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What QB's, teams have the Bills beaten this year so far? The 4-6 Arizona Cardinals The 9-2 Patriots with an injured 3rd string rookie QB starting who was forced to start because they had no other healthy QB and he went on IR right after that week's game. Ooooh, the Bills beat an injured Jacoby Brissett. (1-1) The 4-7 LA Rams The 1-10 San Francisco 49ers The 3-7-1 Cincinnati Bengals The 2-9 Jacksonville Jaguars This is like a QB padding his stats in garbage time in six games. The team also lost two division games that they never should have lost to the NY Jets and Miami Dolphins if the defense didn't fold like deck chairs on the Titanic. This year's Bills team lost to the 3-8 NY Jets and allowed 493 yards of offense to those scrubs and worst of all Fitz threw for 374 yards WITH Aaron Williams in the lineup. Then the Miami Dolphins had a rusher run for 214 yards as the Dolphins rushed for 256 yards and 2 TD's and that Bills defense allowed 454 yards of offense to those smelly fish. The Bills lines were manhandled in this game. Lies, damned lies, and statistics... Yes, the Bills are currently the #2 team in the league in sacks and yet that somehow doesn't correlate to QB pressures / hurries because they are currently 15th in defensive hurries. Then, as bad as they look against the pass the stats say they are 8th in the NFL and as good as they look against the run the stats say they are 21st.

And of course, nobody actually reads the article and yet makes comments on everything being Taylor's fault. 1st sack, rated as a coverage sack 2nd sack, John Miller gets beat 3rd sack, Glenn gets beat 4th sack, Second quarter, 4:48 remaining, 1st and 18 at the Bills’ 34-yard line. Taylor bails out of the pocket early on this play. Although no receivers appear to be open, the pocket was clean and there was time for Taylor to let things unfold. Instead, he tucked the ball and ran. looks like another coverage sack. 5th sack, Third quarter, 8:00 remaining, third and 2 at the Bills’ 33-yard line. This looks like another coverage sack. Taylor hangs in the pocket as long as he can with his eyes down field, but eventually is forced to scramble left and goes out of bounds for a 2-yard loss. "Ryan was asked Monday if there are times Taylor bails from the pocket too soon instead of letting the play develop. “I think Tyrod’s got a great feel for the protection,” the coach said. “He can sense it. Most of your really good quarterbacks have that feel. I think he knows when to escape and when to stay in there.” Ryan also commended Taylor on how the quarterback looks down field as he drops back, instead of at the rush. “He feels it and … if he has to escape, that’s what he does,” he said. “I’m pleased with the way Tyrod handles it.” I for one am happy to know that anyone that posts here has no sway on what happens with the players. Bills fans talking about signing a different QB like Brian Hoyer seem to forget what happened with Kevin Kolb. Hoyer is an IR problem waiting to happen as is Tony Romo! This after 3 back surgeries and two broken collarbones and 36 years old. Okay sure, sign Tony Romo and even if the team gets to the playoffs only to lose as the guy is known to be a choker in the playoffs 6 times winning 2x and losing 4x. Just think the Cowboys have had the very best offensive line in football the last few years and Romo can't stray healthy behind it. Like I said earlier, the Bills are 6-5 with Tayor and 2-3 of those losses aren't on him. If the defense plays like a top 5 unit the Bills are 8-3 / 9-2 with a good shot at the playoffs. The 2015 team was good enough to be in the playoffs last year and went 8-8 because the defense went into the toilet. From someone who watched the all-22 stated he thought the Jags defense had really good pass coverage in the first half and played about as well as the Seahawks pass defense. Taylor missed only about two throws due to inaccuracy. All I know is in the first half of that Jags game it was like a jailbreak every play for Buffalo as they couldn't pass or run for most of that first half. Cheers to special teams and Shady. Like I also said, I worry more about the Bills defense stopping Carr at any point over anything else.

It wasn't Ramsey. You can't have two players covering the same gap. “It’s a D-gap running play where the running back cut back; we had two guys at the point of attack and didn’t get the job done,” Bradley said. “The corner [Ramsey] is on the outside fitting of the D-gap and the safety [Gipson] is on the inside fitting of the D-gap. If they were both on the outside of the D-gap, then they’re wrong. I don’t know if that helps you.” http://jacksonville.com/jaguars/2016-11-28/jaguars-notebook-who-blame-mccoy-75-yard-td-run Kind of a shame Tyrod didn't get the ball to Sammy more than three times all game.

I agree he holds the ball far too long and yet he doesn't attempt to force something he isn't sure of...which is what kills even QB's with a better skills set. Tyrod will never be confused with Derek Carr and I doubt the latter would have survived in this teams offense. I would love to have Derek Carr as the Bills QB or at least someone who would throw more than three times to Watkins all game. The thing is the Bills have Tyrod Taylor and are winning with him at QB AND he isn't the biggest issue with the current team IMO.

And that win was against a Patriots team who were forced to start an injured rookie 3rd string QB who went on IR right after the game! Perhaps I should have said, the Bills haven't won a game against a QB with a winning record this year and they face the 9-2 Raiders on...the...road, the 6-5 Steelers, the 7-4 Dolphins.

While I agree that the Dolphins almost screwed themselves with all the defensive penalties in allowing the Bills to move right down the field and score in the fourth quarter. And I also see that the Bills couldn't get their run game going against Miami as Shady shouldn't have even played with a bad hamstring, 8 attempts for 11 yards. Along with Gillislee 5 attempts for 20 yards. I also saw a Bills defense give up 454 yards of offense to the Phins that day. With Miami RB Jay Ajayi rushing for 212 yards!! Miami also had two scoring drives of 64 yards and 74 yards in the fourth quarter AND the Bills were dominated on both sides of the line that day. EDIT: Oh, BTW. It was Bills 17 Miami 14 at the start of that 4th quarter and it was was the Bills defense that wore down in giving up those two long drives to the phins in the 4th. Think of that! Without a solid run game, the Bills were winning that game up until the defense gave up those two long scoring drives to Miami!!

Mills is making Erik Pears look like an all pro...

The Bills haven't won a game against a team with a winning record this year and they face the 9-2 Raiders on...the...road, the 6-5 Steelers, the 7-4 Dolphins.

This falls on Whaley to not have some decent backup players on the roster and what doesn't help it is Ryan's defense playing so much man coverage. Yes, the Bills have better stats on defense now but that has been against some bad QB's this year. This defense hasn't been able to slow down the QB's with a winning record for two years now even with a fully healthy defense and AW playing. He was playing in the first two games this year and the defense was horrible in week two against the NY Jets in giving up 100 yards and 3 rushing TD's to Forte along with 374 yards passing to Fitz. A total of 493 yards given up to the Jets who are currently 3-8. As bad as the team looks against the pass the stats say they are currently 8th against the pass and are 21st against the run. Let's see how this defense does against the 9-2 Raiders with Carr, the 6-5 Steelers with Big Ben and the 7-4 Dolphins with Tannehill. While the 2016 Buffalo Bills are the #2 team in sacks, they are also 15th in defensive hurries. The Miami Dolphins are the #1 team in the league in defensive hurries with 93, Buffalo has 67. Look at the teams the Bills have beaten this year, the 4-6 Cards, the Patriots who were forced to start an injured 3rd string rookie QB (1-1) who went on IR after the Bills game. The 4-7 Rams, the 1-10 49ers, the 3-7 Bengals, the 2-9 Jaguars. Show me a win against a team with a winning record or two this season and I might concede that the OP doesn't have a point!

I agree. This past week's Jags game showed how poor that Bills O-line can block at times. Five sacks on Tyrod and I can only think it would have been much, much worse with a pocket QB and someone not so elusive behind center. While some Bills fans refuse to understand that Tyrod Taylor is the near perfect QB to run Rex Ryan's run first offense and only Russell Wilson, Cam Newton would be a possible better fit. Like I said in an earlier post, it took Drew Brees a full two years of playing to develop into the player we see today. This may or may not ever happen and he could ultimately become either the two I mentioned or a Colin Kaepernick, RG3. Taylor is 6-5 this year and I put two of those losses directly on the Bills defense against the NY Jets and Miami. The Bills could have won in Seattle save for some bad calls by the refs and again a defense that couldn't even slow down Wilson in the first half. The QB position isn't as big a concern to me as the Bills defense has yet to beat a QB with a winning record over the last two years. Oakland and Pittsburgh coming up.

Man, this is so true! I gotta wonder how many years will it take Whaley to find a quality talent at RT. Just going by how long it took to replace Andy Levitre and when it did eventually happen 3 years later it was more Rex Ryan vouching for Incognito. I gotta think if it were up to just Doug Whaley it would have never happened. That was the 2-8 Jacksonville Jags that was dominating the Bills offensive line and if not for shady doing his Barry Sanders impression that Bills offense does nothing all game. Five sacks on Tyrod Taylor and if not for his unbelievable elusiveness it would have been a total debacle due to poor blocking. The Ravens and Dolphins games looked similar and the line needs more than just a RT. A competent top WR besides Woods and Watkins should have been a top priority considering they let Chris Hogan leave for the Patriots. In regards to so many wanting a better pocket QB, the FO needs to find a Brady clone or another QB who can find his target and get the ball out in under 2 seconds before he is killed attempting to throw. Sure Tyrod holds the ball far too long at times waiting for his receivers to break open but he also doesn't throw many INTs. And a Saftey or two...along with a CB or two.

Gugny is just stirring stuff up with that remark about Romo being better as we all know Kelly has four AFC Championship rings to go with his HoF status. While Romo is sitting on the bench as a rookie takes his job. Romo has taken Dallas to the playoffs six times and only won two of those games...a classic choker who is mostly known for his lack of postseason success.

The Bills under Rex Ryan have yet to beat a QB with a winning record and if that stays the same the Bills lose to Oakland, Miami and probably Pittsburgh. Which looks like 8-8 and should the team somehow get to 10-6 I kinda doubt any big changes will be made.

What's interesting is that 2000 Baltimore defense that was so great Marvin Lewis was the DC, Jack Del Rio was the linebackers coach and Rex Ryan was the D-line coach while Mike Smith was his assistant. Yowsa! The thing is after that #1 ranking in 2009 Ryan got the moniker as a defensive genius and that particular year and perhaps the year after that might have been true. Since then there has been a continuous drop-off in points allowed to around 20th for years for that Jets team and last year it was yards to around 20th for the Bills. Just looking at the games that Ryan's defense has played for Buffalo haven't been able to slow down a QB with a winning record that year in 2015 or so far in 2016. Last years Bills defense couldn't get to the QB at all and was second to last in sacks. This year the team leads the NFL in sacks and yet can't seem to stop those average to better QB's. Not Fitz, Not Brady, Not Tannehill, Not Russell Wilson, Not Flacco. The Bills still face Blake Bortles 2-8, Derek Carr 8-2, Ben Rothlisberger 5-5, Josh McCown 0-2, Tannehill 6-4, Fitz 3-7. At 5-5 past history says the Bills will win 3 and lose 3. At #12 overall in both PA-Yards is a step up from last season.

Hey man, this doesn't fit well with all theTyrod haters out there as some just want to complain and point. I'm more concerned about a defense that can't stop even average QB's. But hey, that's me!

You would have thought the team would have done that last offseason especially when they knew Sammy was coming off surgery.

I think they would. The Rams are attempting to build that same power run game that the Bills, Cowboys, and other teams are going with and Tyrod would be a great fit until that first round pick develops..if ever. Tyrod isn't losing this team games and he isn't at that point where he can overcome when another part of the team plays poorly. Hey, I'd love it if this team had a Derek Carr. It's just that this teams scouting dept drafts guys like EJ and Jones.

The fans that continue saying year 6 simply don't understand that it takes actual field playing experience to develop a QB properly. Four years on the bench means he might have mastered the film room and meetings. The point here is that even Drew Brees wasn't always so pin point accurate and he did make a ton of mental mistakes early on...things changed!! Then, Bills fans want to forget that Tyrod was a 6th round draft pick which usually means so much more developmental time involved than say a second round pick, which Drew Brees was. Consider, that many NFL people think EJ Manual is a massive bust for a #1 pick! To the Bills fans, that think Cardale Jones is the long term future... Cardale Jones just threw a pass so far off target it knocked the phone out of the hand of a reporter 40 feet behind the sideline. - Sal Maiorana (@salmaiorana) August 1, 2016 The Bills didn't lose to either the Dolphins or the NY Jets because of Tyrod Taylor!! The Bills offense scored 31 points against Miami and 25 against the Jets. However, the Bills defense was the problem in those two games as they allowed that 3-7 Jets team to pass (Fitz)for 374 yards and rush for another 123 while giving up 3 rushing TD's! The Dolphins managed to dominate both sides of the lines while having a single rusher gain 204 yards on the ground. The Phins finished the day with 256 yards rushing and two rushing TD's. The 2016 Buffalo Bills 5 losses aren't on Tyrod Taylors shoulders at all in my view. When the team is able to run the ball effectively and the defense plays decently the team usually wins the game. The Bills offense even put up 25 points on the Seattle Seahawks defense this year and only one other team has managed to do that all year. I'd say there are a few teams out there that would love to have Tayor at QB and will pay him. Rams, 49ers, Bears, Browns and Jets all come to mind. Still, six more games to play so let's see where he is after the team gets Watkins, Woods back in the lineup.

You guys do realize that in his second year of starting Drew Brees was benched for five games for throwing too many INTs. Brees was a second round pick in 2001. Brees In 2003 went 2-9 and threw 11 TD' s and 15 INT's while going 205 for 356 for 2108 yards. Currently Tyrod in 10 games 5-5, 181 for 295, for 1935 yards 10 TD's, 4 INTs. The Chargers ran a power run game like Buffalo with LT leading the rushing and a bunch of scrubs for receivers. The very next year the team went 12-4 with Brees using Gates as his main target. Point being is that not every QB develops that quickly and this is still only Tyrod's second year of starting. Things might be different if everyone on offense was healthy and the Bills were losing to even the bad teams. The Bills just went toe to toe with Seattle and almost won that game. Tyrod Taylor is still developing.

Same! The world saw what happened to Andy Dalton once his star receiver left the game with an injury and he started throwing to some scrub named Tyler Boyd. And Boyd started to look half way decent at times. Still, that Bengal offense was so limited without the #2 WR in the league with 66 rec for 964 yards averaging 14.6 yards a catch. Now haters, just think that Tyrod hasn't had his elite WR all fricken year, and Tyrod started to make Robert Woods look brilliant in that Seattle game until he left with an injury in Cincy. So suddenly the KR guy is the Bills leading receiver with 2 receptions for 48 yards. Clay stinks, Bush stinks, Goodwin stinks, Harvin stinks and yet the Bills won that game, right? Buffalo won that game by doing just what they were designed to do and that is running the ball and playing good defense. Yes, it was an ugly win! But the Bills also lost their superstar RB in LeSean McCoy and best WR in Robert Woods to injuries and luckily the Bengals lost AJ Green and Giovani Benard too. The game could have gone the other way due to some missed FG's and turnovers that didn't happen. Look at the bright side as McCoy should be back next week and so should Sammy Watkins. Robert Woods injury wasn't season ending and Ryan Groy looked passable as the new starting center. Plus, the Bills defense started to look like a strong unit in shutting down the Bengals run game. The Bills next week now face the 2-8 Jags and we get to see Saint Maroon in all his glory lose to the team he walked away from! Relax and relish the win. Tyrod did what he was able to do and the Bills won. Six more wins and the bills are in the playoffs!

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. The Bills could have turned the ball over multiple more times and didn't! The Bengals are a bad team that looked like they lost their only offensive weapon in AJ Green and couldn't do much on offense without him. That Bengal offense looks like a shell of what it was in the past without Hue Jackson calling the offense. AJ Green is out for the year with a torn ACL and they also lost Giovani Bernard to a torn ACL. Shady to have surgery on his thumb but should play next week. Woods spotted on crutches after the game.

I would agree that Jim Schwartz earned a shot at being a head coach again more so than Rex Ryan for what he did with that Buffalo defense that nobody has been able to duplicate. Not George Edwards, Not Dave Wannstedt, Not Mike Pettine and now not Rex Ryan with his brother helping. What perplexed me at the time of Ryan's hire in Buffalo was didn't anyone in the Bills FO watch those two Jets games in which Schwartz's defense literally dominated Ryan's team 43-23 and 38-3. Between the two games 11 sacks and 5 INTs with a total of 7 turnovers! Jets with 158 yards passing in the first game and 165 yards passing in the second game. Rex Ryan looked so lost on the sidelines in both those games and his defense couldn't stop Kyle Orton. Ryan has 7 games left to prove he deserves to keep his job and show he can beat a top QB with his defensive scheme. If Ryan fails I'd be for hiring Jim Schwartz or Wade Phillips. for the next HC.

That 2014 Buffalo Bills defense wasn't world beater great as in the 2000 Ravens or 84 Bears or even recent Seahawks, Broncos great. However, they were the best darn defense this franchise has seen since 2003 and the 2014 team was better against the pass. If that 2014 team had any kind of a balanced offense with a better run game they would have made the playoffs and won more games. I think you have it all wrong as to why the Bills lost games to the Chargers 10-22, Dolphins 9-22, Texans 17-23, Chiefs 13-17. As the only team to score more than 26 points against that Schwartz defense all year was Brady and the Patriots. I recall that Chargers game and they kept trying to run the ball 36 attempts for 83 yards while Phillip Rivers kept pulling 1st downs out of his arse by passing. Look at the Chargers drives TD, FG, Punt, FG, TD, Punt, Punt, Punt, Punt, Punt. If the Bills OC hadn't gone pass happy asking EJ to throw 39 times and ran the ball more than 22 times for 87 yards the Bills might have done a better job of moving the ball. The Chargers only scored 22 points so It's not like a domination. The Bills offense let them down as they only scored 10 points. Again in that second Miami game with only 19 rushes for 54 yards vs 39 passes for 193 yards and the Bills offense only scored 9 points by field goals. The offense let the team down again! Against the Texans is was that JJ Watt pick six that was the game changer. Against the Chiefs remember the three turnovers by the Bills offense that killed that game? That 2014 Bills defense compared to the 2015-2016 Bills defense was great and if this year's team had that year's defense I think the only game they lose is against the Patriots! The Bills would be 8-1.

On another note, this year Ryan isn't calling the plays and Dennis Thurman is running his defense for him. We all see the difference in teams as this year the Bills again lead the league in sacks and have the leading sacker. So that reversed completely under Thurman and that lack of sacks in 2015 wasn't just because of the players and more on the run-stopping scheme Ryan chose to run that year. However, This year because the team is so concerned about the run defense and they are sending a heavy pass rush all the time they are leaving the CB's in man coverage and those CB's are getting eaten alive game after game. Just food for thought here. Rex Ryan used to blitz 55% of the QB dropbacks with the NY Jets in 2009 and that number kept reducing every year up until he left NY. That heavy blitzing the Jets did worked for a while until opposing offenses learned how to beat the blitz and a lot of today's NFL QB's are masters at beating the blitz. When teams blitz it usually leaves a defender man on man and QB's now delight in seeing man coverage and beat it. Yeah, so kinda the reason as to why Ryan's defense is getting killed in the secondary this year with two CB's that did a great job the previous two seasons. What this shows me is the 2016 Buffalo Bills coaching staffs inability to build and field a strong defense that can both stop the run and pass at a high level. The Bills lost to Joe Flacco who is 5-4, Ryan Fitzpatrick who is 2-6, Ryan Tannehill who is 5-4, Tom Brady who is 4-1, Russell Wilson who is 6-2-1. The Bills beat Carson Palmer who is 3-4-1 this year. Colin Kaepernick who is 0-4, Case Keenum who is 4-5 and an injured 3rd string QB in Jacoby Brissett who is 1-1. If the team just beats the QB's with a losing record that's Andy Dalton 3-5-1, Blake Bortles 2-7, Derek Carr 6-2, Ben Rothlisberger 4-4, Josh McCown 0-2, Ryan Tannehill 5-4, Ryan Fitzpatrick 2-6 = another 8-8 season! This team will need to overachieve on defense to finish better than last years record. From what I've seen of the defense this year so far that even that record might be a stretch. My take is the league has passed by Rex Ryan's version of a 3-4 as he has yet to beat an elite NFL QB with a winning record the last two years.

For whatever reason, he certainly dismantled that 2015 pass rush enough so the team went from 1st in the NFL in sacks to 31st in the NFL in sacks. I'd say that qualifies as "dismantled"!