ndirish1978

I'd be happy drafting 2 Safeties, we need them and this draft has good ones. Get elite players wherever you can.

There's a comma in the wrong place in the original post. I won't spoil it for you by telling you where, but it's there.

Step away from the ledge. Also, to echo the point that multiple posters have already made: a tank is evidence he's not going anywhere.

If I'm TT I have no motivation to take less money. If the FO were intelligent and they want to keep him they should forget about trying to reduce his salary and just negotiate something to help his cap hit.

IMO at the end of the day the TT discussion on this board is just covered in fear. People are afraid he will go somewhere else and be better than he was here. They are afraid that somehow the frog will turn into a prince and are more concerned with the Bills looking dumb for letting him go. i don't really see consistent evidence that he is the answer at QB. The guy can run and threw some nice deep balls TWO seasons ago. Realistically he has had one decent game as a passer here and of course it had to be in his last game as a starter, so now everyone thinks he's suddenly going to blossom into a real QB.

That said, I would love to see him back. He is a leader and seems like a great guy. He's the type of person you are happy to have in the community and in the locker room.

Just as long as he's not going rogue

I like that he plays things close to the vest. On the other hand I'm starving for SOME news. I feel like any of the "reports" on what the FO and coaching staff are thinking is just speculation and no actual sources. I swear TBN makes up stories just to see if that will prompt OBD to refute them.

I dunno. I feel like TT helps the running game and is a really poor passer. He doesn't throw with anticipation and often doesn't even see wide open receivers. We could probably draft 2 studs and they would probably end the season with like 300 yds receiving a piece. I'd rather play a young QB and fortify our other positions. If we hit with the young guy, cool. If not, we draft one til we hit on one.

Nah, I doubt that happens. It's ok, I forgive you for not watching him

I see the merit to your points, I think we just agree on how to proceed from here. With Tyrod on the team we are effectively destroying WR production, starting him at QB is like running wildcat every play. Without a good passing game forget about winning games coming from behind and we likely have 4-5 gaping holes in our defense so we WILL be playing from behind a lot. Just on D we are going to need starters at CB S S SLB. We don't have backups that can step up and play at a high level. We have a single WR on the roster and a RT that we could replace with a parking cone. An acceptable draft should yield at least 2 starters, last year we got 1 rotational guy and a pretty bad backup rb. I don't have confidence we can plug more than 2 spots effectively this year. We have to re-sign a ridiculous amount of players, so here's to hoping we can pull some diamonds from the vet min turd pile again and even field a decent team with the cap space we have.

In a year where we didn't have the 7th least cap space and have to sign players to occupy about half of our roster I would agree with you. Unfortunately, this team has managed their cap space poorly and are now in a position where they have to actually consider the cap benefits vs production head to head, which is total garbage. This team coasted along for so long without having to pay their QBs and they never carved out some space for an increased payment for a middling QB. Now we're in a position where retaining Tyrod, who is average and not great, actually hurts the rest of the roster. So you have to consider what gets you were you want to be next year. Are we just trying for a winning record and a shot at the wildcard? Is starting a cheap sub-par for this year at least QB who is not TT going to get you more wins because you are able to fortify the defense and run the ball well enough to win? Does keeping TT at the expense of the defense win us more games? Or, if you are trying to build a sustainable winner, do you just scrap TT, dump some bigger contracts through trades for picks and try to land a talented core through the draft? I feel like we've been putting bandaids on a shotgun wound for years and I would prefer to rebuild at this point. I just don't see sufficient young talent on this roster to field a sustainable winner.

He should be. I don't really buy into PFF. Like most players say, there is no way to know what a specific play was SUPPOSED to do. If Shady is supposed to chip or bump a defender on his way out to the flat as part of the play, are the PFF "analysts" counting that as a poor block? We don't know because who the heck is going to go re-watch all that film and dispute their analysis.

Preliminary discussions were likely "You want another year for very little?" "No, looking for 5-10" "Pass"

Literally anyone can be an "analyst" for PFF. Shady does need to improve his pass pro though.

People who think Ragland can't play in this system and be effective, at least as a SAM, never watched him play in college.

Granted, I'm not super knowledgable about the Sabres, but don't they have a really good core of young players? I don't really see the Bills having that

HA! Fulfilling your troll quota for the day I see.

You mean the third stooge

Guys I have an equally feasible idea. Why don't we trade Tyrod and McCoy to Atlanta for Matt Ryan and Julio Jones? I mean you can get RBs anywhere and we need receivers!

FTR I think Cardale is a good kid and I hope he becomes a solid starter one day. That is all As far as tanking goes, you kind of need a poor team all around to get the first pick in the draft. We've stunk for years but always hovered between 6-8 wins with not-great teams. We probably win 5 games next year no matter who the QB is just based on the run game and an average defense.

Would you guys consider Reuben Foster a good Mike for this D?

This. Keeping TT actually hurts our chances at keeping Watkins. One could argue that throwing a good deep ball and ball velocity are not mutually exclusive. The ability to place a ball deep does not rely solely on the speed of the football. Sure, you have to have a certain threshold velocity (50 mph is not awful but was the worst of all QBs in the 2011 draft class) to actually get a throw down the field, but a slower velocity may result in the ball taking an extra tenth of a second to get there and giving CBs a little longer to make a play. My bigger grip with TT's velocity is that he will try to gun the ball to wide open people in the flat at times when it's not necessary. Though it's not a benchmark for success it should be noted that most HOF caliber QBs threw in the 58+ range.

I don't get the slamming of the article. You want the guy to post one thing a year with his opinion on what should or could happen and never present any other options? He's one of the few guys out there not posting reactionary garbage like TBN, I actually recommend following billswire on twitter.

Article was an embarrassment. Vic is not even a shadow of the journalist he used to be.