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GMs pay attention to preseason games and they have enough scouting awareness to tell if the talent is worth trading for.

Of course, but I’m talking about developing a later round QB in order to be a serviceable backup and a capital gain return.

And then this year it will be his ankles. Then someone will use it to explain away bad numbers.

Our goal should be finding a great talented QB in the 3-6th rounds and then flipping them for a 2nd or a 1st 4 years after development. They serve as a security blanket in the event your starter goes down, and serve as capital gains.

It’s always been a problem, but that doesn’t mean we just ignore it and don’t try. The GMs job is to find high quality backups and trade them for extra pieces if the room gets too crowded. Even if you can’t afford a high quality backup when you draft them, you trade them away and get extra capital before their contract is up. You then get 4 more years of another quality player if you draft well.

Probably O’Connell in the 3rd.

I would have drafted a QB in the 3rd last year.

We didn’t even try to draft one and train them up. Our answer was to bring back Mitch lol

A GM should be making sure that holes are plug with competent replacements. If controversy arises, you just trade away the slightly lesser talent with more picks. Giving up a ton of losses if your stars go down for any amount of time is unacceptable. It’s not lucky, the GM did his job in finding competent backups.

Look at Montana and Young. Not having a good backup is just an excuse.

Now that Allen has some kind of developing ankle issue, we have no answer if he goes down for any amount of time. Mitch is not a viable backup. We should have drafted a 2nd or 3rd round QB to have groomed for difficult moments. People will say this is not a legitimate worry, but Allen relies on movement in the pocket and out of the pocket. He lives on his ankles. Ankles already being taped up and with a full work load every single week will just add to that stress. I mean look at how much it bothered him at the end of practice. Threw like 50 interceptions.

Great now Allen is hurt. Ankle issues don’t magically go away, they linger especially with the heavy demands of a regular season. Mitch isn’t the answer and we didn’t do anything to address QB2.

That looked awful purple falcon.

It’s not going to matter. She never won anything in the primaries, nobody wants her.

They are Trojan horsing Kamala. She never won in the primaries. Not even a single state. This is the only way they can get her through via bureaucratic means. The American people should be put on notice, your voice doesn’t matter.

Keon Coleman is so slow, that his route tree doesn’t even have any growth rings.

Hey I’m with you in some ways. I’d much rather take Billy B over McD. It’s still doesn’t excuse Allen’s weaknesses which are game management and decision making. If Allen has 1/4 less turnovers, we likely would already have a Super Bowl and home field advantages.

It’s a different kind of overrated. Allen has what is likely an all time great physical elite talent profile. But it isn’t translating to super bowls. But that isn’t really overrated, that is more “disappointing” or “frustrating” he isn’t translating those talents into super bowls.

Allen is just off the charts immensely talented physically which is what yields all this “overrated” “frustration” etc chatter behind him. He should be smoking other QBs on his elite talent alone. Seriously, Josh should be calling up Brady and be like I’m moving in at your place for 3 months. Show me everything you know about the game of football. Even if he managed to improve 15% in that department, we would be talking about finally getting over the hump.

Josh Allen’s weaknesses have always been between the ears. It’s why I’ve always advocated for him to spend an entire summer with Brady trying to digest the game.

I just hope Allen doesn’t become another Cam Newton. Cam Newton was basically just physically talented and had nothing between the ears in the game of football. And as soon as Cam’s body wore down, he become a terrible QB because he just couldn’t function because he never mastered the game. Players like Brees and Brady managed to keep results elevated despite physical decline because their game IQ made up for the physical decline. Allen is much more talented than Newton, but I’m not convinced Allen is all that much smarted than Newton on the field with some of the decisions he makes. I mean for crying out loud, Josh has already admitted that he can only handle watching so much film before it tweaks him out. That’s a mental issue. It always has been with Josh. He overthinks things because he isn’t confident enough to make the reads.

I wouldn’t say the word is overrated. I think the word the exec should have used is frustrating. Josh Allen is frustrating at times. The exec is correct, Allen is immensely talented. I think they said overrated because that immense talent hasn’t translated into super bowls. Some of that isn’t Allen’s fault though, it’s the teams and coaching. However Allen’s problems have always been between the ears. I really hope he can become a surgeon on the field at some point, because as he gets older and the elite talent begins to show signs of decline, the stats are going to balloon towards the negative if Allen can’t figure out how to be a game manager. Brady and Manning were as great as they were because they knew the game of football like the back of their hands, they were surgeons because they could read and understand every single tendencies. Allen should be destroying these other QBs on talent alone, but he isn’t because he hasn’t mastered the mental aspect of the game. If Allen ever figures it out, watch out, because the combination of elite talent and being a surgeon on the field will yield a long streak of super bowls for Buffalo. But time is running out, he likely has about 5 more years before physical peak performance. I think the choice of words was incorrect. I think it should have been disappointing or frustrating. Allen might have the most physical traits of all time, but the mental aspect of game management and understanding tendencies are what is holding him back from being a top 5 all timer.

I agree. Right now Allen is basically Dan Marino. An elite QB that hasn’t won the big one. Even then, Dan Marino still has a slight edge on Allen, because at least Marino made it to a Super Bowl. Same with the stigma. “How much help does Josh Allen need” . Brady and Mahomes proved they can do it with an elite TE and jags for WRs. This would be the year for Allen to prove he can do it with average supporting cast.

I agree, we don’t want moral victories. But its still rather impressive either way.

I’d much rather have Adams.