Luxy312

On THIS Bills football team, there's no question that would take Taylor. The pass blocking of the Bills offensive line isn't all that great and Taylor took a bunch of sacks last year. Flacco does not have the escapability that Taylor does, evidenced by his grand total of 58 yards rushing. Factor in fumbles that the QB doesn't recover and what do you get for $24.6m from Flacco? 4,375 total yards 22 TD's and 19 turnovers. Instead I can pay $9.7m for 3,603 total yards, 23 TD's and 17 turnovers. Both teams were pretty average last season, and neither QB absolutely flies off the page. Ask me about Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and my answer would be different, but asking me about Joe Flacco is like asking me about Brock Osweiler, Ryan Tannehill, or similar. None of them look like a franchise guy, and certainly not worth franchise guy money.

I wouldn't say he was that great. In 4 games winning a Superbowl, he threw for 1,140 yards and 11 TD's. Drew Brees has averaged that over the course of almost his entire career. That's what I would call en fuego. No turnovers at all and winning a Superbowl is pretty mistake free, which is mostly what I'm alluding to. Still, the point remains. What has he done when he's not in the playoffs? 236 YPG is not a lot of passing yards. 182 to 117 TD to INT ratio is good, but not Earth shattering. He's not Baltimore's franchise guy for everything else he's done and neither will Tyrod.

You could call offensive pass interference on almost every Patriots passing down. They do it on almost every play. The best because Brady "scans the field"? No. The best because Brady knows when someone is going to get picked and be open and the refs won't call a thing.

Add him to the mix. If the Bills cut him next year, they save $2.6m against the cap and only eat $800k in dead cap money. Keeping him, assuming he has a good year like last year, and he's only counting $3.4m to play. That is beyond cheap and fits right into the logic I posted previously. They're not really locked into much of anything except for Dareus after this year. The "new QB" thing becomes completely optional. I liken it to the Joe Flacco situation really. Flacco is nothing special. If he didn't have that stellar defense and running game, he would never have stayed on that roster. He earned his spot with mistake free football when it counted in the playoffs, and with the team relying mostly on the defense to help them win games. I do tend to agree with you though that absent something crazy happening, there will be a new QB at the helm in 2018. Whether that's Peterman or someone drafted next year is a TBD.

I somewhat chuckle at the idea of an NFL team purposely losing games. Other than perhaps the Patriots bagging a game in Week 17 to secure the playoff matchup they want, It doesn't seem all that realistic on the flip side playing for a draft pick. My two cents for what it's worth on this subject. I don't think they're "tanking" per se for this season, but really setting themselves up in the event that this season goes poorly. Being realistic, if they were tanking, Taylor would have been gone. They wouldn't have given him his revised deal, which is essentially a 1-year "prove it" deal. If he doesn't work out like some think/hope, he can be cut next year for a $1m cap hit. That's it. They're not accelerating the cap hit on clay by another $4.5m to release him. Next year, he would save $4.5m by letting him go. They signed Groy to a nice deal and he played some 6-7 games at center last season. If Wood continues to make the all injury club, he's only $1.2m to let go next season in dead cap. Kyle Williams is in the last year of his likely last contract. They could have saved a bunch by cutting him, but didn't. When you look at all of the big names on the roster at this point with big contracts, only Dareus really can't be touched in the next year. You can call it tanking if you want to not re-sign Gilmore or Gillislee, but I just think it's giving the team the room to rebuild if they need it. The key there is IF they need it. I personally think that another 0.500 season or less will be a rebuild next year. Being in the playoff hunt would be another discussion.

I find these statements by former dumpster fire athletes hilarious. Young's career numbers were not even as good as Fitzpatrick's. He hasn't played in an NFL game in 6 years. What basis does he have to even make they type of statements that he's making? To boot, he's dumber than a stump and immature. At a minimum, Fitzpatrick is neither of those things. I someone pity the career morons, but only somewhat.

Give me your aging, injured and useless. That should have been the title of the article. At this point, I don't want any of these guys. For what exactly? The over/under on the Bills right now is 6.5 games. I have trouble believing that any of these guys, heck, let's say ALL of these guys would significantly change that expectation. At this point, I want to be pleasantly surprised with wins that are not expected or happy with the fact that the team has two first round draft picks next year. Getting free agents at this point that just make the team even more mediocre doesn't do it for me.

We the fans fawn all over guys like Peterman every year. We point to the undrafted players that miraculously found success. If we just stick to the draft for a moment, there have been 113 quarterbacks drafted in the 5th round or later in the last 20 years. We all know (and most of us hate) Tom Brady. No doubt a HOF'er and certainly a franchise guy. After that, the pickings are pretty slim. Hasselback was decent, but nothing special. Marc Bulger? When the next guys on your list are journeyman like Cassell and Fitzpatrick, the odds are pretty much stacked against you. While the OP's initial video is a nice fluff piece, that's pretty much all it is. Peterman wasn't throwing on a rope into tight coverage, as much as he was hucking up balloon balls for his receivers to get under to catch. I'm not saying that he'll be terrible, but will not drink the Kool-Aid this early. At least at this point, I'm hopeful that Taylor will be better.

I think it really is that simple. I'll use Thurman Thomas as a great example. Most of us remember Kenny Davis as being his "spell guy". Do we so quickly forget Carwell Gardner, Darick Holmes, Larry Kinnebrew, Jamie Mueller, and Rob Riddick? All those other guys not named Thurman were just fine and served their purpose. None of them were anything particularly special. Now instead of Thurman, we're talking about LeSean getting spelled by Karlos Williams, Mike Gillislee, Jonathan Williams and now Mike Tolbert. The only thing I see being detrimental to the offense is McCoy getting hurt. The offense clearly isn't the same when he's not on the field. I can't say I see any difference from the cadre of #2's that we've already seen backing him up.

So Tolbert could emerge as the #2. To that I say "who cares"? Does it really matter as we're sitting here today? If Micah Hyde were to get hurt, do I care that Shamiel Gray is slated as his backup? I just hope that the guys that are supposed to be the stars on this team stay healthy. I could care less about the contingency plan that really doesn't matter all that much.

There's a number of things to like about Holmes. He's a big dude at 6-5. Outside of the TE position, the Bills really haven't had a receiver that big since the bust that was James Hardy. He is a veteran as well. He was coming into his own 3 years ago when the Raiders drafted Cooper and added Crabtree in free agency. As long as Watkins is healthy, I don't see him as anything more than a 600-700 yard receiver at most with Tyrod throwing the ball. None the less, there's a lot to like about having a couple of big receivers in him and Jones to go with Sammy.

He mistakenly injected himself with horse testosterone. Oooopsy!

Jackson's tank has been empty for the better part of 3 years. Holding on to some archaic idea that he can be the same Fred-ex when he was delivering in Buffalo 5 years ago is just that. Regardless, I don't care if they sign him or not. We know he's always been good for the locker room and the team. He's the prototypical "team first" player. His role, even in the event of a McCoy injury, would be limited.

I've always liked Bill Polian. He's been a standup guy for his entire NFL career.

Taking the questions in order: #1 - Since 2000, the Chiefs have been in the playoffs 6 years. Buffalo ZERO. Even the lowly Cleveland Browns had a playoff appearance during this span. I'm pretty sure that puts the Chiefs as better managed. By the way, please look at Overthecap.com for the current status versus the cap. The Chiefs without Maclin are sitting at $11.5m in available cap space. The Bills also without Maclin are only at $12.7m. Not as much difference as you would initimate. #2 - I'm not really sure where you got the $16m figure, but it's pretty clearly overstated. Regardless, there's 18 teams that have more cap space than the Bills. Among them, almost all have been in the playoffs in that time span. 16 years. So, more cap space + more playoff appearances = better. Teams with less cap space and more playoff appearances still better. #3 - Are you really bringing out the Ravens? 10 playoff appearances with 2 superbowl wins in 16 years. I don't give a crap what their cap situation is. That's a better organization, period. You obviously don't understand a LOT about the measure of success for an NFL team. Try reading the CBA and you'll understand that EVERY TEAM in the NFL over a period of 5 years has to spend 97.5% or more of the available cap. Other than managing year to year cap availability, teams either have to spend it or will eventually pay it as a penalty. If you bring in the concept of dead money (i.e. salary for players no longer on the roster that counts against the cap), the Bills are slightly below average this year at around $7.9m. I would still say that you have to compare that to wins and playoff appearances. Would I rather be the Chiefs and in the playoffs last year with $2m more dead money in 2017 or the Bills? Easy call for me.

What would I trade for Rivers right now? Nothing. There's absolutely no reason to trade anything for Rivers. It's honestly a purely hypothetical question as the simple reality for this management team and front office, is that Taylor is going to be the starter. If, and I emphasize that it's a big IF, the team were looking to get a quality quarterback with the potential to propel this team into playoff contention, they could sign Tony Romo without trading anything. The idea of 3 first round picks is absolutely idiotic given the state of the team. It's not like we're just a QB away from winning the AFC. So simple recap here, 37 year old Tony Romo signs without trade or 36 year old Rivers for THREE first round picks? Pretty easy call for me. None the less neither is going to happen.

What an idiot. It's nice to say "commitment", but the simple reality is that he could have scored a round trip flight for half that. Hopefully, he showed up with an "I'm with stupid" shirt with an arrow pointing directly upward.

That is nice and all, but there have been a ton of running backs that look good in their college uniforms, playing against college level talent that come to the NFL and don't do a thing. What do we know as we sit here today is that he's had 27 carries at the NFL level and averaged 3.5 YPC. I haven't seen anything in the way of explosiveness or vision. As others have intimated, a stiff breeze has knocked him down. Maybe that will change. I'm with others here where I expect Tolbert to be the #2. We will see none the less. For his career so far, Williams looks more like the fodder.

How about good coaching?

In terms of the K-gun, the Bills don't have the QB to run that. It's easy to be realistic in making this assessment when we simply look at the 2-minute offenses that we've seen in the last two seasons. When I think about what the Bills had in the 90's, that's essentially what they ran almost the whole time they were on the field. It's just not this team. I like the enthusiasm of wanting to get back what we had almost 25 years ago, but realistic it is not.

Henry did have a knack for finding the hole, which is probably why he has so many children with different women. All kidding aside, McCoy is the favorite to lead the NFL in rushing right now, at least according to Vegas. It's amazing how you can bet on anything these days. In any event, if the expectation is that McCoy will lead the league in rushing, I'm not sure I care much about Williams, other than him being a change of pace guy. Absent McCoy getting hurt, I would be shocked if JW got anywhere close to the 100 touches that Gilly had last season.

If it were otherwise, they wouldn't have brought in Gary Barnidge. Enough said!

What I find most interesting about him as a player is that in his senior year, he shared the field with Reuben Foster. Foster was barely mentioned as a playmaker that year in the games that I watched. It was always Ragland making the key plays and big hits. If he can get healthy, I have no worries about his ability to make plays on the field. I could care less what guys running track in shorts and a t-shirt. I would rather look at what they did on the field.

So he's "day to day". Isn't that the status of every Patriot player on every game day? Don't care too much in May and glad it's a knee and not a "Hammy Watkins".

For me, it's pretty simple. T.T. is clearly the #1. It doesn't matter what anyone else does in camp or even the preseason. The only thing that could un-seed Tyrod as the starter is an injury. In terms of the rest, I don't see Peterman going anywhere. It is pointless to draft quarterbacks and not allow some time to see what you have. I think this is especially true given that they picked up Yates BEFORE the draft. Whether Peterman is the #2 or #3, I think is irrelevant. I see the real competition being between Yates, Jones and Woodrum. Anything less than a stellar improvement from Jones and he's gone. He's the previous administration's project, so I'm taking that as a foregone conclusion. I really don't get the Yates pickup. He's not all that accurate and isn't mobile at all. I wouldn't be terribly disappointed with a lineup of Tyrod, Peterman and Woodrum.