Agree. Football in the spring doesn't work. It's been proven over and over again. The only football people care about are the NFL and college football. In the spring people are following the NHL playoffs (let's hope this happens in Buffalo this year), the NBA playoffs and baseball.
If the Pats beat the Jets this Sunday, then I would expect the Jets to bring in Carson Wentz for a look. He is probably the best available QB they could get right now.
Those two Bills - Dolphins games should be fun to watch. I hope the Commanders game this week isn't a trap game for the Bills with the showdown vs the Fins in week 4.
The division will probably come down to the Bills and Dolphins at this point assuming no major injuries. Once Rodgers got hurt the Jets chances of winning the division went out the window. I will say Bills, Fish, Jets, Pats.
Adam Schefter on X: "An MRI showed that Giants’ RB Saquon Barkley suffered an “ordinary” ankle sprain that now is expected to sideline him three weeks, per source." / X (twitter.com)
Without their best player on offense this Thursday's game against the Niners will probably be really ugly not that they had much of a chance if Barkley was playing.
Who do we root for in this Sunday's Jets-Pats game? I still think the Jets are more of a threat with that defense and Hall and G. Wilson. On one hand I want the Pats to win as the meltdown in the NYC area would be funny but on the flip side it would be so sweet to see NE fall to 0-3.
Ian Rapoport on X: "From The Insiders on NFL+: With his injury situation handled, all eyes are now on #Bengals QB Joe Burrow's contract... and there is some optimism it gets done before kickoff. https://t.co/cJ20qf8BAi" / X (twitter.com)
He is going to get paid bigtime obviously. It will be interesting to see if the Bengals can keep their big 3 at WR going forward.
If you look at all 3 games vs the Fins last year. The Bills should have won the first game but lost. Statistically they dominated and went up and down the field all day but just couldn't finish drives. The Dolphins should have won the 2nd game but lost. I thought they had the better of the play most of the night. They were certainly running the ball down the Bills throats in this game. The playoff game you are right. That game was looking like a blowout for the first 20 minutes and then the Bills got sloppy. To the Dolphins credit they took advantage and made it a game.
I think the Chargers are going to beat them Sunday. It would be nice if the fish start off 0-1. I would be surprised if the Eagles lose to the Pats, so I expect NE to start off 0-1.
Regardless of how this season plays out I do think we are headed for an interesting offseason. As you mentioned players are getting older and many are on the wrong side of 30. I don't want to call it a rebuild but a reload or retooling of the roster will probably happen for the 2024 season.