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I would have taken Reuben Foster at 10. I would have died if we got him plus an extra first and a 3rd. You select athletes in the first, not really needs. I don't particularly like it.

Taylor keeps us competitive. if we go 9-7, 10-6 next season, get to wild card or just miss wild card, we are competitive for top end-free agents to come here as the one last "hurrah" to get us over the hump. Hopefully one of the two QBs we drafted will be ready to take the reins by that time.

Why is Pittsburgh making Chris Hogan look like Julio Jones?

I think simply saying, "the players like him" is a bit misleading. I don't think any player is going to badmouth a coach they currently play for or has a potential at becoming their head coach. Take Rex Ryan as an example. When he was our coach, every player said, "We're all in", and, "I think we can win with him". Now that he's gone, you hear a lot of, "The system was too difficult", and, "We need a coach that demands discipline." In other words, I don't think any of us know whether or not the players actually like Anthony Lynn until he's gone and then are asked. I'm not saying he should or should not be our coach, I would just like more objective evidence than, "the players like him" or, "he is respected". Of course he is. He is the current head coach.

Tate must have heard Cardale was coming in, so he said, "We have a chance! Let's get him some good field position."

This just in, if you score 25 points 3 games in a row, and you end up 0-3, the problem most likely isn't your offense, and especially not your QB.

This actually makes a lot of sense. Rex's defensive backs revolve around communication and you can hardly understand a word that comes out of Leo's mouth.

Am I the only one that would give this season up if it meant we went back to Gym Shorts and the wide-9 next season?

Please stop blaming carpenter. Tyrod lost a fumble and McCoy lost a fumble that would have resulted in points.

To be fair, I would rather that set of downs than Tyrod trying to make something happen, getting himself hurt, forcing a turnover. We are winning, their offense can't get anything going, take the points and get off the field. I would have liked to see another 6 on the board with the rest of you, but don't make mistakes, 3 turnovers vs 0 turnovers, if he forces something there and turns the ball over, the momentum starts to go in the other direction.

I voted for the latter. If somehow we don't get into the playoffs with EJ ready to lead the team for the next 5-10 years, there's no way they're going to keep us out for much longer. With still no option at QB and us getting in, #1 we don't go very far and #2 we begin to lose good players to contracts next season.

I think I would still like to see us go for Mark Sanchez. I think this ensures we don't make any rash decisions or end up getting into a bidding war with another team and over-pay. If no Sanchez, we are still happy and can get a quality OT/OG and a TE in FA.

I think the most important thing a 9 or 10 win season does for this football team is makes Buffalo more enticing to bring in quality free agents. Not going to the playoffs for the past 15 seasons (if we miss out this year) has really hampered Buffalo's ability to bring in quality free agents (remember the whole week we were biting out fingers over Mario Williams?). If a couple great offensive lineman or possibly a QB, TE, etc. are in FA next year, would they want to be a part of the Buffalo Bills? Could they be the missing puzzle pieces to a potentially playoff bound team with a stout defense / ST only missing links being on offense? ESPECIALLY because we don't have a first round pick next year - If this thing turns around I think Marrone deserves at least that much credit. He has made Buffalo relevant again (along with Jim Schwartz but Marrone has known he lacks defensive knowledge and went out and brought in two people with credentials [see Pettine, Schwartz]). I still feel Hackett needs to be shown the door though. Okay, this has went from a thread about making Buffalo relevant to possible FA to complaining about our offense. Sorry I thought this deserved it's own thread, I wanted to hear what you guys thought as well.

I don't think it has been said on here 10,000 times so I"m going to make it 10,000. If we don't pay Hughes a lot of money, somebody else will pay Hughes a lot of money.

A bit off topic and too late for anyone to know / care but I go to the University of Cincinnati and watched Travis Kelce play every game. I was completely hoping we would have filled our tight end void with him. I knew coming out of college he was going to be something special. That being said, I would try to mix up coverages on them. You can't have somebody short on them such as Nickell Robey or Duke. Ideally you could have Kiko out there which we know isn't a possibility. Aaron Williams would probably be your best bet since he came out as a true coverage corner and is now a safety. So you either play a lot of nickel and dime packages and have Graham or Williams on him or in your base defense try to put a linebacker on him that can cover. Which we don't have at the moment as far as I'm concerned. We all know Spikes' situation. Bradham is normally the Sam and not very well known for his coverage skills and Preston can cover backs but I don't really think he is up for the task of a tall, athletic tight end such as Gronk or Kelce. We all saw what happens when we put McKelvin on Gronk and we all know what happens when we play zone and don't pressure the quarterback. The tall tight ends will find the empty spaces and good quarterbacks like Brady will find them every time. So that would be my strategy in a nutshell. My nickel corner or 4th corner in dime would man cover him, and depending on how many receivers they have in the formation I might have my free safety shadow them over the top as well. We had Brady throw a few picks in the past doing that. I remember a George Wilson pick of Brady throwing to Gronk in the endzone by shadowing the TE having man coverage. As far as KC specifically, none of their wide receivers scare me. We need to cover up Kelce more than anything. and Jamal Charles coming out of the backfield is a matchup nightmare too by the way.

Our two scoring drives have been on big passing plays. Yet 80% of our play calls are runs. The announcers have said Buffalo can take adv of Jets secondary but we're not. This is unacceptable. Hackett needs to be fired Monday.

run run pass run run pass. Murph wanted to know why callers were calling for Hackett to be fired..

Jets have the ball at the 10, interception, 3 & out, now they have it at the 20. Unbelievable

What offensive line is starting? It's not ours is it?

This all being said - what kind of mind lapse do you need to go through to give somebody 30 yards on a 3rd and 18? The guy caught the ball for a gain of what? 19? and Gilmore was 10 yards away. On 3rd and 18....

I probably did see at least 3 instances where Brady was under pressure and just lofted the ball 30-40 yards down-field, 10-15 yards out of bounds. I thought this could have been intentional grounding. Is it excused when you are throwing the ball 40 yards down-field instead of 10? But I suppose you could consider some of EJs deep balls intentional grounding even though he's legitimately trying to get it to a receiver.

Who is going to fall for the play action when you are down by 16? Get a new OC wow

The PI looked a lot like what happened to Woods the last play of the Texans game. Texans DB was over the top is the only difference but good coverage, constant contact, one was called and one wasn't. I thought the NFL was looking at being more consistent?

Is it bad I know where the ball is going because of how far off our DBs are playing?

Is there any way to get your account upgraded? Whenever people post pictures it says "You don't have permission to view that" or whatever =( I've been a member and poster for quite some time and didn't know if I could get a promotion =D