jrober38

Our problem is that we draft the wrong QBs. EJ Manuel was a 4th round prospect. JP Losman was also severely flawed as a QB prospect. Drafting a guy in the 1st round this year would be yet another mistake. They all have major flaws which is why none of them are a lock for the top 10 despite so many teams desperately needing QBs. The Bills problem is that they blow way too many draft picks. We need to start hitting on our 1st and 2nd rounder or else the performance of this team is never going to improve significantly.

Yup. And only like 15 NFL caliber players under contract. I don't like any of the QBs in this draft. For that reason I don't see the point in throwing away a pick on a QB when there are so many other quality players available who can become legit building blocks for this franchise for the next 5+ years. I'd love to see the Bills cut Taylor, cut McCoy, cut Kyle and trade Watkins. Commit to being one of the 2-3 worse teams in the NFL next year while clearing a boat load of cap space, and then go all in on a legit blue chip QB prospect next year. If there isn't one available, commit to being really bad yet again and draft a guy in 2019. Get a skill position player this year and find your QB next year or the year after. Don't repeat all the same mistakes we made in 2013 when we talked ourselves into picking EJ because we were so desperate for a QB.

Yeah, $3 or $4 mil, or 20% of our available cap room. As I said before, our cap space would drop to about $15 mil, of which $5 mil is allocated to the rookie class. That leaves us with about $10 million to fill out the roster with actual NFL players, which isn't going to happen. The Bills aren't going anywhere with Taylor, and they're not going anywhere with Brees or Rivers. Blow the team up and rebuild from the ground up. Don't search for another far fetched band aide that we'll regret in 12 months.

I agree. Accordingly I don't see the need to flush draft picks down the toilet on unprepared rookies. Blow the team up, let Cardale sink or swim, and work on fixing any of the other problem areas we have. Then go all in on a QB next year and feel good about it knowing they might actually have a good enough roster around them to support their development. Drafting a rookie who is unprepared, and putting them in a situation where they either show they have it or they don't, seems like a really good way to waste yet another 1st round draft pick.

Saying we're "tied" to Taylor for two years is a gross exaggeration. We can cut him anytime and designate him a June 1st cut and clear 80% of his cap hit.

Ugh. Letting a couple rookies compete with our 2016 third string QB isn't going to produce an upgrade at the position. This plan combined with our schedule might legitimately result in the #1 pick in the 2018 draft. At that point you're probably looking for another QB. And no, it's not more likely. The last 20 years of the NFL draft shows how incredibly hard it is to find a quality quarterback. Yeah. They'll be able to hand the ball off and throw for 200 yards, and the number of turnovers we have will probably triple, and we'll lose 13+ games.

Right. We won 7 games with Taylor on a $6.9 mil cap hit. How are we going to field a team with Rivers and Brees counting $20 and $19 mil against the cap respectively? How is a team with holes at WR (x2), RT, SS, FS, WLB, CB, K and no depth anywhere on the depth chart going to field a competent roster with $14 mil in cap space remaining?

They have bigger cap hits than Taylor. With the number of holes we have, I don't see how either of those guys are going to guide this team into the playoffs when our defense remains awful and they have no one to throw the ball to. Neither guy has proven capable of carrying a team on their own for the last several seasons. Why on earth would that suddenly change here?

Too bad our defense and special teams aren't anywhere close to good enough. This team has a lot more problems than just the QB.

That's a great plan, but the odds are we won't get better at the QB spot. You can do whatever you want to get younger, but the result of that is overwhelmingly likely to produce significantly worse QB play next year. Just because you want a "QB of the future" doesn't mean it's even remotely likely of happening.

The Bills as a team are likely to struggle badly this year. That's the result of 5+ years of terrible drafting. I'm pretty confident that Tyrod wins more games than one of these unprepared rookies. I don't see how it makes any sense to draft a rookie, who every analyst says isn't ready to play this year, and burden them with the expectation that they need to show that they're "the guy", or else you go and replace them in 2018 after they inevitably don't play well enough.

You think we'll win more games with a rookie (the consensus is that none of these rookies are ready to play) than with Taylor?

Hold on. Doesn't trading Taylor create $18 mil in dead cap space?

Designate him a post June 1st cut and you clear $13 mil in cap space next year...

It's amazing how many people are ignoring that Siemian was throwing to Demaryus Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders the whole season while Tyrod was throwing to Robert Woods, Justin Hunter and Brandon Tate most of the time. If you put Siemian on the 2016 Bills' offense, I think it's a total train wreck because our weapons in the pass game were so poor.

My issue is that he's made all of the same mistakes with the Bills as he did when bought the Sabres. He doesn't appear to have learned anything from the mistakes he made following his purchase of the Sabres.

The Bills can cut Taylor and designate him a post June 1st cut and clear a ton of cap space. His contract isn't an issue at all. Pegula will have to pay him his guaranteed money, but his contract has little impact on our cap situation if we find a better QB.

If Glennon gets $14-15 million per year, then Taylor is severely underpaid on his current deal.

You can't justify drafting a guy in the first round when the position they'll play in college isn't obvious. He's too small to play linebacker and too big to play DB. At 213 pounds, I don't see how you can say he's a clone of Thomas Davis (235 lbs) or Shaq Thompson (230 lbs).

The Bills knew exactly what defense they were getting when they hired Rex. The Rex hire was the result of letting someone who knows nothing about football (Brandon), influence key decisions. The fact that his name is still appearing in the news with relation to football decisions is incredibly depressing.

I don't see how anything is going to change for McDermott between now and the deadline. He probably knows what he wants to do by now. The question is whether or not that lines up with what the FO want to do.

I'm on board with this idea. The Bills as they're currently constructed are going nowhere. Cut Taylor, cut Kyle, cut McCoy and trade Watkins and hope for 2-3 wins next year.

I still don't see why this matters. It's not like it' our money that's being spent. They can designate Taylor a post June 1st cut in any of the coming years and free up most of his cap hit. The money shouldn't be a problem. You pay the guy to keep the team competitive for the next 1-2 years while searching for a better option and as soon as you find that guy you cut Taylor and free up a bunch of cap space. He still gets his guaranteed money but it makes little impact on the Bills ability to field a competitive roster once he's cut.

Given that they haven't made a decision yet I suspect this story is true. Whaley has obviously wanted him gone for a long time, and McDermott probably realizes Taylor gives them the best option at QB this year. You'd think they'd have had a discussion about this prior to hiring McDermott as HC.

Most definitely. I fully agree that's the narrative that Whaley painted while they watched games together. McDermott wants to win now, and he knows Taylor gives him the best chance to do that. After watching get fired after less than two seasons, he's got to know that if the results aren't good enough, he'll be shown the door and likely never given another head coaching gig if his teams aren't winning, and his teams aren't going to win much with Jones, a stop gap veteran or a rookie QB from this draft class (they're all projects). If that was the case the decision would have already been made. Nothing is going to change over the next 6 days that will sway their decision either way. The fact that they haven't decided to pick up the option or not tells me that the people making the decision haven't come to a consensus.