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He was an older rookie. He redshirted and then played all 4 years at OSU.

And it's worse than that. The two best QBs in the XFL last season (AJ McCarron and Ben DiNucci) both got signed to NFL practice squads and are therefore not playing in the UFL this season. So, in a world with a dearth of QB talent, you have the 64 guys that are on NFL 53-man rosters along with the 32 guys on PS. The best QB in the UFL will be the 96th-best guy in the world. BTW, the San Antonio Brahmas have Joe Flacco's little brother as their QB.

I used to like the sitcom Grounded for Life a lot. It did run for 5 seasons, but then it just seemed to disappear.

This would be a pretty big challenge. He's already had Darnold and Mike White. He could sign Josh Rosen tomorrow if he wanted. Besides the heavy lift of getting Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, he would have to get Kyle Lauetta, Luke Falk, and Tanner Lee out of retirement. Then there is Danny Etling, who is in the UFL, and Alex McGough and Logan Whiteside who are on the Packers' and Falcons' practice squads, respectively. That leaves good 'ole Mason Rudolph.

I wonder if Bob Kraft woke up feeling dangerous today?

I think you have Jimmy confused with Gardner Minshew. Jimmy’s got a Bentley. Josh had a Ford F150 King Ranch. Tom Brady has a driver.

He was prescribed something that is on the NFL's list of banned substances. In order to take it, he would have had to get permission from the league. He didn't do that.

Remember when he had off-season surgery but then recovered faster than expected? Well, now we know how he did that.

Too bad he screwed the Jets over all those years ago because you just described them to a T.

He didn't play week 18.

Most of the top guys won't do the drills. They'll come, get interviewed, maybe bench and jump, and then leave. For instance, there is no way that Caleb Williams will actually throw. What I want to see is some of the WRs run.

He might get a similar situation if he went to Atlanta. They have weapons everywhere and they will run that Shanahan/McVey system. He wouldn't have to be the "franchise guy" there. Just get the ball to Pitts, London, and Robinson in space and let them do their thing.

This reminds me of all the posters on TBD that wanted to take Roquon Smith at 12 and then wait for Mason Rudolph in the second to address the QB position. In retrospect, that would have been a monumentally stupid move but it would have looked savvy on draft night.

We are going to spend all summer analyzing an overtime game between two great teams, looking for absolute reasons that one team won and absolute reasons that the other team lost. Really, it was a punt bouncing off of a heal and a missed PAT. But that doesn't make analysts sound savvy, so into the analytics we dive.

I'm just reposting this so that people who are just jumping to the end of the thread to complain that the Bills don't run plays like this can see that we ran pretty much THIS EXACT SAME PLAY against the Chiefs 3 1/2 weeks ago to pick up a 4th down.

How many cryptic "fire McDermott" threads can we have on the TBD front page at one time?

I think Mason Rudolph will be the starter in Pittsburgh next year. I also think that someone will try to revive Mac Jones' career. Atlanta? He's better than anyone they currently have on the roster at QB. The OC they just hired is from the Shanahan coaching tree via McVey. I think Mac Jones could do the Tua/Purdy thing. The Pats tried to insert Mac into the Brady offense. That was never going to work. But he could be a point guard. I like this idea the more that I think about it.

The 90's Bills wouldn't have made a single Super Bowl if they were in the NFC

I know it's not a rock song, but...

Jamarcus Russell - starting QB and team captain.

It's worth a try, but I do think that fans can get too focused on what we thought of players as prospects. Both Shenault and Burks now have NFL game film that demonstrates that their draft evaluations were incorrect. I get that Shenault has been in some of the worst situations, but that type of thinking is what led fans, including me, to think that Andy Isabella just needed a better QB to live up to his draft profile. That was clearly not the case.

Today is the day that I learned that Travis Kelce and Rob Gronkowski are the same age.

Well, I agree with that for sure. But that's not the question that was asked.

I hate the Chiefs more than I ever hated the Pats. The Bills were not good enough to make me care all that much about what the Pats were doing. It was like they were playing in another league.

Here's NFL.com's immediate post-draft reaction to the Mahomes pick. The Bills didn't pass on a sure thing like Joe Burrow. They passed on a risky gunslinger from an air raid offense. That risk sure as heck worked out for the Chiefs, but it was a risk. BTW, why the panic around here today? I knew as soon as they beat the Bills that the Chiefs were winning it all. There was no way that Baltimore could beat them wtih playoff Lamar and the 49ers should have lost to both the Packers and Lions. I mean, Brock Purdy didn't complete a pass in the third quarter (an exaggeration, but it felt like that) and the Niners still almost won.