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But the real question... did his kid Max state it too? No Sal time is without him shoehorning a Max story into it. He's the worst in Buffalo, by a mile. He can't carry Joe B.'s jock when it comes to knowledge of the game.

So instead, a league supposedly concerned about injuries, won't allow a clear front should to front shoulder block to protect a QB from getting lit up. NFL is a joke, worst reffed league with the worst, most inconsistently officiated rules. Don't blame the refs for the loss, that's on Daboll, from his refusal to continue to feed Singletary the ball in favor of Gore to his having a play call with a useless FB running a 30 yard go route. This league is execution and playcalling, Daboll sucks at the latter and his players are questionable at the former.

Nope. Execution and playcalling matter more. You can't go Lindy Ruff and try to hold onto a lead for the majority of the game. That's what fearful losers do, and Daboll is a fearful loser. A team running a late game go route by its fullback is not a team with a winning playbook. Hoping Daboll gets a HC job. For all the "lunatic" love he gets around here, he's a Jeckyl and Hyde who outthinks himself and costs this team games. He sucks. They need more big WR and improvements on the OL, and #17 has to stop playing sand lot, country dumb football. Appreciate the passion and desire to win, but he makes some head scratchingly moronic plays.

White mom sees Latino fans acting like white Bills fans in Bflo, in my section all the time, and jumps to the stereotype conclusion they're members of the most dangerous street gang in American. By that logic, all the same white Bills fan in my section who would without a doubt do the same thing to ANYONE from another team's fanbase taking pictures in New Era must e neo-Nazis. White people, good god.

I root for the Bills and against garbage pplayers, teams, and greedy owners. So I am currently celebrating: 1. Ramsey's exit from the playoffs after he acted like a complete ahole intentionally to get traded. Can't win with me guys. 2. Beckham's whining today and being mocked by a player on the Ravens for his stupid TD celebration down two scores. Can't win with me guys. 3. Watching Jerry Jones squirm and hopefully today his playoff chances taking a major hit. Can't win with Jerry the GM. A Cowboys non-playoff season is the best Xmas gift ever. 4. Knowing Antonio Brown is out of the league for being a complete degenerate. Can't win if you're not in the league. 5. Watching Le'Veon Bell take a monster step backwards after greedily sitting out a season to come back and sign a deal with the Jets, the freaking Jets. Can't win with greedy guys who sign contracts they refuse to honor. Enjoy the millions and the end of your chance at a Hall of Fame career.

Lots of bad takes on this forum, and I know I add to it, but this is maybe the worst one ever. First, if you don't think this team wanted this more than you, you're sick. And you're sick because you think football matters more to you from the couch than the guys putting their health on the line. Just wow on this hot take. I saw a QB (who I criticize but like) play like he always does, hating to lose. The D never quit. I didn't see a single player hanging their head or having that look of defeat so many other teams have in Gillette.

Nope. It's on Allen. Be honest, you can't rely on the D every single game and when your QB can't hit Knox in the end zone on the same throw the GOAT did moments earlier to tie the game, that's not the D's fault, it's Allen's. Can't blame the D every time they lose to shield the offense from criticism. The offense is putrid more often than not. The running game is weak. The OL is unathletic, leaving this team unable to ever run a screen, which you watch other teams like, oh I don't know, every team yesterday. And the WR position needs a legit lengthy receiver. But all of that doesn't overcome the reality that execution by Allen cost them the game, period. Too many here won't criticize the kid. He's shown major improvement in a lot of areas, but those 3-4 misses a game will continue to come back and haunt them and the Knox miss, that a high schooler can make, cost them a tie and possible win.

100% because he's like so many other mediocre QBs who were first rounders. Teams draft these guys, they have serious flaws but don't entirely crash and burn. So teams, esp. GMs, don't and won't admit they should draft someone again after a 3rd straight year of stagnation. So they get to the 4th year, opt into the 5th and there you go, Allen for 5 yrs. And I'll bet anyone $10,000 that he'll never have a season over 65% completion.

Lots to like about his improvements... decreasing INTs and TOs; better command of the offense; and his ability to read D and audible. He's still too slow reading the field. When you watch Brady, Allen's problems are amplified. Brady's entire game is, and has been, knowing exactly where to go with the ball and going there immediately or moving on quickly to #2. But the accuracy is and will continue to be his fatal flaw. Part of it is his slow reading the field and then trying to rifle the ball in late with bad mechanics from a bad platform. But the miss to Knox amplifies the national media's contention, and mine, that he'll never be accurate. And if you're OK with that today's game is the perfect reason why you can't CONSISTENTLY with a QB like this. He lost the game that disgusting miss to Knox, a pass Brady made earlier. Everyone gets hung up on the good and wow plays but they are outweighed by the bad, by the pathetic misses, by the brutal downfield accuracy, and the lack of touch. The only way this can work, imo, is they need to get a better and more athletic OL that allows for a) a better run game and b) a godforsaken screen game. Jesus, a screen game is a must and for some reason, which I think is the lack of mobility by this line, it doesn't exist. Those are a) easy throws and yards and b) help the overall offense by being more dimensional. In the end, I think this is a QB that sticks around but is mediocre. This team's Tannehill/Winston/Bortles, not horrible enough to throw to the curb, not good enough to get you far so they ride him out through his 5 years and move on.

Fun Fact: He Won Both.

Bush league and a dumb idea for multiple reasons. First, it violates the spirit of the kneel down play, which is simply to signify to the opposing defense that you do not intend to run a play. It's bush because it takes advantage of the defenders' willingness to hold up and not rush. So it's bush for that reason. But worse off, it puts your team in a situation where in the future no defender should every honor the spirit of the kneel down and instead should just bull rush the OL and QB. Let them deal with it. But what makes this the dumbest play ever, and everyone gives Harbaugh credit, is that the play went to a backup RB with 40 carries at a 3.6 ypc average, not Jackson or Ingram. Stupid all around and it would be as stupid if McD did it.

27-13 Ravens.

Don't have one, I'm over 14 years old. Just like I don't have a favorite Apple employee. This is the sports world today. Players are employees and businessmen, with no obligation to owners, cities, or fans when it comes time to go to the highest bidder. Owners treat them as replaceable parts, with no commitment to them once they hit free agency. So as a paying STH and fan, I've turned to rooting for the logo. Plus, culturally and professionally, I don't dig the selfish, look-at-me attitude of the NFL player circa 2019. I'm turned off by the OBJs and Antonio Browns, as well as the stupid handshakes, celebrations, and general childishness of the average NFL player. So it's easier to just NGAF and enjoy the sport, the strategy, and the games. I've also never owned a jersey and think if you're out of middle school and wearing someone's name on your back, well, just wow.

Nope. Guy was a bum here, is a bum on an offense where he should dominate. He's Mike Williams (OT) bust bad.

It's not a gimmick offense (like the Wildcat or other clear gimmicks) but the NFL will catch up to Jackson and this scheme soon enough. Happens to every hot out of the box QB. Mahomes this year is well behind his per/game pace from last year. The league has managed to spend an offseason figuring out how to adjust to Mahomes. He's still great but he's being slowed down. It'll happen to Jackson for sure. And injuries will get him too. A QB can't run that much and take the beating forever. The interesting thing for the NFL is that many are clamoring for college style offenses, I think to adjust for the lack of NFL-ready QBs who have played in a pro style offense. However, the reality is, those spread and air raid offenses work in college predominantly based on one premise: exploit a significant talent gap either across the entire defense or in spots. That just doesn't exist in the NFL on a week in and week out basis. Jackson looks like a nice player.... right now.

No. Next question. I love this feature of TBD where I get to answer yes and no questions posed in thread titles. Keep em coming.

If you put racism in " " you are intentionally minimizing it, unwilling to accept it as an actual structural problem in this "country." Yeah I put country in " " because I think that pride and bling loyalty to a geography is a joke made worse by the romanticism attached to it that doesn't show it for what it is, a county found by genocidal racists. But anyway, calling racism oveblown only doubles down on that and surely comes from the comfort of your white privilege. And you end it by saying there are a few racist nut jobs out there to imply, that due to what you think are a small number, that racism is overblown. And there are also waaay more than a few bad cops. Every PD in this region has bad apples. Let's see.... just this two weeks we've got a Lewiston cop taking pictures of a woman getting dressed and resigning (today) and a sheriff pimping his wife out in a movie theatre parking low. You also have a Tonawanda cop driving drunk and getting in an accident coming home from a police party last year, a cop beating the hell out of a Bills fan in the parking lot multiple cops shooting unarmed people in Buffalo, a few in the back in the last year.. and that's off the top of my head in 30 seconds and I rarely read the paper or listen to the radio. This board is over run with some of the most unenlightened rubes around.

Nope. Next question.

Haha. I thought this hack crawled away for good. That fact he's still around is both sad and hilarious. Imagine having a) so little skill that you were b) let go from an irrelavant tiny mid market newspaper and c) despite covering major sports couldn't land a job anywhere else of note. I think that's the definition of karma. Can't imagine that ever happening to Jim Kelley, Milt Northrup, Larry Felser, or any of the classically fair, emotionally disconnect reporters who had talent for writing and reporting about sports without trying to interject themselves into everything (Capaccio, White, Graham, Schopp et al).

Skidding into 9-7, guaranteed. I could see them lose 5 more and make a nice 6-2 into an 8-8 finish. They absolutely get crushed by the Ravens. Lose embarrassingly on national TV on Thanksgiving to the Cowboys. Lose to the Steelers. Lose to the Pats. That's 7 losses. Can they win all three of Dolphins, Jets, and Broncos? Seriously doubt it. The most Billsy thing is to go to MIami this weekend and get beat. Season over right there. The Allen experiment then is teetering on the brink of collapse if he gets beat in a the most critical, stop-the-bleeding-and-prove-it game in a long time by Fitzpatrick. I would argue the Allen experiment is on life support right now. The only saving grace for the kid is that there is legit argument that he's got a bunch of #2 receivers who scare no one and an OL that can't sustain a running game. However, there is still that questionable decision-making, indecisiveness, and accuracy problem that you just don't "fix." I wanted this kid to be it even though I was a "never draft Allen" person. But I was willing to give him the chance. I see moments but I don't see him taking over games, dominating, and winning games easily like the great ones do. You can't make a career running an offense that averages less than 20 points a game in the NFL. This isn't 1960.

Would touch this human turd for the league minimum. That is all.

Exactly as I predicted. A loss. I said Chubb would run over this team, he did. I said that would open up the passing game, it did. In the end, this isn't on the kicker, as every homer and excuse maker here wants to make. A 52 yarder to tie the game, on grass, for a kicker who kicks on turf, isn't a gimme. Allen sucked today. He's slow and indecisive. And the coaching didn't help. Singletary had as many touches as that pile of human excrement for the Browns that hasn't played in a year. And the FO's fingerprints are all over this as well. The drafted a raw, real f'in raw, QB. They went out and grabbed a bunch of mediocre smurfs to play WR. They signed a lot of mediocre FA OL who aren't good. What they did n FA was depth moves teams make but for this team, they're starters. So keep up the homer talk, but this team is what I and many others have said while being accused of being anti-fans. They have 6 wins against garbage teams. This one is on Allen's suckitude and Daboll's garbage offense. To win you need to outscore the opponent and this team wins close games against bad teams and can never win a game on their own. Every win is a squeaker thanks to the D. Relying on that gets you what you got today. When you hear the Raven's threw out their playbooks and redesigned their entire offense around Jackson and Daboll runs the same predictable 3 and 5 slants week after week, you should understand this team will be rebuilding in 2021-2022 after the failed Allen experiment ends on 2020. I won my bet today, took the Browns -2.5. Easiest pick of the week. Bills haven't beat anyone and the Browns have been beaten by good teams. If you couldn't see that, you're staring through your rose colored glasses. This team ends 9-7 and outside the playoffs. Losses to the Ravens, Cowboys, Steelers, and Pats and it's over. I wouldn't be shocked if they finish 8-8 and also lose against the Broncos at home.

Jesus. It's called strength of schedule. Do some research. And why do people need validation from other people for something they have no control over, which is the performance of a sports team? I'm continually dumbfounded by the blindspot people have for who this team is and how butt hurt everyone gets when the national media ignores them because they realize they're not what their record suggest.

This site went downhill when moderators officially turned the board from an open forum to one where censorship dominated. I knew it lost its value when anyone, including myself, who was critical of the garbage that John Wawrow spews was sent a warning not to criticize the delicate emotional state of someone who writes about sports publicly. When you think the credibility of a site is connected to keeping someone from AP coming to your site, you've lost any credibility. From that point forward, it ceases to be an open fan forum and instead a small authoritarian state where the mods and presumably the owner determine what can and can't be said. Now it's overrun with homers and jock sniffers who can't handle criticisms of their team. If this is what site owner$ want from the site, a bleached, sanitized version of a fan forum, that's fine, they own it. But that doesn't mean it's beyond reproach or criticism. Nor does it mean my opinion matters. They can run it as they see fit and we as posters can stay or go.

Classic greedy NFL. This is a move, 100%, to add money to the owners' pockets, even in the high likelihood it'll fail. it'll fail based on the complicated and higher income taxes levied on players. The team will have a distinct disadvantage with regard to free agency. I love London but not every American is going to want to uproot their lives and in some cases families to move to the UK for half a year. And lastly, that team will have to fly too much, hotel too much, and overall engage in moving around too much to function well. Teams going there will be at a disadvantage as much as that team coming to North America will. It's an absolutely colonist mentality by a bunch of greedy American pigs who if they thought for one second about the product it'll produce, which they care less and less about, they'd never bring it up again. But greed is a drug and they're addicted. Doesn't hurt that they pilfer taxpayer dollars wherever they go to ensure that on day one, everyone gets millions in their pocket just for the attempt. It's gross.