Football this 'n' that

 The Jests finally ran out of patience with 3rd year QB Zach Wilson.

Wilson was benched late in Sunday's 32-6 loss to Buffalo in favor of the unheralded Tim Boyle, who will get his first start in a Jests uniform Friday vs. Miami.

Welcome to the big time.

Yes, I said Friday. For the first time, the NFL will add a Black Friday game to the Week 12 schedule, airing on Amazon Prime at 3 pm (where normally, a replay of the previous night's game would air on NFL Network). The Jests, who were in a position to move into 2nd place in the AFC East had they swept the Bills, remain in 3rd place at 4-6, and the freefall likely will continue vs. Miami.

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Fans have noted all season that there have been more missed calls on a weekly basis, leading some to believe that there might be something shady involved, now that the NFL is endorsing legalized betting sites.

The simple truth of the matter is that until the league improves the quality of officiating, this will continue to be a problem.

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How does a quarterback get sacked 9 times, yet still win the game?

You can if your defense bails you out with 6 takeaways.

That's exactly what happened when the Giants completed a season sweep of the Washington Commanders on Sunday. 3rd string QB Tommy DeVito, formerly of Syracuse & Illinois, was sacked 9 times, but threw 3 TD passes, the defense collected six turnovers, including a 4th quarter pick-6 by Isaiah Simmons that iced the game. The Giants, who haven't had a dominating O-line in years, will next play New England, which had the bye week this week.

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With DeShaun Watson out for the year, the Cleveland Browns will turn to former Jets & Ravens QB Joe Flacco to direct the offense for the rest of the season. Flacco was the starting QB the last time Baltimore won a Super Bowl (The infamous Harbaugh Bowl over San Francisco).

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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is serving out a 3 game suspension the sins of a offensive assistant, and thus might be in absentia when the Wolverines have their annual game vs. Ohio State on Saturday. Michigan has won the last two, but it's not going to be 3 in a row. Trust me.

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Ahead of tonight's game between Kansas City & Philadelphia, a local radio station in Philly has decided on a temporary embargo on a certain singer's records until after the game. I don't have to tell you who it is, and if you don't know, you've been living under a rock the last two months. This Super Bowl rematch doesn't need any more fuel than it already has.

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I just don't get the haterizing over NBC's Jac Collinsworth, who calls Notre Dame football for the network. Collinsworth, the son of Sunday Night Football analyst & former Bengals star Cris Collinsworth, also works on Football Night in America. I've said the two sound a lot alike, and it's true, but people on social media are ragging on the younger Collinsworth because they see him as a bad play-by-play man who, unlike his father, never played in the NFL.

For what it's worth, Jac's partner, former Cowboys & Giants coach Jason Garrett, comes off as a near-soundalike to another member of the FNIA crew, Tony Dungy. Sensory overload, anyone?