buffalo2218
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While Taylor may have missed open receivers, that doesn't excuse Dennison's god awful play calling and way too conservative approach once the Bills have a lead. I mean a 2nd and 25 and you hand the ball off to Tolbert? If the Bills cut both loose, I won't lose any sleep over it
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As pointed out, we have a head coach with a vision. The fact that he got players to buy in should speak more volumes than our playoff appearance. Micah Hyde said at one point he wasn't interested in playing for Buffalo, now he loves it. The compliments guys like Hyde make will open a path to Buffalo for free agents.
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10 hours ago, MDFan said:
I think he should get consideration, but any chance for that honor went out the window with the Peterman fiasco. McVay deserves it. Yes he had great talent to work with, but the difference in the Rams year to year clearly had much to do with far better coaching. I am thrilled with the job McD did this year, hiccups and all.
The Peterman fiasco could also boost his chances as well. He overcame what a lot considered to be a huge mistake and still got to the playoffs with a far less talented roster than McVay
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11 minutes ago, JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS said:
He's not that limited ... first QB to take us to the playoffs since Flutie. Draft one or two or three, but keep Tyrod another year as well.
I can appreciate Taylor's contribution to getting us in, but moving on is the only option barring a deep playoff run. Only then will there be consideration. I think the turnovers we forced contributed as much if not more than Taylor
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Browsing the Phins board, some are being civil but some are also being as salty as hell. The fact that we celebrate the end of the drought in Miami, in their own stadium is sheer bliss in itself. And I hope every Phins player and Adam Gase heard every scream
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Gotta give honorable mention to the fact that the Bills lockeroom in Miami was louder than the stadium was all day once Boyd scored that TD
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1 minute ago, Perry Turtle said:
Taylor could have thrown for 3 yards. He was the QB who helped put the team in contention, so as part of the process, you ride it out with him.
You don't try to make your 5th round rookie the savior. Put the rookie in when the team falls out of contention and start him at home if possible. That's the process move.
McDermott should have given Taylor till the Colts game to turn things around. If the Bills were out of it at that time, start the rookie at home against the Colts.
Anyway, Good Fortune has covered up McDermott's mistake and the Bills are in the playoffs!
Can't argue that if I tried. But in Taylor's benching case, taking a step back may have helped him take 2 forward. The end result speaks louder than the assumptions of the decision being a mistake.
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1 minute ago, Wily Dog said:
My, My the trolls for TT are out in force today. Their retelling of the Peterman games, yes i said games, makes me wonder what they watched. Didn't they see a fullback muff a pass , which was on the money, didn't they see two offensive tackles choose not to block their assigned rushers, resulting in less than two seconds for the QB to throw. I would think that the coach did and he will put it in perspective. During the Colts game The QB threw two balls to Benjamin Which resulted in a TD. Benjamin, who TT can't seem to find. Sure, he made a rookie mistake and didn't slide. I suspect that Peterman is going to be in the mix for our starting QB next year because the ramifications of the draft whereby, the first few pickers all need QB's. I do not think TT will be there , unless he takes us on a miraculous drive to the finals.
I'm not fully convinced the Colts will let go of Luck
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7 minutes ago, Perry Turtle said:
There is no coach or player at any level of football who will argue that a 3 and out is the same thing as an interception or a pick six.
The process is supposed to be about patience. It's about fully analyzing why things go right or wrong.
Benching your starting QB while the team is in playoff contention for a 5th round rookie on the road wasn't a process move, it was a panic move.
And if Andy Dalton didn't complete a miracle pass all the feel good stories about the Bills the last couple of days would have been hatchet jobs against McDermott's bad decision.
So McDermott made a mistake and some luck bailed him out. Good for him and good for the team; we all deserved some luck after the last 17 years.
Ok so let me get straight. Taylor throws for 56 yards at home against the Saints, yeah the Saints were good but were they so good as to say Taylor was in an impossible situation to play any better than that? Everyone acts like a starting QB has never been benched in this league because of poor performance. McDermott fully knew his team was in playoff contention and not one person has posted a single thing about proof Taylor would have been the difference maker against SD. For that matter, neither have the media. In Taylor's defense I will say that Dennison was not the best fit as an OC, but every bit of this criticism McDermott's been getting is moot now. The Bills are in the playoffs, the slate is wiped clean as far as I'm concerned.
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40 minutes ago, Bill Murray said:
But 3 and outs and punts dont mean we lose! pick 6s do! 3 and outs and punts inside the 20 has won us 9 games and gotten us into the playoffs!!!
3 and out punts amount to the same thing in terms of scoring, or in this case not scoring. Say what you want, but people arguing just to argue will never admit that even if Taylor had started, it'd still have been a loss. McDermott saw, like the rest of us, how bad Taylor really was against the Saints. Benching Taylor may have actually done him some good. It was a positive result regardless because now were in the playoffs
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3 minutes ago, Bill Murray said:
got it, totally fair, lets speculate TT starts that game and throws 5 first half INTs or worse, because thats a reasonable position to take.
Ok here's reasonable. TT 3 and outs with very few completions, is sacked about 6 times in the first half. But hey, he didn't throw 1 single pick. Bills still lose
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5 minutes ago, Rocky Landing said:
Yes, they came out for the second half and played with intensity. Taylor has the ability to escape the pocket and extend plays, and he did that.
You, and Buffalo2218, can try to weirdly rewrite history to fit you agenda. But, it just looks silly. Anyone who thinks that Taylor wasn't A LOT better than Peterman in the second half of that game is delusional.
ANY QB would look elite playing against a team that has a 30 point lead dude. As for trying to rewrite history, that's the last thing I'm doing. In fact, at that point if history serves, Taylor was getting sacked left and right. The O line was getting blown up with Peterman in and you chalk it up to the Bills playing better in the second half? So in the first half, given the amount of times Taylor was sacked before, how would Taylor have fared?
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Just now, suorangefan4 said:
You really think the Chargers were playing with even half the intensity in the second half as they were the first? TT had a ton of time to throw in the second half, Peterman was getting the entire pocket collapsed in about a second most plays.
Thank you, been trying to point that out
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1 minute ago, Bills757 said:
Look....I get the hate you have for Taylor. I really do. Nothing I say will change it. What's more damaging, an ineffective passing game or giving the other team 5 turnovers and short fields to score?
This is far from hate on Taylor, more of a justification for McDermott's decision. Ask yourself this, if Taylor had almost the same performance against the Chargers that he had against NO, would it stand to reason he wouldn't have played any better in KC? Bottom line is, I appreciate what Taylor has done. Were in the playoffs and he's a big reason why.
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Just now, Rocky Landing said:
It seems to me that his stat line against the same team in the second half of the same game is a bit more relevant.
Not as far as McDermott's concerned, Taylor would have taken twice as many sacks as Peterman threw picks
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3 minutes ago, Rocky Landing said:
How far do you have to stretch to not give Taylor any credit that he is due?
I didn't see the Chargers "let off the gas." They were pumped.
Dude, if the Chargers were pumped, they'd have hung a 70 burger on the Bills. Benching Taylor may have actually helped him, sure did look that way in KC
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1 minute ago, Bills757 said:
So one of the worst halves in NFL history and Taylor would do worse? You're reaching....a lot.
In all seriousness, McD could've picked a different team to have Peterman start. The Chargers' pass rush was brutal and not a good matchup for Peterman.
What was Taylor's statline against the Saints? Believe it was something like 50 yards passing for a WHOLE game, I'm not reaching at all. I understand McDermott's reasoning after that dreadful performance. Taylor might not have thrown as many picks, but do you really believe he would have fared THAT much better?
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Just now, Bills757 said:
A guy who rarely throws INT's could do worse than 5 picks in one half? Um...okay, yea, right. I'm not sure Taylor could've been worse if he tried.
As opposed to Taylor's performance against the Saints?
Just now, Rocky Landing said:There's really no question in my mind. They played better on both sides of the ball in the second half, especially the offense.
Of course they did if the Chargers let off the gas with a 30 point lead
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3 minutes ago, Rocky Landing said:
The entire team played better in the second half with Taylor under center. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Geez dude, the Chargers were up 37-7 at the start of the second half, did the Bills play better or did the Chargers play soft with a huge lead?
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Just now, Rocky Landing said:
The entire team played better in the second half with Taylor under center. I don't think that's a coincidence.
What was the score in the second half?
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1 minute ago, SaviorPeterman said:
Yes and that's when the true Peterman era will begin.
Despite all the talk of trading up for a franchise QB, I still get the sense that Beane and McD love NP and will build around him in the offseason. This doesn't mean we won't bring in another veteran or draft another QB in the mid rounds though.
I seriously doubt if the Bills have a chance to get one of these guys in the draft, they'd pass them up just to build around Peterman. Peterman has a very long way to go in terms of development.
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Just now, KingRex said:
The problem was it was a stupid player development strategy. There is a good reason why virtually all rookies do not play unless forced by injury. They are not ready.
At the very least, McD should have waited until late in the week to officially announce the switch as SD's D would have prepared for
tyrod rather than working to disguise coverages to rape a rookie.
Whether your focus was the present or the future, this was a bad move poorly done.
I look at it more like McDermott felt Taylor needed to take a step back after his horrendous performance against the Saints. For all we know it worked just fine considering what happened after SD
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Yeah starting Peterman really decresed the Bills chances of winning against a hot San Diego team on the road. Given how Taylor played against the Saints the week before, it's possible he could have been worse against the Chargers
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1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:
Karlos “Feast Mode” Williams
who says no
Yeah just set up a buffet in the Jags end zone, money in the bank right there
This franchise has no ambition to win if they keep Dennison
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Taylor may not be a good passer in Dennison's system, but that doesn't excuse Dennison's god awful play calling and far too conservative and predictable approach when the Bills had a lead. The defense really bailed him out quite a few times