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They won't concede. They believe there's widespread voter fraud and it's going to swing the election in Trump's favor after it's revealed and litigated. No, seriously. That's what they think.

I'll just post the conclusion since it's a subscription site https://theathletic.com/2179169/2020/11/05/josh-allen-midseason-report/ Josh Allen through 8 games: What’s gone right and what’s gone wrong Big picture, and what’s to come Allen should have an opportunity to get back on track this weekend. As difficult as it will be to keep pace with Russell Wilson and the Seahawks’ offense, Seattle’s passing defense has been among the NFL’s most generous to opposing quarterbacks. The Seahawks currently rank 29th in passing defense, according to Football Outsiders’ DVOA. If there’s a game for Allen to return to the player he was in September, this is it. The schedule won’t stay easy the rest of the way. The Bills have five games left on the schedule against teams that rank in the top 12 in passing defense, according to Football Outsiders’ DVOA. And that doesn’t include games against the Patriots and 49ers. Allen has shown he can handle a tough passing defense. He did so against the Rams in Week 3, carving up zone and man concepts early in the game. But he needs to show that he can find an answer to the way teams have played against this offense in recent weeks. Teams are showing Allen more zone coverage with Cover 2 and Cover 4 looks. They are disguising the coverage pre-snap and making post-snap adjustments. Allen hasn’t been able to push the Bills’ offense through that. It’s unclear how much the left shoulder injury he suffered against the Raiders has impacted him, but Allen has appeared on the injury report every day as a full participant in practice and has worn a brace during games. Overall, Allen is a better quarterback than he was in 2019. The lows he’s had in 2020 haven’t been as low as those in 2019. He still needs to prove he can stack up against top defenses and other top quarterbacks the way he did against the Rams. He’ll have plenty of chances to be that quarterback for the Bills over the second half of the season, with games against the Seahawks, Cardinals and Steelers to come. At the end of the season, the clock starts on when the Bills can extend Allen’s contract. At this point, it’s a safe bet that the team will pick up Allen’s fifth-year option. The next eight games and the postseason should provide more clues as to what Allen’s value will be on his next contract.

Choice of avatars for the next 4 years based on the winner.

Part of the reason I'm also over there is to make sure he lives up to the 18 month old bet. It's entertaining because I've been actually engaging over there in the equivalent of this thread and he's avoided engaging with me... which is very unlike him. What's also funny is I gave him an opportunity to pull out of our bet a few months ago because once the Pandemic hit, Biden's election became pretty close to inevitable. He thought I was the one trying to weasel out of the bet. So yeah. I'm gonna make sure he lives up to the bet.

Amazingly Biden still has a really good chance to win not just Pennsylvania, but also Georgia. That would end up getting Biden not just the Popular vote, which looks like it might go upwards of 4, but also 306 electoral votes. That would give Biden a bigger electoral victory than Trump had in 2016. I'm really, REALLY hoping that happens. Because all Trump will be talking about is how his electoral victory was bigger than Biden's.

This thread is a lot more sane than another one I was just in on another site

Of course you can't.

18 passes was enough. We won. We're 6-2. The objective is to win a football game, not your fantasy league. Players aren't frustrated they won.

Let's not discount how incredibly windy it was yesterday. Allen may have been a little more hesitant to throw the ball to covered WRs because of the wind. He had Davis in the EZ for what should have been a TD and the INT seemed pretty clearly like a miscommunication based off Diggs patting his own chest on the sideline appearing to say "that was on me." Allen is the QB we need in the late Fall and early Winter in Buffalo. I'm confident about that. He just needs to keep progressing against zone coverages, which I think he's doing. We beat the Patriots and our Offense generally moved the ball pretty easily against a Bill Bellichick coached Defense. I'm still stoked.

ummm... we won

Reprioritizing the run game for the pass game today and finally found success. Allen was fine in what were very windy conditions. Interception seemed to be a miscommunication between Allen and Diggs. Davis should have caught a TD. Halfway through the season at 6-2 and solidly in 1st place. Onto Seattle.

We better win.

Patriots. I don't even need to waste my time looking outside of the division.

I don't agree with this. Neither are the worst. Problem in part has been Moss's lack of availability, poor run blocking, and Covid now striking our TE group.

Gotta say I'm stoked about Diggs and our WR corps this year. HOWEVER We're seeing too many dropped balls from them. Diggs included. That's a catch he needs to make. Another catch he needs to make is that bomb from Allen against the Chiefs in the back of the EZ that should have been a TD. Again. Love our WRs this year. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2020/passing_advanced.htm 16 drops so far this year and as a team Buffalo has the 5th highest drop % in the NFL. That's better than last year when we were the worst, but not good.

Why do you assume he's more likely to finish in the low 60s than the upper 60s where he sits? His last game was nearly 70% and he's only had 1 game with a completion % less than 60%.

Below is actually a pretty good drive by drive breakdown of what happened. Josh was partially to blame in some cases obviously. I'll just post the conclusion https://theathletic.com/2166434/2020/10/28/bills-jets-offense-film/ Individual errors doomed Bills touchdown drives: All-22 film takeaways ... These examples indicate that many of the Bills’ issues are fixable. First, the Bills need to stress to Allen not to leave the pocket prematurely, which was a problem for him earlier in his career. He’ll likely see all of the yards and points left on the field and correct it this week. Second, the Bills need Jon Feliciano to take Boettger’s spot in the lineup. Too often, Boettger was the weakness on the line and caused drives to end prematurely. Even if Feliciano can’t play, the Bills might want to give Ryan Bates a look at left guard or give a spot start to one of their two veteran practice squad linemen, Jordan Devey or Jonotthan Harrison.

I did. I fixed it.

Typo

If a few years from now we've won multiple games against the Patriots, I might then expect to win a game vs. the Patriots. Not now.

It's the Patriots. I never will expect to win those games for a few years and multiple wins.

Sure doesn't seem like it

https://theathletic.com/2157883/2020/10/24/matt-milano-bills-contract?source=user-shared-article Milano seems to be the glue that holds the Bills’ defense together, the straw that stirs the drink. Nobody will admit that publicly, not in an NFL locker room. McDermott and the players don’t want to excuse their lackluster defensive play by pinning it on Milano’s absence in three of the team’s six games this season. Anytime the conversation turns to a player missing time, players and coaches instinctively jump to “next man up.” ... “He does it all for us,” safety Micah Hyde said. Added Tre’Davious White: “When he’s on the field, you have total confidence he can cover the slot receiver, cover the back coming out of the backfield and get into the backfield and make big time plays. Any time you’re missing a guy like that with that type of talent, it’s a huge blow to the team.” And Jordan Poyer: “Matt is one of the best linebackers in the game.” Milano’s absence is providing a glimpse of what life would be like without him flying around the field. Milano, in the final year of his contract, has been an incredible bargain as a fifth-round pick. But he’s the only member of that 2017 draft class who has had to play out the final year of his rookie contract. Both White and Dion Dawkins got new deals before the season started. In August, Milano said he “wouldn’t want to be anywhere else” other than Buffalo but also said he wasn’t focused on a new deal. He figured the business side of football would take care of itself as long as he continued his strong play. ... “Matt knows everybody around the league knows what type of player he is and what caliber player he is,” White said. “He doesn’t have to come in and try to press or do things uncharacteristic to try to prove that he’s this type of player because he’s in a contract year. Everybody around the league already knows what type of player he is when he’s on the field. You already know you’re going to get one of the best outside linebackers in the league. That’s something where everybody in this building is confident in him and he’s confident, too.” Spotrac estimates the market value for Milano’s next contract at four years, $52 million, for an average annual salary of $13 million. That would put Milano in line with the contracts signed by Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson and 49ers linebacker Kwon Alexander. ... The Bills, meanwhile, could be tight on cap space. If the NFL salary cap is at the $173 million floor, the Bills would have just under $6 million in space this offseason. Signing Milano would mean the Bills need to shed other contracts. It would also leave less space for re-signing players like Tremaine Edmunds.