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Albany,n.y.

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  1. The Jets may have messed up the most important thing a team can do-draft a QB high in the 1st round-twice in 4 years. Even worse the QBs they should have taken (Allen in 2018 & M. Jones in 2021) went to division rivals who have embarrassed Saleh's D 3 times this year already with a 4th yet to come. Did the Jets even look at the Bills/49ers game last year when the Bills toasted Saleh's D? If so did they even ask him to explain last year's game against a team he would be facing twice a year? Maybe he sold them on "My D will get better as the years go on."
  2. Why is everyone leaving out the Davis boys? Gabe Davis went over 100 receiving yards. Davis Webb gets snaps in a real game. (Maybe he doesn't get a game ball but I'm guessing he kept the ball when the game ended)
  3. Best rookie mistake goes to Zach Wilson : I really wanted the Jets to draft me. I entered the contest using a real life experience. There's only 1 entry per person.
  4. I think he was talking about a fantasy football draft, not the real one as some of the responses indicate.
  5. They lost the USFL case. Gruden will win & get $1.
  6. Right now Fox is the only network offering games in 4K. They've been showing the Thursday night games in 4k on Verizon Fios (I don't know about other cable systems) & had the World Series in 4K. For some reason if I channel surf during time outs it takes a few seconds for the 4K signal to come up unfrozen & with sound. If I leave it on the 4K broadcast it's fine-except if the game lasts too long & goes beyond it's scheduled time & then it just goes off the air. .
  7. There's really no way to check out the area from the stadium, it's pretty isolated. Depending on where you are staying, I'd suggest parking as close to an exit that gets you out in that direction. You can get stuck there a long time if you leave at the end of the game away from an exit. You need to get there early, so the best thing to do is plan some tailgaiting either with your group or the NYC Bills backers. I'm going on a bus trip so I'm saved all the aggravation of the Meadowlands parking lots. The last game I went to down there in 2019 I got there early & parked as close to the exit going back to Patterson Plank Road which leads to 17 north. The other time I went in 2019 my friend in Beacon drove & we got there late & basically just sat around the lot until the traffic cleared.
  8. Going back to the AFL days, the 1-12-1 1968 Buffalo Bills only victory was against the subsequent Super Bowl champion New York Jets.
  9. I guess absence does make the heart grow fonder. Is Carolina's GM trying to get fired or is this one on their crazy owner? They're paying him like a Pro Bowler when nobody else wanted him.
  10. The reason he signed Rhule to such a big contract was because it was rumored that the NY Giants 1st choice was Rhule and the Panthers owner wanted to beat out the Giants. After Rhule went to Carolina, the Giants signed Joe Judge. Lose/Lose.
  11. 1st I'll address the Allen at the top of the class. I have collected several 2018 draft opinions that were published that I printed years ago. Going to my files here are the results. Anyone who put on ESPN in 2018 knows Mel Kiper Jr. had Josh Allen at the top of his QB rankings. In fact, at the time Kiper had Allen ranked as the 9th best QB prospect in the history of his ratings (He now has moved Josh to #10 with the addition of Trevor Lawrence above Josh) My favorite draft expert, the late Dave Te' Thomas had Josh at the top of his 2018 QB ratings. The headline to his analysis is " On potential, Josh Allen is cream of the quarterback crop. Frank Coyle's Draft Insiders had Josh Allen 3rd, behind in order Darnold and Rosen, and ahead Mayfield & Jackson. He had this week's Jets QB, Mike White, at 7. Athlon Sports 2018 NFL Draft Guide ranked Allen #3. Their rankings in order were Rosen, Darnold, Allen, Mayfield, Jackson, Rudolph, Riley Ferguson, Benkert, Faulk, White, Lee, Lauletta, Linehan, Briscoe, Barrett, Kyle Allen There were many mock drafts that had the Bills trading up for Josh Allen. I think that it wasn't a very well kept secret that the Bills wanted Josh Allen. As long as Cleveland didn't take him #1 the path was clear since the Bills had a trade up to #5 worked out and a backup plan (the one that happened) at #7. So with all those mocks of Allen to the Bills, the "experts" knew something.
  12. Josh Allen, that's who. On draft day Josh said this about Bills management: I'm going to make them look like the smartest people out there.
  13. Bad management continues in spite of a change of GMs this past offseason. The last GM got fired in part because of the 1st move and what does the new GM come in & do?- moves 2 & 3. That's like buying a new car & crashing it a block from the dealer where you picked it up.
  14. The XFL will do wonders for him, he might even win a championship like JP did in the UFL.
  15. Any practice squad player would rather get paid the NFL minimum for someone with his number of years in the league than get paid practice squad money.
  16. He's there to back up Walker if Darnold can't play. He can't get a beating while holding a clipboard on the sidelines. Exactly how did Rhule's decision to keep only PJ Walker as Darnold's backup blow up in his face? What was he supposed to do? The team chose to trade for Darnold in the offseason & let Walker & Will Greer vie for the backup spot. Then like most other teams that carry 2 QBs, they added a practice squad QB as the 3rd stringer (James Morgan who is familiar with backing up Darnold). If anything blew up in Carolina's face it was the decision to trade for Darnold & dump Bridgewater, not choosing to keep 2 QBs & a PS QB. Once that decision was made, and the worse decision to pick up Darnold's 5th year option of a guaranteed $18.858 million, Rhule's hands were tied. If the GM keeps his job after the Darnold decisions, Carolina will be a dumpster fire for years to come.
  17. I miss Ruben Brown. Even at his current age he could step in & play better than Cody Ford.
  18. I was never so happy to have a game end without going into overtime as this game. The weather was lousy & I had a 5 hour drive back home after the game. I just wanted that game to end so I could go home & put the memory of attending the worst football game I was ever at behind me. I remember after the game on the postgame show one of the main topics was: Are the Bills Cleveland's Bi##h?
  19. There is no best team in the NFL in November that means anything. Last November the Bucs lost 3 games & fell to 7-5 after 12 games. The best team in the NFL is decided in January & February, not November. Right now a team missing 2 of its starting O-linemen and their top TE (really the only real NFL TE on the roster) can't be evaluated until these 3 either return or don't. Also don't be surprised if some guy comes in off the street & ends up getting significant time at RB.
  20. It was 3 seasons ago. Only a jerk of a reporter would ask a GM about a player he traded in 2019. While you're at it do you want someone to ask Beane why Ray-Ray is Pittsburgh's #1 return man & caught a key pass in their game winning drive last night? Might as well go to Vegas & ask Mayock how he could possibly draft 2 #1 picks & cut them after less than 2 full years? At least that question would be relevant.
  21. It's not even close to the worst. Try sitting through complete blowouts with such a bad team on the field there's no hope for the entire season. I used to live within a long walking distance (about 1.5 miles) from the stadium in 1977 & after walking to the 1st 2 games, getting so soaked I had to change all my clothes and watching bad football I didn't go to another game the rest of the season. I'd drive by the stadium on Sundays going to a laundromat in Hamburg and there was no traffic & I could see a lot of empty seats as I passed the stadium. A 5-3 team with a franchise QB will never approach the worst moments of some really bad Bills teams.
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