[closed]How long does EJ get?

[FireChan]

Let me be clear, I'm not saying that EJ's "not the guy." I'm not saying he'll regress or not show progress at all. But if he comes in next season and has the same issues while stinking/playing mediocre, does he get the full season? And the third? Or will the Bills trot another guy (Tuel/Thad/new QB) out there?

 

I realize 3 years is the standard way franchises do things when evaluating young QB's but let's be honest, did anyone expect Gabbert to have a tremendous third year? Or Locker? Both of those QB's were mediocre to bad in their first and second seasons, and the FO's could've cut the cord before the third year but chose to torture their fanbases for a third year. A lot of talent will be wasted on both those teams after giving up 3 years to QB's who showed barely any progress.

 

This is more of a topic about how patient the FO will be and if they will let the franchise flounder while they keep giving opportunities to players who haven't shown much. They have shown that they don't allow some weak players on the field after bad performances (Colin Brown, Justin Rogers) which is great. But it worries me that Fred Jackson, the best overall player on the team, will probably retire by the time the EJ Manuel experiment period is over.

[Buftex]

I think EJ gets 6 games....the masses have spoken, EJ is a bust they say...they are never wrong.

[Ronin]

This is more of a topic about how patient the FO will be and if they will let the franchise flounder while they keep giving opportunities to players who haven't shown much. They have shown that they don't allow some weak players on the field after bad performances (Colin Brown, Justin Rogers) which is great. But it worries me that Fred Jackson, the best overall player on the team, will probably retire by the time the EJ Manuel experiment period is over.

 

That's putting the cart before the horse a little bit. The problem is the FO, not the players, or in this case, Manuel. Manuel didn't draft himself, the FO did. With Marrone's help obviously since Manuel was "Marrone's guy."

 

It was the FO and Brandon that selected Marrone who in turn had to have Manuel because "he was his guy." Well that's all fine and dandy, but when Manuel plays like he has with the team having to strip the playbook down for purposes of extreme simplicity, on top of Manuel's other issues, the least of which is hardly his inaccuracy issues, then one has to question that choice, ... Marrone that is.

 

Here's the problem, the team now faces a QB rich Draft, but one immediately after they just "drafted their guy." Well, if Maneul's not their guy, why should anyone from media to fan put another shred of confidence into Marrone & Co.? There is no reason if his single biggest read this far, among many others we should add, has failed.

 

The short answer is that there is no reason to have confidence in Marrone at this point, and clearly the FO ain't gettin' the job done. It'll spin its Whaley's now in charge wheels until it becomes apparent that he too is simply just another stooge and crony in this organization.

 

This team, from the top levels on down simply doesn't know what it's doing. When its single biggest marketing gig every year is to threaten that the team will move if enough tickets don't sell, even if only implicitly, then that's just a really bad indication.

 

Nothing will change until Ralph kicks off. At that point we'll see if the new owner hires a competent FO or not, if the team's even still around.

 

Anyway, it's pretty clear that the team whiffed on Manuel who's playing more like a late 2nd (at best) or 3rd round prospect at this point, meaning that the assessment of anyone that said that the team reached on Manuel was the correct one.

 

Unfortunately that preempts them from taking advantage of this forthcoming QB-rich Draft if they want to avoid looking like the bunch of retards that they are. As they say, it's better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than it is to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. But the reality is that this is a bit of a catch-22 for the team given that the best thing to do would in fact be to draft a QB this year in round 1 or 2, but by doing so they prove how wrong they were in their very pivotal initial season in terms of their biggest decisions.

 

So do they A, admit defeat, stupidity, and/or perhaps idiocy and therefore their mistake on taking Manuel so early in last year's Draft, or do they continue to attempt to whitewash it and cover it up?

 

I think we all know the answer to that deep down.

 

Marrone is clearly an OJT coach, so we're already looking at his replacement after the '15 season now. At best the 2014 season will be another rebuilding season therefore making it what this season should have been under Marrone, at best. But then we have to hope that something has changed to make him a competent NFL coach otherwise, and I don't think that one season of OJT can have or will have done that.

 

But hey, once again the first six or seven games next year will sell out, so this is working for Brandon & Co.

[Beerball]

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