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Also the guy before him there was LaFleur who is succeeding with the Packers so there's something of a coaching tree here.

Pederson must have been trying to lose. Yep. He got 4 spots in the draft by losing today.

90 percent chance to win if you punt. That's an easy decision.

I can see why Wentz is asking out of there even though he had a bad year. Philly is managing itself like Philly fans do.

Hurts doesn't look much better than Wentz other than the fact that he can move around. The offense around the QBs has been pretty terrible all year, though. It makes sense for Wentz to ask out at this point, though.

Really good player, massive availability issue. 22-8, efficient passer until it's 30 starts in 4 years. Starting QB is the position where you have to have someone that can play 16. The issue is that the player to replace him isn't on the roster. 49ers strike me as a team that that could do the Wentz reclamation project.

Nah. It's about the film room and Always should be. The starting QB should be playing 16 and if he gets hurt, you just tank.

Backup QB isn't about whether he can play.

It's preseason at this point. It's corners 4 and 5 and the entire second unit of the d line.

This is the 2nd unit CBs and line.

Yeah get Josh the record then get them out.

Unless he's throwing it out the back of the end zone.

This is because they don't want to move playoff games for COVID.

Buffalo gets the ball. We kicked.

No SNF next week.

College football isn't stable with the Pandemic and he has nowhere to go but down and any team that gets 1 is going to be bad, so go play now. There isn't really a decision to make here.

Yeah the 7 team format is really uninteresting. There's no seeding race now so you get meaningless games and everyone takes a bye in week 17.

The Giants defense is ranked 9th because it's fairly good, but they're so far below functional at QB that you get nothing out of this other than watching judge coach this game like he had no shot at it. Probably correct with McCoy playing.

It's going to be Mahomes or Rodgers but Allen is 3rd.

McDermott should challenge the spot here.

That call sucks.

Man if Lock makes a better throw Wallace probably picks that.

You must have missed that atrocious pick at the end of regulation. Mariota is good backup because he can get the Raiders close in that spot and he's a good runner but he can't pass with any consistency. largely it's a tough break for the Raiders there that they're starting quarterback got a groin strain but the Raiders can't situationally defend and the charge of special teams continues to be terrible. these teams aren't ready to make the playoffs this year but I think both of them are close, especially the Chargers.

I don't think quarterback evaluation is anywhere near a simple as this. I'm a little more forgiving on teams for quarterback misses because it is such a Gamble. I take the mindset that you have to know when to jump off of a quarterback more than the mindset that you have to get exactly the right prospect that succeeds the first time through. Like it doesn't take 3 years to figure out that a player like Mitch trubisky or a player like EJ Manuel or a player like Drew Lock isn't very good. It cycles: the player comes in with limited success, the league makes the adjustment, and then the player can either adjust or not. The mistake isn't picking the guy who fails. The mistake is sticking with what doesn't work too long. The biggest thing with it is that the amount of guys who are going to succeed no matter what is like three in NFL history. We knew that Manning, Elway, and luck were going to succeed no matter what. In most cases in most years, the consensus can pretty much land on the quarterbacks who have the best chance for success. It doesn't mean that every single one of these prospects works out, the modern scouting is so good we know who the best three or four guys are because even media guys can watch tape. most often It's a combination of prospect and environment that makes a quarterback successful, but you can also have good environments and a guy whose game just doesn't translate for whatever reason. I think there's two of those in the league right now. But Buffalo, Baltimore, and the changes in Cleveland and a little less recently Arizona put that into perspective in a fascinating way, especially Arizona. We really don't know how good of an environment Rosen actually had because Arizona's front office not only jumped off of Rosen and Wilkes after one year, but took a lot of criticism for doing it. They decided they were in position to get the next number one guy, liked him better, and fix the environment by hiring Kingsbury. This equation is kind of where the Jets are at. We know that Adam gase isn't any good, the Jets have a new general manager who is going to jump off gase as coach, and chances are they are going to have to decide what they think of Darnold as a prospect plus whatever return they can get in a trade compared to Trevor Lawrence. Miami also needs to make that decision with regards to Tua. The difference is that in Miami, anyone who watches the league can tell that the environment there is good. Figuring out whether Tua can pan out into a long-term starter for them is a bigger decision that attempting to make one wild card playoff run because they are not going to be in position to get another shot like they are now. In the NFL, environments can change quickly if an organization makes a good coaching hire. We saw that here when Buffalo went from Rex to Sean McDermott. the team that couldn't get disciplined enough to stay out of its own way under Rex ends up going to the postseason in the first McDermott year. Even in a playoff year, they made the decision to attempt to jump off of Taylor because they knew he wasn't good enough. Peterman fell on his face, but that doesn't mean the decision was wrong because the organization and didn't believe that they could win with Taylor and frankly they were right.

Pittsburgh's defense is an overwhelming Force that can stop anyone. We all saw that Sunday. They basically get two turnovers a game and every yard against them is tough sledding. The issue has become teams figuring out how to defend their extremely limited offense. big Ben is a little too old and a little too injured to put his body on the line the way he's used to, and they can't run the ball at all, so Pittsburgh is heading in a direction where they're going to play a lot of games like Sunday's, where teams are going to be able to match the defensive performance just because they know what to do and because Pittsburgh isnt versatile on offense. The Johnson interception is something I can literally picture Buffalo doing in practice with their defensive backs and linebackers. I still think Pittsburgh is really good, but I don't know how far they can go being so one-dimensional.