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Unfortunately, he's coaching the Jests. I doubt that any HC can find real success with the Jests under the Johnson family. Unless the Johnsons sell the team or one of the younger Johnsons takes over the team and changes ownership's philosophy, nothing will really change. We saw it with the Bills and with the Lions. Both teams were perpetual bottom feeders until there was a change in ownership: Pegula bought the Bills and Harp took over the running of the team from her mother. Fields is an Allen/Jackson/Mahomes wannabe. He can run, and his passing has improved, but I think his biggest issue is that he doesn't have the intangibles that make Allen/Jackson/Mahomes great. He can look good if he's not under pressure but he wilts when things don't go his way. I think that that was why the Steelers benched him for Wilson last season. That's such a simplistic take that it borders on nonsense. The history of the NFL is littered with examples of HCs who had good/great QBs but were still fired/let go. The first one who comes to mind is Mike McCarthy who was fired by the Packers (Rodgers) and by the Cowboys (Prescott). Furthermore, teams that fire their coaches every few years aren't just failing to find the right QB. They are crappy organizations starting with the owners, so they fail to field winning teams, which may or may not be the fault of the HC: During the Drought era, the Bills had an excellent veteran QB in Drew Bledsoe for 3 seasons, but they didn't support him, and finally sent him packing because they didn't want to pay him. The Lions chose Matthew Stafford as the #1 overall pick in 2009. In his 12 seasons in Detroit, Stafford had 3 HCs: Jim Schwartz, Tom Caldwell, and Matt Patricia. Stafford was always a good/great QB despite the teams around him. During that span, the Lions had 3 playoff appearances but failed to win a playoff game. He went to LA and won the SB with the Rams in his first season. The Jets are another team with crappy ownership. The Jests have not only missed on picking "the right QB" for 20+ years, they have failed to develop the "right QBs" they did find, namely Geno Smith and Sam Darnold, who have gone to be named Pro Bowlers and take other teams to the playoffs.

I hope that you meant that as sarcasm. If not, you're simply ignorant.

Elijah Mooooorrrre!!!!!!

Jests 3 and out.

He gone!!!!!

wooooooohoooooo! Bosa!!!!!

Jimbo scores!!!

I think the Jests have a lot more to fear from the Bills than the Bills have to fear from them. Can the Jests win the game? Sure, but their chances are significantly lower than the chances of the Bills leaving Met Life 2-0.

Thanks. I am a very casual baseball fan, but this year I started watching more games. I'm a fan of underdogs, especially teams like the Brewers that don't spend money in FA like drunken sailors but develop their own players. They also play "old fashioned" fundamental baseball, which I like. Before I became a Jays fan, I followed the Orioles in the 70s when they were synonymous with great pitching. If they aren't playing the Jays, I will always root for the Birds.

Wallace is not on any NFL roster according to Pro-Football Reference. He may be on a practice squad.

How 'bout them Brewers? My favorite team is the Jays, but the Brewers have worked their way into being my 2nd favorite. They are sooooo clutch! On the evening when they clinched a playoff berth, they fell behind the Cards 6-1, had to score 3 runs in the 9th inning to tie the game, fell behind 9-8 in the 10th, and pulled out the 10-9 win with a walk off hit by little known Andruw Monasterio. Best record in MLB!

Ekeler is feared to have a torn Achilles per NFLN stream. He'll have a MRI today to confirm it.

Agree. I don't know if Harbaugh lost confidence in his offense or if he had too much confidence in his defense. Maybe his choice to punt was just a knee-jerk reaction. The Ravens, ie, Henry, were running at will over the Bills defense. Lamar escaped the Bills pass rush at least twice for big yardage plus some other shorter runs. It was highly unlikely that the Bills defense could have stopped Henry or even Lamar from getting three yards. OTOH, the Ravens D was struggling and needed help from a bad spot to stop Allen. Moreover, even if the Ravens failed to make the first down, they could have run the clock down to less than a minute with no time outs. Giving Allen -- and most top NFL QBs -- more than a minute to take their team down the field for a potential game winning kick is asking to lose because you're counting on the kicker to miss. It happens regularly when good teams face this situation. As it was, even without time outs, the Bills moved downfield so fast that they had time to kneel twice before kicking the game winner.

I always found people who actually live/lived in the city to generally be really nice. It's the Long Islanders who tend to give New Yorkers a bad name. Too many act like they're better than everyone else simply because they live near NYC ... especially when they decide to go to college Upstate.

That was my first thought when I read he seemed ok at practice yesterday. Been there, done that.

I don't either. They really didn't seem to do much to improve their weaknesses, simply standing pat on both sides of the ball unless their rookies play like HOFers early on. Their OL will likely get Burrow injured sooner or later. He took a beating from the Browns.

The Ravens defense gave up 41 points, blowing a 13 point lead with < 5 minutes to play. Obviously, they didn't play all that well; they just looked better doing it for most of the game, like this was figure skating or something. While Allen lead the 4th quarter charge, the Bills D started to come around in the fourth quarter, too.

If McDaniel gets axed during/after the Miami game, that might not be true. If the Fins play as poorly as they did in the opener, they very well may have a new HC before Thursday.

The Jests are annoying pests rather than true rivals, primarily because except for the years under Parcells in the late 1990s and then Ryan for a couple of seasons, they've been pretty pathetic for pretty much the last four decades. As others have posted, their fans OTOH, are easy to hate.

No, it didn't. The original thread was about QB rating. A second thread about QBR was also created, and then the two were merged, so posters are discussing QB rating, QBR, and both. What QB stats can't measure is what are frequently called "intangibles", the special abilities that some QBs have that separate them from equally and, sometimes, even more talented, QBs. Josh Allen has always had leadership and will-to-win in spades, even in his rookie season when he wasn't a particularly great passer.

It's hard for younger people today to imagine how easy it was to travel back and forth between Canada and the US back then. We took crossing an international border without a second thought. A bunch of us would go to Ft Erie a couple of times a month for Chinese food at Happy Jack's, which is still on Niagara Blvd a half century later BTW. People went for gas. They went to play bingo. They went camping at Sherkston. Some Buffalonians owned cottages around Ft Erie and along Lake Erie towards Crystal Beach. School kids went on field trips to the attractions in Niagara Falls, ON or to the Toronto Zoo or the Ontario Science Center. Kids from the West Side of Buffalo would ride their bikes across the Peace Bridge to fish. A friend and I went on a vacation in the Thousand Islands/Adirondaks back in the 1970s, and we drove across a totally unguarded/unmanned border crossing somewhere between Massena (we stopped to see the locks) and Plattsburgh. There was a little building like a toll booth with a couple windows and a door and a sign that said something like "Welcome to Quebec/Bienvenue Quebec". Not a soul around but us, so we went through.

What I find really awesome -- and ironic -- is that both of these QBs came out of the same draft class, and that 2 QB-needy teams passed on Allen and 3 or more QB-needy teams passed on Lamar. Most drafts don't produce even 1 great QB. Outstanding franchise QBs come along maybe every third draft or so, although most drafts do product one or two good starting QBs. I think that the 2018 QB draft is going to come close to the legendary 1983 draft that produced 3 HOFers (Elway, Kelly, Marino) plus a couple of other solid starters. Allen and Lamar are future HOFers, and Baker and even Darnold have become quality starters. For a long time, I thought that the 2004 QB class was 2nd best with Eli, Rivers, and Roethlisberger likely future HOFers, too, but none of these three were ever close to Allen and Lamar. What Allen and Lamar have done and do on the field is simply beyond what even the greats of 1983 ever did. They've changed the game with some help from their nemesis, Mahomes (QB class of 2017). Teams are now looking for great passers who can also run like RBs first rather than dismissing them. While the era of the QB who ran only under duress was fading away for couple of decades, Allen and Lamar made them extinct. Tom Brady was probably the last of the great QBs who rarely ran. Allen has also put to lie the belief that QBs cannot become more accurate passers as pros. In that respect, he's a little better than Lamar IMO because he had to overcome so much more from a mechanics standpoint as well as learning to master his own emotions on the field.

Some people don't let facts influence their agendas. Teams change alot from one season to the next. Starters don't play much in preseason. Both offenses and defenses play vanilla schemes. The coaching staffs make their Week 1 plans as best they can based mostly on last season's performances. That's a recipe for poor play on one or both sides of the ball, which is what we saw from both the Bills and the Ravens on Sunday night ... and the Jests and Steelers among others. Don't you know that McDermott is so bad at everything that even McDaniel is better ... he just doesn't have the right QB? /sarcasm off

Over on TheGangGreen.com, many Jests fans are expecting their boys to get steamrolled by the Bills: TheGangGreen

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