Albany,n.y.

If Haskins can't beat out Rudolph he might as well quit football. Rudolph is nothing more than a career backup. The Steelers don't have Roethlisberger's successor on the team. After Lamar Jackson was picked at 32 in 2018 the rest of the class had nothing. 2018's QB class was top heavy with only 4 QBs, including Rudolph having played their whole careers with the team that drafted them. After the 1st round it was a QB wasteland, Rudolph included in the trash. Shoulder injury. If he keeps this up he's going to be the Rob Johnson of Dallas.

Rudolph was a 3rd round pick, #76 overall.

I remember that before Peterman's 1st start in LA there were posts across various Bills message boards, including here, where fans were talking of Peterman being so good that the Bills wouldn't have to use a draft pick on a QB and could use all those picks in the 1st & 2nd round to build the team around the latest savior, Nathan Peterman. They clearly thought he was an upgrade from Tyrod. My position was that I was very skeptical of Peterman & before his 1st start I started calling him Nathan Marangi. I was at the LA game & at halftime I found a quiet spot away from the stands to call my friend Petrino & laugh at Peterman. One game wasn't enough & he ruined another road trip for me by starting the Baltimore 2018 season opener. I was so glad when Josh came in, in the 2nd half. The only game he wasn't a total disaster was the snow game vs Indy that I never saw because I was in the hospital & the Bills weren't on TV in Albany that day. For the record, it wasn't Peterman's play in LA that put me in the hospital that December. 😄 Here's a good one from the archives: 11/15/2017 - The day that changed the entire course of history for this franchise - The Stadium Wall Archives - Two Bills Drive I found this on another board dated 11/19/2017 To: Gary Marangi From: Albany,n.y. Dear Mr. Marangi, please accept my apologies for comparing Nate Peterman to you. You were a much better QB. I will never call him Nathan Marangi again, his new name is Nathan 1987 Manucci. He has now attained the status of being compared with a strike player who threw 0 TDs & 2 INTs with a 3.8 passer rating in a strike game.

I was a little disappointed that they didn't have Mel Kiper's comments when the Bills drafted Josh. It's on the link at 1:20 to 2:20. His best descriptions were Josh is a difference maker, a big time talent & a rare talent. Not surprising since Kiper had him as the top QB in 2018 & currently stands as the 10th highest rated QB in the history of Kiper's draft grades.

What league is he still in? He's no longer in the NFL.

Kizer was released:https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/08/05/titans-releasing-deshone-kizer/

The guy who is Fitzpatrick's rival is ex-Bill (and just about every ex-other team) Josh Johnson, who signed with the Jets. Every time Fitz changes teams Johnson says "I'll see that team & raise 2 more!"

The funniest thing I saw about that song was a letter to the editor in the sports section of the Sunday Buffalo News where the writer wrote " Marv to Bills, 'Win or I'll sing again'"

I used to live between Rensselaer where the train started & Schenectady. In the beginning, when I went with others, we'd all meet in Rensselaer, but later I realized it was easier to go to Schenectady. Also, if I was going alone I'd go to Schenectady because I could sleep a little later. As the years went by & the Bills were no longer a Super Bowl contender the number of riders diminished. I remember one of the final years the Bills were playing the Eagles & I got to the Schenectady train station and it was dark & spooky & no one else was there. Finally 2 or 3 people came & when the train pulled up there were only 2 train cars attached. I had the feeling that day that the Bills Express wasn't going to be around much longer.

QBs don't grow on trees. The gap between franchise QBs can be decades & Belichick doesn't have decades. Let's look at the class of 1983 QBs & what happened to their teams after their franchise QB retired. The Bills went over 20 years between franchise QBs, Miami hasn't found theirs since Marino hung them up & Denver had a few years of P. Manning at the end of his career but except for the fluke of his injury in Indy & getting replaced by Luck, Denver hasn't had a franchise QB & that one wasn't drafted by them. Want to see how bad it can get? The Jets haven't ever had another franchise QB since Joe Namath.

If Josh was on the Jets they never would have fired Bowles or the GM & they wouldn't have been the no-talent disaster they were under Gase. They would have given Josh the weapons needed instead of letting his best receiver go like the Jets did to Darnold. If the GM totally screws up his job like Joe Douglas did last year in a failed tank to get Trevor Lawrence (I have always thought that all tanks are done by the GM messing up the roster so that the coaching staff has an insufficient amount of players to win because all players & coaches play to win every game-except playoff spot locked up teams in season finales) then he can make a QB look bad, but you can't ruin a good player. Tannehill's biggest problem in Miami was he kept getting hurt. Bad coaches can make a player look bad, but that's pretty short term for guys destined to be stars. Look at when Jim Kelly came here. He had a horrible 1st coach with the Bills & the team knew the sooner they got rid of Bullough, the better. You don't have to have a great organization to develop a QB, but you can't have a joke of a coaching staff either because the play calling can make a QB look bad even when the talent is still evident in spite of some bad stats.

Nonsense! Josh Allen had the worst offense in his rookie year than any of the QBs. No OL, no WR, basically he was a one man show his rookie year miraculously winning 5 games in 11 starts & probably would have won a 6th if Peterman hadn't messed things up in Houston. Josh Allen overcame that offense. That offense brought his stats down where the people who don't watch him play questioned his NFL viability. The Bills who saw him every day never questioned his ability because they understood they gave him nothing to work with as a rookie. If he was a product of his rookie environment, when he also had a QB coach who never coached QBs before, he would have sunk like Josh Rosen. Rosen is now on his 4th team, because like every other QB in the NFL who busted, the NFL game was too big for him, no matter what the environment around him was. Great QBs change the enviroment themselves, bust QBs will fail everywhere. Using your premise, if environment was the most important thing, all those mid round QBs drafted in NE would all be superstars. Tom Brady would uplift any team & if the Bills, during their drought years had drafted Brady, they would have won a ton of games and possibly multiple Super Bowls, no matter how bad the coaching staff was. Nowadays, most QBs have their own QB coach or some kind of mentor who isn't part of the NFL. If the team he's on isn't providing a proper environment, the player will lean more heavily on his private coach. The good & great ones make their own environment & the bad ones flame out no matter how good the environment around them is on their team. QBs make coaches, not the other way around. Year after year there are coaches who never have won anything before become geniuses with a franchise QB. Just look at what Jim Kelly did for Marv Levy; Brady did for Belichick, who is below 500 without Brady; Roethlisberger has done for Tomlin; Peyton Manning did for just about all his coaches; and Russell Wilson has done for 2 time NFL loser Pete Carroll. Most HOF coaches get there on the back of a HOF QB.

Every time Tyrod thinks he's going to be his team's starter, they yank the ball away like Lucy does to Charlie Brown.

Carson Palmer retired from the Bengals years ago & forced a trade. I doubt Aaron Rodgers has played his last NFL game.

BB saw enough in Brady in camp as a rookie to keep 4 QBs in 2000 when Brady was the 4th stringer. While many teams would have waived him & tried to sneak him on the practice squad, the Pats kept him on the 53 man roster the entire season, so BB gets a lot of credit for taking Brady seriously.

Singletary has been working hard this offseason. Let's see the new Devin before we think about trading him. Now as far as the Rams RB situation, I'd advise Cory Bojorquez to start practicing at RB since he's not beating out their punter.

There's only person I call coach: Chuck Dickerson during his WGR days.😄 If Deion want's to be as respected a coach as Nick Saban he needs to go out & win some NCAA championships.

Yes he did. In fact he hasn't taken off his Bills uniform since the day he was drafted. It gets pretty bulky in the shower but the worst part is he wears it to bed, shoulder pads & all & his girlfriend is getting really annoyed.

Years ago one of my friends had a girlfriend whose brother was selling illegal jerseys. My friend got a Trent Edwards jersey & gave it to me. It's in the style of the ones in the 2000s decade. I wore it to 1 or 2 games & then the Bills cut Edwards, so I cut his name out since it was one of those with extra material for the players name. I still have it in a closet with clothes I never wear anymore. PS: I just looked at it & the funniest part is it has a tag that says "NFL Authentic"

With the exception of #4 John Harbaugh, 4 of the top 5 all had future HOF QBs. The biggest key to longevity as an NFL coach is to have a great QB & don't ever get him so mad at you he wants you to leave or he wants to leave himself (See Rodgers/McCarthy; Rodgers with team management...OK, just see PO'd Rodgers every few years) As long as McDermott rides along with Josh Allen he'll keep movin' on up.

Anyone going to their 1st Bills game has to go to Hammer's to see Ken Johnson (AKA Pinto Ron) get a ketchup & mustard bath. You might also get a bowling ball shot if you're into that stuff.

Now we know the real reason he's the only unsigned draft choice. He signed with Carolina!

In 2018 Dan Orlovsky was one of the guys who thought Josh had too many flaws including being inaccurate and he didn't think he was much of a prospect. He came on WGR a number of times & expressed his skepticism of Josh. As Josh improved he changed his mind. Same thing with Chris Trapasso who also had a low opinion of Josh in 2018 & now raves about how good he is. Orlovsky in 2018 on Josh: When the ball is snapped it's almost like, I don't know what's going on … It seems like he doesn't have a plan and a process, and to get to the NFL level and to not be able to do the little things—if you can't do the little things, you can't do the big things. The little things are your plan and your process. The big things are executing against what happens. And so it just seems like he doesn't have that as part of his DNA, as part of his quarterbacking. And that for me I go, Well, what does it matter how big he is, how athletic he is, if you could throw it to the moon, the field’s a hundred yards. To not be able to adjust or react to a Will linebacker blitzing is alarming to me. Alarming. “And then the second thing—I saw this at the combine, and it made me go watch all his tape again. But when he was throwing at the combine, he was staring at his receivers. And I was like, well, that’s a bad habit, and it’s a habit you can create just trying to be better at accuracy. So, I watched all his tape, and that showed up on tape a bunch where he would just stare at receivers when he catches the snap … And so for me those are things that are really hard to change. You got to change years and years of having those bad habits.” Chris Trapasso @ChrisTrapasso Because QB prospects are apparently the talk of today. A reminder of my current rankings: Mason Rudolph [small space] Lamar Jackson [one prospect] Josh Rosen [small space] Sam Darnold [sizable space] Baker Mayfield [two rounds] Josh Allen 2:33 PM · Feb 19, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

If you're talking about 1918, there was no vaccine that had already been given to millions of people that winter.

Last September I posed the question whether the opt-outs were regretting their choice to opt out in 2020. Since nobody opted out this year, I wonder how many of last year's opt-outs regret sitting out 2020.