Albany,n.y.

I used to work the gate with my friend back when I would come in for Bills games in the days when Tasker & AJ Smith had sons playing there. I once met AJ at the gate & he showed me an AFC championship ring he was wearing. One time my friend got Tasker to autograph his book for me. Here's a story on AJ: My friend had a mild heart attack when AJ was GM of the Chargers & AJ sent him a get well letter from his Chargers office.

Marrone next. Stays as long as he keeps them close enough to overtake the Jets for Lawrence. Caldwell is a St Francis grad who my best friend taught years ago.

Rudy Giuliani should just show up in court wearing a NY Jets hat.

Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, you know they have the right set up for video equipment.

I doubt it. They probably still have the baseball field configuration in that dump of a stadium. If they want to keep it on the west coast LA or LV would be the top choices. Otherwise the backup stadium is Detroit, since there hasn't been NFL football home team there in years but the field is ready to go.

The best thing for Darnold is to come back strong & win some games so the Jets can't draft a QB. I hope he starts winning this Sunday. Then he needs a new coach. Woody Johnson is coming back in January and he's going to kick his brother's @ss for messing up the Jets. I wouldn't be shocked if the GM gets fired in spite of his long term contract. No contract should ever stand in the way of firing a bad hire. Much like the Bills, the coach chose the GM and if Gase goes, as he certainly will, why keep his preferred GM? While I don't believe a coach can permanently ruin a QB, he can sure make a decent QB look bad. Gase has now stymied the careers of 2 top 10 QB picks. Tannehill is evidence that Gase is a clueless boob.

It can't happen if the team isn't 100% sold on Darnold as their QB of the future. He either gets his 5th year option picked up for around $20-25 million, or if he doesn't he's a free agent after next season. So any team that picks him up is going to have a one year rental unless they are fully committed to Darnold & give him a multi-year contact after they trade for him. The rookie contract & 5th year option make a Darnold trade difficult for the team acquiring him. Since Tyrod was traded for a 3rd to be a 1 year rental then maybe Darnold could go for a low 2nd or a 3rd, but Cleveland was pretty dumb making the Taylor trade & the Jets would have to find a poorly managed team as their trade partner & one of the worst managed teams is eliminated since they can't trade him to themselves.

In 1981 I was living in a rooming house/apt building on River Rd in Tonawanda, just over the City of Buffalo line near Riverside. I had a kitchen but shared a bath. I must have watched the game on a little black & white TV.

Romo just said the trick play silenced the fans. Aren't cardboard fans already silent?

I'll see your Kotite & raise you this guy

I'm guessing the Pegulas felt the same way I did when it came to Lynn: I didn't want ANYONE associated with Rex Ryan.

The Steelers/Ravens Thanksgiving night game has been moved to Sunday, but I don't know if it's 1:00 or 4:25.

Daniel Jones is not a bust like Haskins is. Jones will never be a franchise QB, but he can be a solid starter a team can win with. I doubt the poster who called Jones a bust sees the Giants much if at all. I get to see the Giants whenever they don't conflict with the Bills, since we get every Giants game in Albany & Jones just needs to learn not to turn the ball over. He fumbles too much but that can be fixed. Tiki Barber used to fumble early in his career & he fixed it. So can Danny Dimes, who I'm confident enough in this week to use the Giants as my suicide pool pick.

I know my least favorite holder is Corey "Laces" Bojorquez.

The last time we had a franchise QB. 4 straight nationally televised games!

When the Bills cut Dorenbos I joked that Mike Schneck made him disappear.

What's worse is the Broncos had no interest in drafting a QB that year, since they were either going to draft Chubb if available or trade the pick to the Bills when it was obvious the Bills were drafting a QB if they had made the agreed upon trade with Denver. If Cleveland had drafted Chubb at 4, the Bills would have drafted Josh at 5 at the cost of both #1s & pick 53 of the draft (2nd round). The Giants thought they were getting a future HOFer in Barkley and thought that they could get away with Eli Manning for at least the 2 years left on his contract. They really believed with Manning they were in win now mode and Gettleman didn't have a strong opinion on any of the QBs.

I give Arizona a lot of credit for identifying Rosen as a bust and getting him out of there while he still had some trade value and going right back & drafting Murray. It's virtually unheard of for a team to draft 1st round QBs in back to back drafts. How many times have we seen on this board that our former 1st round QBs, JP & EJ, "just need more time for the light to go on". The Bills held on to JP for 5 years & EJ for 4 years, way too long not to admit their mistakes and get each off the team a lot earlier than they did.

There are other ways to get a #1 WR, like free agency or trades (2 #1 WRs were traded the same time this offseason). Those paths are much less likely for a franchise QB. With rare exceptions, unless you're signing a guy like Brady at the end of his career, you have to get your franchise QB in the draft, and when you draft him you have to hope you were right. I'm sure if you were posting in 2005 you said the same thing when Green Bay drafted Rodgers to sit behind Favre.

I remember years ago there was a faction that said never draft a QB in the 1st round & never draft a QB until you've built other parts of your team 1st. They would back up their ideas with stats showing only 50% of 1st round QBs failed and others were "ruined" by lack of weapons around the QB. I've always believed the QB is so important that if you scout a guy who you think is the answer you move heaven & earth to get the guy unless you have a QB in his prime. It's better to prepare to replace your franchise QB if he's on the wrong side of 35, although nowadays guys like Brady & Brees are playing long past the expiration date of a franchise QB. I firmly believe if you take the same team and it's a 12-4 team with a franchise QB, if that team has a below average QB they'd be 4-12. Just look at the 2010-2012 Colts. With Manning in 2010 they were 10-6, in 2011 with no answer at QB they were 2-14, in 2012 with rookie Andrew Luck they went 11-5. The QB may not be everything, but he's pretty much the only thing. As the old WGR parody song said "with no quarterbackin' get those bags a packin'"

I totally agree. A coach cannot go with a top 5 draft choice QB and then pull the plug when he doesn't play well. Once you commit to him you have to let him play through the rough spots. If it costs a coach a few games, so be it. If he wasn't willing to lose those games, he should have kept the rookie on the bench & not started to jerk him around.

The biggest problem for. any team that trades for Darnold is the 5th year option. Either the Jets pick it up and he's guaranteed about $25 million in 2022, or he's more likely a one year rental to see what he can do. Either way, no team is trading for him to be a long term backup. Now if next year he bombs and can't get a starting gig in 2022, then he could be our backup after his rookie contract is up.

It's not irresponsible if Tua is their QB of the future. Just making the playoffs and doing a one and done instead of developing your rookie QB would be irresponsible. In Eli Manning's rookie year Coughlin benched Warner when the Giants were above .500 and Eli was horrible for about 5 straight games. Coughlin cost them the playoffs, but later won 2 Super Bowls with Eli because he did the right thing when Eli, who developed into one of the best clutch QBs in the league, was a rookie

We lost 10 people in my pool from that game. I suspect that many of the people who picked Minnesota didn't realize that Dallas had Andy Dalton back and was not starting Gilbert or the rookie.

21st century medical advances. Players almost never have career ending injuries anymore. A knee injury in 1980 could end a career, in 2020 they're back in a year & better than ever 2 years later. Marcus Dupree would have had a long career with today's surgical methods.