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Both are tough to replace. Yes they've both been subpar so far due to injuries but defenses still have to account for them in ways you don't with their replacements. I actually think McCoy is the bigger loss if only because they have to completely alter coverage schemes to account for the damage he can do underneath, while Sammy's work largely downfield this year is easier to account for.

Wrong, few if any outside of Rodak thought the Bills losing out on McCown doomed them. Many thought their QB situation was a mess but few were dumb enough to think McCown would be an improvement.

I bet he wants this headline back more: http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/162642/bills-must-turn-to-backup-plan-after-losing-josh-mccown-race The conclusion is his real journalistic gem: "Bills aren't going to find a quality starter at quarterback before next offseason, at the earliest."

Proof of how much Rodak hates Buffalo pours from the very prose / structure of his writing. When negatively commenting on the team he heavily editorializes, use facts to set up pointed conclusions that often don't 100% track. When he has to write anything positive (like after the Miami game), he is 100% factual, quotes coaches etc, but rarely if ever offers any endorsement of their positive statements. It's subtle but apparent.

So after two weeks Tyrod has a QB rating of 109, is the 8th ranked QB in the NFL and put up 32 points against the Pats. PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, before the year started would anyone have said they'd be calling Tyrod out for looking this solid to good overall?

I for one think it's hilarious if Dixon did this. If only because it seems to have sent so many people into panic mode. Two games into the year the Bills are 1-1 having even shown some flashes of brilliance against the best team in the NFL. Tyrod looks more than just serviceable overall and the defense while AWFUL last game has earned the benefit of the doubt with their play the last couple of years. The team came out over jazzed but hitting panic or condemning the entire team culture after 2 games seems like a monumental overreaction.

People may lose it over this, but it shows that Fred wasn't let go to keep Bryce, he was let go to keep McCoy, Karlos Williams and Dixon. To me that's an easier pill to swallow as the first two should be obvious keepers ahead of Fred and Dixon provides good special teams value (which is what many of the cooler heads - not me- speculated all along.) Bryce it would seem, was merely kept for week one when the team was thin at RB and was the first on the chopping block to accommodate Dareus.

Wow....that sucks. Sincerely hope the guy finds the peace he was looking for in the next world after failing to find it in this one.

While he certainly has some drawbacks (dumb penalties, breaking contain at times, etc) it is tough to spot a more explosive player on almost any team in the NFL. Everyone points to the Cleveland game where he basically set the tone for the entire defense on a single amazing play, but game in and game out he is such a big play magnet. I agree he is a product of the group he plays with, but he plays flat out in a way that few can match and takes FULL advantage of the amazing people around him. A lot of other players merely exist and collect junk sacks etc. Hughes is a playmaker, in a way that reminds me of Bryce Paup. Might not be a world beater on his own, but an absolute terror in the right circumstance. Let's just hope Hughes stays healthier.

Pats over Pittsburgh. Pats are a virtual lock to win an opener as defending SB champs and Pitt's D is AWFUL. You can NEVER trust the Pack in Chicago....they should kill them, but it's a rivalry. If you didn't want to take the Pats, because money might not be a good enough reason to ever cheer for them, I'd go with Fins over Skins cause the Fins are just an awful matchup for the Skins for all the reasons you outlined.

If so this is an awful disguise. Kyle should have at least put on a fake mustache.

So FredEx makes sense for a team that's stacked with a lot of young talent and has been to the SB the last two years, but he's not good enough for the Bills? Yeah that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence when it comes to the Bills decision making process.

Because the Bills already planned to make most fans happy by naming Tyrod the starter, they needed to so something to balance it out.

CUT Cassel and take that savings, plus the savings from cutting FredEx and add it to the pile of money they need to give Dareus.

Likely not as I think Store 716 got a cease and desist for using it....unless they immediately stopped selling the popular shirt and removed all reference for some other reason.

Alright Bills, way to sucker me back in. The FredEx cut hurt, but this makes it all ok. T-Mobile has the highest ceiling by far and may be the only Bills QB who could win in the playoffs.

PATS.

PRAY the Bills aren't banking on Cassel to fill this void. If he starts the season is OVER.

I get it, but this stinks. If they couple this move with starting Cassel it will prove there remains no hope for making the Playoffs this year. Watch New England pick up Freddy.

Everyone knows when the cop wrote down that Dareus was "speeding," he meant that he was fat. That was what he was referring to, he was going to write "deflator" for fat but instead chose to write "speeding."

A popular topic here in Skins country is drafting Marriota, and then having to ditch RG3. Gruden clearly wants RG3 gone, and RG3 doesn't seem too excited with anything in Landover these days so this feels like more than mere draft smokescreen or rumor. Under this scenario it would seem they'd likely be moving RG3 on the relative cheap....like a 2nd rounder in the 2015 draft. Bills would have to do that right? At worst isn't he immediately the best QB in Buffalo and way better than anything the Bills could hope to draft the next two years?

Zero shock...called this the day he was cut (as a lot of people did I assume). Chandler is an upgrade at TE2 for them (he's also better than any TE the Bills currently have). With his frame he' always open and Brady will of course do a better job of getting him the ball in the redzone. Wouldn't be shocked to see Chandler put a couple TDs on the Bills this year...so long as he gets the ball in the endzone, because lord knows he's not going to run too far after catching anything.

Chandler will be a Patriot I'm betting.

Suh v Incognito...we get to see the two scummiest cheap shot artists in the NFL try to kill each other twice a year.

Favorite post of many great ones today.