Albany,n.y.

If it was real, Alice Kramden would have been there.

Before 2018 the only jersey I had was a bootleg Trent Edwards jersey that a friend gave me. I wore it one game & he got cut, so I cut his name off the back since his name was sewed in on top of the rest of the jersey. Then came 2018 & I watched the Vikings game & I got so excited that we finally had a QB (because I'm a visual fan I was sold on Josh long before the stat boys) that I went out & bought a Josh Allen jersey that week.

In the late 1980s Jim Kelly was appearing at a toy store around Albany. He was at a table signing autographs. I stood on line but I realized I was too old for an autograph & instead got a photo of him shaking my hand. I still have the photo. PS: I think most pro athletes realize that there's a decent chance the adult will try to sell the autograph.

Saleh's head coaching job is in the the hands of one player: Zach Wilson. If Wilson continues to play like he did as a rookie, Saleh is toast either this season or next. If Wilson plays like the #2 overall pick should, the Jets will win games & Saleh will remain as HC of NYJ. That's how it usually is in the NFL, the longest tenured coaches usually have a franchise QB.

The longer this decision on the suspension goes, the more likely Watson plays this year. I'd put the over/under at 8.5 games. Either 1 game under half the season or 1 game over. There are plenty of us fans who have been able to watch bad football sober.

This sounds similar to the time the Oakland Raiders gave Jamarcus Russell a tape and told him to study it. They then asked him if he had watched the tape & he told them he did. They knew he was lying because they had given him a blank tape as a test-he failed.

From today's BN on yesterday's practice: 5. Round 1: Haack The battle at punter is the most intense “starting” competition on the roster. Give round one of many to veteran Matt Haack. The Bills’ incumbent punter had a very good day with a string of punts that had outstanding hang times. (Anything better than 4.5 is excellent). Haack’s best punts went, unofficially, for 4.97, 4.92, 4.87, 4.85 and 4.64 seconds. Rookie Matt Araiza, the sixthround draft pick from San Diego State, got off to a slow start, with a string of four consecutive early punts that were less than 4.0 hang time. Then Araiza got it going. He hit four straight puts that went 65 yards, although none with as big a hang time. One appeared to go 70 yards with a 4.44 hang time. Haack was the holder for Tyler Bass on day one.

If you're right I'm betting heavily on Carolina.

He's busy writing training camp previews for The Athletic. If you want to see him, you've got to pay to play.

Different era. If you think Namath's stats are awful, take a look at our own Wall of Fame QB Jack Kemp: 46.7 % completion percentage TD/INT ratio 114/183, worse than Namath 57.3 career QB rating.

The only people who overrated these 2 are the 2 dumb GMs who drafted them.

...and so, another right Josh wrong Josh debate appears again. This time in Cleveland Browns camp where the right Josh will make the yeam & the wrong Josh will likely be cut. It's now Josh Dobbs vs Josh Rosen, mano a mano.

Obviously Cleveland knows the error of their ways and have now rectified that mistake.

QBs make coaches, not the other way around like you believe. Josh would have succeeded anywhere and his coaches would have ridden on his coattails, just like most of the successful coaches who suddenly turned into genuises when the franchise QB arrived.

The worst part is the last time he played he came in late in a blowout vs NE & threw an INT and then got benched for the 3rd string QB.

I go back & forth with Rosen. Sometimes I laugh at him thinking what a gigantic bust he is, then other times I read articles like the on linked below & somehow hope that he can turn things around. It's tough to hate on the guy after reading this link, but then I watch him play & realize that whatever work he's put in, it just isn't working & it's time for him to get a real job. Part of the reason I feel sorry for the guy is when I was his age I was unemployed after being fired from the job I planned to make my career. It was tough, unlike Rosen I had nowhere to go & ended up literally living in my parents basement. It took 16 months for me to turn things around and eventually get my career back on track, so I can sympathize with Rosen's situation a little more than most. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32706881/josh-rosen-finds-peace-perspective-atlanta-mentor-rich-gannon

Tyrod was never close to an 11 win QB. His best record as a starter was in 2017 when the Bills won 8 of his 14 starts. His celing is 2 games above .500 and he's only hit it once in his career. Also the playoff game, his last game as a Bill, was pretty bad. His career record in all games started is 26-26-1. Pretty much sums up what he is. For the amount of talent he has, Tyrod has exceeded all expectations. As a 6th round pick he had about a 10% chance at a long term NFL career. He's lasted 12 years counting this upcoming season. He's a decent backup QB, who won't lose you a game by himself like some of the guys we've had (Peterman, Fromm being the latest duds) and the coaches & players must like him for him to last as long in the NFL. Also he's made millions & should be set for life, not as good as the most famous 6th round QB, but overall, a pretty good career for a 6th round pick. I've always thought that if Rex had remained, the Bills would have drafted Watson. Best case scenario would be that we'd have all those picks Cleveland sent Houston & after a few good seasons early on with Watson, we'd currently be back in QB hell.

The difference between fans views of Fitzpatrick & Taylor has nothing to do with race-It's all about personalities, on & off the field. Fitzpatrick on the field was a gunslinger. His talents didn't always match his bravado, hence "Fitzmagic" and "Fitztragic". Off the field Fitzpatrick is very outgoing with a great sense of humor and a dynamic personality. That's why as soon as he retired he was signed to be part of the Thursday broadcasts. Taylor is reserved, both on and off the field. On the field he was very conservative, rarely taking chances. Off the field, Taylor is a pretty quiet guy who quite frankly, comes off as rather bland. Nobody is going to be knocking down his door for a high profile network job.

I'm too old to fight anyone but here are the top Bills QBs: The top 4 are easy: Kelly, Allen, Kemp, Ferguson (3 WOFers and our current star). an argument can also be made that any and all of the following were better : Bledsoe, Flutie, Reich, & Fitzpatrick. You might be able to put Tyrod ahead of the last 2 but that makes him no better than 7th. I'd rank all 4 ahead of Tyrod, making him #9 among all time Bills QBs and that's only because I didn't include Lamonica because he only started 4 games for the Bills. Overall career Lamonica & Bledsoe tower over Tyrod.

How else can a player make it through a game at what has to be the lowest level of "professional" football?

There were rumors that Doug Flutie had a voodoo doll of Rob Johnson & every time he stuck a needle into it, RJ would get injured. 😈

When the Bills signed him I penciled him in as the starter because I figured he couldn't be worse than EJ or Matt Cassel. I was psyched by what Rex Ryan had said about the people in Baltimore who loved Tyrod and had told Rex some very positive things about Tyrod. I sent an e-mail to a friend and titled it "We have our franchise QB." and in the body of the e-mail I put a photo of a tie rod. He wrote me back that I must have made a mistake because I sent him a picture of a car part. I guess he hadn't heard about the Taylor signing yet. I was a fan in the beginning, even going as far as buying a T-Mobile golf shirt (I had to find it on the internet since the T-Mobile stores around here didn't have any shirts for sale). I still have it & since I'm going to the Giants home opener vs Carolina, I might wear it. By the end I was calling him a "wheel spinner", my definition of a QB who can only get you to a certain point, within a game or 2, + or -, around .500.

They already paid him a $5 million bonus & they guaranteed $12 million of his contract. According to the link, cutting him gets the team a $9 million dead cap hit. They're not cutting him & then turning around & signing him to the practice squad because they immediately get dinged an additional $5.33 million on the cap over what they have keeping him & working him into shape on the 53 man roster. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/tampa-bay-buccaneers/leonard-fournette-21745/ On Karlos Williams, you beat me to it. I was going to post a joke that he trained with Karlos in the offseason.

Why don't they just hire Jason Allen:

Chandler did some commercials after he retired. I recognized him in them. I think this one was one of those infomercials they ran on Saturday mornings. It's too long ago for me to remember what he was selling, but it was definitely Bob Chandler in the ad.