He needs to go in, he's not some china doll. He'll get hit and look bad...welcome to Buffalo. Deal with it. Do it again next week and so on...maybe in 3 years things will get better maybe not...either way...he's the QB.
The modern NFL is an entertainment product. NFL followers are owed some honest insight weekly from coaches and players...it's why they are required to do interviews. To say nothing may work for Bill in NE but he's earned that...the rest should give us something (and btw nobody is more entertaining while saying nothing than Bill...maybe Marshawn but Bill is def. #2). Hell, if they give us trash on the field at least give us some gold in the presser.
That they have. Did they follow up on that statement or just let that slide? We've lost of a lot of guys that could really help us...the most damaging weren't really decisions and were on the Oline but the WR group is suffering by choice...as is the Dline. LBs always sucked and I guess they did ok w/ the secondary (hard to tell w/ no rush but even there we are missing a #2 CB)...QB is worse but so it goes nobody holds that against them.
So is that the truth then? We just say "hey...it's ok we deliberately the WR group and Dline go from not good to trash....and the Oline deterioration wasn't our fault...and everybody was sick of Tyrod anyway and the LBs were always trash." That's basically where we are at. The "whatever" approach to roster building.
It's great that he made the playoffs but lets not think it was b/c of great coaching. We played pretty bad last year, got lucky in a few games, and barely lucked in to then play the worst playoff game in recent memory.
For the Bills, that kind of season is amazing I'll give you that. But it was really just a random fluke that happens to most teams every few years. Says nothing about his coaching ability.
McD has been blown out terribly several times already as a Bills coach, IDK why he would panic all the sudden. Losing by 30 points is SOP for us at this point.
San Fran, Cleveland, Tampa, Detroit, Green Bay, lots of places that could really use Shady.
Hey maybe we can trade Peterman to Green Bay now that Rogers knee is busted.
Sad it doesn't even sound that insane.
Anyway, yes, we should trade Shady for whatever we can get. He isn't part of what we're building (assuming we are building something) b/c he's too old to be useful so if we can get something and move him tomorrow I'm for it....also we can't block anyway so who cares just give it to Ivory and let him put his head down and grunt his way to 3 yards if he can.
Acquire the #1 pick and trade it for as much as we can possibly get then hit all those picks and use the cap that is freed up to nail several huge FAs. That is the only recipe for short term success.