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We do not have the worst QB situation in the league. You're just someone who isn't willing to give Allen a chance if you have reached this conclusion. We have a 1st round QB who is learning on the job and most people can expect him to get better. The other 2 QBs won't be here next year, but since we have the QB of the future on the team, we are much better off than teams with no future at QB. Let's look at the 2 worst QB situations in the league: #1 NY Giants: They're starting an over the hill Eli Manning who will be gone in a year or 2. His main backup is a past Bills reject Alex Tanney, now on his 9th NFL team, after being cut more times than Nicole Simpson. The 3rd stringer is a 4th round rookie who nobody knows what to expect out of. They have no present & no future. #2 Jacksonville: Blake Bortles was benched last week & replaced by Browns reject Cody Kessler. Those are the only 2 QBs they have & Bortles is a major drain on their cap. Definitely a worse situation than the Bills with Allen.

Let's compare apples to apples. Each QB to each as rookies so far in draft order: Trubisky/Mayfield: Mayfield entered the lineup sooner than Trubisky & has performed better than Trubisky had done by week 8. Slight Advantage Mayfield Watson/Darnold: At this point, just prior to his season ending injury, Watson was playing great, Darnold has been a typical up & down rookie. Clear advantage Watson Mahomes/Allen: In 2017 Mahomes hadn't taken a snap yet. Allen has played the 1st 6 games starting & finishing 4 of them. He is now currently injured, out about a month. Allen has led his team to 2 victories, including a final drive vs Tennessee. Anyone who is writing Allen off as a bust is out of their friggin mind & most likely is trying to be proven right because they didn't want him in the 1st place. Based on the fact that Mahomes hadn't even played yet-HUGE ADVANTAGE ALLEN. Beathard/Rosen: This is a comparison that shouldn't really be made since we're talking a 3rd rounder who was not the 4th QB taken vs a top 10 1st rounder, but let's look at the right comparison 1st & get around to the Beathard/Rosen comp later. The 4th QB taken in 2017 was Kizer by Cleveland followed by Webb by the NYG & then Beathard. Kizer was named the starter and hadn't won a game before week 8 (and never did), subsequently he played poorly enough to get traded after 1 season, Webb was behind Manning and if he played at all it was mop up duty. Subsequently, Webb never started a game for NYG & got cut before his 2nd season. He's currently on the Jets practice squad. Beathard got the starter's job early in his rookie year but was nothing special and SF jumped at the opportunity to replace him with Garoppolo at the trade deadline. Rosen has started a few games & is having rookie growing pains. Still, he is starting & hopefully learning from his mistakes. No advantage to or against Rosen in comparison to Kizer/Webb/Beathard, although Rosen is looked at as a much better long term prospect than any of those three 2-3 rounders who were taken in QB order 4-5-6.

Look at the prices for the last few games. If there are any people who usually can't afford to bring their kids, the late November and December games are selling for peanuts and they should be able to bring a family of 4 for the price of 1 cheap ticket.https://www.tickpick.com/buffalo-bills-tickets/

I'm glad this is the only game on Monday, otherwise the nation outside of Buffalo & Boston would get switched to another game early in the 3rd quarter. However, I hear that ESPN has an old tape of Heidi just in case the game becomes totally unwatchable.

There are lots of QBs on the street right now who are better than Peterman but don't have Kelly's baggage. Since Peterman knows the offense & the others don't he'll stay at least until Allen is ready to play. The last thing the Bills need is to bring in some problem child just because he's better than Peterman. I'd rather sign Davis Webb off the Jets practice squad than bring Kelly in.

He's now truly Mr. Irrelevant.

Obviously, he didn't show enough for Denver to feel a need to keep him. All he did was beat out Paxton Lynch, a bust who is still out of the league. If they thought much of Kelly, they never would have carried Hogan as an insurance policy as their 3rd stringer when most teams carry only 2 QBs. Kelly will never be a Bill, get over it.

The Giants are going to make sure that no matter how hard Jon Gruden tries to tank this season, he will have to pry that #1 pick in the draft from Pat Shurmur's cold dead hands.

Mr Whaley: I know you're bitter over your firing last year, but please, stop joining message boards and posting messages under different names that rail against your successors. Doug, you're better than this. Give it up already.

Every coach with an injured rookie QB needs to be fired. The Rams & Bears new coaches each had 2nd year QBs who struggled in their rookie years and were already through their growing pains & then added key players that made them better. I'm waiting to see what next year looks like before I think about everyone's future in the Bills management. Marrone looked pretty bad yesterday, benching his QB for Cody Kessler & then getting all surly about it after the game. ...and Chan Gailey was the coach who punted on the opponent's 34 yard line. I don't ever want to hear about how Gailey was a good coach.

EJ. Can't be any worse.

2nd year QB has to start. Get a better 2nd stringer, but nobody who you plan on starting.

The map has now been updated to reflect the right game in Albany: UPDATES: Albany NY: NE-CHI to BUF-IND

Just mentioned in the sports reports. The map & Times Union are wrong! Edit: The map now shows the Bills game on in Albany.

So if one of the WRs had been wide open in the endzone on his TD runs & he threw the ball instead of running it in, he would be more successful in your opinion? This is a classic example of someone using QB stats , which can be the worst stats in all of sports, to justify their weak opinion. There's no such thing as a rookie QB failure after basically 5 games.

Here's a formula that resulted in 2 Super Bowl championships: In Eli Manning's rookie year he sat the1st 9 games. He then came in and started the final 7. The Giants with HOFer Kurt Warner at QB benched Warner who had led the Giants to a 5-4 record but they had lost their last 2 games. Coughlin gave up any shot at the playoffs to put a raw rookie in in place of the veteran. Manning was horrible his 1st 4 games and then the light came on in his 5th start. Manning worked a lot of bugs out his rookie year as the Giants faded from playoff contention. Get Allen as many starts as possible for the long term good of the team. The goal is to win a Super Bowl down the road, not try to get closer to .500 with a 2-4 current record team.

At least Wilks didn't go crazy and scream "The Broncos are who we thought they were!"

Some don't like it when they see Allen throw it away and think he is being inaccurate. I like him throwing it away rather than to the other team. Rookie QBs are learning. The clowns who are already writing off Allen because they didn't want to draft him and want to be right are driving me crazy every time they post their nonsense. I'm sure they're writing off Rosen tonight when we won't know about any of this year's rookies for about 2 more years. I'm optimistic about Allen, but it's way too early to tell on any of these quarterbacks. Rosen sure looks like a rookie tonight.

Half the time the main requirement for a quarterback to earn a pro bowl berth is to have his phone on after about 20 guys declined the call or were injured. I still remember years where guys who were in the pro bowl were out of the league 2-3 years later.

I remember John Parrella and another player (I think it was Corbin Lacina) laughing on the sidelines of Super Bowl XXVIII and there wasn't any backlash. It made the stadium scoreboard, but I don't know if it was ever on the TV broadcast.

I'm pretty sure McDermott was talking about Allen, not Peterman.

Anderson needs to grow a Fitzpatrick beard for that to happen.

It was a little late by September to just dial up another veteran in time to start the season. The Bills were looking for a bridge QB who wasn't going to cost the $10-20 million that Bradford & McCown cost. When McCarron bombed, the Bills were pretty much stuck. Take a look around the NFL, most teams are in bad shape if their starter goes down with an injury. Here is all the QB depth charts in one place: https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/depthchartpos/QB

McCarron, in mini camp, camp, practice & preseason played himself off the team. There were also rumors that he refused to mentor Allen. Bad in practice, bad on the field, bad in the locker room=off the team.

The Giants will not be deterred in their quest for the top pick. If any team gets too close to them they'll bench Eli & start either Tanney or Lauletta.