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#25 is a good spot to find a top quality C or G or TE or DB. The Bills need to get themselves one.

QB drafts, 2009-2018: 2018 QBs:#1 Baker Mayfield, #3 Sam Darnold, #7 Josh Allen, #10 Josh Rosen, #32 Lamar Jackson 2017 QBs: #3 Mitch Trubisky, #10 Patrick Mahomes, #12 Deshaun Watson 2016 QBs: #1 Jared Goff, #2 Carson Wentz, #26 Paxton Lynch, #135 Dak Prescott 2015 QBs: #1 Jameis Winston, #2 Marcus Mariota 2014 QBs: #3 Blake Bortles, #22 Johnny Manziel, #32 Teddy Bridgewater, #36 Derek Carr, #62 Jimmy Garoppolo 2013 QBs: #13 EJ Manuel 2012 QBs: #1 Andrew Luck, #2 Robert Griffin, #8 Ryan Tannehill, #22 Brandon Weeden, #75 Russell Wilson, #88 Nick Foles, #102 Kirk Cousins 2011 QBs: #1 Cam Newton, #8 Jake Locker, #10 Blaine Gabbert, #12 Christian Ponder, #35 Andy Dalton 2010 QBs: #1 Sam Bradford, #25 Tim Tebow 2009 QBs: #1 Matthew Stafford, #5 Mark Sanchez, #17 Josh Freeman The two greatest QB drafts since the merger were 1983 and 2004. The 1983 draft produced 3 HOF QBs: Elway, Kelly, and Marino. Ken O'Brien was also a decent starting QB from that class. The 2004 draft produced 3 QBs very likely to be HOFers: E Manning, Rivers, and Roethlisberger plus a decent starter in Matt Schaub. According to all the draftniks, the 2018 QB class was destined to be "the greatest QB class since at least 2004" with the implication it might be as good as 1983. The reality is that the 2018 QB class has turned out to be, at best, modestly above average as QB drafts go since most drafts produce 1 top starting QB and 1 or 2 other average/decent starting QB (Most draft classes produce only 1 very good starting QB). The 2012 draft was probably the only draft in the past 10 years that comes close to 2004, producing 2 top QBs (Luck and Wilson) and 2 decent starters (Tannehill and Cousins).

Back in the day, we rode three wheelers which were so much less stable than four wheelers which aren't all that safe anyways. Also helmets were only for girls and old guys. It's miracle that nobody in my family or friends ended up dead or permanently disabled, although a couple of them came close.

So, you're thinking of retiring because you've been lucky for three months? Smart move. Can I interest you in getting in on my syndicate to buy a very nice recently rehabbed bridge over Chautauqua Lake?

Absolutely! There were no real warnings about this storm. The NWS believed that it would be a wind event that would bring some snow (ie, the foot or so that fell) for several hours but totally and completely ignored the fact that the two or so feet of snow on Lake Erie ice was loose and fluffy because it had been so cold, none had melted and compressed, which would have kept much of it in place. Consequently, there were no blizzard warnings issues. I don't believe that blizzard watches/warnings and winter storm watches/warnings even existed back then. Today, we'd know that this monster was coming at least 4-5 days before, and all WNY would be battened down. Instead, it hit almost without warning. The Buffalo schools and some suburban schools were closed not because they anticipated a severe snow storm but to save energy. I don't believe that the dump trucks actually went out on Lake Erie. They may have gone out on the ice at the Small Boat Harbor or other parts of the Buffalo harbor inside the breakwalls. My brother was out of work for almost a month because of the Blizzard but he made four or five times his lost wages because he had a dump truck and got hired by the City of Buffalo for snow removal. A lot of snow in the city was dumped in the city parks, and there was considerable concern about how that would impact the parks. People also worried that there would be significant flooding in the spring when all the snow melted. The parks escaped with minimal damage, and the flooding never came to pass because there was a gradual spring thaw that year.

Apparently, time has dimmed your memories of how bad "Play Not to Lose By Too Much" Jauron was as the Bills HC.

Sounds like a solid plan ... don't try to "fix" what's not broke, and that certainly describes the Bills offense.

And on a team with a lot less offensive talent than the Bills have? My guess is that if Daboll leaves, the Bills will tap Dorsey as OC. OCs on perennial playoff teams with strong offenses are much more likely to get HC opportunities than OCs on perennial rebuilding teams.

What happened with Trent in Buffalo is what happens to almost all QBs drafted outside the first round -- and frequently to QBs drafted in the top 5 : they fail as starters. It is what it is. Don't pretend that Edwards was some kind of martyr to the Bills incompetence. He wasn't good enough. He wasn't even good enough to last as a backup.

This seems to be a problem in the Southern Tier along the I-86 corridor from about Corning east to Binghamton. A lot of locals complain about how people from NYC are driving up prices. I'm sure it's happening in the Hudson Valley, too. When I lived in the Albany area 20+ years ago, there was already a significant contingent of people who commuted from Hudson (the AMTRAK train to NYC has a station there) to NYC. With remote work, Hudson and even Albany (2 1/2 hours to Pennsylvania Station) have undoubtedly gained even more commuters.

I think that they have a significantly better chance to add more talent than either Las Vegas or Denver. Whether they can actually do that is TBD.

Somehow, I don't see any HC turning Carr, Bridgewater/Lock, or Tua into facsimiles of Mahomes or Allen. Miami is the only one of the three teams likely to make significant improve the near future, and that's because they have a massive amount of cap space and a treasure trove of draft picks.

They must be fans of the late, great Joe Diffie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMiEFyTuuh8

Borrowing from your 401k isn't really a "no interest" loan. You may not pay interest to the bank and you may not be penalized by the government for borrowing the money from your 401k, but whatever amount you borrow will not be growing tax free in your 401k account, including not compounding. If you have your retirement funds in bonds, money market accounts or CDs, you probably aren't going to lose too much if you pay back your loan eventually but if you invest in stocks you're likely going to pay a really high cost for that supposed "no interest" loan. I'm retired now with a more conservative stock portfolio than I had when I was working, but my 403b (a 401k for public employees) returned 12.9% last year. Since the economy turned around about 2011 or so, I've had at least 10+% returns every year and a couple of years of more than 20% returns even though I've been withdrawing various amounts from it since I retired in 2016. I don't know how you are invested, but for myself, I would be unwilling to give up earning $5,000 on $50,000 a year in order to avoid paying a 3-5% a year in interest. (This isn't even counting the effect of compounding, ie that $5000 earned in year 1 also earns money going forward).

Fixed it for ya! College coaches who have never been NFL coaches previously invariably fail when they become NFL HCs. I think that Jimmy Johnson might be the only successful collegiate HC who found success as a HC in the NFL since the merger.

Not quite true but close enough for anybody who isn't self-employed or has a lot of actively managed investments, especially with tax software like TurboTax. I've always done my own taxes, and my taxes have been somewhat complicated at times. Well, originally, slavery was meant to be legal and women weren't meant to vote. Oh, yeah, and all the freedoms we take for granted like freedom of speech and religion weren't meant to be protected either since they weren't in the original Constitution either but exist because of amendments. The "pristine" original Constitution barely lasted three years.

That makes long-time Bills fans experts in recognizing how incompetence in the FO/ownership results in incompetence on the football field.

Andrews led the Ravens to a record of 1-3, he completed 64.9 of his passes for 1081 yards, 3 TDs and 4 INTs. 82.6 QB rating. The three losses were by 1 point to the Packers, 1 point to the Rams, and 3 points to the Steelers in OT. The loss to the Packers resulted from Harbaugh deciding to go for a 2 point conversion to win the game rather than kick for a tie to go to OT. The Ravens biggest loss was a 21-41 thrashing by the Bengals when both Jackson and Huntley were out. I think this was a covid game.

This is what you wrote: "I do think Lamar has gotten more love in the media than Josh even tho I believe that Josh is better but that’s the extent of my bias against him. ... Besides the fact, if what you said was true AT ALL, why wouldn’t I pick the easier target of Kyler Murray? Way more topical and relevant. Or was that a part of my insidious plan to throw you off the scent?? " The media "love" for Jackson ran high at the beginning of the 2020 season because Jackson was coming off his MVP season after leading Baltimore to a 14-2 record while Allen was coming off a sophomore campaign in which he showed significant improvement and showed flashes of what he could become. During the course of the 2020 season, the media's view of Allen changed dramatically in response to his great performance while Jackson's standing with the media stayed static. Allen was touted for MVP by some media members. During 2021, Allen has been lionized by the media, Jackson not so much even before he was injured. Your statement about Jackson vs Allen was only valid until the beginning of the 2020 when Allen rewrote the narrative with his play during the season. Today, I doubt that any media members outside of Baltimore believe that Jackson is a better QB than Allen. Your statement about Murray implies that the media gives him a pass. Maybe they did last season but they surely haven't done that this year.

Did you stop following mainstream sports media after 2019? Of course the media loved Jackson in 2019 when he won the MVP and the Ravens went 14-2, but in the last two years that statement has simply been untrue -- and especially in the second half of 2021. Moreover, claiming that the media doesn't criticize Kyler Murray only underscores your ignorance. He's been called out repeatedly on sports media in the second half of the season as the Cardinals collapsed. In fact, following the debacle in the wild card round, several commentators have crucified him, questioning if he shouldn't give up football to go play pro baseball. You are generous. What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Jackson only played 11 full games and his team was 7-4 in those games. He was injured in the 12th game after making only 4 passing attempts. The OP basically accused of Lamar Jackson hiding behind an injury based on nothing of substance on Jackson's part. I think I'd call that "making stuff up" which is pretty malicious IMO. If anybody is going to question anything about Baltimore's 2021 season, then he or she should be questioning Harbaugh and the rest of the Ravens' brain trust. Harbaugh deliberately declined to go to OT twice by going for 2-point conversions after his team got to within 1 point of their opponents. If the Ravens win one of those games, they make the playoffs. It was the Ravens' decision not to put Jackson on IR which was entirely reasonable but it surely wasn't Jackson's call.

That Jackson didn't dress for those games means that the coaching staff made the decision for him. Lamar Jackson is a difference maker and leader on his team almost on a par with Mahomes and Allen. He's not as good a passer as those two young studs, but he's more than good enough. He makes a difference to his team in ways that Baker Mayfield doesn't. Baker's been a big disappointment, and his well publicized injuries are more of an excuse by his fans. The plain fact is that Lamar has improved significantly as a passer and as a QB since coming into the league while Baker is still making the same mental mistakes in his fourth year that he was making two years ago. I say that as somebody who was a big Baker Mayfield fan in the 2018 draft.

"Jerry Jones won two championships with Jimmy Johnson before running him out of town. He won the third with Barry Switzer two years later with the team that Johnson built" is much more accurate. As the talent that Johnson assembled aged or left, Switzer was revealed for the fraud of a coach he was. Jones has won exactly 2 wild card playoff games (2014 and 2018) with a team that didn't have Jimmy Johnson's fingerprints all over it in the 33 years he's owned the Cowboys.

I agree. I think Allen's decision making has improved over the season, especially in the last 4-6 weeks. He's successfully mastered his natural inclination to be a gunslinger which is a really hard thing to do. Most NFL QBs, even great ones like Brett Favre, can't/couldn't do this.

I have a Cub Cadet 24" that's at least 5 or 6 years old. It a reliable hard working beast that handles big snows like today well enough while being easy to handle and maneuver in tight spaces. I do my driveway plus 3 of my neighbors' sidewalks as well as plowing a path in the backyard for the pup. It even clears the 2 foot ice berm that the snowplows put across my driveway. It has electric start and power steering, both of which I recommend. I don't have heated handles because I don't think they were available for my price range when I bought it. I would recommend those as well.

I don't think that most owners get a lot of media attention in the playoffs until the championship rounds unless their teams lay eggs ... or they're Jerry Jones.