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Heh......I wanted to make the same point but it took me too long to figure how to write it succinctly so I gave up. Nicely put .

Were you stamping your foot and pouting as you wrote that?

I thought that the Bills did make motions to re-sign him earlier, but AL made it clear that he wanted to see what he was worth on the open market.

It is the differential between a teams Offensive QBR and their Defensive QBR. Seattle has 106.2 QBR and their defense has allowed 65.5 QBR. The differential is 106.2/65.5 = 1.62(best in the league). When a team has a QBR differential of less than 1.00 it means that their offensive QBR is worst than what their defensive QBR has been. QBR differential is a remarkably good indicator of a teams performance. (And thanks for the kind words C.B. and NS earlier in the thread. )

And all that for the measly 2014 cap hit of $21,773,000......and a fantastic bargain in 2015 at $25,273,000! I love Romo

I thought the Jets were a bit of a surprise considering they were 6-7 with those stats. (No surprise considering how badly we have seen Gino play recently though )

I had a few minutes so I did just that . (The numbers are from last weeks stats though). Bills are 22nd with a 0.94 differential. For interest sake.... Top 5: SEA 1.62 DEN 1.30 NO 1.23 SF 1.21 KC 1.19 Bottom 5: NYJ 0.67 OAK 0.71 JAX 0.72 WASH 0.81 NYG, MIN, HOU 0.82

I don't know where to find the stat for that but......as of last week we had the 28th rated team passer rating at 74.1, but we had the 5th best defensive passer rating of 78.5. I think our differential might be fairly decent(probably around the league average).

We did go 1-4 in the games that EJ didn't finish......so overall, I'd say placing a large chunk of the blame on QB play was warranted, though it shouldn't be entirely shouldered by EJ.

Plays per game has quite a large impact on all of those stats. We are 3rd in offensive plays per game and 5th in defensive plays per game.

That is a really long bow to draw.

But how does this effect the play of EJ(as you implied/stated earlier)?

No, that's not how it works. I'll draw a fictional example.....simplified. Team A has 25M cap room in 2013. They have a scheduled 20M cap room in 2014. They have a dead cap hit from a player of 10M that they can either put in 2013 or 2014. If they put the 10M into 2013.....that will leave 15M in cap room which they can roll over into 2014.....which makes the 2014 cap 35M(20M + 15M). If they put the 10M into 2014.....that will leave 25M in cap room which they can roll over into 2014.....which makes the 2014 cap 35M(20M + 25M - 10M). It does not matter in regards to the 2015 cap as the cap room in 2014 is going to be 35M regardless of when the dead money was accounted for.

Is that a fact? I'd better write it down so I don't forget it.

.....and I personally fail to see how the Jags having a depleted offense overly effects how EJ played.

Well yes......referring to your previous illogical statement of.... "The Jacksonville Jaguars threw the game because they knew they were already out of the playoffs and a Win today would have jeopardized their draft spot."

You might be thinking of Lawson(4 year deal)......Branch will be an UFA in 2014. http://www.spotrac.c...ls/alan-branch/

Yeah.....winning their previous 3 (and 4 of their previous 5), they simply couldn't afford another win.

It was his first 2 drives that did the damage. 0-4-0-1 His stats after the first 2 drives 17-20-193-2-0 85% completion percentage 9.65 yards/attempt QBR = 146.5

I for one am very happy with EJ's progression today. As you pointed out, his first 2 drives were horrible. After those first 2 drives, though he still made plenty of errors as a rookie QB is prone to do(especially on the road)......he had..... 85% completion percentage 9.65 yards/attempt 2 TDs(plus 1 rushing) QBR = 146.5 To be quite honest, I don't care if he missed some bigger plays where there were some open receivers.....I'd happily take those numbers every week for the next 14 years from him.

Really? Carrying over last years D & a rookie QB and you expected minimum 6 wins? Wow right back at ya. Does any team that starts a rookie QB expect 6 wins minimum? Maybe if you have a #1 overall pick.....maybe.

I guess my point was more that if one is going to talk about drafting a QB in the 3rd or 4th rounds then the discussion is really about finding a potential backup QB, not trying to find a future franchise QB.

Maybe so......but if McCarron is considered to have any realistic chance of becoming a Franchise QB he will go well before the 3rd round.

I don't think it a no brainer at all. Assuming that it has been determined that he will not be part of the Bills future plans, the question becomes is he cut in 2014 or in 2015. If cut in 2014, he doesn't play for us and we save a chunk of cash as well as over 5.6M for the 2015 cap. Is he worth 5.6+M in cap room(plus the chunk of cash) for his one year of play(2014)?