Albany,n.y.

Tyrod is only 20% behind that for his 2.5 games in Cleveland, These bridge QBs aren't worth their tolls.

At a backup salary Tyrod is a good backup. At $16 million he's not worth the salary cap drain. Tyrod made the right choice when he signed his original contract with the Bills that made it possible for him to get big bucks if he became the starter. He maxed out his earning potential by going to a team with EJ Manuel & Matt Cassel as their QBs. Next year he'll go back to making a backup's salary with certain incentives if he starts x amount of games. He's been in the NFL for 8 years and will probably be in the league for a few more. Overall, not bad for an undersized QB with limited ability who started off as a 6th rounder due to his obvious limitations.

I say pro for 1 reason: I have no rooting interest in any of the colleges that are playing. I went to Fredonia and they didn't have a football team. Why would I have a rooting interest in some college that I never went to in a community I've never been to? I've lived in Buffalo, including a season I was within walking distance of the stadium. I can root for the Bills and for or against teams that have a direct affect on the Bills standing. Just as bad are the fans who predict one of the other QBs will bust and they're glad the Bills didn't draft him.

It's good to see coaches being dragged into the 21st century where you can't ruin a QB by playing him as a rookie. All 4 top 10 QBs will start this week. Mahomes not getting significant playing time last year was the exception, not the rule these days. In the past few years there are 2 trends: 1) QBs taken at the top part of the 1st round start a lot of games in their rookie years 2) GMs move up in the draft to get the QB they want. In the last 3 years 11 QBs were 1st round picks & 10 were traded up for. Only Cleveland's choice of Mayfield at #1 last year did not involve a trade up of the last 11 1st round QBs drafted. A great QB makes average receivers look great. An average QB makes great receivers look average.

Tyrod to SF makes a lot of sense since Cleveland has Stanton to back up Mayfield. Lynch picks up the phone & either calls Cleveland or Kaepernick's agent. The fact that Kaepernick played in SF before and the fan base isn't in a conservative area makes SF the ideal place for Kaep to resurface.

I'm in the camp that when December comes along if the team has only 2-3 wins, it's better to want to see another loss than a win so that we can get a higher pick. A 3rd or 4th win truly is meaningless -IN MOST SEASONS. This season is different than most because many times the reason I've wanted the higher pick is to be in a better position to get a franchise QB. Since we went all in to get the QB in the past draft, it makes this season different. This season, the main objective is to see the QB improve. An improving QB will win those otherwise meaningless games in December. With a rookie QB at the beginning of his development, there is no such thing as a meaningless game. Every game in his growth matters. In past seasons, when I rooted for a loss, that didn't make me any less of a fan for looking at the big picture than the fan who wanted a win in December that cost us a key player. Sometimes 1 loss is the difference between Ben Roethlisberger and JP Losman.

It really helped him become an established NFL star on his way to the HOF. ?

No, but they are going to put him on the wall at halftime of the Tennessee game.

BuffaloRush just handed divorce papers. The worst part is, his bookie was the one who delivered them.

If you feel that Minnesota will blow out the Bills, the better play would be the over, unless you think the Bills aren't scoring any or are scoring very few points. The O/U is 41. If you think Minnesota is scoring 35, all the Bills need is 1 TD, Minnesota 28 then you need the Bills to score 10 to win. Only if you think the score will be around 28-10 does taking the 17 points with Minnesota make more sense than the over.

Thanks. I remember all the posts laughing at Drew Bledsoe after he got benched for Romo. One of the most linked to was there was a mock Bledsoe site that called his successor "Tony Homo" by the fake Drew & fake Drew would comment every time Romo threw an incompletion. The statue remarks, the reminder of the time he threw it away on 4th down etc-Bledsoe was among the most vilified of ex-Bills QBs.

Right now everyone would rather have Mahomes. Hopefully in 2 years the answer will be Allen. The best response I've seen so far on why we passed on Mahomes was by a poster who brought out the point that the team knew they were going to be hiring a new GM and did not want to pick one in 2017 and saddle the new GM with a guy who wasn't his pick.

The number of people who are against black QBs is miniscule. The main reason so many are delighting in Tyrod's failure is because the Bills got rid of him. Go back over the years on this & other Bills message boards and look at all the trash heaped on guys after they leave the team. Fans love it when the guy the Bills jettisoned does poorly after he leaves. We can go back to past QBs since Kelly: EJ who sat most of last year in Oakland & got cut, Cassel's bad games in Dallas & beyond, Orton for quitting, Trent "Captain Checkdown" Edwards, JP and his final appearance giving the game away to the Jets, Bledsoe-especially after he was replaced by Romo in Dallas, Johnson, who we laughed at as he bounced from team to team after he was perceived as stealing millions from Ralph while here, even Flutie by the Johnson fans both when he was here & in SD. About the only QBs to escape Bills fans wrath are Fitzpatrick, because every time you try to put him down he goes on a tear like this season & is so likeable because he has a wicked sense of humor, and Todd Collins after he left because he sat on the bench for years before coming out of mothballs late one year in Washington.

There was no garbage time in any of the 1985 Bills close losses.

Look at the 1985 Bills, coached by Kay Stephenson & then Hank Bullough. Even though they finished 2-14 the Bills were within a TD of their opponent in 6 of the losses. Bad teams coached by bad coaches lose close games that better coaches win. They were poorly coached and as Bill Parcells says you are what your record says you are. Hue Jackson is 2-32-1 in 35 games with the Browns. His record says he's the worst coach in the NFL, and if you don't want to go by his record, just take another look at Hard Knocks. He has no business head coaching in the NFL and the point is brought out even more so since he didn't even give Mayfield a chance to earn the #1 spot even though anyone who saw yesterday's game knows he made a big mistake sticking with his plan because he had a plan rather than showing any flexibility.

I have no problem with the high opinions of Mayfield, but just because you haven't seen any rookie QB come into a game & simply take it over doesn't mean it hasn't happened before: Years ago a team was down to their 3rd string QB due to injuries & this 7th round rookie was forced into playing his 1st NFL game shortly after the game began. https://www.footballguys.com/05gamerecap-ram-12.php St. Louis Rams QB Marc Bulger was out with a shoulder injury, so enter QB Jamie Martin. If you blinked, you missed him, and then rubbed your eyes wondering who was under center for the Rams. Martin was under center for just the first two St. Louis series, and he was constantly under pressure from the Texans defense. Martin was sacked twice and attempted just three passes before he left the game with a concussion. As for Martin’s replacement, his name is Ryan Fitzpatrick, and he is a rookie from Harvard. This was his first NFL action, and he absolutely delivered. Fitzpatrick threw for over 300 yards and three touchdowns, throwing early and often to WRs Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt. Each receiver finished with a touchdown each, and Holt logged a season high ten catches for 130 yards. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/27/fitzpatrick-leads-comeback-in-debut-houstonplaying/ HOUSTON—Playing in an NFL game was new to St. Louis Rams rookie quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05. Coming back from a 21-point deficit wasn’t.The Rams’ third-stringer took over for injured backup Jamie Martin yesterday, then threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime to cap an improbable comeback and give the Rams a 33-27 win over the Houston Texans.The seventh-round pick and last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year stayed calm by thinking back to his freshman year and first college start, when he rallied the Crimson from a 21-0 halftime deficit for a 31-21 win over Dartmouth. At the time it was the biggest comeback in Harvard’s 128-year history.“I was actually thinking about that game,” Fitzpatrick said. “The biggest thing when you’re in those situations is you need to get everyone around you fired up.”

Mayfield will have to be MVP to overcome Hue's coaching and get Cleveland a playoff spot. Coaching is still huge in the NFL and the Browns have the league's worst coach.

He is great on the sidelines, never yelled at a ref and gotten into trouble like that sideline reporter in Cleveland.

The Jets played the Bills 2x each year, if anyone knows how to defend him it's an AFC East team.

Buddy is the one who said don't draft a QB until you're ready to retire so they can't fire you if you draft a bust. Then he drafted EJ Manuel and skipped town.

I bought the book but I don't plan on reading it until I fly to California in November.

This is top secret so don't tell anyone: Petrino & I came in late yesterday evening and worked out for the Bills: Petrino for coach & me for GM. We told them we come as a team like Polian/Levy or it's no deal.

This shows how composed Sal is. 3 years of Tyrod Taylor at QB and never once lost his cool & yelled at an official. 2 weeks of Tyrod and the sideline guy is so frustrated he's yelling at officials.

I'm not playing the game of the too young to remember anything before this century. In 1984 the 0-11 Bills hosted the Dallas Cowboys who were 7-4. I don't know the spread, but the Bills shocked everyone by beating Dallas 14-3.

It's not a mystery at all. The Bills, after getting to know Allen, think he can handle & benefit from learning on the field instead of sitting on the bench watching. I've been watching the NFL for over 50 years and watching the game didn't improve my meager football skills one iota. Allen's best leaning opportunity isn't by sitting & watching, it's by playing. Once they reached that conclusion, McCarron was traded with their full knowledge that the sooner Peterman proved inadequate, Allen would go in there. Now the sit & watch crowd, of which you are a member, can't go on WGR or message boards demanding McCarron starts.