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Poor front office planning on planning for wide receivers and injuries. I know it's "Taylor, it's Taylor!!!!!!" "He's the worst quarterback EVER!!" If Taylor had a game where he went 30 for 31 with 350 yards and 3 touchdowns, there are a handful here who would create threads afterwards complaining about his one incomplete pass. When Taylor is eventually replaced by Peterman or a Rookie next year, most of these same people will be back doing the same thing to that quarterback as soon as the Bills lose a couple times with them starting. By the way, I am not saying that Taylor is anything more than average. I don't get how the fact that Buffalo was down two lineman and had no reliable receivers or tight ends can be lost on some people.

I can't blame Tyrod for today. He held on to the ball longer than normal, so that is on him, but what could he have done today?. Keep in mind that we were down two lineman with Vlad the QB impaler starting. We had no receivers after Charles Clay was hurt. When O'Leary and Tate are your most reliable options, it is hard to succeed. Zay Jones is not ready this year, he may end up being ok, but he is useless so far, , he drops more than he catches. Holmes is not contibuting, not that I expected him to be a star, but he is the veteran of the group. , Kaelin clay is invisible. Logan Thomas is a tall athletic guy who might be fun to have on a flag football team but doesn't know how to play any position at an NFL caliber level. Don't get me wrong, Tyrod is no more than an average starter, I still think Buffalo should try for a franchise QB next year. If someone wants to argue benching him or that he is terrible, this is not the game to base it off of.

I was thinking 6-7 wins, now I would say 8, maybe 9. I am still worried about the consistency of the offense. I also want to see what the defense can do against some of the higher caliber offenses that they play later in the year Buffalo is now 2-1 Before the season started, the six game stretch from week 2 to 7 looked impossible. Carolina was a loss I saw that as a toss up in favor of Carolina, Denver was a win today, but i would have seen that as a sure loss. Atlanta would be a tough game to win. Tampa Bay, Cincy and Oakland suddenly do not look as tough as before. I see 4-3 or 3-4 going into the rematch against the Jets From there Winnable-2 miami games, Indy, Jets Toss up, New Orleans San Diego Losses-New England games, @ KC Lets be optimistic but still realistic and say that Buffalo wins three of the four winnable games and spilts with New Orleans and San Diego. This gives us 7-8 wins unless an upset happens against the Chiefs or Patriots. Long story short, to get to the playoffs, Buffalo needs to win all of the games that they should and pull off a couple more upsets.

I'm generally against this whole NFL protest trend, but Trump brought this on himself. He could not have handled that any worse. Keep in mind that I am a conservative.

You need to have the Olympic level speed like Goodwin to pull that off. Goodwin was borderline Olympic caliber and got 62 td's, Makes me wonder if an elite sprinter like Usain Bolt could break the 100 td mark on 2 catches.

When I think of Jenkins, I will remember his storied Bills career to be as legendary as past others including Ed Eagan, Darwin Walker and Matt Leinart.

In other news, the Jags Sunday morning game in London has been moved to Saturday at 4 pm in Yankee stadium.

Zay doesn't get blame for this. This was Tyrod's worst game in the three years that he has been there. Was it an exception or a norm? We will see this year, but starting a thread to blame Zay Jones shows a lack of football knowledge.

That would have been an amazing catch, but that is more on Taylor than Zay, bad throw there.

I'm not comfortable with this signing unless he has bionic forearms. If anything kills our season, it will be those horrific broken forearms that knock players out for the season.

It is a big tossup between Hoch and Coleman. You can hand the win to the bigger market team 95 percent of the time either way. I think that I still dislike Hochuli more because regardless of the teams, you will get 30-40 overall penalties from him along with a not needed long winded explanation on more than half of those. I swear that he singlehandedly adds 30-60 minutes to any game that he refs.

Yes, in small ways. There was actually discipline again and minimal mistakes. I was actually watching the game and NOT expecting Buffalo to blow it. My biggest positive take away is that much of the lack of discipline and communication that Rex added to this team is gone. This gives Buffalo a good chance to win some games even with less talent. Am I thinking playoffs? No, not yet. Too many disappointments in the past 6 years, too tough of a schedule. Buffalo did what they were supposed to do in a home game against a bad team. It is a nice start. . Week 2 to 7 is a schedule that would give any team trouble. The second half doesn't let up either with two Games against New England and one at Kansas City. If Buffalo can go 3-3 in the next six weeks and than beat the Jets in Week 8, I will start to have a little hope for playoffs.

I heard otherwise. They told me that they were taking him to a farm with a very nice farmer who didn't care if a football player lost an arm. Unfortunately the farm is very, very far away, so they said we cant ever visit him.

5-6 Wins is very possible, the schedule is not friendly at all. The first half of the schedule is very tough. Week 1 and 8 are the Jets, those are winnable, not locks but winnable. Between that is @ Carolina, Denver, @Atlanta, @ Cincinnati, Tampa Bay, Oakland. To be 4-4 they would have to sweep the Jets and then pull off two wins in that six game stretch. The second half has more winnable games but also has two against New England and a game @ Kansas City. 2015 and 2016 gave Buffalo a generous amount of winnable games. 2017 is brutal. The only 5 games that i see where Buffalo could possibly be the favored team are the two jets games, the two dolphins games and home against Indianapolis. If Buffalo is even contending for the playoffs, they will have overachieved.

Like the optimism, have I doubt it. Ive been there before other years. Granted New England is bound to drop, but even if they backpedal, 9 or 10 wins may be enough to win the AFC east. Buffalo has almost a completely different team, in a new system. After the Jets, they have a very tough 6 game stretch. For me to have any hope Buffalo has to be where New England is in week 13 and beat them. Lots of if Ands and buts before that.

I was upset when I heard that, very annoyed. Seeing Gilmore get toasted and KC dominate the second half made me feel much better though.

You know, I saw it coming a mile away, but when the Patriots have 1/4 of the penalties that the Chiefs have, something is dead wrong with the league. Besides Bills games, I am going to have a really hard time watching the NFL this year.

As long as it is not Hochuli, I am fine with it.

Flutie, Bledsoe, Taylor, Fitz, Orton Flutie- Ok, physically he was opposite of an NFL quarterback, but he he played hard and got the team to the playoffs more often than not. Bledsoe-A star QB, last of his era where mobility wasn't needed. Wasn't necessarily bad, but could not get it done behind a bad O-Line unless a 500 record was OK with you. Taylor-Jury is out but every fan of any other team now tells me that Bills fans are too picky and that Taylor is actually pretty good. They are the same people that always ball busted me on the Edwards/Losman etc type. Fitz-A poor man's Flutie. Was a welcome relief after the nightmare they we know as the Losman/Edwards era. Often threw the interception at the worst time but then again I can see the gunslinging mentality, what QB could compete with the Chan Gailey defenses on the other side? Orton-2014 was the one year the Playoffs could have happened in the past decade. The defense was firing at all cylinders. All we needed was an average stop gap level starter QB and not a screw up. Orton almost was that, but sadly at 9-7 fell short,. Even more unfortunate is that this is still good enough for number 5 in the last 20 years.

Jump the gun a little OP? Maybe this team wont be good, but it is week 1. You never know what a team is going to do in a given season. There are always one or two teams that shock everyone. Rooting for a tank is dumb because a QB is never a guarantee even at #1. Doing it at week 1 is even worse. I will pull for this team and hope for playoffs as long as there is statistically a chance.

They failed to get Oshack Hennessey? They done messed up! Insubordinate and churlish!

After thinking through this whole weekend, the only two things that I don't get is J Williams being cut and the insistence that Ducasse should start over Miller. As far as the WIlliams trade, I think there will be more to this story in the next couple of days. If a suspension is coming or an upgrade at running back via trade or sign is in the works, it will make sense. If not, than it doesn't. Regarding Ducasse, I have a feeling that they will figure out sooner rather than later that Miller is the better option. I just hope that it is not at the expense of Taylor or Peterman's health.

Funny, I joked about this on another thread about 3 or for hours ago. I would take him over Yates though.

And if Luck was under this current regime, they would trade him to a team for a 2020 6th round pick after agreeing to a contract with Joe Webb.

This would be the dumbest move of all. Even if the team for whatever reason feels like the Russian turnstile is worthy of starting at right guard, you are dumping a third year player drafted in the 3rd round who has at the very least been average when starting. Miller would certainly be a better backup option than a preseason cut waiver claim on the panthers........right?