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Agreed, the Nate Peterman era is now here. I just wonder what the greatest memory of the Peterman era will be between now and when it ends next Wednesday shortly after 4PM?

It was time to move on and I have faith that there will be an upgrade, but this thread was pointless. No need to knock a guy who gave three starter calibers years here. Keep in mind that our choices in 2015 would have otherwise been EJ Manuel and Matt Cassel These last three years could have definitely been worse at QB.

I had this opinion too, but I am ok with this. I do think we are drafting in the first round but one of the veterans that available will be announced soon. (Foles, Cousins, Keenum) etc. I cant see this regime making this move without a concrete plan in the works.

As I am processing this, good move for both teams. For Cleveland, Taylor is miles ahead of anyone that they had at QB last season. They can draft someone, but they have a starter if not. For Buffalo after Taylor was benched, the writing was on the wall. They got more for him than anyone expected. I am certain that a plan is in place for quarterback if this move was made. No way they would do this if there was any chance that they were coming into the season with Peterman as their top choice. Clean break. Taylor went from a career backup to a three year starter, and Buffalo broke the curse during his time. Best quarterback that we had since arguably Flutie but it was time to move ahead. He has my respect and I wish him the best of luck.

I would have rather seen Taylor kept until a rookie was in place, but the first pick in the third round is a good grab for him. After breaking the curse last year, this regime has earned my trust. Hopefully a draft pick, veteran and Peterman battling for a job.

Easy choice, Kaepernick. He is very outspoken, but does have experience and could be a servicable stop gap or backup in the right system. If he kept if off the field and dedicated himself to football, he could be useful somewhere. Hypothetically, regardless of who our starter is, I would take Kaep as a backup over Peterman anytime. Manziel has no track record of NFL success and an addiction issue which he has yet to prove that he can kick long term. IMO, he will need at least a couple years of sustained CFL success to even be thought of in the NFL again.

I would easily go for Jacksoville. I am not a Marrone fan but anyone takes precedence over New England unless its a scenario that directly effects buffalo in a playoff hunt. Its not even about not liking a division rival for me. New England is the Epitome of what I dislike about the current NFL. I dislike the brown nosing from the announcers, I hate the fact that ref calls often give them a 7 to 10 point cushion against opponents(in my opinion, when you factor the officiating in most Pats games, a team has to play good enough to beat New England by 10 instead of 1 to actually get the win). I dislike the creative new arbitrary interpretations of rules that tend to come up at least one or twice a year which happen to give New England an advantage at a key time. I cant stand the personalities of Brady, Bellicheck and Gronk. I dislike the extreme arrogance of Pats fans, many of which were casual fans or fans of different teams before 2001. I find it very hard to even watch a game with New England in it now. Them losing would make in much easier for me to enjoy the Super Bowl.

Keep TT and draft someone high. TT is not a long term option, but he is definitely capable of scoring more than what happened in the second half of the season. I put a lot of the blame for this year on a very depleted receiving group(Benjamin was an upgrade but essentially playing on one leg for most of his time here), a painfully conservative offensive system and starting the wrong linemen in some cases. Taylor was putting more points on the boards under a different system. Unless we get Alex Smith or Garoppolo, I don't see any available veteran that we can count on to do more than Taylor. Cousins in my opinion is not good enough to justify the cost. Bradford is a china doll. Bridgewater is a big question mark after the injury. Keenum is a slightly better version of Orton. Draft a QB-This is easy to defend. We eventually need a franchise quarterback and Taylor is not it. The draft is the best chance to do that. With a deeper than normal QB class and a high amount of early picks, it is now or never.

The news....I mean media entertainment nbcnews, cnn and foxnews sites are readily available for those who enjoy the increasing divide in this country. This site is supposed to be about football.

I know that your a troll, but both coaches did a good job with what they had this year.

Or he can focus on the win that him and his team earned, just a thought.

Last time the Bills were in the playoffs, January of 2000 -I was fresh out of college driving my first car that I owned a 1985 Buick Century. -Angelfire sites, ICQ and AOL IM were the social media of the time -WCW was still a pro wrestling promotion -Terrible music plagued the radio stations regardless of preferred genre, Napster was the way around it. -I was laughing at the overbearing obnoxious wing nut families that my family knew for wasting thousands of dollars on bulk food and prepping supplies over the two years before to prepare for the y2k while shaming the rest of us who weren't doing the same thing.

This is exactly it. Combine this with the traditional impatience that Buffalo fans have with quarterbacks and the views on Tyrod are inevitable. Don't forget when Kelly was in his prime, that there was a significant camp of fans that thought Kelly should be benched for Reich. Imagine what the boards would have looked like if the internet existed back then? Elite QB's are hard to come by. If Buffalo has Dalton, Mariotta, Winston, Tannehill, Bortles, Eli Manning, Flacco, Alex Smith or Stafford, I am convinced that he is being anointed as a worse starting option than any rookie or mediocre veteran that comes up in conversations in the same way that Taylor currently is. This does not mean that I think Taylor is elite, just that quarterbacks in Buffalo are put under a larger microscope than most other places.

I hold no grudge against Maclin. Players always choose what they think is the best fit and I don't remember him being disrespectful to Buffalo in any way when choosing to go elsewhere. Boldin on the other hand got what he deserved. Had he said upfront that the changes made him feel that Buffalo was no longer the opportunity that he thought it was after the trades, it would have sucked but been at least honest and understandable at the time. Instead he fabricated a spiritual calling to be on a social justice crusade which apparently was going to take place in Florida or Boston as soon as the playoff hunt came around. Sorry Boldin, your loss, not ours.

Thank you. Hopefully McCoy is ok, and this scenario does not come up.

To be fair, things looked very bleak after that San Diego game. That three game stretch in the middle of the season was as bad as I have ever seen Buffalo or any team perform in a three game stretch. I am sure that most of us including myself had 2008 and 2011 on their mind and were thinking "here we go again" McDermott and the team deserve a lot of credit for finishing 4-2 after that game and doing what they needed to get in. Great show of character and any doubts that anyone had about McDermott should be erased. Many teams in that scenario would have mailed it in and finished 5-11 or 6-10.

Um no, but this brings up a good question. If McCoy is done, what are the rules for signing someone when in the playoffs? Does being in the playoffs limit what they can do as compared ot the regular season? I honestly do not know this. I would assume that they would need to add someone even in they have faith in Murphy and Tolbert..

Taylor is an average QB and Buffalo is likely a 7-10 win team with him. It could be worse, look at the Peterman start, the 2015 London Jags game and week 17 last year, and that will give you an idea of the difference between average and horrible. Buffalo would be smart to draft and develop a quarterback, but dumb to ditch Taylor for at least another year or two.

No, but I would not blame those who did. Had I been with a couple of friends who I have watched years of Bills losses with, it may have been a different story. Once Baltimore took the lead, I had resigned myself to another year out. When Boyd got the TD on 4th down, I was stunned but in a good way, had to process it for an hour and tell myself that this was not going to somehow be reversed. Great first year for McDermott. There are some needs in the offseason, and a franchise QB should be drafted(keep Taylor until the new QB is ready) but a system with a winning culture is finally in place. As far as this year, it is found money from here on. Anything else is bonus. I actually think the Jags game is winnable.

Lets hope that all of us are MUCH happier in about four hours. Go Bills!

I was a BBMB refugee. I loved the board for the most part but it went downhill really fast in the last few months. Many good posters would "disappear" and towards the end it was Kellyto83td starting the same exact "don't resign Tyrod" thread multiple times a day, 2/3 of other threads started by one other member and bickering with no substance. I never had a personal run in with the mods but found it strange how some posters disappeared for almost nothing while others clearly trolled and/or personally attacked people daily without any consequence. It seemed like some players/coaches/staff were not allowed to be criticized while it was open season on others every day. Very inconsistent mods towards the end. This board has less posting but better overall quality. I've done more lurking than posting here(less than 200 posts in 10 months) but have enjoyed the experience. Glad to be here and hoping we get in the playoffs today. Maybe the closing of the BMBB was needed to break the playoff curse.

Depends on what Goodell wants and tells the officials in the four games to do. You would think that the fans would rather see an underdog story than another routine Baltimore or Tennessee team but Goodell wants large market teams with well known quarterbacks. He also loses a yearly story/punch line if Buffalo snaps their drought. Taking that aside, I have a feeling that Buffalo wins but misses out. Baltimore will likely crush Cincinnati and I don't see both Tennessee and San Diego losing. This has been a good start for McDermott. No one expected more than 6 wins this year but it is the first time in over a decade that a Bills game meant something in week 17.

Although you cant truly evaluate a quarterback in these conditions, Peterman was certainly better today. I remember one pass being off but everything else was good. Peterman and Benjamin were on fire at the end of the second half. He was doing well before his injury especially considering the conditions.

Mike Evans got a one game suspension for less. In my opinion Gronk should be suspended for however long White is out plus two extra games. Knowing the NFL, what will happen is. Hughes-Two game suspension for yelling at ref Hyde-One game suspension for pushing Gronk after Gronk did hit on white Gronk-500 dollar fine As you can tell, I have lost all faith in the NFL to have any level of fairness.

The team is 5 and 5 in a season where 9 or maybe even 8 wins may get you a wild card and despite that, it has never felt like playoffs is a far away as it does now.