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Cutler is similar. Would have been a better QB if not for how he was as a leader.

People need to see the evidence. Until then we are stuck hearing the complaining. The season won’t be able to get here fast enough.

Also, if you’ve ever seen him play. When he gets hit on the hands by pss rushers, he holds onto the ball.

I love the fanhood TBF, time to get onboard with all of Allen’s positives! Let’s start with who Josh is as a person: 1. Josh grew up in tiny, 5A Firebaugh, CA. The son of a farmer, he spent as much time as he could playing football, basketball and baseball, and when he wasn’t busy, he helped his father in the farm. Playing all those sports, Josh immediately was a leader of his peers. 2. He spent his formative years rooting for Fresno State and the Carr family. He did everything he could to finagle ways to speak with the Fresno coaching staff who eventually told him that they had there 6foot QB of the future and that he could walk on as a TE. 3. Josh believed he was a QB and decided to go the JUCO route to get more tape. With that he sent that tape over 1000 times. And only got two interested schools. Wyoming was the only one to offer him a scholarship. 4. While at Wyoming, he was a complimentary piece in 2016 on a team full of seniors - 4 of which would be drafted. In 2017, he became the unquestioned leader of the team with an inexperienced center, a running back converted in the offseason from linebacker and non-productive freshman and sophomore receivers. Josh was given the responsibility to lead, to call protections, and make decisions for his team. More responsibility was placed on him than any other QB in this draft as far as expectations and carrying other, less talented players goes. And you could often see him fired up on the sideline, getting into people’s faces with excitement. His teammates followed him because of his passion. 5. Once Josh declared, he worked hard during the offseason to improve himself. Similar to what Cam Newton did in the lead up to 2011, Allen took every opportunity possible - senior bowl, combine, pro day, etc - to diaplay the work he was doing biomechanically. The high point of his predraft season came during the combine where he was able to display improved footwork and showed how he can mesh that with his intense arm strength. Reports out of the week described him as the alpha QB of the group (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-combine-2018-josh-allen-shows-why-hes-worthy-of-being-the-no-1-overall-pick/amp/). Football reasons to be excited: 1. His completion percentage is what it is. He needs to improve it regardless of the offense or talent around him. If you watch his games, he does occasionally spray the ball. But what I have seen is that he was the victim of some drops, of many situations where the throws he was trying to make weren’t there because his teammates got run toward the sideline or didn’t get separation, and many other times where pressure forced him to roll out and get rid of the ball or make bad throws. 2. Allen was the most frequently pressured of the major QBs. His numbers when being pressured were not good and a lot of that was because he had inexperienced receivers that did not give him much help when the play broke down. You will also see people like Dan Orlovsky blame Allen for not making the right protections and reads based on the pressure. Some of that is on Allen, but Wyoming staffers are quick to point out that there were times that Allen set the right protection and then an inexperienced lineman missed a block leaving free runners at Allen. It’s important to keep in mind that when we watch our YouTube games that we don’t know everything the coaches know. 3. His arm and athleticism. At Wyoming, Josh was there offense. His arm was their weapon. He stretched the field and opposing defenses vertically and horizontally unlike any other prospect this year. Their were many times where Allen was forced to take the play over himself with designed keepers, bootlegs, escaping pressure, dragging defenders that were trying to tackle him before unleashing his throw. How successful was he?: 1. Wyoming won 8 games in back to back seasons for the first time in 30 years. The same team the two years before he took over won 6 games. 2. This season, when Allen hurt his shoulder, Wyoming went 0-2 including a loss to the worst program in Division 1 this year, San Jose St. But Allen battled back from his injury to lead his game to a win in his bowl game and left the program on a win. What now?: 1. This offseason was the first time in his life he had real, dedicated coaching around his footwork. Remember that Carson Wentz, who starred under Josh’s college coach, also entered the league with footwork problems. Like Carson, Josh will need to continue working on his feet and may not totally overcome inconsistencies for a year or two. But with how raw Allen is, that gives great hope that he will improve quickly like he appears to have already done. 2. Ideally, we let Allen sit a year and develop. Most likely he will take the Cam Newton (again who had a similar pre-draft process with a lot of concerns of how he threw the ball and the 1 read offense he was in) or Carson Wentz approach and start earlier and be better (though not perfect!) than we expected. Of all the QB prospects, Allen is my favorite person. And I think the type of person he is will allow him to harness his physical abilities to be the best QB of this draft. I’m very excited, and I hope this makes everyone else- including you- a little more pumped for our QB of the future.

As far as Edmonds goes, you are right he won’t be Keuchly. He doesn’t have the same instincts and coverage ability. I still think he was the best LB on the board and will be a real problem for opposing offenses with his length and ability to get downfield. Much better on taking on blocks than Vander Esch but with the same sideline to sideline range. If Buffalo is smart, they let both Allen and Edmonds sit for a year to develop mentally and physically. Won’t happen, and that’s why they are talented but risky picks. Which the risk is compounded by what we gave up. Overall though, I love the draft and I hope it works out well for McBean and Buffalo.

I want a LG, CENTER, RG, RT, WR and TE. Not necessarily in that order. We need to surround Allen on offense as best we can. Def prefer Mike Gesicki if he can slide to our 3rd rounder, probably unlikely.

It’s a joke account, Rosen didn’t say that

Edmonds is so much better than LVE anyway.

This place is great, thanks to you!

I’m pumped to be a bills fan right now, enjoy wallowing in your sadness bro!

Maybe stop complaining until then when he gets a chance to, huh?

Yea Browns fudged it up. Darnold and Chubb would have been much better. we’ve done great considering where we were picking.

Great player!!! QB of our offense and defense now! now spend the rest of our picks to build the OL and pass catchers! Loving this draft!!!

YESSSSSS!!!! To all those that are disappointed. You will be very pleasantly surprised. He will burst into the scene like Cam Newton did when he came out of the gate and surprised everyone with how well he could throw. His accuracy is going to be improved with the work he has done on his footwork and mechanics. Besides that, he is a great kid (despite the 6 year old tweets) and a great leader. He was Wyoming this year and had to shoulder more responsibility than any other QB this year. I know many many of you are disappointed, but I am so excited. I’m normally a guy that would write off a QB with Allen’s stats. But he is different. The stats don’t match the ability. Now I hope we can all embrace him as he leads us into the future! GO BILLS!!!

YESSSSSS!!!! To all those that are disappointed. You will be very pleasantly surprised. He will burst into the scene like Cam Newton did when he came out of the gate and surprised everyone with how well he could throw. His accuracy is going to be improved with the work he has done on his footwork and mechanics. Besides that, he is a great kid and a great leader. He was Wyoming this year and had to shoulder more responsibility than any other QB this year. I know many many of you are disappointed, but I am so excited. I’m normally a guy that would write off a QB with Allen’s stats. But he is different. The stats don’t match the ability. Now I hope we can all embrace him as he leads us into the future! GO BILLS!!!

This. It’s a little too much.

I love lamp!

Yea, on the whole spectrum of things, tweets from when he is 16 is not something I’m gonna worry about.

I agree lol

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I feel like you should have started with the dating Dirk Koetters daughter portion first lol. Thanks for passing along!

Overrated prospect. Beware LBs with one year of production, with injury concerns and who can’t really navigate around people blocking him.

Give us guys stranded far away a recap plz

That whole thread about us not bringing Allen in for a pre-draft visit just became obsolete. I like all of the top 5 QBs, so I’m glad they are giving him a closer look.

I wonder if he thought the same thing back in 2016. All these talking heads act like everyone thought Carson Wentz - who went 2nd overall, not first - was going to be great when he was draft eligible. No one knows until years down the road.