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Tyrod 9/17 for 53 yards through 3 quarters. FRANCHISE QB!


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How many drives for negative yards, via dump passes, sacks & penalties do we need to see before people realize Tyrod does not have the confidence of this team. "Receivers aren't getting open!" They were open, and often, for the first half of this game. Saints were stacking the box, which left guys 1 on 1. We have big guys with good hands that could catch even semi-decent throws if they were within arm's reach. But that's too much to ask of Tyrod. 

If I was a WR, and I knew the best I could hope for was an overthrown pass or 2 and a bunch of run blocking, followed by sitting on the bench 90% of each game...yeah, I'd stop going all out every play too. At best you add 1 reception over a 3 hour game to your stats, at worst you get seriously injured. And we all know Tyrod doesn't audible and can't read defenses, so even if the opposing linemen said "Hey, we know you're going to dump off to Tolbert on 3rd & long," he'd still stare down Tolbert, and try to throw directly to him...either leading to a batted down ball, a tackle for a loss, or short gain. He's got no field awareness. "Clutch" is the exact opposite of Taylor.
 

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Hell, look at someone like Russell Wilson, who has 24 career game winning drives, and in the last 3 years (since Tyrod has been playing) has 9. We're talking being behind, but having only 1 more chance to win the game. All the pressure in the world, and Wilson has 9 of those alone, while Tyrod has only won 3 games total out of 21 where we even fell behind by a single point PERIOD in the 4th quarter. Forget game-winning drives, just having the ABILITY to POTENTIALLY/MAYBE win a game with some adversity late in the game would be a massive improvement. But that's not how he's wired. 

Prescott, only drafted last year, has 6 game-winning drives. Even Trent Edwards managed 5 game-winning drives in his illustrious career. Out of 273 NFL QBs, Taylor is tied for DEAD LAST with a whopping 3 4th-quarter comebacks. He shares the honor with greats such as Kelly Holcomb, JP Losman, JaMarcus Russell, Heath Shuler, Blaine Gabbert and Todd Collins.

QBs who haven't played nearly as long or had nearly the amount of opportunities Taylor has had yet still have more include Jameis Winston, Brock Osweiler, RG 3, Teddy Bridgewater, Dak Prescott, Marcus Mariota, Blake Bortles, etc. These guys aren't exactly world-beaters, and have piloted some pretty awful teams. But just sheer luck & odds, along with volume of opportunities should allow Tyrod more than freaking 3! 

Want to know some others who put him to shame, may with even less chances than him? Brian Hoyer (6), Sam Bradford (7), Kirk Cousins (8), Ryan Fitzpatrick (9), Mark Sanchez (10), Matt Schaub (11), Ryan Tannehill (12), Derek Carr (13), Andy Dalton (15), Joe Flacco (19), Jay Cutler (23)....

And man, the names in between those are some pretty uninspiring players like Rex Grossman (7), Jason Campbell (7), Tim Tebow (6), Ty Detmer (5), Josh McCown (5), Billy Joe Tolliver (5), Kyle Orton (8), Josh Freeman (9), Tim Couch (10), John Skelton (6).... I mean, this shows you that even mediocre QBs, on crap teams, some with even less opportunities than Tyrod or are career journeymen/backups at least have proven more reliable in the 4th quarter than Taylor, who is an all-time historically bad QB when it matters.

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1 minute ago, row_33 said:

Didn’t get his customary 159 yards in garbagetime, which started well before halftime

 

 


I know! He wasn't allowed to pad out his stats making his box results look far more accurate in comparison to his actual play. Tyrod has officially taken the mantle of Colonel Checkdown. He easily outranks Captain Checkdown Trent at this point.

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3 minutes ago, transplantbillsfan said:

This is gonna be a fun week.

 

Don't worry, it looks like this team is in the beginning of a nosedive that's going to be difficult to recover from with 2 straight road games coming up.

 

Drafting our 1st round QB replacement looks all the more likely today.

 

Alas, guess we're just the same ole Bills.

Embrace what a lot of us have known for a while. Tyrod was exciting at his best but those times were few and far between.

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Just now, MAJBobby said:

 

Its not like he was lighting anything up the first 7 games any QB can get wins when your defense if giving 3 TOs a game


Bingo! And most of the time in great field position. 

People also seem to forget that even with those turnovers, we often did next to nothing with them. We'd fail to get a first down even once, but be in FG range. When the defense gave us a turnover in our own territory, we punted. If the defense didn't score themselves on a return, the offense rarely scored a TD off of it. Teams now realize our offense won't ever move the ball, so simply avoid turnovers and they'll cruise to an easy win.

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