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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.

My problem with the Democratic party has been the mentality that's summed up in a famous phrase from one of its heroes: "When they go low, we go high." I love Michelle Obama and actually would have loved to see her run for political office, but no. The Democrats need to stop bringing knives to these gunfights. The issue with the Democratic party as the "big tent" party is getting everyone to coalesce and act as one entity. Since the Republican Party is just a bunch of rich white dudes, it's much easier to get them to go with the gameplan. But yeah, this push "there was fraud that only affected the Republican candidate negatively!!!" was just silly.

The violence from the riots over the Summer was unacceptable, but it was also violence caused by BOTH far-right AND far-left extremists. The violence these people are talking about right now are solely for the sake of overturning the very foundation of our country: free and fair elections. Soooo... in other words... you put words in my mouth. I find your obsession with people's vices in their personal lives fascinating considering how dismissive you are of all of them in Trump's life. You're right, but with what McConnell's done in the last 4 1/2 years, packing the court would actually be the next logical and fair steps if the Democrats win the Senate. It won't happen because I don't think the Democrats win both Georgia seats and I don't think they have the balls to do that with such a slim majority, but it's something they absolutely should do down the road if they get a larger majority. What was phony? It wasn't a phony impeachment scandal. It really happened and for the first time in our history a member of the Senate of the same political party as the President being impeached voted to impeach him. There was nothing phony about that impeachment trial. Members of Trump's own party admitted he was guilty. They just resigned themselves to the fact that the American people could decide in 11 months since it was an election year. And the American people decided. Wait... whaaaaaaaa????? Talk about perpetuating the problem in our country right now. You've branded all Trump voters as part of a Cult-of-Trump, which is exactly what he's done so well for 4 years with his brand. His indignation at losing has become his voters' indignation because the voters feel they were cheated because he said so. Get out of the cult. My dislike of Donald Trump is not a dislike of Donald Trump voters. My in-laws and friend I go watch football with are not deplorable racists or misogynists beyond redemption. The reason so many of you thought Trump would win was because of the ravenous loyalty of his supporters. I still see people holding Trump flags on overpasses sometimes on the Freeway. For Greg and others, the amount of people at rallies somehow proved he would win. It was a silly argument. We voted against Trump, not Trump voters. No, Trump's first 3 years are wildly overblown in terms of his successes with the economy. He held the economy back in many ways with his tariffs and the manufacturing industry was in a recession late in 2019 even before the Pandemic. His tax cuts were a brief shot to the economy, followed by more sluggishness... and most of the benefits went to the very wealthy rather than middle and lower class Americans who really needed the help. On top of this, these middle and lower class Americans can see corruption playing out in the highest office of the land as Trump gets rich off his office and uses taxpayer dollars frivolously for significantly more golfing than any of his predecessors (one of his many lies), trips to his resorts, and detouring military planes to places near his resort like in Britain to make more money. His Presidency was wildly tainted even before the Pandemic and it was the reason I made the bet with Greg way back then. I thought Trump would still lose and still think he probably would have, but I was more lik 55/45 on that. Once the Pandemic hit, it became 70/30 to me and I even tried to let DR out of the bet because it was so obvious. But he doubled down and turned into more of a douche. Trump was just a terrible President, and a lot of his voters didn't even realize that with a lot of his policies they were actually cutting off their noses to spite their face.

It shouldn't be... at least not in the way that it is now. It's a very different "us vs. them" with Greg and a number of those other posters who left this site than it is with my in-laws and the friend I watch Bills games with every week who are Trump supporters and, I suspect, you. Over there, they believe we're the enemy and are literally calling for blood in the streets in order to keep Trump in office. That's insane. I never perceived him or any of the rest of them to be the enemy (Except maybe @The_Dude who actually seems like he might be downright evil) and certainly never said it. Just because you have starkly different political views than me, I don't view you as "the enemy." Is that really what he said or are you putting words in his mouth like you so often do with me? Talk about tunnel vision. This totally ignores the antics of the Republican party and Mitch McConnell specifically as far as the SC is involved... I don't really know how the SC became your focus in this post, but with what's happened over the last 4 years with the SC as far as Republicans go, I think if the Democrats win the Georgia runoff seats (I don't think they will... but if they do) they should get rid of the filibuster and pack the court Republicans are free to impeach Biden, but they need to win the House back first. So, if impeachment happens, it won't be until 2023 at least. Like I said, Republicans will need to win back the House before they're able to impeach. What do you point to regarding unity? How terrible Trump was in creating it? I agree. He was the bane of his own existence for the last 4 years in so many ways. Interesting. I was genuinely rooting for Trump. Once he gave his acceptance speech I turned to my father-in-law (aformentioned Trump supporter) and told him that I liked what I heard and that maybe he can far surpass my expectations. He didn't.

Exactly. More than anything I'm just disturbed that I genuinely thought he had some integrity. In the lead up to the election, he directly told me that if Trump lost, he would obviously reconsider the sources he used for information. Instead he went even deeper into the Alt-right media... he's probably prowling Parler constantly in addition to Twitter at this point.

I didn't mean he reported himself. I meant that he just stopped following the rules on purpose in order to martyr himself. Yes, I realize that sounds a little far-fetched, but based on what I'm seeing from him over there at this point, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

The problem is that this is just one more representation of the "us vs them" mentality that exists everywhere politically speaking right now. If I seemed to be yelling at you, it's because everyone over at the other board is also accusing me of getting him banned. I took no part in that. But because I'm "the other" to them, I must be at fault for that along with heart disease, diabetes, and Covid. It's just silly. And upon more reflection I honestly thing Greg banned himself in part to find a way out of his bet. It sure was odd that he and Foxx and Ann got that other site up so quickly

It's sad because it's indicative of the stark political divide. When Trump first came into office the term "alternative facts" and "alternative truths" became reality. These people believe that a lot of things that aren't true--many of which have been widely debunked and proven false--are truths simply because they believe it. My father-in-law is a great example. He's a hardcore Trump supporter (though he believes Biden will be President) who told me just last week that he believes there was widespread fraud. When I asked why he believes it, he said "it's just what I see" with absolutely no further evidence or commentary to back it up. Trump has the divine right to be President to many of them. I don't lump @leh-nerd skin-erd into that category, but even he as one of the more admirable and respectable posters on the other side of the aisle still just said a bunch of out-there stuff in that post you just responded to. And as you sum it up, it's just sad. No. DO NOT lump me in with posters who complained about DR and got him banned. I never complained about him to a mod and I took no part in that whatsoever and was surprised--and disappointed--when he got banned... TWICE!!!

I didn't realize @Chef Jim made that bet, too. What's wrong with these people? Last year I made a bet with 2 posters that Allen would make the pro bowl. I've honored both bets by donating $50 to a charity and not making any prognostications for a full year. They take after their leader: they're wildly sore losers. What's scary is that these idiots believe they're being patriotic when they make threats of spilling out to the streets with guns to start some kind of civil war. The answer is no: DR has doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on what he's doing. He's symbolic of the problem of our country as he's now actually claiming that liberals (and I don't even think I'm that liberal... but I guess I am compared to them) like me and FDR (I think that's Tibs???) are "the enemy." He's a moron, but every time I see him mention or quote me, I'm taking those as opportunities to remind him of his lost bet and then post a big Joe Biden avatar. It's been annoying others on the board. Boyst is even voluntarily using one of them as his own avatar, which I find hilarious. I really just guess I had too much faith in some of them as they just ran away instead of owning up to being wrong.