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It's "only" a $16 million cap hit if he's released. They would save $10.5 million by releasing him. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/joe-flacco-4000/

Continuity for a young QB. Nothing messes with a young QB's development more than changing coaches and systems. That's the main reason that Cleveland will probably keep Gregg or at least his OC. Who knows what the Jets are thinking, but they would have been better off firing Bowles before they drafted Darnold. The people who wanted McDermott and/or Daboll gone are just nuts.

I think Jacksonville should be able to get their pick of the best veteran QBs available from Flacco, Foles, Tyrod etc or they might swing a trade for Carr, since the Raiders are intent on setting the record for most 1st round picks in 1 draft. Also the Jags could sign one of the vets as a bridge & draft a QB. Jacksonville is hardly a hot mess at QB that will last for years. The leader of that pack is the NYG who will keep Manning another year unless he decides to hang them up and will try to find their next QB from a mid round pick. They might go the next decade or more trying to replace Manning since they chose Barkley over any of last year's QBs except Mayfield. Other teams that could be in for a long wait for their next decent QB include our 2 archenemies Miami & NE as well as years of mediocrity in Cincinnati, Denver, Washington, and Tampa Bay.

It's just natural for fans to want the guy their team got rid of not to succeed elsewhere. It's like a divorced guy who wants to see his ex with a homely, broke bum, not with a rich handsome guy.

This is the opposite of a lost season, it's a found season. We found our future for the 1st time since Jim Kelly came here in 1986. We have what will probably turn into the greatest rookie class in team history. Not only did we have a great draft but we were able to find starters among the undrafted free agents. Take a look at what other teams have spent to get their QB. We managed to move up from 21 to 7 to draft Josh Allen and didn't have to give up another #1 or a future pick in another draft. The final price was pick 21, Glenn-an overpriced injury prone T, and 2 2nds in the 2nd half of the 2nd round, one of them we stole from the Rams for 1 year of Watkins. When you look at what other teams gave up to move up to get their QBs, Beane got away cheap: Look up what the Jets gave to move up from 6 to 3, what Chi gave to move up from 3 to 2 , What KC gave us to move from 27 to 10 for Mahomes, what Houston gave up to go from 25 to 12, what LAR gave up to go from 15 to 1 and Philadelphia from 13 to 2. All gave up picks in future years. I trust McBeane to win us a future Super Bowl because they have the foresight not to keep spinning their wheels by doing things like paying $16 million for a season of the ultimate wheel spinner, Tyrod Taylor. Sure they could have continued having a final playoff qualifier that would be 1 and done in the playoffs, but they envision bigger things. That is shown by the 2018 season-THE FOUND SEASON.

Josh bought them something practical-You can't search for a new job on a 65" TV.

Worse than Peterman in practice & preseason from the time he arrived until the time he left.

The we there I was referring to was the team, not we the fans. I think any guy team management didn't want we as fans will hope our guy is better than & are rooting for management's decision to have been the right one.

I wouldn't be so quick to write off Rosen. Let's see him next season before reaching any conclusions. I think it's natural for Bills fans to want to see the guy we didn't want fail, but at this point rumors of his career death are greatly exaggerated.

I'm talking about the head to head competition where Peterman outplayed McCarron enough for the Bills to dump McCarron off for anything they could get for him. In the long run it may have been about how bad McCarron was rather than a reflection on Peterman.

Sunday night in bed she'll be calling him 2019 retiree.

Peterman may get another shot at beating out A.J. McCarron. I still think the criticism of the Bills for sending AJ to the Raiders after he played himself off the team in preseason was always unjustified. The fact that Beane got a 5th rounder for a guy who was worse than Peterman was pretty impressive.

Tasker-made big plays in postseason including a blocked punt in the Super Bowl and a huge 57 yard kick return vs the Raiders in the AFC divisional playoff in Jan 1994. The 4 HOFers each had post season meltdowns: Kelly-too many INTS, Reed-penalty vs Washington in Super Bowl after he threw his helmet and being kept in check by the Giants, Thomas-lost helmet vs Washington & 2nd half fumble vs Dallas in Atlanta that changed the whole game, Bruce-sitting out Pittsburgh playoff game with the flu. I can't think of Tasker doing anything bad in the playoffs or Super Bowl.

I still remember when he returned from the USFL and got so disgruntled about having to rejoin the Bills that he took tape and put it on his locker to represent prison bars. One time at work I got really mad at my boss and copied Cribbs using correction tape. Only Petrino knew what I was doing.

I hope you didn't bet $500,000 on it, but if you did you may be ok after the fumble.

The decision is made in NY by the network, but the local stations can ask for a change. The Albany stations usually do if there is no Giants or Jets game available. I have no idea what goes on in Syracuse and why the station didn't appeal to Fox like our stations in Albany would have done. I'm sure all Sunday ticket bar owners would like fewer home games in Albany, but we'll end up seeing 9 games at home this year. The last 2 weeks won't be on locally, this week the Giants are on ch 6 and they're going to show Jets/NE (because of the Jets, not NE) the last week instead of Bills/Miami. Also, I don't believe the post that lists the Patriot fans cities since it doesn't include Hartford, Ct. Hartford and all of Connecticut is Patriots country, except the southern portion which is Giants country. The Patriots almost moved to Hartford in the 1990s and we're expected to believe there are more Patriots here fans in Giants country than Hartford and even more in Schenectady than Hartford. Insanity.

There aren't many openings for backups to get a starter's job next year. The most likely 2 QBs on the market who can get a starting job are Foles & Flacco. Other than those 2, I doubt any other backups will be able to get starting jobs. Let's look at teams looking for a new starter next year, there aren't many. Washington-If Smith is done and Jacksonville, That's about the only teams who will be looking to sign a new starter via free agency. Teams like the Giants will be looking to have a rookie who will sit in what will most likely be Eli's final season. They won't be signing another team's backup to replace Manning. The following teams have no interest in signing a new starter via free agency: Bills, Jets, Patriots, Dolphins, Ravens, Steelers, Browns, Texans, Colts, Titans, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers, Cowboys, NYG, Eagles, Bears, Lions, Packers, Vikings, Falcons, Panthers, Saints, Cardinals, Rams, 49ers, Seahawks. That leaves only the following teams after Jacksonville & Washington: Cincinnati if they decide to try to improve on Dalton, Tampa Bay if they've had enough of Winston, however they're more likely to be drafting a QB than signing a FA, Arizona-if they go the route that Marrone went with EJ & give up on a 2nd year QB without giving him more time-this is a highly unlikely scenario. So, it will be very slim pickings for FAs looking for a starting job. Teams with older QBs like the Giants, Saints and even NE may go for a rookie to be a backup for a year or 2. They won't be in the Flacco/Foles market. Good news for the Bills is Barkley won't be getting a starting job anywhere.

If the Bills had Darnold rated higher than Allen, we'll never know. It's pretty obvious the Bills had Allen rated no worse than #2 on their QB board. From Beane's pre-draft talk, he was not interested in Mayfield due to his size & chose Allen over Rosen, so we know Rosen was behind Allen on the Bills board. The Jets guaranteed themselves no worse than their 3rd rated QB, while the Bills could have been left hanging if the Giants had taken a QB at 2 instead of Barkley. I thought the Jets outmaneuvered the Bills getting the jump on them by trading up to 3. The problem the Bills had was that Indy wanted Nelson & didn't want to drop to 12, so the Jets at 6 had a huge edge in any trade talks.

The 3rd Patriots game will be in Buffalo because the division winner gets the home playoff game, not the wild card team. I wonder if we'll be in contention for the Thanksgiving game in Dallas. If not that has MNF written all over it.

More proof that QB ratings, whether they are the traditional ones or QBRs are trash. You can't take QB play and reduce it to a number. There are so many factors that can only be accounted for by watching the game. Josh Allen's play translates a lot better on film than any QB rating system number.

Funny that you didn't mention Albany County, which has the largest population in the area. I've lived & worked here for 30 years. At work there were Bills fans, most with some WNY ties who either were transferred here by the state or went to college here & stayed. There were no Patriots fans in my building, although there were some Red Sox fans. Years ago, some of the people I worked with had Patriots seasons, none of them were Patriots fans. The 2 I knew were fans of Arizona & KC, not NE. We're a lot closer to the Meadowlands in time & around 35-40 miles closer in distance than Foxborough. I know a lot more people who go to and have seasons to the Giants & Jets than NE. There just aren't many eastern Mass transplants in the Albany area, while there are WNY transplants. Mass residents don't go to the colleges here in the numbers WNY kids do and none get transferred from a state job in Boston to a state job in Albany. We get around 10 Bills games a season on home TV, I have to go out to see the other 6 games. I see Bills fans at the satellite showings but no Patriots fans. If they're in the immediate Albany area, they certainly aren't making their presence shown.

I'm getting them from the priority of TV stations broadcasts. The Giants get priority over everyone and have Albany included in their area that is permitted to show all preseason games, then it's the Jets who will always be shown over the Bills unless it's late in the season & the Jets are hopelessly out of it & the Bills are in playoff contention. This happened last December, but it's very rare to get a Bills game over a Jets game these days. The Bills get 3rd priority right behind the Giants & Jets. The Bills preseason games were shown on ch 23 this year for the 1st time but we don't have a radio station. That could be because the games are always available on-line. The Patriots get shown only when the other 3 teams are not going head to head with them. They get some play because they play more 4:30 national games, but they are clearly 4th choice at best among the TV stations. They do have a radio station, which among the top 4, only the Bills don't have. The TV stations have a lot of advertising $ invested in these games. They study the market better than we fans do & would not be putting up games that they thought could be ratings duds. Their hierarchy is clearly a top 3 of Giants-Jets-Bills in that order. For the most part, the Patriots are an afterthought.

The advantage we have with Fox televising the game over other NY State cities is that the owners of Albany's Fox station also televise the Bills preseason games. I'm guessing the Bills preseason games aren't on the Fox station in Syracuse. Even though the Jets have a bigger fan base than the Bills, only the Giants & Bills had their preseason games on TV in Albany. Even with all their winning seasons and being a lot closer than Buffalo, NE is still a distant 4th in the market here, but they did con a radio station into carrying their games while the Bills haven't been on Albany radio in years. At one time the Bills were carried on Albany's strongest radio station that you can get pretty far along the east coast. As soon as we start winning again, Bills games will return to Albany radio. The ranking of fans in Albany is: 1) NYG 2) NYJ 3)Bills 4) NE 5)Whichever team is in vogue to jump on their bandwagon. The reason the Bills rank 3rd is even though we're influenced by NYC, because there is a combination of students & state employees who came here from WNY (and some of the students stayed) we'll always stay ahead of NE in the fanbase because there aren't a lot of New Englanders in Albany compared with WNY refugees.

Albany is Bills territory. Obviously Syracuse is not. The local stations know that on a week like this one where there is no competition from the Giants & Jets on the network the Bills are on, they better show the Bills or their switchboard will be bombarded by Bills fans. You just don't have that level of fandom in Syracuse, otherwise you'd have the game. It makes perfect sense that Albany gets the game to those who know Albany-you are not among the people who know anything about the fans in Albany.

Marty has Alzheimers. He can't coach anymore and may have been showing signs after his UFL stint:https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/vahe-gregorian/article126264229.html