dave mcbride

He had plenty of completions on intermediate throws last night before garbage time, and many of those were in tight windows. Plus his completion rate was very high. The jailbreaks, fumbles and running game failures doomed the offense.

This isn't an evidence-based argument. The QB is important, to be sure, but it doesn't begin and end with him. Football is the ultimate team game. Taylor played well enough to win a 21-17 game provided the Bills D held up its end (it didn't). Twice his receivers fumbled in FG territory, after all. I watched the game closely, and I watched jailbreak after jailbreak, with no one on the Bills line capable of handling superior talents like Leonard Williams or Mo Wilkerson. Hence the pocket collapsed almost instantaneously on far too many occasions. There is nothing a QB can do about that if a play design is to push the ball down the field. And just look at the first play of the game - that was an instance of the Bills being completely outschemed. It destroyed a possession.

Excellent post.

Not to excuse the gameplan, but sometimes they face off against better players. I don't care what the sack totals for the Jets' d-line are; they have a couple of monsters, one of whom - Leonard Williams - is significantly better and more talented than o-lineman on the Bills.

As I imply above, I don't a lot of Bills fans realize how good Leonard Williams actually is. Wilkerson is a longtime Bills killer too.

100 percent correct.

Please - on many of those sack plays, the designs were for deeper passes. Dennison was outschemed all night.

I think the Bills offense was outschemed from play one onward, so I can't argue with this. I actually thought Taylor played well overall, akin to the besieged troops at the Alamo. He had no chance on so many of those sacks, and many of those sacks were a product of a better scheme on the defensive side. Dennison did not attack the five-man fronts with quick passing designs until way too late. I'd put turnovers higher because they arguably cost the Bills 6 points on offense and 7 points on defense (they lost by 13 points). The first two fumbles were lost in FG territory, and Taylor's fumble (essentially garbage time, but still) led to 7 points for the Jets. By the way, Leonard Williams is a monster. He is the best player in that draft as judged per the position he plays (that is, I'd still take a qb over him): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_NFL_Draft. He is basically unblockable.

If you are a first round DE, you better friggin' be able to rush the passer. It's job 1 for a DE.

Transitioning from being that trap game for others to actually facing trap games is very, very difficult.

No, but i think it's inarguable that he was outschemed from the very first snap onward.

He was sacked once in the previous 2 games. I agree that he takes sacks, but he avoids tons and the Bills o-line is NOT a good pass blocking unit overall. Mills and Ducasse are legitimately bad pass blockers.

The redskins game in 2015 was significantly worse than this one.

Yet he had only been sacked Once in the previous 2 games. Sometimes it's actually the line.

Lol - 109.8 rating with zero turnovers despite being under complete siege all night. The jets should have 2-3 more sacks than they actually have, btw.

Game is over and he doesn't like to lose. Not a huge deal.

Lol. No, it will not.

Evidence that he is playing poorly - i mean real evidence??

Taylor's fault on that fumble, right?

Yup - the absence of Dareus is REALLY noticeable.

The playcalling is terrible for sure.

Are you watching what is happening on the field? Blaming taylor is foolish.

What is he supposed to to do there? Chuck it up? It's a 10 point game and it's a long way to a first because of how the possession started.

Don't downplay this loss if they in fact lose. It is a huge game.

No, he's completely under siege. Bledsoe would have been sacked 9 times tonight.