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CBS Sports had a great read on how snake bitten the Jets are as a franchise with QBs. I forgot that the Jets had great expectations for a 1999 campaign, after reaching the championship game in 1998. Much like 2023, it imploded in the first game when Vinny Testaverde, who went to the Pro Bowl in 1998, tore his Achilles in the second quarter against the Patriots. The Jets would finish 8-8, trotting out several quarterbacks through the season. Also in the 1999 campaign, the Bills lost their opener to the Colts, getting their doors blown off 31-14. Flutie had a terrible game, going 22-42 for 300 yards, with 2 picks, and five sacks.

Quite the solid podcast. I enjoyed that.

I don't think Ken Dorsey calls every play. I suspect Josh Allen gets to pick plays himself for big chunks of the game, and it's often the completely wrong play to pick, it inevitably goes bust, and the hero ball commences. A calm, collected offense doesn't throw the ball 46 times when you're up on an opponent in a game like last night. It is more precise. It uses the bruising running backs it has to soften up that defensive line and run the clock.

Play calls stunk. Trying, sometimes desperately, to make Cook happen. Demoralizing loss.

Career defining moment is here.

Time to show up.

Better ***** get to it on this possession.

Theyaew going to let these ***** guys back into a game they have no business winning.

Short and sweet please.

Time for a TD.

Jet's know that play.

I never thought Id see Ryan Fitzpatrick so much.

I dig the aggression.

He's in for a rough season. It will take him nearly the entire 2023 season to get to where he was in the 2022 season with the Bills. He's slow to know the playbook, and to boot, a defense that's entirely different from what the Bills ran, to where he doesn't need to think about what to do, he just does it. He won't be great for the Bears this year, but in future years, barring injury, he'll put up 2022 stats for them.

Biden commemorating 9/11 in Alaska is likely because his travel staff, likely comprised of people who were either born after 9/11 or don't care about it, completely forgot about the day when planning his schedule. I don't think he, to a person, would have missed it, as he's attended every other 9/11 event prior.

Enthusiasm for this season is higher than previous seasons. I like what they've done to bolster the run game, and I think moving on from Leslie Frazier is a plus. Of the games on the schedule, this Jets game hasn't concerned me much. The McDermott-era Bills win when they show up, and they show up for the openers and in September overall (.650 winning percentage in September). His Bills have had AR's number historically, and regardless of greatness, quarterbacks on new teams have a difficult first game.

I think the Bills are primed for a fantastic season. Stacked roster with years of corporate knowledge of the system, love the roster moves at RB, and I think McDermott calling the defense is additive. I also think the team, coaching staff included, realizes this season is "it" for the current iteration of the roster. There's a remodeling coming next season, so the time is now. I think the idea of the "uber" Jets is overblown to a degree. Teams take time to gel, and I expect them to be inconsistent Monday night on offense. Miami rides and dies on an injury prone-QB. The 2023 Patriots are the 2008 Bills. Dangerous in September, but fade as the season goes on.

Basham is a very strong man but with s-l-o-w feet, and limited quickness. Offensive linemen can keep strong, but plodding defensive linemen literally at arm's length from their quarterback most of the time. I'd bet that he'd come in last in the lateral ladder drill of all the defensive linemen on the roster. That was the big negative in his draft profile, and remains as a professional player.

I'm not concerned yet, but I see, without some guidelines, this being abused for strategic advantage because I don't know who makes that call to cancel the remainder of a game in progress. (Late season game where one team is losing big in a conference or divisional game, and a tie benefits said team more than a loss, or picking up the game later, buys time for rest or a new strategy.) I also think the gambling world would have big problems with cancelling parts of in-progress games.

Exactly. Same team.

I loathe corporate jargon, and I can spot the insecure phony in a meeting by how often they use the jargon. It's a never-fail personality test. "let's take this offline." "change agent" "ducks in a row" "low hanging fruit" "moving goal posts, needle" Also... "it is what it is"

As others have stated, they lack killers and intensity. This whole team has a feel of middle manager calm and discipline because that's who Sean McDermott is. It works until you hit adversity. I bet you $50 that Ken Dorsey got talked to about his rage in Miami last year, and how "we all have to act like the professionals we are..."

No. Super Bowl-caliber teams do not participate in OTJ training of extremely green, raw talent quarterbacks. Plus, barring disaster, he wouldn't play in Buffalo either.

I voted yes, and I'll add she initiated it.

He's the definition of 90% amazing athlete, 10% football player. He was set up for failure in the NFL because Clemson played him in a weird LB/DB hybrid type of position that doesn't exist in the NFL defense. He never learned a single position in college, and the Cardinals threw him out there and he failed. I think he would become a good player if he learned one position, and much like Trey Lance, spent a USFL/XFL season playing it.