Artful Dodger

Beasley has told Josh Allen many times that he loves him, mostly as the team has left the locker room and is in the tunnel on the way out to the field. And as we all know, the course of true love never runs smooth. So Prescott may have Beasley's respect, but Allen will always have his heart.

In the off-season, Diggs decided he only wanted to be 80-85% of his best self and it's causing a lot of friction on the team.

At important times during the season, the short to intermediate passing game would entirely disappear. I'm thinking of a series, possibly in the Cinci game, where the Bills ran the ball for a couple of yards and then Allen threw two long passes to Gabe Davis streaking 30 yards down the field by the left sidelines. The passing plays were identical and both resulted in incompletions. Perhaps they thought they could fool the defense, but they went three and out. I'm not sure how much of it is on Allen, but even if it is, it's up to the OC to sit him down and point out that it's possible to move the chains with short passes as well.

His magic eight ball. Pegula can afford a very expensive one that always gives the right answers. "Outlook cloudy."

It's asset inflation. And insofar as price increases make housing unaffordable for people and drive up their mortgage payments, it's inflation.

Perhaps this thread and this issue can help to illustrate why things are unraveling. The centrist position, as evidenced by polls, is that abortion should be rare, but safe and legal up 15 weeks or so. This makes sense to me. However, we all have different issues that are meaningful to us and it's not an important issue to me and I don't care much about it. The people who most care about this issue seem to be at the extremes; either ban it completely or make it legal up until birth. Those people are loud, and they like to shout at each other. For example, a thread about how the US has gone off the rails quickly devolved into a shouting match about abortion. This might imply that the quiet sensible center remains larger than it appears but less vocal. What Richard Nixon used to call the Silent Majority. But the agenda is set by the people at the extremes, and when they shout long enough about how you should be able to choose your own gender or why the Second Amendment allows people to use howitzers in shopping malls, they start to normalize what most people would have previously considered crazy. Or maybe they're just putting something in the water.

There's two other questions that are worth exploring. When did things start to unravel? And what caused things to start unravel? Is there historical precedent for large groups of people to start acting irrationally? I wouldn't even characterize this as a left/right issue. The sane center seems is shrinking quickly in this country.

I hate to be cynical, but it depends. Based on Dorsey's play calling last year, on a typical series on first down the Bills will run Cook off tackle into the line for roughly three yards, and then on 2nd and 3rd down, Diggs and Kincaid will run deep post patterns, despite the fact that the Bills' porous offensive line will allow Allen roughly 1.5 seconds to throw the ball.

I've always been skeptical of chicken bone divination, so I went ahead and sacrificed a goat and examined its entrails. The goat had a diseased liver which means that the Bills are going to draft a wide receiver named Zay in the first round. Sorry guys, but there it is. I'll go ahead and work up and I Ching divination this afternoon, but in my experience a goat's entrails rarely steer you wrong.

Unlike the Bills' own offensive coordinator, at least the ChatGPT sees the value of short quick passes. Good for it. Maybe they should give it a half to call plays in pre-season and see what it comes up with. It also probably works cheaper than Dorsey. If you were to ask Dorsey for a similar play call series, he would probably come up something like this: Play 1: Off-tackle run by Singletary Play 2: Deep post to Davis Play 3: Deep post to Davis

Marv Levy was inducted in 1997. Two Bills' coaches have made the William and Mary Athletics Hall of Fame.

She wasn't nearly as good as Up with People and Al HIrt back in '73. 👍

Is this how you play when you don't trust your safeties? If a fully healthy Hyde and Poyer had played, the tactics might have been very different. The coaches can be faulted for not recognizing that playing off the ball wasn't working and then changing tactics, though the Bengals did score half their points on the first two possessions.

I've learned from watching these post-game interviews that God always backs the winner. Maybe He laid money on the Chiefs.

So it's a Superbowl with the two most obnoxious fan bases in the league. Hopefully, both teams lose.

Perhaps it was a bad day, but at present, the Bengals are better than the Bills. That Bengals are also better than Kansas City, as they'll remind the Chiefs on Sunday.

Need more high percentage short and intermediate passes, and I can't understand why Allen doesn't throw them especially as the offensive line is mediocre at best and he's always under pressure. Perhaps he's always looking for the sort of rush he got from the KC game last year where his long ball was unstoppable.

I guess this means that CS&N really isn't getting back together.

I think it's partially because he's old school middle America. He grew up on a farm, never had anything given to him, he succeeded against pretty long odds because of his perseverance and enormous talent, and has apparently remained humble. He fights through injuries without complaining. It's an Horatio Alger story. People want to root for a guy like that.

While I agree with your dad, there is clear evidence that God always backs the winner. You never hear losing players giving thanks to God.

As bright as he is, I can't figure out why he continues to commit so many unforced errors. Perhaps it's just his supreme confidence because he knows when he's playing well, he's always going to be the best player on the field. Allen also had arm problems for much of the year. Early in the year, he was playing lights out and then he injured his elbow. Hopefully at some point in his career, Allen plays behind a quality offensive line. More time to throw the ball would help his already impressive stats and perhaps the hero ball would diminish.

Turn up to 11 on your speakers.

McDermott knew the Dolphins were getting a flag and didn't want the Bills to get one too. A 15 yard penalty against the other team is worth the possibility of getting crushed by 600 pounds worth of opposing linemen. I love the shot of Allen dusting himself off and walking back onto the field while the guys went at it on the sidelines behind him.

About midway through the fourth quarter, the Bills were stuck in first gear, and Allen got pissed off and decided to take over the game. He ran the ball fifty or sixty yards down the field, and that was the turning point.

The Bills seem most effective in the two minute offense when Allen is making most of the decisions. I remember something similar 35 years ago when the Bills noticed that Kelly could move the ball at will in the hurry up offense. Eventually they used the hurry up offense nearly all the time and Kelly called most of the plays. The Bills didn't go to those four Super Bowls because of their defense. Perhaps the Bills should give the Allen the reins for a series or two and see what happens when he calls his own plays.