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Allen clearly isn’t ready so that leaves McCarron and Peterman.

 

If you follow the true process, both will play against Baltimore and we’ll see who wins the team. 

 

The competition doesn’t have to end in preseason.

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Few rookie QB's are ready to start game 1.  But many still do.

 

That being said, I think Peterman starts and is given the first 4 games as an audition.  If he goes 2-2 or better, he remains starter.  If not, Allen starts.

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5 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

Please stop this Alabama madness!

 

Explain the “madness”.

 

Have McCarron and Peterman alternate series. Let the best man win.

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5 minutes ago, Sky Diver said:

 

Explain the “madness”.

 

Have McCarron and Peterman alternate series. Let the best man win.

I don't know how to explain this w/o being rude.

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16 minutes ago, Sky Diver said:

Allen clearly isn’t ready so that leaves McCarron and Peterman.

 

If you follow the true process, both will play against Baltimore and we’ll see who wins the team. 

 

The competition doesn’t have to end in preseason.

 

Yes.  Yes, in any kind of sane football world the competition does in fact have to end with preseason.

If that's McDermott's "true process", it's a Bad Process.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

Yes.  Yes, in any kind of sane football world the competition does in fact have to end with preseason.

If that's McDermott's "true process", it's a Bad Process.

 

They're not going to alternate QB's in Baltimore unless Peterman (or Allen) gets injured or throws 5 INT's in the first half.

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I'm convinced Allen is mature enough to deal with a poor OL . As long as Daboll gives some receivers short dump off routes to bail him out. 

 

Peterman is looking good for the backup job , AJ if there is a injury. 

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15 minutes ago, Sky Diver said:

I’m not seeing the connection with the preseason.

 

I will spell it out explicitly.

 

In preseason, teams without a starter alternate QB to evaluate those QB.

In regular season, teams with any kind of sense or pretentions of wanting to win, do not.  They change QB during a game only in case of injury or for occasional "tricks".

 

The reason for this practice is that alternating QB is not optimal for the team.  It's not optimal for the WR, who need to accustom themselves to the "feel" of a QB passes.  It's not optimal for the 10 other guys on offense, who need to accustom themselves to a QB cadence.  It's not optimal for ball security on the center to QB snap, and on the QB to RB handoffs.  It's not optimal for pre-game practice during the week, where instead of getting all the snaps each QB would only get half.

 

The only reason it's done in preseason, is that in preseason winning is irrelevant.  It doesn't count.  The priority is to evaluate players.

In regular season, winning is the primary goal of each team in each game.  If the coaches haven't been able to perform the needed evaluation in the preceding month, either they aren't very good evaluators or all choices are so flawed that it really doesn't matter.  Flip a coin and move on.

 

I repeat, any process wherein preseason evaluation strategies extend into regular season is a Bad Process.

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2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I will spell it out explicitly.

 

In preseason, teams without a starter alternate QB to evaluate those QB.

In regular season, teams with any kind of sense or pretentions of wanting to win, do not.  They change QB during a game only in case of injury or for occasional "tricks".

 

The reason for this practice is that alternating QB is not optimal for the team.  It's not optimal for the WR, who need to accustom themselves to the "feel" of a QB passes.  It's not optimal for the 10 other guys on offense, who need to accustom themselves to a QB cadence.  It's not optimal for ball security on the center to QB snap, and on the QB to RB handoffs.  It's not optimal for pre-game practice during the week, where instead of getting all the snaps each QB would only get half.

 

The only reason it's done in preseason, is that in preseason winning is irrelevant.  It doesn't count.  The priority is to evaluate players.

In regular season, winning is the primary goal of each team in each game.  If the coaches haven't been able to perform the needed evaluation in the preceding month, either they aren't very good evaluators or all choices are so flawed that it really doesn't matter.  Flip a coin and move on.

 

I repeat, any process wherein preseason evaluation strategies extend into regular season is a Bad Process.

 

It's a criminal lack of basic football understanding at an even rudimentary level that you even had to offer an explanation. 

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21 minutes ago, Sky Diver said:

Explain the “madness”.

Have McCarron and Peterman alternate series. Let the best man win.

 

The point of regular season games is for the team to win, not to hold a QB picking contest to be sure they have the very best guy.  Pick one and go.

 

1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

It's a criminal lack of basic football understanding that you even had to offer an explanation. 

 

Or something.  But I give the benefit of the doubt.

5 minutes ago, ALF said:

I'm convinced Allen is mature enough to deal with a poor OL . As long as Daboll gives some receivers short dump off routes to bail him out.

 

I'm not. 

 

Also, earlier in preseason, Daboll was having the TE and RB "chip" then release which would be good strategy given our OL - but slows the development of the check down route.

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Imagine yourself a defensive coordinator game planning to the Bills.   Peterman is so much more limited than Allen, game planning is dramatically easier.    Allen gives the team a meaningful edge as the starter even before the first snap.   If the team wants to "test" Allen by going full bore pass rush on every play, then McCoy runs for 200 yards.   This is an easy decision. Start Allen.

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