That Aud Smell

Strong work here. Not just a visual creative, evidently.

I said it was folly. You heard me. Thinking more on it, I see the point about how surrendering two seconds, especially in this particular draft, could be seen as being as bad or worse as giving up a single first at 22. OTOH, I think the team had it bad for the LB prospect who was still on the board, and the FO wanted to be able to go get him from 22.

you, sir, are on fire.

Nicely turned. Smallish puck moving d-men are the new norm.

As someone who cringed on hearing who they picked, I will say: It is pure folly to decry the pick at this point. No one knows how this will all unfold. Allen is a polarizing prospect. I see pundits who love the pick and those who hate it. I will look forward to seeing what he can do. (In the 2019 season.) This is a good point, too. Credit to Beane for not parting with the other 1st. That was impressive. Of course, he turned around and moved up again (which seems like a no-no). I'm fairly convinced that Terry was the ultimate decision maker here. The guy loves upside. This is a legitimate point. I've been struggling with this: "Josh" strikes me as a total non-starter on the "does he have a QB name" test. Is that unfair? The last name works quite well.

here's hoping.

He’s an upside guy. It’s how he became a billionaire.

Someone posted upthread a quote from Rex about how Pegula is a bold guy. Mayock opined that Allen has the most upside of any QB (player?) in the draft. I’m pretty confident that Pegula played a significant decision making role in targeting Allen, at some point. (The part where the FO pros teed it up and asked “what sort of risk/reward do you prefer, Terry?”). Might be the same tendency that had him sign off on FGMTM’s ill-fated rapid rebuild. A little more: Beane’s quotes are confusing to me. “Every QB had a knock on him.” So the Bills took the one whose primary knock (accuracy) is demonstrably the hardest to overcome (e.g., EJ Manuel). Allen on his awful teenaged Tweets: I saw quotes about how he needs to be more careful on social media — NOT quotes more expressly saying that the things he Tweeted were stupid, awful, wrong, and no longer the sorts of things he’d say. More so that he needs to be careful about what he does say.

Nice - especially that one.

yeah - but everyone outside of WNY does that. It's an homage! (Mind you, 3 out of 5 such people don't know the "Buffalo" refers to Buffalo, NY.)

NFW Jackson was ever going to be this FO's guy. Allen over Rosen as a prospect, I will never understand. ... EXCEPT. Shoot. I think I get it. Almost above all else, McDermott prizes availability. It's partly why Watkins was traded. I bet Rosen's injuries caused him to slot behind the big ol' boy Allen.

Sounds like the Giants are trying to squeeze Beane.

I thought maybe it was someone affiliated with one of the other big-4 QB prospects. Mayock is pretty definitive on the Bills finding a way to draft Allen. Mayock says Beane's fondness for a Cam Newton type stature plays a big role here. Says the Bills also love Allen's temperament, intangibles, etc. More and more, I feel like it's going to happen. God help us.

From everything I've read and heard, someone with a creative, flexible mind for the QB position will need to groom Jackson. I don't think he's a good fit for the Bills.

If over-drafted in the first round, it sounds like Rudolph will likely become some combination of EJ Manuel and Elvis Grbac.

Boy, that'd be dumb. He'll be there at 22.

I'm not suggesting that Schefter is in on the act. Just that those leaking him tips have that motive. And I think Mayfield going 1st is bad for the Bills.

Fair point. But my thought is that they might want to move back from 1 to 3 in exchange for, say, another pick in the top 50, another in the top 100, and then give back one or more of 150, 175, and 188. Keep the same number of picks, but move up.

Shame. Hang in, millbank.

I won't scroll through everything. Were people being sh1tty to millbank again? I have no patience for that.

That Schefter Tweet has misdirection written all over it. The Browns want someone -- the Jets, you'd think -- to think they're taking Mayfield. The idea being, the Browns are okay with taking Allen and would invite moving back to 3 so they can add picks.

Amazing.

That reads like a kid being an idiot. Except he did it on Twitter — not just on the team bus or in the locker room. There are reasons not to want him. That isn’t one of them. Okay. Yeah. A super huge idiot. For people saying his agent is a savant: He didn’t have his Twitter scrubbed. Feels like that’d be agenting 101.

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