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Any new update from the team? Bills WR Marquise Goodwin suffered a concussion Week 7 against the Dolphins. Goodwin's head slammed on the turf after he went up high for an off-target throw in the fourth quarter. With Robert Woods (foot) looking unlikely to play this week, the Bills are ridiculously thin at receiver. Justin Hunter played the most snaps against the Dolphins. Oct 24 - 10:11 AM http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/8461/marquise-goodwin

Lorax has taken the entire league by surprise. If I'm not mistaken doesn't Thurman's coverages ask the CB's to be in more man coverage than they are used to being in? The second disappointment is Dareus not being smart enough and being so selfish that he couldn't stop with the weed. If I'm Whaley I find a way to trade him before he is gone for a year. The recklessness with the cars should have given someone in the FO some insight into his maturity. Rex Ryan has shown he can find really good DT's in the draft so find a way to dump this selfish bum before it's too late. Josh Gordon, what another waste of talent and the Browns lost their chance to obtain anything for him.

I for one don't trust Whaley to find that elusive franchise QB for Buffalo. He has had so many chances the last few years and yet all he did was keep attempting to band-aid the team enough to get EJ to workout okay. Enough about his inability to find a quality QB though. "If" the Bills had a better O-line! A better receiving corps! A healthy RB they would be able to win games just like the Dallas Cowboys are winning and be 5-1 like Dallas is right now. They are using that same Rex Ryan philosophy in building a run first team with a good defense. Rayne Dakota Prescott is averaging 212 passing yards a game with 7 TD's, 1 INT- Tyrod Taylor 185 yards a game with 9 TD's, 2 INTs. The run vs pass stats are so very similar between the two teams. Is Tyrod Taylor somewhat currently limited in his NFL passing ability? I'd say yes to that and think there is still time and room for development. The guy can win games when you give him a solid run game to support his efforts! Take away that solid run game from Dak Prescott and I doubt he wins many games with just his arm.

Really the wrong QB to compare Tyrod Taylor against. Joe Flacco might be more of a match in only the way he was developed from a run first offense into a pass first offense. Still, the two QB's are totally different as one is a pure pocket passer like Stafford and Taylor is a running QB more like Cam Newton, Russell Wilson. RG3, Colin Kaepernick. With Tyrod Taylor's stature, I think about the only QB he compares to is Wilson and that guy is in a class by himself. Russell Wilson also has had a great coaching staff, supporting cast around him his entire time in Seattle. Looking at those four running QB's only two have had continued success.

This 2016 team is predicated on being able to run the ball to win games, per Rex Ryan. Which was a big reason why he fired Greg Roman! This helps keep the defense fresh and on the bench and also allows a young, inexperienced QB to develop properly. Needless to say that Tyrod Taylor was the Buffalo Bills leading rusher against Miami with 7 carries for 35 yards and one TD! Gillislee had only 5 carries for 20 yards all game which was a 4.0 YPC AVG. Why the team didn't run him more often is a big question. #9) The Buffalo run defense was pathetic from the start to the finish and really stunk it up in the fourth quarter in giving up a 53-yard run to Ajayi and a 66-yard pass to Stills. #10) this could be the end for Buffalo because if they don't even attempt to the run the ball with Gillislee it allows the defense on the field all game and wears them down. Plus, Taylor hasn't been able to win games with his arm so it's like the first two weeks of the season for the rest of the year!

Most fans have only one focal point for losses and that is the QB position. However, jr1 is correct when he states that TT isn't the problem. It isn't Tyrod Taylor's fault that he was the leading rusher against the Dolphins with 7 carries for 35 yards and one TD!! Looking for real blame? The problem is that either the team didn't attempt to run the ball enough against Miami or didn't have the talent on the roster to get it done. One falls on Lynn the Bills OC and the other falls on the Bills GM. Then there is the defense that stunk up the field with an inability to stop the run all game long!! C'mon guys Bills fans are smarter than this!! Look at the entire team to determine what went wrong against Miami! The Bills had the lead in the game up until the fourth quarter and it wasn't Taylor who allowed a 53-yard run from the 2-yard line in the fourth!! It wasn't Taylor who allowed 214 yards rushing to some unknown RB!! It wasn't Taylor who allowed 454 yards of offense to the smelly fish!! The Bills showed that right side of the line with RT Mills and RG Miller is very suspect as both players gave up big plays!! The Bills receiver corps is ridiculously thin with made of glass Marquise Goodwin the #1 WR!! ...WTF!! The Bills don't have a replacement for LeSean McCoy so now all of a sudden Taylor isn't good enough because he didn't win the game after the Bills defense gave up a 66 yard TD to Kenny Stills and a 12 yard TD to the smelly fish in the fourth quarter!! Far, far too much blame to go around to factors other than the Bills QB in this one. Taylor out-performed Tallywhacker stat wise and a big reason why Miami's offense was the better offense was because they could run the ball this week and Buffalo couldn't!

Taylor is 4-3 this year with 9 passing TD's, 2 INT's and 2 rushing TD's with 869 yards of offense this year after 7 games. What's more important than winning the game with his arm is not losing the game with turnovers. The young man is doing exactly what's asked of him and his HC has even stated that the team needs to run the ball for the team to win games. It sure isn't Taylor's fault if he is the team's leading rusher with 7 attempts for 35 yards.

So what? We all know he isn't at an elite level just yet. The time to revisit this thread is at the end of the season to see if the kid has further developed. No QB's in the league would play well with a suspect right side of the line, without his two best WR's and without their elite RB. Take away Julio Jones, Devonte Freeman along with a weak right side of the line and see how Matt Ryan plays. EDIT: OH WAIT! That happened to the Falcons in 2013 when they went 4-12!

Belichick will watch the film on what Jay Ajayi did to that Bills D-line and just pound the rock with Blount to the tune of about 130 yards. Meanwhile, Hogan, Gronk, and Edelman will all probably have 100 yards each receiving. If those craptastic Dolphins lines can bully the Bills lines like they did against Buffalo then I think the Bills are in serious trouble. No McCoy and the team falls on its face again this week. Hey, on any given Sunday...except against the devil himself!!

For the love of god, it's been so long since the team had a QB who could throw for 225 yards one TD passing, one TD rushing and managed to do this with NO TURNOVERS!! He is not a Geno, not a Fitz but a guy who has had exactly 20 game starts and is still learning, developing as he goes. I might add it's nearly impossible to properly develop a young QB with no ground game and no solid receivers besides a decent, but not great TE. Tyrod needs a better offense around him besides two injured starting WR's, and elite RB that is injured and the right side of his line that plays like a sieve at times. There is a real reason why Dak Prescott looks so good as he is playing behind the league's best O-line with the league's best RB to help support the offense. It's going to be difficult for the Bills FO to determine if TT is worth the extra money if the supporting cast doesn't get healthy to help him improve.

I happen to love Tyrod Taylor even with his limited ability to "want" to make every throw. Considering just how crappy the wide receiver corps is at this point and also taking into consideration that the 2016 Bills are a run-first team. A run-first team that is predicated on being able to effectively move the ball on the ground and currently the Bills have only one single RB that can make that happen... is currently injured. The defense works well with a run first team that helps keep them fresh and on the sidelines while limiting their time on the field. Too much time on the field and the defense has a meltdown like we saw with the Jets and the 4th quarter of the Miami game. Still, Tyrod outplayed a supposed Miami franchise QB in tallywhacker in yards throwing, rushing and in TD's! We know that the current Bills QB is limited and the coaching staff and GM should be able to find quality talent at RB other than just one guy! Last year the Bills had Karlos Williams who filled in admirably and this offseason turned himself into a bloated loser who is now on the Steelers P.S. The Bills can win games even against good teams with a 100% healthy Shady McCoy and it might just be easier to find another top elite RB over an elite franchise QB.

As LeSean McCoy goes, so do the Buffalo Bills it seems. If Shady isn't 100% and can't bring his "A" game than the Bills have a very difficult time getting the run game going and thus the defense is out on the field for far too long. Last year McCoy missed four games with a hamstring problem and it looks like it could be worse this year. I can see the Bills losing to the Patriots and Seattle to go 4-5 at the bye week and it's going to really depend on if McCoy is 100% after that bye. The Bills have some very winnable games after the bye week and it all comes down to being able to run the ball effectively. @Cincy Jacksonville @Oakland Pittsburgh Cleveland Maimi @NY Jets However, considering the entire team's ability to win games is predicated on having a strong rushing attack, with little or no run game... the Bills might not win another game this year.

The system didn't fail him the Buffalo defense did!!! Tyrod had better stats than Tallywhacker!! In that game, Tyrod had one TD passing one TD rushing! Dunno how much more he can do as he can't pass the ball and catch it at the same time! The biggest difference in the game was the Bills defense allowing Ajayi 214 yards rushing. It's like the Bills defenders forgot how to tackle in the fourth quarter!

Bills fans have a perfect right to complain about the defense this week as it was supposed to improve with Lawson and Dareus playing. Instead, it was embarrassingly bad in allowing some scrub RB to rush for 214 yards along with a 53-yard run because Bills players couldn't make a tackle. It wasn't like they hadn't ever seen this before as all they needed to do was watch the game tape from last week between Pitt and Mia and yet it looked like nobody on the Bills coaching staff watched that game film. Buffalo was leading this game all the way up until the fourth quarter when the Bills defense melted down. Buffalo 267 yards of offense vs Miami 454 yards of offense and most of that came on the ground. Tyrod Taylor (14 of 28 for 221 with one TD passing, one TD rushing) actually outplayed Talleywhacker (15 of 25 for 204 yards, one TD) Buffalo with 22 rushing attempts for 67 yards was abysmal without McCoy. It is over if the defense keeps playing like it did against a 2-4 team that was #21 in offense and #26 in defense previous to playing Buffalo. This was a big complaint last year that at times the defense looked very unprepared to play in some games.

If I'm not mistaken McCoy missed four games last year because of a bad hammy. He makes that offense go! Still, the Bills were leading for most of that game and the Bills defense just melted at the end.

To me, the Buffalo defense giving up 214 rushing yards to Ajayi is by far the biggest issue I have with today's game. Most of the fan base knew the Bills QB is limited and without his two best WR's and the team's star RB injured it would be a tough game. The Bills were ahead in the game until the 4th quarter and the run defense just melted.

If I'm not mistaken the league outlawed that shoulder hit to the head back in the 50's when a Cardinals player was knocking players out with vicious hits. Can't recall the name. That hit is a fine or suspension IMO.

The Miami HC admitted he had Mario in there for far too many plays and teams were mostly running on them. They finally realized that he will do much better as a 3rd down pass rusher. The right side of that line really stunk it up quite a bit as both Miller and Mills gave up some big plays! That is the difference between a high talent early round pick and a mid-round pick who will never be more than an average player.

The Dolphins rushed for 256 yards and Ajayi had 214 yards by himself with a 7.4 yard per carry average!! It was 267 yards of offense for Buffalo to 454 for Miami. This was against the 21st ranked offense in the league and their defense is ranked 26th. Time of possession 22:58 Buffalo vs 37:02 Miami. Needless to say that LeSean McCoy makes that offense work when he brings his A game and when he doesn't they have a tough time moving the ball. Yes, it doesn't help to have Sammy, Woods not playing. What bugged me about today's game was the defense wasn't able to stop Ajayi at all and his 214 yards rushing helped carry them to the win!

If you look how Carson Palmer played against the Seahawks and Panthers last year with Palmer under great pressure he threw 7 INT's in two games. Then, If you look at the teams the Bills beat last season it was all against bums at QB and lost to even average QB's. The only decent QB the Bills beat last year was Andrew Luck and he finished the year 2-5 and he was obviously injured all last year. This year QB's the Bills are yet to face include Tallywhacker, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Andy Dalton, Blake Bortles, Derek Carr, Big Ben, some Cleve scrub, Talleywhacker again, and finally Geno or Fitz. 4-6= 8-8. Which means the Bills will need to step up their game against some of the leagues better and even average QB's. Admittedly Dalton isn't playing the same without Hue Jackson at OC. Who knows if Ben Rothlisberger will still be injured or not by week 14. Let's hope the Bills defense improves with Dareus and Lawson enough to beat any of those better QB's!

Horsehockey! Some feel talking about the playoffs after six weeks is a bit early given what's happened with this team over the last 15 years. You aren't any more of a Bills fan simply because you think they will make the playoffs this season after only six weeks. Ten weeks to go and so many things can happen in those ten weeks. Nobody here is belittling the team and only reminding those optimists the history of the team. I also don't feel the need to call you a derogatory name because of that optimism. Like I suggested, let's see how the season is going to end before we talk playoffs.

great points! Chan Gailey and Dick Jauron both had longer winning streaks and what happened to both of them? In 2008 the Bills opened the season 4-0 and went on to 5-1 before crashing badly going 2-8 over the next remaining games and that year Brady went out for the season in the Pats first game! In 2011 the Bills were 5-2 until Fitz broke his ribs and Gailey kept playing him. Once the starting center went on IR so did the entire team going 8-1 to finish the season 6-10. That was after starting 5-2! This current team is a run first team who is led by LeSean McCoy who is about 70% of the offense and when he brings his A game this year the Bills don't lose. It's very doubtful that McCoy even plays and last time I looked last year's savior is currently on the Steelers practice squad. In 2014 all the Bills needed to do to make the playoffs was win against a 2-11 team and yet the Bills lost that game because they forgot how to run the ball against a team who was 32nd in run defense. It was a pathetic to see the Bills leading rushing team in the NFL from a year previous to rush 13 times for 13 yards. Kyle Orton was forced to carry the team on offense with his arm. In 2004 all the Bills needed to do to make the playoffs was win against the Steeler backup players as they were resting the starters for the playoffs. So, those backups played better than the Bills starters and won 24-29. This is the Buffalo Bills we are talking about and so many wanted Rex fired after starting the season 0-2. Let's see how the season ends, shall we?

Everything depends on Shady's hammy and if he can't go I don't see a win in Miami ...

Dolphins' Mario Williams a backup as he prepares to face Bills http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/dolphins-mario-williams-a-backup-as-he-prepares-to-face/article_5dfc4a09-1205-53d3-9b5b-866df110380f.html he signed a $17 million, two-year deal with Miami. I'm sure he is crying ...all the way to the bank. "Williams said he feels no extra motivation facing his former team, which may elicit snickering from Bills fans who complained he lacked motivation last year."

George Seifert inherited a great team built by Bill Walsh with Rice, Montana and Steve Young already on the team. Plus, he had Mike Holmgren as OC from the Walsh days and he stayed until 1991. Then it was Mike Shanahan who ran the offense. Seifert coached the 49ers for 8 years as HC but it wasn't his offensive system, scheme. To me, it's like saying Barry Switzer is a top 5 NFL HC and I'll tell ya why. He went on to coach the Carolina Panthers from 1999-2001 and their record was 8-8, 7-9, 1-5 and he was done.