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I'm free. I guarantee I couldn't do worse.

Usually #1's have it all - size, speed, strength, elusiveness, route tree, catching, hands, etc. There should be little that they can't do better than most #2's in the league. Sometimes they aren't the biggest (Brown), or the fastest (Fitzgerald), but that usually means that some other aspect of their game has to be so special that it overcompensates for their deficiencies. When i think of prototype #1's I think of guys like Calvin Johnson, Randy Moss, and Terrell Owens. Obviously, it doesn't mean Jerry Rice wasn't better than all of them being slower and shorter, but that's what I ideally want when I'm looking for a #1.

Where's the blueprint? This is just a review of what everyone has already seen.

There are a lot of other things that are illegal that the NFL doesn't give af about, so that's not a super valid reason. Legality does not equal morality.

BPA. Barkley is the best player to come out in years. Every single win the giants have is off of his back. With a mildly competent offensive scheme, they'll be in the playoff hunt for the next 8 years. If they can find good QB play, they'll be championship contenders with no other additions. Elite RBs get a bad name when teams like the Sanders Lions, the Peterson Vikings, and the Tomlinson Chargers think they can just run the ball every play and win championships. The kid is sensational, and it was all on tape for every GM to see prior to the draft. The jury's still out on all the QBs, but the case is closed on Barkley.

I'm not stoked about Edmunds at this point. So far he hasn't shown me anything special to offset his lack of skill at the MLB position. As a general rule, I believe it's best to build your team around a high floor, rather than a high ceiling. The NFL as a whole makes way too much out of potential. We see it as it plays out with regards to trades. Until the mega-trades this year, it was common to get lower draft compensation Insert other media for proven commodities than what they would cost if you drafted them in April, and that always blew my mind. I'll take the guy that can play football over the combine warrior if their draft slot is equal 10 times out of 10. There are so many guys that weren't prototype players that turned into HOFers in this league, that I think it's ridiculous to watch teams gamble on "upside". Edmunds isn't a smash mouth tackler, so it already has me worried about what his true ceiling is. Through season one, I think we would've been better off with Preston Brown, and that doesn't encourage me. This kid has a mountain of hype to climb in order to be worth of the compensation they used to draft him. The Bills would never ever do it, because they're the Bills, but I think Edmunds belongs on the strong side, with a true MLB that can shut down the run inside.

No, you just lack the ability to be moved at all from your stance, and I don't waste my time with people like you.

He was a key part of why we were able to claw to the playoffs last season, and taylor didn't have anywhere near the skillset of Allen. McCoy also gave us a fighting shot the year before when we had no business being there. If you want to win you have to have great play from QB, RB and WR. Signing Bell gets us the opportunity to have 2/3 and then we can try to find our 3rd. You could draft a guy, sure, but it wouldn't be a sure thing. I'd do both to make it one. Also worth mentioning that McCoy wasn't half the player Bell is. Bell can actually run between the tackles and don't fall over on contact. What's Gurley doing for Goff and the Rams? You can't run and defense your way to championships with Mark Rypien and Trent Dilfer anymore, but I think you can if you've got a guy that can hit a speedy receiver 60 yards down the field on occasion.

Wentz was on his way to an MVP last season before getting injured and Jimmy G was undefeated until this season and his subsequent injury. Are they locks to become HOFers? Of course not, but I think they have as good a chance as anyone.

Sign a whole new starting caliber O-line in FA and let them battle it out with Dawkins and Teller. Unpopular opinion - sign Le'veon Bell. Assuming a revamped o-line, a top 3 RB would take a ton of pressure off of Allen and if we could get modest WR play we could be legitimate contenders for a couple of years while Allen is on his rookie deal. It might seem insane to pay a guy that much money, but players that good change your whole team. We can absolutely afford it, as as long as the term isn't too long I think it would be a very aggressive move that could put us in a Big Ben year 2 situation if everything rolls just right.

of Wilson, Stafford, Cousins, Luck, Mahomes, Wentz, Goff, Garrapolo, Mayfield there are plenty of guys to carry the torch. You'll never see an era in the NFL ever again where you have Peyton Manning, Rodgers, Brees and Brady all playing at the same time. It's insane what we got to witness. They're probably the best 4 QBs to ever play the game. You aren't going to have that when the current group retires, but you'll find other first ballot HOFers.

I don't think they can't afford the cap hit to cut him today. They can cut him as soon as the new league year starts though without an issue, and I expect that they will.

I see the scale as a JaMarcus Russel -> Jay Cutler -> Brett Favre -> John Elway progression, even though a lot of people might say Favre was the better passer, i think Elway was the better "quarterback". I think comparisons to these guys are all reasonable based on being big cannon armed throwers with mobility ( besides Russell, but he sucks, so it doesn't matter). He's already better than Russel ever was, but isn't yet in Cutler territory, though his trajectory seems like it could be at least that good, if he can fix some things. In my eyes anything above that is extremely premature. When Allen makes a great play it looks like it came from one of the greats, but when he misses a 5 yard pass in the flats, overthrows deep balls, or loses pocket awareness it gives me a lot of pause. This is a kid that has a lot of things to work on to get to be in that coveted "top 10" QB spot. My biggest fear with him is that he's able to become good enough to be a Jay Cutler level QB that isn't good enough to win games in January and beyond, but is too good to get rid of, so we're all sitting here for the next 10 years praying it's the year he finally gets it together. For that reason, I'm pessimistic long term. On the short term side, I'm really hoping he makes massive strides over the rest of the year and the offseason and comes back next year looking like a vet. I don't expect Mahomes, because that just doesn't happen. If he can be young Big Ben, that would be more than I could realistically hope for at this point. Let's call it a 6 for now.

Well, there was this time... https://twitter.com/NickiJhabvala/status/956228021945618437

Allen needs to learn how to drop those in the bucket. He just doesn't have that timing down yet. He also did this in college all the time. The zones that Allen is throwing to down the field are much larger right now when compared to the great deep ball throwers in the game today, and some of them don't have anywhere near the arm that he has. In general Allen has a serious flaw, maybe his biggest, with gauging power. You see it on the short throws all the time, and I think it's also happening here. If the kid learns a little touch, he'll be deadly.

I'd try to collect as many second round picks as possible and do all of our drafting there. This team has about 15 holes, and it's on this staff to fill all of them as quickly as possible. 1 star player doesn't fix that, especially if it's on the line. The only offensive players that should be here at season end are Allen, Zay, Foster and maybe Teller. the rest of them should all be gone. Realistically, Dawkins, Bodine and Mills will probably still be here, and I'm willing to give McKenzie more time if they can buy him some stickum.

He didn't start because he was behind all pro Sean Lee. Tremaine Edmunds was battling it out with Julian Stanford.

Have you watched him play? He's on TV every week here. I think if you were able to get inside Beane's head, he's thinking he picked the wrong guy.

The Bills are definitely in the top 10. They've had exciting games here and there and memorable moments. but they haven't been an "exciting" team since at least Fitzpatrick was here. This season's been particularly rough, because for all intents and purposes every game is just a scrimmage where only one guy's performance matters. Milano breaking out has been a welcome addition. This team is hopefully in the later stages of rebuild, and 50% of this roster is unlikely to be in the long term plans. I keep rooting for Zay to do stuff, I hope Edmunds can figure out how to play run D, I get excited watching Milano, but really all I'm there to do is see if the Bills have to draft another QB. None of these WRs seem like they have a bright future, though Foster and Jones have had their moments, the whole line is likely to be replaced, same with our TEs, everyone on our D-line is a known quantity with ceilings likely already passed, safeties are a known quantity, McCoy is Vontae Davis-level done, no exciting backs behind him, and our corners besides White have played respectably, but most of them probably won't be here long term. To me, watching a bunch of lame-duck players in another losing season doesn't make for a very exciting product, but I'm ok with that if either the one guy that needs to progress does so, or the coaches realize he isn't progressing and adjust course next season.

No, Vander Esch made himself a star. Right now he looks like the best linebacker talent to come out of the draft in 10 years.

What if it's just one?

Is thisa reminder of how you were wrong? I'm not seeing any other reason for this necro.

Just shy of $10.3M

Ah, my bad. I thought he was already in his 4th and they declined his option. Then my answer changes to Decline the 5th year, because he's not worth that, and see what happens next year. I think there's a pretty close to zero chance he blows up into a star player, but he'll be a contributing rotational player.

I think he did very well if you consider it all about progression. Objectively, I don't think it was a great day, but a solid one that looked better than the box score.