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Actually I undercounted. According to NFL.com he has 6 fumbles lost, so 15 turnovers. I think I didn't count the one that was a botched handoff that was attributed to him as a fumble.

What's the word on injuries to Diggs and White?

What'd we have... 3 TDs called back on penalties?

14

How so?

How about this year for Allen? Just unbelievable! This was just one of those games for Allen. And if not for penalties, Allen would have had even more passing TDs! Closing in on Kelly's passing TD record for Buffalo after breaking his total TD record last week. Closing in on 40 total TDs. 300 yard passing games are now routine. Another game 70% completion percentage after throwing 40+ times. It's stupid, but I wanted us to keep throwing it in the 4th quarter, but oh well. With Allen at the helm, we'll be competing for Super Bowls for the next couple decades if he can stay healthy. And I sure do hope Diggs is healthy 🙏

Sounds like no more Covid cases so game on...? Word

They test again tomorrow before the game, right? Kinda frustrating, but as long as they test again I'm good with us playing now that they abandoned today's practice and are doing contact tracing. The team already flew to Denver, right? We weren't doing same day flights.

Is this 2019 or is this 2020? 2020 6-1 at home -- 4-2 away What I said was accurate. Stop living in the past.

No. Our record is better at home than on the road. I would actually agree with the premise to some degree if we had fans because I believe that Allen feels more pressure playing in front of his home fans than in front of road fans cheering against him. I argued in his first couple years that he was better on the road than at home for that reason. But no, with no fans in the stands, we 100% want other QBs dealing with the January weather of Buffalo that Josh Allen was made for. And hopefully moving forward this year helped Josh become comfortable enough at the pro-level to get rid of those jitters and yips he seemed prone to in his first couple years in front of the home fans. No. Our record is better at home than on the road. I would actually agree with the premise to some degree if we had fans because I believe that Allen feels more pressure playing in front of his home fans than in front of road fans cheering against him. I argued in his first couple years that he was better on the road than at home for that reason. But no, with no fans in the stands, we 100% want other QBs dealing with the January weather of Buffalo that Josh Allen was made for. And hopefully moving forward this year helped Josh become comfortable enough at the pro-level to get rid of those jitters and yips he seemed prone to in his first couple years in front of the home fans.

hammer indeed

This is pretty hilarious. I'm also impressed Cowherd took the bet. As much as I think he's a tool a lot of the time, he's very entertaining to listen to. And when he gets an idea, he's never lukewarm on that idea. He's almost always just all-in. Over the last 2 weeks you've seen him go from basically avoiding talking about Josh Allen when talking about how the Bills are a good team to talking about how he might be the 2nd best young QB in the NFL to Mahomes. It's kind of amazing. I'm terrified of the playoffs because I'm a Bills fan, but I do think it was a pretty good bet to make. I really, REALLY hope we pull the Colts in the first round. Dome team with a grandfather QB with nearly a dead arm who played most of his career in sunny San Diego coming to Buffalo for a January game? Good grief... I'll almost be even more worried about that game as a trap game. And then we could potentially get another home game?!?! Awesome!!! They should get Pinto Ron to do the honors and I hope to see Nick Wright's ugly mug full of ketchup and mustard

Can't John Brown come back this week? Wonder if we activate him. I really want him healthy in the playoffs. EDIT: My bad... just saw Yolo's thread.

I posted this tweet again because Joe B Makes commentary on it in his post-game reflection: https://theathletic.com/2259667/2020/12/14/bills-steelers-josh-allen/ 2) The unheralded, yet critical play to secure the win The Bills’ passing offense woke up in the third quarter and helped extend the lead to 16 points. The Steelers then answered with a touchdown drive to pull within eight points in the fourth quarter, making the Bills’ ensuing drive a vital one to close out the game. After one first down, the offense started to unravel. The offensive line allowed two straight pressures that forced Allen to get the ball out of his hands too quickly. Each of his throws, on first and second down, went past his intended target. Two incompletions later, it was 3rd-and-10 from the Bills’ own 47-yard line. There were still over 10 minutes left in the game, so a failed third-down attempt would have given the Steelers the ball back with a chance to tie the game. Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll got Isaiah McKenzie onto the field and split him out to the far right of the formation. On the same side of the field, but on the inside of McKenzie, were Diggs and tight end Dawson Knox. With the Steelers in man-to-man coverage, Daboll had both Diggs and Knox run short routes to the boundary to create traffic for McKenzie to run a short crossing route and, ideally, enough separation to get a first down. The route was there immediately and Allen got ready to throw the ball, but left guard Ike Boettger lost control of his pass-blocking assignment and Allen had to tuck the ball and side-step the pressure. After neutralizing the threat, Allen climbed the pocket and still found McKenzie, who then gained 12 yards for the first down. If Allen doesn’t have the presence of mind to reset and climb the pocket and then make an accurate throw, the Steelers likely would have gotten the ball back within five plays with plenty of time left on the clock. Instead, Allen and McKenzie made a play, and the Bills got down the field and kicked a field goal to pad their lead even more.

Go away Nick Wright.

My favorite thing to listen for in these videos every time they pop up are some combination of Barkley/Beasely/Feliciano (because I've heard all 3 of them have done it) scream "We love you Josh Allen" in a really high girly voice. And it's there at the end of this video again. Obviously I love the Allen hype up stuff, but to me it's those types of things that tell me these guys love each other, as McDermott likes to say.

What a moron

https://theathletic.com/2257692/2020/12/13/nfl-week-14-scores?source=user-shared-article Bills look like Super Bowl contenders in win over Steelers This is the type of performance the Bills have been waiting for against one of the best teams in the AFC. The Bills came out and dominated the second half. Josh Allen brought himself back after a slow start and the defense forced huge turnovers. We’ve been waiting to see a sign that this Bills team could contend for a Super Bowl this year. I believe they provided that answer this evening. — Joe Buscaglia

I love that we've now had 2 extremely solid Primetime games from Allen. And now I can say that Allen broke JK's single season TD record for the team!!! The stats tonight weren't spectacular, but that's a spectacular D he just beat. And he was better than the 1st ballot HOFer opposite him. And honestly, as spectacular as Allen has been this year, Diggs is 1B as far as MVP for this team goes. What a move by Beane! And finally... from da man himself:

Completely agree. With the state of the Pittsburgh LBs, it'd be almost criminal not to exploit that by targeting Knox over the middle a ton.

And it's just sad and frightening that people succumb to what's exciting as a story rather than what's probable or factual.

I actually think this is what's happened with a lot of the ones who left. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they're often so elaborately conceived that they just have to be right. There are some seriously fascinating conspiracy theories out there about how we never landed on the moon. I'm sure there are some crazy people out there who believe the world is flat. I like conversing with some of the posters over there, including @Buffalo_Gal and @leh-nerd skin-erd, but their beliefs (not necessarily these 2 posters, just broadly speaking) are that when it comes to something like election fraud, you have to look at the totality of all the "evidence" they've posted in their 187 page thread in order to even talk about it. When I spend time looking at some of it, it just confirms they're off their rockers. The big problem people have--and this spans more than just politics--is that we tend to take the isolated things we witness or experience personally as guiding truths to our central beliefs, and the most ignorant among us use those ultimately cherry-picked experiences as foundational to certain beliefs. It's frustrating because I have people in my wife's family who I love and enjoy talking to who are guided by this exact mentality and you can't convince them otherwise.

This is absolutely, 100% false. And it's what irritates the hell out of me about all these political forums. Several of the posters that left, including the martyr who was initially kicked off, were absolute buttholes to people of political viewpoints here in PPP. And those posters CONSTANTLY attacked posters rather than ideas. And I'm certainly not innocent. I would respond to these posters... often stooping to their level, though not usually as childishly as them with direct name calling with 4 letter words. And I'm still interacting with these people now--including the aformentioned martyr--and they're really no better even in their own echo chamber. Stop pretending that the reason they left this board is because the "liberal" or "Democrat" or "non-Trump voters" over here were the ones viciously attacking them personally as they innocently sat by. There were just more people who came onto the board of an opposing political opinion over the last 7 or 8 months, probably not coincidentally based off everything that's happened in that time.