What should the Bills have done at QB

[Orton's Arm]

If you knew then what you know now, which direction would you go in?

[tennesseeboy]

Keep Bledsoe and draft a killer tight end. Add one more offensive lineman and we would have had a Bledsoe offense that would have taken us to the playoffs.

[Orton's Arm]

Keep Bledsoe and draft a killer tight end.  Add one more offensive lineman and we would have had a Bledsoe offense that would have taken us to the playoffs.

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I agree this would have taken us to the playoffs, but how far could we really have gotten once we were there? Wouldn't it have been better to have traded up for Roethlisberger, and then not have to worry about the QB position for the next 10 - 15 years?

[Crap Throwing Monkey]

If you knew then what you know now, which direction would you go in?

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It is a true talent you have, finding new and different ways to post on the same topic every day and keep it fresh.

 

It's also !@#$ing annoying. But it is a talent.

[smokinandjokin]

They should've sh*tcanned Donahoe.

[Rubes]

I agree this would have taken us to the playoffs, but how far could we really have gotten once we were there? Wouldn't it have been better to have traded up for Roethlisberger, and then not have to worry about the QB position for the next 10 - 15 years?

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Kind of a strange argument to me, seeing that it sounds like the Bills wanted and tried to move up to take Ben, but couldn't. So why even include it as an option?

[The Dean]

I agree this would have taken us to the playoffs, but how far could we really have gotten once we were there? Wouldn't it have been better to have traded up for Roethlisberger, and then not have to worry about the QB position for the next 10 - 15 years?

604884[/snapback]

 

 

Well, as our line would be what it is now, what makes you think we'd know Ben was a good QB? Surely you don't think we'd feel confident with Ben's play if he had played on the Bills the past 2-3 years?

 

We have already drafted out QB for the future and his name is JP Losman.

[ndirish1978]

You can't ask that now that Ben has won a Superbowl! Incidentally, even with Ben we wouldnt have made it past the first rd. We don't have gaps in our roster, we have a black hole called the Oline.

[sfladave]

You can't ask that now that Ben has won a Superbowl! Incidentally, even with Ben we wouldnt have made it past the first rd. We don't have gaps in our roster, we have a black hole called the Oline.

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I would hardly say that Ben won that SB. He did have a lot to do with getting them there, but the team won the SB despite his play that day.

[tennesseeboy]

I agree this would have taken us to the playoffs, but how far could we really have gotten once we were there? Wouldn't it have been better to have traded up for Roethlisberger, and then not have to worry about the QB position for the next 10 - 15 years?

604884[/snapback]

I'm from the play the season in front of you school. Or as George Allen used to say.."The future is now"

[Orton's Arm]

It's also !@#$ing annoying.

604886[/snapback]

Much like your post!

[Orton's Arm]

Well, as our line would be what it is now, what makes you think we'd know Ben was a good QB?  Surely you don't think we'd feel confident with Ben's play if he had played on the Bills the past 2-3 years?

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I felt the same way you do back when Rob Johnson was taking all those sacks. "Put him behind a good OL and see how he does," was my thinking. But then Boomer Esiason said something on the radio that changed my mind. He said that if you're a QB playing behind a bad line, you can partially make up for it by doing more to get rid of the ball in a hurry. He blamed Johnson for part of his troubles, and I think we need to see Losman through the same lens.

[ndirish1978]

Can I be the one to post the cliche' in regards to Big Ben? "Hindsight is 20/20"

 

YESSS!!!

Don't forget, there were a lot of people on here who wanted Rivers. Would you put him up as an option?

 

Incidentally, who were the big names we wanted that year? I believe Udeze was one of them, Roy Williams too.

[Orton's Arm]

Don't forget, there were a lot of people on here who wanted Rivers. Would you put him up as an option?

604951[/snapback]

Not to pick on you in particular, but many of those who warn against writing Losman off after eight starts are willing to write Rivers off after zero.

[stuckincincy]

Shoulda thrown the '03 game to Cincy and then coulda picked Benny sans any trade-up. If they had any brains last year, they would have lost to Cincy and would be sitting pretty now...

[ndirish1978]

Not to pick on you in particular, but many of those who warn against writing Losman off after eight starts are willing to write Rivers off after zero.

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Hey my reasons for disliking JP are my own. All I'm saying is, we should have trde up for Rivers as an option as well. At the time of the draft this board talked him up just as much as Big Ben. Did you forget what we're talking about?

[The Dean]

I felt the same way you do back when Rob Johnson was taking all those sacks. "Put him behind a good OL and see how he does," was my thinking. But then Boomer Esiason said something on the radio that changed my mind. He said that if you're a QB playing behind a bad line, you can partially make up for it by doing more to get rid of the ball in a hurry. He blamed Johnson for part of his troubles, and I think we need to see Losman through the same lens.

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Still didn't answer my question. But, I'm used to that.

[Dan Gross]

You missed the option where we invoked the "tradeback" clause with New England that would allow us to trade Bledsoe back to NE straight up for Tom Brady. Then we could have traded the 2nd round pick (#43, the one we moved up from to get Losman) to Seattle straight up for Jones and Hutchinson. And without the Dallas trade, we'd still be ahead picks, so in 2005 we could have selected Heath Miller, after trading down with Indy for their #29 pick plus Jeff Saturday.

 

Damn....TD sucked.

[sfladave]

You missed the option where we invoked the "tradeback" clause with New England that would allow us to trade Bledsoe back to NE straight up for Tom Brady.  Then we could have traded the 2nd round pick (#43, the one we moved up from to get Losman) to Seattle straight up for Jones and Hutchinson.  And without the Dallas trade, we'd still be ahead picks, so in 2005 we could have selected Heath Miller, after trading down with Indy for their #29 pick plus Jeff Saturday. 

 

Damn....TD sucked.

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Just like you to state the obvious! Everybody knew this, yet TD didn't listen!

[Orton's Arm]

Still didn't answer my question.  But, I'm used to that.

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Actually, I did. I implied that even when the OL is bad, there's still a difference between a good QB and a bad one. Since Big Ben is a better QB than JP, he would have done considerably more to give the Bills confidence than what JP has done.