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Albany,n.y.

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  1. I'm calling Patricia one & done. He'll last the season, so in order to win, you're going to have to hope there are no in-season firings. Odds are still on Hue when he's told to put in Mayfield & wants to stay with Tyrod.
  2. Kurt Warner says he never consented to his name being on it: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/09/18/kurt-warner-says-his-name-was-mistakenly-put-on-hall-of-famers-letter/
  3. Considering it's a NY paper, shouldn't the writer be blasting Bowles as a self hating black man for never giving Teddy Bridgewater a chance & then shipping him to N.O.?
  4. Is there a way to bet he won't be fired & will be coaching on opening day 2019?
  5. What if your basic assumption is wrong, and they had no intention of bringing Allen along slowly because after getting to know him they realized he could learn faster by playing, making mistakes, and correcting the mistakes? That's what I believe and if that's the case, there was no mistake trading McCarron. Would they have liked to have sat Allen for the 1st 4 games, probably, but he was going to start by game 5 and beyond. All Peterman's disaster did was move it up a little, definitely not a lot. I thought their intentions were pretty obvious the day they put McCarron in for the final exhibition game with what was basically a For Sale sign on his back. After a lackluster mini-camp & preseason, they didn't have a very high opinion of McCarron and didn't see any value in him playing ahead of Allen-ever. They also were never convinced in Peterman's progress nor did they ever consider Allen a "back-up".
  6. Years ago there was the WGR song parody "When will Jauron get fired?" A couple of lines were about a Dolphin pick 6 "Vonte Davis for the score, I can't take it anymore" The 2018 version can say "Vonte Davis out the door, he can't take it anymore"
  7. If Allen is a hit, they're here as long as Belichick has been in NE.
  8. BUZZZZ WRONG. Without the QB, there is no such thing as a rebuild, it's just spinning your wheels. They used 3 picks, only 1 1st rounder to draft the QB, which means they only traded 1 other pick (the 3rd they got for Taylor) to move up to get Edmunds. As I've stated elsewhere, of the last 14 QBs drafted in the 1st round, 10 were acquired by trading up, so what the Bills did is typical for an NFL team in the 21st century. The only QBs not traded up for were by QB in need teams that picked 1,1, 2 & 3 by teams that were not trading down to let another team get a QB they wanted & needed. Even better, over the last 3 years, 10 out of the last 11 1st round QBs were traded up for. Cleveland is the only team that drafted a 1st round QB & didn't trade up, holding onto the #1 pick & drafting Mayfield this year. So 10 GMs are stupid and you're the smart one, right.
  9. He was a 2nd year player who was injury prone in college and when you get a player who was injured before and then gets injured again, his confidence in his ability to stay healthy can deteriorate quickly.
  10. I'm keeping my reply to QBs drafted in the 1st three rounds. One could argue that these guys rotted on the bench & were ruined by not playing them & it would be just as ridiculous as saying that playing a rookie QB can ruin him. All these players were dropped by the team that drafted them after they sat as rookies & beyond. Obviously, I don't believe you can ruin a QB by playing him, it's just an excuse used by fans & others when their team's QB busts because he should never have been drafted in the 1st place. If there was a vote who the worst coach in the NFL is, I think the record speaks for itself & Hue Jackson would win in a landslide. So what did the NFL's worst coach do? He went out and traded for a veteran QB before the draft and named the guy the starter no matter what his rookie looked like upon arrival in Cleveland. If Hue Jackson is an advocate of sitting a rookie QB, how good an idea can it possibly be. Guys who rotted on the vine Davis Webb-just last year the Giants drafted him in the 3rd round. When Eli got benched they went to Geno Smith instead of him. That zapped his confidence beyond repair & the Giants cut him before he could ever play a game because staying on the bench ruined him. Christian Hackenberg-The Jets mothballed him for 2 seasons. By the end of 2 seasons, all that time on the bench had scarred him beyond repair. Not even the mighty Jon Gruden could fix the guy. Brock Osweiler-Imagine how many Pro Bowls this guy would have been in if he hadn't been ruined by sitting behind Peyton Manning as a youngster? He withered and lost all confidence comparing himself to a future Hall of Famer. Every time Peyton threw a TD pass, Osweiler's doubts about his own abilities multiplied. Sitting behind a star like Manning ruined his confidence in himself. Ryan Mallett-Here's another player ruined by sitting behind a future HOFer. Every game Brady won, almost singlehandedly, destroyed Ryan Mallett's confidence. Brian Brohm-Sitting behind future HOFer Aaron Rodgers zapped his confidence so badly that he was cut & put on the practice squad in his sophomore year. Thinking he could resurrect this broken man, the Bills "stole" him off GB's practice squad, but just one year of watching Rodgers play had ruined him beyond repair. Kevin O'Comnell-Another one of Tom Brady's victims. Finally-Just think of the career JP Losman would have had if he hadn't broken his leg or had Drew Bledsoe to sit behind as a rookie. That year behind Bledsoe destroyed the can't miss Losman. I could go on & on with this ridiculous list, just as advocates that you can ruin a QB can make their own lists. Playing QB in the NFL is tough. A guy either has it or he doesn't, no matter when he 1st goes into the action as a starting QB.
  11. I would bring in a veteran, cut Peterman & re-sign him to the practice squad.
  12. Gary Marangi, set futility records that still stand today. It doesn't matter that he came in because of an injury, he was #2 for multiple seasons and was proven to never have deserved to be #2. Never played another NFL down after starting.
  13. No, it's you who doesn't understand the modern NFL. In today's game a GM trades UP for his QB, just look at the actions of multiple GMs, who know a lot more than you do. Here's the reality of how teams acquire their QBs these days: In the past 5 years there have been 14 QBs drafted in the 1st round. Of those 14 QBs only 4 were drafted by a team that didn't move up in the draft to take them. Those 4 were 2 #1 overall & a #2 & #3 where the teams had no intention of trading the pick. The other 10 were all acquired via a trade up. 6 years ago the Bills did the opposite & traded down to get their QB, we all know how that went. So when the Bills traded up for Allen, they were finally joining the modern NFL where you do whatever is necessary to get the QB you want. We won't know for sure if this worked out, but I trust Beane a lot more to be a current GM than the antiquated ideas of Buddy Nix & his protégé, Doug Whaley. As a result of teams no longer waiting for a QB to fall to their spot in the draft, of the 32 teams, 24 have either a starter or soon to be starter who was a 1st rounder. To see how difficult it is to find your man in the later rounds of the draft, here's a look at the projected starters (this includes all teams that drafted a 1st round QB this year who they expect to be starting no later than next season).Starters or soon to be starter. I count Allen as a soon to be a starter. 1st round :232nd round: 43rd round: 14th round: 26th round: 1 Undrafted 1
  14. I'll be there Sec 127 Row 9 Seat 15. I'm flying in & out the same day. Catching a train that gets me to downtown Baltimore at 11:06 AM.
  15. The only person I ever heard called Charlie Hustle is Pete Rose. The best way to describe Steady Eddie is he's a guy a father wants his daughter to date but who she finds too boring to want anything to do with.
  16. He was no Todd Collins, who lasted in the league a long time after the Bills let him go & had a short run of success late in one season in Washington when he had to dust off a decade of pine riding.
  17. You do what the 2004 NY Giants did. They started the veteran (Warner) the 1st 9 games. Then at 5-4, on a 2 game losing streak, they threw in Eli Manning, even though he wasn't ready. It worked out well & the Giants won 2 Super Bowls and Manning is still their QB in 2018. The rest of the story is Eli lost his 1st 6 games, sometimes looking totally lost in his 1st 4 starts. In the last 3 games of the season, the light came on and even though it took until the season finale for the Giants to win their 6th game, the experience was invaluable to Manning. The next year the Giants won the NFC East going 11-5. The goal is to become Super Bowl champs, not mollify the fans who don't have the patience to go to a game and see the team lose even though in a year or two that loss will have helped build a championship contender and an eventual champion.
  18. Not from what was on the field but in 1986 the USFL had basically gone out of business & the Bills were playing their 2nd preseason game at Houston. Jim Kelly was in a box with Ralph. I was living in Suffolk County L.I. at the time and I was listening to a very static filled broadcast on WBEN. Art Schlichter was terrible on the field, but Van was talking about Kelly and the chances he'd be signing shortly with the Bills. I was starving for Bills news and I had to really strain through the static to hear WBEN.
  19. Now Tasker's agent chimes in. The Buffalo Destroyers don't exist anymore for EJ to be our QB today. EJ's been sitting for a few years now and nobody in the NFL would want him as their starter. The ruined a QB stuff is absolute nonsense.
  20. He hasn't been any better than Allen, everyone has been better than McCarron. . He looks good on paper because of his completion %. I don't have as high an opinion of Peterman as you, that doesn't mean I hate him. He can be a good backup but I wouldn't want him as my starter. At best he can be good, Allen at best will be great. I want great, not good. I want Allen to start from day 1, learn on the job & be ready to lead a Super Bowl contender in 2019. I don't want to be KC, whose 2nd year QB is learning on the job in his sophomore year.
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