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He's certainly one of my all time favorite players.

Wade plays a hybrid, McDermott likes to play a zone. Tom Brady seems to do pretty well against zone defenses

I said it was liberal bs because while he is calling out Spicer about "lying" about the crowd size, I'm sure if you read through every one of his articles you'll see he never felt compelled to mention lies made my Obama, Clinton as in "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" or the Benghazi riots that resulted in dead Americans were caused by a movie. Both far more serious offenses than "lying" about the size of crowd.

The reason I say NFL stats are so meaningless is because there are so many variables and the numbers can be so dramatically influenced by the game situations, even within an era. As an example, during the 80s and 90s (when the passing game wasn't as open as it is today) if you looked at the 300 yard passers after each game often time the biggest numbers were put up by the LOSING QB not the winner because the winning team would open up a sizable lead and go to ground and pound to kill the clock while conversely the losing team would stop running the football and start throwing the ball on every down often into prevent defenses. As a result the passing yards for the losing team and rushing yards for the loser didn't represent the actual performance. How could I forget! He's from NH so I don't think its fair to accuse him of jumping on the Patriot bandwagon.

A lot of men use an exclamation mark at the end of a period

That's one of my problems with this process, the Bills are hiring a head coach not a defensive coordinator. Philips is the best DC in the NFL but no so great at being a head coach. The Chargers hired Lynn but he kept Wisenhunt as his OC which I think is a smart move.

Good question is "verifiably" verifiable!

lol true

Gregg Williams talking about facing Patriot back-up QB Brady in for the injured Drew Bledsoe "The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant."

Yes Plunkett can count but only his years in NE which weren't so great

I agree but I wish they would have gone hard after Wade Phillips, I think he is one of if not the best in DC in football.

I cut and pasted from the article, his choice of words. My point was that the the writer of the linked article has an agenda and liberal bias, and I agree with you that the tweets are funny even though they make me want to punch him in the face.

Id put Lamonica at 3 Shows you how much the game has changed over the years and that football stats are the most meaningless in all of sports

Good point about the accomplishments but I think Manning was on some really awful teams. I think he was much better than those Jets guys. I thought about the Pats too but they did have Bledsoe and Grogan. I think Bledsoe is better than any of the Jets guys but Brady does set the bar pretty high.

He didn't have an outstanding year for the Redskins this year but I think he would be an upgrade versus Tyrod but he doesn't real strike me as a guy who will ever be a top 5 QB in this league.

Okay so I thought I'd start a, hopefully fun, off-season "or hanging out in the bar" Bills discussion. Two part question... I was just reading this article on TBD about Whaley meeting with Chad Kelly (http://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/index.ssf/2017/01/senior_bowl_2017_chad_kelly_draft_doug_whaley_buffalo_bills_jim_kelly.html) and it contained the pretty much undisputed statement that " Chad's uncle Jim is the best to ever play the position for the Bills". It got me thinking, who is the second best QB in Bills history, most likely Joe Ferguson, Jack Kemp or maybe Daryle Lamonica. Secondly, which team has the biggest gap between GOAT (greatest of all time) for the franchise versus second best. The Jets came to mind immediately Joe Namath and ????? Testaverde? Ken O'Brien? Boomer? Not an impressive lot. When considering your answer I'm defining best/second best in terms of years with that team. As an example with the Jets you couldn't list Brett Farve because although he is HOF quality he wasn't in his year with the Jersey Jets.

I agree, I recall most draft analysts didn't think there was any first round talent at QB that year... they were right

I hate the Patriots (Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics) as much as anyone (I'm a NY guy living in Boston) but at least he a genuine sports fan unlike other pols like Hillary ("Cubs fan" her whole life, until she moved to NY then she was a Yankee fan) Obama who claimed to be a White Sox fan his whole life but couldn't name one player when asked who his favorite White Sox player has been. I hate the Cowboys but I admire that Chris Christie has the courage to say he's a Cowboys fan living in NJ. Finally this article is more liberal bs news when this he says that Spicers comment is "verifiably false". Anyone want to wager me he never made the same claim about statements made by Clinton or Obama?

I think that his comment is more out of the emotion of the loss. He'll be back (unfortunately)

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I'm not sure which game you are referring to when you say "Big Ben was skipping passes to his receivers all day". He looked very accurate against NE on Sunday, if you meant the game against the Bills that doesn't reflect what I saw. My larger point is that he is a pretty accurate passer who doesn't miss (as in not see) wide open guys nearly as often as Tyrod did. I agree that the offense last year was geared toward the run but I suspect it was done because Taylor isn't the best weapon on the team.

Quite a bit, "these guys" don't all know how to throw a ball CORRECTLY, which explains Tyrod's inaccuracy (similar knock against Jones as well). For clarification I am not suggesting that I believe he will be unsuccessful I just don't see anything in his history that leads me to be excited about the choice.

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Tyrod Taylor didn't help this group at all, he didn't see wide open receivers in almost every game and how often did he actually hit his receivers in stride so the could pick up yards after the catch. I'm not saying this is an all-pro group but Taylor's lack of skill as a passer made them look much worse than they are.

This is just Rapoport giving his opinion not based on any source or insider information by someone on the team. Just his guess and carries about as much weight as any post on this board.