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I have no problem with the high opinions of Mayfield, but just because you haven't seen any rookie QB come into a game & simply take it over doesn't mean it hasn't happened before: Years ago a team was down to their 3rd string QB due to injuries & this 7th round rookie was forced into playing his 1st NFL game shortly after the game began. https://www.footballguys.com/05gamerecap-ram-12.php St. Louis Rams QB Marc Bulger was out with a shoulder injury, so enter QB Jamie Martin. If you blinked, you missed him, and then rubbed your eyes wondering who was under center for the Rams. Martin was under center for just the first two St. Louis series, and he was constantly under pressure from the Texans defense. Martin was sacked twice and attempted just three passes before he left the game with a concussion. As for Martin’s replacement, his name is Ryan Fitzpatrick, and he is a rookie from Harvard. This was his first NFL action, and he absolutely delivered. Fitzpatrick threw for over 300 yards and three touchdowns, throwing early and often to WRs Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt. Each receiver finished with a touchdown each, and Holt logged a season high ten catches for 130 yards. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/27/fitzpatrick-leads-comeback-in-debut-houstonplaying/ HOUSTON—Playing in an NFL game was new to St. Louis Rams rookie quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05. Coming back from a 21-point deficit wasn’t.The Rams’ third-stringer took over for injured backup Jamie Martin yesterday, then threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime to cap an improbable comeback and give the Rams a 33-27 win over the Houston Texans.The seventh-round pick and last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year stayed calm by thinking back to his freshman year and first college start, when he rallied the Crimson from a 21-0 halftime deficit for a 31-21 win over Dartmouth. At the time it was the biggest comeback in Harvard’s 128-year history.“I was actually thinking about that game,” Fitzpatrick said. “The biggest thing when you’re in those situations is you need to get everyone around you fired up.”

Mayfield will have to be MVP to overcome Hue's coaching and get Cleveland a playoff spot. Coaching is still huge in the NFL and the Browns have the league's worst coach.

He is great on the sidelines, never yelled at a ref and gotten into trouble like that sideline reporter in Cleveland.

The Jets played the Bills 2x each year, if anyone knows how to defend him it's an AFC East team.

Buddy is the one who said don't draft a QB until you're ready to retire so they can't fire you if you draft a bust. Then he drafted EJ Manuel and skipped town.

I bought the book but I don't plan on reading it until I fly to California in November.

This is top secret so don't tell anyone: Petrino & I came in late yesterday evening and worked out for the Bills: Petrino for coach & me for GM. We told them we come as a team like Polian/Levy or it's no deal.

This shows how composed Sal is. 3 years of Tyrod Taylor at QB and never once lost his cool & yelled at an official. 2 weeks of Tyrod and the sideline guy is so frustrated he's yelling at officials.

I'm not playing the game of the too young to remember anything before this century. In 1984 the 0-11 Bills hosted the Dallas Cowboys who were 7-4. I don't know the spread, but the Bills shocked everyone by beating Dallas 14-3.

It's not a mystery at all. The Bills, after getting to know Allen, think he can handle & benefit from learning on the field instead of sitting on the bench watching. I've been watching the NFL for over 50 years and watching the game didn't improve my meager football skills one iota. Allen's best leaning opportunity isn't by sitting & watching, it's by playing. Once they reached that conclusion, McCarron was traded with their full knowledge that the sooner Peterman proved inadequate, Allen would go in there. Now the sit & watch crowd, of which you are a member, can't go on WGR or message boards demanding McCarron starts.

I'm calling Patricia one & done. He'll last the season, so in order to win, you're going to have to hope there are no in-season firings. Odds are still on Hue when he's told to put in Mayfield & wants to stay with Tyrod.

Kurt Warner says he never consented to his name being on it: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/09/18/kurt-warner-says-his-name-was-mistakenly-put-on-hall-of-famers-letter/

Considering it's a NY paper, shouldn't the writer be blasting Bowles as a self hating black man for never giving Teddy Bridgewater a chance & then shipping him to N.O.?

Is there a way to bet he won't be fired & will be coaching on opening day 2019?

What if your basic assumption is wrong, and they had no intention of bringing Allen along slowly because after getting to know him they realized he could learn faster by playing, making mistakes, and correcting the mistakes? That's what I believe and if that's the case, there was no mistake trading McCarron. Would they have liked to have sat Allen for the 1st 4 games, probably, but he was going to start by game 5 and beyond. All Peterman's disaster did was move it up a little, definitely not a lot. I thought their intentions were pretty obvious the day they put McCarron in for the final exhibition game with what was basically a For Sale sign on his back. After a lackluster mini-camp & preseason, they didn't have a very high opinion of McCarron and didn't see any value in him playing ahead of Allen-ever. They also were never convinced in Peterman's progress nor did they ever consider Allen a "back-up".

Years ago there was the WGR song parody "When will Jauron get fired?" A couple of lines were about a Dolphin pick 6 "Vonte Davis for the score, I can't take it anymore" The 2018 version can say "Vonte Davis out the door, he can't take it anymore"

GOAT-Greatest of all Two (games).

Can't cut his brother's kid. He's probably in his high school's HOF

If Allen is a hit, they're here as long as Belichick has been in NE.

More suitable for 2 Bison Drive.

BUZZZZ WRONG. Without the QB, there is no such thing as a rebuild, it's just spinning your wheels. They used 3 picks, only 1 1st rounder to draft the QB, which means they only traded 1 other pick (the 3rd they got for Taylor) to move up to get Edmunds. As I've stated elsewhere, of the last 14 QBs drafted in the 1st round, 10 were acquired by trading up, so what the Bills did is typical for an NFL team in the 21st century. The only QBs not traded up for were by QB in need teams that picked 1,1, 2 & 3 by teams that were not trading down to let another team get a QB they wanted & needed. Even better, over the last 3 years, 10 out of the last 11 1st round QBs were traded up for. Cleveland is the only team that drafted a 1st round QB & didn't trade up, holding onto the #1 pick & drafting Mayfield this year. So 10 GMs are stupid and you're the smart one, right.

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He was a 2nd year player who was injury prone in college and when you get a player who was injured before and then gets injured again, his confidence in his ability to stay healthy can deteriorate quickly.

I'm keeping my reply to QBs drafted in the 1st three rounds. One could argue that these guys rotted on the bench & were ruined by not playing them & it would be just as ridiculous as saying that playing a rookie QB can ruin him. All these players were dropped by the team that drafted them after they sat as rookies & beyond. Obviously, I don't believe you can ruin a QB by playing him, it's just an excuse used by fans & others when their team's QB busts because he should never have been drafted in the 1st place. If there was a vote who the worst coach in the NFL is, I think the record speaks for itself & Hue Jackson would win in a landslide. So what did the NFL's worst coach do? He went out and traded for a veteran QB before the draft and named the guy the starter no matter what his rookie looked like upon arrival in Cleveland. If Hue Jackson is an advocate of sitting a rookie QB, how good an idea can it possibly be. Guys who rotted on the vine Davis Webb-just last year the Giants drafted him in the 3rd round. When Eli got benched they went to Geno Smith instead of him. That zapped his confidence beyond repair & the Giants cut him before he could ever play a game because staying on the bench ruined him. Christian Hackenberg-The Jets mothballed him for 2 seasons. By the end of 2 seasons, all that time on the bench had scarred him beyond repair. Not even the mighty Jon Gruden could fix the guy. Brock Osweiler-Imagine how many Pro Bowls this guy would have been in if he hadn't been ruined by sitting behind Peyton Manning as a youngster? He withered and lost all confidence comparing himself to a future Hall of Famer. Every time Peyton threw a TD pass, Osweiler's doubts about his own abilities multiplied. Sitting behind a star like Manning ruined his confidence in himself. Ryan Mallett-Here's another player ruined by sitting behind a future HOFer. Every game Brady won, almost singlehandedly, destroyed Ryan Mallett's confidence. Brian Brohm-Sitting behind future HOFer Aaron Rodgers zapped his confidence so badly that he was cut & put on the practice squad in his sophomore year. Thinking he could resurrect this broken man, the Bills "stole" him off GB's practice squad, but just one year of watching Rodgers play had ruined him beyond repair. Kevin O'Comnell-Another one of Tom Brady's victims. Finally-Just think of the career JP Losman would have had if he hadn't broken his leg or had Drew Bledsoe to sit behind as a rookie. That year behind Bledsoe destroyed the can't miss Losman. I could go on & on with this ridiculous list, just as advocates that you can ruin a QB can make their own lists. Playing QB in the NFL is tough. A guy either has it or he doesn't, no matter when he 1st goes into the action as a starting QB.

I would bring in a veteran, cut Peterman & re-sign him to the practice squad.