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Luck, Wilson, Kaepernick, Foles, Newton, a whole bunch of exceptions. Or maybe the exceptions are Ponder and Gabbert.

Agree, Pryor is such an athlete anything is possible (maybe even a position switch).

Jets (known to make a personnel mistake now and then cut Tajh Boyd, With Geno, Vick and Matt Simms, they really didn't have room for a fourth. Boyd to Watkins worked pretty well at the last level. Tuel never really was projected in college to do much. At one time Boyd was pretty high profile. Personally I would rather get Pryor to replace Tuel, and wouldn't consider Boyd other than the Sammy connection.

Jets (known to make a personnel mistake now and then cut Tajh Boyd, With Geno, Vick and Matt Simms, they really didn't have room for a fourth. Boyd to Watkins worked pretty well at the last level. Tuel never really was projected in college to do much. At one time Boyd was pretty high profile. Personally I would rather get Pryor to replace Tuel, and wouldn't consider Boyd other than the Sammy connection.

People will 100% root for the team, unless the team performs in a manner that doesn't deserve applause. Team has approximately $120 million payroll, head coach makes 3 million a year, they are paid enough that they should expect to earn applause and adulation, and if they don't perform they will have to make do with their money, but no adulation.

Franz should we sign your brother MIke Kafka?

I would go back only 3 or 4 months and make sure I got the Garrison Sanborn extension done then, so that the fanbase didn't have to worry all this time.

Any chance the Seahawks cut Pryor?

Manziel plays like he is trying to win. His receivers are pretty poor so his numbers won't be good and he will throw a lot of interceptions, but he looks like a pro. EJ seems to play not to lose, which inevitably leads to losing. I like Foles, I forgot about him. But we have stalwarts like TJ Graham, Aaron Williams and the great and powerful Kuondo on the roster instead of wasting picks on QBs like Dalton, Russell and Foles.

Manziel, Bortles, and Derek Carr will join Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick, Andy Dalton, Cam Newton and Andrew Luck as their teams clear cut "QBs of the future" during 2014. EJ Manuel and Geno Smithm and Bridgewater will remain on "project status". If I am right, that is a total of nine starting QBs found during the Nix/Whaley era.

Joe Flacco went on a record setting playoff run throwing no interceptions and putting up huge passer ratings for that stretch in route to winning the Super Bowl. He is inconsistent but has actually demonstrated a very high ceiling over a meaningful period of games. EJ has never demonstrated that he can put together three games of adequate, let alone high level play, in a row. He is young, he might, but EJ's demonstrated ceiling is not in the same zip code as Flacco's so far.

By admitting after the game that he didn't play well enough he sealed his fate. OBD demands that all coaches and players spin things as much as possible to sound favorable.

Yes, equally high upside (Tannehill only had 1 year of true college QB experience, and two years of NFL now, compared to four college and 1 NFL for EJ, so it is reasonable to assume Tannehill has at least as much to gain by experience), has proven to be durable, and seems to have a lower floor. I would be surprised if any GMs in the NFL would not do that trade.

He reminds me of Aaron Maybin in preseason. Good at being a one trick speed rusher vs second teamers. Pretty useless in real games.

I disagree, worst day is when the Bills are eliminated from playoff contention.

The standard reply after any game other than a super bowl victory is for the QB to say "I have to play better in next weeks game". never should there be a version of "I done good"

Signing Tebow might hurt EJ's feelings. If that happened and EJ ultimately didn't work out, forever and ever it would be blamed on his feelings being hurt by having EJ on the roster.

Except that the teams that actually have the pro bowlers have better players. Cordy is 10th or 12th best LT at best, If your best linemen is the 10th best at his position, its an indication that the line is probably closer to average than to elite. Over rated by Bills fans.

with all due respect to Dick Jauron, think Marrones post game quote should be "its hard to score in the NFL"

One possibility is that people are completely over rating the talent and the coaching. There are zero all-pro players on the line, but somehow people think it is supposed to be one of the top lines in the league. Pats felt comfortable trading logan mankins, the bills line isn't special.

Is anyone able to watch who doesn't have season ticket?

I am probably a minority of one here. But we have multiple overlapping police juristiction, federal, state, county, local. I think they should handle the matter first and if a players employer (the team) just like your employer or my employer wants to "fire" the employee, then they should do that. I don't generally like the idea of every employer in American acting as an ad hoc police/judge/jury/executioner. I am not a big fan of pretending that the NFL needs to bring "justice" to a situation that has nothing to do with football. Fire the guy or move on and let the law take care of it. How many people posting on this board would get "suspended" from work for a DUI for example?

I think the better question is "why is so hard to execute" four basic plain vanilla plays. I personally think most football games are won by the team that out executes the other team. In the Bills heyday on third and two, everyone could know 100% what the play was ahead of time, and the Bills would simply execute the play and get the first down anyway. If you are relying on "tricking" the other team to move the chains, you aren't likely to be successful in the long run.

The hurry up only makes sense when you are clearly better than the other team. Its a way to dominate people. But if the other team has a more favorable match up of offense vs. defense, it makes no sense to follow a strategy of having more series. For example it makes zero sense to work hard to make sure Tom Brady gets back on the field more often.

What happened to Josh Freeman such that a guy who QBed a winning team as a starter is not getting the same opportunities as a guy who last through a pass in an NFL game years ago? Not saying Freeman is a world beater, but it seems like resurrecting skills might be easier than finding skills where no one ever found them before.