Perry Turtle

Rumor is that Cleveland is high on Allen. What should the Bills trade if Rosen or Darnold are sitting there?

What is this obsession with spending draft assets and cap space on a QB that, at best, will get you a first round loss in the playoffs? Cousins? Smith? Are the Bills trying to win a Super Bowl or trying to be marginally better than the Taylor-led Bills. For once a Bills front office needs to man up and get a franchise QB. Once you have THAT guy start him. Use the money that would have been spent on losers like Smith or Cousins on building the team around the rookie. If you spend a 1st round pick on a QB, that QB should be able to start day one. If he's not ready, you wasted that pick.

Actually look up your a##. It's there.

The Bills will address the QB, but I don't think McDermott is going to replace Dennison. I get the feeling that he likes the scheme, he wants to see it executed better. That's why they made the move to Peterman in LA.

It definitely is the criteria. Cookie stood against racial injustice in the mid 60s. Jim was never arrested or convicted of a crime. He has also invested his time and money in his charities and has been an ambassador for the team. Nobody in the Bills organization wants anything to do with Simpson. He's repulsive to the majority of the fanbase and the larger Buffalo community. His records will always stand. You can watch his highlights on Youtube, but if you can't invite the guy to speak at a booster meeting without disgusting the audience, he doesn't deserve to be HONORED on the wall.

What Simpson did on the field will always be in the record books and the highlight film. The Wall is for players who best represent the franchise and community. So if the Pegulas are comfortable with inviting Simpson to the next team ceremony (now that he is out of prison), keep his name on the wall. But if they leave his name off the invitee list when they add, say, Fred Jackson's name the wall, because they don't want to seat a criminal, wife-beater next to Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, or Ralph Wilson's widow, then they should take his name off the wall, because the wall isn't meant for those who embarrass the community.

The drought had to end. It doesn't matter if it took luck or effort that thing was a cancer on the franchise that had to be removed. How the Bills are set up for the future is a separate discussion, but a season that ended in the playoffs at this time in the team's history was a successful one.

Acquitted or not, he's still an embarrassment. Either take his name down or start inviting him to all the team ceremonies like all the other wall of farmers are invited.

The time to get rid of Taylor was the 2017 draft when Watson fell to the 10th pick. Let's hope that the same mistake doesn't happen in the 2018 draft.

Watching Bortles try to throw, it's hard to fathom why the Bills didn't have 9 guys in the box the whole game.

You might need a new head coach to get all that.

Nobody is saying that Taylor would have kept pace with Rivers. However, if the Bills could have played field position against Rivers, and forced him to go the length of the field, the Bills defense could have contained him. And Rivers is apt to make a mistake the longer the drive. The Bills excelled at turning the ball over this year. That's basically the gameplan the Bills rode to the playoffs this year. Force offenses into long drives, which result in opponent mistakes and turnovers. Peterman's 5 interceptions resulted in a pick six and 4 short fields that Rivers took advantage of. It completely knocked Buffalo out of its gameplan. That's why turnovers are WAY worse than 3 and outs.

That might be true if you believe that the game results were all Taylor's fault. However, up-thread Hapless Bills Fan posts an analysis of the Bills offense against the Saints from Cover 1. They show how the scheme the Bills against the Saints cover 2 was destined to fail. There was more going wrong in that game than just Taylor. From what we've seen from McDermott, benching Taylor was out of character for him. That's why I think it was a mistake on his part; because it was out of character.

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!

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.

Not only that, the Bills are sending the drought to the Browns. 15 years and counting Cleveland!

Couldn't have happened without Tyrod Taylor, PLAYOFF QB.

Yeah, and he dropped a bunch of those passes that hit him right in the hands. Meanwhile Smith-Shuster's play is elevating him to legend status in a city that has 6 Super Bowl titles. Smith-Shuster was the better prospect and pick. Have to wonder is McDermott saw something in JuJu's game that didn't jibe with is idiotic view of "process" or "culture."

If that was possible, Matt Leinart would still be there.

There are a few. Wentz, Goff, Luck. You're right, many college QBs are not asked to do those things, and those QBs usually flop in the NFL, even if they are first round picks. There's more to being a good NFL QB than having a strong, accurate arm. The best thing for Darnold would be to stay in college another year and lobby his coach to install a NFL-style offense.

Mayfield seems to have the best combination of skill and intangibles of all the QB prospects this year.

He looks like a one-read QB. Hits his third step and throws to a spot. Works within the system. Doesn't audible, doesn't adjust blocking schemes, doesn't go through progressions. NFL coaches don't have time to teach QBs these things. Darnold is a walking red-flag.

If a professional burns a top 3 pick on a guy who needs to sit on the bench for 2 years, well that person won't be a professional much longer.

Darnold's stock is going to go up during the combine when he's throwing against air, but watching him play this year, it doesn't look like he can read defenses. Take away his first read and he's a mess.

The Rams and Eagles were bad teams during Wentz's and Goff's rookie years. Those two teams made changes and added talent in their sophomore years, and now are both playoff teams. The sure way to blow this is to take the approach the the Browns took towards their QB. Trade out of the opportunity to draft a franchise QB for more picks; target QBs with lesser talent later in the draft thinking they're good enough to get by; sign aging veterans to bridge the gap for a franchise QB who is never coming.