HardyBoy

My guess on the thought process was something along the lines of, let's try and jump on them with big plays early, get a quick two score lead and then go short passing to salt the game away. The steelers aren't going to to up three scores on you quick (without defensive touchdowns), so go for the early haymaker, if you can land it great, if not you're worst within two scores when you transition to what their offense ended up being and you have to feel confident in scoring twice and stopping them twice to get the lead back, especially once you see your scheme against their running game is basically perfect.

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Is the secret to get a quality qb while not bottoming out to trade really good players you aren't going to keep with two years left on their rookie deals for first and second round picks?

Can't decide between: Bonds was the greatest 5 tool player ever, before he started juicing. OR Gotta think at least half the nfl is juicing, so...

I lived in Boston from '06 to '12 and Brady had a weekly radio hit that I caught a lot. Josh Allen is so much better of an interview. Brady was juat a cliche machine, and never said anything interesting. Allen, while definitely saying his fair share of qb cliche, actually says interesting and funny stuff...like the nfc east comment, was straight cliche till it wasn't. Also, the way he goes into actual detail about how he got better and what his flaws were. Don't get me wrong, Brady worked hard as anyone on his mechanics, but I never heard him go in depth on those radio shows. Two caveats, one, Brady had already won a few superbowls at that point, so not gonna get many questions on mechanics from five years ago. And two, WEEI in Boston are the cringiest of hot take radio gas bags around and have nowhere near the skills of mcfee to get an interesting interview. What I'm trying to say, is Allen might have more value as a face of a franchise in terms 9f promoting the brand than brady...until he says something borderline silly and gets a bunch of crap and stops being genuine, but he doesn't seem like someone who would change that.

Depending on the call and the situation, yeah I think it can be extremely problematic. If the chargers score a td at the end, the over hits and the chargers cover. The initial no call on the clear offensive PI td and a few other penalties you rarely see being called in key high leverage situations raises concerns. Also, the lack of a booth review on the pass interference, when it really looked like the ball hit the ground and it would have been game over had they reviewed it, instead hail mary and almost a crazy backend cover and the over. You can't, especially in a post donoghy world, have a ref crew that makes so many more judgement calls compared to other crews, in meaningless garbage time (chance for an onside kick recovery is prob less than the Hail Murray play) making headscratching judgment calls that directly lead to a potential last second cover and the over flipping. I promise I'm not saying I think it's going on, but I also think there will be somebody investigating that crew now if they aren't already just to make sure. The optics look really really bad for the league in my opinion in that last sequence and the bills stopping them saved the league a lot of crap.

Roof will be closed right? Otherwise gotta think it gets pretty cold at night, even if it will be 8pm/9pm (do they do daylight savings time?)

I'm just shocked (and super happy for him) that Brown isn't done for the year the way his knee was bent...guess the fact that his ankle was able to rotate prevented the force going on his knee, but I don't know I thought he was done for the year and part of next year even as he was able to walk off the field.

You should listen to the Dan Le Batard show...it's a parody of sports radio shows and make fun of everything you said. Once you realize that you start to "get the show."

Watching that play again today makes me realize how when Josh Allen throws with pressure around him, he is often throwing off base with his knees bent, sort of in a squat. Obviously, it is a freak injury that could happen to anyone, but wonder if the way Allen has built a habbit around throwing from atypical platforms with a high level of accuracy is about more than speeding up the release and making sure he reduces the likelihood of hits with all his wait on a single locked knee.

Actually, a lot of people were using email in 96... This isn't just cringe because they don't know what they're talking about, but because they should have given their jobs.

Begs the question of what happens if you combine Peterman and Rodgers? Would it be Peterman's redemption?

Super edgy...Seinfeld here wins post of the day, or dare I say week.

Why? They have three extremely winnable games and you need to evaluate what you have in Winston...he could be their legit long term qb.

The most frustrating thing was when one of the Bills (neal I think) was pointing at the jumbotron after a holding call being like, check the replay that call was bs...the announcers were saying he really wants them to look at the replay...without showing the replay!!! That was probably the second most annoying thing with the production of the game yesterday...when they went to that alternative camera angle on that big down when they didn't show the presnap even and just dropped you in that view...I hate alternative camera angles in general, if you're gonna do something than show the all-22 angle, but that yesterday was the worst example I think I've ever seen...even worse than on every kickoff like they sometimes do.

That late hit call on Singletary was super interesting that since it was after the play they didn't walk off yards, but took the down. Surprised me because I thought they were gonna call a crack back there and not a late hit, but dude did a pretty convincing Rodman flop. Random, but on Allen's td, anyone notice Williams box out the defender instead of hitting him, which would have been a craxk back even if very little contact if the lineman sold it well.

In college I'm prerry sure they won't offset if one is a personal foul (randomly saw that last week for the first time). I'm not sure on the exact specifics, but it was like a ticky tac offense penalty and a roughing the passer or something along those lines and they got the yards for roughing.

You throw it to the 50, wait for the person to come tackle you, grab their hand, put it on your facemask, yank...15 yard penalty, extra play, Bass is a hero. I'll give ya the odds are slim, but if you're going to run it out, then throw it straight back to Roberts and let him try...maybe, I don't know, they probably should have just tried the face mask idea on the kickoff, but wouldn't have been in field goal range.

Couldn't they have caught the squib and given themselves up on the spot with no time coming off the clock or at most one second? Allen could have reached the endzone from there. Not sure what the rule is exactly on how long you have to be down to give yourself up in that situation, but feels like the rule should be the moment you fall you're down if you don't advance it.

Were the coverage disguises by the safeties there all year and they just started working this week (genuine question)? It seemed like they were just coming out playing vanila without disguising coverages like the last three years and suddenly they added that back into the defense this past week. After the fast start to the season, maybe they were keeping that in their back pocket for these two games going into the bye to set up things for the rest of the year and playoffs (fingers crossed). Setting up 8 weeks of vanila defense and then flipping a switch for two nfc opponents, especially seattle who you might see again (fingers double crossed) could be like when they go out in an all out blitz look on a 4th and short early in the game to see how the offense adjusts and then calls timeout.

I know, I'm trying to see if maybe there is subtext I missed. I heard the same podcast and felt it was for sure misguided when he said it and caused me do double take as well.

Yeah, I heard that too and agree it was bs. Here's my guess...JA is a white guy who had amazing physical talent, and he's another in a line of white qbs that were given opportunity after opportunity to prove it, where a black qb would have already been forced to switch to WR or something. I think using JA as an example for that is wrong, he grinded and worked as hard as anyone to get there, but Bomani might be making the point that for many many equally skilled and sized black qbs there wouldn't have been even that random juco offer. He probably has a point there honestly if that is in fact what he is saying.

Gotcha, I can see that. I was lucky enough to live in south florida when Bomani did a weekly full show with them, and they could do 20-30 minute segments and get deep into the nuance of race conversations, but all sorts of stuff serious and silly, including some of the best actual sports radio you'd hear anywhere. I think the issue people have with espn talking race is less the topic and more that they have to fit it into 4-6 minute segments. Don't get me wrong, Bomani and Stan Van Gundy definitely have a very specific perspective on race, but it genuinely isn't political and that comes across when they can talk about it for 20 minutes and really explain their positions and explain their biases...the 4 minutes of actual content and having to fit in 4 people's point of views really does a terrible job of letting people do that and that carries over across all not just espn, but all network and cable tv.

Fair, but the super quick sub three second pass plays likely offset much if not all of that probably.

Bomani Jones is one of the smartest, most educated and knowledgeable people around, not just in sports, but in general. He's flat wrong here, and frankly I'm not sure what his issue is, but it might be the text messages fwiw. That said, his takes generally are extremely well thought out and supported by a crap ton of historical reference and knowledge. Dude can name every #1 pick and hiesman winner going back to like 1965 off the top of his head...it's insane.