BigDingus

If the Bills hadn't lost in such pathetic fashion the past 2 weeks, I'd say we have a chance against the Chargers. But when the Chargers watch the game tape, they're going to be fired up on both sides of the ball. Their defense will just do what everyone is going to do, continue to stack the box and dare Tyrod to beat them (spoiler: he won't even try), while their offense will just run all over us the entire day. The Colts will probably beat us, as they've been playing hard in recent weeks. Jacoby Brissett, although not great, at least plays hard and takes the risks needed to win. They were competitive with the Steelers & barely lost this week 17-20, beat the Texans and lost 23-24 to Jacksonville in their last 3 games. Brissett has multiple 300+ yard passing games, and each of the last 3 weeks he's thrown for 2 TDs (more than Tyrod can say). And the Dolphins usually play us hard, but there's always a chance we get the turnover machine Jay Cutler. Luckily they traded away Ajayi before we played them, so we're safe from repeats of last year. We may split with them. We're definitely losing to the Pats twice, there's no point in even explaining that further. Playing the Chiefs in Arrowhead? Nothing good can come from that...It's scary to think what Kareem Hunt will do to us after today, he could break the first RB ever to break 300 yards rushing in a single game. Yeah...I can see 1 win, MAYBE 2. This will be the 3rd time in recent memory the Bills started 5-2 to collapse from there. So predictably sad.

He may as well be equally responsible for the defensive showing, because his terrible play consistently forced them back on the field moments after they just got off! After suffering for 5+ minutes of getting pounded, they immediately get thrown right back in without even a breather because Tyrod can't complete anything but a dump pass to a RB on 3rd & long (or really any other time). After using all of 1:30, the defense goes right back out there, yet again, to get bludgeoned by the Saints for long, extended drives. If Tyrod could you know, throw for more than 56 yards all game, maybe, just maybe, the defense wouldn't have been out there so damn much. But the Saints offense was given so many opportunities to get right back on the field and continue imposing their will because the Bills offense never stayed on the field. The second the Saints scored, they knew just moments later they were going to get to do it all over again, as it's too much to ask for Tyrod to even TRY to throw the ball to the first down marker.

it's crazy to think that the team Rex inherited was so damn talented, but he ran it into the gutter with McBeane finishing it off by getting rid of all the young talent. It's going to be fun wasting all these draft picks just to replace all those same positions... Doesn't really feel like we're "building" anything, just standing in place. We were a QB away from being really good...but since then we've gotten much OLDER and regressed far too much.

When you as a defender just were just on the field for 5+ mins getting the ball rammed down your throat, start walking to the bench to regroup and get some water, then before you even can sit down, the offense is already returning after using 1 minute of clock and suffering yet ANOTHER 3 & out, yeah, it gets demoralizing. As a defender, you know you're gassed and have to immediately return to the field to face another extended drive....time & time & time again. The offense probably never even broke a sweat. Taylor's whopping 56 yards and 1 completion to a WR all game really inspires confidence. The defense knew that they were on the ropes, and needed a breather, but Tyrod said "Nope! I'm resting today boys, get back out there!" as he returned to the bench following another dump pass on 3rd & long. Even if the defense managed to make some stops, what the hell would we have done with them? You could literally double Taylor's stat line (pretending he actually converted some 3rd downs) and he'd still only have 112 yards passing on 18 completions, with 2 being to WRs... The defense would still be gassed, still be screwed, and still take a pounding...

Oh shut it. He threw for 56 yards in the game. And for the 9th straight game, failed to lead even a single TD drive in the 1st quarter. The defense sucked, but that doesn't excuse the offense from sucking. The only games we've won this season can be attributed to the defense gifting so many turnovers to the offense, especially all those starting in great field position. Our offense was on the field for 18 minutes as opposed to the Saints who were on the field for 42 minutes. If you NEVER even attempt to throw the ball to the 1st down marker, always dumping it off on 3rd & long to the RBs, you NEVER will win. Taylor didn't even try to keep us in the game. Had he ever lead any drives, and converted on 3rd downs, the Saints offense wouldn't have had so, so, sooooo many drives to begin with! Tyrod & Co. would trot out, use about 1:30, then punt, putting the defense IMMEDIATELY back on the field for the Saints to roll all over.

Let me know when Tyrod doesn't check down on 3rd & long. It goes both ways. They only gave up 2 sacks. Opponents are stacking the box because they KNOW Taylor won't even throw to open receivers, much less hit them. He's got 1 on 1 coverage, with guys like 6'3 Jordan Matthews, 6'5 Kelvin Benjamin, 6'3 Charles Clay who are all much bigger than the DB's covering them the majority of the time. They're also athletic guys with very good hands. But throwing the ball in their general vicinity is nearly an impossible task for Taylor. Clay is just lucky he's also an outlet pass who Taylor can dump off to, otherwise he'd be ignored like the rest of the group. Even guys like Thompson get open and get seperation on the defender pretty often...Problem is Taylor hangs the ball too long or outright overthrows the pass instead. It is so, so, sooooo rare to see Tyrod hit anyone in stride that has beaten their man. Unless the DB has fallen over (and even then it's 50/50), Taylor isn't going to give these guys a fair opportunity to ever make plays for us. And one thing is absolutely certain - you cannot win a game, EVER, by throwing 5-8 yards short of the 1st down marker on 3rd and long. No matter what you want to say about anyone else, THAT is unacceptable and happens repeatedly throughout every game. If you won't even try to get a 1st down, it's impossible to win. That cannot be debated.

Even with all these picks, I'm still scared these guys don't know how to evaluate talent. If they think Tyrod is a good QB while passing on guys like Watson, it makes you wonder what will be different next year.... And remember the previous draft, how everyone said Goff & Wentz were taken too high because it was a terrible QB class? "Wait until next draft!" was repeated over & over. Then this year, same thing "Bad QB class, wait until next year!" Now, the consensus has changed once more, as people are saying the QB's in this draft are "overrated" and to wait until next year AGAIN. Fans (which includes me), seem to always dismiss each draft's QB's year in and year out. Guys like Russell Wilson & Prescott get drafted later, and even Derek Carr get skipped over by "professionals."

I've never "hated" Tyrod. I wish him nothing but the best. I hope week in and week out he'll recognize his mistakes and at least TRY to make some plays. But time & time again he shows who he cannot change. No matter how far we fall behind, he won't even attempt to throw beyond the 1st down marker on 3rd and long. How many times can he walk to the sideline after going 3 & out and not think "man, I should've at least tried to get a 1st down"? I rather risk turnovers than see the offense trotted out for 3 plays, go nowhere, and punt... He's a nice guy, I hope he's successful in every aspect of his life, and would thank him for simply being a Bill. Outside of that, he's not a good NFL QB, and we need to move on. I have no fantasies that Peterman is suddenly going to lead us to victory, but we're not going to win many more games, if any (unless it's against the Dolphins) for the remainder of the year, so better to see what we have now going into the draft.

Bingo! And most of the time in great field position. People also seem to forget that even with those turnovers, we often did next to nothing with them. We'd fail to get a first down even once, but be in FG range. When the defense gave us a turnover in our own territory, we punted. If the defense didn't score themselves on a return, the offense rarely scored a TD off of it. Teams now realize our offense won't ever move the ball, so simply avoid turnovers and they'll cruise to an easy win.

I know! He wasn't allowed to pad out his stats making his box results look far more accurate in comparison to his actual play. Tyrod has officially taken the mantle of Colonel Checkdown. He easily outranks Captain Checkdown Trent at this point.

LOL in just a few minutes of game time, Peterman had nearly as many completions, more yards, and a TD. 7/10 passing for 79 yards compared to 9/18 passing for 56 yards. Garbage time or not, that's miserable that a starting QB in the NFL is THAT awful.

Hell, look at someone like Russell Wilson, who has 24 career game winning drives, and in the last 3 years (since Tyrod has been playing) has 9. We're talking being behind, but having only 1 more chance to win the game. All the pressure in the world, and Wilson has 9 of those alone, while Tyrod has only won 3 games total out of 21 where we even fell behind by a single point PERIOD in the 4th quarter. Forget game-winning drives, just having the ABILITY to POTENTIALLY/MAYBE win a game with some adversity late in the game would be a massive improvement. But that's not how he's wired. Prescott, only drafted last year, has 6 game-winning drives. Even Trent Edwards managed 5 game-winning drives in his illustrious career. Out of 273 NFL QBs, Taylor is tied for DEAD LAST with a whopping 3 4th-quarter comebacks. He shares the honor with greats such as Kelly Holcomb, JP Losman, JaMarcus Russell, Heath Shuler, Blaine Gabbert and Todd Collins. QBs who haven't played nearly as long or had nearly the amount of opportunities Taylor has had yet still have more include Jameis Winston, Brock Osweiler, RG 3, Teddy Bridgewater, Dak Prescott, Marcus Mariota, Blake Bortles, etc. These guys aren't exactly world-beaters, and have piloted some pretty awful teams. But just sheer luck & odds, along with volume of opportunities should allow Tyrod more than freaking 3! Want to know some others who put him to shame, may with even less chances than him? Brian Hoyer (6), Sam Bradford (7), Kirk Cousins (8), Ryan Fitzpatrick (9), Mark Sanchez (10), Matt Schaub (11), Ryan Tannehill (12), Derek Carr (13), Andy Dalton (15), Joe Flacco (19), Jay Cutler (23).... And man, the names in between those are some pretty uninspiring players like Rex Grossman (7), Jason Campbell (7), Tim Tebow (6), Ty Detmer (5), Josh McCown (5), Billy Joe Tolliver (5), Kyle Orton (8), Josh Freeman (9), Tim Couch (10), John Skelton (6).... I mean, this shows you that even mediocre QBs, on crap teams, some with even less opportunities than Tyrod or are career journeymen/backups at least have proven more reliable in the 4th quarter than Taylor, who is an all-time historically bad QB when it matters.

How many drives for negative yards, via dump passes, sacks & penalties do we need to see before people realize Tyrod does not have the confidence of this team. "Receivers aren't getting open!" They were open, and often, for the first half of this game. Saints were stacking the box, which left guys 1 on 1. We have big guys with good hands that could catch even semi-decent throws if they were within arm's reach. But that's too much to ask of Tyrod. If I was a WR, and I knew the best I could hope for was an overthrown pass or 2 and a bunch of run blocking, followed by sitting on the bench 90% of each game...yeah, I'd stop going all out every play too. At best you add 1 reception over a 3 hour game to your stats, at worst you get seriously injured. And we all know Tyrod doesn't audible and can't read defenses, so even if the opposing linemen said "Hey, we know you're going to dump off to Tolbert on 3rd & long," he'd still stare down Tolbert, and try to throw directly to him...either leading to a batted down ball, a tackle for a loss, or short gain. He's got no field awareness. "Clutch" is the exact opposite of Taylor.

Also, does the defense make him throw behind the line on 3rd & long? Does the defense make him overthrow WR's? Does the defense make him dump off to RBs every pass? When over 90% of his completions are to RBs & TEs on check downs, does the defense make him do that? Does our defense make him short, leading to multiple balls batted down at the line each game? Does our defense make him stare down his primary WR the entire play? Does our defense make him lead the league in 3 & outs? Over 3 years as a starter, why does he have a 3-17 record (about to be 3-18) when we fall behind at ANY point in the 4th quarter? Does our defense make it so he can't lead even ONE 1st Quarter TD drive through 10 weeks? Watch, he'll get some garbage time stats, bump up his completion percentage a bit, maybe even get a late TD, and you guys will point to his "efficiency" from his box stats. The only reason we had ANY wins this season is BECAUSE OF THE DEFENSE gifting Tyrod & the offense a league-leading amount of turnovers. Do you even pay attention to what happens with those turnovers? Half the time, we don't even get a single first down, but due to field position we're able to kick a FG. The rest of the time, we punt, and on the rarest of rare occasion, a TD. But overall, the offense is bailed out by the defense, and even then we go 3 & out on turnovers plenty. If the defense doesn't score themselves off the turnover, or give us great starting field position, the offense does NOTHING. And here we are now, seeing what happens when the defense doesn't give the offense multiple extra chances per game, setting them up in prime field position. The offense does nothing on their own. Even when we KNOW coming into the game opposing defenses are going to stack the box, leaving receivers 1 on 1, Tyrod still goes for the dump pass, guaranteeing we'll never move the ball.

You're right, teams with no defense also can never score. Oh wait, they're not mutually exclusive!

I genuinely feel sorry for the WRs on our team, especially Benjamin. They spend so much time practicing each week, and then so much time on the field Sundays, just to never even touch the ball. We might as well put fullbacks & runningbacks at all skill position slots since Tyrod is incapable of throwing to anyone else.

He has ONE completion to a WR, Benjamin, for the first pass of the game. From there, 6 completions to RB's, 2 to TE's, averaging 3.3 yards per completion. Yes, the defense sucks. But the offense goes 3 & out over and over and over and over again. Taylor overthrows targets that have clear separation and huge catch radius's over and over and over again. On 3rd & long, Taylor checks down and dumps off to the RB EVERY SINGLE TIME. What other "franchise" QB can't lead even ONE TD drive in the first quarter through week 10?! This offense hasn't scored a TD the entire f'n season in the 1st quarter. No franchise QB, and not even awful QB's, are that consistently bad they can't even luck out into a TD drive... Midway through the 3rd quarter, and your "franchise" QB doesn't even have 60 yards passing? He makes Trent Edwards look like Brett Favre the gun-slinger in comparison. In Bledsoe's first season, our defense wasn't stopping anything either, but we still stayed in games because the offense didn't go 3 & out repeatedly. You can have a horrible defense & still look semi-competitive in games. Taylor doesn't even have the motivation or drive to even ATTEMPT to get us out of a hole. We're 3-17 in games we're down at any point in the 4th quarter under Tyrod. He rather just get off the field on 3rd down than even risk getting a 1st down. Brees, a real franchise QB, time & time again converts on 3rd & long with ease. The WR's play for him and make fantastic catches even in coverage because they believe in him. Bills WRs are tired of getting laid out for horrible passes, and have no faith in him. This is just unacceptable in every single way.

Yeah, can he please throw dump passes on 3rd and long more please? Can we go 3 & out more often please? Can he overthrow more WR's please?

For another 7 yards short of the first down marker? How many f'ing times are you going to make excuses that Taylor doesn't even TRY to get a first down? Ever?

LOL and speak of the devil, 3 & 12 and Tyrod throws a dump pass over the middle for 4 yards which gets juggled & picked off. Scrub, no-desire to win QB. He has no instinct to WIN, and lacks the drive to even TRY to put the team on his shoulders. No football IQ at all... When you're consistently 3rd and long, why do you throw 6 or more yards behind the 1st down marker every single friggin time?!

He has no desire to risk turnovers, so on 3rd & 13, he'll always check down or throw behind the LoS. With Benjamin, Clay and Matthews, Tyrod has people with big catch radius's to throw to, but even still he'll lob it behind them or way over them. Otherwise expect Tolbert & McCoy to catch a bunch of passes for no gain.

A QB that can see over the line, and every other pick be either a d-linemen or o-linemen is what we need in the draft. Keep Incognito & Hughes, with Woods as a reserve. That's it. Scrap everyone else on these lines.

It's disgusting watching this team. Everything from the terrible offense to the defense that can't defend a pass or tackle is just revolting to watch. I'm sure everyone would love to say "Dareus wouldn't have helped, get over it!" but watching how bad this team plays says otherwise.

The thing is boxing (and similarly the NFL) are both more detrimental & injury prone than MMA/UFC regardless of how it looks. I feel like it should be stated again, but CTE isn't predominantly caused by concussions, rather it's caused by REPEATED smaller blows to the head that consistently rock the brain back & forth into impacting the skull. This builds up damage over time and is HIGHLY dangerous. CTE is more widely found and more severity in players like linemen, who every single play collide. Do they get concussions when they hit? No. But lining up 1 v 1 with the guy across from you, slamming helmets into each other causes the brain to impact the skull time & time again throughout the entire game. Just like boxing, where you eat hundreds of jabs and smaller shots, some flush to the face & some not, round after round after round. Your brain doesn't have a cushion for these impacts, so it constantly collides with the skull creating so so much damage. Also, in boxing if a person gets knocked down, they are then given 10 seconds to get back up & rejoin the fight. If you took punishment to the brain that causes you to lose your faculties and fall on your ***, see double vision & stars, and walk around in haze, your brain has already suffered tremendously. Allowing boxers to then stand back up, and take further punishment exponentially destroys the brain. The fact they're allowed to do this several times in a match just makes it all that much more dangerous. Your bruised brain is just getting smashed left & right AFTER already suffering massive damage. And that's why MMA is usually safer from a long term perspective on your health. If you get knocked out, the ref jumps in to block off further punishment. If you just get knocked down and aren't defending yourself, the ref jumps in. And although some fights drag out, most fighters are far more careful when throwing punches due to smaller gloves. There are only three, 5 minute rounds (or in championship matches, five rounds), and although they throw FAAAAR less strikes than an average boxing round which is only 3 minutes. So they throw far fewer strikes, land far less strikes, even though their rounds are almost twice as long. Coupled with that, you have only a few rounds as opposed to 12 in boxing. Finally, as we all know, boxing is ONLY punching, and only from the waist up. So the target for these strikes is the head or body 100% of the time, with most fighters targeting the head for the majority of their strikes. In MMA, strikes include kicks to the opponent's legs, which makes up a large portion of the shots taken, while many fights focus on grappling, submissions and wrestling. When you're submitted via arm bar, rear naked choke, kimura, etc. you aren't risking severe brain trauma. When an entire match has only 50 strikes landed, 2/3 being kicks to the legs & body, you again minimize potential brain injury. In a flash knockout (like Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo), you aren't letting the combatant take 200-300 shots to the head over 36 minutes. When someone's eyes roll back in their head and are no longer defending themselves, the ref doesn't sit there and let the fighter regain composure, situate themselves, then throw them back into the fight to take further brain punishment. So even though that's a lot, it's smart to remember the majority of damage from CTE is caused by smaller, repeated impact to the head, not just concussions.

No guys! We shouldn't go after a QB who's been on IR and coming off surgery! Remember how smart it was to dismiss Drew Brees? If Luck because available, we should ignore him. We wouldn't want to be stuck with someone like that.