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Artful Dodger

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  1. I expect that when something works, unlike Dorsey, he'll keep doing it.  I expect that when the other team has a known defensive weakness, unlike Dorsey, he'll try to exploit it.   I expect that lost look on Allen's face when he's sitting on the bench between three-and-out and punts to go away.  

  2. The thing that most confused me about Dorsey is that as soon as something worked, he would immediately do something else.

     

    In the Cinci game, on the first drive, they had a lot of success with an uptempo, no-huddle offense, so of course they went away from that for much of the rest of the game.  Then, when time was nearly out and they had to drive the ball down the field quickly, they did, easily.  

     

    I could never figure out what was going on in the guy's head.  

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  3. As a 40-year Bills' fan, eventually I figured out that the best way to be a successful fan is to keep your emotional distance from the team.   Look for the best; expect the worst.  Celebrate when they do well, but don't let the team rip out your heart, because you know they will.  So if they're on a roll and something inexplicable happens, like the coaches play prevent defense to allow the other team to drive the ball 50 yards in 13 seconds, or a player dies on the field, or via a stupid penalty the Bills allow a redo on a missed field goal to lose a game, I go into chill mode immediately.   

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  4. I believe that he's constantly seeking to recreate the incredible dopamine rush he got from throwing all those long touchdown passes in the playoffs against the Patriots and the Chiefs two years ago.  He needs to figure out that that on a hot day or when you're playing against the Jets, a couple of beers can taste pretty good.  You don't always need to hit the hard stuff.

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  5. 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. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, SWATeam said:

    Lol, increased value of assets is not inflation. Is it inflation when the stock market goes up too?

     

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

  7. 33 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

    So pro-death instead?  The majority of voters/citizens support reasonable rules around abortions such as up to 15 weeks of pregnancy, considerations for the life of the mother, and rules around rape and in cest (why is that word censored here?) Compromise and intelligent discussion should be easy.  But its not.  Because even the simplest of things is politicized and  agreeing to anything on the abortion issue would eliminate the biggest of very few issues Democrats can carry into the next election cycle.  

     

    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. 

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