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So, Taylor is so bad that the majority of fans here (and some commentators as well apparently) think that just about any of the has been or never were veteran FA QBs available not named Brees, Cousins or Bradford will be better, but then in the next breath they expect other teams will fall all over themselves to trade for him. That's really stupid, dudes. If Taylor were as useless as the denziens of TBD believe, no team will trade for him -- and if teams are willing to trade for him, maybe the Bills ought to consider keeping him until they at least have 1 QB on the roster better than Nathan Peterman, and preferably 2.

To those of you making snarky comments, remember that there but for God's grace go you or somebody you love or care about.

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Well, expecting much more than a backup QB from a QB drafted in the 2nd or 3rd round is like putting your money down on the lottery IMO. Between 2000 and 2014, the only mediocre or better starting QBs to come out of Rounds 2-3 of the draft are: 2000 - Drew Brees (2) 2002 - Josh McCown (3) 2004 - Matt Schaub (3) 2011 - Andy Dalton (2) 2012 - Russsell Wilson (3) 2012 - Nick Foles (3) 2013 - Mike Glennon (3) 2014 - Derek Carr (2) 2014 - Jimmy Garoppolo (2) That's only 25% "success" with setting the bar low enough that McCown and Glennon make the cut (9/36). If you raise the bar higher and remove those two the success percentage drops to less than 20% (7/36. Unless the Bills sign Cousins, I wouldn't be good with taking a round 2 or 3 QB unless he was somebody who was considered a first rounder but who fell in the draft for some reason. A better OL would never turn Chad Henne or Brock Osweiler into decent starting QBs.

Most WRs take 3 years to reach their primes, and many never do. Nelson Agholor was another young WR who was largely considered a bust until his third season (2017). WR is a much harder transition from college to pros than most fans realize, especially when they see a handful of WRs breaking out as rookies.

I disagree with this because I think that the Bills need to have a firm plan on how they want to move forward, because without it, they can't set priorities. It shouldn't be a detailed plan with specifics but they definitely need an outline to guide them from step 1 to step 7 or 10 or whatever. The first few steps are detailed and specific and the later steps are naturally more fluid, but the plan needs to be "set" enough so that the Bills don't waste resources pursuing tangents. They need to have decided already on who among their own FAs they are going to re-sign and who they are going to let walk. They also need to have decided who they want to release and who they want to try to trade as well as what compensation they want. They need to have decided how they are going to proceed in FA: pursue a few big names or look for affordable but promising FAs coming off their rookie contracts (like Poyer). The Bills also need to have a good idea about which positions they want to fill with FAs and which they want to fill through the draft. By now, the FA list should be specific with names and ranks for each position. That's based on the available FA pool, who might join it, and what their scouts tell them about the quality and quantity of positions they need to fill in the draft. The Bills should also have a list of draft prospects they wish to interview at the Combine next week. Successful organizations don't happen haphazardly. One of the reasons for the drought was that the Bills were run without solid planning for a couple of decades. In NE, they draft an OLer in the first or second round every few years so that as their starters leave, they have a youngster ready to step in. When Pro Bowler Matt Light retired, Nate Solder stepped in. The Bills haven't ever done that since Bill Polian left. Instead the Bills cut Pro Bowl guard Ruben Brown in 2004 and didn't replace him with an NFL caliber guard until 2009 (Andy Levitre). After trading Jason Peters to Philly (and getting fleeced) in 2009, the Bills didn't add a quality LT until 2012. Having a plan doesn't mean that the team doesn't ever deviate from it when circumstances require. A set plan is a roadmap of how to get to be a team that wins regularly, and hopefully, a lot. Yeah, there's detours and occasionally roadblocks, but without an idea of where you want to go and how to get there, you just spin your wheels in the mud. I'm hopeful that the Bills have at least gotten themselves a roadmap.

If the Bills signed McKown for $10 million, they would be paying $18.6 million in cap space for a starting QB not nearly as good as Taylor. That sounds like a plan because we all know that it's not possible for Taylor to play better in a new offense after one bad season in a lousy situation while McKown is surely going to be better than Taylor based on putting up numbers not all that dissimilar to Taylor's 2017 numbers.

This is news? He's obviously been monitoring TBD and has spun the most popular ideas into one article. BTW, #2 AND #5 are essentially the same thing -- moving on from Taylor implies that they need two QBs, a starter and a rookie.

He's on the Bills ... ergo, better year.

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So, why don't you apply for some of those choice jobs with your state or local government so you can get yourself a secure job and a pension if you're so jealous of public employees? Not well educated enough (teacher, engineer, bank examiner, computer programmer, accountant, lawyer, etc)? Not brave enough (law enforcement, fireman, border agent, park ranger)? Not skilled enough (heavy equipment operator, building inspector, facility manager)? Not up to dealing with troubled, scary, disgusting people (social workers, mentally ill, convicts, parolees)? Or maybe you don't like public employee salaries which tend to lag behind similar positions in most technical, medical, business, and legal fields except at the entry level.

That's what happened in 2013 ... Cya, dude. And he was short to boot. I really don't think the Bills are likely to trade Taylor unless they were to make a deal with Cleveland for the #4 pick with Taylor as their bridge QB.

IMO, this should actually make the "draft a QB" crowd very happy. If true, it seems a pretty strong indication that the Bills aren't going to pursue Cousins as a long term starter and are going to draft a QB.

It might be realistic but fans aren't realistic. Unless the team was good enough to win a Super Bowl or two (like Eli), my guess most would be very unforgiving. Getting an elite QB is the only way to "win" after giving up a bunch of picks to trade up to the top 5 for a QB.

Wentz significantly improved his play, too, from his rookie season to his sophomore. Taking a big step forward in his second year as a starter is usually a sign that a young QB is the real deal as demonstrated by guys like Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger, and Russel Wilson among others.

Dude, I'm much more tolerant of QBs than a lot of posters here -- I know this simply because I don't hate Tyrod or Fitzy simply because they weren't franchise QBs -- but if the Bills gave up 4 or 5 picks to move up to the top of the draft and all they got was somebody only about as good as Cutler, Flacco, Dalton or Tannehill, I'd be po'd big time. I wouldn't be upset if the Bills sat at 21 and got a clone of one of them, but giving up the tops of two drafts for a Flacco or Tannehilll is criminal by any standard anyone could possibly devise ... and the Buffalo Bills fan base in general isn't nearly as tolerant as I am.

Actually, Eli wasn't technically a trade-up as he was traded for Rivers and picks. I think that might have been true of Elway, too. Between the 2000 and 2015 drafts, trade ups for first round QBs yielded 3 fails: Losman (2004), Sanchez (2009), and Griffin (2012). I don't believe you. Look at all the whining about Watkins "not being worth 2 firsts". If the Bills gave up a boatload of picks to move into the Top 5 to take a QB and he wasn't at least as good as Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees (ie, an elite QB), he'd be crucified, so the OP's criteria is probably far more realistic about fans' expectations than yours. Not delusional at all. Maybe you're willing to pay Nieman Marcus prices for Walmart quality but most people aren't. I don't doubt that knowing how both QBs turned out, many if not most Giants fans would say that they'd have preferred that their team have kept Rivers. Eli's two Super Bowl victories have been the only reason that Giants fans haven't turned on him although those victories may not save him if he doesn't play better in 2018.

If a team gets a solid solid starter or a reliable sub or rotational player out of any guy drafted on Day 3 (Rounds 4-7) that's a bonus not "a miss" IMO. It's virtually impossible for Day 3 guys to "bust" because the ceiling for Day 3 players is probably ST player. Most Day 3 guys don't make it out of preseason unless they can play ST or win a slot on a practice squad. Corner was a "hit".

I have no problem with an OLer at 21 or 22, but drafting a DB in the first will tell me that however much the new regime seems to be an improvement over the old regime, nothing much seems to change. It's not like the Bills don't need an upgrade at several other positions ... say RB, DT, LB ... even if they couldn't trade up or didn't want the QB(s) they could get.

I think Jauron had significant input into whom the Bills drafted because most of the players drafted during his tenure tended to fit the mold that Jauron liked best: fast, smaller players or "lunchpail" players. During this period (2006-2009), the only "star" or "difference maker" that the Bills drafted was Marshawn. Brandon came to the Bills from MLB where his claim to fame was that he successfully deconstructed the Florida Marlins, ruthlessly selling off the team's personnel assets and plunging the Marlins from first to worst in a single season. Since he became Wilson's surrogate with the Bills, he was undoubtedly good at seeing that the Bills improved their bottom line no matter how poorly organized/run the Bills were as a football team, and that's what counted with Wilson.

The Browns could take Barkley at #1 and a QB other than Rosen at #4 ... or another player at #4 if they signed Cousins ... and avoiding getting sucked into a pissing contest with Rosen in the process. I'm not saying that the Browns should or would do that, but with 2 firsts in the top five, a boatload of other picks, and plenty of cap space, they have lots of options. Trading away one of their premier picks to get additional lower ones when they already have plenty just doesn't seem to make sense.

I think this is very likely, far more likely than the Giants taking a QB with that pick while Eli is still on the roster.

I'm with the others who don't think Cousins goes to the Jests. I don't think living in the NYC metro necessarily appeals to him. I'm not sure why you are so convinced that Cousins is going to bust, but the reality is that any QB not named Tom Brady struggles to carry an offense when they don't have much of one, including Aaron Rodgers when most his WRs were knocked out of games late in the season a few years ago. Cousins is at least on a par with Dalton and Flacco IMO, and Flacco won a Super Bowl. I agree. I think with Minnesota it depends upon whether they are interested in Cousins; I think they keep Keenum and Bridgewater myself. I believe I read somewhere that Jax just gave Bortles an extension, so that means that they're out of the Cousins sweepstakes, leaving Denver, Phoenix, and the Bills.

Oakland has taken two kickers in the first round: punter Ray Guy with #23 in 1973 and place-kicker Sebastian Janikowski with #17 in 2000. Guy was inducted into the HOF in 2014.