The Frankish Reich

Agreed. Speed typically doesn't age well, and that team is all about expensive speed athletes. Other than QB, Miami is built to win now, or next year. But poor Dolphins: their window of opportunity coincides with ours.

True. He did "oversee" the 2019 draft. Last I checked, it's now 2022 ...

Pretty sure Josh Allen has never lost a game played under a roof: https://www.thestar.com/sports/sports-betting/2022/11/18/buffalo-bills-betting-trends-detroits-dome-is-an-advantage.html 4-0 in domed stadiums according to this article (which counts SoFi as a dome, which it pretty much is), written before this year's Detroit wins. So that would be 6-0, right? Josh is a good soldier, and he's not about to criticize the team's decision to move forward on an open air stadium. But the relevant question is this: let's say the Bills make it to the Super Bowl. Not knowing anything else, would you prefer something like the Meadowlands in early February (Super Bowl 50), or Super Bowl LVII in the Glendale, AZ dome? I believe we are the most talented team in the NFL, with the best QB in the NFL (or at least tied for the best). I want to eliminate randomness and let that true talent show. Weather injects randomness. We won't have a dome for many reasons, discussed to death here over the last decade or more. There's a Buffalo attitude that kind of amounts to "our weather sucks and we love it that way." And that's fine as a source of Buffalo pride. But if we're talking the game on the field (not the fan experience, whether there's enough nearby parking lots to destroy folding tables or be doused with ketchup and mustard, etc., etc), I'll take perfect weather conditions any day.

Weird thing is this: up until the Christmas Day fiasco, the Broncos had played hard (excepting Wilson, who's played like a man who's hurt, or a man who's afraid of getting hurt, or both). The offense has been a disaster all season, but the defense showed up every week. Today? After the bad start they just gave up. So the only thing Hackett had to fall back on this year - the "at least they're still playing hard for him" - is no longer the case. I think they let him coach thru next week so they don't hang a KC blowout on the interim guy, but I'd expect to see him gone even before black Monday. As for Wilson: he played kind of like the old Russell Wilson 2 weeks ago, and it ended with a concussion. Today: scared. Took 5 sacks, didn't run past the line of scrimmage at all. There's nothing the Broncos can do now other than try to squeeze a modest rebound out of him while they go maybe 6-11 or 7-10 next year, or move on from him with a colossal dead cap hit and a team of essentially replacement level players, trading away anyone of value, and bottoming out Lions pre-Stafford style.

His statement sounds very Will Smith-esque. But this was no slap. Forget the publicist, Willie. You need a lawyer.

I don't believe HE can do it. But I'm scared that one of the speed guys can do it for him.

Not sure if you saw it, but that was my Zach Wilson comparison earlier in the game. Only difference: Losman went 22nd overall. Wilson went 2nd.

I think Wilson is good for a 5th/6th rounder at this point. And I think there'd be takers: Belichick seems done with Mac, the Steelers have to be looking for someone more talented than Pickett, Carolina loves former Jets, etc., etc.

Yeah, but this was the Jets season - win and you've got a decent shot (on paper) at the playoffs, with Mike White maybe coming back for the final 3. Lose and it's basically over (538 says it's a 4% chance now). So sticking with Wilson that long and then going to the 4th stringer is basically giving up.

TN with Willis at QB - the definition of a project - would be the weakest team

Yeah, that was weird. Flacco must be in the doghouse again. The little bit he played this year he was actually ok. This team could have made the playoffs with Flacco at QB all year (assuming he'd stayed healthy, which he wouldn't have ...)

Correct. But I think comparison is to the Marrone/EJ Manuel years. Championship caliber defense, overdrafted a QB prospect who was really just a project, can go 9-7 (now 9-8) with a Kyle Orton or maybe Mike White, but that's their ceiling until they find an actual good QB.

Agreed. But the raw talent is downright Allen-esque.

Cardale Jones takes offense at this. So do Rex Ryan, Erik Pears, and 1.25 games of Percy Harvin

I'm not so obsessive that I'll actually do this, but someone really ought to count how many times this sentiment was expressed in the course of the last 3 hours ... (including by me)

Says Peterman's Redemption ...

Herbie is actually right. Streveler is a bargain basement Taysom Hill.

Lawrence and Justin Fields (just not this weekend please) are making that leap right now. I think the difference is Lawrence has found his coach. Fields will have to wait.

Probably. But he could also be Josh Rosen 2.0. Poor performance + attitude problems = no career at all.

I'm actually enjoying that.

He has the air of that other non-Mormon BYU QB, Jim McMahon.

Right. Actually for years I've been saying that NFL teams could do much worse at QB than simply poaching the best QBs in the CFL. I think tonight finally proves my point.

He WILL throw a pick. But still: amazing how simply not being scared out there (Streveler vs. Wilson) makes a huge difference to the whole offense.

Michaels now reading the Wiki page on Streveler at the exact same time as me.

It has been stated 20x already. But that's o.k. I've muttered it to myself at least 50x.