Albany,n.y.

I'm guessing the Pegulas felt the same way I did when it came to Lynn: I didn't want ANYONE associated with Rex Ryan.

The Steelers/Ravens Thanksgiving night game has been moved to Sunday, but I don't know if it's 1:00 or 4:25.

Daniel Jones is not a bust like Haskins is. Jones will never be a franchise QB, but he can be a solid starter a team can win with. I doubt the poster who called Jones a bust sees the Giants much if at all. I get to see the Giants whenever they don't conflict with the Bills, since we get every Giants game in Albany & Jones just needs to learn not to turn the ball over. He fumbles too much but that can be fixed. Tiki Barber used to fumble early in his career & he fixed it. So can Danny Dimes, who I'm confident enough in this week to use the Giants as my suicide pool pick.

I know my least favorite holder is Corey "Laces" Bojorquez.

The last time we had a franchise QB. 4 straight nationally televised games!

When the Bills cut Dorenbos I joked that Mike Schneck made him disappear.

What's worse is the Broncos had no interest in drafting a QB that year, since they were either going to draft Chubb if available or trade the pick to the Bills when it was obvious the Bills were drafting a QB if they had made the agreed upon trade with Denver. If Cleveland had drafted Chubb at 4, the Bills would have drafted Josh at 5 at the cost of both #1s & pick 53 of the draft (2nd round). The Giants thought they were getting a future HOFer in Barkley and thought that they could get away with Eli Manning for at least the 2 years left on his contract. They really believed with Manning they were in win now mode and Gettleman didn't have a strong opinion on any of the QBs.

I give Arizona a lot of credit for identifying Rosen as a bust and getting him out of there while he still had some trade value and going right back & drafting Murray. It's virtually unheard of for a team to draft 1st round QBs in back to back drafts. How many times have we seen on this board that our former 1st round QBs, JP & EJ, "just need more time for the light to go on". The Bills held on to JP for 5 years & EJ for 4 years, way too long not to admit their mistakes and get each off the team a lot earlier than they did.

There are other ways to get a #1 WR, like free agency or trades (2 #1 WRs were traded the same time this offseason). Those paths are much less likely for a franchise QB. With rare exceptions, unless you're signing a guy like Brady at the end of his career, you have to get your franchise QB in the draft, and when you draft him you have to hope you were right. I'm sure if you were posting in 2005 you said the same thing when Green Bay drafted Rodgers to sit behind Favre.

I remember years ago there was a faction that said never draft a QB in the 1st round & never draft a QB until you've built other parts of your team 1st. They would back up their ideas with stats showing only 50% of 1st round QBs failed and others were "ruined" by lack of weapons around the QB. I've always believed the QB is so important that if you scout a guy who you think is the answer you move heaven & earth to get the guy unless you have a QB in his prime. It's better to prepare to replace your franchise QB if he's on the wrong side of 35, although nowadays guys like Brady & Brees are playing long past the expiration date of a franchise QB. I firmly believe if you take the same team and it's a 12-4 team with a franchise QB, if that team has a below average QB they'd be 4-12. Just look at the 2010-2012 Colts. With Manning in 2010 they were 10-6, in 2011 with no answer at QB they were 2-14, in 2012 with rookie Andrew Luck they went 11-5. The QB may not be everything, but he's pretty much the only thing. As the old WGR parody song said "with no quarterbackin' get those bags a packin'"

I totally agree. A coach cannot go with a top 5 draft choice QB and then pull the plug when he doesn't play well. Once you commit to him you have to let him play through the rough spots. If it costs a coach a few games, so be it. If he wasn't willing to lose those games, he should have kept the rookie on the bench & not started to jerk him around.

The biggest problem for. any team that trades for Darnold is the 5th year option. Either the Jets pick it up and he's guaranteed about $25 million in 2022, or he's more likely a one year rental to see what he can do. Either way, no team is trading for him to be a long term backup. Now if next year he bombs and can't get a starting gig in 2022, then he could be our backup after his rookie contract is up.

It's not irresponsible if Tua is their QB of the future. Just making the playoffs and doing a one and done instead of developing your rookie QB would be irresponsible. In Eli Manning's rookie year Coughlin benched Warner when the Giants were above .500 and Eli was horrible for about 5 straight games. Coughlin cost them the playoffs, but later won 2 Super Bowls with Eli because he did the right thing when Eli, who developed into one of the best clutch QBs in the league, was a rookie

We lost 10 people in my pool from that game. I suspect that many of the people who picked Minnesota didn't realize that Dallas had Andy Dalton back and was not starting Gilbert or the rookie.

21st century medical advances. Players almost never have career ending injuries anymore. A knee injury in 1980 could end a career, in 2020 they're back in a year & better than ever 2 years later. Marcus Dupree would have had a long career with today's surgical methods.

He won't be the same, he'll be better with his rookie season experience behind him.

This is 2020 not 1980.

In my pool this week I took Pittsburgh over Jacksonville. We have 36 left & the most popular games are the LAC over Jets (18) & Minnesota over Dallas (10). The reason Pittsburgh was so low was only 6 of us had Pittsburgh left to use. I was going to use them 2 weeks ago but once SF got hit with all their injuries & Covid I used GB against the Niners on the Thursday night game.

This week's choice in Albany is unbelievable. The teams that get support in Albany, in order are Giants, Jets, Bills & Patriots. So you'd think with 2 of the top 4, we'd either get the Patriots-Houston game at 1, or as in past years when they weren't 0 for, we'd definitely get the Jets at 4. No-we're also getting Pittsburgh/Jacksonville at 1 with no Jets game at 4. The good news is it looks like our local CBS station has abandoned the Jets and we'll get the Bills/Chargers game next week & it bodes well for the final vs the Dolphins. It looks like all the rest of the games will be broadcast across the nation.

I didn't get to WNY until 1971, so Maguire was before my time, but my best memory of him was in 1986 he was on the NBC pregame show. At one point in the season the Jets were 10-1, and he said they wouldn't win another game that season. The Jets lost their final 5 games and every week Maguire would get an I told you so moment.

Redzone channel

The video is from July. What is he saying now?

He got a holding penalty on a day he was inactive.

Last year I took a bus trip to opening day at the Jets. A Jets fan in front of me started criticizing Josh with the usual inaccurate stuff. I got so mad I told him Josh would end up in the Hall of Fame.

My sister is 72 and has lived with the same guy for about 22 years. I doubt she or any football players would be interested in dating each other.