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Jamarcus Russell was a bust because he was a fat lazy slob who didn't want to work at being a pro athlete. As I said before, I'm not into going on a board and predicting failure. I will mention something though: Years ago I thought Vince Young was going to be a massive bust & I told everyone who would listen. Then he goes out and surprises me his rookie year and I vowed to stop getting on QBs coming out of college and predicting doom & gloom for their careers. Funny how Young turned out, even getting some preseason snaps with my team near the very end of his career.

A couple of months ago when there was no football stuff happening I looked back at the final 2018 mock drafts & a very high % of the top guys had the Bills trading into the top 10 for Allen. What that told me was the word was out that the Bills were going after Allen and they still were able to trade up & get him. Some guys, like Kiper, do mock drafts based on who they think is the best player at the position & assign him to the team in need of that position. Other guys actually try to predict what will happen, rather than apply their biases like Kiper (who BTW thought Allen was the best QB & mock drafted him to Cleveland), and end up getting things right sometimes. Going over all the mocks, the guys actually trying to predict the draft were saying the Bills were going to do whatever it took to get Allen if he fell out of the top 3. They were also smart enough to know neither Cleveland, NYG or NYJ were taking him.

So what the OP is saying is that Arizona is too dumb to recognize that he has bad mechanics, has a coaching staff that is too dumb to be able to coach him into better mechanics & Murray is too set in his ways to listen to coaches and work on his mechanics, all because he loves baseball. While I'm not a fan of Arizona drafting Murray #1 and I think there are a number of red flags from size to the lack of success on dual sports QBs who have baseball contracts (remember Elway was just using the Yankees to get out of Baltimore) and end up playing in the NFL, I think the OP is really reaching on this mechanics thing. Also, for every QB ever drafted since the advent of message boards, there are numerous posts as to why the guy will be a bust. I prefer posts that aren't negative on every QB out there, although I will admit that when I heard that EJ was offering stock in his future the 1st thing I said was I want to know how to short that stock. PS: I will admit a lot of what I feel is clouded by all the criticism I saw last year on Josh Allen before we drafted him and how stupid any team would be to make him a top 10 pick.

I'll be there.

If Seattle thinks Haskins has franchise potential they should consider trading Wilson to the NYG for picks 6 & 17 plus either another draft choice or a player. That way they can reset their cap # at QB & make another Super Bowl run adding players they can't add with Wilson's cap #. Now if they don't love any QBs in this draft, they better do everything needed to keep Wilson happy in Seattle.

No they don't. Once the Pegulas got approved & owned the team, they can do anything they want in regards to their stadium and the NFL can't stop them. The NFL put up with Al Davis for years because they knew they couldn't do anything to him if he made a decision that was, what he thought, best for the Raiders. Do you think the NFL loves the road revenue when they play in LA against the Chargers in that sub-minor league stadium for 3 years? If the Bills decide to renovate New Era stadium, all the NFL can do is send the opponents there and suck it up.

Unless this guy has a bad medical report on Alex Smith in his hands, how the heck does he know if the Redskins are desperate for a QB. A year ago Washington though of Smith enough to give him a 5 year contract. Even if he doesn't play in 2019, unless they KNOW that Smith will never play again, they have to ride it out this season & hope he returns in 2020. They're just too hog-tied with his contract to go drafting his replacement this year. Just look at his contract #s (linked), with a dead cap hit of over $32 million in 2020. They can't afford to move on unless the medical reports say he's done and I seriously doubt this mock drafter knows what his medical report is. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/washington-redskins/alex-smith-3337/

Everyone seems to be forgetting that the Giants have the #17 pick in the draft. If they don't view any of the QBs worth a top 10 pick, they can sit at 17 and get their guy, if they even have a guy in this bad QB draft year. Nobody wants to be the next Buddy Nix-a guy who takes a QB just to take one because he neglected the position in earlier drafts. Better to be prudent and wait a year until a guy, not JAG, is available in either your spot or a trade up. All this talk about teams between 10-15 grabbing a bunch of QBs is just talk by people who want those teams to get so hungry for a QB they'll get into a bidding war for pick 9. All that is, is Bills homerism by people who love the thought of trading down. The QBs in this draft just aren't that talented to start a bidding war for. Let's look at the teams the trade downers are talking about: Denver: Elway has been taking draft scraps for years hoping one will turn into chicken salad. He's not risking it at 10 or a trade up. Just look at last year, he could have had Allen or Rosen at 5, but wasn't even thinking QB. He's been a win now GM his entire stay, not a guy who looks 2-3 years down the line. It worked with Manning so he thinks a veteran for a few years is better than drafting a QB of the future. He figures he can get 2-3 years out of Flacco and is pushing the young QB down the road to another future draft. Miami: Face it, they're thinking 2020 not 2019. The team is structured to be bad this year. They reached for Tannehill years ago & won't make the mistake of drafting JAG again, at least not in this draft. Cincinnati: They have a mediocrity in Dalton. This draft is filled with future mediocrities. The Bengals are not looking at this draft to get another one. Daton's job is safe for this draft. Washington: They invested in Smith long term. Now he has a season ending injury, but QBs are now playing into their 40s. They traded for this year's stopgap & rather than reach for a QB this year, they'll see what Smith is before the 2020 draft. They'll probably be drafting pretty high, as will the Giants, in a much better QB draft next year, so if Smith can't play again they'll be in position to draft a franchise guy.

There's a lot more than just Jimmy hedging on QBs. Neither had played a down in the NFL, totally different than bringing in a 2nd year player as a hedge on another 2nd year player. Most important: Walsh was Jimmy Johnson's QB in Miami before JJ was hired by the Cowboys. Rosen has no ties to any Bills coaches. Overall, it was a stupid decision. Walsh was a lousy NFL QB & JJ was extremely lucky he was able to fleece the Saints out of a #1 pick before Walsh was fully exposed and was around Not For Long in NO. .

Years ago I heard an interview with Fred Smerlas (who hates Bullough and calls him "brain cell" because according to Fred, he only has one brain cell) and he said the same thing about players telling the other ones they'd kill them if they made a tackle. If I recall correctly, Freddie attributed the threats to Bruce Smith.

I've called a couple of times with Petrino, quite a few years ago. 1st time was a postgame show in the 90s during preseason and we called the post game show together, he got on the phone in my kitchen & I got on the phone in my bedroom so we were both on the air at the same time. The 2nd time I was driving & Petrino called The Coach Dickerson's postgame show from my car on the Thruway. We mentioned how I had security come down after I wrote in the snow on the roof of the indoor seats below the 1st row of the club level endzone "Fire Mularkey" and they made me brush the writing off. Coach responded "Did he write it in yellow?"

If he ends up with the Pats, I can't wait to see Kraft's reaction when he sees Rosen wearing a F Trump bandana in training camp.

The question should be if the Bills win the division should Beane & McDermott get 10 year extensions, not some question that asks what if they go 4-12 or 5-11. Unless the team bus crashes into a ravine there's no way the same team that went 6-10 and has had massive offseason upgrades, a QB with a year of experience & gets an easier schedule will win fewer games than last season.

The Bills order was Allen-Darnold-Mayfield-Rosen-Rudolph & Lauletta according to the leaked photo that I copied from the thread on Bills furious... !@#$‏ @insider_bills Follow Follow @insider_bills More @Schopptalk @Bulldogwgr @NateGearyWGR alleged Bills QB rankings posted on whiteboard at OBD. Shown to me by blowhard Bills employee at Founding Fathers last night. Photo evidence of his employee badge as verification

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Why would the Raiders ever play Peterman or even have him on the 53 man roster? The QB depth chart in Oakland is:' Derek Carr Mike Glennon Landry Jones Nate Peterman Look at the Raiders other QBs & GET REAL

New Jersey Sue?

Meanwhile the Buffalo media has remained silent, knowing the Bills will be on SNF in November and December.

At the time it was discussed by fans and the best one I saw was "Marv to Bills: Win or I'll sing again"

Most of the mock drafters have been asking and answering the OP's question. It seems they're so hung up on Josh Allen that they're including him in all their mock drafts this year & the consensus is he's a top 5 pick. ?

Actually, Darnold came back from injury the final 4 games & played much better with the exception of the season finale where Belichick did what he's done to virtually ever rookie QB he's faced. Look at Darnold's 3 games before the NE game & you'll see he was playing at a very high level. The only realistic way to look at it is they both showed potential, got injured, and then came back much improved. They both look like they have bright futures and similar to the Kelly-Marino years, the guy who has a better team around him will win more games while the other guy is also viewed as one of the NFL's top QBs. The class of 2018 will go down as the best since 1983 and/or 2004.

It depends on what the other teams in the league think of Rosen. A team that had a high grade on him coming out of UCLA may still think a lot of him & view Arizona's drafting of Murray as a mistake that they can benefit from. At 1st I though Arizona would get a 1st rounder for Rosen, now I'm thinking more like a 2nd. Years ago Brett Favre was a highly rated QB coming out of college who slipped to the 2nd round. He barely played as a rookie & his coach wanted nothing to do with him. GB hired a new GM, Ron Wolf, during Favre's rookie year who had a very high rating on Favre coming out of college (He had him as his top player on his entire board and wanted his team at the time, the NYJ, to draft him. The Jets had no #1 pick & Atlanta took Favre 1 pick before the Jets had their 1st pick of the draft in the 2nd round) . The following off-season, that GM offered Atlanta a #1 for Favre and Atlanta gladly traded him to GB. GB didn't think he was a bust even though Atlanta's coach did. It only takes 1 interested team to get value for a former highly drafted pick. The other side of this is Brian Brohm. He was a 2nd rounder who got waived in preseason of his 2nd season. He cleared waivers, which clearly indicated no team thought enough of him to offer GB anything, as clearly they would have sent out feelers before waiving him. Eventually, he was put on GB's practice squad, signed with the Bills during the season & flamed out of the league a year later.

This is a classic case of what a team should never do-draft a player who fits the coach's system. I'm talking Murray, not Rosen who is being tossed away like yesterday's garbage. Drafting a player for a specific system only works as long as the coach is around. Look at what happened to the guys drafted to fit Rex Ryan's D. The best example is trading up for Ragland & then giving him away for a 4th in the draft, not even the next draft, but the one a year later. They would have been better off sticking with Rosen & getting a coach who can adapt to his players instead of wasting the prior year's #1 pick because the coach wants his own guy. Kingsbury and Murray better work out or years from now the decision to draft Murray & dump Rosen will be looked at as a bad decision by Arizona fans, if there are any left in a few years. 5 years from now odds are Kingsbury is out of the NFL, Murray is playing baseball for the Oakland A's and Rosen is starting for whatever team he was traded to in 2019.

A few years ago a teacher from Albany was out in Buffalo and drunk stumbled into the wrong house & the owner shot him to death. Kelly is lucky to be alive, although driving 105 MPH isn't exactly the safest thing to do either. https://dailygazette.com/article/2010/05/11/0511_teacher A homeowner will not be charged for fatally shooting an Albany schoolteacher who was drunk when he made his way into the wrong house after leaving a party next door, authorities said today. A grand jury considered the case but declined to return charges against David D’Amico, who was awakened in his upstairs bedroom in the early morning hours of March 28 by the sound of 31-year-old David Park of Albany moving around on the first floor. Police 911 tapes captured D’Amico’s frightened wife, Julie, calling to report an intruder and her husband in the background shouting from the stairway for the man to get out, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said. There is no audible response from Park. D’Amico, a 34-year-old construction supervisor, fired one round from a hunting rifle, killing Park before police arrived. Toxicology reports showed Park was intoxicated and witness statements backed up those reports, Sedita said.

If the Bills go crazy & keep 10 TEs, then he'll be a top 10 TE on the team.