It's not that complicated. Fans want their team to win football games, but short of that they want to be entertained. Fitzpatrick, for all his flaws, was an entertaining quarterback to watch. Taylor, equally flawed, was not.
I said since last season week 3- best QB in the NFL and he didn’t let me down.
Put up legit MVP numbers with no running game or tight end threat…strictly wideouts. Nobody else is doing that.
It's surprising when you see that at first glance, but when you think about his responsibilities it makes sense. In zone Edmunds is often responsible for TEs and slot wideouts in the Tampa2 style dropback where they have him cover the middle and underneath, and almost every LB in the game loses vs TEs and slot receivers...whereas in man his key is almost always the RB and he is always a favorite to win that matchup.
He's easily the worst player of all time, and what's even more amazing for a Super Bowl contending team is that we have THREE of the worst players of all time starting between him, Edmunds, and Lotulelei
It probably didn't work as much as you think. The Cover1 guys broke down LB coverage in man vs zone looks, Edmunds was average in zone coverage based on EPA.
This is 100% true and something he was only able to accomplish with the talent here in Buffalo in Hyde and Poyer.
In Carolina McDermott was able to design his front7 scheme with insane LB talent in Kuechly and Davis and a reasonably stout dline, albeit lacking top flight ends...but he was working with pretty much just Norman in the secondary, his safeties in Carolina were always barely above average/below average.