Bleeding Bills Blue

The talent gap is enormous between them and other teams. Their QB play is worst in the league. They are vying for #1 pick next year, and are adding as many young pieces as they can. More picks means more chances to hit big.

If they like JImmy G - its just one more piece of ammo they can use to get him (the pick... not Brock)

Yeah - my thoughts exactly. Gotta hit the floor, and you don't really have anyone at the position anyway. Add some solid playmakers in the draft this year - keep the team really green and really cheap. Do it sabres style - guy plays well and sprains his ankle... put him on IR. Draft your QB in 2018 and attack 2018 free agency.

They have the cap space to legit cut him today if they wanted to as well. But it seems theyre striving towards top pick in 2018 - so why not just start him and see what happens?

Can't keep them all - i don't blame them. Woods got above market value with 8 AAV and 15 guaranteed. Clearly Aaron had no interest in retiring so.... we had to make that choice. And gilmore's deal wouldve handcuffed our ability to replace both of the other guys. Sucks... but its probably necessary tbh.

3 200 yard rushers. Torched by pretty much every decent qb we faced all year. I saw Carolina struggle badly out of the gate, but they seemed to improve. We were consistently bad all year

I personally find dvoa to be a bit more of an accurate representation of a teams defensive stats. We shut out injured jacoby brissett and buried the vaunted 49ers and rams...

Well with Boyer and Glennon signed... that left us with what? Kaep and cutler? Maybe geno? Gross.

Well it's fairly clear we want to run the ball, I think we will end up passing more than we did a year ago. Zone rushing concepts set up a lot of play action, and I wouldn't be surprised to see McCoy and gillislee involved a bit in the passing game as well.

Lot of open spots... we were going to sign people. It's inevitable

We werent going to be worse than SF, CLE, and NYJ anyway. Those 3 are all seeming to head down the tank for rosen/darnold.

yeah - sometimes leaks are on purpose. Or to help drive up the price for other teams.

We can't win the division anyway over that time frame - so keep trying to find the guy. If the coaching staff believes they can win with him, then keep him. If you believe he can improve, then keep him. I think it would hurt more to see him succeed elsewhere than it would for him to fail here. Our fanbase is used to failure at this point. However much money we pay him does not prohibit the team from continuing to search for a QB, nor does it prohibit us from drafting someone in the first this year or next. We also drafted a project QB who could benefit from valuable reps that he won't get as a scout team QB. If you care to see whether Cardale's abilities can transition into an NFL offense, you have to give him more reps and responsibility. I know the anti-Tyrod people hate this perspective, but to me its the unfortunate truth. We cannot win the division, and we aren't currently positioned to bottom out (bad contracts can't be terminated yet). Why not try to make the playoffs the next couple of years with the guys you got, and give this team and it's fans a small win with a playoff game (even if it will 100% be an away game). This is my take and trying to make it as realistic a take as possible. I'm sick of stupid Russ Brandon "splashes", and trying to sell tickets. Just get the best team together that you can and try and win. I don't need stat or height comparison's to make this judgement. It just seems like the locker room is behind the guy, and McDermott seems to have a good head on his shoulders. This probably gives him the best chance to burst that playoff bubble (as soon as possible) that has been hanging over our collective heads for the last 17 years.

Or better yet - marios...

Who cares... we could have rivers or brees and we're still not winning this division. Sorry.

I wouldn't cut McCoy as the cap savings aren't that great. You can split it over 2 years, but you're just compounding your cap issue by creating a hole where we didn't have one. I'd consider trading him though, as you can actually get an asset for him. Our leading receiver was clay - who i thought had a lousy year (drops, and low targets).

Put me down as thinking we should keep Tyrod. Our success for the next couple of years is going to be measured in making the playoffs, and adding impact players in the draft. If you think you can acquire an impact QB - go for it. But we aren't winning the division for the next 5 years - and bottoming out is just going to cause us to fire everyone. Do I think he's a franchise QB? No. But looking at it realistically - we should be trying to manage the cap better, and add good talented players on both sides of the ball for the post-brady era. Try to find QBs however you can, but if there's a player who you think could be a pro-bowler at 10 vs. a project QB, I'd probably go with the projected pro-bowler at this stage. We have like 3 or 4 years to find a QB before it really matters.

What about Cleveland, San Fran and the NYJ? They are all likely going to be really bad

Id like to see him retire with the team - but he's a good dude. I'd also like to see him play in a playoff game while he's still good. We could use the space to add another lineman, and maybe an affordable pass rusher. We have a ton of money invested in interior line, and very little depth at end/pass rusher.

I thought the snaps under center vs. shotgun was a bit telling on our overall strategy.

Tough to see this early on - but i love mocks and the lead up to the draft. The combine will bump some folks up - but i always say the film doesn't lie. That's why Raglands like... 40 speed wasn't as important to me. I know he can play. Too often I think guys spend a ton of time training for the combine - and 40 speed without pads just doesn't translate to NFL speed. The split second differences mean nothing to me personally. It'd alarm me if someone did like exceptionally poor, as that seems like laziness.

Good fit - they have Osweiler to start... once he inevitably fails, you have mahomes to plug in. I could see Chad kelly earlier than expected to Houston in a similar situation. They need to push Osweiler to be better - because he held the team back as much as Hoyer and Fitz did before. If not more.

I felt like Whaley was not prepared, and the only preparation was to basically not give answers.

I don't think that the new coach was brought in to tank for the 3rd best QB in the 2018 draft. I think he was likely brought in to bring some accountability and discipline to a team that lacked it, as well as win some football games. As that is most likely his goal - he's going to start the best player they can get at EVERY position including QB. If the new staff believes that Tyrod is the best QB they can get, he will be the guy for the next 2 years. If we draft someone next year and want to start him - we can trade Tyrod. The cap hit will be tough, but at least you get something back for the money spent. In year 3, his trade value is actually really high, as his base salaries are low for 3 years.

I prefer to trade down... ur not gonna find a gen in the 6th or 7th if u legit never have any picks there. Not to mention your misses are magnified that much more, and ur roster becomes expensive to maintain against the cap. Rookies are cheap.