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OK, I'll go there. Reports of his lack of touch on short throws and "bullets" too hot to handle are very reminiscent of those about Elway in his rookie year. Yeah, that's right. I just made a comparison between Allen and John Elway. Now, if Allen can manage to line up under his guard to take the snap during a game, I'll know he's truly on the Elway track.

Eric Decker. Now that's the receiver Brady has been waiting for his entire career. This could put the Pats*** over the top I tell ya!

Bangers and mash.

Right, like that's what I'm advocating by critiquing his reporting. Ironically, you've overreacted to your perceived overreaction by others to Thad Brown's reporting. Brown and every other reporter using the twitter verse as a reporting medium should be cautious in their use stream of consciousness reporting as it's much easier to expose their lack of knowledge while doing so. Especially Thad Brown.

Well, it's those "word choices" that speak directly to his understanding of the game and, by extension, his very credibility as a reporter. Sorry, but you can't "report" a deliberate throwaway by a QB as a "brutal incompletion" and not expect to be taken to task for it.

I agree. But, according to Thad Brown the other day, deliberately throwing the ball away is also a "brutal" incomplete pass. He uses that word a lot, too. At least when he's describing Josh Allen incompletions.

Given that Thad Brown doesn't know the difference between a deliberate throwaway by the QB and a "brutal" incomplete pass, I think it's safe to assume Sal C it correct.

I don't do that if I'm Oakland. My starting point is what we paid for Bennett back in the day and I'm not sure I want Hughes filling the role of Greg Bell as the player involved; he and Mack would be bookends like Bennett and Bruce. I wonder if we could find a third team to be involved like we did with Indy back then as well. Oakland could reap a draft windfall of picks if that were the case. All that said, Bennett was a missing piece that changed the power structure in the AFC East overnight whereas we aren't that one player away as currently constructed so it may not make as much sense for us to part with all those assets. But if any player is worth it, it's Mack.

White strikes me as the type to let his DROY and Pro Bowl snubs serve to motivate him. I'm predicting a Pro Bowl birth and a selection to an All Pro team for him this year.

If Thad Brown can't differentiate between a throwaway and a bad throw, then I have to wonder why I should trust anything he says moving forward. Goes right to his credibility as a football reporter.

Sobering.

So, if I understand Thad Brown, a "throwaway" equates to a "brutal" throw? Like I said, he's got much farther to go as a journalist than any of our QBs have to go to become good NFL quarterbacks.

If that's true, then Thad Brown needs a lot more work on his craft than Josh Allen needs on his.

Man, if we had Mike Leach, we'd be going ... 19-0 baby!

I appreciate the concern, but if I were any more chill, I'd be in a coma. It's just that my antennae are always up for evidence of predetermined narratives. Thad Brown is on my watch list.

Has Thad Brown described any of Peterman's or McCarron's misses as "brutal" yet? I know both have had some poor throws as well.

Given that he will be an UFA after this season, there is a great chance they ship him out before losing him for nothing after the season if he's really that disgruntled with the organization. To not have spoken to the new HC after seven months is the definition of disgruntled. I would think our 2019 #1 might be an attractive offer given how everyone and their mother has us picking at or near the top of the draft next year.

Well, this is his 5th year in a professional football program, after all.

I detest stream of consciousness reporting.

I hope he’s on the roster for cancer awareness month. I think he will look pretty in pink.

Gotta get to 4 and 5. Simple as that.

Glad it wasn’t Allen’s john or vice would have been called in.

Or Steve and Marcus?

Back in the golden days, it was quite common for Kelly and Co. to go into a game with no more than 8-12 plays and then run variations off those to exploit favorable matchups. Plays known stone cold by talented players who could execute on the fly with a QB that could read a defense. God, I miss those days.

Wow. You can't teach that. You can instruct and advise QBs to do that, but you can't teach that kind of poise. That is rare in experienced NFL QBs and to see it in a college freshman is remarkable. Who's got the inside track on the starting job down there? Lot to like about Hurts, but he might be a hard sell to the rest of the team at this point. Especially in light of Tua's second half performance in the championship game.