OldTimer1960

You do need to move your arms to catch, right? Too many here are too quick to dismiss injuries. These guys are playing against super elite athletes - trying to do that while injured is incredibly difficult.

I am with you. I think he will be much better next season.

I hope for better from you than comments like that. You are knowledgeable.

Agreed if you know for sure that is who you are getting, but you don’t. BTW, in his 12 year career, Rivers has made the playoffs 5 times and is 4-5 in the playoffs. Sure, better than the Bills over that time, but he is good enough to be competitive with, but he isn’t a guarantee that you’ll make the playoffs every year.

Obviously, but it isn’t easy to find a good QB. There are some good, not great QB prospects this year. If one is there at 21, by all means take a shot, but I would not trade a ransom for any of these guys. The most that I’d consider would be to trade a 1st and 2nd to move up and get a QB in the teens of round 1.

Let’s hope that they re-sign Gaines. They should be talking with his agent now.

Doing deals like that is a reason the Bills have had almost no success. Too much coaching turnover and all the new coaches ditch the previous regimes’ draft picks. There are a number of former Bills playing roles for playoff teams. Watkins, Woods, Bradham, Darby and more. i know that you can’t keep everyone, but dumping guys almost indiscriminately because the previous regime drafted them is bad business. To be clear - I understood the Watkins trade - got a 2nd for a guy who surely would have left in FA. But the Darby deal will look bad if they don’t re-sign Jordan Mathews. If all they end up with is a late 3rd round pick for a good CB, then it was a poor deal.

I agree. I would not trade him for less than an early 3rd and maybe not then. Dumping good solid players for low draft picks doesn’t help. The Eagles’ Brandon Graham is a valuable player, but his sack totals early in his career were: 3, 0, 5, 3, 5.5... instead of dumping Graham for a mid round pick, they have a good solid starter on a very good defense.

I’ll support the original poster here. I understand that good RBs can be found outside of round 1, but a great running game can be extremely valuable to an offense. I would still consider a top RB prospect as early as one of the Bills’ 2nd rounders. I think the “conventional wisdom” that RBs aren’t valuable is bunk.

I think that the result of this game is interesting. The Falcons and their high-powered offense couldn’t beat a good defense. I am sure that we would all take Matt Ryan, but I think this game reminds us that there are only a small number of true game-changing QBs like Brady, Rodgers and Brees. Everyone else is playing with the prayer that those super QBs are injured or have horrible, terrible, rotten days. I don’t think that any QB in this draft is that level good. So, if in round 1 you think you are drafting a competent game manager with no chance to be great, maybe spend that pick to build a great defense instead. i am NOT necessarily advocating that at this time, just something to consider

I haven’t watched all of his games on draft breakdowns, but he looked pretty good to me in the ones that I saw.

Your right. Rex probably blamed Roman’s offense as the reason Rex’s D was bad.

You would have done that too, if Bortles was your QB.

I thought Roman did a fine job here with what he had to work with.

OL was better with Aaron Kromer as the coach.

Yes, he was a nice guy who his teammates have said they liked. He was suspended multiple times and unavailable due to injury quite a lot too. Bottom line, he was unreliable as a teammate and employee. He has talent, but has been in the league several years and hasn't seemed to mature much at all. Add that he has not performed at a high level since he got his new contract and it seems easy to me to conclude that this was addition by subtraction. A person in an organization does not have to be purposely disruptive to have a negative impact on that organization. In Dareus' case, his lack of effort, commitment, conditioning, buy-in and accountability were strongly counter to the culture that they are trying to build. Dareus was the opposite of a leader - he was someone who needed prodding to do the minimum expected and even then he wasn't doing it. Kyle Williams may have liked Dareus, but I am sure he doesn't miss having to baby-sit him and doesn't miss being impacted by his absences due to suspensions and injury (due to lack of conditioning). Maybe, being sent packing will *finally* be the wake-up call that causes Dareus to ramp up his effort and meet his responsibility level - I hope so. I wish him well.

Come on, you don't think the multiple suspensions and being sent home for a preseason game because he couldn't bother to make it to the team bus on time had anything to do with them trading him? How about his conditioning level? Remember, he was suspended for I think the first half of the 2016 season and came back and immediately missed time due to a pulled hamstring - that appears to show that he was out of shape when he came back after having a half-season vacation. From the public view, Dareus appears to be a nice happy-go-lucky guy. He doesn't seem to be a jerk or anything, but he didn't seem to take his job (for which he was highly paid) seriously. They rid themselves of him for those reasons - he wasn't earning his money and, more importantly, when you are trying to build a culture of effort, intensity and accountability, you can't have one of your most highly paid players not buying into that - how would his teammates view that?

That is saying a lot. The 85 Bears defense gave up 10 or fewer points in 11/16 games including shutouts two weeks in a row. That's what we need!

Agreed.

I see it from a different perspective. I think that they already knew going into camp that they did not think Tyrod was the long-term answer , so they implemented an NFL offense that they will want to run when they find their long-term answer at QB. That way, the other players on offense don't have to learn/adapt to another scheme when a new QB is brought in. If they were committed to Taylor at the beginning of last year, I think that they *would* have built the scheme more around his strengths.

I have not watched enough of Rudolph yet to have an opinion, but I thought the same thing last year about DeShaun Watson's receivers making him look good. For the games he played before being injured, he sure looked good in the NFL.

I am with you. I don't really see a QB in this draft that is such a certainty that they should give up the farm to move all the way to the top. Rosen and Darnold are interesting prospects, but not sure things. I like what I've seen of Mayfield, but his size could become an issue in the NFL. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have tools, but are far from sure things and Mason Rudolph has questions. To be clear, I think all are decent to good QB prospects and would not be opposed to one of the Bills' 1st rounders being used on one, but I wouldn't give up more than a 1st and a 2nd to move up for any of these guys unless the Bills think that one of these guys is almost certain to be good.

Mayfield *might* be available, but Mayfield is very unlikely to be there.

What are you talking about? That play was EXACTLY why you have a player like Benjamin. The penalty call was correct, but a lot of times players get away with that. Push-off. If it was just incomplete with no penalty, no problem. You can’t not run that play for fear of offensivePI call.

You might be too generous with your evaluation of Taylor. If there was *ever* a playoff game that you “could win with Taylor”, today was it. Defense (and Blake Bortles) held the opposition to 10 points. Are we down to: “IF you make the playoffs AND IF the defense gets a shutout THEN you could win a game 3-0”?