Livinginthepast

Love to believe this rosy scenario but missing the playoffs by at least 2 games is much more likely. There is no way in hell the Texans and Colts should have beaten the Bills. Both losses were due to poor personnel decisions by the Bills in key situations. Win those 2 and we are 5-5. Instead we are on life support due to inept management of QBs.

The real dagger to any playoffs was Peterman's pick 6 VS the Texans. If the Bills win that game, the whole season has a different look going forward. Then to finish the job Anderson's nightmare debut vs the Colts. 2 winnable games vs 2 mediocre to bad teams just blown completely!! It would be typically Billsian to just miss the playoffs by a game after giving those 2 away!

I agree , the NFL is business and these guys cannot be sensitive about being cut. However the one thing those players that you mentioned had that Peterman will never have is another chance in a new situation. I cannot recall any other football player so epically miscast by a coach and a GM. Peterman had no business making an NFL team let alone as a starting QB. To add to the debacle Beane and McD started him on the road against an excellent defense. After that first half, that was all she wrote for Peterman. He was forever damaged. Now no NFL GM in their right mind would sign him, the taint on him is so strong. I am glad the Peterman disaster is over but at that the same Beane and McD look like utter idiots for the Peterman era.

Barkley deserves a lot of credit to play like that after being on the shelve for a while. That was a brilliant performance coming into a situation like that, What annoys me is why didn't Beane bring someone like him in sooner. Instead they would rather play a proven bum like Peterman or a burned out Vet like Anderson. Barkley, Chad Kelly, Bridgewater and players like that were available after McCarron was traded yet we stuck with Peterman? Bad management!

As sad as the Bills have looked this season that is an amazing stat. But its also pretty excruciating since they should have beaten the Texans, Colts and possibly the Bears had anyone but Peterman played. Typical Bills of the drought era to just miss by a couple of games they should have won!

Ha ha, I'm sure the Jets are quaking in their boots!! A potential QB lineup of such awesomeness there is no way to stop it they can only hope to contain it!!

As much as it makes sense to lose this game and complete the tank properly. I still hope for the following 1. We see Allen again and he plays well 2. we never see Peterman or Anderson in a Bills uniform ever again. 3. Darnold looks bad and makes our pick look better.

The Op's comparison is about as close as planet pluto. It was hilarious!!

Since I have been paying attention to the Bills as a fan, I can only think of a handful of players who may have disappointed me more than KB. Rob Johnson is one glaring one, EJ and Sammy Watkins were minor ones. But KB was supposedly a stud receiver who was going to outmuscle defenders and catch everything no matter how high it was thrown. His performance on the field has been awful, he appears to be so lazy on his routes and his attitude on the field is douchey. How many times does he whine for a flag when a DB breaks up a pass legally? Or when he takes a hit he is talking trash right after? In every way he just seems to be a negative for this team. I'm not sure how he fooled McD and co about the character requirement!

The combination of a GM who is bad at evaluating offensive talent with a bad to mediocre OC who cannot adjust his schemes to the players on the roster is a total disaster. Firing Daboll would be a good start but Beane is completely at fault for assembling this burning pile of manure on offense. He needs to go as well. Derek Anderson as a solution to the QB issues has to be the worst idea of this regime.

Peterman is terrible, but as a bonus he's only $614K terrible!! Sadly the OP is right about the other Bills mentioned. They are even worse!! When your so called high end offensive talent has that few scores that is beyond embarrassing. Shady is having a bad year but KB and Clay have no excuses!!

Rex was fired before even 2 years was up because he was a disaster in so many areas. He had lost the respect of the owner, the players and the fans (and rightfully so). He came here to revamp the defense and made it much worse, he brought in his train wreck brother. He had a "spiritual advisor" advise him on when to throw a flag on a challenge. He was full of talk and bravado and full of sh$t as well. There was probably no more deserved firing in the drought than Rex. Now moving forward the Pegulas should be applying the exact same criteria to McD and Beane. Yes they were not a stupidly arrogant, they didn't promise the moon like Rex. They did break the drought, and seem to have fixed the D somewhat etc. However, they have now made several blunders that if they were anywhere else but Buffalo they would be on the hot seat or be about to be fired. The Offense is the worst I have ever seen here in Buffalo and because it is so bad it is destroying the gains they have made on defense. They have bungled the QB situation irreparably. Their so called "process" doesn't seem to be a process at all. They seem to use religious faith as some sort of bizarre metric of NFL quality. They have embarrassed this franchise on even more occasions than Rex did so how can people say that they deserve to be treated differently? Rex deserved to be fired before 2 years was up and both McD and Beane deserve to be in that firing zone right now.

The Pats were the better team overall. They made just enough plays when they had to. Nice to see Brady slipping just a little bit with the increase in incompletions and their defense looking vulnerable again. It would be hard to be a Green Bay fan right now and watch them squandering Rogers' talent like they have in the past couple of years. In the end the bizarre officiating decisions didn't decide the outcome but as usual but some curious calls just "happened" to go the Pats way. The roughing the kicker call was ridiculous, the ejection also was a huge overreaction to the situation. No explanations were offered by the onfield officials .Just business as usual in today's NFL.

Sadly you are probably right. But compared to some of their performances even this year the Pats look pretty beatable. That fumble by the Pack was killer.

Sorry but the Pats look ordinary tonight, I think the Pack from the players to the coaches just completely handed this game to New England with bumbling errors.

I never want to see Anderson in a Bills uniform again. He represents the worst idea in a history of bad ideas by Beane. Its bad enough to keep trotting out Peterman but going out there and getting Anderson as viable starter, mentor or to even win a game was off the scale asinine.

Why would Peterman be cut Monday? Today was nothing compared to the Chargers last year or to the end of the Texans game and they didn't cut him then. Today also had lots of built in mulligans for Peterman as 2 INTs were nothing to do with him. As for Anderson he is possibly worse than Peterman, slower older and now post concussion. If you thought he sucked before , prepare yourself , Anderson has every possibility now of being EVEN WORSE. As for the alternatives? Barkley and possibly Pryor, they don't interest me whatsoever. They are both mediocre and both were cut for a reason.

The sad fact is the Bills have become too painful to watch. I thought it was getting that way last year but at least they won some games with TT. This current crew is utterly inept, undisciplined and boring. The lack of innovative coaching and talent accumulation has produced a team that looks by far the worst team in the league. I seriously believe that the Bills current offense would have great trouble scoring on several CFL and NCAA defenses. The only thing that salvaged my day was watching 2 real NFL teams, the Saints and Rams go at in a thriller. That is what football should be, highly skilled, well coached and brilliantly executed football. Watching the Bills, I had almost forgotten.

You would think Peterman of all people would be comfortable with a Hail Mary?!!

Peterman pick 6.

Yes and that possibility should be terrifying as well!!

The only reason that Peterman is still on the team is because he is a nice guy, clean character and a Christian. McD obviously still believes that he and Beane assessed Peterman properly last year and this preseason. They probably are dumbfounded by Peterman's lack of success when all the signs (to them at least) point to him being a good NFL player. They also probably feel that they owe it to him to give him yet another chance. McD probably blames himself for Peterman's shortcomings and feels its just a matter of time for Peterman to light it up out there. These feelings of course have no basis in reality and are killing the Bills chances at success. They also make McD and Beane look like complete fools, totally out of their depth at evaluation of talent and decision making. Sad fact is that you have to be ruthless in this league as a manager and having irrational sentiments about players because of faith or how nice they are is a recipe for disaster. To make matters worse they have exacerbated the problem with Peterman and the Josh Allen injury by bringing in only equally bad or worse alternatives to Peterman like Anderson and potentially Barkley because once again they have used the character criteria for evaluation. Why on earth bring Anderson here? He was old, washed up and was in no way going to be a mentor to Allen or Peterman. Now they bring in Barkley who has shown next to nothing in his NFL career to prove he can be a starting QB let alone a backup. A bunch of us got laughed at because we suggested bringing in Chad Kelly here. Who despite his character issues has at least not proven he is failure like Peterman, Anderson and Barkley have. There MAY be an upside to him perhaps But because he aint a downhome Christian there is no chance that happens.

Thought he was overrated in 2014 when the Bills with Orton at qb were defeated in a must win game at Oakland. The commentators that day were falling all over themselves to praise Carr but he looked average to me. In addition I thought that St.Doug's defense had completely blown that game. Last night he looked utterly horrendous. I don't think he ever recovered from that broken leg in 2016. I think that Gruden will trade him because unlike McD he doesn't care that Carr is a holy roller.

I really enjoyed Gregg's quote from his opening press conference in 2001 here when he boldly stated "this team right now can win the superbowl!!" and then he promptly went out and achieved a 3-13 record. He is a great defensive coordinator but a really bad HC.

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