Wayne Cubed

Duke or Stefon Diggs?!!!

Joe B is thinking it’s Duke...

But you are talking about BB tho, one of the greatest defensive minds and literally the best in game adjuster to coach the game.. You can’t assume other coaches would be the same.

I mean all you have to do is look how the Patriots played Allen vs Barkley... Which they played them differently defensively.

He was cleared after practice... so again he went through an installation day and no one knew, not even the coaches. Also, you are assuming a Thursday night game and a Sunday game have the same installation practice schedule. edit: and McD doesn’t have to announce if he’s cleared protocol until the final injury report... so we won’t know until after Fridays practice.

Right and we knew as much about Joe as we know about Josh at this point. They both have gone through practices being in concussion protocol. At the time we had no idea if Joe was involved in the game installation or not. Same rules apply to Baltimore media members and watching installation. They didn’t know. And then he was cleared. The only real difference is Baltimore was very open and confident about Joe playing. McD is playing it smarter and not saying a word either way.

When Joe Flacco got his head smashed in by the Legend of Kiko he was in concussion protocol practiced, like what Josh is doing and then was cleared 5 days later. It happened on the Thursday night game they then practiced during the week and then cleared him from protocol the following Wednesday. McD is keeping it close to the chest and isn’t letting it be known what’s going on exactly, smartly I might add.

This is so good...

RIGHT?!

Yup. This whole making excuses and ‘yea but...’ line of reasoning is getting a bit ridiculous. Josh Allen played badly Sunday, end of. In fact it was his worst performance as a Bill. The Bills had a chance to win if he didn’t play so poorly. He would probably say that. The Bills coaches would probably say that. I don’t think we as fans need to come up with excuses for his play so that we can justify him still being a franchise QB for the Bills. I think most fans want him to be that guy but you can’t sugar coat how he played on Sunday. Let’s see how he responds. That will tell much more than trying to contort ourselves into some position that makes sense of his play.

He was the NFL Player of the Week for that game...

But, but he was 'gun shy' and 'couldn't throw the ball'

Literally his best game as a Bills QB.

Again, he had his best game as a Bill AFTER he came back. It's simply not true no matter how much you want to repeat it. If he was never comfortable in the pocket how could he possibly have his best game ever as a Bill? Better than ANY game he had before the injury. It's a complete myth.

Yea that terrible Ron Rivera San Diego defense that finished middle of the pack for the 2008 season. They weren't terrible.

Except his best game as a Bill came the game he came back from the concussion. Why does this keep getting repeated? He wasn't shell shocked, he got figured out.

Cool, so ignore the context I posted. EDIT: You can bold and underline stuff as much as you like, doesn't change the fact that the running game wasn't working, like you said it was and the Bills had to throw the ball. Also, Daboll isn't asking Josh to throw deep often, so you are wrong there again. Josh is choosing to throw long. He is ignoring or missing the underneath stuff. It happened multiple times on Sunday. He had players open underneath and he looked long instead. Please stop with the over exaggeration.

So, so sad. Couple years ago I was visiting one of my best friends in LA and his wife went into labor prematurely, about 25 weeks along, and baby didn't make it. I got to see him take his last breath in his mothers arms, just a moment that's hard to describe having a child of my own. Puts a lot of things in perspective.

Ah yes, a post of stats, without any context. The first half rushes for the Bills were as follows: (first play of the game) K.Ford right guard to BUF 27 for 1 yard L.McCoy right end to BUF 18 for -4 yards L.McCoy left guard to NE 24 for 5 yards K.Ford left guard to BUF 31 for 5 yards K.Ford right guard to BUF 33 for 2 yards L.McCoy right end pushed ob at BUF 30 for 1 yard L.McCoy right tackle to NE 30 for 2 yards (end of the half)K.Ford up the middle to BUF 14 for 5 yards So in the first half the Bills had 8 rushes for 17 yards. Clearly running the ball wasn't working. And really it was 7 rushes for 12 yards because the end of the half run by Ford was NE** going into the locker room. So no BS there, the Bills didn't have a running game. Also for context, Ford's longest run, 11 yards came on the last series for the Bills, when the game had already been decided. So while you might like to cherry pick the overall stats. Context shows that Ford didn't nearly have the game you think he had. At the half he had 3 rushes for 8 yards, that free 5 yards from NE** before the half only inflates his stats. But even then he was only averaging just over 3 YPC. He did much the same the second half. It's the 11 yard run at the end of the game that puts his runs at over 4 YPC. Context.

Yea, it's certainly not Daboll, to my eye. He gives Josh plenty of easy throws that either Josh misses (doesn't see) or misses (the throw). I really like the offense Daboll has made, it lives and dies with Josh, which a modern NFL offense should. Penalties and mistakes have hampered it some but I can't really say I've disliked too much of what I've seen. The only parts which I've seen that have been questionable are from a personnel perspective (going heavy with L. Smith to open the Pats** game, Singletray's use etc.)

Haha ? Love it.

I know a certain Shah’s Doctor, who may be able to help

That'll be 13 fumbles and 4 lost