Report: McCown Heading To A Playoff Contender
February 16th, 2015
Tears of joy today for Josh McCown
Life is good for Josh McCown.
The NFL’s worst team cut him last week and a playoff contender with a lousy quarterback situation now wants him real bad.
Per the Twittering of ESPN insider Adam Schefter this morning, McCown is in Buffalo hammering out a contract. The 9-7 Bills lost starting QB Kyle Orton to retirement, and E.J. Manuel is, well, E.J. Manuel, typically inaccurate and overmatched.
It would be an ideal spot for McCown, with the Bills having a decent offensive line and a strong receiving corps.
Joe wonders if Buffalo is aware McCown has trouble manipulating his balls in bad weather?
February 16th, 2015 at 9:58 am
The Bills, That’s got Disaster written all over it. It’s like poor Rex never learns.McCown will make Geno Smith, Mark Sanchez, and E.J Manuel look like some Pro-Bowlers!
February 16th, 2015 at 10:00 am
Watch him go up there and throw up these numbers 62% 3300yds 27td 11 ints and a wild card birth. Just like a lot of ex-Buc qb’s. smh
February 16th, 2015 at 10:12 am
Unfortunately the first pick in the draft will NOT be going to a playoff contender.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:12 am
Watch him light it up in buffalo
February 16th, 2015 at 10:15 am
If Rex can assemble an Offensive Line that can give Josh some time to survey the field, he could be quite successful there. We already know he will be a very good mentor and supporter of the other QB’s.
Their defense is very good and will be even better and the pieces are falling in place for an improved year.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:17 am
Buffalo fans secure your SB tickets.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:18 am
Watch him light it up in Buffalo? Every quarterback faces pressure ala peyton manning in the superbowl and it doesn’t matter how good your offensive line is thanks to complex defensive schemes. if anyone thinks he’s going to go up there in the last years of his career and suddenly play at a probowl level then your play too many video games. besides the bucs have ruined him, as soon as anyone gets near him he’ll start having flashbacks of 2014
February 16th, 2015 at 10:23 am
He won’t “light it up” and this isn’t the quarterback curse in action. He’s had nearly a decade and a half to light it up and it hasn’t happened yet. Not even in his one good year (5 games and he lost 2 of them?)
I wish him well though. He’s a good guy…just not good enough on the field.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:27 am
Didn’t Manuel come out of Jimbo FIsher’s Pro Style Offense??
February 16th, 2015 at 10:33 am
@knuckledragger
No one ever accused Manuel of being on the level of Winston, being a Heisman quarterback OR first round pick. Just because he went to florida state that is not a comparison unless you want to compare Mariotta and all the Failed quarterbacks out of that system because that school has 10 times the quarterback busts and im pretty sure florida state has handed the NFL 10 times the Hall Of Fame players as Oregon
February 16th, 2015 at 10:48 am
Good for McCown. He’s a good guy, but it just didnt work out here. I also believe its only a matter of time before Glennon is traded and is also no longer with this team.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:49 am
Ask a question and Winston supporters get all ruffled. Jeesh you guys are funny.
February 16th, 2015 at 10:53 am
Personally I was shocked Manuel even went in the first round, and I know some other people felt the same way. He’s much like Freeman- big, strong armed QB with accuracy issues. IMO he wont be an NFL starter for long.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:12 am
Best of luck to Josh McCown, unfortunately being an upstate NY’er I have a soft spot for the Bills and will have to listen to Bills fans around me complain about the happy feet and panic induced throws to the other team. I’m just glad McCown is no longer on the Bucs.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:14 am
Dewey Selmon Says:
February 16th, 2015 at 10:00 am
“Watch him go up there and throw up these numbers 62% 3300yds 27td 11 ints and a wild card birth. Just like a lot of ex-Buc qb’s. smh”
yea right
February 16th, 2015 at 11:19 am
Another case of a defensive coach thinking a veteran QB can be just enough to get the team to the promised land. Rex inherited a quality defense and will have that team playing hard but the decision to sign McCown might bite him much like it did Lovie. I suspect the Bills will do much better than 2-14, even with McCown at the helm.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:20 am
joe is seriously exaggerating the situation unless your using someone else’s words……when did the bills become a playoff contender? I don’t remember them doing anything but coming close to getting a wild card spot
February 16th, 2015 at 11:28 am
I wish him well
February 16th, 2015 at 11:33 am
I wilsh josh well. He ain’t the reason for our problems in Tampa.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:36 am
Not everybody is as dumb as Lovie. I am almost positive McCown wont being going to Buffalo and handed the starting job. He will have to earn it and I’m not sure he can even beat out EJ. Kyle Orton is twice the QB McCown is. Good guy, bad QB. Best of luck to him.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:37 am
Didn’t Manuel come out of Jimbo FIsher’s Pro Style Offense??
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Somewhat. Except Manuel consistently lost in big games against better teams. His loss against UF in Tally in 2012 summed up his career in one game.
Winston was a winner at FSU.
Two different QBs.
February 16th, 2015 at 11:55 am
Buffalo going 9-7 is kind of like the Bucs going 10-6 under Rah in 2010; it was a fluke with every break going their way to get to 9 wins. Does anyone besides myopic Bills fanatics seriously think the Bills will contend next year? In 2015 they probably will be better than the Jets in their division but it more likely they will lose 10 games than win 10, especially since they are playing a 2nd place schedule…..
February 16th, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Good for McCown, he gets to be on the roster of an NFL football team. A step up from last year.
February 16th, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Couch Fan Says:
February 16th, 2015 at 11:36 am
Not everybody is as dumb as Lovie.
don’t you mean not everybody is as dumb as schiano? no one has let go of more guys that went on to be successful in the same year they got cut than in schiano’s last year as a coach. i’d rather you bring in bad talent than to let go of good talent because they don’t fit your busted defense
February 16th, 2015 at 12:14 pm
What does Schiano have to do with Lovie Hiring a 12 year career back up and just handing him the job? I know you hate Schiano and all but lets stay on topic.
February 16th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
so your basically saying mccown who’s about to get signed immediately after getting cut and before free agency begins was an epic failure because lovie is the coach? that’s stupid because at the same time your saying it’s lovie’s fault that tedford had a heart surgery and didn’t come back until towards the end of the season. and if you want to blame lovie for signing tedford in the first place sorry I wont let you front like you weren’t on board with the signing
in short im glad we didn’t go out and just sign a offensive coordinator to get through the year….changing to a new offense mid season was going to get us how many wins with that offensive line? we needed a quarterback and first overall pick and we needed this new coordinator we have so things happened the way they should have and it’s just ignorant to think this team wont make a turnaround….predraft yea the bucs are a 4 win team next year if glennon was quarterback but judge the team post draft for 2015. the line sucks but free agency is upon us and so is the draft save it for june
February 16th, 2015 at 12:36 pm
You are pulling things out your butt that I never said. No I am not saying McCown is an epic failure because Lovie is the coach. Read slowly this time.
Pay Attention
McCown was a failure because he’s a 12 year career back up who has not accomplished a single thing in this league accept for a nice 5 game stretch in Chicago, and was just handed the job without an fair open competition. There was no competition period. McCown was set up for failure by Lovie. It was a stupid thing to do. Hopefully Lovie will learn from it. If we were tanking then we were tanking from the moment we gave him the starting job.
Stop trying to change this into something its not. All the other stuff is background noise. And I disagree that its “ignorant” to think this team wont make a turn around. Lovie made a lot of silly mistakes last year. I hope he does much better this year or we are looking at another really bad season. So far Lovie is a failure as a coach. Truth hurts I guess. Thats my honest opinion.
I’m not hoping for Lovie to fail. I am a Bucs fan afterall and realize another head coaching change only makes us worse so I want him to win and do great. I just havent seen anything yet that suggests he has that in him.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Life may be good, except the fact that he will have to take a huge pay cut and most likely never see the field.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Josh McCown is no Kyle Orton. Orton was always known as a steady
February 16th, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Performer who didn’t rattle under pressure. That’s why the bills went after him in the first place and it almost worked.
I hope nothing but the best for McCown, but just because you can take a beating doesn’t make you a good NFL QB.
Besides, Ryan has never been a shrewd judge of QB talent. See Mark Sanchez.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Good luck Josh. This franchise will be forever indebted to you for QBing the team into position to finally draft our first franchise QB.
February 16th, 2015 at 2:16 pm
bucs4lyfe Says:
February 16th, 2015 at 10:33 am
@knuckledragger
No one ever accused Manuel of being on the level of Winston, being a Heisman quarterback OR first round pick. Just because he went to florida state that is not a comparison unless you want to compare Mariotta and all the Failed quarterbacks out of that system because that school has 10 times the quarterback busts and im pretty sure florida state has handed the NFL 10 times the Hall Of Fame players as Oregon
@bucs4lyfe
Hall Of Fame Players
Oregon – 6
FSU – 4
Hall Of Fame QB’s
Oregon – 1
FSU – 0
So much for your ten times argument. As far as HOF QB’s. It might as well be 1,000,000 to 1 because Oregon’s HOF QB is 1,000,000 to 1 better than anything FSU has ever produced as far as QB’s go including Jameis Shameis Fameis Winston.
February 16th, 2015 at 6:53 pm
Best of luck to Josh. I hope he does well.