yungmack

It is a mid-western city. The traditional area used to be west of the Appalachians, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi. Culturally, Buffalo has far more in common with Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois that it does with the east coast or the northeast.

I second that.

"Cam Newton scouting report compares to Josh Allen" That's what I'm afraid of.

It might also be germane that he was not chosen as the best QB in the conference. In fact, he only got "Honorable Mention." But, hey, McD will fix him and he'll be a franchise QB by September.

Pretty thorough analysis and sensible.

He very well might start 9/9. And be back on the bench by the 2nd half.

At least he's ahead of the kid from Shippensburg.

And they will have years to regret it.

Please try to conduct yourself with at least a bit of decorum.

You're making my head hurt.

I see you are new here. How about less vitriol and a tad better manners? Your dismissal of the analysis by others that Allen is flawed.as "negativity" suggests that you believe your OPINION of him is the correct one and thus any critique is therefore the wrong one. Don't you think that's a little arrogant? As to your call for us all to cease critiquing and to rally around Allen because he's "our" QB, xid you say the same about Obama? About Trump? About Cuomo?

I was responding to the OP who wished to know if the Pats O would work with Allen. Seems we both agree it won't.

I think that's the only path to even reasonable success for Allen. Old school AFL QB play from the 70s, the old Al Davis obsession.

The last time they had a bad one?

No way is Allen capable of this sort of play.

Nope. A project QB is one who seems to have elite tools but somehow can't properly use them when it's game time. The most common one is "he's a big guy with a HUGE arm." The most common flaw this project has, generally speaking, is with accuracy, so the experts begin tinkering with his footwork, his arm angle, gloves/no gloves and anything else they believe will rescue the GM from admission of abject failure. Tom Brady always had the tools, they just weren't considered elite, certainly not worth a first round pick. But because he had the tools -- most critical of all, he was accurate -- taking him with a late round pick was justified. Good coaching and hard work were able to raise his success. So the biggest lesson from Brady is that the tools must already be there if you're going to devote time to "coaching him up." Nothing I've seen of Josh Allen and nothing in his history indicates he has the right tools and in particular he doesn't have anything close to accuracy.

If anyone can point to a single "project" QB who became a franchise QB, you might begin to change my belief that this is one of the worst, if not the very worst, mistakes the Bills have ever made in a long history of making mistakes.

Dude, it's freakin' Mel Kiper! Puhleeze!

The essence of the Pats offense is a combination of rapid adjustment to the D once the play has begun, generally short passes quickly released before the D can do much about it using Gronk to stretch the coverage and, above all, extremely accurate throws by a QB who has never been identified as "strong-armed." In other words, the ideal QB to replicate it is Sam Darnold and the least likely QB to operate the Pats offense is Josh Allen.

Good post. And probably very accurate.

We are going to be glad to have him. He will keep Allen off the field as long as he's with the Bills.

Add me. Worst pick...ever. FTR, it's Harrison Phillips, not Philip Harrison.

Lower completion %s were common when the D could pummel. grab, push receivers. Go look at the college completion % for the best QBs in the 60s to 90s.

There was one A+ QB, two B+/A-, one C and a D. Predictably the Bills took the D.

Allen could only dream of being as good as Fitz.