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After suffering through such a long drought era of Bills football, we have a legitimate Super Bowl contending team, a top GM/HC combo, a top 10, maybe even top 5 QB in the league who is just starting his career, and now QBs sign here as backups to benefit from working with Bills offensive coaches and rehab their image/career... It's truly amazing what Beane and McDermott have built here.

Rivera and Fitz are a great combo! Both are really smart, likeable and pretty funny guys too. Are we sure this wasn't Fitzpatrick putting the guys up to this to goof with Rivera?

I wouldn't want my QB dictating front office personnel, so I get GB not doing that. That said, use crisis as an opportunity. Offer Rodgers to Seattle for Wilson straight up and see what happens. GB might seem to be getting the better of that deal due to the age difference, but IMO Rodgers is the better QB and could still easily play 6-7 years, so the age difference isn't as stark. Wilson played college ball in Wisconsin, so there's a connection there. Wilson wants to be more out East, Rodgers want out West. Both QBs seem to want a change of scenery. Green Bay looks like a winner getting a younger, Super Bowl winning QB with local ties, who has also played in more Super Bowls than Rodgers. Seattle gets the league MVP with a chip on his shoulder for a good 5 years, maybe 6-7. Seattle looks like the winner getting the reigning league MVP and avoiding a similar situation with Wilson in the future. Everyone wins, which is why it won't happen. Instead, pride and ego will make Green Bay dig in and get nothing, the team will win 4-5 games with Love/Bortles, and Lefleur, who probably had no say in any of this, will take the fall. No matter what, the front office will want to look like they were "right" so zero change the GM gets fired, and they don't have an owner. It'll be the HC not developing Love the right way, and they'll find some other coordinator to come in and really "make it all work."

My favorite Buddy Nix quote of all time came from one of his sparring sessions on WGR with Howard Simon where they were trying to get him to admit that the team needed a QB: "We can just let this thing go dead..." Second only to him kicking off his introductory press conference as GM by saying that nobody ever accused him of being the smartest person in the room and that he hadn't really thought of being a GM. The Bills were a joke back then. We've come a LONG way. I'll say this for Buddy Nix: he is a genuine guy who is pretty straightforward. Doug Whaley has done a number of totally unprofessional things for a guy in a senior position, this being the latest.

as a fan, he's a lot of fun because he's out of his mind and it's the Lions but I can't imagine having to take him seriously as a player or assistant coach Can you imagine? The coach stops practice right in the middle of drills and screams at the players: "You hear that? Listen!" "That is a cardinal singing in the tree! Carry on..."

I can't believe he is so young still... Guy just turned 23 in May I think he will continue to progress, and in terms of build and size, he will mature as well and become more dominant.

Here's a crazy idea... Instead of going from zero to 2 spring football leagues every time, why not try ONE? USFL has brand recognition and some great history, and spring football can be a lot of fun. But every time it's been tried lately it's multiple leagues, which spreads the talent pool thinner and waters down the product, plus cannibalizes the viewing audience. Put all of the talent, money, players, coaches, executives, and broadcast partners who want to make spring football work together in one league and really try it.

A strong arm isn't just about those long throws, although they are fun to watch. Velocity is also about getting the ball from your hand to the WR as close to immediately as possible once you make the decision to throw. Windows close fast in the NFL.

If the Packers trade for Julio Jones all of a sudden this will all be "a huge media creation" and the problem would go right away

Pride gets in the way and everyone loses... Except Rodgers loses the least. Yes, he has to give up the $$ but he has a ton and he will eventually play somewhere. the real losers in this are Lafleur, who might have to go back to getting McVay his coffee after a season with Love at QB, and the GM, who will have bumbled his way out of a HOF QB with nothing to show for it. I think I feel the worst for Lefleur, who has no control over any of this and will take the fall.

Can't imagine voluntarily going to the Texans right now.

PFF... Allen is better on Google Sheets, but Dak has the edge in Excel...

All-time greats have the chance Peyton played in 4 Super Bowls and could easily have been in 1-2 more if a few things went his way in the playoffs. Aaron Rodgers loses in the NFC Title game pretty much every season it seems. Brady has been in 10 and won 7, at least 2 of which (Seattle and Atlanta) he had no business winning, but you've gotta be in the game to win it! If the Bills can get to 5-6 Super Bowls with Allen and Diggs they'll likely win a few.

We've come a long way as fans... When I was a kid it was "check out my Thurmanator poster!" Now, we're discussing the ejection fraction of Star's heart and whether he has underlying medical conditions that explain his absence from a voluntary minicamp in May

Nobody forces anyone to get up and go to work everyday.. it's a choice we all make, just like this. The NFL/NFLPA are apparently going to make it extremely enticing to get the shot, and extremely inconvenient to not get it. But it's still a choice.

It's pretty cool that current players are willing to help guys from other teams out like this I get retired guys doing it, but you're helping your opponents this way as well.

Could be a good team for a 3 way trade: Texans get 3 1sts Packers get Watson Some other team gives up 3 1sts and gets Rodgers I'm really looking forward to seeing Stafford on a good team with a real coach finally. They gave Green Bay a game last year and beat Tampa during the season. That's with Goff, the Madden controller QB. They can absolutely win the NFC. Early prediction for the NFC Title Game: Rams and Packers (assuming Rodgers is still on the Packers). And we all know how NFC Title Games go when Rodgers plays!

Tyrod is just good enough at not doing anything either way that he keeps getting half-hearted chances on bad teams.

For Julio, that's a brilliant way of saying what you want to say publicly without looking like the bad guy. It would require Sharpe to take some flak initially, but Julio can always "forgive him" and they can both say it was all a misunderstanding.

Wow! LOL Green Bay could buy a lot of forgiveness with a trade for Julio....

It's like the Falcons are bound and determined to waste Matt Ryan's career... "We've got all these great weapons again, finally, and a highly respected offensive HC! Let's trade our best WR to a conference rival!" They do know a thing or two about being in a great situation and blowing it!

This is why I'm hoping that either Star has been putting in the work in the dining room this offseason, or we pick up a free agent giant man to play DT

ultimately, the Jaguars are somehow interesting now, and this is entertainment! So it's a big W for the Jaguars organization!

I bet we were trying to move up for Paye when he fell that far. We almost got him as it was.

Mahomes reminds me so much of Peyton Manning. Of course there are differences in their games (Mahomes is more mobile, but most QBs are) but both want the big chunk plays. Peyton wasn't thought of as having a strong arm, but he wanted big chunk passes, and that's why his teams struggled sometimes in the playoffs. You could take that away and force him to nickel and dime you, which frustrated him, and he would still try those throws and start making mistakes. Manning wanted to chuck it deep every play if he could. Brady would (and will) happily take 5, 7, 11, 7 , 10, 15, 7, and all of a sudden it's first and goal. Like Manning's teams, the Chiefs want to send their track stars on 45 yard routes. When it doesn't work their offense doesn't work (see the Super Bowl). Yes, the OL was an issue, but when they get frustrated they try to force things deep, thinking that any moment Hill will get open for a 60 yard TD. It works a lot of the time, so you can't blame them I guess. Hey, Peyton went to 4 Super Bowls and has 2 rings, so it worked out OK. Mahomes will probably get more cracks at rings in his career. He's already been to 2 Super Bowls in 3 seasons as a starter, and really should have been in 3 straight. How does this relate to Allen's game? To me, the most surprising thing is how Allen has quickly become a much more polished passer than most of us expected. He isn't just a super athletic big guy who can jump over LBers and chuck the ball 70 yards. He's still that, but now he also is becoming incredibly proficient in distributing the ball and protecting himself from taking those big shots. At the end of the day, if Allen continues on this trajectory the Bills are going to win a Super Bowl, because if you have a great HC (we do) and a top 5 QB (we very well might and maybe already do) then you're going to play in the big game at least once.