Sean McDermott hasn’t seen enough. After his first pass through the tape of Nathan Peterman’s historically ugly first start for the Buffalo Bills, the rookie coach needs to more time to decide on whether to run the woefully unprepared first-year quarterback out there again or go back to his woefully underrated starter Tyrod Taylor.

The choice should be an obvious one. Peterman threw five ugly interceptions in one half. Taylor hasn’t thrown more than three interceptions all season. Peterman led the Bills to seven points in the first half of their loss to the Chargers. Taylor led the offense to 17 points in the second half.

But McDermott still needs time to evaluate, and the more time it takes for him to come to a decision, the more likely he is to double down on the colossal mistake he made a week ago. Listen to the this guy talk about a five-interception performance. If you listen closely, you can actually hear his bones cracking as be bends over backwards to give his rookie quarterback undeserving praise…

“There were some plays I know we wants back. There’s also some plays where you say ‘That was pretty darn good.’ Hard to see on the surface — you know, the 10,000 foot view — hard to see that with the result being what it was. When you take it one play at a time, and when you really look at and say, ‘Hey, we were moving the ball.'”

Apparently, McDermott doesn’t realize we have access to the game tape, too. To say that Peterman made plays (as in multiple plays) that were “pretty darn good” is just flat-out inaccurate, no matter how you look at it.

When pressed for an example of one of these plays, here’s what McDermott came up with…

“We came out and threw a play-action pass over the middle — I believe it was play, in fact — and he hit Kelvin right in stride. It was tight coverage. He threw it into a tight window. And this is a league of contested throws, contested balls, and you’ve got to be able to do that and he did it.”

Let’s take a look at that play.

This is easily Peterman’s best throw, which isn’t saying much. He does, in fact, make a strong throw into a tight window, but that is as simple a downfield throw as you’ll ever see in the NFL.

Peterman doesn’t have to read the defense. He doesn’t have to manipulate a safety with his eyes. He doesn’t have to navigate a tight pocket. Benjamin is running right into Peterman’s line of vision, he wins on the route, the play-action sucks up the linebackers and the pocket is clean. The quarterback just has to put it on the receiver, which any NFL passer (and most college quarterbacks) should be able to do.

Is this really the straw McDermott is grasping at? If so, his bar for “pretty darn good” is extremely low.

He continued…

“Now, there was a couple other instances…”

This is where McDermott loses me. Again, we have access to the same tape. Outside of that throw to Benjamin, Peterman made only two throws further than 10 yards downfield. And had the first of those two been accurate, it would have likely resulted in his sixth interception.

Peterman’s second completion downfield was even more routine than his first. And Peterman stares down this post route the entire time, which quarterbacks usually do not get away with against single-high coverages.

This is bare minimum NFL quarterbacking. Taylor makes these throws in his sleep and certainly does not get praise for making them.

Some, including Fox Sports analyst Daryl Johnston during the broadcast of the game, have cut Peterman some slack because he was under duress for most of his interceptions. But that does not excuse the decisions he made to just loft the ball in the middle of the field.

On his first interception, he actually had a good pocket. But Peterman drops back too far instead of stepping up into the open area, which allows the Chargers defensive ends to beat their blockers.

To make matters worse, he panics with Joey Bosa bearing down on him and launches a pass off his back foot before he’s hit.

Peterman made a similar decision on his third pick. Peterman takes a hit as he’s releasing the pass, but look what he’s throwing into…

The receiver is covered and the Chargers safety is standing right in the path of the receiver’s route.

That pass is getting picked no matter what.

Peterman’s fourth interception came on another pressured drop back, but the corner had this route read all the way.

Once again, this is getting picked no matter what.

The Bills rookie was actually lucky to escape his first game without throwing a sixth interception. Casey Hayward, who led the league in interceptions a season ago, nearly got his hands on a pass but couldn’t haul it in…

McDermott’s final justification for not immediately declaring Taylor the starter is the one that should worry Bills fans the most. This does not sound like a guy who’s ready to admit his mistake…

“As a decision maker, when you waver is when you get yourself in trouble.”

Being stubborn will also get you into trouble, coach.