OldTimer1960

I'm feeling a bit down and this post will reflect that... i think that the Bills will mess around and beat the Colts and Miami at least once, while I think KC will also manage to get to 8-8. - hopefully out of the playoffs. With two picks in the late teens, early 20s in round one and a mid and late 2nd, I just can't see how the Bills will be able to move up high enough to get Rosen, Darnold, Jackson or Mayfield - unless Mayfield measures very small. Beyond thos guys, the remaining options probably leave them better off picking other positions and trying to move to the top of the 2nd to take a chance on someone like Josh Allen or settling for Mason Rudolph. Allen and Rudolph don't look like great prospects to me. With Allen you have to talk yourself into believing that his accuracy can improve in the NFL and that his inability to dominate a low level of college competition is all because of his supporting cast. With Rudolph, you somehow have to ignore that his arm strength is middling and his accuracy isn't special - even though he throws a lot of short passes.

I know that both Mathews and Benjamin have been injured. I have a difficult time believing that someone that has been as productive as Mathews over multiple seasons can’t be a big piece of the offensive puzzle. Benjamin has been hurt almost since he arrived, but also has been highly productive in the league. As an aside, Charles Clay was highly productive in the league before arriving here as well. i can’t escape the conclusion that between injuries and subpar QB play, we haven’t seen the potential of Mathews and Benjamin. Still, with Mathews’ contract expiring, not sure I could commit big money to him. I think the long-term play is to keep Benjamin and Zay Jones and add a player with some speed. if you disagree, have a look at what Marquis Goodwin and Robert Woods are doing this season. They were limited by injuries here for sure, but perhaps the QB play here limited them more...

Not really. There were plenty of penalties on that play on both sides. I think the game was over by then - no? I’ll bite, maybe regrettably - what college team did you play on?

Yes and whomever reposted made it sound like anyone would have responded other than the Bills. If that was not you, then my apologies to you.

And you did what when you were playing 5th grade intramural soccer?

And Kelvin Benjamin

Tyrod has been handicapped by injuries to Matthews an Benjamin, but he has surely underachieved with them and Clay.

Yes, Woods is leading the Rams receivers in catches and Watkins is third. Watkins has 28 receptions so far (5 TDS though).

Jordan Matthews averaged 75 receptions per season in his 3 years in Philadelphia. No doubt that he has been hampered by injuries this year, but I conclude that the offense and QB are limiting him.

And the company will pass along rate increases to employees.

I am not a Taylor hater, but I believe that two things have happened: 1 Mathews has been injured (uncharacteristic for him) 2 Taylor will not throw to anyone that isn’t WIDE open. Good NFL QBs can complete passes to receivers that are marginally open.

For sure. I am pretty sure that I would be rich if Daddy fronted me a LOT of money and then took advantage of bankruptcy laws. i know that this is not a political forum- and I am not a political activist, but I am sure that Trump is an embarrassment to the US in the world community. No other country cares if he is rich. He IS delusional and woefully incapable of governing a small town let alone a motor world power.

Have you listened to ANYTHING that Trump has said? Best scenario is that Republicans realize that he will bring them down and impeach him. When your closest allie (Britain) has to issue an embarrassing rebuke of his nonsense, you know it is historically bad. Keep believing that. I have had a decent career and am thankful for the companies that have employed me, but make no mistake- those corporations would not lose a second of sleep to ship your job and your benefits overseas to increase profits. I used to think that, too. Age has a habit of changing perspectives.

Mathews was a high quality NFL WR before he arrived here. Kelvin Benjamin is a very good receiver and Charles Clay was productive before getting here.

Check the tax bill before you declare that - unless you own a major corporation that will take the tax break and create more jobs ( overseas).

I think it is pretty obvious that Trump is rarely right. I am VERY glad that he is not the Bills’ owner. Instead, he is “only” embarrassing our country and putting the world on the verge of extinction via nuclear war...

Jets and Phins are just 1game behind Bills. Bills and Phins play 2x remainder of season. Could flip positions. There are a bunch of teams only 1 game worse than 6-6, possible for them to move up as well. Chargers and Raiders both should be 6-6 by end of today.

There are a bunch of teams only 1 game worse than 6-6, possible for them to move up as well

I agree that Taylor is very limited, but he is nowhere near the worst the Bills have trotted out.

He threw it under 5 seconds!

Ugh

I am with you on that point.

Come now, the offense has been weak the entire season. Much of that falls on the full offense, but what we are seeing on O is not different than what was seen the previous two years. i don’t say that Taylor is the entire problem, but he is not the solution either unless you are fielding an all-time great defense and super running game. Do you really think the defense that was giving up 35+ a game was going to hold the Chargers to below 16 that the O likely would have scored with Taylor at the helm? Perhaps, just maybe, the entire team responded to the shakeup of benching Taylor. Maybe instead of saying McDermott was stupid to bench Taylor, we should praise him for jump-starting a dead team.

Has more ever been made of benching a marginal and limited QB? I am on record as respecting Taylor’s effort and ability to avoid turnovers, but come on, some here act like he was performing at a Hall Of Fame level and was benched irrationally.

Word! Way too many were writing him off early. The NFL is the highest level of competition in football, running off young guys that are not immediately productive is a recipe for continued failure. Way too simple of an analysis: I disagree that that pass would have been caught by “most” NFL caliber players, that was a difficult one catch and I think the kid will learn from that.