Draft Stetson Bennett as our backup.

[EasternOHBillsFan]

His name is Stetson Bennett IV... I'm pretty sure he will be ok at the plantation.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2023 by EasternOHBillsFan

[K D]

  On 5/17/2023 at 12:58 PM, SUNY_amherst said:

Missed opportunity, Bennett is a steal in the 4th round

 

who cares about the degree thing. College football is a career now with the NIL rules. Bennett made $1.4 mill last season, he was making more money than any Georgia graduate at his age anyway

 

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He ain't go there to play no school!

  On 5/17/2023 at 9:58 AM, The Wiz said:

 

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John Hancock?...it's Herbie Hancock!

[Warcodered]

  On 5/17/2023 at 12:58 PM, SUNY_amherst said:

Missed opportunity, Bennett is a steal in the 4th round

 

who cares about the degree thing. College football is a career now with the NIL rules. Bennett made $1.4 mill last season, he was making more money than any Georgia graduate at his age anyway

 

 

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Honestly that was probably a huge red flag. I mean we've got how many guys leaving college early who still manage to come away with a degree when they come to the NFL and somehow a guy that's there for 7 doesn't playing a position that's one of the most mentally focused positions on the field, how would that not be a huge hit to his scouting report?

[Albany,n.y.]

  On 5/17/2023 at 12:58 PM, SUNY_amherst said:

Missed opportunity, Bennett is a steal in the 4th round

 

who cares about the degree thing. College football is a career now with the NIL rules. Bennett made $1.4 mill last season, he was making more money than any Georgia graduate at his age anyway

 

 

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So you would have drafted a QB who wouldn't play a down in the 3rd round?  Glad you're not the GM. 

[without a drought]

  On 2/6/2023 at 3:29 PM, Billz4ever said:

Yeah, hard pass.  He's like a Doug Flutie without the Doug Flutie, lol.

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That could be a good thing depending how you look at it.

[Bangarang]

Why is this even a thing?

[Warcodered]

  On 5/17/2023 at 1:55 PM, SUNY_amherst said:

 

Because he was interviewing for a position as professional football player, not as a chemistry lab instructor

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For the position that not only has to learn a NFL offense but has to be the one that runs it. How do you even manage to go to college for 7 years to play football without getting a degree without being academically disqualified for stretches of it, I mean you'd have to fail classes right? How do you not get a degree with 7 years of passed classes?

[John from Riverside]

Drafting a quarterback in the third, or the fourth round is definitely the definition of a luxury pick

 

Are we really in that situation?

[Saxum]

  On 5/17/2023 at 7:13 PM, Warcodered said:

For the position that not only has to learn a NFL offense but has to be the one that runs it. How do you even manage to go to college for 7 years to play football without getting a degree without being academically disqualified for stretches of it, I mean you'd have to fail classes right? How do you not get a degree with 7 years of passed classes?

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Usually by taking minimum load (12 hours) and then getting incompletes which do not count toward GPA but do count toward full load necessary to keep student loan lenders from hassling you to repay.  A number of people did that in college when I went to UB.

[K D]

The only qualifications to be a backup QB for the Bills -

 

1. Are you friends with Josh Allen?

2. Do you golf?

[NoSaint]

  On 5/18/2023 at 3:46 PM, Limeaid said:

 

Usually by taking minimum load (12 hours) and then getting incompletes which do not count toward GPA but do count toward full load necessary to keep student loan lenders from hassling you to repay.  A number of people did that in college when I went to UB.

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does that keep you academically eligible for sports though?

 

seems you’d have tons of athletes doing this 

[Albany,n.y.]

  On 5/18/2023 at 3:46 PM, KDIGGZ said:

The only qualifications to be a backup QB for the Bills -

 

1. Are you friends with Josh Allen?

2. Do you golf?

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There's a new qualification for 2023: Wingman. 

[Saxum]

  On 5/18/2023 at 4:00 PM, NoSaint said:

does that keep you academically eligible for sports though?

 

seems you’d have tons of athletes doing this 

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UB did not have a lot of scholarships when I went to college and were in different leagues. I knew a player however who was on team red shirted first year while he took classes to raise his education level to college level (he got acceptable grade in SAT but his high school's standard was low).  He then took 5 years of college courses taking only 12 hours per semester with some classes changed to "audit" or "incomplete" and kept his scholarship from a club (may have been Rotary) which paid books + tuition + housing. He was a graduate student / team manager 7th year and did some student teacher assistant work.   This was enough for him to play sports and to not be sent back to home country on student visa. Occasionally he was academically ineligible until he raised his grades.  He was on more than one sports team and sometimes on two in a year.  I met him when he was in my summer ESL class.  I was later paid to do tutoring for him but not sure where the money was coming from but it was not him.  He graduated and went home to teach and be a sports coach.

 

Disadvantage is you are still only eligible for same number years per sport.

[C.Biscuit97]

  On 5/18/2023 at 3:46 PM, KDIGGZ said:

The only qualifications to be a backup QB for the Bills -

 

1. Are you friends with Josh Allen?

2. Do you golf?

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3 - kinda terrible at actually playing qb

 

and Bennett didn’t get a degree after 15 years in college??? From Georgia???? That is absolutely a huge red flag. How is that even possible?

  On 5/18/2023 at 4:26 PM, Albany,n.y. said:

There's a new qualification for 2023: Wingman. 

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Wingman for Josh Allen in Buffalo has to the best job ever: “Hi ladies. That’s my friend Josh. He’s really rich, really good at sports, tall, and just had his heart broken.”

 

almost as effective as my polar bear opener. Almost. 😉

[RoyBatty is alive]

  On 5/17/2023 at 4:36 PM, without a drought said:

That could be a good thing depending how you look at it.

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You mean like sowing dissension on the team so he could be the starter or pouting like a child on the bench during the Music City Miracle?

[Mr. WEO]

  On 5/17/2023 at 7:13 PM, Warcodered said:

For the position that not only has to learn a NFL offense but has to be the one that runs it. How do you even manage to go to college for 7 years to play football without getting a degree without being academically disqualified for stretches of it, I mean you'd have to fail classes right? How do you not get a degree with 7 years of passed classes?

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What was Cam Newton's degree in?  Brady?  Lamar Jackson? Jim Kelly?

 

I don't understand your point.  

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

Is he

 

Baker mayfield 2.0

or

Johnny football 3.0 

 

Can’t decide 

[JGMcD2]

  On 5/18/2023 at 10:17 PM, Mr. WEO said:

 

What was Cam Newton's degree in?  Brady?  Lamar Jackson? Jim Kelly?

 

I don't understand your point.  

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Did they go to college for 7 years and not receive a diploma? 
 

I don’t think anyone is saying he needs a degree to have success in life, it’s just the fact that 7 years while remaining eligible to play and no degree is a little odd. 

[Mr. WEO]

  On 5/19/2023 at 12:09 AM, JGMcD2 said:

Did they go to college for 7 years and not receive a diploma? 
 

I don’t think anyone is saying he needs a degree to have success in life, it’s just the fact that 7 years while remaining eligible to play and no degree is a little odd. 

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Plenty of players enter the league with no diploma.  At that level, they aren’t there for the education, but for the exposure that will get them drafted.  This has been true for many years. No diploma. Bogus, unearned diploma. There’s no difference.  This is suddenly “odd”? It’s how it works.

 

it’s certainly “odd” to consider any of this “a red flag”…

[Captain Hindsight]

  On 5/19/2023 at 1:36 AM, Mr. WEO said:

Plenty of players enter the league with no diploma.  At that level, they aren’t there for the education, but for the exposure that will get them drafted.  This has been true for many years. No diploma. Bogus, unearned diploma. There’s no difference.  This is suddenly “odd”? It’s how it works.

 

it’s certainly “odd” to consider any of this “a red flag”…

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It’s weird if nothing else. No professor was willing to sign off on the national champion QB to get his degree after 7 years of school?