dave mcbride

LCLs aren't a big deal. They usually don't even require surgery if torn ontheir own. I feel confident that Wentz will be playing in game one.

Wentz tore a knee ligament. While there are cases in which there are complications, the vast majority of acl tears are straightforward. He will be absolutely fine by game one.

No, he doesn't. He's lower mid-tier, somewhere between 16 and 20 depending on what you value. For the record, I hate "he sucks/he's great" binaries. I don't expect him to be the Bills QB next year, and the team has to do better at the position. But saying simply that "he sucks" just drags down the level of debate and analysis in a thread like this, which is ostensibly about his accuracy or lack thereof. We have three years of good evidence saying that he's average in the accuracy department. Picking out one game and highlighting a 45 percent accurate rate -- against the NFL's #1 defense via DVOA on the road -- is the definition of cherry picking.

Agreed. They are going to do their damnedest to move up for a QB if they don't somehow get Cousins. All of the signs are there. The farm is worth it if the result is a franchise qb for the next dozen years.

I think Roethlisberger is probably better than Wilson, and I'd argue Rivers (criminally underrated) is too. I think Wilson is terrific, of course. To move into the top 3, I think they need to trade 21, 22, one of the second rounders, and a second rounder next year. Glenn won't be appealing given the contract and the injury status. If they believe that the qb they're getting is a franchise player, you do this in a NY minute.

Part of me thinks that there is no way this guy sits on the bench next year. He is far better than a lot of starting QBs, and his performance, in successive weeks, against ATL (a very good game -- 100.1 rating), the #1 defense in Minnesota (which he SHREDDED), and the #5 scoring defense in NE (which he completely shredded too) plus his ridiculous numbers in 2013 seems to suggest that he'll be starting for some team in early September. Production/talent like that can't really sit. He has started 4 playoff games now and has played extremely well in every one of them. They lost 26-24 on the last play of the game (FG) against NO in 2013, so it wasn't like he didn't do his job. He had a rating of 105.0 in that game. In fact, he's never had UNDER a 100 rating in four postseason games. That is ridonkulous.

They're a team that values the present highly as well. And they're built for now. (They're also built for the future by default--a la Pittsburgh, GB, and NO--simply because of the QB.)

I don't think they should trade him either, but they are pretty lacking in draft picks ...

ACLs are 8 month injuries now. I fully expect Wentz to be ready by game 1.

Diggs and Thielen led the league in contested catches too. Keenum had a good year, no doubt -- and always bear in mind that when you play qb for Jeff Fisher, 15 points is automatically deducted from your passer rating. That said, his receivers saved him a bunch of times this year. Plus Minnesota's defense was #1 in almost every category.

I'd say 26-33 for 352 yards, 3 TDs, and 0 INTs -- which is how he performed against the #1 defense in the league (in every category) the game before.

Agreed. He's the most dominant TE in league history and it's not even really a debate. There has never been a TE who played the game of football who has been as dominant as Gronkowski. He hasn't played that long, but that's not the issue. He is a man among boys out there.

Compare that with literally the worst and most obnoxious chant ever by the evil one: .

Kelce's speech is epic. His callout of Mike Lombardi is hilarious! http://www.phillyvoice.com/mummer-jason-kelce-drops-f-bomb-live-tv-rides-police-bike-along-eagles-parade-route/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

It's absolutely a straw-man argument. The Bills wide receiving talent is nowhere near the Eagles' wide receiving talent. Jeffery was the #1 FA WR last season. He is elite. Nelson Agholor is also a very good player. Torrey Smith would have been better than any receiver on the Bills this season. Ertz is great too - certainly better than Clay. Finally, they dumped Ryan Matthews because they knew they had better. Invoking the Eagles far superior receiving corps to make a point about Taylor is what makes it a straw man argument.

Please don't troll me. Seriously - it's tiresome, and I think I speak for a lot of people on this board. I think the Bills need to do better than Taylor, and have said as much many times. But one can be objective about the situation last season too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

... but not so easy ro have a high completion percentage when you have the worst receiving corps in the league by almost every measure, including ability to get separation.

Why, 3rdand12, are you laughing about what I said about Kelly’s 1996 season? Did you watch that debacle? The Bills were a 12-4/13-3 team with a decent qb; Bruce Smith had his best season ever that year. He had 47 pressures, for chrissake, and that defense was dominant. Kelly was really, really bad that year. Not sure what you mean.

He has always sounded reasonably intelligent to me.

What dumb stuff does he do off of the football field? The fact that he has saved all of his NFL money is unique in a league where lots of players are broke shortly after leaving the league.

I actually don't t think Gronk is dumb at all.

Tyrod Taylor was a better quarterback last season than Kelly was in 1996. Kelly was awful that season. I watched every game, and he was a wreck. Just to be clear, I'm not saying Taylor had a good year this season.

See my post above about 1996. The Bills were also 15th in passing yards and 9th in passing TDs in 1986.

C'mon Gerry. The 1996 group wasn't bad. People thought Reed might have lost a step after the 1995 injury, but remember him outracing the entire Giants secondary in game 1 for what turned out to be the decisive TD? Or how about Quinn Early destroying BB and Parcells on the decisive 3rd and 18 play in game two when he raced through the coverage for the winning TD? (This was after the Pats, in a flight of hubris, foolishly agreed to assess a holding penalty against the Bills on third down; otherwise it would have been 4th and 8). Both of those guys not only put up FAR better numbers than anyone on the Bills this year, they were a LOT more talented. And when I say a LOT, I mean a LOT, especially given the injury status of Benjamin. Let's not forget that Early was a talented player who had two good seasons for the Bills after an excellent '95 season in NO. Really, it's not even close. Reed had over 1000 yards and averaged 15.7 ypc (plus a 65.3 percent catch rate!), and Early had 800 and averaged 16.0!! The problem that year was not the receiving corps; it was a decrepit Jim Kelly followed by an even worse Todd Collins the next season.

AD, I respectfully differ with you on Foles in the Philly-LA game. I know the numbers weren't impressive, but he made a couple of very impressive throws into tight coverage on third downs late in the game to seal the victory. He only threw it ten times, but he made some quality plays in that game against a very good defense. As for the final game of the season, they were in injury prevention mode. They had already clinched home field and the game didn't matter.