BuffaloRebound

Let Taylor walk. Take Watson if he's there at 10. If he's not, trade out of 10 with someone trying to get ahead of Cleveland for Trubisky. Get a 2nd this year and that teams #1 next year. Play Cardale. If he develops, great. If he doesn't, you likely have 2 high 1st round picks in 2018 as Trubisky likely struggles as a rookie.

Begrudgingly coming around to this viewpoint on the condition that whoever was responsible for Tyrods contract be fired.

I think we also have to ask why Lynn was in demand this offseason. I think people saw how he maxed out the offense with a QB who was limited in the passing game. We can certainly do worse than Taylor and have for the majority of the last 20 years, but committing $30m to him is in my opinion being happy with mediocrity.

Excellent post. I think the worm is beginning to turn on giving the Osweilers and Bradfords and Tannehills big money, and that is going to hurt Taylor if Bills cut him loose. A team like Cleveland who'd be happy with 8-8 makes some sense, but they'd be stupid to commit more than a couple years at starter money to Taylor.

How the redskins handled cousins last year was the proper way to go. What leverage did Taylor have last year? Bills had him for at least 2 more years for at most $3m plus $21.5m. The absolute most they should've paid over the first 2 years was $24.5m. Instead we gave him $40m over the first 2 years. Now he's unwilling to take less and I don't blame him. Bills front office are morons.

Why would you pay him more than you have to? Most they were obligated to pay him for 2016 and 2017 was $3m plus the franchise tag for 2017 which ended up at $21.5m. So the Bills go out and structure a contract that makes Bills commit $40m to Taylor if they want to keep him longer than a year. This is how losing organizations operate.

Agreed. Horrible contract on so many levels. In exchange for giving Taylor $6.8m last year they didn't have to, the Bills gave themselves the privilege of having to commit $30m dollars to him this year or letting him walk without even getting a comp pick in return.

So it sounds like Tyrod isn't gonna take less than $30m guaranteed. Give him a 2 year $30m contract fully guaranteed and add some voidable bs in that last 2 years so his agent can puff his chest and the Bills can spread the cap hit over 4 years. Worst case you have a $15m per year backup for 2 years.

Ok. Got it. If the option was on the the remaining 4 years of contract, Bills could've declined option and used tag. But option is actually on how to treat the $15m bonus, so Bills actually have to cut him to get rid of him.

Bills could decline the option right now if they wanted to. Technically Taylor is not under contract until Bills exercise the option.

Declining an option is different than cutting him. Not sure how NFL views it though for free agency purposes.

I hear what you're saying but if Bills decline the option, the $30m guaranteed never existed and he's in the same boat as the 20+ other free agents the Bills are able to use a franchise or transition tag on. I would be surprised if Bills aren't able to use a tag on him because I doubt the NFL and NFLPA foresaw a screwed up scenario like the one the Bills have put themselves in.

Then if that's all he's gonna get on open market, Bills would be foolish not to restructure. Bills should be using all the tools available to them to get out of the stupid deal they signed Taylor to. If he's not gonna restructure the deal, then threaten to use the transition tag and see what he'll get from another team while keeping the ability to match the deal. Problem is that it's a lot harder to do this when the fools who agreed to the original deal are still in charge.

Maybe the transition tag would be more palatable since he'd be able to negotiate with other teams and from the Bills perspective it's only $19m. But it still buys the Bills insurance since they'd be able to match any deal and gets them out from Taylor's original deal.

Can the Bills decline Taylor's option and then use the franchise tag on him? I was assuming that wasn't available to use but technically I guess he's a free agent if Bills decline the option. At the very least, it buys the Bills insurance until the draft.

Bills could keep him this year for $21.5m if they used the franchise tag. That's a much better choice than having to commit $27m this year and another $3m in 2018. Bills could've even pulled the tag if they get the QB they want at #10. Failing to see how Taylor's contract not a huge blunder by the Bills.

He's also eligible to go back to school when team he doesn't want to play for has the #1 pick. There's way too many variables not the least of which is that jury is still very much out on him being a can't miss guy to be tanking a season on.

Overdorf or whoever was the brains behind Taylor's contract needs to be fired yesterday. The Bills would be in a much better position if they did nothing and let Taylor play out his original contract. They would've saved at least $6m in 2016, and this year they could franchise him for $21.5m instead of having to exercise a $27.5m option and still hold all the cards. That's a $12m mistake.

The sack of Ryan and fumble recovery was arguably the play that changed the game in New England's favor. New England has always had productive edge rushers under belichik. Pittsburgh has had game changing edge rushers for as long as I can remember...Kevin Greene, joey porter, James Harrison. Green Bay has Clay Matthews.

Such an in-demand QB will surely net the Bills some nice draft picks. Taylors agent doing a nice job of stirring things up. Time for Whaley to leak that Taylor is available for trade. Bidding starts at a 1st and a 4th.

Call Taylor's bluff. Offer him 2 years $25m. Makes no sense for other teams to be leaking their interest in him other than his agent suckering Bills into exercising option. Nobody's giving him more money than that. Osweilers contract already a punchline in NFL circles, teams aren't making that mistake on Taylor. If he wants to play somewhere else for the same money, roll the dice on another bridge QB.

They weren't running it well at the end of game and Coleman left game with injury. They weren't gonna win that game running the ball and hoping time ran out. MVP of league played like garbage in crunch time. That's why they lost.

I got no problem with atlantas play calling. You start running the ball all the time and milking clock, you get same outcome. Gotta play for 60 minutes and trust your players. MVP of league came up epically small.

Contrast of Brady vs Ryan in that 4th quarter couldn't have been more stark. Ryan was as small as Brady was large.

Good job Beasley. Way to make a play. Bum.