Nihilarian

The bills finding their run game, awesome!

We Bills fans really needed this game. feels great

Cousins was playing like Peterman... Gotta tackle!

I dunno why Peterman is even on the roster, cut him and bring in a vet

Hughes rules today!

Awd damn this is great stuff. The Vikes are snake bit today

Crap... almost another fumble

RUH RO...

Isn't it awesome that not only the offense showed up but the defense is on fire!

Now, just think what this offense could look like with some legit quality receivers that can catch and some better talent on the O line.

YOU GOTTA CATCH THAT !!!

Question, did the players switch uniforms? Are the Bills in the Vikings unis? Cousins 6 of 10 for 24 yards

Big difference when your not 30 points in the hole and the other team is running jailbreak after jailbreak on the QB.

Didn't a Bills poster say he bet 5000$ on this game?

TD ALLEN!! 3 TDs in the first half

No more passes to KB pls. effer couldn't catch a cold in Alaska in the nude

I loved it when Beane signed KB due to his size 6'5'' 245 and I had no idea he couldn't catch...

Somehow I don't think the HC is making these QB decisions all on his own as he has an offensive coordinator and O line coach/Run game coordinator who he probably consults with on offensive decisions. A head coach has to let his assistant coaches coach or he won't have time to scratch his head. I'm thinking that just like last year the HC asks his assistant coach who is ready to start and the way it looked in preseason with Peterman coming in off the bench in the Cleveland, Cincy games he looked better than the other two. Go back to that week 3 preseason Bengals game in which Josh Allen started and he went 6 of 12 for 34 yards with 5 sacks on Allen for more yards (39) then he passed for in the first half. Then at the end of the half Allen almost needed to go through concussion protocol. AJ McCarron started and played that entire 4th preseason game. While I agree it was a totally ridiculous exercise after watching how Peterman played in his start against the Ravens. Nobody thought he would be that bad after what he showed in preseason. Now Allen looked so much better in his start against the Chargers but it could have been much different had Bosa played. As it was the Bills O line had no answer in stopping Ingram for most of that game as the Chargers had 5 sacks in that game. I shudder to think how many sacks they could have had if Bosa had played. The one thing I would have done was kept AJ McCarron or brought in a different veteran QB after trading AJ away. I firmly believe that it's in the rookie QB s best interest to start and play right away if his supporting cast is up to the task and in this case it isn't. After that Bengals game I'm sure the consensus was that Allen wasn't ready to start and he still might not be...not with this craptastic team around him.

Exactly what this years current team needs as Allen is a very mobile QB. A running game is a QBs best friend which is often stated by NFL people and it should be even more so for a rookie QB. Allen would do so much better with a solid run game working for the offense as it would take so much pressure off him to be the entire offense. He could pick and choose his pass plays in a run option offense if the run game is working. It is imperative that this team go back to its run first roots and build a power run game. The Bills O line did look like they were better at run blocking over pass blocking in the preseason. Currently the 2018 Buffalo Bills are 29th in run blocking. I kept hearing all offseason from the Kool-Aid drinkers that losing Wood, Glenn and Incognito wasn't that big a deal. Well, it looks like a pretty big deal now.

Defenses usually let up when a backup QB comes into the game because they don't have film on him. That said, Mayfield looked like a Drew Brees out there most of the time in one half of a game. Still, Mayfield has an actual team around him that can run the ball as they are #1 in rushing attempts, #4 in rush yards, #4 in rushing TDs. The O line gave him time to throw AND he has a star WR that catches most everything in Jarvis Landry. Plus, the Browns look to have a pretty good defense. Right now Allen has none of those things. I think if he is able to develop in this craptastic Buffalo offense it's my belief that Allen with be the better QB of that draft class. On a side note I'm happy the Browns beat the NY Jets for their first win in three seasons AND they intercepted Darnold 2x

Are you forgetting how bad Whaley's offensive lines were and that was with Wood, Glenn. He brought in guys like Chris Williams for 4 years at 13.5 with 5.5 mill guaranteed and the guy lasted 3 games! He also brought in bums like Doug Legursky. It was Rex who wanted Incognito signed and Richie made a huge impact to both Wood, Glenn as they both elevated their play next to him. Rex was also chasing OT/OG La'el Collins who ended up signing with Dallas. It's my take that Juan Castillo the Bills O line coach/ run game coordinator is telling the Bill FO that he can get better results with the players on the roster. Something I find very hard to believe. Castillo should have been fired along with Dennison last year. Currently the Bills are ranked 29th in run blocking, 26th in rushing attempts, 25 in rushing yards. Man, what a far cry from last year when the team was 4th in attempts, 6th in rushing yards 15th in rushing TDs, 14th in YPC average. And two years ago the Buffalo Bills were #2 in rushing attempts, #1 in rushing yards and rushing TDs and yards per carry average.

Hey, Sam Darnold committed 22 turnovers last year at USC all on his own. Mayfield with no first team reps looks like he just might be the best of the bunch so far. But then he actually has a team around him, star WR, good run game, decent line. Me, I prefer Josh Allen.

When you look over the history of the NFL teams it stands to reason that most teams follow the same procedure in having an NFL experienced QB coach, an experienced NFL OC and an experienced NFL veteran QB as all contribute to teaching this rookie QB the NFL ropes. Now, his OC and QB coach are his bosses. I would think that a player might be able to relate to another player and what they have to say vs getting hammered or yelled at by a boss when you make a mistake. Some players say that they respond better to being yelled at "coached hard", and others don't respond well to that treatment. I've trained many people in my job, to do my job and the bosses didn't train them, I did. Someone who has actually done that particular job is someone who knows exactly what you need to succeed in doing that job. When Kyle Orton came to the Buffalo Bills EJ stated he learned more from watching him prepare for a game then he had ever learned from his coaches.

The problem is that you need that veteran QB during the season to go over plays and why they worked or didn't work. What the QB sees in pre snap reads as those QBs usually consult after every series to discuss what happened. Yes, they can also look at their tablets and talk it over with the OC after each series it's just not the same as having another experienced QB to talk things over with. That said the OP stated that Beane had said that AJ McCarron was not the guy we thought he was as could mean that he wasn't helpful at all to other QBs in preseason. Still, this is no excuse as to not bring in a vet QB to help out that rookie. Just make certain to that vet QB that the primary reason he is being brought in is to be the backup and help the rookie.

Probably didn't help as he threw 9 TDs, 18 INTs with a completion percentage of 52.9% and went 0-11 in 1989. The team also took Steve Walsh in the supplemental draft who was later traded to NO the next year. Walsh started four games and actually won a game going 1-4. The next season in 1990 the Cowboys did sign a vet QB in Babe Laufenberg. On another note, Maroon/Whaley had his first round pick rookie QB EJ Manuel with basically a rookie QB in Thad Lewis and rookie undrafted FA QB Jeff Tuel all on the roster in 2013 with no veteran QB. No experienced NFL OC and no QB coach at all. How did that work out for them? Not to mention that year the offensive line was pretty bad in being ranked #22 and this was with Cordy Glenn at LT, Eric Wood at center. Allen wishes he had Wood at center.