Why Tyrod Taylor is Turning Heads (ESPN)

Kontradiction · Sep 18, 2015

jays52 said:
I watched the Indy game fairly closely last night and in the words of GSP I was not impressed by his performance. Stares down the primary, if the primary is not there he gets on his horse and tries to play backyard ball. Standard young mobile QB game. We see guys like this flash early every year then fizzle out. Indy is just garbage defensively. The Patriots have a standard scheme for beating guys like Taylor.

They are going to keep him in the pocket. The ends will contain their rush and the tackles will stay at home. They will play zone, take away the primary read and force him to sit in the pocket and patiently go through his progressions and sustain a drive. Once they have him doing what they want, they will start disguising their coverages and forcing poor decisions. If Taylor is going to have a big day it will because he will be playing pocket QB at a high level which I do not think he is capable of doing. I do think Buffalo is going to be a tough out, but it won't be because Taylor is going to turn it into a track meet with his passing.

Yep. They're going to play him exactly as they played Tebow. The question is whether or not he'll be able to go through his progression without panicking.

Ivan · Sep 18, 2015

The Gr8est said:
The story is from ESPN, so it doesn't have any credibility.

Fixed it for you.

Horace's Ivories · Sep 18, 2015

foreboding said:
No reason to get snarky man. Just sharing information and to be fair, you all have not had a to face a real QB in Buffalo forever. The list is very non-impressive.

Not true - Fitzpatrick had a career game against the Pats..

Deus Irae · Sep 18, 2015

"Mike Vick 2.0 some people call him," Bradham said of Taylor. "He's dynamic, man. Game-changer."

The Bills may never lose a game again.

jays52 · Sep 18, 2015

Horace's Ivories said:
Not true - Fitzpatrick had a career game against the Pats..

I always thought Fitzpatrick was pretty underrated.

JMC00 · Sep 18, 2015

FourierSeries said:
Look at all the heads he turned on this play.

The heads of the entire Baltimore offensive unit as they looked back after he fumbled, that is.

Also did it again when he threw a pick that Tavon Wilson took back 75 yards for a TD

Ice_Ice_Brady · Sep 18, 2015

jays52 said:
I always thought Fitzpatrick was pretty underrated.

For being such a genius IQ-wise, he makes a lot of bonehead decisions.

BradyFTW! · Sep 18, 2015

Rob0729 said:
The overrating of Taylor the last week has been amazing. Yes, he had a good game, but he did stare down his first read a lot and the Colts still gave him that read. He barely ever checked down and when his first read wasn't there he just took off running a lot. He also forced it to his first read several times.

I still want to see how he does when someone keeps him in the pocket and forces him to go to his second or third read more often. The Colts were horrible on defense last Sunday. A better defense could give Taylor fits.

At the moment, he appears to be a one-read QB, to the point that Sammy Watkins didn't even register a catch, since with Vontae Davis on him he was never the first read. It'll be interesting to see if that remains the case going forward. If he was just forcing it to his first read because it was working and he was a bit jumpy, then that's maybe fine. If he's a one-read QB, then his success in the NFL will be very shortlived.

BradyFTW! · Sep 18, 2015

Ice_Ice_Brady said:
For being such a genius IQ-wise, he makes a lot of bonehead decisions.

Football intelligence and real-world intelligence are probably correlated, but there have been a lot of people who had a whole lot of one and virtually none of the other. Jamaal Charles competed in the special olympics, but he's a pretty savvy and smart football player (last night excluded).

jays52 · Sep 18, 2015

Ice_Ice_Brady said:
For being such a genius IQ-wise, he makes a lot of bonehead decisions.

That's true. I have a theory about an intelligence cap when it comes to a lot of athletics. Einstein had a quote along the lines of smart people control their mind, geniuses are controlled by theirs. I think that's very true and applies a lot to sports. Really high level minds think too much. They're processing far too many variables when in reality a lot of it is just see it and execute. I think you have to be fairly smart to be a really good QB in that you need to process things quickly, but if too much is going on upstairs it can force poor decisions. It's why a guy like Manny Ramirez who I'm fairly certain had a single digit IQ, was such a tremendous hitter. See ball, hit ball. No overthinking. No understanding of the moment, the situation, the pressure, the crowd, his diet, his problems in life, the issues he's solving, nope, just the ball.

hambone1818 · Sep 18, 2015

I do love stuff like this:
Taylor, who threw a 51-yard touchdown pass during a season-opening victory over Indianapolis, is set to make his second career start Sunday when the Bills host the New England Patriots in a highly anticipated game between AFC East rivals.

In what world is Pats-Bills a 'rivalry'? I get it, same division, 2 games a year. Is Colts-Jags a rivalry, or Broncos-Raiders? I mean you can't point to more than a tiny handful of seasons over the past 40 years where both teams were good. Brady's like 14-3 in his career against Buffalo.

I get it, the Bills might be relevant again, they have the perfect head coach to stimulate a rivalry, but this hasn't exactly been Steelers-Ravens since well before Brady even threw a pass for New England.

sieglo · Sep 18, 2015

Ivan said:
I don't think ESPN should be linked in here at all.

Ian should just implement code to redirect all ESPN links to AFF.

stealthdog · Sep 18, 2015

Sorry, but Taylor isn't even mediocre. Accurate? Yeah right....take a look at his film at Virginia Tech and then try to tell me that. Anyone can be accurate when all their throws are 5 yard passes. There is a reason he is in his fifth year in the NFL and just now getting his first start.

When teams were looking at him 5 years ago, they didn't even consider him a QB. He was being looked at as a WR. He isn't going to beat many people with his arm, but is dangerous with his legs. He is a bad version of Kapernick, without the strong arm and open field explosiveness.

Soul_Survivor88 · Sep 18, 2015

I don't know about Tyrod Taylor, but the woman in the video is pretty cute

BradyFTW! · Sep 18, 2015

hambone1818 said:
I do love stuff like this:
Taylor, who threw a 51-yard touchdown pass during a season-opening victory over Indianapolis, is set to make his second career start Sunday when the Bills host the New England Patriots in a highly anticipated game between AFC East rivals.

In what world is Pats-Bills a 'rivalry'? I get it, same division, 2 games a year. Is Colts-Jags a rivalry, or Broncos-Raiders? I mean you can't point to more than a tiny handful of seasons over the past 40 years where both teams were good. Brady's like 14-3 in his career against Buffalo.

I get it, the Bills might be relevant again, they have the perfect head coach to stimulate a rivalry, but this hasn't exactly been Steelers-Ravens since well before Brady even threw a pass for New England.

We are rivals in the sense that every divisional opponent is rivals, I guess. If we were to rank the Pats' biggest rivals, I would put them solidly behind the Jets, Dolphins, Colts, Ravens, Broncos, Steelers, and maybe even the Giants and Chargers over the years.

TBR · Sep 18, 2015

They've said this about several QBs that have played for the Bills, Dolphins, Jets over the lat ~10+ years

Fencer · Sep 18, 2015

stealthdog said:
Anyone can be accurate when all their throws are 5 yard passes.

That has, at times, been said about Brady.

neuronet · Sep 18, 2015

foreboding said:
No reason to get snarky man. Just sharing information and to be fair, you all have not had a to face a real QB in Buffalo forever. The list is very non-impressive.

People are just getting sick of the Wrecks hype machine at this point, so expect some blowback. It's not you...Opposite styles: Wrecks talks a lot before games. Patriots not so much, and prefer to play the game on the field.

Pats fans, on the other hand, get sick of it, and start to talk some smack back.

JMC00 · Sep 18, 2015

Fencer said:
That has, at times, been said about Brady.

Who has won 4 SB and who has only 1 start in the nfl?

DaBronxPats14 · Sep 18, 2015

BSPN?! I'll stop right there!

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