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I eagerly await your mea culpa on Jackson :p

The season is over. The games are, generally speaking, useless. Know what wouldn't be useless? Using Mittelstadt's presence as an opportunity to get a look at O'Reilly on Eichel's wing.

This would be less offensive to me than an equipment manager dictating numbers.

Right? I have no memory of this at all, here or elsewhere in the media.

Poor phrasing on my part. I just meant sports fans have a seemingly unique ability to not get over negative events. I'm not saying anyone has to retroactively reverse their stance, but it really is cathartic to just let go of the emotional edge and move on.

The tank. Black Sunday. The Watkins trade. Drafting TJ Graham. Whatever it is, if it doesn't work out, count on fans to be unable to move on.

If the measure of the tank is whether it broke the cycle of endless run to 9th, it's the single most successful thing a Buffalo sports team has ever done :nana:

This is true. But the QB argument is not about what can be done, but what is likely to be done. As others have said, there's no better way to consistently compete than with a top-flight QB. Going the decent and defense route sends you into essentially a 2-year window before the defense gets dismantled due to the cap. If the Bills sell the world and end up with a HoF-level QB, nobody will care about the price. However, if they sell the farm and end up with Jameis Winston, they won't be better off than having kept Tyrod and built the roster more. It's definitely a risk, but that doesn't make it an unworthy risk.

I'm not as behind as you, but I echo this and everyone else who said grats! It's great to see your talent, hard work, and persistence pay off.

Don't even get me started.

I'm glad you've moved on to putting things into proper perspective rather than "Hey Lehner is insanely hot right now what if he's suddenly Carey Price" :p

Sure did! Go Bulls!

It was definitely a reasonable conclusion. However, I think what Taylor gave last year is the wrong baseline. The baseline should have been what Taylor is capable of doing in an offense built with his strengths in mind and with weapons to match. I don't think replacing that production is quite so simple. I also (reasonably, IMO) believe that going into the year with McCarron as starter is probably Plan K. The flaw in the QB process was the assumption inherent in last year's trade down that we would just be able to move up for who we wanted in this year's draft. Of course you can, but you probably won't. Comprehensive studies have pretty conclusively shown that your odds of getting a good QB after round 2 fall off a cliff to the point where you may as well not even try.

I honestly think Syracuse fans may be more annoying than Duke fans.

If we're being snarky, I think I have dibs. I predicted last year that when they traded out of Mahomes/Watson/Kizer that it wouldn't be so easy to trade up to get the guy they wanted this season :D All depends how people feel about Jackson. He's my QB3, but Flagg wouldn't even draft him in round 4. Wonder what the Bills feel about him? I think he'd be a terror running an Eaglies-like RPO offense, but we have no idea what Daboll plans on doing.

Just sit at 12 and take Jackson :thumbsup:

The Jets once thought Christian Hackenberg was worth a 2nd round pick. Let's hope they think Allen is worth #3 overall.

Welp.

Nothing's wrong with his production at all. My point was about the particular argument being made coming solely because of a single game.

Kane had 1 goal in 7 games before last night. Maybe lay off the hyperbole a bit?

I didn't even know UMBC existed until tonight. This is awesome.

PA just died inside :lol:

SON OF A :wallbash:

I'm confident the Raptors are a better team than the Cavs. I'm also confident I'm not picking against LeBron until the Finals.

Suddenly, I'm loss confident it ever happened... :nana: