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Or Wyoming. Generally speaking though, big programs like Alabama and OSU produce very few decent QBs, let alone great ones. Too many star players around them and when they get to the NFL, they no longer have that edge and it’s not so easy anymore. Obviously you can’t rule out X player because he went to X school. If we did that, we wouldn’t have Allen, but the difference is, Allen stood out as a man amongst boys on a very weak roster. Burrow, Hurts, Jones and Tua etc were literally just cogs in the machine.

Oh, that’s right… his pec. Was it Ford who had the shoulder issues? Anyways, I’m right with you on Ford. I think he’s average at best, but he’s their golden boy, they traded up to get him so they’re reluctant to admit that he sucks.

Feliciano? Was it his pec? Or was it his shoulder? I don’t remember. I will say this, I am excited to see him at LG and Ford at RG. This makes sense to me. Anyways, as far as Williams goes.. I don’t see him as an elite player but I’d put RT only behind LT and OC as far as importance goes on the OL. He’s making what? $8M-$10M a year? That’s great value, I can’t complain.

Allen belongs in the top 4-5 range and Diggs I would put in the top 10. I think barring injury and when the dust settles, we are looking at two HOFers here. There is no better player to build a franchise around than Josh Allen with the exception of say, Pat Mahomes (arguable). Sure, there’s players like Aaron Donald, generational players nonetheless at other positions, but will a DT win you a Super Bowl? With Allen in Buffalo, that’s what the expectations are. Diggs I think will prove to be a stat machine. He’s a top 2-3 WR in his own right, but with Allen getting him the ball, the dude is going to continuously dominate teams relentlessly. Honestly, he reminds me quite a bit of Marvin Harrison. He has that same level of talent. Good worker, hard worker, exceptional route runner with insane change of direction skills and with the way Allen can get the ball in there, all Diggs needs to do is break free by one step and he’s going to come away with the ball. I’m also positive that TreDavious White will end up on this list somewhere. Where, I don’t know. He’s an elite CB, but not a generational talent by no means. He is worth every penny of his contract though, I will say that.

Outside of LT, I can’t really think of too many positions along the OL that are worth paying top dollar to. Sure, $12-$14M to a guy like Dion Dawkins is just fine, but would I pay a RT $19M? Heck no. Or a OG $14M-$15M? Heck no. I think a case can be made for center, though. Give me a good OL, not an elite one. Good lines will give your QB plenty of time to throw. You need an elite line to ground and pound, which is so unbelievably outdated at this point. A great LT and a great OC is basically where your big money on the OL needs to go. Solid, meat and potato players are fine everywhere else. I think Daryl Williams and Spencer Brown kind of fall into that category. I’m not talking about sucky players like Mike Williams or Langston Walker. Ideally you would like to spend money, big money anyways, on QB, LT, WR, C, TE, DE, CB, S and MLB. If you have star players at these positions and solid players to patch in the holes everywhere else, your roster is in prime position to kick some ass.

Thing is, I do want a new stadium but we are a small market team. I do not expect the Bills to spend lavishly. I’d be happy with a $750M stadium! Maybe Terry can go halfsies with NYS. Tear down RWS stadium and just put up a cost effective dome there! Tailgating stays the same, location stays the same. They can host concerts, WWE events and random other venues in offseason. Have that puppy paid off in 5 or 10 years no problem! Come up with a cool design, cut capacity which will also cut traffic and congestion. Be smart about it.

Okay, I’m literally in tears right now. Why is my boy Boogie buried under the depth chart? 😰

I think Trevor Lawrence and Trey Lance will above average QBs in this league. Lawrence will be pretty decent right away, Lance will need 2-3 years of seasoning but has a relatively high ceiling, a boom or bust prospect. Not high on Wilson, Fields or Jones.

Reed was ridiculous, you’re right. For me it’s either Reed or Polamalu as the best safety of my time. I feel like Sean Taylor would have been considered a HOFer, if not an All-Time great had he not of been murdered.

Probably the best safety I’ve ever witnessed as a millennial.

This will come up for Diggs at some point. He’s a top 1-3 WR in the NFL. Sooner we pay him and make it right, the better off we’ll be. We only have 3 “elite” players on this roster. Allen, Diggs and White.

I get really concerned when it comes to character concerns. I don’t expect choir boys by any means, we all make mistakes, I get it, we’re human, but I do think character matters. Coachability matters. I do think having a team full of smart players matters. I do think having a team full of smart players that work together as a team will beat out diva players, on me first rosters any day of the week. Give me smart players, team first players, hardworking, lunch pal players who will work as a team. Especially since we’re working within a salary cap. Don’t necessarily need stars at every position, just players that do there job in cohesion with the rest of the team as a whole.

It doesn’t surprise me.

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Very few of his TDS and big plays were flukey kind of plays, they were hard earned. He made very difficult throws routinely. This isn’t Lamar Jackson throwing 1 yd RPO plays on the goal line, this is Josh Allen threading the needle between sometimes 1, 2 or 3 defenders. Also the Erhardt Perkins Offense seems to be predicated on passing QBs. He seems to have full control, if not mastery over matchups in the secondary and by using the correct verbiage to audible his receivers into the right routes and positions. Do I expect Josh Allen to throw for 5,000 yds and 50 TDS next year? No. It doesn’t work like that, pump the breaks. I do think every year for him moving forward will be very good in the eyes of players and coaches and fans in the NFL, but he is human. I am convinced that he will be considered one of the great ones when it’s all said and done and I do think he will get us a few Super Bowls by the time his career is over. Mahomes vs Allen will be the new Brady vs Manning. Kansas City ultimately is the only team that stands in our way.

Even if Ramsey would come to Buffalo on the vet minimum, I wouldn’t take him. He’s a trash human being. You can’t build a team around those type of “me” people.

Levi Wallace cannot die. Seems that no matter who we bring in, he beats them out. He’s an underrated corner and not a liability in any way.

I think Daryl Johnson has a chance at becoming a good backup at DE. I hope they don’t cut him.

I think it’s important to have a smart football team. Especially at QB, WR, S and LB. I cannot emphasize that enough. Some positions it matters little, but smart players are coachable. Smart players stay in position, take the right gaps or find soft spots in defenses etc. Having a player like Edmunds that is just so far behind the curve mentally is a huge liability for any defense. I think your MLB and your safeties are the brains and command centers of the operations. These men are responsible for getting your whole defense lined up in the right spot. Coverages, formations, gap assignments etc. Once again, I value smart players over athletic freaks who lack a grasp of the game and killer instincts and as far as killer instincts go, you either have that or you don’t, it cannot be coached. Smart teams, well coached teams will beat out talented teams with dumb players every time.

Paid by who? Hopefully not by us, unless he has a breakout season and everything finally comes together for him. I will also say, as much as opposing fans and members of the media gloat about him, who watches him more? He is a solid player, no doubt, but I find his lack of sacks, INTs, FF and TFL to be disturbing. Those are stats I put a high value on for LBs. Once again, he is good. Mainly because of his size and athleticism, he has a freakish blend of speed and power, but mentally and as far as instincts go, he is very subpar in these areas, which I think matters just as much if not more than athleticism. Edmunds makes wrong read after wrong read, he is constantly fooled by QBs and offenses, the only reason he is considered good is because he has so much God given talent that he can make up for it athletically when he’s out of position. Is he an elite player? No. If he is willing to take a midrange contract like Milano, would I keep him? Yes. Over time the game may slow down for him a bit, so certainly I think there would be some considerable upside that would make such a contract worthwhile. If it is in the realm of $10M-$12M a year, I think there’s great value there. Anything more than that I would absolutely not go for though.

When it comes to building a team, especially with Josh’s new contract, we must be careful with who we pay and who we don’t pay. Edmunds is a good LB, not a great one. Buffalo has three players on this team who are elite relative to their position. Allen, Diggs and White. Outside of that I would argue that Buffalo has no other elite players on the roster. Sure, if you can lock Edmunds up for $10M-$11M a year, I think there’s great value there. We can probably afford to lock up 6-7 players within that cap range but we must be careful to not go beyond that threshold unless that player is truly elite. We must strike balance between our meat and potato type guys, glue players and then our midrange guys like Dawkins, Oliver and Milano etc.. You don’t hand out top 5 money to a top 10-15 player like Edmunds. If he is willing to take less, just as Milano did, I’m okay with it, but if he wants top 5 money, he can walk, he’s just not that good.

Honestly, it was so bad I prefer not to think about it.

I know it’s early, but to me, it has to be Stefon Diggs. Yes, he’s only been here a year, but he’s outperformed his contract. 127 catches 1,535 yards. You don’t mess with that. Clearly these two have great chemistry together and are elite talents in their own right. This is a Montana to Rice situation, or a Manning to Harrison situation and so on so forth. Diggs deserves to be paid top 3 money. Am I a year early on this? Maybe, maybe not but Diggs has had great production going back to 2015-2016 in Minnesota. In the salary cap era, you must choose wisely who you pay and who you don’t pay and I think WR is one of those positions that you do pay, especially when it’s a WR of Stefon Digg’s caliber. Last year was not a fluke in any way. He dominates even elite corners. I think whenever you have a star QB/WR pairing in the NFL, you need to do everything you can to keep that together. Allen is great, but this offense wouldn’t be nowhere near what it is without Diggs. Pay the man his $18M or his $19M/yr or whatever it is because he’s earned it. If Diggs were to go down, I think our offense would struggle.

Here’s the thing. Of all those teams you listed, they had near HOF players at every position outside of QB. Not to mention, all of these players got hot at the right time. What happens if one of your star players becomes lazy? Ala Dareus & Haynesworth? How many dynasties are there amongst the teams you’ve listed? Give me the star QB, give me the star WR, the star DE, the star CB and maybe the star LB or TE to boot. Give me meat and potato type guys at every other position and simply draft well and replenish. Dynasties are built around QBs. Pay the man his $43M and in 3 or 4 years, give him a raise. Even if Allen gets injured and we bomb out a year, this way provides more long term sustainability. It’s up to Beane to build around Allen and that will happen primarily through the draft.

When you look at it long term, it’s not as much as you think. Keep in mind that he’s locked up relatively cheaply over the next few years, so this $43M/aav is a bit skewed. Some fans aren’t sold on Allen and I understand that but ultimately Allen is about as humble as they come, he’s a hard worker and the money won’t get to his head. I’m more concerned with injury at this point. He plays like a bull in a China shop, but has the arm strength and intellect to be a pure passer if he blows out a knee. As far as Baker and Lamar go, good thing we got this done before they got new deals. Neither of them are as remotely good as Allen, so if I’m Baltimore or Cleveland, I would pause if either of them want similar money. Lamar plays in a dumbed down, gimmicky offense that makes QBing much easier for him. He will never be a good enough QB to handle the complexities of a viable, long term, sustainable NFL offense. He’s an ACL injury away from being a career backup. Baker is a very good game managing QB. He’ll never put up numbers like Allen and he’ll never be able to carry a team the way Allen can, so I don’t understand why he is exalted so much in the media. Sure, he’s okay, good maybe, but not great. All in all, it’s great news that we got Allen’s deal done first before Lamar and Mayfield’s deals. In no way do either of them deserve more money than Allen. So if either team signed them to similar deals to what Allen got, his price would’ve been driven up astronomically and rightfully so. Ultimately this deal saves the Pegula’s money long term, but in another 4-5 years Allen will likely cash in again, just as all the other elite QBs do, but in the end, this needed to happen. Keep your franchise QB happy.