Albany,n.y.

The idea that you can just dial up a franchise QB is absurd. Another thing that hurts the article is his use of too many mediocre QBs as examples of guys to trade. If you get a franchise QB, especially a future HOFer, you must retain him as long as he's playing at a high level. Just ask Bills fans who are on our 7th GM looking for a franchise QB since Jim Kelly retired over 21 years ago. If you want to jettison your true franchise QB & roll the dice, be prepared for a 17 year playoff drought.

Petrino & I were coming back from Super Bowl XXVIII and we ran into Larry Felser at the airport. We talked with him for about a minute, but there was a group of women around his age there and he was a lot more interested in talking with them than us for obvious reasons. We also saw Troy Aikman at LAX Tuesday morning after Super Bowl XXVII but didn't talk with him. When he 1st walked by I said "That guy looks just like Troy Aikman", then a few seconds after he passed by, an airport worker started saying "Troy Aikman, Troy Aikman" Later we joked that since we had Monday's Buffalo News*** with us, we should have had him sign the front page. The reason he was still in LA Monday & didn't leave until Tuesday was because he went on the Tonight Show after his Super Bowl win. ***-The reason we had the Buffalo News is back in those days the News would send copies of the paper to the host city for a few days before the game & the day after. There was a list of places that had it. We drove around & finally found a hotel in Brentwood that had the Buffalo News. When we saw the News at the front desk we asked the clerk how much & he told us to take as many as we wanted for free. I think he was hoping we'd take them all because it appeared that he viewed them as a nuisance.

Not if someone has a nut allergy. ?

None, but one time a friend gave me an illegal Trent Edwards jersey. I ended up cutting out his name on the back.

I put them on Facebook and copied to here:

I bought an Allen jersey at the mall today. The pictures I took exceeded 204.8 Kbs

I think the Bills 31-0 beatdown of the Patriots on opening day 2003 was a better game. I came home thinking about making Super Bowl plans. Unfortunately, that season ended with the Patriots beating the 6-10 Bills in the season finale, Van Miller's last game, by the same 31-0 score and it was the Patriots, not the Bills who won the Super Bowl.

I thought about saying that they've been trying to duplicate Lamonica, but then I thought about the gap between the years and the fact that Lamonica never washed out in Buffalo like the others. Mini camp & preseason was all that was needed for the Bills to know they should take whatever they can for McCarron. I guess EJ was so bad they just had to go back to the Bills for his replacement. It's almost like the reverse of when I was a kid so many years ago and I was a big Yankees fan (they're still my top baseball team and when the Bills are bad, I think they're just making up for all the good years the Yankees have given me) and the Yankees would always make these one sided trades with the KC A's. Guys who were mediocre or unknown in KC went to the Yankees and became stars. The biggest name was Roger Maris, who as a Yankee broke Babe Ruth's homerun record.

AJ McCarron is just the latest ex-Bills QB to end up on the Raiders. EJ landed there last year, as have former Bills QB washouts Trent Edwards, who got cut not once, but in 2 separate pre seasons, J P Losman, who landed in Oakland after the UFL and Rob Johnson whose career ended in Giants camp but whose last real NFL game was as a Raider. Will Nate Peterman be in Raiders camp in 2019?

… and Josh McCown gets $10 million to tell Darnold it's ok when Sam throws a pick or goes 3 and out.

Tyrod is only 20% behind that for his 2.5 games in Cleveland, These bridge QBs aren't worth their tolls.

At a backup salary Tyrod is a good backup. At $16 million he's not worth the salary cap drain. Tyrod made the right choice when he signed his original contract with the Bills that made it possible for him to get big bucks if he became the starter. He maxed out his earning potential by going to a team with EJ Manuel & Matt Cassel as their QBs. Next year he'll go back to making a backup's salary with certain incentives if he starts x amount of games. He's been in the NFL for 8 years and will probably be in the league for a few more. Overall, not bad for an undersized QB with limited ability who started off as a 6th rounder due to his obvious limitations.

I say pro for 1 reason: I have no rooting interest in any of the colleges that are playing. I went to Fredonia and they didn't have a football team. Why would I have a rooting interest in some college that I never went to in a community I've never been to? I've lived in Buffalo, including a season I was within walking distance of the stadium. I can root for the Bills and for or against teams that have a direct affect on the Bills standing. Just as bad are the fans who predict one of the other QBs will bust and they're glad the Bills didn't draft him.

It's good to see coaches being dragged into the 21st century where you can't ruin a QB by playing him as a rookie. All 4 top 10 QBs will start this week. Mahomes not getting significant playing time last year was the exception, not the rule these days. In the past few years there are 2 trends: 1) QBs taken at the top part of the 1st round start a lot of games in their rookie years 2) GMs move up in the draft to get the QB they want. In the last 3 years 11 QBs were 1st round picks & 10 were traded up for. Only Cleveland's choice of Mayfield at #1 last year did not involve a trade up of the last 11 1st round QBs drafted. A great QB makes average receivers look great. An average QB makes great receivers look average.

Tyrod to SF makes a lot of sense since Cleveland has Stanton to back up Mayfield. Lynch picks up the phone & either calls Cleveland or Kaepernick's agent. The fact that Kaepernick played in SF before and the fan base isn't in a conservative area makes SF the ideal place for Kaep to resurface.

I'm in the camp that when December comes along if the team has only 2-3 wins, it's better to want to see another loss than a win so that we can get a higher pick. A 3rd or 4th win truly is meaningless -IN MOST SEASONS. This season is different than most because many times the reason I've wanted the higher pick is to be in a better position to get a franchise QB. Since we went all in to get the QB in the past draft, it makes this season different. This season, the main objective is to see the QB improve. An improving QB will win those otherwise meaningless games in December. With a rookie QB at the beginning of his development, there is no such thing as a meaningless game. Every game in his growth matters. In past seasons, when I rooted for a loss, that didn't make me any less of a fan for looking at the big picture than the fan who wanted a win in December that cost us a key player. Sometimes 1 loss is the difference between Ben Roethlisberger and JP Losman.

It really helped him become an established NFL star on his way to the HOF. ?

No, but they are going to put him on the wall at halftime of the Tennessee game.

BuffaloRush just handed divorce papers. The worst part is, his bookie was the one who delivered them.

If you feel that Minnesota will blow out the Bills, the better play would be the over, unless you think the Bills aren't scoring any or are scoring very few points. The O/U is 41. If you think Minnesota is scoring 35, all the Bills need is 1 TD, Minnesota 28 then you need the Bills to score 10 to win. Only if you think the score will be around 28-10 does taking the 17 points with Minnesota make more sense than the over.

Thanks. I remember all the posts laughing at Drew Bledsoe after he got benched for Romo. One of the most linked to was there was a mock Bledsoe site that called his successor "Tony Homo" by the fake Drew & fake Drew would comment every time Romo threw an incompletion. The statue remarks, the reminder of the time he threw it away on 4th down etc-Bledsoe was among the most vilified of ex-Bills QBs.

Right now everyone would rather have Mahomes. Hopefully in 2 years the answer will be Allen. The best response I've seen so far on why we passed on Mahomes was by a poster who brought out the point that the team knew they were going to be hiring a new GM and did not want to pick one in 2017 and saddle the new GM with a guy who wasn't his pick.

The number of people who are against black QBs is miniscule. The main reason so many are delighting in Tyrod's failure is because the Bills got rid of him. Go back over the years on this & other Bills message boards and look at all the trash heaped on guys after they leave the team. Fans love it when the guy the Bills jettisoned does poorly after he leaves. We can go back to past QBs since Kelly: EJ who sat most of last year in Oakland & got cut, Cassel's bad games in Dallas & beyond, Orton for quitting, Trent "Captain Checkdown" Edwards, JP and his final appearance giving the game away to the Jets, Bledsoe-especially after he was replaced by Romo in Dallas, Johnson, who we laughed at as he bounced from team to team after he was perceived as stealing millions from Ralph while here, even Flutie by the Johnson fans both when he was here & in SD. About the only QBs to escape Bills fans wrath are Fitzpatrick, because every time you try to put him down he goes on a tear like this season & is so likeable because he has a wicked sense of humor, and Todd Collins after he left because he sat on the bench for years before coming out of mothballs late one year in Washington.

There was no garbage time in any of the 1985 Bills close losses.

Look at the 1985 Bills, coached by Kay Stephenson & then Hank Bullough. Even though they finished 2-14 the Bills were within a TD of their opponent in 6 of the losses. Bad teams coached by bad coaches lose close games that better coaches win. They were poorly coached and as Bill Parcells says you are what your record says you are. Hue Jackson is 2-32-1 in 35 games with the Browns. His record says he's the worst coach in the NFL, and if you don't want to go by his record, just take another look at Hard Knocks. He has no business head coaching in the NFL and the point is brought out even more so since he didn't even give Mayfield a chance to earn the #1 spot even though anyone who saw yesterday's game knows he made a big mistake sticking with his plan because he had a plan rather than showing any flexibility.