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Everytime I listen to Erik Turner I wonder why I listen to anybody on this forum.

Does the OP have eyeballs?

Speaking as someone who had a bad case of Covid around the same time as Dawkins but was not hospitalized, it's a miracle he plays at all.

Anybody notice the announcers have this weird obsession with Daboll? If Allen makes any good play, it's a credit to Daboll. If Allen makes a mistake, it's on Allen. What's up with that? Is he so good he's disrupting some sort of matrix? Or are people such zombies they stick to their opinions rain, sleet, or snow for years? "Allen had Sanders wide open in the end zone! How could he miss that?!". (While he's running for his life) "Allen had the easiest TD of his life to Beasley there. Easiest throw of his career". (While 4 guys chasing and on the run firing a perfectly accurate missile to go ahead in a game against a playoff team on the road before half during primetime). I want to say it's comedic, but I feel like Allen is exposing something about human nature. I just can't figure out what it is. And why can't everybody get behind the most talented to QB we might ever have seen in the NFL? No stories about his arm strength? His hurdling? His velocity? Don't national fans love hearing about that kind of stuff? Why is Daboll the better story?

Are people telling you that?

It's a week to week league, but it doesn't mean you have to be a week to week thinker. Cardinals still have a lot to prove. More than us. Murray slips up next week and then what? Will there be another boogie man that we should be scared of?

You see the light my brother. But the ignore feature is your best friend. Use it.

He just comes off like a disrespectful person.

Some Bills fan just did that on the Titans forum. Completely hijacked the discussion and made Bills fans look like idiots.

I was 13 during the 2001 Eastern Conference semi-finals when the low budget Sabres played the Penguins star-studded team of Lemieux, Jagr, Kovalev, Straka, etc. etc. During Game 6 the Sabres were up on the road and about the finish the series. With 2 minutes left there was a stoppage in play and the cameras showed a little Penguins fan in tears and I remembered how bad I felt for him. With 80 seconds to go the Penguins tied and won the game in OT to setup a game 7. Guess who miraculously got tickets to that game? My first playoff game ever. Guess who was nearly in tears after Kasparaitis scored in OT and Hasek skated off in his last ever game in a Sabres uniform? That's right. ME. I became that kid I felt bad for. You think that kid felt bad for me after Game 7? I highly doubt it. Moral of the story. Screw fans of other teams. Let them squirm and deal with the cognitive dissonance of the Bills whooping their ass relentlessly for the next decade as we become the new Spurs. Small market team that's always winning and the country has to deal with it.

Titans fans that want other Titans fans to think they know they're talking about. Josh Allen is a dumb neanderthal? That's a new one. He had a higher wonderlic than Tannehill.

Stadium was a done deal a long time ago. Now they're just putting out feelers for how much the taxpayers will tolerate. They anchored at 100% and had a backlash. They'll settle for 50%-75%. Behind closed doors the politicians and developers are ironing out who pockets what. The NFL always gets what it wants.

He wants to be a legend. And he senses the same in Josh. They gave him a C this year and part of growing as a star performer turned leader is checking your ego at the door. It takes genuine confidence to say "it's OK, you can have the ball. I'll get mine". People sense that and follow that. Payday is probably coming, but the vibes I'm feeling around OBD say Super Bowl may be coming in the near future. Real championship attitudes abound.

You see the truth. They were all laughing at Kiper like he was a joke. Kiper is a joke, but he's a joke who knows his stuff. The other panelists don't know a thing. But the truth is that the racial aspect isn't an Allen problem, it's a Bomani Jones problem. I wish him the best in dealing with his personal demons.

Inner drive + injustice of not being recognized = Supermax Contract But I've had enough of this fear of attention. "I don't care about praise". OK, that's good for you. What I sense instead is resistance. Resistance of glory. Resistance of too much success. Fear of success, even. A lack of trust in your team to perform under the brightest of lights. Why else would a person prefer to be "under the radar" instead of getting the props they deserve? Not healthy IMO. Bigger than a Bills problem, it's a Buffalo problem.

A very common reflex response I hear around here is "Who cares", "you're so sensitive!", "I like being the underdog!", "ignore them". Well let me tell you, I believe it is not normal for a person to ignore disrespect. If you stand up for yourself, and somebody says one of the above statements, you need to ignore them. As the Bills slowly become an elite team year after year (due in no small part to Josh Allen), the fanbase will begin shedding low self-esteem beliefs such as "I like being under the radar" and "haha look how these stupid fans care about what the country says about us". There is no better feeling than winning in front of the country and getting praise. To pretend it doesn't matter, is lunacy. As if we're all a bunch of monks living in the mountains. Trust me, I lurk on this board a lot. Wisdom is a scarce resource here. What makes it worse is seeing players like Lamar Jackson, Tua, Wentz, Murray, Mayfield, Herbert, etc. getting instant national praise their rookie years while we need to move mountains just to get a little positive attention. I saw a poster above mention that Allen doesn't care what the media says. Let me tell you, that if he didn't care what people said about him, he would've busted out of the league already. The reason Allen is carrying the Bills to glory right now, is because he won't stand for the injustice that is public opinion of his playing. He knew how good he was and could be, he knew how poor the team was around him while the QBs placed on pedestals are surrounded by all-pros. Let me say that I can't stand the ball-washing that teams like the Cowboys get every year, simply because I don't believe they deserve it. But nothing incenses me more than seeing an incredible story being ignored and then insulted by fools. The Buffalo fanbase should pull out pitchforks against PFF, FO, Bomani Jones, etc. They dished it out, but can't take it. They were exposed as frauds and clowns. And people want to ignore this, even worse, insult fellow fans that are upset about continuing lack of respect? Talk about having your priorities mixed up. I think it's pretty clear by all that this poster is a clown with a strong personality. Put him on ignore. Edit: talking about biscuit, not stank_nasty

This explains why he looked a little nervous to me at the game Monday night. He wasn't his "I got this shiz" self. Great move. Beane truly is a wizard. As someone who is in business, I am awed by those at the top that can share a vision strongly and stick by it. Usually egos get involved, but not here. They knew exactly what they wanted and they've gone through with it. They are always willing to make the right sacrifice.

The haters always say stuff like "believe me, I'll be the first one to congratulate him".

Well said. This new narrative of "the coaching and organization is what made Josh Allen" is just side-stepping for those that were so off about Allen. "I wasn't wrong about Allen, it was just the organization has managed him so well!" What a boring narrative! How about "Allen proves all doubters pathetically wrong and is becoming an absolute superstar QB who is exciting to watch". We will see the new narrative collapse once Daboll gets a job somewhere else and Allen continues to defy expectations.

Great stuff. This sort of data is tough to nail down, so I appreciate you finding something within the vicinity of the bullseye. The analytics back up what those with a "good eye" can see, which is that McBeane always seem to make the correct, savvy move. The perfect mix of patience, long-term strategy, foundation first, faith, and shrewdness (a good shrewdness). That kind of decision-making is not based in analytics, believe it or not. It is based in intuitive-thinking, with analytics simply being a supplementary source. A nice combination of right brain/left brain thinking. Rare, but wherever it is found, the people who have it are at the top of their professions. The most competent bunch. I'd like to play Beane in a chess match one day. I have a feeling he would be good at it.

You want to know how Patrick Mahomes would be in Buffalo if we drafted him? He would be Jack Eichel. A superstar player stuck on a team he can't take over the hump. The national media and fans would be clamoring for him to leave Buffalo and go to a team he can win with. Even now, nobody gives Josh Allen the credit he deserves. He proved himself in an impossible situation. To this day, Mahomes hasn't faced 10% the adversity that Allen faced in year one.

All it takes is one ESPN beat reporter to pick this up and it can go viral and end in sanctions for the team, not to mention the benching of our entire DB for a winnable game tomorrow. Can't stand people like this.

That's your opinion of what he's doing. I have mine.

What a traitor. I hope he loses his media pass. Throwing the team under the bus to score Twitter points.

Let's go Touchdown Jesus!