to understand. Tyrod is hot and cold. Some games he plays very well, some games he is terrible. That leads to controversy. Tyrod is also a statistical wonder. But his stats happen to mislead because of the way they are tabulated. Taking sacks for example doesn't hurt your passer rating. Completing passes when your team is hopelessly behind ("garbage time") doesn't hurt your passer rating.

When I read the article, some of the things Ms. Hurney alleges sound as if they may be resulting from paranoid symptoms rather than an attempt to lie. Put another way, they are not very convincing as lies. The text I mean is bolded below. In her complaint, she said Marty Hurney was “extremely controlling and was verbally and emotionally abusive” during the marriage. She said in the complaint that her phone, laptop and security system have been hacked and that she changed her locks three times in three days last summer. “My privacy has been violated for the past seven years with Martin’s behaviors of tracking me, my pets and violating my property,” the complaint reads. Jeanne Hurney alleged in her complaint that her ex-husband or his associates had recently broken into her home and classroom. At her home, she said, the intruders had placed sticky notes in a book of hers around such words as “victim,” “terrorize” and “may resort to violence.” You don't need to change your locks 3 times in 3 days. Once is all you need. All her devices have been hacked? He or "his associates", which make it a conspiracy, are tracker her pets? Why would they track her pets? They broke into her house to put sticky notes in a book? Notes with words that don't quite make sense? A level headed reading of this stuff and the subsequent events where she withdrew her complaint do give a credible, fair reason to doubt the veracity of this stuff and look into it further before you suspend a guy from his job. The Panthers are a tire fire.

The poor guy. Super bowl loss. House broken into. He has a lot of pressures and frustrations. You can't really blame him for trying to paralyze Tre White.

Congrats Frank!

Did he say "You actually don't need a throwing QB. Or two of them like we have. A game manager who is reluctant to throw, backed up by somebody who can't play at all, is plenty as a key to success"

Oh. I was thinking you would do something different for a change. :I Last time was when you won a free Mighty Taco wasn't it?

Well, he won't be distracted by interviewing and packing his bags and such when he is coaching there, like he was when getting ready for the Superbowl.