transplantbillsfan

Hmmm... confirmation bias?... or are you just revving up the anTy Taylor propaganda train? this is is just hilarious. This message board would be awesome to psychoanalyze. You are an idiot. Benched in the Jags game??? Dude, you're a classless jerkoff with that comment. I really thought you were better than that. Shame on you.

But that's not the discussion. Why do purposefully shift everything around and make ridiculous exaggerations (or "unerestimations") rather than saying something that could be factual and still effective, like, for example, "only 20% of the board feels Taylor will be retained!" I agree Taylor might not be the starter at the beginning of the year (I'm probably 60% that he will be), but the question and point of this entire thread is whether Taylor will be retained under his current contract... I'm about 80% sure there.

Holy crap... if true, you just did a big ole piledriver on MAJbooby and won this (pretty ridiculous) little debate

Rex Ryan announced Tyrod Taylor was the starting QB for the Buffalo Bills on August 31st, 2015: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000518335/article/tyrod-taylor-named-buffalo-bills-starting-quarterback%3fnetworkId=4595&site=.news&zone=story&zoneUrl=url%3Dstory&zoneKeys=s1%3Dstory&env&pageKeyValues=prtnr%3Daround-the-league;team%3Dind;team%3Dbuf;team%3Dpit;conf%3Dafc;dvsn%3Dacs;dvsn%3Dace;dvsn%3Dacn;plyr%3Dmatthew_cassel;plyr%3Dcharles_clay;plyr%3Dtyrod_taylor&p.ct=Around+the+NFL&p.adsm=false&p.tcm=%23fff&p.bgc1m=%230964bf&p.bgc2m=%23053a74&sr=amp Tyrod Taylor was the starting QB in week 1 of 2015. Matt Cassel started week 1 at QB in week 1 of 2015. Tyrod Taylor is 23-20 as a starting QB Tyrod Taylor is 22-20 as the starter at QB You want stupid semantics? There ya go. Rex Ryan announced Tyrod Taylor was the starting QB for the Buffalo Bills on August 31st, 2015: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000518335/article/tyrod-taylor-named-buffalo-bills-starting-quarterback%3fnetworkId=4595&site=.news&zone=story&zoneUrl=url%3Dstory&zoneKeys=s1%3Dstory&env&pageKeyValues=prtnr%3Daround-the-league;team%3Dind;team%3Dbuf;team%3Dpit;conf%3Dafc;dvsn%3Dacs;dvsn%3Dace;dvsn%3Dacn;plyr%3Dmatthew_cassel;plyr%3Dcharles_clay;plyr%3Dtyrod_taylor&p.ct=Around+the+NFL&p.adsm=false&p.tcm=%23fff&p.bgc1m=%230964bf&p.bgc2m=%23053a74&sr=amp Tyrod Taylor was the starting QB in week 1 of 2015. Matt Cassel started week 1 at QB in week 1 of 2015. Tyrod Taylor is 23-20 as a starting QB Tyrod Taylor is 22-20 as the starter at QB You want stupid semantics? There ya go.

Hmmm... is 67 more than the "more than a half dozen" Shady said? My math is kinda shaky... but pretty sure 67 is a buttload more than 6. Point signed, sealed and delivered

Half dozen, huh? up to 67... and that seems to still be growing.

Whoa... holy crap I feel so sorry for you after reading this! Why the hell do you bother watching sports at all?

I respond to your questions and you come back with this? Incredible You're hilarious Thurm... why don't you do another terrible breakdown of some pretty simple, clear and direct rhetoric on my part and then not simply admit it was a terrible breakdown on your part and apologize.

Hehe... oh dear lord... my opinion is the only sensible opinion because I think it so I must be right and everyone who agrees with me is sensible and everyone who doesn't is not oh sweet Thurm... don't be afraid to be wrong every once in awhile... as someone once said "There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher."

Pounded by Thurm... bwahahahahaha!!! You talking about the poster who religiously scurries into the wall to hide when he's wrong about something? Yah, okay

Taylor "showed up" enough to be critical for Ws in enough games in 2017. He made huge plays on critical downs against really solid defenses against the Falcons, Broncos and Chiefs. We don't win the Bucs game without Taylor, which is an often overlooked game. Ultimately, Taylor played a role in every game he played, and a significant enough one to say he was critical to our playoff run, like it or not. You're right about one thing... Tyrod was benched for a reason, we as fans just don't know what that reason is... but, ya know... there were some interesting reports out there :

Question: will you tuck and run like your typical self when you're wrong if Taylor is retained on his current contract this year? That's interesting opinion you have there. It's certainly not a fact... but it's an interesting opinion, nonetheless

I do. The evidence so far this offseason keeps piling up that Tyrod is a Bill for one more year.

And rightfully so. He made that mistake last year on locker room clean out day and it really killed any leverage he had in the off-season. We will all have a pretty definitive answer here in a month and a half, but talk about some douche-baggery in this thread. As I get through these pages and read more and more of the vitriol, I realize there are several posters who are the types of people you don't even cross the street to piss on if their heads are on fire. Yah no... that's definitely not why Kaep's out of the league

Exactly! And that's the bind he got himself into last year when he said on clean out day of 2016 that he'd consider restructuring his contract. Precisely why Taylor's still very likely a Bill for one more year Ummmm... except Taylor can't test the open market considering he's under contract

You'll probably have to deal with him for one more year. Sorry

Hey how about you copy and paste some of the juicy stuff for those of us who don't subscribe?

I say you do that. That's actually a reasonable deal for a healthy Luck considering we never saw Glenn on the field in 2017.

Draft any of the 6 guys slated as potential 1st round QBs except for Allen!!! Oh please don't draft Allen!!! No more EJ Manuel "ball of clay you can mold" type QBs!!!

Last year people thought Goff and Wentz weren't worth the #1 or #2 pick. It's still so early in the process. The fact that at this moment there are legitimately still 6 QBs being talked about as 1st round picks is pretty incredible, I think. And with guys like Arians saying this is the best draft in years, if the odds of hitting are high like it was in '83 and '04... let's just hope McDermott & Beane target the right guy

Wow... we're in very different places... 2018 Super Bowl Champions baby!!! Exactly! This is just differences in how people approach sports... I'm still on a high from our first playoff season in 17 years and the fact that we finally have a coach who wasn't just saying he was going to change the culture... he actually did change it. Good things to come, folks

Sooooo... I think this is just dependent on whoever you are as a person. I admit, I'm just an optimistic person... maybe bordering on being a Pollyanna at times Personally, I think our future is incredibly bright. I think this is going to be maybe the most interesting draft for the Bills in all my years being a Bills fan. I think Beane and McDermott are going to target who they want in the 1st at QB and they're going to just go and get him. Coaching trumps talent That, I feel, is the lesson from 2017. It's one I think the Patriots have been teaching us for years, but everyone just points to who they have at QB and give the QB more credit than the coaching. I've always disagreed with that. This year, McDermott proved to me that a simple and serious culture change can do so much for a team in terms of winning. The Vikings and Rams (and over the last few games the Eagles) have proven to me that if you get the right offensive or defensive system and coaches in place and get your players disciplined enough to play within that system, you can be wildly successful. We're bound to get our players in this draft and in FA to upgrade the team. We have 5 picks in the first 3 rounds and 8 picks in the first 5 rounds. I'm stoked! Whoever's under center or playing at whatever positions next year... I think McDermott has shifted this team into a higher gear and (I know it's waaaaayyyy early) I think we're going to be a better team than this past year and in the playoffs. Super optimistic about this offseason I guess I just drank a helluva lot more than you and I'm still drunk right now

Because this is reportedly one of the deepest QB draft classes in a very very long time and we can probably get our long term answer at the position there. Why is everyone obsessed with blaaaahhhh vet QBs who basically don't stand a chance of being Elite? Time to stop settling for diamonds in the rough we find through trade or FA or late in the draft (Edwards, Fitz, Tyrod) and shoot for the stars and trade UP in the 1st round (thinking back to the fact that we traded down for a QB no one seemed to want still makes me kinda sick) to get whichever QB we want. There might be 6 1st round QBs this year. That's crazy!

It happened in the Chargers game I remember. There was a pick-6 for the taking on one of those sideline passes from Peterman for one of the Chargers' DBs and he just couldn't catch it. That would have been 6 INTs in that half.

Agreed... I actually choked up reading AW's article. Heartbroken for that guy.