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DENVER (AP)Switching quarterbacks midseason is fraught with danger Josh Oliver Jersey , especially for a team with a pulse, as the Denver Broncos discovered in 2006 when Mike Shanahan benched Jake Plummer after a 7-2 start, only to see rookie Jay Cutler go 2-5 and miss the playoffs. Buffalo Bills rookie coach Sean McDermott benched Tyrod Taylor for rookie Nathan Peterman on Sunday in the NFL’s biggest backfire of Week 11. Taylor had thrown three interceptions in 254 pass attempts when he was benched, and it took Peterman, a fifth-round pick from Pitt, eight throws to match that number against the Los Angeles Chargers. He finished with five interceptions and six completions before retreating to the bench at halftime of Buffalo’s 54-24 loss, the Bills’ third straight blowout. ”I’ve had tough games before and coach always says we never lose, we learn,” Peterman said. ”And that’ll definitely be my mindset moving forward. I’m going to learn a lot from this and make sure it never happens again.” Did McDermott learn from this, too? ”I don’t regret my decision,” McDermott insisted. ”I regret the result.” McDermott said Monday he’s not sure whether he’ll give Peterman another start or return to Taylor for Buffalo’s game at Kansas City on Sunday. The Bills (5-5) have been outscored by 81 points during their three-game skid and they still have two games left against Tom Brady and the Patriots in their quest to end a 17-year playoff drought. PLUNGING PACKERS : The Packers are also 5-5 after getting shut out at home for the first time in more than a decade. But coach Mike McCarthy is sticking with his fill-in QB Brett Hundley while awaiting Aaron Rodgers’ possible return from a broken collarbone. ”Brett Hundley’s our starter,” McCarthy declared after Hundley threw three interceptions and lost a fumble on a strip-sack by Terrell Suggs in the Packers’ 23-0 loss to Baltimore. Hundley has two TD passes and seven interceptions this season. ”I believe in Brett Hundley,” McCarthy said after Rodgers’ backup fell to 1-3 in his starts. ”It didn’t go very well obviously today. We have a standard that’s been set here. We’re all part of it. Brett Hundley’s part of it, too.” DIVING DENVER : Brock Osweiler said he wouldn’t look over his shoulder following the Broncos’ latest loss, a 20-17 heartbreaker to the Cincinnati Bengals, who won in Denver for the first time since 1975. With the Broncos (3-7) mired in a six-game skid, their longest in a single season since 1990, they will likely soon want to see conclusively if Paxton Lynch can play in this league. The 2016 first-round draft pick from Memphis who was twice unable to unseat Trevor Siemian was active for the first time Sunday and could get an audition now that Denver appears to be done. ”I’m not worried about that http://www.jaguarscheapstore.com/quincy-williams-ii-jersey-cheap ,” Osweiler said. ”I’m never going to look over my shoulder. I’m just going to show up in the building every single day and be myself, work as hard as I possibly can, and everything will take care of itself.” Osweiler is 0-3 since supplanting Siemian, who was 3-4. Broncos rookie coach Vance Joseph on Monday replaced offensive coordinator Mike McCoy with quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave. McCoy’s second stint in Denver lasted 10 games. His first, from 2009-12, went much better. He designed an offense on the fly for Tim Tebow in 2011 and helped Peyton Manning embark on the second chapter of his storied career. That earned him the Chargers’ head coaching job, but he was out after 4-12 and 5-11 seasons the last two years, and when he returned to Denver he said he was glad to be calling plays again, if not the shots like he did in San Diego. ”I’ve got a burning desire to call plays, and I did not do that the last four years and that was something hard,” McCoy said back in January. ”So, I’m excited to get back into this and call plays.” But McCoy stubbornly stuck to three-receiver formations that proved ineffective and even dangerous to his quarterbacks, whom he also overburdened with complex game plans. ALTITUDE ACCLIMATION : Bill Belichick decided to stay in Colorado last week after the Patriots played Denver to acclimate to the altitude of Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium (elevation 7,200 feet), and practicing at the Air Force Academy (6,621 feet) sure paid off. Raiders coach Jack Del Rio kept his team at sea level all week, just as he did a year ago leading up to Oakland’s win over the Houston Texans in Mexico City. ”It’ll be interesting really to look back and take some after-action review from the two experiences that we’ve had, not that we’re going to share with each other Ryquell Armstead Jersey ,” Del Rio said. No need, New England’s 33-8 win Sunday says it all. ELWAY’S DIG : John Elway called out his team Friday night with the Broncos’ playoff hopes dangling. He said ”to be dead honest with you we got a little bit soft” after starting 3-1 following a perfect preseason.” His coach said he was ”initially offended” but ultimately agreed with his boss. The reaction in the locker room ranged from anger to acceptance. ”Everybody in this organization is accountable for how we are playing right now,” suggested star cornerback Chris Harris Jr. That evidently includes Elway, who hasn’t drafted an All-Pro since 2011 and has a spotty record in free agency since Manning’s retirement. — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Montreal Expos would be thrilled with this Super Bowl. And those who used to be part of the defunct baseball franchise’s evaluation process certainly are, even all these years later.Gone from the game for nearly 15 years, the former club has ties to both quarterbacks in Sunday’s NFL championship game.The Expos traded for Jared Goff’s father, Jerry, nearly three decades ago. Goff made his major league debut for Montreal in 1990 and played 55 games for the team as a backup catcher that year and in 1992.Just a few years later, Montreal drafted another catcher from Northern California, making Tom Brady an 18th-round choice before he decided to stick with football.“I could have ruined the history of the NFL,” former Expos scout John Hughes said with a chuckle, considering what might have been had Brady chosen baseball. “I love it when he goes to the Super Bowl.”Both John Hughes and another former Expos scout, Gary Hughes (no relation) are downright giddy about the game in Atlanta, if not just a little bit torn because they’re thrilled for both quarterbacks.Gary Hughes helped acquire Jerry Goff in 1990 from Seattle and is a fellow graduate, along with Brady, of Serra High School in San Mateo, California. Hughes had yet to fully ponder the pairing when he received a timely text message from a Red Sox scouting colleague.“It’s the Gary Hughes Super Bowl,” Paul Toboni wrote his pal.Hard to argue that one.“I got a kick out of it. He was right on top of that http://www.jaguarscheapstore.com/gardner-minshew-ii-jersey-cheap ,” Gary Hughes said.Yes, indeed.Gary Hughes, with 52 years in baseball, was working as Marlins scouting director when he evaluated Brady playing baseball for Serra. Before that, Hughes worked as a Bay Area-based Western cross checker for the Yankees when New York drafted Jerry Goff in the 12th round in 1984 out of College of Marin. Later, after Goff was drafted again by the Mariners in the 1986 third round out of the University of California in Berkeley, Hughes was scouting director of the Expos. He watched Goff play Double-A ball in Seattle’s farm system before acquiring the left-handed hitting backstop.John Hughes was the Expos’ Northern California area scout when he pushed for Brady.“As long as Gary doesn’t take credit for drafting him,” John Hughes said of his scouting colleague and friend.John Hughes also worked 12 years on the Cal staff as a pitching coach and had Jerry Goff on the team in Berkeley.The connections run even deeper for Gary Hughes. He taught P.E. and English and served as athletic director during nine years working at Marin Catholic High, where Jared Goff starred.Jerry Goff worked as a firefighter in suburban Millbrae, where one of Hughes’ best friends had been chief, the late scout Dickie Hanlon.“There’s a family feel to it. Jerry went to the College of Marin Hall of Fame. At the same time so did a friend of mine, the first traveling secretary for the Florida Marlins, John ‘The Greek’ Panagakis, who was the College of Marin basketball coach,” Gary Hughes recalled.Just after the Expos selected Brady, he came out to Candlestick Park with Montreal in town to play the Giants. He seemed comfortable in the clubhouse, with John Hughes noting, “He looked like he belonged in the locker room.”That didn’t end up meaning much. Brady took a football scholarship to play at Michigan.The rest is history.“Based upon the way we kind of went about our business and followed him throughout the course of the summer Nick Bosa Jersey , we obviously felt that he had a career and had a future in baseball. He was an 18th-round draft choice, but he only went in the 18th round because we knew that he had football hanging over his head and that was probably what he was going to do,” John Hughes said. “So the quote/unquote sign-ability was going to be very difficult if at all. I don’t know that we ever really truly officially got to the point where we made a pure offer to him just because we never got close to what it would take to sign him. But we viewed him as a guy that had a chance to be an everyday major league catcher. He had a strong arm, he was a left-handed hitter, and he had some power. He was a solid receiver. In a lot of ways it’s kind of what you see now: He was a good athlete, not a great athlete, but he had incredible field presence and was highly competitive, and he commanded his teammates’ attention as a leader behind the plate.”Back when he was watching Brady the catcher, Gary Hughes had no idea what the young man would become in football.“I thought he might sign for baseball. I didn’t know he was going to become Tom Brady,” Gary Hughes said. “He had great size and athletic ability. I saw him play one game, but I cross-checked him and I could see why he certainly was draftable. I didn’t know he had so much going for him in football.”Despite his relationship with Jerry Goff and having watched Jared play a handful of times in high school, Gary Hughes insists he has no choice but to cheer for Brady on Super Bowl Sunday.“I’ve got to go with blue and gold, Serra High,” Gary Hughes said. “It’s got everything to do with the blue and gold.”Then he added: “And that’s not the blue and gold of the Rams.”