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This obscenity filter snafu (I said snafu, oh omniscient obscenity filter, not *****) always makes me laugh.

I can't remember if it was the 2020 season or the 2021 season when Milano got hurt and AJ Klein had to start... it was the season before AJ headed off into the sunset in his camper before abruptly having to turn around. The first game Klein was awful because they were expecting him to play the role Milano plays and he was physically incapable of doing that. Then they adjusted his responsibilities and he had a pretty significant impact playing the game he was suited to play. I hope they don't ask Williams to play Milano's game... he doesn't seem to have the football IQ to do that. I hope they simplify the game for him as best they can, point him in a direction and yell "git em!!!".

WRT top 5, it depends where Henry ends up IMO. I think it's reasonable to expect that Allen's rushing TDs will tail off as he gets older. I don't think we see 120s+ from him, but I think cracking 100 is very doable.

TDs Allen has 67 career to date.

...not the 4th Q of the Ravens game when Allen put up 251 yds?

Joe Brady probably has a lot to do with this, as well.

Better Williams than Spector or Klein...

I acknowledged that Burrow has more talent and more talent around him on offense. My point is that he's getting beat up like David Carr did in Houston.

I could be mistaken, but I thought I recalled either Nantz or Romo saying midway through the second Q that it already felt like the Bills were just trying to milk the clock.

In those 78 games Burrow has been sacked 201 times, whereas Allen has been sacked 191 times in 126 games. He may be injury prone, but playing in Cincy isn't helping. Burrow is basically David Carr with more talent and more talent around him... although David Carr held up to the punishment better.

I think you could make a compelling argument that the cumulative pounding that Burrow has taken thus far in his career exceeds what Allen has taken, despite Allen playing a much more physical style. Burrow hangs in to the last second and gets blasted a lot, and he has to because of his line play. Yesterday may have been a routine tackle, but at 28 years old, he's probably absorbed the abuse that someone in their mid 30s at the position would have taken, so he's probably more likely to get injured as a result at this point.

The reason is he averages 3 sack per game throughout his career, and it's not because he doesn't know how to read a defense or work a pocket. If I was Burrow or his agent, I'd be looking for a way out of Cincy before he gets a career ending injury in his prime.

I avoided Bills gear, sat in the same chair (not because of superstition, but because my dogs own my condo, and by extension my couch) and enjoyed the game. Feeling the game well in hand, I put on my stanky once red Bills hat just in time for the Jets to score a garbage time TD. My apologies to Babich and the boys on D... I shouldn't have gotten cocky.

Down 27 pts with nothing to lose and he’s still tentative to throw the ball unless someone is college open. The Jets need to know if Fields can play, not win a few extra games with Taylor this season.

I don’t know about Babich, but after the game he had last week, Oliver was absolutely invisible today…

Rapey sea mammal McDaniel prep your CV Unemployment calls

I said last week either the Jets are better or the Steelers kinda suck… welcome to week 2.

Cut the schmuck that stepped on Oliver's ankle...

Well... I guess I'd rather hear ankle than achilles... but still...

Too late... Chiefs called dibs.

The "that's not what I meant when I said we need to get the ball back in Josh's hands as soon as possible" defense.

You know those rating systems are flawed! They don't take in account houses that have, uh, more than two television sets. And for the record, Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!

Isn’t that the Marcel Dareus Street Racer Edition captain’s hat?

Yeah, and the formatting of the message board sucks, too.

I think the Vikings were better off with last year’s version of Sam Darnold…