MadBuffaloDisease

From what I've heard from people who heard Jauron's post-game interview, he was impressed with many of JP's plays, was more concerned about the fumbles than the INT (leads me to believe it was Reed's fault), and that there won't be a change in the pecking order. To me that says JP is THE starter. BTW, one thing that's been lost is that it was raining heavily for about 10 minutes during the 1st half.

It will cost $100K to release him.

At this point, after missing over 2 weeks with an injury, I CAN say that JP is the better QB. He should be the opening day starter and Nall should be made the backup and given an opportunity to be the starter later-on. As for GB, Nall's lackluster play forced GB to draft Rodgers.

ROSEN'D!

Everyone's entitled to his/her opinion. Me I'm just a GHF (Glass Half Full) type.

Think about this: in the first half where mostly starters played, the Bengals scored 14 of their 27 points on a fumble and INT return, and scored another 6 points on fumbles that were within FG range. That's 20 points that the defense could largely do nothing about (I guess they could have gotten turnovers after JP's fumbles, to save 6 points, but...).

Why give Nall a chance if it's a rebuilding year? He's been in the NFL for 5 years and the Packers gave-up on him and drafted a replacement LAST year for Favre, and let him go this year. If anything, your argument says we should start JP regardless and if he falters, cut him next year and bring in a new guy to compete with Nall.

Because other teams don't use it as one. It's starters against starters in the first half in the 3rd pre-season game, and mostly scrubs in the 4th pre-season game. Nall has missed too much time.

Exactly what I've been saying. With Nall, it's "too little, too late." But just because JP might be named the starter for the season, it doesn't mean that Nall can't win the job if JP falters and Nall plays well in relief.

Sorry VA but with it being just one WEEK before the 3rd pre-season game, you know the "dress rehearsal" for the regular season, I don't believe the Bills should continue to jerk around JP and the other QB's just because Nall tossed a 9-yard TD pass on a drive that began at the Bengals' 18 yard line. Like I said, the INT was a miscommunication between JP and Reed (and likely Reed's fault) and the fumbles were fluky and hardly a worrisome trend.

Depends on ones definition of "reasonable." If by "reasonable" you means NOT taking the guy your scout friend said wouldn't make it, then I'm unreasonable.

No, not really.

For a relatively young offense in a new system, you can't expect miracles immediately. And as for the defense, like I said above, tough to defense stuff that's pretty much indefensible. Unless you're saying they should have forced turnovers.

He lost the ball. Seriously, some say he had enough time, others say Gandy got beaten.

Yep. He's better than the other guys and still learning.

The Bengals scored 13 points off of turnovers with virtually NO contribution from the offense (the INT was returned for a TD and the 2nd fumble was well within Graham's FG range, while the first fumble was ALSO withing his FG range, but just needed a few more yards to make it more comfortable). Overall not so horrible.

Their backups are better than ours.

Possibly, but like I said, if they look at last year's stats as an indicator, JP's not prone to fumbling when getting sacked. And in a real game, I doubt that 2nd sack ever happens since they'd probably run the ball with 35 seconds left in the half and go into halftime. As for the INT, I'd like to know it was Reed's fault. But that still means that Reed is a screw-up and Marv wasted money on re-signing him.

As for JP's 2 sacks and fumbles which led to 6 points, last year he was sacked 26 times and fumbled only once. I doubt it's something to worry about.

Ditto.

Time to put Nall in there. I've seen enough of Holcomb.

What wasn't the good decision? Holding onto the ball too long? Already covered that. And I'd rather my 3rd year guy have a strong arm and make bad decisions than my 11 year vet have a weak arm and make bad decisions.

Yeah, THAT'S what we need. A career backup stepping-up.

Actually it was 13, and maybe just 6 if Reed ran the wrong route, as I suspect he did. And if anyone needs to carry them, it's the defense and ST's. The Bills have a good secondary and LB'ing corps, and seem to have the interior presence and RDE set.