dave mcbride

Not sure all that many folks remember, but Josh Johnson -- a terrible QB who has somehow managed to last in the league for 15 years (albeit with stints in the United Football League, the Alliance of American Football League, and the XFL) despite a QB rating below the NFL equivalent of the Mendoza line -- did a stint with the Bills in 2015. He was signed mid-season when Tyrod Taylor got hurt and was the primary backup to EJ Manuel in the London game against Jax. We almost got a chance to see him perform given how awful Manuel was in the first half of that game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Johnson_(quarterback) The most amazing thing about him is that he has played for 15 NFL teams! I mean, I thought Fitzpatrick had played for a lot of teams, but wow. This unintentionally hilarious article from two and half years ago has him about to hang it up after his 13th NFL team: https://www.sportscasting.com/after-13-nfl-teams-josh-johnsons-exhausting-football-career-may-be-over/. He has had over 20 contracts including the non-NFL pro-league contracts! (Jim Harbaugh was his coach at D3 University of San Diego too.) The non-NFL teams he played for: Sacramento Mountain Lions - United Football League (he played two games and then the league folded) San Diego Fleet - Alliance of American Football Los Angeles Wildcats - XFL It's both kinda sad and poetic that he now may well be done forever after embarrassing himself on the biggest of stages before getting concussed out of the game by legit bad man Ndamukong Suh. But he's the ultimate survivor, so I probably shouldn't write his obituary yet. Finally, I like the title of this entertaining Vice piece: "Josh Johnson, Emergency Quarterback": https://www.vice.com/en/article/9a4e7y/josh-johnson-emergency-quarterback And here is a picture of him as a Bill:

The NYC Dept of Sanitation had the best response (their colors are green and white too):

The issue is that they don't have that many picks (how is it that the Bills NEVER got any comp picks??) and they're late: Round 1, Pick 27 Round 2, Pick 59 Round 3, Pick 91 Round 4, Pick 128 Round 5, Pick 135 (from Arizona) Round 5, Pick 160 Maybe they can turn the late 4th and early 5th round pick into a late 3rd if there is a player that they really value, but there is nothing for the sixth and seventh rounds. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some day 3 wheeling and dealing to move down and accumulate more picks. My guess is that this is the first year post-covid where they have a lot of usable film on guys plus more live scouting (meaning multiple years), so they may be more confident in what's out there. If you don't really know what's out there when you get to rounds 6 and 7, then the picks are less valuable. They've gotten some decent contributing talent in rounds 6 and 7 recently: Benford, Dane Jackson (great value for 7th rounder even if he's hardly a star), Bass, Hamlin, and Hodgins (obviously not for the Bills). Incidentally, they got two years out of Darry Johnson before flipping him to Carolina for a sixth (not that he was much of a contributor). Ray-Ray McCloud has hung around too! He was moderately productive for SF this year too - a lot of punt returns and over 10 yards per return, kickoff returns, and 14 receptions for 17.4 ypc. He had 39 catches for Pitt in 2021 too.

There were two really bad weather games - Chicago and the Jets at home. He had only 5 total catches and seven targets in those two games. That'll bring down the average a fair bit. Also, there was the weird Cleveland game where he didn't get targeted until the final play of the first half and Allen only threw it 27 times. The Bills ran it down the Browns' throats in that game -- 33 carries for 171 yards.

I found this piece interesting vis-a-vis Johnson and McDermott. https://www.the33rdteam.com/category/analysis/the-complicated-relationship-between-andy-reid-sean-mcdermott/

The Chiefs were the better team in literally every statistical category except for rushing yards, so you’re factually wrong: https://www.espn.com/nfl/matchup/_/gameId/401438008

Confirms my belief that Philly fans are the mookiest of mooks. The world would be a better place if they would simply go away.

Philly fans are the absolute worst.

Refs too. That call on Wylie was laughably bad. His hands literally held nothing.

It was definitely not a hold. Terrible call.

AC joint injuries ain’t no joke for a QB. Look up Cam Newton’s injury history and what he had to say about the long-term effects of his AC joint injury.

The holding call on Wylie was a fricking joke. He literally held nothing. He did an arm bar, which ain’t holding.

Hey, I was banging the drum to sign Reddick before the season and wanted Suh too when it became apparent he was going to join a team. Year after year the man proves he can still bring it. He was awesome in the postseason for TB a couple of years ago.

Worst game of importance i have ever seen. For anyone who knows anything about josh johnson, when purdy went down it was obvious the game was completely over. He has been in and out of the league since 2008 and his qb rating is significantly below the football equivalent of the Mendoza line. And 1-8 as a starter. How he ever won a game is a mystery to me. D3 guy who played for Harbaugh when the latter started his coaching career at the U of San Diego.

Here’s the full trailer!

This is a really weak post. Sorry but it’s true. They literally are playing without a qb because of injury.

Good for trent williams. That was 100 percent justified.

This may be worst football game of any importance that I have ever watched. Obviously it’s the injuries, but seriously, the Niners should have offered a lot of money to Ryan Fitzpatrick when Purdy became the starter. How Josh Johnson remained in the NFL for so long is mind boggling.

I had heard of him! He has been around forever, and he has sucked forever.

Huntley isn’t good, but he is a LOT better than Johnson. Johnson spent 2019 and 2020 in the arena league and xfl. He is awful.

Fascinating fact about Josh Johnson, who is really terrible: his college coach was Jim Harbaugh and he was the starting qb for a team that won a D3 championship in 2006.

The numbers say that Hockenson is pretty darn good (60 catches in 10 games for MN; 86 overall). And he produced pretty well in prior seasons. I actually bet DT is sorry they traded him given how good they turned out to be in the end.

A wiser HC and DC would have rushed 3 and ordered the Bills DBs to play press and immediately grab and hold onto every eligible KC receiver for dear life for two plays, forcing a hail mary from the chiefs’ own 35 with 4-5 seconds left. Maybe even do it a third time to ensure that the clock gets down to under 4 seconds , ensuring one play only. It would have worked. Instead, they played off. Mind boggling given the amount of time left, kc’s 3 TOs, the quality of the KC qb and receivers, and the distance they had to go.

Dane Jackson actually had a pretty good game.

Totally. And fully agree about Daboll, who comes out of the Belichick/McDaniels style where the approach can change from week to week depending on the opponent. In their heyday with Brady, they’d pass it 45 times one week (mostly short passes too) and run it 40 times the next week.