Dr. Who

Plus one.

I am a skeptic on Taylor, but I am rooting for him and hope I am pleasantly surprised. I certainly expect Taylor will look significantly better than the pre-season. Still feel bad he doesn't have Sammy to throw to.

I don't understand it, either.

Nice Tolstoy allusion, but I actually thing the truth is otherwise.

I remember before the draft, Bill Polian was hyping OBJ. Still think Sammy can have a great career if he stays healthy and has a decent qb.

Trading Sammy and keeping Ducasse are the moves that irritate me the most. I have no idea if this regime will succeed, but I'm pretty sure it will all come down to whether they end up with a franchise qb or not. The rest of the team matters, of course, but qb is the engine for long term playoff success.

If they drop Yates to do it, fine.

I foresee a long year ahead and this topic will keep cropping up in the main forum. Can't say I am confident in the new regime. Cannot fathom the logic of much of their decision making, but hopefully it works out.

SF is supposed to be interested in Cousins. I can't imagine a moderate price given competition for Cousins, but your view is certainly defensible. The benefit of hitting on a drafted qb is franchise stability for over a decade, so I prefer the greater risk of drafting potential.

If they get a franchise qb, they will probably succeed. If they don't, they won't.

Cousins will be 30 next year, won't he? And I'm not really convinced he's elite, franchise qb. I take the opposite view. Evaluate and draft a young guy.

Yeah, unfortunately, I think this is correct. Both are bad.

Folks get attached to that sort of player. Easy to root for. Now for the hard one: Ducasse. Explain.

It's the only thing that makes giving Vlad all those reps rational.

The answer long-term to the qb situation is the 2018 draft. I doubt concussion protocol is going to keep Taylor and Yates from playing week one, but if it does, I'm not sure someone who becomes available will actually be better than and more prepared than Peterman.

I was hoping we would retain Kromer. Castillo so far does not inspire even a glimmer of hope. Agree with your takes for the most part.

Ugh. I sometimes find your analysis too negative, but how can one argue any of this? Castillo and Sammy trade make me wonder if the new guys have a clue.

Plausible guess at where the Bills end up. The worst possible outcome, really. Pain and absolutely awful are just assessments.

Yeah, I like the standing buffalo, too. Otherwise, they should stick with the current unis, which are quite nice.

Fans will tolerate a bad year better than a mediocre year, imo, because it will improve the chances of getting a franchise qb.

I went door to door for Pat Mahomes last year. Since then, I've decided to wait till jumping in on my next cult, but leave a pamphlet and I may get back to you.

Or, Watkins had an injury that often takes two years to fully heal. He is elite when healthy; he is healthy. We bought high and traded low. Watkins, Matthews, and Jones sounds like a much better receiving corps, don't it? Peterman is not a high potential kid. He's likely a quality backup if he reaches his potential. Beane and McD do not have a track record, so whether one is optimistic or not, it is speculation either way. I think trading Sammy was foolish, but it isn't a bad year to be bad, given the quality of the 2018 draft. My guess is we are tanking without coming out and saying so and the new fellas feel they have the go-ahead from Terry and Kim to do so.

I grant that holistically, one should probably view it that way. I still think a probable 2018 potential franchise qb would be in a better position with Sammy as a #1 WR, but that is a hypothetical that will never play out, so you can't compare it to whatever actually happens.

Well stated. If Sammy stays healthy, this will go down as one of the worst trades in Bills' history.

Yes, that is painting the bleakest possible scenario and interpretation. I don't feel compelled to accept it, but if true, obviously your conclusion is logical. Btw, Sammy should have been targeted much more. I don't blame him for complaining about that.