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Jim Kelly: ‘If Bills don’t win AFC East, something’s wrong’

Jim Kelly thinks the Buffalo Bills will win the AFC East in 2020.

Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly was the last signal caller to lead the Buffalo Bills to an AFC East title.

Kelly predicts that “title” of sorts that he holds is going to be handed over to Josh Allen soon.

While the current Bills themselves are not calling their shot, Kelly made an appearance on CBS Sports radio and certainly did. He predicted that the Bills will win the AFC East for the first time since he did in 1995.

“If they don’t, then something’s wrong,” Kelly said. “Tom Brady is not there to block you anymore, so that, to me, is huge.”

“Now that Brady is gone, I definitely do think that the Bills are the team to beat, even though you look at the Jets, they’re getting better, Miami and Tua (Tagovailoa) coming in. I think they’re going to be better,” Kelly added. “And of course, Belichick is going to have New England ready to play. We’ll see what happens at the quarterback position in New England, but right now, there’s no doubt that the Bills are probably favored to win the AFC East and if they don’t, then they must have some serious injuries because they have all the ingredients it takes to move on in the playoffs.”

On Brady, Kelly added that he was a bit surprised that he chose to leave the Patriots as well. Kelly, who played for the Bills from 1986-1996, examined the situation through the spectrum of his own career

“When you’ve been there that long, what, 20 years? I’m sure things start to wear on you. But yeah [he was surprised], even with myself, when I retired, I wanted to be a Buffalo Bill. I always wanted to stay with one team, the team that I started with and I felt that Brady would be there at the end and retire as a New England Patriot and only play for the Patriots. But hey, he felt that this was time for him to move on. It’s up to him, it’s his life,” Kelly said.

Over the years, Kelly and Brady have shown a mutual respect for one another and a friendship as a Hall of Famer and future one. But Kelly did joke that he did do his…due dilligence for Bills Mafia.

“Tom is getting older, he’s getting old, but he can still play. I tried to talk him into retiring two or three years ago. He wouldn’t listen to me, I don’t know why,” Kelly said.

 

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Who are the career passing yardage leaders for all 32 NFL teams?

Who are the career passing yardage leaders for all 32 NFL teams?

 

 

Who are the career passing yardage leaders for all 32 NFL teams?

There are familiar names and some surprises on the list of quarterbacks who are the all-time passing yardage leaders for each NFL team.

The quarterbacks who lead all 32 teams in passing yardage range from the obvious to the stunning.

Arizona Cardinals: Jim Hart

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Jim Hart played 18 seasons with the Cardinals, albeit all in St. Louis. He threw for 34,665 yards and 209 TDs against 247 picks. His lone year to lead in a category was 1974 when he threw 388 passes.

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43 NFL players who spent time in other leagues

Arena, the USFL, CFL and other leagues have been the path to the NFL for some players.

Many players have spent time in other leagues before going on to success in the NFL.

CFL Brandon Browner

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Brandon Browner signed with the Denver Broncos in 2005 as a free agent but broke his forearm in the preseason and missed the rest of the year. In 2006, he signed with the Calgary Stampeders. In 2008, he helped Calgary win the Grey Cup. In his five seasons with the Stampeders, he was a three-time CFL All-Star and recorded eight interceptions. In 2011, Browner signed with the Seattle Seahawks and was immediately named the starter. He also played with New Orleans and New England before returning to Seattle.

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‘The Greatest Game No One Saw,’ which featured Jim Kelly and Steve Young, turns 35

‘The Greatest Game No One Saw’ between USFL stars Steve Young and Jim Kelly turns 35

The USFL gave people all sorts of memories. The owner of the New Jersey Generals went on to become President of the United States, Donald Trump. There were big names like Herschel Walker, Steve Young and Doug Flutie who played for the upstart league.

And it provided one of the best games in football history. Only, no one saw it on television.

The Houston Gamblers and Jim Kelly faced the Los Angeles Express and Steve Young on Feb. 24, 1985. One would have thought that matchup would have been natural for ABC, which had the league’s TV rights. However, ABC decided to show the New Jersey Generals’ game because Flutie was making his USFL debut. The game was the opener for the Gamblers and Express that season.

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Only cameramen that worked for both teams were on hand to record the game that turned out to be epic. The Express led 33-13 with just under 10 minutes left in the game. Kelly led the Gamblers on a comeback that would see them pull off a 34-33 win before a crowd of 18,828 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. In the end, Kelly, the USFL’s most valuable player as a rookie in 1984, threw for 574 yards.

Despite being a rival league, the Bills remembered the effort by their HOF quarterback with a tweet in 2014.

LA appeared to put the game away in the fourth quarter when safety Troy West intercepted a Kelly pass and returned it 42 yards for a touchdown, making the score 33-13. However, two plays from scrimmage later Houston narrowed the gap as Kelly threw to WR Richard Johnson for a 52-yard touchdown.

The Gamblers got the ball back at the LA 43 with the clock down to 4:05. This time Kelly connected with WR Vince Courville from 20 yards. With the successful extra point it was 33-27.

Following another punt, the Gamblers needed 40 seconds to cover 84 yards and cap their furious comeback as Kelly found Ricky Sanders open over the middle, beating West. Toni Fritsch kicked his fourth extra point of the game to provide a one-point margin.

“I’ve been in some comebacks before, but never anything like that,” Kelly said after the game. “Pulling out that win was the best feeling I ever had in my life.”

Kelly completed 35-of-54 as his passing yardage topped the former USFL mark of 444 yards by Bobby Hebert of Michigan. It was also 20 yards more than the NFL mark established by Norm Van Brocklin in 1951, but was 12 yards shy of the pro football record of 586 by Sam Etchenverry with Montreal of the Canadian Football League in 1954.

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Three Houston receivers gained over 100 yards, led by Johnson with 174 on 11 catches, including one score, and followed by Sanders with nine receptions for 108 yards and three TDs and RB Sam Harrell’s 105 on six catches.

For the Express, Steve Young was successful on 13 of 27 passes for 255 yards with a TD and an interception and was the leading rusher with 27 yards on five carries.

NFL fans loved this powerful Thanksgiving segment starring Jim Kelly.

Through all of the adversity Jim Kelly has faced, he remains thankful.

Jim Kelly enjoyed a hall of fame career and made a lot of money playing football, but he hasn’t had the easiest life. There are the four consecutive Super Bowl losses, of course, but those pale in comparison to the adversity he’s faced off-the-field. He lost his son, Hunter, at an early age and has faced cancer (and won) twice.

Kelly spoke about that adversity in this tear-jerker of a Thanksgiving package that CBS ran before his Bills took on the Cowboys. There’s a good chance someone is actually cutting onions around you right now, so you can probably get away with watching this one in front of others.

It’s not surprising that this one had NFL fans on Twitter in their feelings…

Kelly announced he was cancer-free (for a second time) in January of this year. For that, the NFL world is very thankful.

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