I'd like to see 20:14 TD/INT ratio with 3,500 passing yards minimum. Anything less than that and I'm going to start getting really worried and I may question my faith in him.
This draft makes me cry, a happy cry not a sad cry. This draft is going to go down as the best draft in Buffalo Bills history. This draft is going to push us forward for the next 10-15 years led by Josh Allen who I feel will be despised around the league like Tom Brady. Miami, Jets and Patriots fans are going to hate Allen for a long, long time.
We are a blue collar city though, do we really need a state of the art stadium? I love New Era/Ralph Wilson stadium, it's incredible. Dump money into rennovations, it's fine.
EDIT: We need to be fiscally responsible here, IMO.
Potentially. I'd like to see that, I don't view the world myopicly, I think it's better to view things optimistically because it's better for everyone that way.
Our roster is infinitely better than the Jets and Miami, we are loaded and next year I see that we will have 70 million in cap space and hopefully a franchise QB on his rookie contract.
New England could be exciting, especially if Brady shows his age and gets pummeled repeatedly by our defense. It's going to be glorious when New England loses Brady and finally sees what life is like without a franchise QB. I think that day will come eventually, nobody can stay hot forever and I think Buffalo is in a golden position to control the AFCE.
I've lightly gone over the list but I am really excited to see Darnold vs Allen to kind of get an idea what the next 15 years will be like. I'm hoping it turns into a Marino vs Kelly rivalry, that would be great for football.
Great post! Think you pretty much covered everything, very well said my friend. I'm not so much worried about Allen's mechanics though, the footwork is easily corrected, his throwing motion and release is beautiful and that's the main thing. If Allen is head and shoulders better than McCarron and Peterman you don't sit him though because: a) His mechanic deficiencies are overblown. b) Starting experience will be valuable, better to get the growing pains out of the way. c) He gives us the best chance at getting to the playoffs. c) Beane and McD can't afford to coddle Allen, in an ideal world they could take their time and groom Allen by sitting him for a year, but that would postpone his growing pains down the road another year because nothing can replace starting experience.
Have an honest competition, best man wins, if that guy is Allen then start him, best players on the field.
Why though? If Allen wins the QB competition, why shouldn't he start?
All we need is one of them to step up, Kelvin Benjamin is an OK #1, not bad, not good but solid.
We need Zay, Kerley, Proehl, Ray Ray or Foster to be good and we are respectable, just takes one of them.
I got my money on Zay, Kerley or Foster.