How is this for a statistic-the 2018 Buffalo Bills are on pace to finish the season with six touchdown passes and a whopping 26 interceptions according to an article written by Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk.com. A quarterback's performance has long been measured by his touchdown-to-interception ratio. As Smith writes, back in the 1970s a QB was considered to be pretty good as long as his TD-to-INT stats were in positive territory. Times have changed, however, and now 50/50 split is considered the bare minimum for an employable quarterback, throwing twice as many TDs as INTs is necessary for a competent starting quarterback, and the greats like Drew Brees and Tom Brady are much better than that. So far this NFL season, there have been 432 touchdown passes and 209 interceptions across the NFL, through Thursday night’s 49ers-Raiders game. And then you have the Buffalo Bills. There are only four quarterbacks in the NFL this season who have thrown at least three more interceptions than touchdowns. One of those QBs is Jameis Winston, who was benched in-game last Sunday in Cincinnati after throwing four picks and was publicly benched for Week 9 in favor of journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick. And the other three QBs-Josh Allen, Nathan Peterman, and Derek Anderson-play for the Bills. The three Bills quarterbacks combined have thrown three touchdowns and 13 interceptions in eight games. Any of those three quarterbacks would have likely been benched in every other NFL city by now but the Bills have no one left to bench. With Allen hurt and Anderson both concussed and simply bad, the Bills will have to go back to Peterman this week against a ferocious Chicago Bears defense that is currently second in the league with 11 interceptions in 2018. Peterman has thrown nine interceptions in 81 career attempts. According to Pro Football Reference's Play Index, Peterman's 11.11 interception percentage is ninth-worst all time for a player with at least that number of throws. It's the worst INT rate since "Randy Hedberg" for the 1977 Bucs. Thank you, Mr. Smith, for an illuminating article. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bills fans everywhere. also to add on the article. NFL WRs have thrown 4 TD passes this year, more then all the bills Qbs combined have.
Now that this has been posted, Peterman will light the Jets up in 2 weeks for 4 TDs, 2 of which to Pryor.
Don't want them to beat the Jets but I wouldn't mind if they picked up a win or two along the way just to keep them out of the running for the #1 pick. Their D is pretty good so we don't need them adding Bosa to it.
When the Bills (under Rex Ryan) beat the Jets in The New Dump in Nov. 2015 so many Jets fans prior to the game were all we got this/no way we lose this one. My reaction? ^This was also my reaction before the Bills beat the Jets in Orchard Park by the same exact score (22-17) to knock the Jets out of the WC the last game of the season. I never get cocky under any circumstances when it comes to this team. Never.
It must be great to be cocky and get away with it. We're the Jets...I imagine nice things are lovely.
How lucky have the Bears been the last two weeks? First the Jets with all our weapons out now Buffalo with Peterman at QB.
No way!!! The defense led by my franchise defender/face of the franchise Leonard Williams won't stand for it. I hope. *gulp*
Now that I think about it some more the Jets are almost as lucky as Chicago these next two weeks. They face a backup QB today and could face Peterman next week. How come it doesn't feel that way?
Generally, holding a team to 6 points is good, but hey, believe whatever you want.4 picks and zero Tds ain't going to win you shit in the NFL. Both defenses played well, but the oline lost this game.
The Bills are absolutely good enough to beat us. They have some talent at D. They're better coached too. A Bills win means Bowles is fired at the Bye so maybe it's not such a bad thing
Yeah, I'm all about tanking now, but it will be very difficult to lose to the Bills if Peterman starts.
That is true. And in reality the Bills games will probably be the two that we win the rest of the way. So 5-11 again is pretty much set in stone. Which means Bowles will be 15-33 after starting his Jets career 10-5 Currently he's on a 13-29 "run"
