ghz in pittsburgh
12-27-2016, 11:10 AM
NFL plays participants and fans' emotions. Rex is actually great at manipulate player emotions. But managing it needs cool head.
If you look at the Bills objectively, many would say the Bills is a team with quite a bit of talent, not the top cream level, but probably a little better than average overall. Even with all the injuries and some mis-management this season, they are going to end up 8-8 on a not so weak schedule.
The key argument against a complete tear-down-and-rebuild approach is that almost all of their talent is either in their prime or entering their prime. McCoy, their best player and oldest core player, showed no sign of slowing down - in fact he's better than his previous two years.
Look at O-Line, TEs, WRs, RBs, D-Line, LBs, 2ndary, everywhere you have some stud players (well maybe not LBs, since we didn't see Ragland). So that brings us to THE position QB. And you have to say Tyrod Taylor, overall, is probably the best QB they had during this drought. He has weakness and strong suits, overall, he will be ranked better than average.
I think that may attract some top flight coaches when they can Rex. Someone who look at the roster objectively and say, fill a couple of holes (like safeties, WRs -- not super hard like finding a top QB) and I can turn it into a playoff team (not a superbowl team).
The way I see it, they are going to exercise the option on Taylor and he will be over paid for a couple of years. But by the time the Bills develop the franchise guy (a big if), Taylor's money won't be a huge deal, just like Romo's money this year. In an open market, I think Taylor can get probably $15 mil/year, but not for 5 years.
If you look at the Bills objectively, many would say the Bills is a team with quite a bit of talent, not the top cream level, but probably a little better than average overall. Even with all the injuries and some mis-management this season, they are going to end up 8-8 on a not so weak schedule.
The key argument against a complete tear-down-and-rebuild approach is that almost all of their talent is either in their prime or entering their prime. McCoy, their best player and oldest core player, showed no sign of slowing down - in fact he's better than his previous two years.
Look at O-Line, TEs, WRs, RBs, D-Line, LBs, 2ndary, everywhere you have some stud players (well maybe not LBs, since we didn't see Ragland). So that brings us to THE position QB. And you have to say Tyrod Taylor, overall, is probably the best QB they had during this drought. He has weakness and strong suits, overall, he will be ranked better than average.
I think that may attract some top flight coaches when they can Rex. Someone who look at the roster objectively and say, fill a couple of holes (like safeties, WRs -- not super hard like finding a top QB) and I can turn it into a playoff team (not a superbowl team).
The way I see it, they are going to exercise the option on Taylor and he will be over paid for a couple of years. But by the time the Bills develop the franchise guy (a big if), Taylor's money won't be a huge deal, just like Romo's money this year. In an open market, I think Taylor can get probably $15 mil/year, but not for 5 years.