PlayoffsPlease

A change is needed

Quoted for truth.

Allen is just a force on the field.

Please for the love of God, just name Josh Allen the starter. That is all.

Pure meaningless coach speak.

I have high hopes for Josh Allen. If he is not ready to play this year, I don't have very high hopes for AJ McPeterman.

If Allen fails and the Bills win the Super Bowl during the next five years, this was a great draft If Allen succeeds and the Bills dont get past the first round of the playoffs for the next five years, then this was probably not a great draft. I like to play the what if game, and like to evaluate whether or not the decisions made make sense to me or not. But succeeding in the NFL requires it be a strictly based on real performance. Bad luck, First round draft picks that don't pan out, no matter how reasonable the decision seemed at the time, injuries, coaching changes. blah blah blah. If the GMs team win, his decisions were good. If the team loses, his decisions were not good. Which is a long way of saying, it does not matter whether or not I though Allen was worth the risk. For what its worth. I do think it was worth the risk. If the bills are perennial losers 2 years from now, I feel perfectly in my rights as a fan to say the guy making millions to judge these risks for real, needs to go though.

If you look at this from the perspective of NFL team management, which seems to fit they way this study was done, fan spending is really the literal "bottom line". You can whine about market size, average income levels etc. But this sort of like me saying "I am just as good of a RB as Lesean McCoy, when you take into account, I am decades older, much fatter and much slower". Being 18th, in one of the smaller poorer markets is a pretty darn good performance. Kind of matches the Bills on field performance. They finish around 18th best quite a bit.

You are wrong.

It will be Peterman, he will throw 9 interceptions in the first 3 games. The bar will be set so low at that point, Allen will come in with zero pressure. Fans will be over the moon to have the change.

Its almost like Bills fans didn't watch any of the playoff games the Jags played in last season. Towards the end of the year things really clicked for Bortles. His regular season numbers in only his second season were much improved over his first season.

I think people giving negative reviews to the draft start with the assumption that the Bills have an immediate need at QB, and that Josh Rosen would have filled that immediate need better. So swapping the picks around does not address that concern. QB is always a long term need, so if Allen is the better eventual QB than Rosen, it will be hard to criticize the draft in hindsight. Both the second round pick and the third round pick were wonderful gifts of BPA also matching Bills needs.

YPA (not calculated) is vastly different.

Seems like because of the common coaching people think Wentz and Allen some how had comparable college careers. Wentz stats: Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate Career North Dakota State 392 612 64.1 5115 8.4 8.8 45 14 153.9 2012 North Dakota State MVC FR QB 8 12 16 75.0 144 9.0 11.5 2 0 191.9 2013 North Dakota State MVC SO QB 11 22 30 73.3 209 7.0 7.6 1 0 142.9 2014 North Dakota State MVC JR QB 16 228 358 63.7 3111 8.7 8.8 25 10 154.1 2015 North Dakota State MVC SR QB 7 130 208 62.5 1651 7.9 8.7 17 4 152.3 Allen Stats: Passing Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate Career Wyoming 365 649 56.2 5066 7.8 7.7 44 21 137.7 2015 Wyoming MWC SO QB 2 4 6 66.7 51 8.5 8.5 0 0 138.1 *2016 Wyoming MWC SO QB 14 209 373 56.0 3203 8.6 8.3 28 15 144.9 *2017 Wyoming MWC JR QB 11 152 270 56.3 1812 6.7 6.9 16 6 127.8

Is that the conference Blue Mountain State plays in?

Darnhald already was drafted by the Jets

1990 is a different era. So that is a bit far to go back. But more importantly, the bar for success for QB should be applied to all positions. As best I can tell, most people think a QB that does not become a top 10 player at the position for an extended period of time is a failure. If you apply the same standard to other positions, I suspect that that you will find similar levels of success.

If we can't draft any Millennials, because they might be social justice warriors, that really thins the herd a lot.

Our problem is that the defending champs won the division again.

I have never thrown a single interception in the NFL. My interception percentage is zero.

First year of a new regime, first playoff game of the century. Its a step forward. But even the slightest step backwards is a return to purgatory. Hopefully year two is better yet.

So you saying, we are lucky to have so much experience handling losing.

While it is easy to mock the original poster as fool who is doing nothing more than pointing out the best football strategy is having the greatest QB of all time, there is a critical point in this discussion. At least in the AFC, there has been no sustainable plan for success this century that doesn't involve great QB play. The Manning Colts,Bronco, Steelers and Patriots. While it is difficult to find a great QB, based on this centuries results, it is more likely to land a top QB (3 AFC teams have done it) then it is to search for the unicorn like mythical sustainable winning cliche team based "defense wins championship" or "champions are built from the lines out" Given that there seems to be no way to build a consistent competitive team with any of the unicorn strategies, its arguable that unless a team has one of the Top QB, there is no such thing as putting to many resources into finding that guy. Have the Bengals really prospered building around Andy Dalton any more than if they continued to invest in finding a better QB. Dick Jauron wasn't lying when he said its hard to win in the NFL.

I would say "Brandon's master plan has finally become clear to all"

If you are Terry Pegula and want to claim Trump doesn't know what he is doing in business, that is fine. But unless you have made a billion dollars yourself, when you are criticizing Trump's business acumen, you are both unqualified to do so, and pretty much clueless.