Mickey

I went back and looked at the film from the AZ game and I think there is a fair amount of bs in that tweet. There is a big difference between scrambling and a called run, much easier to slide or get out of bounds on a scramble. Below is a list of all the plays where Murray ran the ball (not counting sacks as runs). He only had two called runs and was hit on one of those though not much of a hit. He got hit, hard, on several of his slides resulting in penalties. Two of the "runs" were kneels at the end of the game. I only saw maybe one play where Murray dove or slid where I think Allen would have taken on the defender. That was a called run on AZ's own 6 yard line that was so poorly executed, I'm not sure it wasn't a broken play. Bottom line, on 10 "runs", Murray knelt or was hit 6 times, leaving only 4 where you could give him some credit for avoiding contact.

These guys aren't saying anything I haven't heard here often enough. No QB in the league is going to finish the season without some interceptions, some fumbles and some missed throws. He needs to play a perfect game every week and if he doesn't the line in the media is going to be "yeah he won but......(low completion percentage, fumbles, missed throws, interceptions, etc)" Sunday is a perfect example. The story isn't that he won, it isn't that he completed 71% of his throws, it isn't that he pulled off some Houdini like escapes, it isn't that he audibled out of a bad play and in to a TD, it isn't that he ran for a TD, it isn't that he ran for a chunk of yards, it isn't that he made some truly amazing throws and it isn't that he threw 2 TD's. The story is 2 fumbles and a missed a throw.

I am not sure I agree with the notion that those fumbles were "unforced". The first was a solid swat right on the ball from behind and on the second one, he got clocked, hard. It is not like he was waiving the ball around McCoy style and just lost his grip.

Not needed. Ignorance of the law is no defense.

It is a "place of amusement and assembly" so that it may be closed and/or regulated by the governor during a state of emergency to "protect life and property or to bring the emergency under control". Executive Law Section 24. This power is not necessarily limited to public property. Though privately owned, a place of public accommodation would certainly be covered.

Not knowing a given players personal situation, I think it is more than a bit presumptuous to conclude that their fears are not justified based on watching a single game on TV.

Sure, imagine that he only plays as well as he did last year, *gasp* and is only able to secure a playoff spot with two weeks to spare. Too terrible to contemplate.

Kinda sick of that song, way past due for something new. For those who will find their NFL experience somehow less enjoyable without it, I hear there is this new thing called "Youtube" where you can hear any song you want any time you want.

What exactly am I taking or rejecting? That such a thing could happen? That if it did happen I would refuse to believe it? If you are asking if I would be happy with it, the answer would be happier than last year, way happier than the year before but not as happy as I would be if we went even further. I would like to reject the reality of this thread's existence but, as it clearly does exist, I am forced to take it as fact, however begrudgingly, or perhaps however curmudgeonly.

Despite their other health issues they would not be dead had it not been for covid. Its like a cancer patient who dies from pneumonia.

Hurry up and get there already.

A bit revisionist I think. Plenty of people wanted Fitz out of Buffalo and were not shy about voicing their conviction that the Bills were wasting his time with him as their QB. That having been said, Tyrod is an introvert and so he was just never able to connect with fans who respected his play.

So let me see.... Global Pandemic? Check Social Unrest? Check Economic Collapse? Check Political Division? Check TBD Chat bordering on civil war? Check No Sports? Check-ish And if all that wasn't bad enough my entire DIY kitchen rehab has come to a screeching halt over my inability to install soft-close drawer slides in 130 year old cabinets. The instructions, quite literally say only: "Install drawer slides".

That explains the tumbleweeds blowing across my screen.

Yes, the science shows that maintaining 6 feet apart significantly reduces the risk. How do you keep 6 feet apart and still get from the aisle to your seat while squeezing past everyone else seated in that row between the aisle and your seat? Personal hovercraft? Does the science say that brief, up close interaction with others poses "practically no danger"? Are fans going to keep their masks on while cheering and yelling and whooping it up over a big play? A bad call? How about the fans who have had a few too many beers? How many times does a fan, on average get in and out of their seat to use the bathroom, get food or another cold drink? Comparing a stadium of 20-30 thousand people with a 10 table restaurant in the east village is, I don't know, maybe not the fairest comparison ever. I am not saying no way, no how but I am also not convinced that there is "no reason" to worry and that there is "practically no danger". I listened to a podcast the other day with the Dolphin's front office guy in charge of trying to make things safe for some fans. All the things they are doing are pretty impressive but he never explained how people would get back and forth to their seats or how they stay 6 feet apart in the aisle. Ditto how on earth they are going to police the maskless morons who will no doubt be in attendance, wearing masks just long enough to get in.

I can think of about 170,000 reasons but I defer to your epidemiology degree and your supernatural ability to read the future. I assume you spend most of your time in Vegas beating the house.

Zack Moss

I'd like to believe that is true but I haven't seen a detailed plan as to how exactly that is going to be done. What is the basis for your belief that it could be done? For example, how do you get from your seat in the middle of the row to the aisle and back again when you have to use the head or want to get a fried bologna sandwich without having to squeeze by every person seated in that row between you and the aisle? Who and how are they going to monitor and police mask wearing by 20+ thousand people for 4 hours? How do you figure out which third of your fanbase gets tickets and which don't? Do you monitor and enforce social distancing in the parking lots? In the lines outside the entrances? Are you going to take the temperature of 20 thousand people? How early will fans have to get there to go through all of that just to get in, 7 hours? 5 hours? 2 hours? Does anybody know? How are people going to be seated, individually with everyone 6 feet apart? Or if you go to the game with a friend or a child, etc. do you get to sit together? It's easy to "think" it can be done with shorthand reasoning but once you start digging in to the details, it gets closer and closer to impossible to respect the rules needed to reduce the risks to acceptable levels, ie masks and 6 feet apart. I'll think it is "possible" when someone explains to me, who has been to every sporting event from little league soccer to NFL games to the NCAA championship game (New Orleans 2003, Go Orange!!!), how you get from the middle of the row to the aisle without lots of butt-to-face interactions.

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Whoever thought amateur epidemiology would be a thing? Reminds me of the furor and debate over closing bath houses in big cities in 1984, something we now look back on and wonder, what were we thinking?

I am sure you are all just as disappointed as I am over the fact that I didn't get any reps at all at camp today, not a single one. When I complained via email I heard the same old lame excuses I have heard year in and year out: "you're not on the team" and "you aren't actually here" and my favorite: "is there someone who takes care of you we could call?" They are sleeping on my talent. Someday. *sigh*

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ---- Marcus Aurelius Of course, if you are without reason now, then yeah, the future should disturb the *@$% out of you.

I wasn't aware that Josh needed to be excused in any way for his play last year. He took his team to the playoffs in only his second year and he did it with an offense that featured a supposedly has been Cole Beasley, Grandpa Gore and what had been a one dimensional target his whole career in John Brown. Beasley and Brown had great years, not despite Josh Allen but because of Josh Allen who consistently extended plays giving them both more time to get open. I won't recite the various weaknesses in the offense last year but I will say I don't think they were all solved by signing Diggs. We will see what Winters can do and whether Ford really is a RT or not soon enough. I expect Josh to be a lot like he was last year, definitely not the captain check down type so worshiped in these parts. He will take chances and with the game on the line, he will not be shy about running the ball when needed. I do expect he will improve on the deep ball and that Diggs will be a reliable receiver that gets open. I also expect his TE's to stop dropping the ball. I think Knox can be special if he improves his pass pro and cleans up the drops. All in all, I fully expect Josh to continue to make plays that win games and if his completion percentage ticks up a notch or two, fine, but I won't lose too much sleep if it doesn't because, like last year, we will be winning lots of games.

I won't be surprised at all. I fully expect that a young QB with a weaponless offense that managed to get his team in to the play offs with two weeks to spare will continue his winning ways. I know there are some who spend every waking hour digging up stats to try and prove that he stinks and I imagine they will be surprised when he plays well this year. I won't.

Simulating game pressure is easy. I have it on good authority that they have built a temporary closet at the 50 yard line where the holder is set up. When Bass gets close to the ball, just before he kicks it, Fred Smerlas bursts out of the closet and yells "Booga-Booga-Booga!!!!!"