transplantbillsfan

Serious question: Do you find that the rewards of trolling carry over into your personal life? If so, is that why you troll so much? If not, why do you troll so much? Does it have to be medical?

I think Tyrod does want to be in Buffalo. #1- Shady and Charles Clay are reportedly his best friends. #2- Familiarity with team, coach and city, which is a big deal for some. #3- He already knows he's better than any QBs currently on the roster and probably believes strongly he'll beat out any rookie coming in (that's not me saying he will, mind you). #4- He's tasted playoffs with a team that just suffered through the longest playoff drought in pro sports and knows the insane atmosphere of Buffalo that comes with it and will want to be part of something more. #5- He would get paid good money next year in Buffalo in a contract he's already under.

Jags. How could anyone want the Patriots? Who cares about Marrone. He's just riding the coat tails of the most talented team in the NFL. But I want the Vikings to win the SB.

Child. No one really pumps Tyrod up. We only speak the truth while you're standing there with a pitchfork in one hand and a torch in the other following the mob (though at this point I think you're clearly one of the leaders) ready to burn the house down of a monster you've all created largely through hyperbole and outright lies.

Oy Look at your title, dude. I was responding to your title there in antithesis. Did you just not realize the fact that your title directly says 4 games this weekend were proof or are you just a gigantic hypocrite?

God you never fail to sound like a complete idiot

People here are funny. The Tyrod obsession is unreal hypocrisy for 3 or 4 of the posters in this thread who apparently can't move past this pointless bashing of a QB everyone knows we're going to move past after 2018 if not in a few months. And it's not often about arguing facts with these guys, it's about saying the most absolutely outlandishly hyperbolic and/or false crap and seeing if you can get away with it. We'll draft our future Franchise QB in the first this year. We pretty much all know that and are pretty much all excited about that. I know I am. But sheesh! Are you guys going to jump off a cliff if Tyrod is our starting QB going into the 2018 season?

Stop. Take an Internet break. It's making you stupid.

How many of those 45 points the Jags put up were put up by Bortles? Honestly this thread is sheer lunacy at this point. We watched a team QBed by Blake Bortles today get the W over a team with a guy who's going to be a 1st ballot HOFer. We watched a team QBed by Case Keemun today get the W over a team with a guy who's going to be a 1st ballot HOFer. We watched a team QBed by Nick Foles yesterday get the W over a team with a guy who is the reigning NFL league MVP and seems to be on his way to the HOF himself. The last 2 days proved it's not the better QB who wins consistently, it's the better team. But have your fun in here. Some of you guys are just nuts

Just because you say this doesn't make it true. You get that, right?

I think people are really overreacting to Taylor's performance in the Jags game. Taylor was fine. Not great. But fine. It hurts your team when your offense is so incredibly predictable as Dennison, for example, called the exact same play action bootleg to Taylor's right FIVE times in the first quarter for some reason, despite the fact that there was no pattern of success with that play against Jax, so you'd think he'd stop calling it after the 2nd or 3rd time. In the first half the Bills had a 3rd and 13, a 3rd and 10, 5 3rd and 7s, a 3rd and 6, 2 3rd and 5s, and 2 3rd and 2s and Taylor's arm and legs (and one defensive penalty) converted 50% of those 1st downs. Taylor never should have gone with the P in the RPO but it never ever should've been an O to begin with. And Benjamin never should have pushed off. It was unnecessary. Add in a few drops, a TE who probably could have come up with a catch instead of getting it deflected and intercepted and another TE who couldn't manage to keep his feet in bounds despite a nice converted pass for first down by Taylor. 3 plays I think are completely warranted heavy criticism of Taylor: 1- Missing O'Leary for a wide open TD 2- Missing O'Leary (?) on the right instead of running 3- Not forcing the offense up to the LOS after Clay's sideline "catch" and getting a quick snap off the way he did earlier in the game with another play I forget to beat Marrone's challenge flag. Otherwise, Taylor was fine against maybe the most talented D in the NFL.

Hope??? I hope we find our Franchise QB this offseason. That's all I hope for regarding this team and the QB position, despite whatever you think. All the stuff I said about TT staying is simply what I think will happen. Actually no. It all depends on how everything went down, but reports seemed to be that Taylor was benched in favor of Peterman largely at the request of Dennison because Dennison thought he could run his offense much better. Turned out, not so much. And Peterman was yanked after a half and McDermott shifted back to a "Taylor is our starter when healthy," which showed in both words and action. And then Dennison, the guy who reportedly wanted Peterman rather than Taylor to run his offense is gone. So no, Taylor's benching is no longer a clear sign, to me. If Dennison were retained, yes. But I think Dennison being fired is a sign the other way, if anything.

You should figure out what a fact is. What you just said is not a fact. It's not even an opinion. It's patently false. No one thinks he is. But he's likely the veteran QB on the roster for our 1st round rookie's first year.

I think some of you just keep saying this so adamantly because you really hope it will happen. But at this point if I were throwing out %s I'd bet it's something like 60% Taylor is still a Bill next year under his current contract. I don't think McDermott wants another vet QB, yet at the end of the year PC he said he wanted a veteran QB "for a number of reasons," which tells me it's as much about leadership and culture as anything. I think firing Dennison so abruptly and quickly hiring Dabol is more of a sign Taylor will be here in 2018 because I think it's an acknowledgment that Dennison was just awful and highly responsible for our offensive woes. I think Taylor's route out of Buffalo is a packaged deal trading up to get a QB. We'll see. Shaping up to be an interesting offseason, that's for sure.

If this happens several posters here are going to be on serious suicide watch I can envision one more year with Taylor but think we're going to draft a QB in the first, probably through a trade up.

This thread and the logic in it, or lack thereof, is just absolutely incredible.

Hunh???? 14/26 for 214 yards and 1 TD is an "entirely different level"?!?! Is this a friggin joke? Tyrod is still a better QB than Bortles. Bortles is just on one of the most talented teams in the NFL. Amazing. And nothing that I just said should be taken as we should not actively try to upgrade on Tyrod. But what a joke of an argument to throw one game Bortles has that resembles several games Taylor has had as proof that Tyrod can't even live up to the play of Bortles

I'm starting to believe Taylor is more likely still in a Bills uniform next year than not. Not saying we won't draft a guy in the 1st. In fact, I think that's a virtual lock because I think McDermott's prefers to have "his guy" to mold culturally And competitively. But I'm sorry, I believe the idea we're going to go and get an Alex Smith or Kirk Cousins AND draft a guy in the first is a little naive, which leaves us with some vet QB options that are mostly lateral moves or maybe a step forward at best; guys like Josh McCown. These are guys who weren't part of the team in our massive culture change over the last year, and I think people are really underestimating the type of guy McDermott wants in the locker room. Regardless of whatever you think of Taylor as a player, I think most would agree Taylor is a McDermott type of guy. And I think the fact that McDermott decided to fire Dennison rather than keep him is another sign Taylor stays. But don't worry, we're drafting our future Franchise QB... at least that's what we hope he turns into.

Except for the fact that Denison problem wasn't about those types of plays it was about the place that we are predicated upon unpredictability. One example is that in the first quarter alone of the game last Sunday the Bills ran that play action bootleg play to Taylor's right five friggin times! I don't think ANY were successful!

Damnit!!! I was playing around with this a bit just trying to get it to work for the parameters I was looking for and the freaking thing kept resetting. Can you give me the link with the parameters without the kneeldowns? I'm on a different device now and would like to fix it. I actually highly doubt this. Like I really really don't think it'll happen. I wanted to figure this out but haven't yet. There for the taking, though

Yes just probably on a computer. Go to "play index" on PFR and set your parameters I think both of these posts are indicative of my biggest issue with Dennison: If something was successful once, he believed he could go back to it again on the next play (figuratively) and have the same success.

As unpopular as this might be, I thought Taylor played well in the first half of that game. I thought he was playing well enough to make up for some head-scratching faults of our OC. I think Denison liked to just go to the well way too frequently and didn't space it enough. What I mean by that is look at the very first two first downs of the game. They were the exact same friggin play! And it didn't work either time! Actually, first and second down we're almost to the exact same in the first six downs so that we had: 1st down- Play Action Bootleg read well by Jax 2nd down- 3 yard rush by McCoy that probably could have been stuffed for less with a different RB 3rd & 7- 1 conversion to Zay with a nice pass in the pocket followed by a Jacksonville blitz that quickly gets to Taylor without giving him the opportunity to throw it. Think the Jags saw a pattern? Next drive: 1st down- McCoy run for 1 yard 2nd down- McCoy stuffed for -1 yards 3rd & 10- sideline pattern to Thompson who catches the ball 1 yard short of the stick without time to realize he's short and extend the ball. In the 1st half alone the Bills ended up with only 2 3rd and 2s, 1 3rd and 5, 2 3rd and 6s, 5 3rd and 7s, 1 3rd and 10 and 1 3rd and 13 and ended up 6/12 (50%) in converting those for 1st downs with one due to a defensive penalty. That's pretty good against that D.

Well, we need to upgrade on Taylor, but I don't know that we can't be critical of Dennison on 3rd down, too. Yes, The Bills were 6th in the NFL in 3rd down conversions with a 41.9% conversion rate. We converted 101 out of 241 3rd down attempts. The Bills were also tied with Denver for the most 3rd down attempts in the NFL, which could be the result of the most stuffed runs on 1st and 2nd down. And the reality is that the Bills were just 27/79 (34.2%) on 3rd down plays where Taylor was just handing the ball off or the Bills were in Wildcat or Peterman was playing because, on the year, Taylor was 74/162 (45.7%) in converting 3rd downs via run or pass. You beat me to it

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/play_finder.cgi?request=1&match=all&role=rusher&year_min=2017&year_max=2017&game_type=R&game_num_min=0&game_num_max=99&week_num_min=0&week_num_max=99&quarter[]=1&quarter[]=2&quarter[]=3&quarter[]=4&quarter[]=5&tr_gtlt=lt&minutes=15&seconds=0&down[]=1&down[]=2&yg_gtlt=lt&yards=0&field_pos_min_field=team&field_pos_max_field=team&end_field_pos_min_field=team&end_field_pos_max_field=team&type[]=RUSH&no_play=N&turnover_type[]=interception&turnover_type[]=fumble&score_type[]=touchdown&score_type[]=field_goal&score_type[]=safety&rush_direction[]=LE&rush_direction[]=LT&rush_direction[]=LG&rush_direction[]=M&rush_direction[]=RG&rush_direction[]=RT&rush_direction[]=RE&order_by=game_date Guys, I'm really sorry if you feel this didn't deserve it's own thread, but I gotta give a shout out to twoandfourteen who revealed to me the incredible intricacies of pro-football-reference as a resource. Thanks dude It took some tinkering, but I always suspected Buffalo's offensive playcalling was so predictable that it ended up giving us more "stuffed" runs on 1st or 2nd downs than any other team in the NFL. It was just a suspicion of mine, though. I could never track it. Well, here you have it. I narrowed my search parameters to "In 2017, any team vs. any team, in the regular season, play type is rush, on 1st or 2nd down, gain of fewer than 0 yards, sorted by game date descending." The Bills had the most rushes for less than or equal to 0 yards on 1st or 2nd down. Those of you who don't want to click on the link... the Bills had the most "stuffed" runs of any other team in the NFL. The top 5 are: 1) Buffalo - 115 2) Minny - 112 3) NYJ - 106 4) Seattle - 105 5) Chicago - 101

Whoop whoop!!!! Great sign!!!