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Good stuff (the OP, not this thread of course).

His contract was structured and designed to be broken after this year (and for good reason). Shifty 30-yr old RBs typically don't age gracefully -- they tend to hit a wall. He's certainly not part of the team's long range plans going forward. They simply need to get younger at the position. This front office isn't the type to wait for the car to fall apart before selling it.

I thought this was sort of obvious to most, but judging by the replies in this thread...

To quote Doug Marrone - "Obviously."

No coach is ever going to say "it's a rebuilding year." Yeah, that would really sit great with vets like Shady and Kyle. It's not the coach's fault you can't read between the lines. Honest question - what did you think was going to happen when they accumulated 10 draft picks? Were you expecting them to trade those picks before the deadline to make a November push? Amen.

If you think we're going to be building a team through FA, you haven't been paying attention.

It's incredibly naive to think a rotational DT is the difference between a first and last place run defense. He's not even a starter in Jacksonville. It's also silly to think Dareus playing twenty-something snaps would have stopped the Saints from rushing for ~300 on us. This is what true BBFS looks like. Exaggerate the loss of every player and whip yourself into hysterics over what could have been. I just hope Dareus doesn't manage to get a sack, some people around here might off themselves.

Luck has nothing to do with the draft picks they've accumulated.

Can't believe those morons didn't see that hit coming.

This is pretty much it. The fans that are just chanting "process!" after every win or loss are out of the loop. It doesn't refer to weekly game planning. The team is going to primarily be built through the draft, not FA. And that's another important thing to note -- they haven't even started building the team yet. All the fan whining to date has been about how they are tearing the team down. If a player does not fit into their long-range plans for 2019, 2020, and beyond they are getting shipped out (prepare for the end of Kyle and Shady).

It's not the same knee either, in 2015 he tore up his left knee.

If it's the same ACL he tore in 2015 that caused him to miss the entire season, well, I don't even want to think about that...

This is completely wrong.

"I saw the deliciously snarky I guess it's Tyrod's fault the Saints ran for 298 yards takes that were so clever they could have been right out of a Leno monologue. The fact is, the offense’s 118 net yards over nine drives in the Saints game was just as egregiously bad as the defense's performance. They were both awful. You can’t raze your entire defensive roster midseason. If you want to make the kind of drastic change the Bills needed to make, and you think there’s even a chance you might have an upgrade on your roster, the logical spot is at quarterback." Another great quote, and a notion that's been seen quite a bit since the QB change (from people trying to sound clever). So, because the defense has been worse than the offense the past 2 games, the coach isn't allowed to try to improve the offense? That silly take came from more than one local sports reporter.

You never know what the Browns will do.

Great article. He really highlights how we have been living off turnovers (which is somewhat odd given that we don't have a pass rush).

"I'm not a Tyrod Taylor fan," I've just been incessantly arguing with anyone who has dared to criticize him over the past 3 years.

Best thing to happen since Pegula fired Whaley.

National media? A good portion of our fan base is crying about it. Sad indeed.

I honestly don't know who these people are or how they are connected to football. There are a lot of morons on social media that just want attention -- don't give it to them.

I don't visit enough to know who came up with that (certainly did it for comedic effect), but the cult thing seems oddly accurate to me. There's a group of people that pretend to be neutral and objective, but if you dare insinuate that Tyrod isn't a franchise QB, they will defiantly contest that argument to no end. You'll soon be reading a large cherrypicked statistical presentation on why he is our future, complete with a comparison to Russell Wilson. This thread is proof of that lol. I've read some crazy and amusing things on this forum, but some of the lengths fans will go to are just insane. For example, over the past 2 years there's been this growing narrative that passing yards don't matter. What?? In the dozen weekly Tyrod threads there will always be quotes similar to, "HAH, Rodgers passed for 457 yards and lost! I'd rather take a win anyday!" I mean, we all want a HOF QB, but because Tyrod lacks in that area, there are people arguing that passing yards are irrelevant. You know, a QB's primary purpose. That seems cult-like on a "Xenu and volcanoes" level to me. This was the hottest thread of last week, and that changed real fast in a matter of 3 hours last Sunday. If anyone is out there reading and still wants to know if Tyrod is a franchise QB, I can tell you this -- NOT IN BUFFALO!

Don't these coaches know he had a QB rating of 126 in a game?

Week 17. 8-8 is going to get an AFC team in this year.

That's the funny thing about cults -- when you're in one, you're not consciously aware of it. If you think there is some "anti-Taylor machine" out to get you (lol), you might want to take a step back. For the past decade this forum has been built on wishful thinkers that jump through hoops trying to convince themselves that some other teams' backup QB is going to be our savior. It never ends well.

We could drop the next 3 and still make the playoffs. It's looking like an 8-8 team is going to get in from the AFC this year.