BringBackOrton

Second is the new first, apparently. I'm glad you brought up a team helmed by a competent QB, thought. Gurley is averaging almost a full 5 more yards per catch than Shady. I wonder why that is?

Can we get worse than 32nd pass offense in a league of 32?

He doesn't. But Clay was still our #1 target last year. How times change...

Are there stats out there that show who our most targeted player is? Is it a WR? A TE? No. It's Shady. Leads the team in targets, and has the lower YPR on the team on players with >20 targets. Does that get us to 3rd and manageable when we start out 2nd and 15? No. It does not. Math is fun.

What's terrible is 23rd in yards lost per game from sacks. Well below average. As for the rest of the league, they have these people called QB's, who throw the ball to people called WR's who run routes that can, sometimes, overcome yardage lost from a sack. Our RB playing QB throws a 3 yard pass to Shady and prays he makes 3 guys miss. See the difference?

That's terrible. 1st and ten becoming 2nd and 15.67 is a drive killer in this offense.

Ha ha! We forced out the best coach in a decade with the #4 defense and replaced him with Rex !@#$ing Ryan and the problem is the talent? Good god.

Keenum is a combination of heat and massive inexplicable improvement. But make no mistake, he has lots of 50-50 plays that have gone in his favor. He will regress. The question is how much?

But what is their percentages of yards and first downs?

Some folks are really arguing that Taylor is better than Keenum in 2017? wowzer.

Why does this weirdo stat matter again?

He plays a punishing style that wears down base nickel sets. Unlike a scat back. He goes up the middle. Sup babe.

Woods has his best YPC since 2013. let me guess, "something something something something, not the QB."

What? No. He made the playoffs 4 seasons ago.

They didn't need to. Almost all of them made the playoffs in FAR less time than 17 years.

Alex Smith is a franchise QB. How many of those QB's have missed the playoffs 17 years straight? I'll hang up and listen.

Fame wacks people out. Look at Kevin Durant. Best player on the planet, hundreds of millions, making fake twitter accounts to defend himself.

If you think Taylor's floor is synonymous with "sustainable success," well.... You keep Romo or Cousins or Smith to sustain success when drafting a guy. Not Halfrod.

And neither of those situations are superseded by beng worried about not having an upgrade. That's my point.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/12/27/frank-gore-wants-to-play-again-as-long-as-he-has-help/ Franky wants a team with a QB and OL. We have .25/2 there, but we could be that team. A RBBC with McCoy and Gore would be pretty deadly.

Sad. Sad.

This is wrong, you're just being disingenuous and/or you don't understand. Not letting TT go because you're afraid your next QB may not be an upgrade is the exact same thing as not letting McCown go because you're afraid your next QB may not be an upgrade. Guess what? McCown was let go. Sorry. Thanks for playing.

If there's a clear #1 prospect, and we go get him, what is there to complain about? Are we supposed to pretend the Bills should have known #4 was going to be the best?

What I'M saying is that "we shouldn't get rid of our QB until we have an upgrade," is not how it's done in the NFL. It's just not. QB's who aren't good enough are ALL expendable.

Oh, so the Bradford trade is a "deal they couldn't refuse" but cutting TT and using his money for a starting high quality OL isn't? Sounds like you're picking and choosing what's justifiable. Rams jettisoned Keenum the next offseason, where Goff had not proven to be superior. Seahawks lost Hasselbeck in the offseason before 2011, 1 year before they drafted Wilson. Ya'll would have said "Pay Hasselbeck just in case we don't find a QB who is better!!!!" They got the ring. Raiders had Pryor play in 11 games in 2013. They let go of him before they drafted Carr. Shouldn't scaredy cat Bills logic say they should've hung on to him just in case Carr wasn't an upgrade? Bucs had McCown start 11 games in 2014, then launched him in the same offseason they got Winston. Shouldn't they have hung onto him just in case Winston was "the next Jamarcus Russell?" Titans, I forgot that Metteberger was there in 15. Fair enough. So what REALLY matters is how good the QB you draft is. Exactly. Worrying we're gonna take a step back from Taylor is like worrying our first round pick will bust. It's a risk you have to take. You take your shot, or you never get there.