ChicagoRic

Ok, so I read the article. It referenced 1 day of camp. Tuesday. 1 day. Holy clickbait-esque jumping to conclusions.

Not a joke. At a vet minimum 1 year contract where's the harm in bringing him into camp? If he is washed up, it will be clear pretty quickly and they can transition him into a "retirement" contract. If he still has it, then we got a veteran backup with huge ties to the community. Low risk, potentially high reward.

Deshaun Watson Will give you same play rookie year (with growth room) Yep will come to Buffalo Mitch Trubinksy Will give tou same play rookie year (with growth room) Yep will come to Buffalo Patrick Mahomes Will give you similar play as rookie (with growth room) Yep will come to Buffalo So, your answer is 3 rookie QBs including 2 likely high 1st rounders? WOW. News flash: This is not a great QB Draft Class. Watson: Has good overall skills, but durability a huge question. ACL, broken collarbone, broken hand off the top of my head. Can he take an NFL hit? Trouble recognizing pressure. Subpar deep ball. Will likely be gone but the time our pick rolls around.. Trubitsky: Mechanics a question and tends to float balls to the sidelines. Accuracy suspect. Works in a fast-release offense where he does not have to go through his reads. Will be gone by the time our pick comes around, so NO, he will not come to Buffalo. Mahomes. Has never played in an NFL style offense and is not required to read the whole field. Mechanics and footwork are in questions. Crappy touch and deep ball. A project. Deonstrably better? NO. Has potential, yes, but he is a project. Try again, MAJBobby.

Curious, MAJBobby. What QB's are: 1) Available. 2) Demonstrably Better. 3) Willing to come to Buffalo By your logic dumping Taylor will improve the team. Sorry, but that is just half of the equation. Who would you REASONABLY expect the Bills to bring in that will provide an upgrade? Example: Tony Romo 1)Available? Yeah. Will likely be a cap casualty in Dallas and command a HUGE salary on the FA market. 2)Better? If he can stay healthy, then yes. Huge IF though. Romo has played in just 4 of the last 32 games. 3)Willing to come to Buffalo. Honestly, I don't know. If the money is right, I suppose, and as in #1, bidding will be fierce. So, MAJBobby, who do you have? Make a strong case that your guy will be better than Taylor.

Please, just no. I have been in Bears country for the last 19 years and have seen more than my fair share of Jay Cutler. A big arm and a willingness to "take shots" is only part of the story. The good part. The bad part? He gambles to much with the ball. He chokes in big moments. Think of him as a more physically gifted Ryan Fitzpatrick, but with the same downsides. Cutler is more likely to lose a game singlehandedly than he is to win one singlehandedly.

TT indeed had a rough game, but the TD to Goodwin to seal the victory was money. Rushed, lineman in his face, knew he had the TD even as he took the hit. Taylor is not and will never be the classic pocket passer, but he is the best rushing QB in the game today and knows how to take care of the ball. He will be here next year and beyond.

Tyrod looks......ok.......but he needs to up his awareness. If it was Manuel playing, he'd be roundly criticized for taking a bad sack and overthrowing the deep ball.

33 of 44 for 285 yards and a 91 QB Rating. Yup terrible. I recommended watching the video, not the first 3 minutes. At one point he makes 10 straight completions. If you look at the player he was in college and then what he did in extended preseason action, there was progress and he has some upside. Will be make the team over any of the other 3? Doubtful, but people do get injured in preseason (Kolb, anyone) and if I had to choose between Simms and Tuel, Simms would get the nod.

I actually went and looked at Matt Simms college highlights and nfl highlights. It's all there on youtube. You can see a progression. Check out the 2013 preseason game 4 video. He played the whole game and the video shows a 44 pass attempts. My impression: He has a live arm and pretty good mechanics. He is accurate and is willing to throw into tight spots He is neither mobile nor evasive in the pocket and does not show great pocket awareness. He does go through his progressions. In my opinion, he is a decent prospect. As I said, watch the video.

Yes, you are concerned about his age, he is is oldest RB in the NFL. He is an aberration. It's a valid concern and eventually someone will be right that "this is the year we will fall off the cliff." We heard have heard this for 3-4 years now. That being said, he continues to produce as a complete back works hard to stay on the field. He may hit the wall this year and he may not, but right now he is our co-starter.

It's an unpopular opinion because until proven otherwise, he is our best *complete* running back, despite his age and lack of pedigree. Not the fastest, not the flashiest, but a master at his craft. I need to know more about Brown and Dixon before that change is made. We know they can run. Can they block? Can they pick up blitzes? Can they catch balls out of the backfield? Will they play though nagging injuries? Can they lead by example and have the respect of the entire team? Jackson does all of these things and is still highly effective. Yes, eventually his age will catch up to him, but until then he has earned his spot on the chart. I expect to see plenty of Brown and Dixon in relief duty. If they shine, they will get more carries, but right now it's too soon to bench Jackson

Chandler had clearly been benched due to his drops last week. Unfortunately, his backups are no better.

Actually, the more I think I about it, the problem is Manuel has NO confidence in himself or his receivers. WR's have to be WIDE open for him to even take a shot, and even then he has accuracy problems. Lewis and Tuel both had faith the the WRs could make plays in tight coverage and had the stones to deliver the ball. Manuel does not.

The coaches have to know something about Manuel that keeps them from letting him pull the trigger. WIth Lewis and even Tuel, they took shots. With Manuel, no dice. Or is it Manuel missing out on his reads/not seeing the open WR?

Let me say this again. 3 rushing attempts in the whole 4th qtr vs 20 passing attempts. Stacking the box or not, this is just silly.

Blaming Tuel for this loss is just silly. Yes, he is an undrafted rookie and yes he performed poorly, but too much was put on his shoulders. Especially down 2 WRs, you'd expect the Bills would let Tuel manage the game and hand off to Spiller/Jackson/Choice. Wrong. The running game/playcalling in the 4th qtr was the game loser here. Down by only 3 for much of the 4th qtr, and we had 3, yes 3, rushing attempts for a grand total of 5 yards. This is not how you win games when a backup QB is in. Discuss.

Leinart is a known quantity with a sucky career QB rating of 70.2, 15 TD and 21 INTs passing over a 6 year career. Even if he lights it up tomorrow, he is still a terrible choice as a backup and an even worse one as a starter. I think Marrone is making a mistake even considering having him as #2 over Tuel. Tuel may be a diamond in the rough or just another lump of coal, but we aleady know what Leinart is a lump of. From a pure stats standpoint, we'd be better of with JP fricken' Losman. As Butthead once said "You can't polish a turd, Beavis"

How quickly we forget that Jackson provided much more than rushing yards. 2474 yards from scrimmage rushing, receiving, returning and passing was second only to Chris Johnson's record breaking 2509. Jackson deserves to be the starter because he is a football player, period. Spiller also needs the touches, but don't be so quick to exile Jackson to the bench.

Should I have added another category? Can't think of anything the starts with "B" that means role-player, where a guy can be effective in rare spot duties. Banger maybe?

The kid is getting quite a bit of hype in the absence of a stable backfield. How will he do?

Hmmmm.........Stat are just.............stats.........but here is one. First 7 games: 2 wins, 5 losses. Last 7 games: 5 wins, 2 losses. I've Tivo'ed every game this year, and there is a noticeable difference between O-line #1 and O-line #2. I have not put a stopwatch on it, but there is more time and things look-----for lack of a better term---crisper. Execution is better and while it may not help McGahee all that much, it makes a huge difference to Losman. Regards, Eric C ChicagoRic

Here's the deal---unless revenue sharing is worked out in such a way as to work for all of the existing NFL franchises, we're going to end up with the BMFL (big market football league) rather than the NFL. If that happens, the NFL will lose its national stature. Even Green Bay, which the NFL big marketeers have used to showcase a "successful" small market team, cannot hope to survive as things currently stand. Publicly owned or not, there are limits to capitalization. When Favre retires (sometime in the next 30 years or so) there is nobody to replace him. Small market teams will be left out in the cold, and instead of expansion teams, we'll start seeing contraction teams. The LA's and NYC's and Dallas and Atlanta will reap the financial benefits while the Buffalos and Baltimores and Clevelands and Minnesotas and even the Indy's (yes, the Colts, they are small market despite the current successful run) will end up drained both in terms of talent and finances. Sure, with only 20 or so teams the talent level will be amazing, but will football still be a national sport? Will it be relevant? Doubtful. Will if be profitable? Yup. From my $$$? No way in heck. Revenue sharing can and should be fixed for the benefit of the NFL as a whole. Some have posted here that $7million in profit is a lot of money, and that may be true, but it pales somewhat when you're talking about one team in a multi-billion (yes, billion is One Thousand Million) dollar business enterprise. Yes Ralph Wilson is a multimillionaire, but to ask a 7 million dollar profit team to contribute to a 300 million dollar project of the benefit of another team with no guarantee of its own survival is just crazy. Bottom line---Ralph Wislon should be allowed to whine all he wants, and what's more, he is right. The big market teams hold the cards and can dictate what will happen, but in the end they may end up killing the goose that laid the godlen egg. Discuss?

Whatever happened to the brash, flashy, pouty Peerless? This new Peerless Price is a different breed altogether. Keeps his mouth shut and makes tough sideline catches. I daresay he has the best toes of an Bills WR in recent memory. That kind of body control tells me that even though the afterburners might not burn quite as hot, he takes the ART of being a WR very seriously. Happy to see him here. He's a nice complement to our new #1 Evans, and our new brash and flashy guy, Parrish. For lack of a better comparison, he fills the Lofton/Billy Brooks role. My level best, Eric C ChicagoRic

Nope. Ed really is right. When in doubt, try google or wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy

Of course it's homerism! The 17-14 is my "I hope" score. On the other hand, I'm certainly not making any bets with all my Bears Fans buddies. I'd realistically put us at about a 33% chance of winning this game. My best, Eric C ChicagoRic