Albany,n.y.

One of the downfalls of having the 30th pick is that WGR's management feels it's OK to start the draft coverage after the Sabres game. I hope the Bills move up & they miss the Bills pick.

He's on the LA Chargers having a pretty good career as a WR, he went to Clemson & is another of Clemson's NFL success stories. I can think of at least 3 Mike Williams, unfortunately the 2 who were with the Bills underachieved when they were here.

The year we drafted Josh at 7, our top pick in the 1st round started at #21. The difference is that Beane had a plan to move up, as far as 5 if he had to. It's not like we were too far away in other years, our GMs didn't have the guts to trade up for a star, or they were satisfied with guys like Ryan Fitzpatrick & Tyrod Taylor. Or, they thought drafting a QB outside the top 10 was OK & they went for guys like EJ & JP later in the 1st, when if you look at draft history while the QBs drafted in the top 10 hit 50% of the time, the hit rates drops to about 30% for the rest of the QBs drafted in the 1st round. Beane came in with a sense of urgency that the past GMs didn't have and proved that you are able to move up in the draft if you have the footballs to do it.

I hope he goes to Miami or NE & ends up in jail & never plays a down again.

Someone better get on the line & warn Urban Meyer before it's too late🤩

So did the Bills, and he didn't even play as a rookie because he got Guillian-Barre Syndrome. The Bills were sure about BOOKER MOORE.

4 QBs will be gone by the time of Denver's pick without a trade-up. The 1st 3 picks will be QBs & at 8 Carolina is trading the pick (rumors are to NE so NE can take their QB of the future, but maybe another team outbids NE). Obviously, the guy who Denver thinks will still be available isn't someone they like & it's likely they don't like much after the 1st 2 or 3 who will be long gone by #9.

It's So-Cal QBs, not Cal QBs. Josh, Brady, & Rodgers are all California QBs. While Josh & Brady went to colder places in college, Rodgers is from northern California & went to Cal-Berkeley. Josh is now a So Cal guy, he spends his off seasons in L.A.

Unless the Jets do something stupid & don't turn the pick in on time.

Sometimes the insiders don't know what they're supposed to know. When I read what the Bills did in scouting the QB class of 2018, it became pretty obvious that they were zeroed in on doing everything necessary to find the right QB and many other organizations, including some of our previous ones, don't take the leave no stone unturned approach that Beane & the rest did. You usually don't hear the horror stories until after the guy busts, but when you hear them you realize that the team that drafted a bust who was a take the money & run guy didn't do their homework. Then there are the players with high character who aren't good enough. Do you think Nix & Whaley watched every down that EJ played in college? There were fans of Florida State who watched him throughout his college career who couldn't believe that the Bills took him in the 1st round. Odds are they saw him play a lot more than Nix & Whaley did. I think the Bills fell in love with EJ because he came off so well in interviews with them they never bothered to analyze the tape the same way Beane & the Bills scouts did with the class of 2018. I once described EJ as a guy you would want your daughter to marry, but you wouldn't want him playing QB for your football team.

They do have earthquakes out where the 49ers are, so maybe coach is always prepared to lose some players to one.

This sums up their problem: Josh Allen was hyped for a full year before the 2018 NFL Draft as a potential No. 1 pick, and he went No. 7 to the Bills, all to the bafflement of pretty much everyone not employed by the league. The reason they were so baffled is because the people employed by the league know that you can't interpret what a player is doing by looking at a bunch of stats. You have to look at the player on tape & in person. You have to interview the man to know how he thinks. The Bills looked at the video of every down Josh Allen played. The Bills went to watch him play live & watched him both on the field & on the sidelines. The Bills interviewed him 3 or more times face to face. The Bills understood that in a game played in horrible weather Josh carried his team, while the guys looking at stats saw a poor performance & probably compared those game stats with one of the So-Cal QBs playing in the sun. When guys sitting in some office peruse stats instead of viewing hours of tapes, watching games live & talking to the players, they will never understand why the NFL professionals have a different opinion than them. Now not all franchises are as diligent as the Bills were in scouting Josh. That's why head cases like JaMarcus Russell, who Matt Millen personally warned Al Davis not to draft after a terrible interview with him, and Ryan Leaf, who was rude to Indy's management and came in out of shape at the combine, get drafted 1 or 2 in spite of flaws that would get them completely written off the Bills draft board.

The Bills approached Cleveland to move up to 4, but according to Beane, Cleveland was asking "too much" to move up to 4. Then they had the deal with Denver but it was contingent on whether Denver's guy was available at 5. When Cleveland took Ward, Elway told Beane that Chubb was their guy & he couldn't make the deal.

I like one of the favorites to win the race: My main win bet will be on Rock Your World, but I'm also betting a bomb to win, place, &show: Dynamic One. I'm going to put them together in an exacta box & hope they run 1-2.

The original deal with Denver for #5 to get Josh was both 1sts & a 2nd. When Denver backed out to draft Chubb, Beane ended up keeping the 1st & used the other 2nd instead.

You're obviously not a racing fan. To those of us who are, we are not just watching the Derby coverage, in fact the last thing we want to do is watch the complete network broadcast with nonsense like Johnny Weir & Tara Lipinski at the Derby. I've yet to ever speak with a horse racing fan who looks forward to the annual appearance of that duo. I'm going to be watching the other races both at Churchill Downs & other tracks. I'll have on TVG or the OTB channel on TV and I will be watching the track feed from my OTB account on the computer starting before noon. There will be a dozen or more races at Churchill Downs that are not the Kentucky Derby.

Another one who is ignoring the fact that Sam Wyche was one of the top QB coaches in the league. He was not past his prime as another poster wrote. The only time a coach is past his prime is if he doesn't keep up with changes in the league & Wyche was an innovator not a dinosaur. The people who say he was poorly coached are the ones past their prime. I thought getting Sam Wyche to coach the QBs was a brilliant move. He had nothing to work with.

I can't believe I typed 2015 instead of 2005. Senior moment. I went back & edited my OP.

I think the main reason for the delay is because the imports from the USA can't cross the border & play.

When JP started in 2005 I predicted the Bills would win 12 games-woops! In 2017 when Tyrod was in a slump and people were calling for Peterman, I was calling him Nathan Marangi telling them to be careful what you wish for. Only as a quarterback, not as a QB coach. He wasn't being asked to be a head coach and he was probably one of the best QB coaches in the NFL when he was JP's coach.

JP's QB coach was Sam Wyche, one of the best in the business for a position coach. If coaching made such a difference JP would be on the Wall of Fame. The only people who wanted Josh gone were the stat boys who don't know how to watch a game without a stat sheet.

Anyone should know that if you do that they'll find your DNA & lock you up. Sent from my prison cell.

He wasn't ruined. Our scouts sucked when they were drafting guys like Collins, JP & Edwards and recommending trades for Rob Johnson & Billy Joe Hobert. We may have had a stretch when the drought started where we had the worst QB evaluators in the league. Butler was on record as saying he would have chosen Leaf over Manning & when they both were going to be drafted higher than the Bills spot they traded for Rob. JP was just another in a line of bad QBs our scouts recommended.

In 1977 I was traveling across the country and stopped in Chicago for a day. I went to a Cubs game with my car packed with most of my belongings and parked at a church near Wrigley. I came back & they told me the keys were under the floor mat. I would have never have left it there if I knew what they would do with the keys. I guess they figured nobody would harm a car parked at their church. The car had no seat on the passenger side & the floor was reconstructed with wood & tin, so I guess they also thought my car was the last one anyone would take.

If the stadium is at full capacity, you can usually find some tickets when they put them on sale. If not the secondary market is going to be very expensive. 2 years ago I wanted to go to the Eagles game & sit in a good seat. The secondary market was so outrageous, I ended up buying a club seat from the team for over $300 and that was the season before the Bills ended up in the AFC championship game.