Billy Claude

It looks like they only had three in 2023 also (Allen, Allen & Barkley) and 2022 (Allen, Keenum & Barkley) also.

The Jets obviously feel there are enough snaps to go around. They are bringing five QBs to camp: Rodgers, Taylor, and rookies Jordan Travis, Andrew Peasley (Wyoming) and Colby Suits (UL-Monroe).

Not saying there backup qb wasn't horrible, just that a lot of posts seem to imply the backup played most of the season when Travis actually played a cast majority of the games.

Well, then you should have been more specific. After all, there appears to be many posters that regard the Bills as a dysfunctional organization with everyone under the iron micromanaging fist of Sean McDermott.

There are plenty of examples, though they don't tend to last long. For example, Adam Gase was clearly unhappy when Mike Maccagnan was making picks during the first year Gase was with the Jets and Gase got Woody Johnson to fired Maccagnan almost immediately afterwards. The same with Rex Ryan and Mike Idzik before them. Idzik wanted to rebuild and Ryan wanted to pick for need and eventually Idzik was fired.

Coleman also said on one of the videos that he regarded being at Michigan State as a two year sentence and that he was a southern boy at heart. Not sure what he will feel about Buffalo in November, December and January. Folks blaming the backup QB at Miami are talking like Jordan Travis missed half the season. Travis played 10.5 games. He only missed 2.5 games that Coleman played in (Coleman did not play in the Orange Bowl).

I enjoyed the comment from Coleman to Carter that they never saw the way Duke was playing him before and Carter responding with that Duke changed their defense every week. I guess it is easier to do that at Duke. It does seem the Bills put a high weight on intelligence and perhaps that was why they didn't that Leggette if the rumors were true. I regard most of the criticism of McDermott as nonsense but the one that I feel is valid is that he doesn't adapt his defense for the opponent but basically plays the same defense all the time This was the same issue with Dorsey when he was OC.

I appreciate the response. Actually Johnson was remarkably consistent. He was sacked once every 6.5 dropbacks after he left the Bills also. I think the best comp for Rob Johnson is Zach Wilson. All the skill in the world but just didn't know how to play QB. I will have to check this but I seem to remember the Bills signing Flutie before trading for Johnson. I think that was one of the reasons why Flutie was so pissed from the beginning. Definitely agree that the Bills were desperate, also I guess that Johnson also looked very good in preseason games, though so did Nathan Peterman. Definitely also agree that Flutie was not good that season before the Titans playoff game.

Sure you can always find instances where the fans are right and the "experts" are wrong but how many times have fans called for the backup QB to start and how many times did it turn out that the backup wasn't playing because he stank. I bet a lot more times than the opposite way.

I don't see any similarity between Fields and early Russell Wilson. Yes, Wilson was great at the broken play but he beat out Matt Flynn (who was a big free agent signing by the Seahawks) because Wilson had surprisingly great ball placement and anticipation. -- certainly not anything anyone has said is a strength of Justin Field. Regarding the Steelers, Pickett, Trubisky, and Rudolph is such a low bar to set, I have a hard time seeing that Wilson and Fields will not be better.

Rob Johnson was sacked 7 times in 35 pass attempts when he was in Jacksonville while protected by the HOF LT. That is 1 sack every 6 dropbacks which was a little worse than in Buffalo where he was sacked once every 7 drop backs. That is not a sustainable way to win games or stay off the IR. His so called "outstanding" numbers in Jacksonville occurred in a sample size of one game where he threw for 294 yards out of his 368 total yards with the Jaguars. In a sign of things to come, Johnson had to miss most of the third quarter of that game due to injury though he came back and played all of the 4th quarter (nobody said Johnson was not tough). Flutie was sacked about once every 23 dropbacks when Flutie and Johnson were on the Bills together, so at approximately 30% the rate Johnson was sacked. The Bills offensive line wasn't great during that time but it wasn't as bad as it looked when Johnson was QB. There should have been all kinds of red flags when the Bills traded for Johnson but it was before any form of analytics. As Flutie supposedly said when he left "I may not be a great quarterback but you can't tell me that I'm not better than that guy."

I assume this leak must have come from the someone in the Patriots organization. I never remember anything like this when Bellichek was in charge. Definitely a sign of a poorly run organization if these types of leaks continue (see Whaley, Doug).

I agree that they probably prepared some stuff for Allen to look at but I would hope that they asked him to pick 6 or 7 that he would like to work with and not one.

I am sure you are right that he can contribute in that manner. What you described seems to be a low floor to me for a draft pick at the top of the second round.

After watching that video, the answer to the OP's question appears to be "Fact: Keon Coleman is not a separator". He is covered pretty tightly on almost every pass. Some of it might be due to poor QB play but definitely not all it. The more important question is can he become a separator with better coaching. I assume moving from school to school and changing coachng staffs didn't help but sometimes Beane is unduly confident in what the coaching staff can do.

The scouts spent hours and hours evaluating each player, watching tape, interviewing the player, talking to their coaches, looking at combine data, discussing the player with each other, comparing the player to other players etc. How much time did you think Allen spent on this? They probably gave him 10 minute highlight video and a one page summary of seven or eight guys and asked him for his impressions. Maybe a three hours altogether tops. He was probably okay with most of them since it is hard for me to believe that Bills scouts wouldn't be able to rule out guys that definitely won't be a fit with their QB. Do you get feedback from your franchise QB? Sure, but I definitely hope that they didn't decide on passing over Worthy and Legette because Allen was banging the table for Coleman. That is not Allen's job. My guess is that he would have also been perfectly okay with Worthy and Legette and the "Allen wanted Coleman" business is just a bit of stupid but relatively harmless PR.

I certainly hope that Allen was not involved in this pick. That is not his job. If the Bills picked Coleman because Allen wanted him then Beane definitely needs to be fired. My guess is that the involvement by Allen was prefunctory, sort of like King Charles officially has to approve all legislation before it becomes law. Coleman fits the high ceiling low floor profile of most early round Beane picks. Except for the 40 time, he is a freakish athlete whose college stats are not super impressive. Examples include Allen, Edmunds, Brown, Knox, Elam, and Rousseau. They are betting on that can teach him to separate in the pros. Hopefully they are right.

No to more Jets oline rejects. Every one the Bills havehad has been beyond terrible.

I do worry that the front office is not paying to Allen's strengths. Allen does not like the short game. He loses patience with it too easily. It also requires a lot of pre-snap reads and ball placement which not his forte. Allen displayed more patience at the end of last season, maybe he will keep it up. However, Allen is also not great at the long bombs. Yes, you can find instance of crucial drops but it is not all the receivers fault. He just doesn't put enough air under the ball. In any case long bombs is not a strategy any team can rely on consistently. What Allen is great at is the intermediate 10 to 25 yard pass. Until recently Diggs had been pivotal in that role. Hopefully they have a replacement. It is certainly not clear that is the case.

Aren't these the things that Josh Allen is not very good at? Are they trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? This is what is puzzling to me. It was like when Dennison came in and decided to run the WCO with Tyrod Taylor.

Agree. Beane usually gives you a good idea of the broad strokes of his thinking and very rarely tells an outright lie. Definitely much less likely to tell a bald face lie than other GMs. The only exception I can think of is the Kair Elam year when he claimed the Bills were not lasered focused on a CB when they clearly were.

The Bengals were incredibly lucky in 2021. Every Bengal playoff game was incredibly close. In the wild-card game, the Raiders had three shots at tying (or winning) the game from the Bengals 9-yard line with 30 seconds left. In the divisional game against the Titans, Tannehill threw two 4th quarter interceptions including one with 40 seconds left at mid field that set up the Bengals game winning field goal and in the conference championship, one could argue the Chiefs were emotionally spent from the 13 second game. The 2021 Bengals were probably the weakest AFC team in the Super Bowl in about 20 years.

Perhaps a little context. First, it is not official, it is just a rumor. Second, the Giants are celebrating their 100th year next year and as pointed out by Gregg, these are their uniforms from 1933, so this is likely a one time thing as a part of the 100th year celebration.

Bad idea. When is the last time a nostaglia hire has worked? Lou Saban?

The Broncos are picking up half of Zach's salary of 5.5M. This was the surprising thing to me. I would have have thought any trade would have resulted in Jets eating at least 4M of the 5.5M. https://sports.yahoo.com/jets-broncos-split-zach-wilsons-193402288.html