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Nope. The American crowd is doing the same thing it was doing 20 years ago and there’s nothing initimadting about it. The European players are seeing and hearing exactly what they prepared for and expected. I don’t think it’s over. The US team has too many good players to let the tournament get away from them but they really do need to turn around their foursomes game today. Not sure how I’m going to break the news to the missus I’ll be sat watching golf all night tonight as well as football tomorrow night. This may be the last you hear from me.

Saleh remains a publicity hound.

In a hypothetical 3 team race using 10^5+ Monte Carlo odds for the #1 seed, if KC wins our odds are 76%, if BAL wins our odds are 79. I will take a 3% point increase every week!

I have a similar system place to try and get a read on my wife. If I see the hairs on her back vibrate when she looks inside the dishwasher then I know I loaded it wrong and make myself scarce.

Tua blew out his hip at Alabama and you get a lot of power from that trunk.. and he had a severe injury.. his arm was actually stronger by a decent amount pre-injury.. not that he had a Stafford or Josh Allen arm.. but he lost juice Go back farther to when he was in high school he was actually was more a gun slinger... he actually relied all on his natural ability which was he was an amazing thrower of the football When he went to the elite 11 finals.. Trent really grilled into him hard.. he was not a field general but a big play gunslinger who's talent led to a lack of some fundamentals... But over the three days he took to the best coaching and actually won the elite 11 finals It's a shame because I've liked tua since high school but his terrible injury at Alabama definitely affected his arm strength because a smaller guy like him needs that lower body to drive through and it was a catastrophic injury Even just watch his game-winning pass as a true freshman in the national championship game and he threads the needle on a 40 yard pass.. as an 18-year-old true freshman

Anything never done before automatically qualifies as “bizarre”? If not, what specifically makes it bizarre? What makes it highly questionable from a security standpoint? Are you thinking of a terrorist attack on a marine base?

Loving Hawes allowing Brady to be more heavy and multiple with 12 and 13 and 22 and maybe even 23 personnel...happy to see them progress beyond the 6OL looks, despite how effective they were out of that package. Heavy personnel and condensed alignments are very much en vogue imho, and Hawes helps the offense to be more physical and more unpredictable.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov needed surgery Friday to repair the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee, injuries that will likely sideline him for the regular season and potentially the playoffs as Florida tries to win a third consecutive Stanley Cup. Barkov was injured Thursday in his first official practice of training camp. The Panthers said the typical timetable for recovery from the type of surgery he underwent is seven to nine months.

There is a healthy balance especially when Josh is so effective.. you don't want to put too much on tape early As someone who evaluates high school players and used to do college players I would say quarterback... Especially in college you will see some extremely high play action percentages And that just screams gimmick offense... If your team is running play action at a 35-40% clip, your stats are going to be highly effective But that doesn't really translate to the pro game... Where the hash marks actually condense the game So I think we're trying to build a nice true offense that could work in any situation.. the human tendency would be to go heavy play action with Josh Allen and waggles because his athleticism... But the higher the play action percentage, the more it becomes gimmicky... And the pros won't fall for it as easily In January and February it will get ramped up slightly.. but we are building a NFL offense where we can run and take three and five step drops and work the field horizontally... The boundaries and the seam...So all the play action attempts feel more organic.. our three tight end set is going to open up play action a lot when they want same with 12 personnel When it's all on the line, around 15% give or take a little bit more or less is probably where you want to be

My point was that I 100% agree with you.

I'm curious about the demographics of posters actively commiserating in this thread. Has to skew older, right? (I, too, have struggled with Ticketmaster at inopportune times, to be clear.)

My point was that Josh was more effective in play-action than most QBs. Therefore, you'd think we'd do more play-action than other teams, not less. Here's what I got from AI: Josh Allen’s Play-Action Performance (2024) Completion Percentage: 70.1% Yards per Attempt: 9.2 Touchdown Rate: 7.8% Passer Rating: 117.6 These numbers reflect his ability to leverage play-action for chunk gains and red zone efficiency. His passer rating on play-action was among the top five in the league. NFL Average Play-Action Stats (2024) Completion Percentage: 65.3% Yards per Attempt: 8.1 Touchdown Rate: 5.4% Passer Rating: 102.3

Has me worked up each week, how little Brady and/or Allen are staying a snap ahead of defenses with aggressive PA calls. Instead, the Bills appear to simply continue running the ball where others (ME) might leverage that rushing success and call a PA shot play WITHOUT LETTING THE DEFENSE CATCH UP FIRST AND SHUT DOWN THE RUN PLAY THAT WAS WORKING. Preach. Ravens aren't worthy of unleashing PA against? That's bonkers, if true. I thought I heard/saw a stat that QBs are mostly always "super-effective in play action." And with a QB who can move and has an elite arm, one should reasonably expect a high % of play action for a variety of reasons. Bills running a nice, high % of motion has been encouraging, seeing Allen use a variety of motions to diagnose and adjust pre-snap with more and more comfort and command. Combining that with PA calls on tendency-breaking down and distances would be cool. Taking shots when defenses are expecting runs should be something the Bills do once or twice a half imho. Gotta threaten ALL quadrants of the field, especially when your QB has one of the greatest arms of all time.

The game catches up to every single coach.. especially the X's and O's guys Someone is always going to reinvent the wheel in football Pure motivators like Pete Carroll can coast a little bit longer like a marv Levy.. terrific coach more of a players coach a motivator.. not necessarily a tactician Not that their Xs and O's are bad.. but Pete Carol doesn't rely on scheme.. he's a motivating developer Peyton helped bring a spread WC coryell system to the NFL at a successful level.. but there's people who are pushing it past him now

See, this is where I'm a pessimist. I don't think that's a real possibility as long as McDermott is the coach. He's been great at building this team & culture, but defense is his baby. A lot of people think if we just get better players than things will improve, and while I think that's partly true, I don't think it'll look any different come playoff time. Like were prime Hyde & Poyer better than Rapp & Bishop? By a mile, yet the D still looked just as bad against the Chiefs/Bengals in the playoffs. Maybe prime Tre White & Milano? They didn't move the needle either. Then you look at all the draft picks invested in the D, you'd expect better results. Unfortunately, they've gotten worse the last few years, all while "offensive-minded" Andy Reid has managed to build a strong D before us. Josh will have to be exceptional, and we'll have to continue surrounding him with good weapons. That's how I think they can overcome the McDermott playoff defense.