Perry Turtle

I don't think he's saying that. Instead of considering Taylor, consider that Mitch Trubisky was drafted before Deshaun Watson. From a football perspective, that makes absolutely no sense. Watson was the better college player and had the vastly better college career. But there were whispers before the draft that Watson was inaccurate, that he was a product of a system, that he couldn't complete NFL throws. So the Bears selected a QB in the draft who started 12 games on a middling program over a guy who ripped apart Alabama in the National Championship game. Maybe the Bears had legit reasons for making the choice of Trubisky over Watson (like straight-up incompetence), but to those who play the game, this decision is baffling. Was race a factor? Who knows, but from the perspective of a black QB, you have to wonder what more Deshaun Watson had to do to prove to the Bears that he was a better choice than Trubisky. I think that's what Taylor's quote was driving at. That there seems to sometimes be an extra hurdle that black QBs have to clear to earn their place in the NFL. Was that hurdle there for Taylor? Probably not, he is a QB with limited skills. Was that hurdle there for Watson? Eh, I don't know, but Trubisky over Watson is an extremely difficult football argument to make.

What else does Brady do? He's got a beautiful wife and family, sure, but you don't hear him get all Kyle-Williams-like claiming he wants to spend more time watching his kids grow up. His wife is busy with her own career, so you don't hear her saying she wants him around more. He has no other known hobbies, hell he probably doesn't even pick out his own clothes. He's as dull as rocks (quick, tell your favorite Tom Brady non-football related story -- too late, there are none). He'll keep playing until defenses finally realize that they need to blanket his receivers off the line, and force him to use his aging arm to get the ball further down the field. So, in other words, he's never going to retire.

Seen this story too many times. A-holes beating up morons. The Patriots, a team with absolutely no personality playing teams with no clue how to stop a middle aged WR (who looks like he smokes at halftime and lives under a bridge) from taking an inside release. Tom Brady we all know loves football and has a beautiful family and a creepy life coach and eats a meow-mix diet, but that's all we know because he's said nothing remotely interesting ever during his illustrious football career. And Bill Belichick, can't wait for his HOF acceptance speach. It should run about 35 seconds and be as inspirational as a McDonalds manager pre-shift pep talk ('ok kids, let's do your job today!') And the Rams, with all their young players and innovative coaches are going to just get chewed up. Wade Phillips isn't going to listen to Tony Romo, who called every one of NE's plays on the game winning drive. No, like every other DC NE has faced, Wade is going to come up with some type of free-style zone defense that will let tiny little white receivers run with abandon across the middle of the field, like fleas on a fat dog's belly. And at some point, the Rams will stop the Patriots on offense, and you'll let yourself believe that maybe the fun and chaos are finally coming back to the game. That players with skill AND personality will make the game interesting again. That you can watch a game between two non-Bills teams and not feel the need to commit hari-kari if the wrong team wins. But, no, FLAG. Refs call Suh for roughing-the-Brady and Eddleman catches yet another middle seam pass for another TD. So I'm watching for sure, but more for scientific reasons. I want to be there to see the NFL finally, permenently calicfy into the No Fun League. Oh, and cheese dip. The SB cheese dip is also good.

Are you implying that Drew Brees would want Sean Payton replaced by a defensive-minded coach? Because I seriously doubt that would be true. The offensive-minded coach trend is heavily influenced by the rule changes over the last decade that have favored the passing game. Teams realize that offensive-minded coaches are better able to take advantage of those changes than defensive-minded coaches.

The whole UCF argument is about the power 5 conferences trying keep their grip on the obscene amount of money college football generates. UCF had a better claim to a seat at the playoff table last season when they kicked Auburn's ass in the Sugar Bowl after Auburn throttled Alabama (I know, I know, SEC hacks, Auburn wasn't trying it hardest). Memphis and USF also had better seasons last year. UCF also had it's starting QB all season. This season, Milton's injury hurts their Bowl chances, but ragging on UCFs schedule is pretty ridiculous when Alabama scheduled Citadel the week before Auburn this year. College football needs to expand its playoffs to 16 teams. The Bowl season has become a joke and needs to have some games with some meaning injected into the schedule. Teams like UCF who built a solid program deserve to be able to compete for the rewards of exposure. Or maybe people are happy with watching some combination of Alabama/ Clemson/ Notre Dame/ Georgia/ Oklahoma/ Ohio State play in the playoffs every year, augmented by abominations like the Cheez It bowl.

That's fine for WR, as long as the position is improved. However, if Beane is not a player in FA this year, after gutting the roster for two years to reclaim cap space, fans should rightly be ticked off. The Beane/McDermott narrative has been that the dead cap space has restricted the team from being fully competitive the last two seasons. If the story now changes to there is no one worth signing, despite $90 million in cap space, well that would highlight some pretty horrible planning on the part of the front office.

Yeah, and Rex had the same type of strategy on defense and it was a freakin disaster. They can either waste time trying to force their franchise QB to be something he's not, or they can build an offense around his strengths. Who would rather pair Allen with, OBJ or Julian Edelman? OBJ is a much better fit than Edelman for Allen's strengths. If Beane wanted a WR corps of #2s and #3s, he should have drafted Josh Rosen. I'm glad they drafted Allen. I like him much better than Rosen, but he's not a 3 step drop QB. He's more like Ben Roethlisberger than Tom Brady, and the Steelers are always looking for high-end WRs.

If Beane's plan is to trade away draft picks for middle-of-the road talent, I say that Pegula should just fire him now. The $90 million in cap space has gotten so much play this year that if it were a person, it would be the fans second-favorite player (Josh Allen first, $90 million cap space second). Beane gutted so much talent from the roster to create that space that he better use it to build a winning team, instead of relying on Kelvin-Benjamin-type trades. Take away the names, and the fact is that Beane traded a 3rd and 4th pick overall, creating dead money and holes in the roster that contributed to the team's shortcomings the last two season. This year there better be a payoff for those moves, and they need to be better than a Trent Murphy level FA signing.

Josh Allen isn't a rhythm passer or a West Coast QB. His strength is throwing downfield. The Bills should be building a power run/vertical shot offense. They shouldn't be trying to build a NE type offense. To do that, they need talented WRs who have speed and size. Those types of players are usually classified as #1 WRs.

Hopefully they extend him and Buffalo's QB situation will be better than it has been in almost 25 years.

If he's hurt he should be on IR and a functional kicker should have been signed to finish out the year.

The problem isn't choosing to go for it on 4th. The problem is choosing a play where the fullback is split out wide causing an empty set. That is basically playing 10 men against 11 on 4th and short, since the Lions know there is no chance the ball is going out wide. Line the full back behind the QB, and the Lions have to ar least account for him on a fake.

The defense has fallen apart the last 3 games.

That treating coaches as unquestionable geniuses is ridiculous. The NFL coaching fraternity is comprised of 31 idiots and 1 idiot savant.

And yet 1/3 of those professionals are fired from their coaching positions every year. Wonder why that is?

More than okay with the way that Allen played, especially as a rookie QB. The problems with the Oline, RB, TE, and WR positions are all well-known, and hopefully will be addressed in the off-season. This loss, however, is not acceptable due to the way the defense played. This is the second week in a row, the defense has given up the go-ahead TD in the 2nd half against beatable opponents. Their play in the red zone all season has been terrible. And unlike the offense, the team has invested heavily in the defense. McDemott and Frazier have to prove that they are able to shut teams down late in the game, especially when those teams have rookie QBs. As for the draft, this isn't the NBA or NHL. Good players will be available throughout the first round. I'd rather gain the confidence that the team is being coached by better-than-mediocre coaches than gain a couple of spots in the draft.

That was a questionable decision. Punting would have been a better decision. Going for it on 4th down would have been the best decision.

No doubt the Bills needed to blitz more, but where was McDermott in this game? Two weeks in a row the defense has given up a game-winning TD in the 4th quarter. The team has invested heavily in the defense the last two seasons. They have a DC with a ton of NFL experience, and they have a defensive-minded head coach. But they can't protect a lead against a rookie QB at home? We all know that the Bills do not have an NFL caliber O-line, and that their RBs all have AARP cards, and that the WRs can't separate or catch, but the defense should be able to be the difference in a close game.

Between the scramble and pass, Allen covered around 100 yards of field on that play. And they were all necessary as the receivers all seemed to be running hail-Mary routes to the right side of the end zone. It's difficult to call this a horrible pass, and Allen did throw some horrible passes in this game, when 95% of QBs are not able to make that play.

Looks like somebody got him from behind the grassy knoll.

I don't know, that pass went 40 yards from the left numbers to the right numbers, after a necessary 40 yard scramble, thrown away from his body. It hit the hands of the receiver. Considering all that, I have a hard time calling that pass, which most NFL QBs couldn't come close to completing, a bad pass. The real question should be, with the Bills needing 11 yards for a first down, and more than enough time on the clock, why was a play called where all the receivers ended up in the end zone? Daboll called a hail mary when he didn't need to.

More like throwing away a couple of plays on runs that went nowhere at the start of the drive. A couple of medium gains on pass plays could have at least set them up in better FG position at the end of the half.

He's the 3rd string QB. The 3rd string QB is almost never active on gameday.

It's pretty standard to try to get in field goal position with a minute left in the half when your starting beyond your own 25 yardline. The Bills weren't backed up on near go line. Most teams would try a few chunk plays to get 40 yards or so to get into range. On the broadcast, Lofton was talking about sitting on the ball because it was too far to go for the TD. Couldn't figure out why he was ignoring the FG, especially since the Bill's were getting the ball first in the 2nd half.

Bills on the money line paid 3 to 2 today in Vegas. Betting them on the money line against the Dolphins might be the play next week.