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Man, I sure would love to have either of those guys right now. I attended Thad Lewis's 1st career start in relief of an injured EJ. He played well but we lost a heartbreaker in OT to Cincy.

Coaches suddenly went conservative on that drive only rushing 4. I wouldn't say they went prevent, but they stopped doing what stymied the Texans offense for 3 1/2 quarters. Blame whoever was calling the Defense for that, not the players, who had been utterly dominant in that game.

Good God I hope so. I'm still in the serious minority in thinking this team can still make some noise this year and sneak into the playoffs again, but Allen being on the field and learning progressively while playing with Anderson constantly in his ear is the most important thing to this year, I believe... win or lose. Anderson sure as hell won't be ready after less than 2 weeks of basically coming out of retirement and I can't take another laugher with Peterman at the helm... sickens me he's still on the team.

Well... NFL.com's Nick Shook said this in Sunday's takeaways: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000973893/article/what-we-learned-from-sundays-week-6-games There were a couple positive notes for the Bills, though: Zay Jones' touchdown catch was a nice example of a receiver winning a matchup with a well-run route. Allen continued on his slow climb toward looking more comfortable as a starting NFL quarterback (though emphasis should be placed on "slow").

"We've cut Nate Peterman. Josh will be fine. MRI is negative. Think of what happened yesterday as a bad hit to your funny bone. He's going to be back next week in Indy. We're looking for a 3rd QB." = Music to my friggin ears!!!! Please please please please!!!

White's incredible, but wasn't he in coverage on Hopkins on his TD catch? It was great coverage, but a better catch. But yes, White is a beast.

I thought about starting a thread about how Zay has actually picked his game up this year and is starting to flash the potential he was supposed to have. He still dropped a pass yesterday, but he's catching most of his targets and demonstrating some play making potential. Zay Jones is no longer the Invisible Man.

"...as the team will take no chances..." Is this an intentional indication that the X-ray and signs after the game look like it was pretty minor and that Allen right now is expected to be back next week, barring something popping up unexpectedly on the MRI?

No. Allen does NOT suck nearly as bad as Peterman. This is fact.

Total and utter crap. I'm one of the biggest "Peterman haters" on this board. It absolutely baffled me since last summer that posters like you believed Peterman even had the arm strength to be an NFL QB. I loathed the idea of him starting week 1 because of exactly what happened week 1. But that doesn't mean the moment he was under center as the starter I was hoping desperately I was wrong. The same went for today. When we scored that TD I was super stoked because I thought that put the game on ice because of how great our defense was. Then we had to score because they tied it up. Still hoping desperately for a miracle... The inevitable happened He does suck. Horribly. That doesn't mean I want him to... especially as he's taking snaps for my favorite team. My understanding is we're all pretty diehard Bills fans considering the time we spend on this message board and other things Bills. All of us likely feel exactly that way. You seem to be still upset the guy you thought should start as the Summer was ending actually sucks so much, thus proving you very, very wrong.

Yes. Obviously. It's sickening McDermott thought it was a good decision to take reps away from the guy who would inevitably be our starting QB at some point very early this season by giving many of those reps to a guy who doesn't have the requisite NFL arm strength to play QB in the NFL. He's utterly terrible.

I disagree. At least if Allen plays our future is learning and progressing on the field. Yet again, Peterman demonstrates why Allen should have always been given the 1st team reps over the Summer. I legitimately think for the good of the person in Nate Peterman, he needs to be cut so he can move on from football forever, because it's not a game he can play at the professional level and his psyche and probably his family's psyche is getting seriously damaged.

Bro, why don't you quit the contest with 26CB. I know you idolize the way him and Yolo are so up to the minute and are doing everything you can to try to be them by starting some of the same "Bills vs ___________ Game Preparation" type threads the 2 of them typically start... and have likely done for YEARS as opposed to the year and a half you and I have been guests here. There has pretty much always been a thread covering the Wednesday PCs. Put your measuring stick away.

#1 and #5 are interconnected. No, it might not be "just Daboll," but the majority of it is on him since the onus is on him for rookie QB development and he's doing a piss poor job of it so far. Regarding Phillips... I assume you're referring to Jordan Phillips...? If so, I agree

Why not? Peterman is one of the worst QBs I've ever seen play and Jones backed up Big Ben for 4 years. Bring him in. Cut Peterman. 100%.

If we get a 2nd AND 3rd round pick, you take it. No friggin way in hell that happens.

Get him!!! Our WRs already can't catch... at least he can get open

I agree with everything in here except your confidence in Daboll, who's starting to worry me a little. Allen's ceiling is definitely higher than Newton. That thread projecting it as "Newton-lite" is absolutely preposterous. But a good OC/QB coach along with some semblance of protection and weapons to get the ball to are integral to any young QB reaching his ceiling, and I'm starting to worry about that.

Anyone who thinks Anderson isn't a massive upgrade on what we have behind Allen as both backup and mentor is nuts, absolutely nuts.

The last 3 games have shown me that when Allen has space and time to throw and an OC who's calling passing plays of the short, timing variety (the Vikings game), he looks like a Franchise QB. But when he gets a lot of pressure, some footwork/mechanics issues creep up that impact his accuracy. What I would love to see is a QB coach who has a ton of footwork/mechanics expertise to help him during the season. But I'm glad at least we got Derek Anderson as our backup (is that even official yet?), because I think that'll really help.

I loved the game. It was super exciting. The game was outstanding, Allen wasn't. You just overstated it. Just because I said Allen struggled doesn't mean I didn't think it was an outstanding game to watch. And I agree that I think Allen is our answer. But what the last couple Sundays have shown is that he really has a lot of work to do, not that he's anywhere near where he needs to be.

Shaw, you and I are normally on the same page, but I just have to ask... did you recently start smoking a lot of dope? No judgement on my part if you did. I'm just asking because I think you're much too high on Allen in that game. I think, much like you, that it's great for him to be out there and struggle while the team still wins games. But Allen wasn't outstanding. He flashed. And there's no way in hell he shouldn't be starting right now. But he struggled. And I blame Daboll for that. You seem to conjure up a couple "good" plays from Daboll to show the outstandingness of the game, but I just saw a small handful of really good play calls/ designs (the Ray Ray screen immediately comes to mind) and a whole bunch of Ivory and McCoy and, most importantly, the Defense (honorable mention to Hauschka) bailing out a QB and WRs who are just seriously struggling with chemistry and rhythm and timing and accuracy and getting open and... All of this just makes me wish Allen were getting the #1 reps from the beginning of the Summer even more in order to become more comfortable in the system and gain more chemistry with the guys he's throwing to. Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but Allen starting sooner rather than later this season seemed pretty inevitable based off the QBs we had on our roster.

Don't even have to watch All-22 to realize our OC seems like yet another stubborn play caller who won't adjust his passing attack to accomodate and develop the QB he has under center. And that's kinda shocking to me considering that's.... like.... exactly what he did at Alabama last year.

No. His ceiling certainly is NOT Cam Newton Lite. Do you understand what a "ceiling" even refers to when it comes to athletes?