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Yeah, I'm mad. I'm disgusted. I shouldn't be, because why bother, right? I'm mad that the best sport in the world has been destroyed by a culture of violence and the lack of accountability. That watching a football game has devolved into a contest of who can injure who, flags on every play, the blue pop-up tents. Endlessly reviewing some pointless 8 yard passing play for twelve different flavors of pass interference. Week-to-week it's about watching the injury report, and hoping your quarterback's scrambled brain gets pieced back together enough so he can count how many fingers the "unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant" is holding up. Arrgh. Sometimes you just need to have a temper tantrum after reading the 100th tweet from some mouth-breathing chowderhead saying Josh's brain got what was coming to it, and the apologist pundits tacitly praising Belichick's savvy defense for using just the right technique to mush a guy's face without getting thrown out of the game. Hyaachchahahahaha.

It's absolutely sickening that the national narrative is that Allen "got what he deserved". Heck, even some people here are criticizing Josh for the fool-hardy pursuit of trying to gain yardage. Hell, if you are a quarterback, you should EXPECT that some guy is going to try to end your career with a cheap shot, so you'd best be sliding! Better yet, don't even bother getting off the bus because, ya know, those defenders just can't help themselves and if they see you in the tunnel they might succumb to their baser instincts and launch their helmet right into your face. You wear that tight dress to the party, and all bets are off, right?! This is the attitude that will ultimately destroy the NFL. Something happened where playing defense shifted from doing what you can to prevent the opposing player from gaining yardage, and now it is fully about inflicting the maximum amount of damage in the pursuit of taking your opponent out of the game. And can you blame defenses? Some scrub 5th corner or reserve defensive lineman can do next to nothing to impact the result of the game. Sure, maybe the stars align and that tackle can get a big sack, or the DB can do the unthinkable and score a touchdown. But honestly, there is no more impactful play that can be made than injuring the opposing quarterback. In most cases, it guarantees your team a victory. In some cases, it removes an entire team from season-long contention. All for the low, low price of 15 yards (or zero, in other cases). It's truly the best deal in football. Even better, we've now implemented the Concussion Protocol, so if your cheap shot head-hunting comes up a bit short and you don't fully end the guy's career, HE is the one that gets removed from the game. How sad is it that the narrative is that it was Allen's fault for not knowing his place, and not EXPECTING to get his head targeted by a guy looking to end his career. Ya'll spouting that garbage should be ashamed of yourselves.

I love how when it’s your guy, everyone forgets how long serious hamstring injuries (the ones that make you start hopping on one foot while grabbing the back of your leg) take to heal. It’s a month or so. He wasn’t going to play this week, nor will he play next week. It’ll be fine. Just relax

Was pretty sure I'd know exactly which posters would be chiming in here. Was not disappointed

Friendly reminder to take deep breaths and relax. Give it time and this too shall pass.

Sarcasm, my friend

Guess we'll see. Teams generally do rush rookies with soft tissue injuries back as quickly as possible, so you could be right!

He felt his hamstring go in such a way that while still on the field started hopping around and grabbing the back of his leg. He isn't playing this week, and it's probably best to plan for a month absence to let it fully heal. This isn't our first hamstring rodeo, friends.

I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did at the Ralph during my season ticket twenties. You'll grow out of it too, but feel free to get a jump on things if you'd prefer not to have the memory of drunkenly harassing an opposing fan wearing the jersey of a player who had died and having an older lady look at you in horror and shame in her eyes and tell you to have some class.

Bit of friendly advise: Let yourself be happy. I understand and that being happy and hopeful and optimistic can lend to feeling emotionally vulnerable. Nobody wants to be hurt, but you can make the decision to let the positivity in. But cmon y’all - it isn’t healthy to go out and win two road games in the NFL with your quarterback balling out and opening the eyes of the world and agonize about the extra interception he COULD have thrown.

Got my eye on 23-0 tbh.

In my non-expert opinion, the way he came up lame and did the hamstring hop tells my crystal ball he's out for 4 weeks. Who knows tho.

Don't fixate on completion percentage - watch your QB in the pocket, watch him feel the rush and slide around accordingly, and watch whether he pushes the ball down the field or not. Then watch some other games and feel bad for the 20 teams in the league that have medium minus quarterbacks.

The line balled out today, and Ford's penalty was both called for and a mandatory reaction, especially after someone took a cheapie at Josh last week. Completely standard.

Taking him out with a sneaky cheap shot would be unacceptable. Beating his ass man to man and face to face is acceptable, and almost necessary in a team game when someone targets one of your guys for injury. I suspect none of Allen's teammates saw things happen clearly in real-time, or else someone WOULD have gone after him and justifiably so.

Love the armchair GMs that would solve all of the Bills’ issues by simply GETTING ELITE OFFENSIVE PLAYMAKERS. Sheesh, this is so simple and obvious, it’s just plain a dereliction of duty that McBeane didn’t get it done! Fun bonus points for those GMs that feel entitled to every free agent and lambasted the front office for attempting to trade for Antonio Brown.

Prediction: I win $10k when the Bills win the Super Bowl.

lol sports talk radio

He is not making the team. This is one of those feel good stories like when they give the kid with terminal cancer a carry and let him run for a touchdown and everyone goes nuts. Just enjoy the moment until real football starts

Lol they aren’t cutting Zay Jones. Y’all are tripping.

I mean, there isn't really anything inaccurate about this. If you pick your favorite team based on franchise success or superstar players, you'd certainly look the other way. For an expansion team with no legacy in an area with a huge amount of transplanted residents, the entire concept of being a Bills fan would be completely alien.

Wait this thread is about how Morse's contract is as bad as Dareus' when we're like, 1 week into preseason and the veteran player hasn't suited up yet?

There's certainly something to the fact that the platform is a bit bigger than usual playing into this. That said, dude melted off all his foot skin, so that isn't imaginary. He'll be fine from that tho, just a bit tender for a bit.

Being a hockey town, you'd think we'd appreciate athletes being unreasonable about helmets. Those goobers let themselves get blasted in the teeth for absolutely no reason, just because it isn't manly enough to wear a cage. Athletes are fickle creatures, indeed.

Everyone acts like Antonio Brown is a petulant child, but the reality is that he has a ton of leverage, is worth a TON, and he knows it. He has traits that are valued in the hundreds of millions of actual, real dollars. Sure, he's a bit wacky, but the days of the ultra elite one in a hundred million human keeping quiet and not asserting their value is over. It makes us sad every now and then when we get spurned by one of these ultra elite individuals, but we'd best get used to them dictating the terms of their own lives a WHOLE lot more because we're only on the leading edge of this trend.