WhitewalkerInPhilly

Honestly? I don't think we'd get him. I am sure someone desperate enough will try him as a starter. Toss in our salary cap, and we can't overpay for him. But if you are looking for a backup for Tyrod, someone who Roman can use for when Taylor misses a gane to injury... We've seen EJ cannot hack it. RGIII is not a starter right now, but I have more faith in him to pull something out than EJ or any street free agent QB we would pick up.

Honestly, after the Chip Kelly experiment, Coughlin would a good way to get things back on track.

If Jay Cutler and Alex Smith qualify as "franchise quarterbacks" Tyrod, in his first season as a starter, has numbers eerily close to both of them. Remember last offseason when a lot of pundits wanted the Bills to trade for Cutler or Bradford and take on their contracts?

That's the case for me. There aren't any college guys with a lot of buzz who look open to moving to the Pros. There don't seem to be a number of former head coaches who thrived in a different situation as a coordinator. The hottest coordinator on the market right now is Adam Gase, and his claim to fame right now is that he motivated Jay Cutler...to numbers that are worse than Tyrod's. I keep hearing how weak the coaching carousel is this year, so if the Titans aren't sold on anyone, why try to force someone in when they can tank again and take another shot next year? To me, this is the death knell of Chip Kelly in the pros. If he can't get back in after one 7-9 season, preceded by two 10-6 seasons, where the starting QB is the guy he tried to move heaven and earth to draft, I think that says a lot as to how he is perceived.

I'm a little shocked he hasn't been getting any calls for HC. He took a team that was bottom of the barrel on offense with no confirmed starter at QB and no 1st round draft pick to get one, eventually installed a 6th round pick who had never started an NFL game, and got to 1st in rushing and actually slightly above average offense. Which was what he hoped for, and could have been a playoff team if we just had the defense show up.

Boykin looks like, at the very least, a Chris Hogan kind of receiver. If he has the chemistry with Tyrod that made him Tyrod's most productive receiver he ought to be at the very least a safety valve so Tyrod doesnt keep slinging it to Sammy in double coverage.

A question for you Astro: Are the DE's Bills scouts are looking at more the classic 5 technique DE for a more traditional 3-4 (maybe moving Hughes to 9 tech DE or Leo/JLB) or someone to replace Mario as a 7 technique and get a Suggs like player?

I honestly think WR is a sneaky need for us. Sammy has turned out better than I hoped, but he really needs someone to stretch the field with. Unless we can get Harvin to take less money, I don't think we have that guy, and Woods doesn't have the same chemistry with Tyrod that he did with EJ. 1st or second round sounds just about right to me.

Yeah. Mario is going into a 19 million dollar cap hit next year. He definitely doesn't seem to be worth the money in this system. Whether it's because he's not a good fit for the system, or whether he's dogging it, when it comes to trying to keep Gilmore, Glenn and Incognito that money certainly could go to good use.

It is nice to hear an honest and grounded evaluation of Taylor. Honestly, if I'm Whaley this seems like the blueprint for next season. I'm of similar mind too. No one blows me out of the water like Winston and Mariota did last year. And even then, let's look at the growing pains they faced this year. I'm not against picking up a developmental guy, but Tyrod has earned the right to be the unquestioned starter.

You read my mind. I was thinking this today as I was getting ready for work. Harvin definitely did not play to the level of being worth 9 mil for next year. He isn't worth the 6 mil that will go on the books if we cut him. But the honest truth is that the FA market for receivers is thin this year, and we desperately need a boundary receiver who can take pressure off Watkins and Woods doesn't seem up for the task. We have a lot of holes to fill at LB aND quite possibly O-line. Crossing off one thing you need at a reasonable expense would be a good thing.

Damn. I was kind of hoping we would be able to snag him to replace Thurmond.

I don't know if you watched the Snow Bowl a few years ago, but that was the gane of 7 Eagles touchdowns, played on a snow filled field. Shady ran just fine

I would note that those have been his only significant returns of the year. Other than that he's really been shut down.

Listened to Fairburn on 94.1 this morning. I'm not sure if I heard it on here, but the Eagles were one of the places Tyrod hunted for a chance at a starting job, and Chip turned him down because he had planned for Bradford. Another team to pass on Tyrod...

Any highlights? I'm at work and can't listen

The sad thing is that Tyrod is a more mobile version of Foles, with whom they had a lot of success.

At least he stands behind Demarco Murray and all the money he sunk into him. Just as much as Shady!!!

Their front seven is legit, especially Cox, Curry and Barwin. They look about equal, except they haven't been crazily overpaid. Everything else is for the Bills. I'm expecting a high scoring game Sunday. Both teams have bad linebackers that mean that you can break big runs. The Eagles don't have a great secondary, but that's hard to exploit when Sammy is is your only real target. The Bills have struggled against certain *cough* notrightfullyblowndeadareyoukiddingmerefs *cough* high tempo plays, so that might be a problem.

And we don't? To be fair, most Philly fans are pissed about the Murray situation, but less so at him, though he has taken plenty of flack. They saw how effective he can be last year, and in previous years. But Murray is a bruiser who got run into the ground last year, operating out of a standard drop back, power I formation set. I remember hearing about how Shady was going to be a bad fit because of Roman's system, but Roman has adjusted pretty well and Shady looks like he might break 1000 yards. Chop kept doing the exact same thing with Murray that he did with Shady: direct handoff from the shotgun/pistol on an off tackle run or end around.

Excellent!!!

Well played.

I know they are. My friend who is a Ravens fan keeps asking if they can have him back.

Sadly, I have to agree. We know he can be a great player, but he really hasn't brought it this year. That's a hell of a lot of cap space and money we have tied up in him, and we're really not getting that much out this year, and we really could use the cap space.

Aww crap GIlmore is hurt?