jrober38

I don't think we have any chance of getting Cousins. We're not going to pay a QB $30 mil/season.

Tanner Lee isn't going to be drafted.

No deflection. Every single QB prospect in this draft struggles when pressured. That's a fact.

Same can be said for every single QB in this draft.

He's not a first round pick. Yesterday he probably went from a 4th-5th rounder to a 2nd day pick.

They're all project QBs. I really like his accuracy and mechanics. He gets good zip on the ball and can attack tight coverage. He's got NFL calibre traits that can be worked with. The things he does well are the same things most top QBs do well. I don't know where he'll go, but I guarantee every NFL team who needs a QB is reevaluating their scouting report for him after his week at the Senior Bowl. He seems like a guy who could learn the NFL game, much like Jimmy Garoppolo did before him. Comparing the two, they seem to bring all the same things to the table (accuracy, quick set up and release, great mechanics, good mobility). He obviously needs seasoning and needs to learn an NFL system, but that can be said for every QB in the draft.

I don't think I'm overreacting to anything. I'm just pointing out that the same traits you see from top NFL QBs were all on display as part of Lauletta's game yesterday. He's a guy no one really knew anything about and he impressed throughout practice (reports had him as the best QB on the South throughout the practice week) and then he dominated when he was in the game itself. He's extremely accurate His mechanics are great and his throwing motion is very compact He showed good zip and ball placement, to short, intermediate and deep parts of the field He gets the ball out on time and was willing to attack tight windows Accuracy is the most important trait for a QB, and he appears to be excellent in that area. He'll need to show more at the combine, and at private workouts, but his performance was excellent yesterday.

I agree that neither will go in the 1st but whether or not they should is debatable. Lauletta looked really good. He has a lot of traits that you see from successful NFL QBs. Accuracy, great throwing mechanics, good footwork, the ability and willingness to throw at NFL sized windows. It was all on display yesterday. He looked a heck of a lot like Jimmy Garoppolo, who has all of the same strengths. No. Generally speaking they're almost always busts or mediocre backups.

As was I. Tight mechanics, compact release, quick feet, willingness to throw at tight windows, extremely accurate, good zip on short and intermediate throws. He looked really good. I rate accuracy above all else, and he looks like he's very good in that area.

Lauletta looked amazing today. Super accurate, live arm, good mobility, unafraid to put the ball in tight windows. Will be interesting to see how far he moves up boards.

Mayfield looks like a guy who should be a pretty good NFL QB. Hopefully we can trade up to get him. Bills Mafia would absolutely love him.

Whaley was such a horrible GM.

Accuracy is the state of being precise. In a football sense it means the ball winds up where the player intends for it to go. When using that definition to describe Allen, he's clearly not an accurate. Sometimes he hits the target, sometimes he's high, sometimes he's low, sometimes he's behind the receiver, and sometimes he's too far out front. When he throws the ball, it can wind up anywhere, which is why he's not an accurate passer. There is no consistent precision in terms of where the ball winds up. If a player consistently misses to one spot, and correcting a certain part of their mechanics could help correct that, then maybe that player's accuracy could be improved. In Allen's situation, he's got scattershot accuracy. He misses all over the place, just like EJ Manuel did, and as we've seen numerous times from QBs in the past, guys whose accuracy and mechanics needs to be completely built from the ground up never succeed in the NFL. Allen winds up in the top left category, like EJ Manuel before him. Good luck succeeding with a guy like that.

The problem is that he did have bad accuracy in college, and it's been on display all week at the Senior Bowl. He makes routine throws look really hard. He's not a natural passer. QBs need adequate arm strength, but none of the top QBs across the NFL are inaccurate. Accuracy trumps everything. IMO

None of these things matter if the ball doesn't wind up where you want it to go.

That's fine. Just go after one of the guys not named Allen.

The odds of successfully becoming a quality NFL QB suggest 9 out of 10 QB prospects deserve to be town down. If you take away the guys who go #1 overall, 70% of first round QBs bust.

Cam Newton dominated college football in his lone year at Auburn. He carried a mediocre team with hardly any NFL talent to a National Title. Josh Allen was a middle of the pack Mountain West QB. He was nothing more than an average college QB who did little to elevate the play of those around him. Comparing these two is insane. Cam Newton is a dominant football player. Josh Allen has thus far just been a guy with a big arm who isn't very good.

This guy struggles with screen passes. Sorry but Josh Allen IS inaccurate. When he has a clean pocket to throw from, the ball routinely doesn't find it's target.

Allen's best comparison by far is EJ Manuel. Same pros and cons. Same size, same mobility, same horrible accuracy issues. You don't go from being a middle of the road Mountain West Conference QB to a franchise QB in the NFL. Successful NFL QBs are usually guys who dominated college football and elevated their program noticeably for the time they were there.

Yup. Is 4 inches and 15-20 pounds really worth that much of a swing? I don't think so. Players need to be evaluated by how they perform on the field, and how it translates to the NFL game. Height, weight and arm strength (a player needs enough of an arm but you don't need a cannon) shouldn't matter nearly as much as they do.

If you put Josh Allen's skill set in Baker Mayfield's body, he's a 5th-7th round pick. Maybe an UDFA. Every year the guys who "LOOK" like NFL QBs (Manuel, Gabbert, Locker, etc) get drafted 3-4 round higher than they should. It's as if the scouts just completely disregard the game tape and only focus on height, weight, arm strength.

There was a ton of misinformation last year. I don't know if the Darnold info is real, but I suspect that the Peterman info is totally a lie. I think they want the NFL to think they're good with what they've got at QB, but I feel like this could lead to them being really aggressive in trying to get a QB on draft day. I hope Mayfield is the guy they want. I think he can play immediately and make the offense better.

This has got to be a smoke screen. The Bills actually want the QB who no one thinks they want.

Tell that to Jamarcus Russell, JP Losman, EJ Manuel, Blaine Gabbert, Jake Locker, Akili Smith, etc, etc, etc. How far you can throw a football or how fast you can run have no correlation to being a successful NFL QB. Accuracy is, and always will be the most important trait, and he simply doesn't have it.