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I think it isn't a waste for EJ it's just going back to the old school way of doing things with him having to sit more than expected due to injury that was the way the NFL use to do it all the time, and i for one don't like the constant change with the man in charge on the field . If Thad gets on a role with the team & it is time for EJ to come back do you take Thad out just because ? I would hope that wouldn't happen especially if the play offs may be in sight ! Sure EJ is suppose t be our future & looking at the over all package it seems as though he has 85% of what it takes to be a GOOD NFL QB but the one thing that i have seen that scares me is his inconsistent accuracy issues & i hope that will come with time. To this point i haven't seen a QB come into the league (unless someone can tell me of one) that has had accuracy problems at first that has fixed them ? And just to add if at one of our picks in next years draft we have a chance to pick up another college QB with a better college resume than EJ i would jump on it ! I'm talking Taj, Johnny M, which will more than likely be gone but this years QB class i suppose to be a very good one & to pass over a player (like we have done in the past Orapko, Matthews, Nagta) just because we THINK we know the guy we have or want would just continue in a long line of dumb moves by the Bills FO ... Go Bills !!!

He sucked in Detroit & his record & stats proved it & he still sucks in B/Lo !! Bad hire !!!

I'll second that !!

He keeps us all informed on the inner workings & the real stories of whats going on in the organization he doesn't jump at every possible story line just to have to correct himself at a later date . But by the sounds of it thats what you would rather have some one go out & just make stuff up that has no substance or truth to it but that's why Chris is a good reporter & i think a stand up guy because when he reports a story to us you can bank on it being truth & not BS ! But hey if thats what your looking for pitch the idea to ABC or some body & maybe you can be one of the writers & just print a bunch of fantasy for TV junk . To each their own . But i for one have a ton of respect for the job Chris does in keeping us in the know about our favorite team !! And what was so wrong with the link article ? Was he lying , was it a true report , was it something that informed us all about what was going on at 1 bills drive , wasn't it some thing that came to be ? So what was your point ?? Go Bills !!

Even with all the BS about Tuel being a developmental QB & not wanting to put him on the PS i think this entire situation has done absolutely nothing for his confidence ! When you keep getting pushed down lower & lower you can't tell me even with all the positive BS Marrone is feeding him that the kid is banking on it . The Flynn move is a waste I was all for brining him in before when he was a FA & i hope they got him for a song because to this point all he has proven is that he is no better than if not worse than Fitz . Of which we are still paying for so if you want to get technical we could say we have 6 QB's on the pay sheet . I'm not sure but it all looks like a College coach trying to run a NFL squad i just hope that the HC has a method to his madness !!

But 7-11 is always open & Easley is way to good on ST's to give him a shot at WR !!

You mean 7-11 the guy thats always open ... Did they even give Easley a shot with Stevie being out ? If they said in the preseason that Hogan was great & has turned out to be a dud & Easley was the highest out put of any of the WR's in the preseason yet they leave him on ST's why not give him a shot ? They say they are always looking to upgrade . They are just waiting for the Pats , Jets or Fins to get him & show his true potential !!

HURRY HURRY LET'S TRADE HIM SO WE CAN GET A HIGHER DRAFT PICK WHILE HE'S PUTTING UP GREAT NUMBERS !!! Well heck it wouldn't be a typical bills fan blog if this reply wasn't in there, i just thought i would help !!

Any thing is better than a rookie right now No matter where he was taken !!

Well as we all know this year as others have been filled with injuries & although some have tried to work through them when do they need to let some of our stars sit to heal a bit more before going forward ?? Again as we know Jaruis Byrd has been waiting to get healthy so he could play up to his potential which for him & the team was probably the best call . Yet during that time other stars on our roster have been hobbled like CJ , Kyle, & others . With the likes of these injuries, Kyle's being his achilles & CJ's ankle, which has slowed one of last years most explosive offensive players & has helped to not allow him to be the player coach Hackett wanted to lean on in this offense . Do you let these players sit a game to get closer to 100% so the possibility of a late run at the playoffs with all our players healthy or do you let them go out with the possiblity of either getting worse or prolonging their full recovery ? I truly think our team has all the talent we need to make a run at the play offs but a team is only as strong as it's weakest link & if our strongest players are in a weakened state it makes us as a team that much weaker. I know that all teams have players that are dinged up & most are working through their injuries but i was just wondering what Bills mafia may feel about the subject ? Go Bills !!!

So i have been reading that next year could be another historic year for Qb's coming out in the draft , such as the year that we picked up Kelly . That year always referring as we well know to Kelly , Marino, & Elway . This coming year there will be the likes of Boyd , McCarron , Murray, & Mettenburg , just to mention a few. So if we are on the board & say for the sake of this post & that my 2 personal favorites either Boyd or McCarron are there at our pick do you take them ? Murray is looking pretty good too ... We did go for EJ this year but it has been said that he as taken to high & if by chance you can get another QB that has a huge resume & shows to be a better pick up (NFL wise) as far as upside do you n fact go for it & then have the possibility of picking up draft picks with the trade of one of the QB's that you have acquired like the Pats have so often done . Or do you just let that guy slide by & go after the guy on your board as we did with McCargo, Whitner, & of coarse who could forget Maybin ? And let Orapko, Matthews, Nata, & others slip by. Not to mention R. Wilson or A. Dalton . Just wondering what you all may think of this very real situation that could be there next year given what has happened in our recent past ...

Heck you have season tickets & can't get on the field how do you think Easley feels & he's on the team ...

Given his recent decision making history ---- Well never mind you fill in the blanks !!

Like the Tuel situation i think if V. Young was given a legitimate chance to learn the offense in it's entirety that he would be a great QB in this system . The guy doesn't have a winning record for nothing . This year in GB he showed he still had something but was released & the chance he was given here last year was a joke to say the least almost as bad in comparison as bringing Leinhart in this year !! But that goes with the territory i guess ??

NO !!! But we shouldn't have taken EJ as high as we did.

Ya but his OC opened it up & let him play that is what our OC isn't doing it's like he's scared to play with the big boys & everything goes through the run game . All the teams know it so they key on the run game shut it down then there we are ... Open it up let the kid use his arm cause we've all seen that he has one !

What EJ isn't top ten material ?? I think more than not it is the OC being so conservative with his play calling . Did any one see what the Jets did while opening up the field for their rookie QB last night ? I think that is what Hackett needs to do is open it up so the other teams aren't keying on our run game Heck even Fitz was getting it further down the field than we have with EJ & this kid has got a gun but it won't fire if you don't pull the trigger !!

Well you can bet with this coaching staff & the decisiveness in their decision making they are looking at him

OK Where is the fans confidence level at with this group ? Never mind that from an outside standpoint it seems as though chaos reigns at the highest coaching levels for the Bills & that yet another young QB's confidence could be trashed by recent actions by our Bills coaching staff . Let me first point out a few things that have got my confidence level dropping & questioning some of their moves . Earlier in the season our coach has said he doesn't believe that continuity in the offensive line is all that important or something along those lines. That is the first time i ever heard that from a HC or O line coach & He is the only coach that i have ever heard make that statement ! He has also said in his most recent interview on BB.com that they will be playing both Legursky & Brown at the LG position but they haven't come up with a plan on the amount of reps per player but will do it until one possibly shows deserving of being the guy ?? Any other coach i have ever heard has always said that that is one thing on the O line that is VERY important ! Continuity & Playing together as a unit !! And from last year to this year huge change ! I know the Tuel thing is being covered already but i need to talk about this to get to my point so i apologize to those of you that this may bore . With regards to keeping Tuel on the roster rather than putting him on the PS . I get it OK at first his explanation sounds valid, but if you look into it , he says"Tuel was playing at a high level in the preseason & they didn't want to take the chance of some one taking him because of his good play" great ! So what has happened between then & now ? They along with other coaching staffs put rookies in early all the time but the difference is they are prepped for that situation, that's what they did with EJ . So why the change of heart ? Then there is the Thad situation ! First it was going to be a outside QB brought in then realizing after stating such a foolish thing that the talent that they have is good enough they did just the exact opposite, Thad very professionally said on BB.com even he was surprised with the call by the coach ? So if he's surprised with all of what went on why aren't the fans ? Then again from the outside looking in with the recent move of putting Hopkins on IR this entire thing could have been avoided with a decisive coaching decision weeks ago but wasn't . So here's a question even though we have heard the explanation from the coach. Was the Hopkins move now made so the coach could cover his a** ? After looking back (b/c hind sight is indeed 20/20) did he now realize & do what he should have done weeks ago which would have been the better move for the team or was it a rookie head coaching mistake ? I for one don't see the Pats HC doing some of these things we've seen here, and if i'm wrong i'm sure you all will tell me because you ain't scared !! But & i hope i am wrong BUT at first i didn't like the way this hire went down with the talk of the exhaustive search conducted when guys like Trestman weren't even talked to but that's history now & i'm in with this guy hoping he is what they thought he was & proves me to be wrong. But i will say with all that has happened with Qb's & releasing kickers adding kickers then putting them on IR , keeping Easley after putting up the best WR numbers in pre season then not using him in games as a WR even with the injuries ? Then the Byrd thing we aren't going to trade him now we are going to trade him ?? All of this has got me not so sure where these guys are headed , yet i hope there is a method to their madness cause to me it kind of resembles madness & my confidence is not what it was in this staff ... But where is yours as a Fan

Yet another brilliant move by this coaching staff ?? Why not do that weeks ago ? Man it just keeps getting better !!!

Ya so to add a bit to your post, the decision making of this staff lacks some as you have pointed out to be nice about it . These seem to be the type of decisions that a college HC would make ! B/C there is no back lash to those decisions in college but there are in the NFL . Then after reading what the coach said in reference to Tuels performance at BB.com in the game last week it just confirms everything you have posted here. Then you add what very well could happen in a week or so . It looks as if when Hopkins gets 100% Carpenter will be released isn't that a fine how do you do or what he has done for the team , the guy has been money . So say if Hopkins injury comes back to haunt him or if he misses as he did in the preseason & a move needs to be made why in the world (besides money) would Carpenter even think of coming back after being treated in this way . Plus i think if he does get released another team will see just what he has done here & he will be history & the Bills may once again be stuck with another bad decision made by there staff ...

To all of those that thought Tuel 's out come of the game was just his inability to do well here is what was said about that out come by the coach ... “This is what I told Jeff. What happened to him was tough. On a short week he didn’t get any reps during that week because we had to get EJ all the reps possible with the defense being different from the one we faced the week before. We really put Jeff out there in the toughest situation we can. A rookie free agent quarterback, who’s had some success in the preseason and taken some snaps, but mentally for me I think that was a tough situation to put him in. Jeff told me he was ready to go, which is what you want from a player.” The biggest part of this statement would be the part of Tuel not getting ANY , NONE , 0 reps during the week that is like telling a carpenter to build a building , give him the plans & take away his hammer & saw how would that work out ??

First off the amount of praise that was thrown in Tuels direction from the preseason on, then EJ gets hurt in the preseason & they bring in Lewis & Leinhart , keep Lewis but put him on the practice squad cause Tuel is our guy . Why not turn it around Tuel to the practice squad & Lewis on the roster ?? Fast forward to game 5 EJ's injury & through a ROOKIE in with little or NO reps on a short week less film study the entire 9 & expect Tom Brady to come on the field - HUH ? Not only the fans but now the staff just blow this guys confidence completely out of the water by basically telling him in so many words by their actions " we don't believe in you & we aren't even willing to give you the benefit of the doubt by giving you a full weeks worth of work with the ones & you are relegated to #3" !! Then go on record to say "we will bring in another QB from outside of the organization" AND DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY SAID ?? This was straight up a college coaching move ! What must be going through this kids head ? It looks like this crew has as much on the ball with the development of a young QB as Mularkey had with JP , & then we ALL wonder why we can't have a winning team ? OK bring Thad up i get that, but if what you said earlier was true then give Tuel a FULL week of prep with the ones along with Thad getting reps then make your decision as to their performance during the week of practice & if he can't handle that then pull him but to do it the way they went about it is crazy . Why would this guy have any confidence in this coaching staff putting him in a game after this ? One more young QB put into the Bills grave yard of QB's , un freakin believable !!!! Lead by example & this example of this coaching move resembles a college mentality type of move !! What if after Peytons of Brady's first games which if i remember they weren't what they are now the coaches handled things this way ? Where would they be today ?

HELLO !!! WOW this crew seems to have less of a clue in some respects than Chan did . At least if Chan chose a QB he stuck with them to not screw them up ! If i was Tuel i would be asking for a trade , these guys were so high on him this preseason giving him praise at every turn but they throw him into a game on a short week with little if no reps & expect miracles just like all of the fans i don't get it .

Giants need help every where !! 0 & 5