Inigo Montoya

Josh just checks off all the boxes. 1. He can throw the ball accurately with velocity or touch anywhere on the field. Put Mahomes and Rodgers in that group too. 2. Can run the ball in the open field like a Tight End and run short yardage like a full back. Obviously Lamar and Murray can run in the open field but they're not short yardage guys. 3. Has maturity beyond his years to shoulder the responsibility of being the face of a franchise. Contrast that with Mayfield and Murray. Who is another young QB who does it as well or better than Josh.....? I'm not sure there is one. 4. Is a leader of men and can get the locker room to follow him and makes those around him better. Put Brady in this list. 5. Is absolutely clutch in the big moments. Definitely Brady in here too. It would be fair to put Mahomes in this group despite his showing versus the Bengals last season. You can say Rodgers but he sometimes disappears in the playoffs. 6. Is big as a mountain and an elite athlete. Herbert is not as big as Josh but close, don't think he is as athletic. 7. Has the strongest arm in the NFL. Mahomes in here as honorable mention, but I think Josh has him. 8. A desire to win that is crazy. Who else drags Aaron Donald around by the facemask and trucks LBs and CBs on the regular? The guy will do anything to win. There are some gamers out there playing QB, but Josh takes it to a new level. The bottom line is that there are other quarterbacks who have some of the same qualities that Josh has, but not one of them has all of them. Josh is a unicorn and if he is blessed with a little bit of good luck has the potential to be one of the all time greats.

With the Kyler Murray signing I didn't think it would be long before some more rumors about Lamar's contract surfaced. Enter CBS Sports... I hope Lamar breaks the Raven's bank... 👀 https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/football/nfl/player/710/lamar-jackson CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones believes Lamar Jackson should be "aiming to match and top [Deshaun] Watson's guaranteed deal" in his contract negotiations with the Ravens. "That should still be the bar for Jackson," Jones said, adding that Kyler Murray's contract extension shouldn't impact Jackson's talks with the Ravens. "Obviously, negotiations are what they are, so what one side's starting point is doesn't mean that will be the ending point. Perhaps Watson's deal will remain anomalous as NFL team owners act as though it doesn't exist." Watson signed a fully-guaranteed five-year, $230 million deal with Cleveland -- $80 million more than the previous record for guaranteed money. It seems unlikely the Ravens will top Watson's guarantees, though Jackson's extension should top Murray's recent deal. Jackson -- who is not represented by an agent -- continues his prolonged talks with the Ravens as the team's training camp kicks off. "

Bingo! Gissele has more career earnings than Tom does. By a comfortable margin. He had the luxury of not needing to maximize his salary.

The six years was the best part of the deal. I expect 4 and 5 year contracts will be the norm for QBs That one extra year is really big.

The best thing about Josh's contract was that it was 6 years tacked onto the end of his rookie contract. Allen got paid the going rate for a franchise QB on his deal, the Bills didn't get a discount on that, where he was team friendly was in the length of the contract. Six years was huge for the Bills.

He routinely makes crazy sideline grabs that play to Josh's strength. When Josh extends the play and breaks the pocket and starts running towards a sideline, I've started to expect seeing #13 following him across the field making some ridiculous toe tapping snag on a Josh Allen laser beam to move the chains.

I'm not sure if you're trying to troll. I really don't care. Bottom line is that by your own rankings Allen is #5 in the NFL behind two QBs who will likely be retired in the next two seasons. The Bills have at worst a top three QB going forward. I can live with that. By the way.... you wouldn't happen to have six fingers on your right hand?

The section on Allen starts off, "Allen is a freak show at the position...." https://www.nfl.com/news/five-scariest-quarterbacks-entering-2022-nfl-season-where-gronk-ranks-among-top- I'm past the who's the best QB debate which will always be a Chevy / Ford thing. Bottom line is our QB is elite and is now getting the respect he deserves. What a road Allen has travelled from draft night punch line to where he is today.

It's hard to die from an OD on Benzos. A lot of the "overdoses" happening in this country are really poisonings from pills spiked with fatal amounts of Fentanyl. Taking any pill today that isn't purchased at a pharmacy is like playing Russian Roulette. There was a group of cadets from West Point who were on Spring Break earlier this year who got some pills spiked with fentanyl and some of them died. A first responder did mouth to mouth on one of them and almost died himself from coming in contact with the residual fentanyl on the cadets lips. How crazy is that? 100,000 Americans died from "overdoses" last year, the vast majority were actually poisonings with fentanyl laced pills. 77% of all deaths in teenagers in this country is from fentanyl poisonings. If you have kids you absolutely have to have the talk about this with them. It's a mass poisoning on a scale never seen before and no one seems to be willing to call out the companies in China making the fentanyl (with the OK from their government) and shipping it to the Mexican cartels to smuggle across the southern border (with the OK from their narco-government) into our county.

In a similarly useful, highly scientific exercise, I am going to rank the best flavors of ice cream but stipulate for the purposes of my rankings that they all have to taste like mashed potatoes. Talk about off-season filler content...

For mercy’s sake I hope they euthanized that football afterwards.

Annoyed_Man_Punches_TV_Screen_After_Favorite_Football_Team_Loses.mp4 Patriots fans everywhere after the 1st round Cole Strange pick...

I'm excited to see the RBs more involved in the passing game, especially Cook who looks like he has a legit chance to make something big happen every time he touches the ball. Those quick swing passes and screens always looked like low hanging fruit to me that the Bills offense under Daboll didn't take advantage of often enough. Run Diggs and Davis deep and clear out the underneath with two safeties deep and then exploit the hole in the defense. I don't remember the last time a Bills RB took a dump off pass and took it down the field to the house. Hopefully that changes this season.

He was the kicker as well as the punter, someone held for him.

Looking at the off season moves that have been made to this point I think there are a couple of things we can assume for Dorsey's offense 1. We will probably see more two tight end sets with OJ Howard and Knox on the field. Throw Diggs, Gabe, and now Cook out there, and I think Dorsey just created a nightmare for defenses. I suspect this will overtake 11 personnel as the most common offensive set this year. 2. With the failed run at McKissic, the signing of Duke Johnson, and now the drafting of Cook, I think we are going to see more swing passes, screens, and an overall increase in the involvement of the RBs in the passing game this year. When the Bills do line up in 11 personnel, if defenses want to play two deep safeties to keep Josh from burning them over the top, they better hope their LBs can tackle because the underneath is going to be wide open and now we have some weapons who can truly exploit it. 3. We have become a faster offense. With the resigning and likely bigger role for McKenzie, the drafting of Cook, and Marquez Stevenson waiting in the wings, we should see a faster offense. I hope we finally get to see some of Stevenson on offense this year. He was buried on the depth chart last year, but with Sanders gone that bumps everyone up one spot on the depth chart. Beane hasn't gone after one of the burner WRs in the draft so far. That may be just because of how the draft fell to them, but there is also a possibility that the Bills think they already have their burner on the roster in Stevenson. I think Crowder is also faster than Beasley and I see a career year for him this year with Josh slinging him the rock. 4. With the return of Aaron Kromer I think we can expect an improvement in the running game. The Bills had the #1 rushing attack in the NFL in 2015 and 2016 when Kromer was the O-line coach. I don't think Buffalo will ever be a run first team as long as Josh is under center, but if we can become more effective in the run game that will pay huge dividends all around for the offense. The Bills passed the ball 59.2% of the time last season, I expect that number to come down this season. 5. This is related to the point above, an improved running game should also diminish the wear and tear on our franchise QB. I think called QB runs except for short yardage situations will become few and far between. Josh will still do Josh things and take off when he sees an opening, but I would be shocked if he is the Bills' leading rusher again this year. 6. This one is more of a guess on my part, but I think the next step in Josh's evolution is being able to completely change the play at the line of scrimmage based on the defensive look on any given play, ala Peyton Manning. Dorsey is a former QB and I think he will trust Josh with more freedom on the field to make those calls than Daboll did. We've all seen Josh can make any throw on the field, he is one of the best running QBs in the NFL, I think the next area we see him make a huge leap in is the mental aspect of the game. This is year five for Josh and I think he is ready to take complete ownership of the offense. 7. This final point is related to the previous one, with the limitless options of running an offense with Howard, Knox, Diggs, Davis, and Cook all on the field at the same time, I can see the Bills' offense going more up tempo this year. QBs love the hurry up and Dorsey is a QB at heart. I think we will see the Bills go no huddle a lot more with Dorsey calling the plays. It would be a new wrinkle that defenses have to worry about and I think Josh is ready to handle it.

When it comes to this pick I believe three things; 1. I'll place my trust in Beane, McDermott, and Frazier when it comes to evaluating defensive talent. I'm sure the organization as a whole has spent 100+ hours looking at this guy and decided he was a fit for their defense. I trust their considered judgement more than than the opinions of posters on TBD who have spent a total of 11 minutes "researching" Terrell Bernard on the internet prior to expounding on the pick. 2. As we have all seen time and time again, making grand pronouncements about a player on draft night is absolutely useless. Anyone who says they know how a player is going to turn out 8 hours into their NFL career is nuts. 3. Having said all that, this is a fan message board and I do enjoy reading everyone's opinion and it's fun to throw my own out there too, for what it's worth. Let's hope he's another Matt Milano. It looks to me like that's the type of player they were looking for with this pick. 🍻

Sorry if already posted, here's Rotoworld's blurb on Terrell Bernard; "Bernard (6’1/218) was a three-year starter at Baylor who garnered all-Big 12 honors in 2021. An undersized whirling dervish on the field, Bernard runs like a safety and hits like a linebacker. He blazed a 4.59 forty during the pre-draft process with 79th-percentile or better showings in the vertical and broad jumps, three cone, and short shuttle. On the field, he’s a fabulous sideline-to-sideline run defender who isn’t intimidated by oncoming blockers, but while Bernard has the athleticism for coverage, to this point in his career he’s lacked the instincts for the work. He has similar measurables and a similar game to Deion Jones, albeit with heightened durability concerns." https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/football/nfl/player/67816/terrel-bernard

The Pat's message board is self destructing right now over Bill drafting Cole Strange, an offensive guard, with their 1st round pick. There is a video link of Sean McVay watching the pick live while he is being interviewed and then absolutely nuking the pick. McVay starts laughing out loud and says they wasted a lot of time looking at Strange thinking he'd be there at pick 104. It's rare to see an NFL coach bomb another coach One of the best comments directed towards Bill from the thread was; "Your defense didn’t force a got damn punt the last two games vs Buffalo, moron." It's so nice to see the worst fanbase in the NFL getting what they deserve. 😃 https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/cole-strange-wtf.1158338/

If the Bills can put anyone else on the D-Line that offenses need to worry about, Oliver should start putting up the numbers many of us had hoped for when he was drafted. Enter Von Miller....

That certainly sends a shot across the bow of the Giants locker room, if they'll cut last year's 1st rounder no one is safe. Get on board or get on out. Kinda like the Bills moving on from Dareus.

It's just a hat tip from Brady to the other top QBs in the league. It must be great for Josh to have his childhood hero giving him props like that.

We have great owners who are willing to invest what is needed to field a winning team. Beane is clearly a top three GM in the NFL and McDermott has put together a top notch coaching staff that is able to develop home grown talent and create a great locker room with a culture of winning. Lastly, we have a truly elite, franchise QB who has not reached his ceiling and is legitimately in the debate to be the best player in the NFL. I have never been as optimistic about this franchise as I am right now.

I believe Josh is the best all around QB in the NFL. Having said that... whether Josh is at #1, #3, or #5, we have finally found our elite franchise QB and our decades long wandering through the QB wastelands is over.

The problem with letting Poyer walk is that it will effect Hyde's play too. The two know each other so well and play so well together that the loss of either one of them will result in a real hit to our secondary. The two or them together are definitely greater than the two individually. McDermott knows secondary play and I'm sure he recognizes this too. Our two safeties are the backbone of the entire defense. We need to try to keep them together as long as they continue to play at this level.

Lol! Grumpy young millionaires. An interesting phenomenon....