BullBuchanan

Because I think you're seeing good teams developing strategies to negate the effectiveness and impact of the rush. Pass rush still has a huge impact against bad teams, but I think it's been reduced against the great ones in recent years. Yeah, that trade was pre salary cap. Great players never hit free agency, because you could always pay your cornerstone players. Trades were also extremely rare as a result.

Mack is also coming off a disappointing season. I'm worried he may have already played his best ball, and may be a very good, but not top tier elite player on his second contact.

Really depends on how you define "backup". If you're talking about QBs who sat a year or more turning into stars, well: Brady, Brees, Garoppolo, Cousins and maybe Taylor. then you have journeymen that have started a ton of games for full seasons like McCown, Hoyer, Siemian, Brissett. It's really not "rare" in any sense of the word. The majority of active starting QBs were drafted outside of the first round.

On to you if the aforementioned rebuild, The bills don't have a very realistic way to afford him on his current deal, a deal he's holding out of. I think the chances of us landing him are approaching zero. You'll have to overpay on the trade and the contract. Neither of which were you in a position to do on a team with holes everywhere.

Because Mario Williams and Suh is why. You burn dollars and the prime years on expensive FAs when you aren't ready to go all the way By the time the team is ready to complete, there are likely better and younger FAs available you can't target because you have old expensive vets Look at the eagles, Patriots, etc. There will be guys available when we make a strong push and Mack and Donald will be on the decline. We should be trying to stack our team with Micah Hyde's next year.

You don't go out and make this kind of move without knowing your team is already very good. This type of move is 2-3 years away

Hell this was standard when I played in the late 90s and early 2000s. We went winless. 7 years later my little brother's team won their state class championship. Wonder if it was at all related? Could also just be we were terrible and coached by substitute gym teachers. Who knows?

I don't really see how it matters since he doesn't play in the front 7. Better get used to a lot of "just a bit outside"

You couldn't convince a trumper, (most cons by extension) that water is wet if FauxNews reported otherwise. Their parents made their mind up for them long before they were born, and they don't have the mental acuity, empathy, or the breadth of worldview to broaden their horizons beyond a 10 mile radius from where they were born. As long as you realize that, they're exceedingly predictable people. I usually just climb right over them to the next place I have to go, barring an occasional sidestep.

I guess they're only good if they parrot what you want to hear? I don't always agree with their takes, but I think the complaints are way overblown unless you need validation of your opinions.

Vegas knows what it's doing in order to make the money even. Saying X team is going to have Y Wins, just means they want 50% on the over and the other 50% on the under, including payouts. It's more about public perception than being accurate, but yeah the books know their stuff.

Yup. All of that.

Not sure where you kids come up with this stuff. I'd far prefer Allen be successful. I just think it's highly unlikely.

Is it kind of reminiscent of Nate Peterman's first ever half of professional football? I don't cheer for busted plays, Bills fans in the stadium literally cheered for an out of bounds pass just because it was deep.

I've had the same handle for 17 years. Pay attention. I saw all of your nonsense on BBMB and it didn't fly there either. The Taylor threads were gold. Enjoy your time in the majority camp.

Not their picks/not in their club.

So a kid that's played 2 preseason games is now a "franchise QB". You're incorrigible. I'll be interested when he shows me something to be interested in, but just like EJ Manuel, I'm not counting on it. I'm not even that big of a Nate Peterman fan. I just see one guy doing everything that could possibly be expected of him, and a deeply flawed shiny toy who seems to be the same player he was in college, so far. I have no interest in cheering for 60 yard out of bounds passes, or talking about whatever "ceiling" means. If he shows consistent growth, I'll support him. It's still a long way off from week 1. 99% of this thread existed before that news came out a couple hours ago. My issue is that McDermott has always talked about accountability, earning your spot, and "The Process". If he ends up starting a kid week 1 that has underperfomed his competition, then what he's essentially saying as that as long as they have an investment in you, those things matter less, or not at all. If I was in NP's shoes I'd be asking what else, precisely, I'd need to do to meet that standard. I'd be extremely curious what other young guys without draft status pedigrees on the team/around the league felt about it too. It just seems like the whole concept of a competition was a farce at this point and it was all a ploy to make him feel like he earned it. It's not like we're watching Wilson or Prescott's rookie season here.

I really don't really care about Josh Allen, or any of the trite comments on here about how he's the next coming. He'll have another opportunity on Sunday, and we'll see how he does. I've yet to see an interesting post about him.

Somewhere, somebody's dad gave a high five to this comment.

That's too bad. I wouldn't want to live there.

Delusion seemingly knows no bounds.

McCarron has been skirting the line of awful. I'd rather have Shane Matthews back.

Weak bait post.