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Not sure he makes the Bears. He was their version of Brandon Reilly. Lit up camp, was on the practice squad, called up and played a little at the end of the season. But if you don't want to wait for them to cut him, then I guess a move make sense. You could trade them Adolphus Washington, who I still think is more of a 3-4 end. I'd love to get ahold of Jacob Hollistor too if he doesn't make the Pats. The dude is the perfect H-back type of player Daboll has used in the past. Might as well get Allen's band back together.

I don't know. The Cards had Carson Palmer, Honey Badger, Larry Fitz plus a really entertaining coach in Arians. With Cincy you had maniacs like Pac Man and Burfict, the first time you had Crason Palmer and OchoCinco. The Chiefs one was terrible and I think generally regarded as one of teh worst seasons. I'm saying McDermott and Beane, while I love them, are super boring and the characters on this team will not be interesteingto anybody but us. If Incognito and Marcell were still here, I could see it. The only we got going on is Mrs. Pegula, Mrs. Poyer, Mrs. McCarron, and the future Mrs. Josh Allen.

Would be cool for us, but I can't think of a boring team for the general public. They will probably go Niners. You got the dreamy Jimmy G. and all the Reuben Foster drama.

Ok I gotcha. I think they have some holes on defense that need to be filled and they have depth issues there, but yeah I get you now. Ironic counterpoints can be confusing on the interwebs!

My point is that they need to surround their franchise quarterback, who only has a couple of years to go, with some more talent. It doesn't make sense to draft Rudolph there. Ben is right JMO. And Matt Flynn does not equal Big Ben in any way. It is a totally different situation you are bringing to the table man.

Thanks for sharing. Some highlight imo: JM: At this point in time, which aspects of his game would you say are the most developed? BV: He’s a natural passer. Some kids just pick up a football and it comes naturally to them. They don’t have to be coached from a young age. As youngsters, they don’t have to go to a quarterback camp or anything like that. For Josh, he’s been throwing the football since he was a kid. Footwork-wise, that’s another piece. I think his upper body mechanics are something to behold. From a physical development standpoint, you don’t have to put any weight on him. Right now, the Buffalo Bills’ strength and conditioning coaches aren’t talking about having to beef him up. He’s very physically developed. His understanding of a fairly sophisticated offense that we ran at Wyoming is there. There’s not gonna be this dramatic shift for him. He can speak the language. He can recite a play. He can make decisions at the line of scrimmage. These are all things he’s already done. For some kids who go from college to the pros, that’s a transition for them. He is not perfect by any means, but he’s already been exposed to a lot of things. I don’t think the transition is gonna be great as a lot of people out there seem to think. JM: What is your take on his footwork, and where it is today? BV: I think his footwork is fine. I think how pressure affects him and what that does to his footwork at times is something that he’ll have to continue to work on. He made really good strides from his sophomore year to his junior year with us. As a sophomore, I thought he let his feet get away from him a little bit when he felt the pressure. I think that happened unconsciously at times. He was trying to catch up to his arm. That didn’t happen nearly as much this past year. I know he’s worked exceptionally hard from January on to continue to correct that. He has the ability to self-correct. He’s now a little more conscious of how it all fits together. When you make the jump from college to the NFL, you naturally listen to the criticism a little more. You can get away with some things in college that you can’t get away with in the NFL. I think he has the basis for his footwork to become everything it needs to be. He’s good enough of an athlete back there where trusting the pocket is something he has to continue to do. He did a better job of that for us this year. We weren’t as good up front this year. The pocket wasn’t always as stable as I would have liked it to be. I think he made strides there and will continue to do so. He understands how everything works together. He didn’t understand that three or four years ago. His understanding grew in his time with us and I think it’s been amplified over the past three or four months. JM: You mentioned that he worked out of a fairly sophisticated offense. How empowered was he to make checks at the line of scrimmage? BV: Very much so. Everything was on his shoulders in the protection game. I’d much rather have a guy out on the field who understands how the defense is affecting him rather than him feeling like he has to completely react after the snap. He was in control of the protection side of things. In the run game, we had him making checks. I’m talking run-to-run checks, sometimes it was run-to-pass or pass-to-run. He’s been exposed to all of that. Sometimes, it was based on numbers. Other times, it was based on specific looks. I don’t think there’s anything from an NFL decision-making standpoint at the line of scrimmage that’s gonna be foreign to him. The volume at which he might be asked to do a few of those things might be greater, but I don’t think there’s gonna be anything that’ll be an entirely new concept for him. Here is what he said for people concerned about completion percentage: JM: Those who aren’t as high on him point to his career completion percentage of 56.2. They’ll say it’s hard to find successful pro quarterbacks that were under 60 percent in college. What’s your take on that? BV: Numbers are numbers, and his completion percentage number did not improve from one year to the next. I know that I saw a marked improvement on his ball placement and decision-making. You can go through every single one of these quarterbacks that were just drafted and put together a low-light reel. You really could. That’s just football. That’s playing the quarterback position, the toughest position to play in all of sports. I’ve seen all the low-light reels, and those plays frustrate me. Each one of those plays has a story. It’s not always about what Josh Allen did wrong. He wasn’t perfect, like I said. I think completion percentage is a lot of times a function of your offense. Albeit, we had a first-round quarterback, but we underachieved as an offense. That’s not all on him. He has to bare the brunt of the criticism for that completion percentage. We ran the ball for 108 yards per game compared to 207 the year before. I haven’t heard anyone talk about how that effected Josh’s completion percentage, but I can tell you that had a huge impact on our passing game. I haven’t heard that from one person. Nobody talks about how our dip in production effected his completion percentage. It is what it is. I know he has the capability to be an accurate passer. I’m not concerned about that. It’s an easy target. I think it’s easy to point at. He played at a Group of 5 school versus lesser competition, and he didn’t shine in the games against the Power 5, but there’s more to the story than that. He has to prove it. I think we all understand that. I would say that I’m fully confident that he can prove all his doubters wrong. All in all, he is probably the most pro ready quarterback of the bunch outside of Rosen maybe. He also has the most physical talent and is the most physically developed. He is also the smartest guy with the highest wonderlic. So people can keep harping on a percentage number, or get on the train and enjoy the ride.

I think we may see a lot of turnover in the offensive line. With no Richie or Wood, now is the chance to reshuffle the deck. I honestly would love to go young.... If Bodine is the Center: Dawkins-Groy-Bodine-Teller-McDermott Newhouse-Redmond-Ducasse/Miller If Groy is the center: Dawkins-Teller-Groy-Miller/Ducasse-McDermott Newhouse-Bodine-Miller Ducasse I think Groy and Bodine compete at center, but if Bodine wins the job, Groy becomes the LG. If Groy wins the job, I think Bodine goes to the bench. You could keep Newhouse as a swing and Ducasse as veteran depth. Miller in my mind is still competing with Ducasse. If Bodine wins the center job, and Groy starts at guard, you still need a backup who can snap and I'd keep an eye on Adam Redmond UDFA from Harvard. Obviously a smart guy. He's started two years at tackle and his senior year at center so has versatility. He is the exact type of player who Juan Castillo has turned into something in the past. Long, athletic, versatile, smart. Plugging Luke Joeckel in at left guard makes this all look a lot better.

Hmm, how come I got so fat when I stopped playing college football?

Yep. Only reason the Rangers have been good until this year.

I believe they have that state championship quarterback from West Seneca on the way as well.

I like Dez. He's a competitor and he can be a bit of a diva but I don't think that is a big deal. I think that part of his game is over stated. I've never heard anyone say he was a bad teammate besides news people jumping to conclusions. I'd be okay with his addition. He gets really emotional and if your read up on how he grew up, one could understand why he is as fiery and emotional as he is. https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/dez-bryant-the-survivor-20150827

Ah yes that one time with that one guy (who actually had talent) for that one team that didn't have a quarterback. Great odds!

I dunno. These guys have massive egos. It's usually all or nothing.

I love me some Mikey G...but he was a very poor fit for what they did in New England, and I assume that Daboll will bring those concepts over. He is also pretty useless on special teams (especially KOR) and I think your third back needs to be able to help there. He should go to LA and be Melvin Gordon's backup and reunite with Anthony Lynn.

I don't disagree completely, but if I am a guy who has dealt with the injuries Bowman has, your better pay me a fair amount or I'm retiring. And is Bowman willing to come in and be a 2 down player?

But people are using that stat and it is just a dumb stat. It says very little. If he throws 10-15, 5 yard bubble screens ala Mayfield, Rudolph, Darnold, then his completion percentage is over sixty. The guy was running a pro style offense that isn't one read and throw to a wide open guy. It involved running the ball and using play action. People are failing to see the whole picture. He's good enough to be a top ten pick in the opinion of pretty much the entire NFL, but he isn't good enough for a bunch of blog writers and message board guys on the internet? It's comical. I get that he has flaws, but using the completion percentage stat is just dumb. Outside of Rosen, his footwork is better than the rest of these guys. He has, by far, the strongest arm. He made full field reads. He is faster and more athletic than the guy who is 5 inches shorter and weights 30 pounds less. His upside is huge. People who can't see this are blinded by their own bias and the fact that they didn't get their guy and they are clinging to 56%.

I really hope to see very little of Humber. He was terrible and it was so obvious. Every time something went wrong on defense, even if it wasn't Milano's fault, it seemed like McDermott threw Humber out there, like he was going to stop the bleeding. He's awful. It annoyed me that McDermott didn't trust Milano. Young guys like Milano and Stanford will make mistakes, but at least they are awesome athletes and will make plays. Tyrod played terrible in that Jacksonville game, but I still think we ultimately lost because Humber and Preston were our linebackers and they were too darn slow to get to a scrambling Bortles. (Milano was hurt for that one). I don't want to see Humber anywhere outside of special teams.

I still think it is funny that no one is saying anything about the tape. They are just posing statistics and have latched on to the bad completion percentage. As Diler said, completion percentage should not be the metric for accuracy. It seems some people latched on to the 56% an just never looked back. Statistics like those are so anti-analystics.

I think Bowman is the best of what is on the market but I think he will be expensive. Whoever we bring in is likely to be a 2 down player only and needs to be an upgrade over Lorax at the Sam. Cushing makes sense and has a relationship with John Butler our DB coach. Karlos Dansby used to be a long athletic player like Edmunds and could be an interesting mentor type. I also think Lawrence Timmons could fit as well. All of them are more middle backer than Sam backer, but they could all work. If Lorax is going to start there, there is no need really, but I think we could use an upgrade there.

Having Bob Babich as his coach is huge. There aren't too many better than him. He turned Brian Urlacher into a Hall of Famer, turned Lance Briggs into one of the best in the league, made Poz so much better in Jacksonville, and developed Telvin Smith, a fifth round pick who is now probably top five linebackers in the league. Edmunds might be the best piece of clay he's ever worked with. Edmunds is basically the same size as Urlacher but a little faster. Remember Urlacher was a converted safety so he was very raw at the start as well. I love the Edmunds pick.

I would love the signing, but once you start getting into that 5 per million range you are getting closer to the Clint Bolings of the world. I just can't pay Joeckel that. I think he would have to take a 1 year deal at around 3-4 million, or prabaly something like 2 years 7 million with. He got paid 8 million last year based on his potential, now I think he has to prove it.

I really like Milano, the one thing I would say is keep an eye on Julian Stanford. I was against his signing initially, but this guy is a ridiculous athlete and will push Milano for playing time. IMO Stanford could play Will or Mike, and might be passable at SAM as well. I think he is going to push for playing time.

I honestly think he should come much cheaper. He was huge bust but looked pretty good at guard this year. He is coming off a season ending injury. So coming off injury, inconsistent career....I don't think he can expect 5-6 million a year, especially at this point in the offseason. One other guy who makes some sense is Alex Boone, who has been mentioned a few times in here. Now that we don't have a midget quarterback, I wouldn't mind bringing in a 6-8 guard. I prefer the youth and upside of Joeckel though.

Yes he's a guard now and Robinson was tried there as well. Joeckel is a great fit for what we do imo. He actually played pretty well in Seattle before he got hurt, and he should come cheap at this point.

Just havin some fun. Usually it's just because they might remind you of someone you know.