dave mcbride

? - What I meant is that older qbs who have been elite for a while and can quickly diagnose every defense thrown at them don't have to rely on mobility like virtually every other qb in the league. Lack of mobility is a key reason why Josh Rosen is a failure. I'm sorry I didn't mention Rodgers, but I certainly include him in that group along with Roethlisberger and to a lesser extent Rivers (whose extreme lack of mobility will kill him in the end, as it always does). As for sack rate, please explain your mocking laughs. It's a really important stat that tells you a lot about a QBs ability to quickly diagnose plays and avoid drive killing sacks. Carson Wentz's slow recognition this season and his constant inability to get rid of it quickly has led to a 9.3 percent sack rate. It is killing the Eagles this season. Also, I didn't think this needed to be relitigated because it's so obvious, but the reason that Flutie was so much more effective than Rob Johnson is that both played behind the same line, but while Flutie had a low sack rate, Johnson accumulated the highest sack rate in NFL history. Sacks kill drives--plain and simple.

604 rushing yards, 5.9 ypc, 10 rushing TDs, and a low sack rate of 4 percent (Allen's is over 5 percent). Murray's electric running ability is a game changer, as the Bills found out. His passing is good too. Bottom line: to qualify as a great qb, you can't simply be just a thrower in the NFL anymore unless you're Brees/Brady (i.e., qbs who have seen everything).

I would think so. He looks like a career backup to me. I was pretty unimpressed with his physical talent last year when he played. Darnold is a much better thrower, especially when on the move.

I think he's in the worst situation for a young qb that I've seen in ages. Maybe Steve Young in Tampa Bay? Sidenote: It has occurred to me that Gregg Williams may soon be the only defensive coordinator in NFL history to preside over two different 0-16 teams. If I'm the Steelers, I think hard about a late first for him. He has talent and he'd be set up to succeed there. Ben ain't gonna play too much longer. Yup. As I said above, Steve Young.

I know the numbers don't show it, but Moss looks pretty good to me. Interestingly, here's what Albert Breer, who I really like, wrote in his SI MMQB column on Monday: 1) I think Zack Moss needs to be the bell cow for Buffalo coming out of the bye. https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/11/16/arizona-cardinals-hail-mary-kyler-murray-deandre-hopkins-believable

Also, Hughes is in eighth season with the Bills, and has never missed a game. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HughJe99.htm

He is not a problem and has made big plays. I would keep him.

I disagree with him. My read on each of the INT-possible throws. 1. He threw from an unstable base and overthrew the receiver (which was not Singletary) by a lot irrespective of Peterson. 2. Just a bad throw that Peterson dropped. Don't know what he was looking at there. I don't think this one is complicated. 3. Inaccurate throw behind Davis that the trail cover guy could make a play on. Ball needs to be on the other side of the receiver. 4. My read at the time, and I'm standing by it, is that he wanted to get Knox back in the game after that killer penalty and threw a reckless, inaccurate heave into coverage that failed. He regularly tries to pick up his teammates after they make an error, and it's an admirable trait. But it didn't work in this case because there were two defenders in the area and Knox was covered. Just my opinion, of course.

Four balls that *should* have been picked (and two were). A crazy decision to heave a ball into the middle of the scrum to avoid a sack. Missing on both deep throws by 5+ yards. The throws weren't even close. He made a lot of good plays too. But 5 legit bad ones plus the return of deep-ball inaccuracy on the two such throws he made adds up to a lot of negative plays. Anyway, anytime you throw four clearly interceptable balls, you're making an inordinate number of bad plays.

I'm a huge fan of Josh Allen. I'd still say he made an inordinate number of bad plays in that game. As I was saying. This was the last play of the game: .

He has led the league three times in game winning drives, and in 2016 had 8. The Lions only won 9 games that season! The Lions have 4 wins now and he has 3 game winning drives. He should have 4 given that season opener too. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StafMa00.htm

Awesome play! To be fair, Gene has a point. Josh A is 14th in INT percentage right now. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2020/passing.htm#passing::pass_yds, and over the past few games the rate has climbed. He does need to clean up his game in that area.

Not by me. The league existed long before the SB era and there were many, many great teams and players. The best teams of their eras are still the best teams of their eras; it's a fool's errand to try and compare them with teams now because it's not like to like. The Lions of the mid-1950s are one of the great teams in league history based upon their performance in that era.

They have won 5 NFL titles and have been around for 90 years ...

As I said earlier, White is giving up about 7.5 inches to Hopkins when factoring in height, measured vertical, wingspan, and hand size. That's a lot.

Really? I said before that play that the Cardinals were clearly set up to throw two hail marys in a row or a dipsy-doodle lateral play involving Drake. Seemed obvious to me given that there were only 11 seconds left.

I think Stafford delivers a LOT, but then the Lions D will give up some crazy play to Aaron Rodgers on the last play of the game (it's happened more than once!). Did you see the end of the first Lions game this season? Stafford delivered a perfect strike for a TD in the last seconds against Chicago ... but the RB dropped it despite it hitting him right in the freaking hands! And don't forget that Calvin Johnson play that was ruled an incompletion! It would have been a last second victory for Detroit. Stafford is a snakebitten QB but a good one, and he plays clutch when the game is on the line. He is simply cursed because he plays for the Lions.

Yes, good piece. Re: the Singletary play, it looked to me like he actually could have caught the ball; he was on a clear path to beating Peterson to the ball but seemed to flat-out alligator-arm it. Not a good game for him given the PF and the dropped screen pass. Of course, his one really good play was called back because of that boneheaded block in the back by Knox.

Agreed, it doesn't get anymore crazy clutch than this. What a throw and catch! Losman did have a cannon ... That said, I'll raise you one because this was a fourth down play: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201109180buf.htm. As for the Allen play, yes, it was a great throw, but it was first down and the Bills only needed a FG to tie the game. It wasn't do or die yet. In fact, that throw wasn't even the most clutch throw of the season. There were a couple of plays in that Rams game that surpassed it.

I thought you were saying that Morse was benched because Feliciano brings more nastiness to the run game. I think I misinterpreted. The team is better with both out there.

Every QB plays well against the Chargers in the fourth quarter!

I wouldn't say inconsistent; I'd say terrible. 66.5 rating; 55 percent completion rate; and 7 Tds to 10 INTs. 5 fumbles too. The only positive is his sack rate (4.4 percent), which is decent. PS - the Broncos passer rating differential is an abysmal -24.6. That is awful. It explains why they've suffered three blowout losses. Just look at the line reading "league rank offense" - https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/den/2020.htm. That is really, really bad.

Exactly, and it ain't even close. The Lions have been bad for a while, but they are a historic franchise (90 years old), with 5 championships including 3 straight in the 50s. The problem with the Chargers is that they left the city that made them kinda famous and our now in a city that is populated entirely by non-fans of the Chargers. No one cares about them anymore. They are more of an incorporated but deterritorialized football team-like entity than a team rooted in a place with a history and lots of memories associated with them.

I have been chalking up the Broncos game as a win, but Denver was in fact 5-3 last season at home but really 6-2 if not for a terrible, terrible roughing the passer call vs. Chicago that cost them a game that they had won. That said, they are 1-3 at home this year and were totally lucky to beat SD 31-30 in the game that they did win (i.e., a really shaky PI call on fourth down in the end zone that gave them one more play).

Really? The run game was terrible the last two games.