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That won't even cover his St Patrick's Day bar tab tonight. Outside of Buffalo Chad Kelly is truly Mr. Irrelevant.

You may be right, but that won't stop the Giants from taking him at 17. Over the years, plenty of 1st round QBs with red flags all over their resumes have been taken due to a team's desperation. With Eli Manning on the last year of his contract, the Giants are almost as backed into a corner the same way Buddy Nix drove us into the EJ Manuel dead end. The last 2 seasons the Giants have tried to get their QB of the future on the cheap, 1st drafting Davis Webb in the 3rd round, only to waive him after 1 season, and Kyle Lauletta in the 4th round. So far there is no indication that Lauletta can become a starter in the league. Years from now the consensus will be the Giants should have taken either Darnold or Allen with the 2nd pick of the 2018 draft. They may have picked a future HOF RB, but as the WGR parody song from years ago said "With no quarterbackin' get those bags a packin.'"

I'm not surprised they're not interested in Haskins at 6, the QB of the Giants future is Daniel Jones at pick 17.

Just think back to all the people who wanted him to sit the whole season. Imagine what would be the response of free agents who you were trying to sell on playing with a QB who never played a down in his rookie year. Look at what Brown said about why he didn't sign with Buffalo last year because he didn't have an idea who would be his QB in Buffalo. As Beasley said, he looked at the tape of Allen from last season. Would the free agents be taking Allen seriously as he called each up if he'd never played a down yet?

Allen's biggest struggles came with accuracy and touch on short-to-intermediate passes to lazy bums with hands of stone like Charles Clay and Kelvin Benjamin. Those are the types of routes where Beasley excels. The slot receiver won't be a bum this upcoming season.

The most likely reason there won't be a trade down is because by #9 the guys that the trade up people are speculating the Bills will trade down to a team that wants them will have already been traded up for. Anyone who really wants their guy at QB and are picking below us will be trying to jump up earlier than 9th. The main reason: there are at least 5 teams ahead of us set at QB and the QB hungry teams won't be waiting until pick 9 to make their move. It's too bad the draft isn't in NYC, because I'd love to see the Giants fans reactions when they don't pick a QB at 6. They'll sit back and wait for their QB at 17-Daniel Jones.

It's an ORIGINAL ROUND TENDER which is a $2.025 million tender no matter what round the player was drafted. Since Coleman was a 1st rounder the tender is at 1st round compensation if signed by another team, but it's not for $4.4 million which is the 1st round tender for someone not drafted in the 1st round. Now I can forgive a fan like you on a message board not knowing this, but I got really incensed today listening to One Bills Live & hearing Chris Brown saying the tender was for $4.4 & Murphy not knowing enough to correct him.

No surprise. He had a $3 million bonus due tomorrow & another $1.1 in guarantees that kicked in on 3/17, and a total salary after bonuses of $5 million for 2019. He was always going to be a 1 year rental for whatever team he was on in 2018. Amazing that Beane got a 3rd from Cleveland for a year of Tyrod & a 5th from Oakland for a year of McCarron.

Miller is visiting the Bengals. Meanwhile I'm totally shocked that Mills is still out there without a big free agent contract?

Ray Ray is lucky he can tell his grandchildren that he was once in the NFL for a whole year.

Nope, $2.025 million: https://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/corey-coleman-rfa-tender-1.28188464 Corey Coleman spent time with four different teams in 2018, but he may have found a steady home for this year. The Giants used an original-round tender on the wide receiver as a restricted free agent, a source confirmed. That lines him up for a non-guaranteed salary of $2.025 million in the 2019 season. It’s a pretty good value for the Giants, considering Coleman’s pedigree. He’s still free to negotiate with other teams as an RFA, but the Giants will have the option to match any contract offer he receives. That move is highly unlikely, given that they would receive a pick from the original round in which Coleman was selected if he signs elsewhere. In this case, that would be a first-rounder because Coleman initially was selected there by the Browns. This virtually ensures that no other team will try to sign him away and that he will be with the Giants. The price tag for a first-round tender is $4.407 million, so the Giants essentially get the same protection on Coleman for half the cost.

Coleman was a 1st rounder. Dov Kleiman‏Verified account @NFL_DovKleiman 3m3 minutes ago More Dov Kleiman Retweeted Adam Caplan Original round tender, lowest level, for WR Corey Coleman. He was originally a first. Big difference in salary. Dov Kleiman added, Adam CaplanVerified account @caplannfl Folks: He was a first-round pick so they are tendering him at the same level. https://twitter.com/caplannfl/status/1105933403705303041 … 0 replies1 retweet3 likes Reply Retweet 1 Like 3 Direct message

If the Dolphins are serious about tanking, they now can sign their 2019 starting QB.

If he's the BPA on the Bills board at #9, their scouts need to be fired, because it means they got enamored by his combine stuff instead of watching him on film. If he's picked before #9 I'll cheer because it will mean the Bills can't take him.

Another reason is you have no plan to keep him on the team & instead of bringing him to camp as a body, you let him go to a team that he has a chance of making. If you treat players like numbers instead of human beings you get a bad reputation among the players which isn't good for free agency. Players talk among themselves all the time & when coaches & GMs start lying to them they spread the word quickly. In the past Donahoe & Whaley got some bad words passed around by Steve Christie & Fred Jackson for playing games with their lives. Yes it's a business, but you can't be screwing your employees and think it won't hurt you somewhere down the line.

Is Conor McDermott still on the team so that after hours our coach can look at a uniform with his name on the back & dream he's a player? I can't think of any other reason he's still on the team. Groy & Miller are already gone.

We have 3 games against the 2 biggest tanking teams in the league (Miami 2x, NYG)

Depending on how Teller handles the competition in camp, Dawkins may be the only OL starter from 2018 to start on opening day.

Up to 7 new starters on offense so far this off-season. Nobody can complain when we get no compensatory picks in 2020.

They didn't have to have a specific player. There were 4 top 10 QBs in the draft. Say they didn't like one of them but had high grades on 3 of them. They guaranteed themselves one of the top 3 QBs. As it turned out, they got no worse than their 2nd choice. Considering the fact that they shut the Bills out of the 3rd pick, guaranteeing themselves that the Bills could not get the guy they rated no worse than 3rd and putting the Bills, a division rival, in danger of missing out on a QB, it was a very smart move. Now I'm not a big trade down guy, but a lot of people around here are. Well, according to your logic, you just made the case for me hating trade downs. When you trade up, you have a pretty good idea of who you can get as the Jets did, or if you do it the day of the draft you know exactly who you're trading up for. When you trade down, unless it's only 1 spot down, you NEVER know who will be available at that spot. So, according to your logic, I'm right about trade downs-pretty bad to trade a known for a total unknown player or players.

It wasn't stupid at all. The Jets moving to #3 assured them they could do no worse than Mayfield, Darnold or Allen. If the Giants had taken a QB at 2, or if Elway had been smart enough to take Allen, the Bills would have been screwed, either having to trade up for Rosen, who after 1 season will most likely be traded at a discounted rate, or would have had to settle for Lamar Jackson at pick 22, or even worse Mason Rudolph (assuming they would have picked Edmunds at 12). You can homer it, but the bottom line is the Jets, on March 17th put themselves in position to ace out the Bills before the Bills could even try to get to 3, having just officially completed the move up to 12 when the official NFL year had started on 3/15, just 2 days before the Jets deal with Indy.

The M & M boys return on the right side of the O line.

If the team has to abide by my decision, I'd pick myself,

From that last Courier Express. Three months later I left Buffalo and never lived there again, although I have gone back a lot of times over the years.

For cwater10: The final edition of the Courier Express.