wakingfane

I think that the team was pacing itself and it was intentional by the coaches. They know it's a long season. And in 2019 and 2020 the team was beat up and burnt out going into the playoffs. They've been doing load management all year. Sure, trying and hoping to win enough games for home field, but treating the regular season as much like preseason as the crucible it is... with the eye on peaking in the playoffs instead of tearing it up in season and then slogging our way through the playoffs like last year. Examples: Fan/media take was, why are they running vanilla run plays, splitting carries, and not rushing often. Coaches plan? Devin clearly the better back but let's not wear him out. Let's not get pigeon holed into our best running game early in the season and wear it out. Let's work on / develop the pass game early in the season with our depth at receiver. Fan/media take: Why is Sanders getting so many targets, Diggs not being the primary go to guy, and Davis and McKenzie barely even utilized? Coaches plan? Let's get Allen comfortable with Sanders. Let's work on some passing concepts that we haven't excelled at in the last couple years and let's not show our complete, best passing offense until the playoffs.

We have nominated, and seconded, "The Perfect Game". Can I hear the Ayes? Shout if anyone says Nay. The Ayes have it. The Perfect Game it is! Hip Hip! Hip Hip!

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Wow, if Hurts were on the left side of the tunnel underneath the railing when it fell... with about 2000 pounds of fans on top of the railing... That could've been really bad

I agree.. because it's usually not spontaneous anymore or even emotional really. It's almost mandatory when there's an interception now, to start jogging toward the end zone looking around like, "okay... Are my boys with me? Huh? Huh? We doin this end zone thing? Okay! Yeah, we're doin it, yeah, let's go!"

Funny how back in the day we pinned all of our hopes on a guy like Quinton Morris coming in to turn the season around... Now it's just a bonus if he is a gamer

Band of Brothers is where it's at though

The Banding Bills. (any Magic players out there?)

The Legion of Length. Haha

Exactly what I was going to post. I'm surprised they bothered to keep him after that. Thought it was pretty clear he had reached his potential and it wasn't enough for the Prime Time Bills

This is great, I think this is a group therapy session actually, lol. So I wasn't one of the positivity posters but I usually agreed with them. I got really annoyed at the harsh reality posters that said there was something fundamentally wrong with the Bills organization which would not allow them to succeed. I couldn't allow that to be possible because I needed the possibility that any season could be a turnaround. And besides, the organization had been successful in the nineties under Ralph, so why would things have become so drastically irredeemable in just 5 years or so? But it was true... You guys were right... The players really weren't good enough, the composition of the teams was either slapdash or misinformed. The wrong people were in charge over and over again and any improvement was only incremental, not revolutionary... So sad that it truly took Ralph's death for things to begin to truly change.

Honestly Josh Allen cured me of BBFS. McDermott got me help managing the symptoms but Josh cured it. The last time I felt myself slipping into the hole was the Packers game in 2018. Josh had looked brilliant, although unconventional against Minnesota and I was feeling hopeful... I couldn't fully Billieve though, until the quarterback curse was broken. As a BBFS survivor, I'd seen plenty of promising performances followed by slow decline, collapse and failure. That Packers game was brutal. Josh looked completely clueless and hopeless and I could have almost thrown up thinking about what it would mean if that was really the way things were headed. We already saw what a good McDermott team with a poor quarterback could do in Jacksonville. But by the end of the 2018 season I had seen enough of Josh to be convinced he really was different. Before training camp in 2019 I placed a max bet at the casino on the Bills making the playoffs and made out quite well, thanks to the Wrong Josh 😆

This leak hurts because there is no messaging around it from the team. It's possible the intent is to support the fans so there are no PSLs, recognizing that 30-35% of State revenues come straight from Wall Street.

Interesting to see though that a rule like "in the grasp" was applied very liberally, at least in this game. Josh Allen would have been sacked last year at least twice as much if the refs called in the grasp the same nowadays. And they also called unnecessary roughness for driving the QB to the ground... And for spearing/ leading with the helmet. And the announcers called it like those defenders made boneheaded plays, not like the refs were too much of "over officious jerks"

I agree with Cole's live or let die attitude, but he's still an idiot for not taking a free vaccine. Billions of people would love to be able to just show up at a corner pharmacy and get protected against this deadly virus like so many other diseases. A majority of the entire US Population has gotten the freaking shot along with dozens of other vaccines. If you're not an idiot then your children get dozens of vaccines before the age of 5 and have been doing so for generations. The people who refuse to do such a simple common sense thing for themselves and their families are wilfully idiotic. It's not a big freaking deal.

Okay, so in Year 4 at the end of his rookie contract we will know if he was worth a roster spot for four years. Good thing we don't treat all our players with such deference, lol I know I'm overreacting, there are very few areas of concern on the team to discuss! And I forget he was only just a rookie last year

Because it makes it sound like he has way further to go in his improvement than I previously thought. Let's just be honest, he is not on the standard player development trajectory. He went from too heavy, to too light, and now hopefully just right, but he has to get used to it... it's not the straight and direct path you'd like to see... so it's concerning

Article is misleading... Dion didn't bring up AJ, the reporter specifically asked him to comment on AJ... And my take on Dion's commentary left me more concerned than impressed... he said he no longer feels like a "feather" - okay concerning that he ever was a "feather"... and generally it sounded more like he's starting over with a new body... and feels more like playing a normal NFL player now...

The melodrama around this Ertz trade has been really annoying and, frankly embarrassing to the professionals involved who... if this were the routine with every freakin transaction, could not reasonably operate in such an environment and keep their cool/ sanity... The leaks have to be on the Philly side. We just haven't seen this kind of BS from Beane's shop. I know as a fan I should be glad I've been getting a scoop on this for three months, but it's actually really not a satisfying experience, lol

LOL, Dion ate lotsa mac & cheese... just keep stirring!

Well, they tried the alternative approach in 2019 -- elevate guys like Duke Williams who have been working hard all year and give them a big role in the playoffs.... how did that go?

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Problem is obvious. He holds the ball upside down... and backwards. Laces should be in! Less snaggability, more friction on the bod.

During McDermott's final timeout, we switched to a 3- man rush (no time for a sack anyway) and flooded the sideline with pass defenders. Two throwaways later, the field goal was off the table completely

I voted for Foxborough too! But as soon as I saw the headline after we actually won the Division I thought, 'Oh God, what have we done.'