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assuming the bills intended to go vanilla in preseason and show the Bears nothing, as they have claimed. why did they risk injury to Sammy and EJ ?? you mean, they couldn't have accomplished vanilla in practice WITHOUT anyone taking liberties with Sammy's ribs ?? as a 28 year STH, I wanna puke. now, I doubt Sammy plays vs Chicago. then his apologists will say EJ played mediocre because he didn't have his #1 target. nothing changes until you have a FRANCHISE QB !! ... EJ will NEVER be that guy.

best: 8-8 worst: 3-13 likely: 5-11 with Peyton Manning as QB: 11-5

#1- owner #2- OL #3- OC coach

we don't really have a choice. assuming the china doll makes it through 6 games uninjured, he will get his chance. no way the bills brain trust admit they screwed up when they announced all in on EJ. no matter how he plays they wont pull him in favor of Orton, who is better than EJ. another year missing the playoffs. but we can use our #1 pick on a QB next year.....oh wait....nevermind.

the only hoax is anyone believing EJ will be a franchise QB. he's not even good enough to be in the Top 25 of QB's.

give me a break. it's one play. most important game in 10 years ??.....laughable. we suck and will get beat badly by Chicago. go bills.

combined pass attempts of Brady, Brees and Rodgers last night ?.....zero. marrone is an idiot.

I was at the game. I watched Sammy and his interaction with the trainers. he's hurtin. I say he's not making the opener and the 4-6 week wisecrack marrone made is probably closer to the truth.

Sammy Watkins took a shot to the ribs. I watched him come off and talk to the trainers. it doesn't look good. I would not be surprised if he misses the opener.

hell NO

bubble wrap EJ. Tuel should play the entire game. if EJ isn't getting the proper reps in practice.....then they are practicing wrong.

#1- mark kelso is PAID to say nice things about the bills. #2- EJ is mediocre and from the looks of things he's going to stay that way.

There is no way to accurately rank the 32 NFL head coaches, but polling 30 league insiders is a pretty good place to start. 28. Doug Marrone, Buffalo Bills (3.53 average) Marrone had an injured rookie quarterback for his lone season as a head coach. There is very little track record to evaluate. Many voters placed Marrone and other unproven coaches in the 4s by default, not because they necessarily saw specific flaws. One former GM gave Marrone a 3 and placed him ahead of the Jets' Ryan in his pecking order. A pending ownership change is clouding the future in Buffalo for Marrone and everyone else, however. "I think Marrone has the skills, the tools, the communicative ways to get to players," this ex-GM said. "He is an up-and-coming coach. I like Doug. Of course, you can be good and be out of a job depending on where you are working. It's just not fair. We have all been there." http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11408205/ranking-32-nfl-head-coaches-tiers Here is every coach's rank, average score and number of votes in each of the five tiers. Rank Coach 1 2 3 4 5 Avg 1 Bill Belichick 28 2 0 0 0 1.07 2 Pete Carroll 23 7 0 0 0 1.23 3 Sean Payton 22 7 1 0 0 1.30 4 Andy Reid 12 16 2 0 0 1.67 5 Tom Coughlin 10 18 2 0 0 1.73 6 Mike McCarthy 11 15 4 0 0 1.77 6 Mike Tomlin 9 19 2 0 0 1.77 8 Jim Harbaugh 9 18 3 0 0 1.80 9 John Harbaugh 7 20 3 0 0 1.87 10 John Fox 4 23 3 0 0 1.97 11 Jeff Fisher 6 15 9 0 0 2.10 12 Chip Kelly 5 14 11 0 0 2.20 13 Bruce Arians 4 13 12 1 0 2.33 14 Lovie Smith 1 16 12 1 0 2.43 15 Marvin Lewis 1 14 15 0 0 2.47 16 Chuck Pagano 1 11 17 1 0 2.60 17 Rex Ryan 0 12 15 2 1 2.73 18 Mike Smith 0 8 21 1 0 2.77 19 Gus Bradley 0 7 22 1 0 2.80 20 Ken Whisenhunt 0 8 19 3 0 2.83 20 Mike McCoy 0 6 23 1 0 2.83 22 Marc Trestman 0 7 18 5 0 2.93 23 Ron Rivera 0 4 23 3 0 2.97 24 Mike Zimmer 0 3 16 11 0 3.27 25 Jay Gruden 0 5 9 15 1 3.40 26 Bill O'Brien 0 0 16 14 0 3.47 27 Jim Caldwell 0 3 12 12 3 3.50 28 Doug Marrone 0 2 11 16 1 3.53 29 Joe Philbin 0 1 9 20 0 3.63 30 Jason Garrett 0 0 10 20 0 3.67 31 Mike Pettine 0 2 6 21 1 3.70 32 Dennis Allen 0 1 3 19 7 4.07

47,482 season tickets. team's highest since 2009.

no one is Guaranteed anything. you play the person who gives you the best chance to win this season. except if your inept like the Bills and declare ahead of time you are all in with a mediocre EJ. then wait til the last minute and sign all new backups who will take months to learn the playbook. the Bills could have used some of their $8 mil in cap space or better yet, some of that $23 mil in Dead Money they are wasting, to get a proven free agent QB in here. i'm sure McCown could see an easy path to starting with an injury prone, ineffective, 28th ranked QB in his way. whats another season or two to give EJ all the time he needs to prove he will never be a Franchise QB (sarcasm). EJ is NOT ready and the Bills continue to mishandle the QB situation under Whaley. but there's hope for next season when the new owner cleans house (sarcasm)and we don't have a first round pick.

a free agent QB who was 1st is Total QBR and 3rd in Passer rating in 8 games. we don't need anyone like that (sarcasm)

Josh McCown would have been a huge improvement.

we sucked last year. we are not better this year. therefore, we will suck again.

INEPT !! the whole QB situation for this team is a DISASTER !!

5-11 EJ is going to have a hard time playing good enough to be called mediocre.

Dead Money per TEAM #1 - DAL - $24,815,000 #2 - BUF - $23,662,000 #3 - CAR - $19,277,000 #4 - HOU - $18,194,000 #5 - CLE - $16,070,000 #6 - OAK - $14,155,000 #7 - CHI - $14,040,000 #8 - SD - $13,807,000 #9 - NO - $13,738,000 #10- NYJ - $13,174,000 #11- ARZ - $13,174,000 #12- NE - $11,694,000 #13- PIT - $11,352,000 #14- JAX - $10,814,000 #15- WAS - $10,743,000 #16- NYG - $10,618,000 #17- PHI - $ 9,473,000 #18- ATL - $ 9,115,000 #19- SEA - $ 8,658,000 #20- TEN - $ 8,084,000 #21- DET - $ 7,567,000 #22- KC - $ 7,062,000 #23- DEN - $ 6,508,000 #24- STL - $ 6,368,000 #25- BAL - $ 6,337,000 #26- TB - $ 6,261,000 #27- MIA - $ 5,927,000 #28- MIN - $ 5,307,000 #29- SF - $ 3,828,000 #30- GB - $ 3,107,000 #31- CIN - $ 2,864,000 #32- IND - $ 1,888,000

Owner : Pegula GM : Polian Coach : Parcells

#1- QB starter. #2- OL #3- QB backup.

Steve Johnson $10,225,000 Ryan Fitzpatrick $7,000,000 Mark Anderson $3,000,000 Rian Lindell $1,375,000 Alan Branch $875,000 Kevin Kolb $500,000 Brad Smith $500,000 Zebrie Sanders $99,250 Chris White $30,150 Justin Rogers $16,875 Colin Brown $12,500 Da’Rick Rogers $6,667 Keith Pough $5,334 Jumal Rolle $3,667 Kendall Gaskins $2,667 Jordan Dangerfield $2,334 Darrin Kitchens $2,000 Kip Edwards $2,000 Brandon Kaufman $1,667 Colby Way $666 Darius Robinson $666 http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/buffalo-bills

just add Branch money to the $23,661,443 in DEAD MONEY the bills have tied up in salary cap for players NOT on the team. management sucks. http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/buffalo-bills