Fadingpain

If a tree falls in the forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a WR is loaded with talent and has no holes in his game, but is frequently unable to perform because he is injured and misses lots of game time, is he an elite weapon? You can have the fastest/best race car in the field. If its engine blows every race on the 3rd lap, it is worthless.

Meh...without a QB to deliver the ball, WR discussion on this team is just a bunch of blah blah blah. Further, this team is not designed to win this season, obviously, and this organization told Tyrod loudly and clearly last year "WE DON'T WANT YOU." The fact that he is here at all is purely a function of lack of interest in Tyrod. We're moving on to a QB who can deliver the ball. When we have one, we can discuss who the WRs should be. There's plenty of WR talent out there.

Can't believe Woods isn't hurt after that hit

Incomplete pass, Goff to Kupp.

Heck of a play by #15; I forgot about this one! The NFL...where everyone has speed.

There's Sammy

Wow, candlestick point is paved flat. Lot of memories in that stadium and now it's just a field of dirt.

Goff sounds like an ailment of some sort, maybe a disease affecting the respiratory system. "Bob couldn't stop coughing for 2 weeks. He had a bad case of the goff and just couldn't shake it."

OH please! Come on! The Rams easily have at least 7 fans, maybe 8!

Wow, heck of a punt.

Both of these uniforms are horrible.

Pretty entertaining game actually. Nickell Robey having a great game...Woods made a nice catch.... Sometimes I think the Rams have better Bills than the Bills.

That goes in the Blue Oyster Cult thread.

So, lots of heat, dehydration, and alcohol being combined on Sunday in large quantities. What could go wrong?

Yes, boxing is most certainly a fringe sport, even if 3 or 4 guys in the world, at any point in time, make enormous money. That's just a function of the economics of the sport, not it's overall popularity or widespread appeal.

You silly fool! Didn't you hear our offensive coordinator? Tyrod kept us in the game against Carolina! He's doing a great job! I mean, he didn't score any points or actually win the game, but he's still really good!

Certainly possible. Then again, boxing is more violent than football and it continues, albeit as a fringe sport. One thing is for sure: if the NFL ever morphs into a "safe" sport devoid of violence and hitting, its popularity will greatly wane.

The whole thing about Sammy believing the Earth is flat is hilarious. This idiot should stick to running around and catching balls.

And Tyrod doesn't have the ability to nickel and dime teams to death with a quick, timing, slashing, slant type offense were we move straight down the field 6 and 7 yards at a time.

God knows that in my life of being a Bills fan, there's been a lot of heartache and pain. Sometimes I don't know if I can face it again. But I've travelled so far, I don't think I can stop it now! I just want to know what relevancy is. I want the Bills to show me. I want to feel what relevancy is. I know this team can show me!

Get the good QB first and let him get some experience, then we can talk audibles!

Not only is he cold as ice, he's willing to sacrifice our love....which is beyond outrageous.

You aren't going to be effective with 1 hand tied behind your back. Look at our offense in that game! It wasn't effective. Good defensive coordinators are going to see Tyrod's limited skill set and quickly figure out his tendencies. You then scheme to directly address those tendencies and gamble that you aren't going to get burned by not defending his weaknesses. You end up (if you are the Bills coaching staff) simply asking Tyrod to "play it safe" and "don't lose the game for us." When he avoids 3 turnovers on 3 successive possessions and a pick 6, he is going what you ask of him, despite not generating any offense or scoring points The next thing you know, the OC is saying "Tyrod kept us in the game" after the game! It's the world we are stuck in for now and why I'd love to see a QB change, as that likely only sets us up for an ever higher draft pick. So we can get a QB good enough to catapult us to a higher level than what Tyrod is capable of. That is to say, he is incapable of doing it. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, to name 2, have made a career out of that skill.

I would define "BAD" in this context as meaning "not smart enough to effectively call audibles." Who watched HBO's "HARD KNOCKS" this year? There was a scene in one of the episodes where Jameis Winston was in a hotel room at training camp, at night, with a couple other players who I guess were rookies. They were almost fake lining up in the hotel room like they were going to run a play. Winston was basically explaining the Xs and Os of football to one of the other guys, asking him (as I recall) who the Mike is on the play, what that means, and what you should do as a result, or something like that. You could just see in the face of the other player that this was all over his head, he is rather dumb by nature, and he was not really grasping what Winston was trying to teach him. The NFL is likely full of guys who don't really understand football, despite playing it professionally and being blessed with huge athletic talent and temples of human bodies. When this happens at the QB position, you don't have a very good QB in today's game.

I would suggest the coaching staffs (even the inept ones) know more about football than most of us here. If they are "ordering" Tyrod or his predecessors to avoid audibles, it is likely due to one reason: they don't feel the QB is capable of reading a defense, and calling a new play to move out of a D's strength and into their weakness. A few years ago, Tom Brady was commenting on a given play and he said he hated it b/c it was a wasted play. He said he never wastes plays. What he meant was that if you are a good QB and know what you are doing, you should know what play has been called, know how the D is set up, and know that play will be "wasted" or ineffective if run, b/c the D happens to have the right defense in place for that play. So Tom changes out of those mistakes before they happen. Repeat the process many times over the course of a game and season and you have a very successful offense. So 1 reason why NE is so good, according to Brady, is they don't waste plays. I would assume Tyrod and the Bills waste plays on every possession of every game.