Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Up until the Jets and New Orleans game I was in favor of bringing him back next year and using all the draft picks and free agency to surround him with talent. But after watching those games, realized it's time to give up. You're probably correct TT was only bad in 25% of the games, but in the other 75% he was never good either. He just wasn't the main reason for the loss, but did nothing to help pull out a win either. I also would agree that's it's hard in fact very hard to find a franchise QB, but not that hard to get better at QB. Maybe not super bowl winning better, but better. And then if you go back to my comment about using all the draft picks and FA to get better overall talent, you could likely win with just a little better QB play. IMO TT has two main problems, holding onto the ball too long and accuracy. If he just had one of those problems, I do believe he'd be OK as QB and could get team into playoff and would likely agree with your statement that it's hard to get better than him. But with both those problems, no not hard to get better by a noticeable amount, maybe not Tom Brady better, but still better.

Because the do it for a living and 95% of the posters here don't And coaches and front office folks know 95% more than the prognosticators too.

Agreed, his judgement is different than your's and most others here. And it's very obvious that people who post on message boards in their spare time is far superior to that of coaches who practically live with these guys 24/7!

There I fixed it for you. Easy to find a different QB.If finding a franchise QB is as easy as everyone around here talks, all the teams in the league would have one. Instead there are around 1/2 dozen teams that actually have one. Then another 10 to 15 have someone better than TT, but not a true franchise QB. The Bills have a better chance of getting another JP Losman or Rob Johnson, than say an Aaron Rodgers just because there are many more failures than successes.

Where did this 3rd TE Lee come from??

There would be a certain irony here in that the same thing happened with Eli. San Diego drafted him #1, but he had stated prior to draft he wasn't goin to play for them. So they worked out trade with Giants who used their first pick on Rivers, then traded him and some picks for the Eli pick. Could happen again.

Not stating this specifically for or against TT, but just in general think it's unfair that if a QB scrambles and gains even one yard, that counts as positive rushing yards. But if he gets tackled one yard BEHIND the LOS that counts as a scak, but not counted in any way plus or minus towards rushing yard totals.

If we sign Kirk, that's a multi year deal for big $$ or else he's not coming here. So can't see signing him and then also drafting a guy to develop. If it's TT, then can see it playing out exactly as you describe. Of the two options would rather see the Bills sign a vet (or only draft someone in Rd 2) as overall many of these supposed can't miss prospects in September, now all have some types of question marks or flags. A round #2 pick that fails is much easier to accept.

Was it a 1 year deal or is he signed thru next season too?

They were talking about Norwell this morning on ESPN, commenting that he'll likely be the most highly sought after O lineman Could be they are reluctant to spend money in FA due to impending sale. Though in the grand scheme of things on a $billion dollar sale, what difference does $60 million mena on FA signings. Probably not much

I agree with the idea of building a team with all the picks as opposed to moving up on a QB who may or may not work out. But personally I'd prefer you go with Peterman next year, and draft a QB in the 2nd/3rd round Sorry as good decent as TT has looked some games including this week, 2 games of under 70 yards and a couple others where he was totally ineffective says he's not the answer. This morning ESPN was talking about a can't miss upcoming this off-season FA lineman, don't recal\l the name, but he's a guard from Carolina. Maybe the Carolina connection will come through again.

Probably needs to work on putting on weight and muscle in the off-season. Likely a little different than playing against defenders in C-USA There have been drops by Zay particually early this season, but faulting him for dropping that one is crazy. That would have been a hell of a catch if he'd made it.

Steph has got a nice contract, but think the money he has is walking around money compared to guys buying an NFL team. Kind of like the rumors of Jim Kelly buying the Bills. Nice for a public eye, but that's it. At least Kelly is a fixture at the stadium. Yeah that's what I thought so don't get the part about he doesn't know anything about football. May not know much about owning a team. Just to contradict myself, so how'd this guy, ex player afford to buy a team and be the primary owner? Was there a ton of family money?

didn't he play in the NFL??

One of the problems with franchise QB's once they reach their second contract, unless they are a top level elite franchise QB, like Brady Rodgers, Brees, and Big Ben their salary takes up to much of the cap to keep a strong enough team around them. Wilson is good, but not worth the money he's being paid.

Yeah we could have went with 60 yard per game TT instead. TT played well today, but the week prior to Chargers had 56 yards against NO and the week prior stats looked decent against Jets, but was mostly in garbage time. TT is what he is, do agree with many that the team could have played more to his strengths, but he's had more shaky outings than good games. Though will admit am torn between keeping TT around for another year and with all the draft picks strengthen the rest of the team, mainly both sides of line. Maybe use 2nd round pick on a QB. This year in Sept there were 4 or 5 can't miss franchise college QB's, now there are 4 or 5 college QB's who all have question marks in one way or another, could be great or all middle of the road. Based on that, not sure it's worth moving up in the draft for any of them, or at least the ones from the Pac 12

Ding, Ding, Ding!! We have a winner dumbest post of the week. OK you want to debate RB, fine, but QB. That is the one position on the field that never gets subbed out for barring injury. This isn't college football with no limits to the number of players on the sideline. If you bring in someone else , you expect them to learn enough in one week to be effective. That also means for every minute you have this new guy running plays, that's one less play run with the 1st string. 25 years ago, the coach just says, we're extending practice an extra hour for the new guy to learn, but that doesn't work today. If you're going to activate a 3rd QB who hopefully would never even see the field. which position group would you suggest we have one less active player for? And keep in mind every other position likely is one that the active backups all play in. Almost every team in the league only has 2 QB's active, and if it gets to the 33rd guy, the team is in deep trouble and we're no different. We were unique all season in that Webb was active I believe almost every week as Webb played ST. Which I'm sure today, Webb won't be playing any ST.

Currently on this poll his approval rating is at 91%. Hard to believe that compared to all the negative "Fire McDermott" post on this site. I was expecting it to be about 60% from all the comments you read here. Guess it must mean a small number of folks crusading.

Don't see anything about how much this will cost, how much they make in concession sales, and how much more they expect to make as a result of these renovations which not surprised to not see any of that listed. So considering we basically no nothing, can't see any reason to question why they are doing it. Likely compared to the cost of a new stadium and what they may be able to make in increased sales could mean the payback is less than 5 years so then why not.

May have been one of these things where Rex came up with (or borrowed from Daddy) this great defensive scheme. Teams figured it out so Rex adjusted, teams figured it out and Rex adjusted again. But got to the point his adjustments became too complex for it to work at game speed.

There was 1 game where you could point to TT and say he was a big part of the reason we won, but the other six, agree, he just didn't do anything bad to lose and did enough to help the team some. I'm not a TT hater BTW, just seeing it for what it has become with him.

I see two major problems with TT, his hesitancy to make throws and his accuracy. I jokingly say the reason his int % is so low is the passes are often so far off target the CB can't even get to them either. If he only had one of these issues, I don't care which, he'd be a decent serviceable QB who likely would have won maybe two more games a season. With a little better team around him, could likely lead team to playoffs and maybe deep into them. But have both of these issues holding you down is just too much to overcome and what you see is what you get. If he goes to a new team, there likely will be some early improvement as no scheme, new players around him, will take some time for defenses to figure him out again, but eventually will catch up.

The problem with this concept IMO is that FA occurs prior to draft, so likely if you wanted to trade TT , you'd have done it prior to draft and prior to March 3rd roster bonus payout

Explain to me the difference between those two things? Seems unless you take a QB who is guaranteed to be a franchise leading QB You draft the #3 or 4th rated QB, say Mayfield, from everything written, you're hoping for the best. Even taking Darnold, who's a California dude, with a bit of a questionable off field stuff is hoping for the best out of him IMO I'd completely agree with you in trading up for the QB if there was pretty much a can't miss guy to take, but they all seem to have questions. Who ever is being discussed, one report is he's be the next Peyton Manning, the next report, could be maybe another Dalton/Tannerhill kind of guy.. Seems to me this entire best QB class in a long time was spot on until they actually played out the 2017 college season. Pretty soon the talk of the great 2018 QB class will be starting.

So what exactly does this mean? You can watch all games through this package or just the game that is being televised in your local market which is pretty much what they have today?