hawk52 Posted September 25, 2010 Posted September 25, 2010 I believe that if you put together an offensive line that can open holes and also protect the QB then anyone can play quarterback. Trade away the pick and bring in some offensive line studs, then go after maybe Boise States kid or even Jake Locker if his stock keeps droping. Drafting college quarterbacks is such a crap shoot anyway. All we need is an adequate QB to go with a potentially awesome run game (if we can create holes for them to run through)!
hawk52 Posted September 25, 2010 Posted September 25, 2010 As for this year Trent Edwards is now a lame duck. He has had his chances and will never be our QB. I say release him and bring in a capeable free agent(if there are any). Anyone would be better than what we have.
DC Billin' Posted September 25, 2010 Posted September 25, 2010 Luck just threw a beaut of a td pass. Just put it up where his tight end could make a play on it.
Punch Posted September 25, 2010 Posted September 25, 2010 Luck just threw a beaut of a td pass. Just put it up where his tight end could make a play on it. It's exactly the kind of throw we haven't seen a Bills QB make since... I don't know, maybe Bledsoe to Campbell at the Giants forever ago. Luck is the real deal.
Big Turk Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 (edited) I firmly believe that Andrew Luck is the class of college quarterbacks, from the perspective of NFL potential. He has the size, strength, speed, and intelligence to be successful on the next level. The problem is, he is too smart. If and when the Bills secure the #1 pick in the draft (or the #2 pick, with the team in front of them not needing a quarterback), Andrew Luck will absolutely choose to stay in school to prevent himself from being drafted by the Buffalo Bills. No quarterback with a modicum of sense and any other options would declare for the draft to be selected by the Buffalo Bills. Doing so would only serve to cost him countless millions of dollars, and a person of Luck's intelligence will simply stick it out another year so he can be drafted by a real NFL-caliber organization, in any media market besides Buffalo. As sad as it makes me to type this, Andrew Luck will not be the next Buffalo Bills quarterback. Perhaps we will have a chance at Ryan Mallett, as he will be declaring for the draft no matter what. I hope he matures a lot between now and then, should we select him, as right now he comes off like a dumb jock good ol' boy southerner. Don't pretend that Luck won't look to see which organization he'd be drafted by, and decide to stay away from Buffalo like the plague. I love when people give their opinion on a situation as if it were fact. Do you have any inside information regarding the situation? Have you been advising him and giving him a couple grand in return for being his agent when he declares for the draft. Perhaps Jake Locker going from top 5 pick if he came out last year to potentially playing himself out of the first round with his Trent Edwardian performance against Nebraska(4 for 20---68 yards, 3 ints) is going to be enough from dissuading Luck from playing Russian Roulette with his career and payday. Either way, I doubt who has the #1 pick in the draft matters. If that was the case Stafford would have stayed in school as well, since playing for a team that went 0-16 the year before would have been worse than playing with the Bills. The Bills have quite a bit of talent on the offensive side of the ball when we have a QB to throw it to them(see yesterday for proof), and I am intrigued to see what they are going to be able to do when Nelson comes back to give us a deep threat at TE with Gailey calling some plays for him and Fitz actually throwing the ball. I believe that if you put together an offensive line that can open holes and also protect the QB then anyone can play quarterback. Trade away the pick and bring in some offensive line studs, then go after maybe Boise States kid or even Jake Locker if his stock keeps droping. Drafting college quarterbacks is such a crap shoot anyway. All we need is an adequate QB to go with a potentially awesome run game (if we can create holes for them to run through)! This is just rubbish. You don't pass on franchise QB's for lineman. Give me a break. The line looked fine yesterday with a real QB back there, and likely will the rest of the year. Funny how receivers all of a sudden figured out how to get open after 2 games. Edwards is far from an NFL QB... Edited September 27, 2010 by matter2003
dollars 2 donuts Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 There are several factors involved here. First, there isn't 1 redshirt sophomore QB who went pro and succeeded. All of quality QB's with the exception of Aaron Rodgers played 4 years in college. Second, the money may change this year if there's a provision in the new CBA to cap rookie pay. Third, Luck is indeed a smart guy who's being advised by a former NFL QB himself in Jim Harbaugh. Fourth, underclassmen have to declare by mid January and by that time he'll have a better idea of his destination should he enter the draft. As for Mallett, I don't know a lot about him. But the notion that "dumb jock good ol' boy southerner" doesn't work is preposterous. Brett Favre and Peyton Manning both have an accent but no one doubts/doubted them in their primes. Or, it may change next year, which means if Luck really wants to cash in, he should come out in 2011.
Ozymandius Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 Or, it may change next year, which means if Luck really wants to cash in, he should come out in 2011. The CBA will expire before the 2011 draft takes place. Luck and all possible 2011 draftees would be getting paid under the new rules anyway (which will likely include a rookie salary cap). Luck is staying until 2012.
dollars 2 donuts Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 The CBA will expire before the 2011 draft takes place. Luck and all possible 2011 draftees would be getting paid under the new rules anyway (which will likely include a rookie salary cap). Luck is staying until 2012. I did not know that, Ozy, thank you. Additionally, you're a jerk for setting up Dr. Manhatten the way you did. jk - non Watchman will not know.
Cookiemonster Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 (edited) I agree with most of what you say, however, with the crazy amounts of money being paid to top picks, I don't think Luck would lose major money coming to Buffalo. Peyton went to Indy, not exactly a media hotbed, and became the face of the NFL because he won (and cause he had a goofy charisma). He is the guy the Bills would want I think, but there's several factors working against him coming out. 1) He comes from a wealthy family, no need for money 2) Loves school 3) Possibily going to Bills We would have to have, pardon the pun, some Dumb Luck for that to happen! Edited September 27, 2010 by Cookiemonster
dbringer Posted October 17, 2010 Posted October 17, 2010 Since Jim Harbaugh and Jim Kelly had that alleged 'fisticuffs' maybe Harbaugh will persuade Luck to stay at Stanford another year? I just finished reading the latest SI article about the Harbaugh brothers, and I was curious about the comment that said Jim H. went after Jim Kelly when Kelly supposedly insinuated that Jim H was not giving 100% effort (something like that). So does anyone know what the full story is behind this?
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