# NFL 2023: WEEK 11 Men on the field, Buffalo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** football-nfl
**Created:** [November 16, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214 "2023-11-16T01:17:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/81 "2023-11-21T00:26:17Z")
I heard that news driving home.
Benched to the 3rd string QB for the **Jets**. Ouch.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/82 "2023-11-21T00:29:36Z")
I’ve always wondered, when a new free-agent QB joins a team and starts playing for them in mere weeks, how do they memorize the whole playbook so fast? Is every playbook on every team basically 90% the same plays and just the cadence, calls, secret terms, words, codenames, different?
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/83 "2023-11-21T00:39:25Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Speaking of starting quarterbacks who look worse than Dobbs, Zach Wilson has now gotten benched two years in a row:
I almost feel for the Jets, but this is the price you pay for getting Rodgers. There’s no way that prima donna would abide a competent backup providing even a remote threat to his status.
And naturally there are rumors that he’s the reason the Jets did not sign a decent free agent following his injury who might pose a risk to him by performing like even a mediocre NFL QB
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/84 "2023-11-21T01:18:34Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#):
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> I almost feel for the Jets, but this is the price you pay for getting Rodgers. There’s no way that prima donna would abide a competent backup providing even a remote threat to his status.
Pinning Zach Wilson’s incompetence and the Jets’ inability to find a competent backup on Aaron Rodgers is patently ridiculous.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/85 "2023-11-21T02:04:46Z")
I cannot stand Aaron Rodgers. But I also don’t get the criticism.
I mean, yeah, if I pull out a brand new sandwich bag from a box and there’s a hole in the bottom, a small part of me would thrill in blaming Aaron Rodgers, but I know it’s not true.
How many teams in the NFL have a backup that would make a good starter? Is that number even larger than zero? It’s hard to believe that it is, when you sometimes have starters that would barely make good backups.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/86 "2023-11-21T02:16:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> How many teams in the NFL have a backup that would make a good starter?
There are several backups that used to be starters. Not necessarily good, but at least have starting experience.
Teddy Bridgewater, Blaine Gabbert, Andy Dalton, Cooper Rush, Marcus Mariota.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/87 "2023-11-21T03:15:41Z")
> [@Hamlet](#):
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> Pinning Zach Wilson’s incompetence and the Jets’ inability to find a competent backup on Aaron Rodgers is patently ridiculous.
Why, yes, I agree it is.
I still revel in it, though. One of the perks of being a sports fan is having your totally irrational biases 😉
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### Author:  [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/88 "2023-11-21T04:38:41Z")
**E A G L E S EAGLES!!!**
Except our two wins over Washington, I can’t believe we won the other seven. Honestly. I’m a Bleeding Green fan, but WTF?? We can’t play the “oh, we’ll catch up” style of game in the playoffs.
Blood pressure lowering… lowering…
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/89 "2023-11-21T06:37:08Z")
> [@Railer13](#):
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> There are several backups that used to be starters. Not necessarily good, but at least have starting experience.
So not good starters.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/90 "2023-11-21T06:53:14Z")
Eh, they’ll be just fine. Not only do they pretty much have the No. 1 seed locked up now, but much of the roster has Super Bowl experience anyway.
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### Author:  [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/91 "2023-11-21T07:09:53Z")
Agreed, my heart finally got a rest during the bye week only to be challenged yet again by a squeaker of a victory.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-11-men-on-the-field-buffalo/993214/92 "2023-11-22T15:48:38Z")
Next week starts tomorrow morning. New thread [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-week-12-men-who-have-walked-on-the-moon/993536):
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