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As the old saying goes, Buffalo is a drinking town with a football problem.

In the words of the late, great Senator: 20-0 baby!

Colorado goes on the road to face the 17th ranked team in the country and national champ runner ups and puts up those kind of numbers? Maybe TCU took them lightly, but in the plays I’ve seen, Colorado has some superior athletes on that team.

Agree on Van Pelt who has a sharp football mind. Also agree about Joe Brady. And I wouldn’t discount the work Dorsey has done with Allen since he got here in 2019 as his QB coach.

Josh is absolutely correct in his approach to watching film, which is much more vital for defenders to watch and learn from, anyway. Watching what the Jets defense does vs. other teams has limited benefit from a schematic view because they simply aren’t gonna scheme for Allen and this offense like they do for anyone else. The value for a QB is in acquainting yourself with opposing personnel more than anything else and pouring over the film from previous matchups with your upcoming opponent. I guarantee Josh Allen is already acutely familiar with Jets D personnel, their sub packages, and that he has watched last year’s games several times. And I imagine he has a notebook as thick as a phone book of compiled insights he’s gleaned from watching that film. It’s just not about how long you prepare, but how smart you prepare. I trust Josh knows what he’s doing.

These media ownership and programming deals can be difficult to sort thru. A friend at the ABC in NY told me that there are a lot of upset viewers in that market and he confirmed what @Albany,n.y. pointed out previously about the programming deals that independent network affiliates have with various cable providers. Having worked for a major satellite provider to TV networks, my incorrect assumption was that if you own the programming, then you hold the exclusive rights to that programming and it can’t be broadcast without your approval. Glad to stand corrected on the issue.

Sad day for parrot heads everywhere. RIP, Jimmy.

I understand various entities other than Disney owning local ABC affiliates stations, but Disney owns ABC and the programming it produces itself. If the various entities that own the various affiliate stations are looked at as pipes, then the Disney/ABC produced programming is one of the products flowing thru them and from what I’ve gathered, Disney has turned off the ABC spigot to Spectrum. The individual affiliate stations that have individual broadcasting deals with Spectrum can show all the non Disney/ABC programming they want, but they can’t force Disney/ABC to also include their programming in their deal with Spectrum.

The articles I’ve read today didn’t indicate that, just that ESPN will not be available to Spectrum subscribers so I appreciate the edification. It makes sense that non-Disney owned ABC affiliates would have the game available, but since Disney owns ABC, I’m unclear on why they would still allow ABC programming on Spectrum.

Disney pulled ESPN, ABC, and other networks from Spectrum programming everywhere. As such, any Spectrum subscriber anywhere, will not have ESPN available to them via Spectrum. Spectrum subscribers aren’t confined just to the major markets you mentioned above.

It relates because Spectrum subscribers outside of the local Buffalo viewing area will not be able to view it unless Disney and Spectrum resolve their issue.

Yep. He is the anti-Allen when it comes to ingratiating himself with teammates and I don’t think he’d command the huddle in the least. Word travels fast in this league.

Diggs signed an extension last year and he doesn’t become an UFA until 2028, so why is this his last year?

I don’t think I even remotely suggested that drafting well and making smart FA moves aren’t important ingredients for success. What I did suggest is that all the great drafting and FA signings aren’t enough to get you there without the difference maker at QB ( this is when someone invariably mentions Trent Dilfer and a couple other lesser QBs that won SBs). To sum it up, great QBing gets you thru times of poor drafting and FA signings far better than crap QBing gets you thru times of great drafting and FA signings.

This is really the simple reality of drafting. Unless you have the difference maker at the most important position in sports, it’s gonna be a struggle. There are HOFers who’ve never sniffed a ring because they languished on teams without a QB to get them there. Drafting JA is one thing, but I give Beane more credit for maneuvering from pick 22 to pick 7 in order to get him, especially because he didn’t give up any future first round picks to do so. That took some doing.

Then I guess the question is, is our depth at OT better than our depth at backup QB?

Per the bold, I think it’s a better blueprint for occupying the Jets’ back seven.

Right. But what if Josh is only hurt for a game or two? Gotta have a guy you can bank on to hold the fort and I don’t think we have that guy at the momemt.

I heard Einstein went broke buying all those cooking lessons for his wife.

That was my second guess.

Meddle Lanebacker?