Sammy Watkins' Rib

I’ve never understoood why the Watkins and EJ picks have to be connected in the eyes of so many fans. Franchise QB or not Watkins should have been a great player for us. He just happened to be a bust. Look at the great numbers Hopkins put up even before Watson arrived. He put those numbers up with bad QBs. Watkins should have been able to do the same but he just ended up being a bust for us.

I'm far from a McDermott supporters but comparing any team let alone the 2018 Buffalo Bills to the greatest dynasty team the league has ever seen seems a bit outlandish. I'd be more interested in how we compare to an average team over the last 17 years like say Washington or a team like that.

It starts with firing McDermott and hiring an offensive minded head coach. It's unfortunate for McDermott. He might be a decent or even good coach although the jury is still out on that. But it's pretty clear the way to develop a QB in today's NFL is with an offensive minded head coach. McDermott would be a good coach for a team like the Chargers, Steelers or Packers. A team that already has an established veteran QB. You have to highly question McDermott's ability to evaluate the QB position and develop a QB. McDermott has obviously evaluated Peterman to be good enough to spend a 5th round draft pick on, good enough to start twice including one of those starts being the season opener, and good enough to remain on the roster. All three of those decisions, draft him, start him and keep him on the roster appear to be highly questionable to say the least. How can McDermott make sure a QB develops properly if he doesn't even know what to look for in a capable QB? You also have to question his ability to develop or get a QB ready. Can he put the proper coaches and personnel around a young QB? So far the answer is no. He wasn't able to get Peterman ready despite thinking he was ready not once but twice. Allen has two really bad starts and one good start so far. It's absolutely not too soon to jump ship from McDermott. Unless Allen starts to improve a lot as the season progresses I think you have to jump ship from McDermott. The sooner Allen can get competent coaching and personnel around him the sooner he will have a chance to develop properly. The only other option I see is trying to do the exact opposite of what the Rams have done. That is instead of bringing in a great DC like Wade Phillips to have complete control of one side of the ball, bring in a great OC to have complete and unquestioned control of the offensive side of the ball. But who exactly that OC would be i have no idea. And on top of that most great OC's are going to want a head coaching gig not a lateral move to Buffalo. OP, this season is largely what it is at this point. Don't expect much improvement. The personnel on the o-line needs to be upgraded. We all knew that going into the season. Those upgrades won't happen until free agency. Same thing for the WRs. Two of the linebackers are very young and one is old as dirt. One DT is very young and one old as dirt. We need one dominant pass rusher. Might get that in the draft? Specifically for this year I'd like to see us commit the to run more even if we are down in the score or down and distance. This season is a throw away season but lets not get our QB killed or expect him to make unbelievable plays every time we have the ball. Last week had Allen throw three straight in-completions inside his five yard line in the first quarter. That was dumb.

I thought maybe a safety whiffed on tackling him last night.

Allen has the potential to be three QBs rolled into one. Carson Wentz- Near identical physical measurables Cam Newton- Physically gifted runner that can take a beating and is not afraid of a little contact. Patrick Mahomes- Elite arm strength

It's more likely than not that he will.

As my two year old daughter likes to say, they were "poo poo butt".

Allen was awesome. But Baker will win and honestly probably should. Baker had to come off the bench in making his debut and lead his team to victory trailing 14-0 i think?

Yeah i guess not. I always figured when you traded a player all the future costs of that player transfer to his new team. That would make sense to me.

Who have we off loaded besides Dareus? Everyone else was traded or retired I thought? That $54 million is all dareus?

Wow what a tool! Later than Allen, yeah by what 3 picks? Yet he wants to compare Cleveland and Buffalo where Mayfield was selected 6 picks before Allen.

I got to disagree here still. When was the last time we really had nobody good at the RB position? More often than not we had two capable backs. Not just one. You definitely do not need to overspend on the position. Money is better spent elsewhere for sure.

Von Miller Intercepts Tom Brady This was second down rather than third but still second and long. I don't think it is a bid deal to occasionally drop your rush linebackers or ends in coverage as it can fool the QB who is likely certain that player is rushing. But yeah it should be used wisely and sparingly. I don't know how many times Hughes has dropped into coverage this year but a few times would be fine. It just makes me shake my head. How can we be in cap trouble when we basically have no good players? Even taking into account the Dareus money we are still owe who the heck else is getting paid on this team? We overpaid a bunch of bad players? And I love McCoy but RBs really are a dime a dozen and we probably shouldn't be paying him what he is getting either. Worst team in the league and we have a terrible cap situation. Makes no sense.

Like McDermott leaving White on an island last year with Green to get burned for a 75 yard TD? Unless you are implying the safety help we have now is that we actually signed a couple of good safeties in Poyer and Hyde when McDermott came in. That I definitely agree with.

So we are giving up more points per pass attempt playing the regular nickel. We are also only giving up 6ppg since Vontae's early retirement.

I have to admit his inaccuracy issues are on another level. A couple of those throws left you with your jaw open wondering how he could miss so badly on what seems like a routine throw. I think I have seen some similar throws from Blake Bortles in the past and it looks like has perhaps developed into at least a decent QB so I do have some hope for Allen still. But man Jacksonville has had some serious patience with Bortles. Will we have the same with Allen? Especially if our defense is not on the same level as Jacksonville's?

These are almost exactly his numbers from the Chargers game. I'd say if he can reproduce those numbers again that would be pretty good. What I think we would all like to see is more accuracy on the short throws to the flat. Not place balls that force receivers to do a 180 degree adjustment to catch the ball. The most unrealistic thing here is the 49 attempts. Can't see it being over 40. Especially if the yardage isn't higher. We won't have the opportunity for that many plays unless we pretty much don't run at all.

Much better? Absolutely not? The sample sizes are different too. If you cherry pick specific games maybe you could make the case that Allen was slightly better in his game against the Chargers than Darnold was in his last start against the Browns. With three whole games under his belt Darnold has seen twice as much action as Allen. Who knows what Allen will look like this week on the road against Minnesota. I need to see Allen take less sacks. He's been sacked 8 times in 1.5 games. Darnold has been sacked 7 times in 3 complete games. Not all the sacks are on Allen because we do have a bad line but still he could have easily avoided a few by making better decisions. All that said, I absolutely don not want Darnold to succeed as a Jets so I am thrilled that he played poorly last night. Hope it continues. But overall his stats on the season are clearly better than Allen's so far.

I'm still hoping we see 300 yards, 3TDs, no INTs in Allen's debut start.

I'd honestly look to Sanchez and EJ. Is EJ still with the Raides? I assume he could be had very cheap in a trade if so.

Would Brees get more top 5 and top 3 love if he were 3" taller? The guy is going to end his career leading pretty much every major statistical QB category. And just as Brady intends to it seems he is going to play into his 40's.

Excellent post BigDingus. None of us should have any faith in McDermott's or even Beane's ability to evaluate the QB position. I know Beane did not draft Peterman but he could have cut him at any time since he arrived here or brought in a legitimate veteran that Peterman would not have started over at anytime. Making things even more problematic is that we took the QB that on paper needs to be coached up the most. These coaches likely would have been better off with a more pro ready prospect like Rosen. All we can do at this point is hope for the best for Allen.

Are you suggesting the rookie (Allen) will come in and make things look much better like Watson did? 1. 2017 Texans were a much better team all around then the 2018 Bills. 2. 2017 Watson was likely much more ready to play in the NFL then 2018 Allen.

He'll be sacked 5 times. With Bosa not even playing.

I'd love to see him in Green Bay. I say trade him after we play the Packers week 4. I know we won't get much but he deserves to go to a winner.