dave mcbride

Evidence? I certainly didn't see that and i watched closely. By my count, he led them to 31 points (undercut by clay's bad drop and the shank by hauschka).

Constant 2-3 step drops lead to ... Mccown. Counting the sack of mccown, the jets averaged 4.5 yards per pass play. That is terrible. The bills averaged over 7 yards per pass play.

Man, not every throw is 100 percent perfect. That throw was absoeffinglutely good enough and should have been caught by a $6 million per year TE.

100 percent correct, john. That is usually a pretty easy catch for most players.

You're wrong, i think. Marrone is not likable, but he is a good football coach.

Horrible flag on jenkins.

Oh man, it was freaking close enough despite not being 100 percent on target. Bottom line - that has to be caught. I don't category three actually exists. Maybe his family members, but they don't count.

+1. He played well and worked the middle of the field well too. Clay had three drops. Yes. It was an absolutely fine throw that good players pretty much always catch. Clay is actually decent, but made a bad play there. A lot more throws down the middle. He basically delivered.

Agreed about rosen up to a point. Darnold is more physically talented, but it is such a mental game. Both are terrific.

I don't care about the ints so much. The first one was on third and long, was basically a punt. Stanford has an infinitely better secondary than unc too. Anyway, i am telling you - darnold will go 1 overall.

I love me some rosen and would be thrilled to get him, but let's be serious. Darnold is going 1 overall and it's obvious why.

Totally disagree about arm talent. A big gun isn't really what I'm talking about - it's about making nfl throws against good coverage with authority. See my ipdated post above

Jackson simply does not have the arm talent that darnold does. Darnold is a MUCH better prospect. It's less about the numbers they put up but the skills and talent they flash vis a vis nfl projections. Darnold will undoubtedly go 1 overall.

Darnold is off the charts talented.

Darnold is as good a college qb i have seen in years. What an arm - so strong. He mKes throws the stanford qb could never make. Rosen lit it up today too,but i didn't see it.

Fair points, but what I think everyone is forgetting is that because Smith throws it deep so rarely, both players were cheating a little to take away the shorter pass possibilities. It was a great play call.

Excellent point.

As one of TBD's biggest Tyrod fans, I look forward to this.

Perception v. Reality -- I know which side I'm on. I also suspect that I know which side you're in, old friend, after two decades of engagement.

Here, here. Great post.

Huh? All of those guys were playing in Bledsoe's best years. It's not arguable. Bledsoe never had a good season after 1997 except for the first half of 2002. He was league average in 1998, to be fair. Basically, the daylight between DB and Jim Everett is really meager, as I say above.

31-6, Buffalo. I don't see how the Jets score TDs with that group.

I *totally* disagree with you about Bledsoe's career. We'll just have to agree to disagree about him. As for QBs taking their teams to the playoffs and SB in those years: Aikman, Young, Elway, and Favre leap immediately to mind. Christ, Mark Brunell was a better QB than Bledsoe by practically every statistical measure (including postseason) except yardage output/games played, and they played in the same era. FWIW and continuing with college players from the state of Washington, Bledsoe never had a season nearly as good as Chris Chandler's 1998 season. (It's also pretty hilarious that PFR includes his nickname - Crystal Chandelier - on his player page: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/ChanCh00.htm). Best comparison to Bledsoe at the end of the day? Jim Everett. The stats are eerily similar.

People shouldn't be so sure about a cut of Dareus. He is a great player when motivated, and this is a good system for him.

Bledsoe never had a HOF form, although he had a couple of good seasons (1996 and 1997). He is arguably the most overrated QB in NFL history. His record against teams with winning records -- and his performance measured in QBR in those games -- was truly awful. His postseason QBR is 54.9, for chrissake! Luck, despite a few flaws, is just a better player Bledsoe. The year the Pats got to the SB (1996), it was all Belichick (who took over the D that year) and Curtis Martin.