dave mcbride

I question the basic decision about where to throw it. You have to push the ball down the field regardless when there's so little time left on the clock and no TOs. You just have to hope your receiver makes a play. I respect throwing an INT in that situation, but not the one that he threw. It was, flat out, a bad decision and slightly cowardly to boot. A seven-yard out to a weak receiver to about the 45 yard line matched up against one of the very best cbs in the NFL with 24 seconds and no TOs is a bad decision, pure and simple.

Yes, and the fact that the Jags were stacked to stop the run made it pretty likely that it would have resulted in a second and goal from the 3 or 4 yard line given what we know about the Bills' line play in situations like that. Why people have a problem with that call is beyond me. The problem was the OPI, which you can't account for. Complain about Taylor all you want - and he was bad yesterday - but complaining about this call strikes as very wrongheaded. EVERY team in the NFL runs pass plays in short goal-to-go situations. Every team. Running it up the middle against a stacked, elite D isn't always the best play, and if they did run it, that would have been what you'd have seen.

People say that the qb pool is overrated EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Last year, numerous observers said it would be wise to hold off on a qb until 2018 because the qb talent would be so much better this year. I'm not buying it, and remain convinced that this is one of the better qb drafts in a long while.

Decent piece, but let's not overinterpret the pass at the goal line. It was a safe play which should result in either an incompletion or a td. The wildcard was benjamin's OPI, which neither taylor nor dennison planned for. That play is on benjamin. It really is ok to try and pass it in at the goal line. The other 31 teams do it all of the time.

But that was at least challengeable.

Wow - true. Good observation.

Yes it did.

Regardless of whether the bills would have scored or not, it was fairly obvious PI. I'm sorry -- it's gotta be called.

It didn't determine the game at all, but it was not an INT according to the way they pretty much always call that. Al Riveron is an effing joke.

Oh come on! That wasn't a drop. It was a classic "pass defensed" play. Great play by the defender (Jones), who was right on it. It is amazing what some people call "drops." His qb had a terrible game and badly underthrew him on a deep pass where he had a step on the defender. I think he's a great fit in Dallas because Dez Bryant, a formerly great player, has lost a step. Bryant is still good, but he's not what he was.

Man, Poz is likable: http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/05/paul-posluszny-talks-about-his-journey-from-buffalo-to-jacksonville/

Gronk made the first team. Looks like he'll be collecting that incentive dough after all ...

Prisco is a) a terrible analyst, b) a Jacksonville homer, and c) a mobile qb hater. Whatever one thinks of Taylor, arguing that Mariota was better than him this season is an utterly laughable proposition.

Pretty amusing - https://deadspin.com/here-is-my-49er-centric-conspiracy-theory-about-the-pat-1821806153 - with Guerrero as the Yoko Ono in this soap opera!

Well, he did have 4 straight very good seasons (2011-14) for the Bills, so I'm not sure I buy the inconsistency argument. Incidentally, he had a good final game in Buffalo against TB.

Dareus has been playing well for the Jags, fwiw.

No. His receivers really let him down in that game early, truth be told, and OSU is loaded on defense. He's a legit number one overall pick.

Yup.

Smart move by Darnold. He had a good season overall and has all of the tools and measurables (and wins). I’ll be shocked if he’s not drafted #1 overall. Great prospect.

25th plus in ALL of the first three rounds! (KC, LA, Philly) The third rounder the Bills traded for Benjamin was their own.

Coincidentally, another USC QB faced the same option and chose to stay for his senior year and made the right decision: Carson Palmer. http://www.talkoffamenetwork.com/palmer-why-not-leaving-usc-early-was-never-on-my-radar/ He had a great senior year and was the consensus #1 pick. He then had a good (and long) NFL career.

Remember when the Bills fired Andre Reed as a team spokesman after he tweeted out the Bills' love for (and intent to take) Ponder right before the draft? The Vikings jumped on him, and IIRC the team blamed Reed for spilling the beans. He was canned immediately after the draft. In retrospect, he performed a great service to the organization.

Good stuff, but I'd add that the mismatch isn't just Tyrod. Shady ain't Arian Foster/Terrell Davis, and he forcing him into such a system seems wrongheaded to me. Wasn't that Chip Kelly's beef with Shady too? If so, it would seem to me that figuring out how to work with a world-class talent should be operative, not remaining wedded to a system. It does, however, sound like you think Dennison adjusted at least a little over the course of the season. Regardless of scheme, he just seems unimaginative to me. The second half results are indicative of that.

Fantastic! Thanks. Sounds like we're not running the right scheme for the talent we have.

Sorry - I meant a quarter-minus. From Bill Barnwell: After Week 4: Tre'Davious White, CB, Buffalo Bills After Week 9: White So, with no other rookie pass-rusher besides Garrett playing well enough to receive votes, this battle comes down to two players: White and Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore. With all due respect to guys like Jamal Adamsand Marcus Williams, who have spent the season playing safety at a high level, it would be shocking if one of these two corners didn't win the award. I don't think anybody would argue that Lattimore has been anything but the best rookie corner in the league when he has been on the field. No team has asked more of any rookie corner than the Saints of Lattimore, and he has consistently come through. Much of the Saints' improvement can be traced to Lattimore's presence; consider that through Week 16, they had allowed a passer rating of just 74.3 with Lattimore in the lineup, which rose to 97.2 when Lattimore was on the bench or injured. (Data for Week 17 isn't yet available.) White's candidacy, then, is based on availability. Lattimore missed three games and played only six snaps in a fourth, costing him what amounts to one-quarter of the season. He played 711 defensive snaps. White didn't miss a game and played 98.6 percent of Buffalo's defensive snaps. The 27th overall pick, White made it all the way to 1,056 snaps, more than any other rookie defender. And while he might best be known for incurring Gronkowski's wrath on a cheap shotthat earned Gronk a one-game suspension, White has been an above-average cornerback all season. This race should be closer than some people make it out to be, if only because availability should matter. Twelve games from Lattimore and four games of P.J. Williams as a starting cornerback isn't the same thing as 16 games of Lattimore. At the same time, though, Lattimore was playing Pro Bowl-caliber football when he was on the field. He looked like one of the best cornerbacks in the league of any experience level. Even with the missing games, Lattimore has done enough to win this award.