Analyzing AFC East Quarterback Outlook: Bills, Pats, Dolphins

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00:00Here, the AFC East, which isn't all too complicated.

00:08Of course, the Buffalo Bills will be sticking with Josh Allen for a very long time, rightfully

00:14so.

00:15Josh is clearly one of the best quarterbacks in football.

00:20He has a great chance to win league MVP this year.

00:27Their victory against Kansas City two weeks ago, because they had the bye, really changed

00:36the outlook of their season.

00:39Not that it opened up a world where Buffalo ... Buffalo doesn't need a regular season

00:44win to prove they can beat Kansas City.

00:46They've beaten them in the regular season a number of times.

00:50Buffalo needed that win to keep the one seed up in the air, and it is, and that's important.

00:58If you feel, which the Bills do, and Josh Allen alluded to it in the post-game comments,

01:04if you feel that playing the Chiefs in a Super Bowl run is inevitable, which is a fair belief

01:09considering Mahomes has never been kept out of the AFC title game, then you want that

01:14game in your building.

01:15You just do.

01:18That was a big win for Buffalo, so of course they're going to be sticking with Josh.

01:21Miami is obviously going to be sticking with Tua.

01:23They just paid him.

01:25I think you could ask some questions around Mike McDaniel, but he's probably not going

01:30anywhere.

01:33For me, I just think that was a franchise ... We walked into the season looking at the

01:40quarterback-head coach relationship and felt that it was Mike McDaniel as the anchor of

01:48the relationship, as the most important part, and the results from Miami into his absence

01:57kind of flipped that for me, I know.

02:00Now I think McDaniel is still getting a lot out of Tua, but I certainly don't think we

02:07are going to be doing the ... At least I know I won't be doing the thing where I'm

02:12like, man, if only McDaniel had a quarterback like such and such.

02:16Look, there are quarterbacks better than Tua, but McDaniel's not getting that benefit of

02:21the doubt from me when they are this high-flying, ripping, roaring offense with Tua, and they

02:28just couldn't move the football in his absence.

02:33They're going to stick with Tua.

02:36New England and New York are where you are more likely to ask some questions.

02:43New England is a very unlikely change.

02:50They drafted Drake May.

02:51They drafted Drake May very high.

02:55But the New England Patriots could end up with the first overall selection.

03:01I don't think New England would move off of May.

03:04I think they like May.

03:06I think he's looked good for New England.

03:07I think that they would be tempted to not even trade out of that first slot.

03:13I think they'd be very tempted to just draft Travis Hunter.

03:18If that's what they end up with, I think it's very, very possible.

03:22If you look at the odds, Shutter Sanders, Hunter's teammate, is a current favorite of

03:30plus 150 with Hunter at plus 280, the second option there.

03:36The idea still is it'll be a quarterback that goes first overall.

03:42But the interesting thing is if the draft were to take place with 12 weeks complete,

03:50it would be Jacksonville drafting first, and Jacksonville wouldn't be taking quarterback.

03:57We can get to that.

03:58Well, well, we'll get to that.

04:03I think, and it's something worth talking about if you end up with that first pick.

04:09I think the difference though, and what'll really help Drake May keep that job is you

04:15don't have a Trevor Lawrence in this draft class.

04:19You know, you don't have a guy that Kayla Williams from last year that we've been talking

04:26about for years as the clear guy.

04:32I like this quarterback class more than most.

04:34I do, but the perception around the league is relevant when you're trying to assess how

04:40this stuff's going to look.

04:42And I don't think the conversation around now, if all of a sudden you're talking about

04:51a quarterback winning a national championship, that could change some things, right?

04:55I do truly believe that that could shift people's expectations, right?

05:01If Cam Ward leads Miami to a natty, right?

05:04All right.

05:06That might change the, we got to make this happen.

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