Josh Allen goes #1 overall to the Browns in a 2018 Redraft

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

Good luck to him and that dysfunctional organization

[Billl]

5 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Apparently their QB board 

I failed calculus, but the chances of that being their actual board are negative infinity.

[Buffalo716]

6 minutes ago, Billl said:

I failed calculus, but the chances of that being their actual board are negative infinity.

I definitely wouldn't say that ... All of this was leaked before the draft and we did try to trade for Denver spot there

 

We visited Mayfield on the day the red arrow points to Oklahoma

 

And Josh might have always been our guy

 

I would not say there's a 0% chance... A janitor could have walked by the room and taken a picture.. there's definitely a possibility 

 

It's clearly in a room setting not someone's basement 

Edited August 4, 2023 by Buffalo716

[Billl]

7 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

I definitely wouldn't say that ... All of this was leaked before the draft and we did try to trade for Denver spot there

 

We visited Mayfield on the day the red arrow points to Oklahoma

 

And Josh might have always been our guy

 

I would not say there's a 0% chance... A janitor could have walked by the room and taken a picture.. there's definitely a possibility 

 

It's clearly in a room setting not someone's basement 

C’mon man. You think they make cryptic yet oddly specific crib sheets?  

[Buffalo716]

Just now, Billl said:

C’mon man. You think they make cryptic yet oddly specific crib sheets?  

No but it's fun to have conspiracies

 

There's a 1% chance because crazier things have happened 

 

Especially at one bills drive 

[Doc Brown]

9 hours ago, Logic said:

I vividly remember that the rumor leading into draft day was that the Browns DID plan to take Josh Allen at 1st overall.

Everyone made fun of it and said "Browns are gonna Browns", and their fans were apoplectic. 

The rumor is that the personnel department all liked Allen best, but John Dorsey, the GM at the time, preferred Mayfield, and picked him instead.

Crazy what a crossroads moment drafts can turn out to be for NFL franchises.

 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Josh would’ve landed on his feet anywhere…couldn’t have put him in much worse of a situation than we put him in lol. That 2018 bills roster was pretty terrible 

[Aussie Joe]

3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

No but it's fun to have conspiracies

 

There's a 1% chance because crazier things have happened 

 

Especially at one bills drive 

I love it how they didn’t want to make it obvious by using the guys college instead of his name..

 

 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by Aussie Joe

[DrDawkinstein]

13 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

The fact that the Bills took 2 WRs in the 1st 4 rounds (Burkett & Reed) says that's not true.  Outside of Jerry Butler they didn't have much, and Butler hadn't played a regular season game since October 1983 on the day of the 1985 draft.  The veteran WRs going into camp in the 1985 season were Butler, Mitchell Brookins, Julius Dawkins, Preston Dennard, Byron Franklin, Bobby Jones, Mike Mosley, Eric Richardson and Craig White.  As a rookie, Reed moved right into the starting lineup with Butler. 

 

By "through that time" I meant the time when Bruce/Reed/Rice were playing and we were going to Super Bowls. Not 1980-1985.

 

Your point that we found a HoFer in Reed a few rounds after drafting Smith #1 just furthers my point.

[BananaB]

Geez would have been nice to still have that Wyatt Teller fella. I remember Beane being labeled a genius for trading a guy he was gonna cut. 😂 

[CincyBillsFan]

8 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

 

I love Cowherd and listen to him a lot - he's entertaining.  But damn, he got EVERYTHING wrong in this take.  Good thing the guy has the memory of a CB with the nickname of TOAST!

[CincyBillsFan]

7 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Josh would’ve landed on his feet anywhere…couldn’t have put him in much worse of a situation than we put him in lol. That 2018 bills roster was pretty terrible 

AMEN!  The situation the Bills put Allen in his first season was as bad as any rookie QB has faced in the last decade or more.  The Bills tore down their offense that season in the expectation that first McCarron and then Peterman would take the lumps while Allen sat on the bench channeling Mahomes and soaking it all up.

 

Instead, Allen was inserted into the starting lineup in week 2 surrounded by as weak a collection of offensive players in the NFL that season.  He even suffers an injury and mises 4 games.  Yet he plays very well under the circumstances and leads the Bills to a 5 - 6 record that should have been 6 - 5 if a wide open TE had made a catch in the Dolphins end zone at the end of that game.

 

From 2019 on the Bills organization deserves kudos for how they developed Allen.  But in 2018 they did everything in their power to screw it up:  he wasn't declared the starter and missed out on most of the 1st team reps throughout training camp and the preseason games and then was inserted as the starter in week 2.

 

So yea the evidence is clear, Allen would have worked out no matter who drafted him in 2018.

 

 

[Kaenon]

I remember an article that came out draft morning 2018 that the Browns WERE going to take Allen at #1 overall.

 

I was so bummed.

 

Then it didn't happen - and the rest, is history.

[Beck Water]

On 8/3/2023 at 9:15 AM, StHustle said:

Josh being redrafted at #1 surprises nobody, but after seeing the visual below let me just say 🤮

 

 

Josh in a Browns jersey looks disturbing. Who knows where his career would be now if that unfortunate hypothetical event was an actual reality.

 

Anyhow, this is the first time in redraft history that the Bills pick would have been a consensus #1 overall. 

 

I do wonder where Tremaine Edmunds was pegged but my ESPN+ subscription was canceled earlier this year after the football season (still debating on renewing for this season). If anyone still has ESPN+, please share where they redrafted Edmunds. Im pretty sure none of our other picks fell in the first 2 rounds.

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/38074494/re-drafting-2018-nfl-draft-josh-allen-lamar-jackson-fred-warner-new-teams

 

F the Brownie Browning Browns.  I used to feel empathy towards their fans, No More.

 

But I mean - you redraft and overall, the #1 drafting team and the #2 drafting team pick the best two QB from that draft?

 

What A Surprise.

[ExWNYer]

22 hours ago, muppy said:

 my visceral reaction to seeing #17 in a cleveland browns uniform.

 

blechhhhh

 

aww hell naw that is just wrong just sayin'.  makes me wanna hurl

 

😇

 

 

[muppy]

7 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

 

😇

 

 

lol 🤮🤮🤮. Hold my hair.

 

🙃

[muppy]

13 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

F the Brownie Browning Browns.  I used to feel empathy towards their fans, No More.

 

But I mean - you redraft and overall, the #1 drafting team and the #2 drafting team pick the best two QB from that draft?

 

What A Surprise.

DITTO: . Even though they are just across the lake from Buffalo I agree.  The team and city are tainted by Watson at this point beyond repair.

[BigDingus]

If we're gonna play that game, the Bills don't trade away the #10 overall pick in 2017 and take Mahomes or Watson (ew). 

 

Then again, I'm sure the Bears wouldn't have taken Mitch Trubisky at #2 either, so I guess we'd take whoever is left from those 2 😅

[Logic]

13 hours ago, Yobogoya! said:

I mean I don’t know that I’d call the roughly two quarters of tutelage under savvy veteran Nathan Peterman or the desperation move of having to pull a beat up Derek Anderson out of retirement “perfect” necessarily…

 

But it definitely still beats being drafted by the Browns. 😏

You're right.

You accurately listed the two primary pockmarks on an otherwise mostly sterling upbringing of Josh Allen. You're not wrong. I'd say those missteps represented the exceptions rather than the rule.

[Whites Bay]

On 8/3/2023 at 11:42 AM, mushypeaches said:

It's still amazing (and humorous) that we were able to get the Browns to pony up a 3rd round pick for Tyrod Taylor

It's thoughts like those that bring a ray of sunshine into one's life every single time one thinks them.  It's actually marginally funnier than the Peerless Price trade.  Because we're talking about Tyrod Taylor...going to the Browns...for the first pick of the 3rd round...

 

There's that ray of sunshine again!