I understand and appreciate the idea of the tradition of the church/Church. Roman Catholics and Orthodox seem to forget that Protestants do follow many traditions and point back to many of the same creeds of the founding fathers. It's simply that these traditions and creeds all find their roots in the scriptures-not the other way around.
Fair enough. I completely agree that Protestants do follow many traditions and traditional understandings -- and that Protestantism has developed traditions of its own that it follows.
Most fundamental doctrinal formularies of classical Protestantism are clearly the result of continuing to think in traditional ways about how to interpret the Scriptures.
All one has to do is look at groups that truly cut themselves off completely from the continuity of Christian tradition to see what genuinely "Sola Scriptura" thinking can do. They are called cults.
I would also point out that once Scripture was established, everything had to be consonant with that Scripture. There was and is no room for doctrines that are contradicted by Scripture.