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Tyrod is a pretty good QB. He is likely never going to be an elite top 5-7 QB, but he certainly is the best Bills QB to come along in a long time. Tyrod's detractors kind of forget how **** the Bills QB position was long before Tyrod got here. Tyrod offers the Bills a solid good competitive QB at an affordable rate, Tyrod also offers the Bills a chance to develop the QB position while having a good option in place at QB. The Bills can draft and develop QB's while Tyrod is here. Eventually the team can unseat Tyrod with a true high end QB or if Tyrod improves and the Bills are winning with him they can trade QB's that develop behind him.

Hopefully it is just a stinger or some other non-serious injury. We all were scratching our heads as to why the team signed Proyer and seemingly penciled him in as the starter. Proyer was a 7th round pick back in 2013 who played on some pretty miserable Browns teams only starting 10 games from 2015 to 2016 (and was pretty pedestrian) he also was coming off a season where he ended up on IR. But the dude has proven everyone wrong and been money. One of the best players on a dam good defense.

Pass, I would much rather have Glenn if all things are equal. Tackle is such an important position along the O-line and Graham while not washed up is expensive and his best days are likely behind him.

Its a tough game, but this is the kind of game a playoff team wins. Cincy was a tough loss but you need to start piling up wins now.

If I were a fantasy football owner of Zeke I would have rather Zeke just take the suspension so that I could have him back for a (fantasy) playoff push. But I think this gets pushed into next season, just too many legal maneuvers for the Boys and Zeke to do.

Fitz is a competent backup. But Jamis has all the tools to be an elite level QB. How anyone could prefer Fitz to Jamis is insane.

It's a move, could help out a pretty thirsty WR corps.

I think the QB's factor is a bit over rated. For one you are starting to see some new QB's come into their own in recent years, Russell Wilson, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck come to mind. You also have a lot of QB's up and coming that have a lot of promise Jamis Winston, Mariota, and now Watson. But setting that aside I do think that sometimes things just get over exposed and there just exists a natural reaction from the public. For years the NFL could do no wrong, they were way behind in social media and digital media, their market reach internationally was pretty limited, and they squeezed their fans at every point completely ringing out every dollar they could from their product. The market simply got over saturated and some outside factors (Anthem protests, chord cutting, more entertainment options, ect) played into it. I would also say that the NFL's complete mismanagement of a lot of things has also contributed to the slight decline. Goodell !@#$ed up what people thought was fail proof. Ray Rice and a lot of the other cases he handled were bad. They kept pushing the Thursday games and they just got completely arrogant. I suspect the NFL pulls back a bit and adjusts a lot of what they do business wise to rebuild their fanbase a bit.

Monday Night Football just doesn't have the best match-ups anymore. Sunday Night Football has clearly overtaken the spot as where the best match-ups are. I would also say that something people don't talk about as impacting the ratings is the Thursday Night games. Monday Night football use to be your last chance to get football until the following Sunday. Now you see a game 3 days later. The Thursday Night Games have in my opinion completely over exposed football, the anthem protests, chord cutting, and more options/competition have all played a factor. But the anthem protests will blow over and chord cutting and more options wasn't detouring footballs ratings for years when almost every other major network and cable station was getting impacted by those things. NFL football use to go away from Tuesday through Saturday. You got away from it enough where by the time you saw another game it felt fresh. Now that Thursday game just makes football seem like it is on all the time. You are never more than 2 or 3 days away from another football game being on TV. By the time the Monday Night game comes on it just feels like just another game. The NFL needs to end those **** Thursday games asap. It would help the Monday Night games and it would in general improve the casual fans ability to get away from football then tune back in on weekends and Monday's. Core fans will always be there but the casuals are where the ups and downs come from.

Lynn bounced for a HC gig, not sure what offensive coordinators were out there that ran a system similar to what Roman and Lynn were running. I think new coaching staffs like to implement their systems and they fill in the talent they need (Which requires more cap dollars and draft picks) it might not be the wisest decision but coaches simply go with what they know how to do and who they feel comfortable with.

2 out of 3 is the minimum but realistically a playoff team wins 3 in a row. The Bucs could be without Jamis and that's a must win. The Raiders are struggling and who knows how healthy Carr could be. Then you have the Jets who are a division opponent and you have to take care of business in your own division. At 6-2 the team is in a good place going into a tough stretch of games against the Saints, @Chargers, @KC, and The Pats*. If at 6-2 you split those 4 games (Take care of the Chargers and then steal one of the other 3 games) you go to 8-4 and you put yourself in a nice place heading into the last 4 games of the season. It isn't a necessity to win 3 in a row but when you see the schedule you need to get fat while you can.

I suspect (That if this is true) That the Bills probably wanted Seattle's 3rd rounder in 2018 plus a 4th or better in 2019. It seems like that Seattle without their 2018 2nd rounder and a team unlikely to part with their 1st for Glenn would have to build a package around their 3rd rounder and a future pick. Considering the hefty cost of Glenn's contract it is likely that Seattle would be looking to part with a mid round pick and a later round pick. Its all speculation on my part but I have to think the Bills are not looking to give Glenn away.

Given that the 49ers and supposedly another team offered him a minimum deal there is going to be a hard to prove there was a highly organized and prove-able effort by the NFL owners to keep him out of the league. In reality he might be correct but it is a very difficult thing to prove from a legal stand point.

DJ is out until December from most reports, even if he came back with a few weeks left in the season he is going to take weeks to come back. AP is pretty much going to be their primary back for the rest of the season.

AP was pretty dam good today, he might be the big spark the Cards offense needs. I thought AP was washed up but he looks like he can still go. Maybe he can't sustain what he has. But even if he just pops in 4-5 more good games that trade will have been worth it.

Watson has been very impressive, much better than I thought he would be. But best rookie QB ever? He has a shot at it. Certainly been very that dam good. But I think we need to see exactly how the rest of the season plays out before we anoint him the next big QB the Bills missed out on. Tyrod has been pretty effective this season given the circumstances. Plenty of football left to play.

The Bills did invest a 2nd round pick to try and address the right tackle position they also resigned Groy, Mills and added Ducasse to address depth. Glenn, InCog, and Wood were all comfortably projected to be good to great starters, while Miller on the right side has been average or better than average. I don't know really what more reasonably the Bills could have done other than maybe sign a better player than Ducasse to build depth.

Depends on how badly TO both wants to play and how much he might need the money (he has been reported to have finical issues.) I doubt some team signs him but there have been a high amount of WR injuries in the league and anything is possible.

Sometimes it is better for a young player to just keep going out there and get baptized by fire. We have no one else to trot out there so the team might as well just keep giving him the snaps and hope he figures it out. It really does show the poor construction of the roster depth wise that they didn't find another quality receiver after Boldin left.

Stevie seems to be washed up due to injuries. But honestly would he be any worse than the other JAGS on the roster? It couldn't hurt but I also don't expect any signings on the roster.

He is a stout run defender and he is one pace to get 7-8 sacks on the season. That's pretty good for a player in his second year and coming off of a major injury. People don't seem to understand that players develop and progress as their careers go on. Shaq is on a good trajectory. Year 2 he is already playing like and above average player at his position. It stands to reason that as he gets further removed from injury it is possible he will get better. I think Lawson will be a 8-10 sacks per-season guy who powerfully sets the edge and stuffs the run. That's pretty good production for the 19th pick.

The only thing I could think it could be is maybe they didn't want Dareus to over exert his injury by being in on passing downs too much. Dareus has been pretty solid out there when he gets in, it is just unfortunate that he isn't able to be a 3 down player because of injury.

From my amateur eye Kyle has been pretty good overall. He still requires a double team to get him off the line and even sometimes a double team isn't overpowering him. He is a step removed from the dominant force he used to be but dam he can still play at a very high level at least that's what I see. I can't see him playing beyond 2017, I still think he is a good player but it seems like his play will decline if he continues to play. No reason to put your body through 1-2 more brutal NFL seasons to be an average or below average player.

In 2006 the Pats* featured a receiving core led by Reche Caldwell (61 receptions 760 yards 4 TD's those numbers led the Pats in all 3 of those categories that year) and tightend Ben Watson (49 receptions 643 yards and 3 TD's.) Brady's numbers that year were 3529 yards, 24 TD's to 12 INT's with a 61.8 completion percentage. Certainly decent to good numbers but Brady was clearly negatively impacted by not having much offensive talent. The next off-season they acquired Randy Moss, Wes Welker, and Donte Stallworth, Brady's numbers exploded and they nearly won every game despite the fact that the defense got worse compared to the year before. Overall you can't put it all on the QB. Even Tom Brady got highly impacted by the talent around him. It's because he isn't catching the ball despite getting open enough to get a decent amount of targets. It's baptism by fire for this kid, he is just going to have to go out there and do it. He can only go up from here in all honesty, sometimes its best for a struggling young player to know that he isn't going to get benched. The Yankees had to call up Jeter back in 1996 after an injury to their starting shortstop. He struggled a bit at first but because they had no one else to turn to they just kept trotting Jeter out there. Jeter settled down and the rest is history. Not saying Zay is going to be a HOF player but for a struggling young player sometimes it is best just to play through the struggles.

Zay ideally should have been a slot receiver with a true number 1 and another decent veteran on the roster. But they made the move with Sammy and Matthews the player they brought in to alleviate Sammy's absence got hurt. Zay is going to have to grow up quick. Hopefully a bye week clears his head and he settles down. Zay is getting open he just needs to haul the ball in. He will get the snaps and the chances its just up to him to deliver.