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Jesus it's still nuts over here. This is so much bigger than the SUMMARY (not transcript) of that phone call at this point. Here is what I will give all of you: the other day I either read or heard an interview with a rabid Trump supporter and it really stuck with me and really made me think about this place. When asked DIRECTLY if her opinion on the impeachment inquiry had changed when the reporter informed her that Colonel Vindman's testimony--from someone who listened DIRECTLY to the call--revealed that the SUMMARY of that phone call left out key words and phrases like "Burisma" (directly and clearly tying this to Biden and his son, which seemed to somehow be in question), she said "No." When the reporter or interviewer asked why, she said, and I paraphrase because I can't remember where I saw or read it, "Who can I really trust? There are 2 sets of facts. You present your set of facts and I get my own." Folks, there's only one set of facts. Get out of the rabbit hole that is Twitter. At this point you've had testimony from multiple highly respected people--Taylor, Vindman, Volkner-- who corroborate the quid pro quo and idiots like Sondland who lied and have come back to change their testimony. Sadly, we're in a Twitter world, so I guarantee Congressional Republicans stick with Trump til the end no matter what and Senate republicans likely do the same. And they're going to move the goalposts every other day the way they've already been doing. Lucky for our Country the Kentucky Governor and Virginia state legislature results yesterday indicate, we'll be voting Trump out of office in a year even after the Senate fails to fulfil it's constitutionally mandated duty of being truly objective jurors in an impeachment trial.

The Whistleblower is an afterthought at this point. Why even bother talking about it? So much has come to light at this point from other witnesses directly that the Whistleblower complaint is unnecessary in this impeachment inquiry. All it did was get this ball rolling, but at this point, there's no stopping it. This focus on exposing him/her is just a pathetic and desperate effort on the part of the President and his cronies.

So where are you @Deranged Rhino at this point on Biden as the candidate? I mean I know it'll change again and again in the upcoming months, but just gotta have a temperature check https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/national-polls-and-state-polls-show-pretty-much-the-same-thing/ National Polls And State Polls Show Pretty Much The Same Thing Don’t ignore South Carolina and Nevada. A common refrain in coverage of the Democratic primary campaign is that the race looks much different in the early states than it does nationally, with a wider playing field, greater strength for upstart candidates such as Pete Buttigieg, and signs of weakness for the leader in national polls, Joe Biden. The refrain is true if you look only at Iowa or only at New Hampshire, but it’s mostly not true overall. Taken collectively, polls in the four early states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — tell almost the same story as national polls: Biden leads, Elizabeth Warren is in second, Bernie Sanders is in third, and Buttigieg is still a fairly distant fourth. ... Put differently, there isn’t much evidence that Biden does worse with voters who see him up close and personal, as often seems to be the implication of coverage that focuses heavily on Iowa and New Hampshire. Instead, he does worse with liberal, college-educated whites, who are plentiful in these states. Intentionally or not, the intense media focus on Iowa and New Hampshire serves to give more influence to liberal, college-educated whites at the expense of African-Americans, Hispanics, moderate Democrats and working-class Democrats, groups that are also key parts of the Democratic coalition.

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I disagree. A lot of the "absolute muggings" I could see officials arguing defenders are with the WR and the fact that they at least have the chance to make a play on the ball makes it questionable if they are. On Sunday that defender was on the ground, had ABSOLUTELY no shot at the ball, and just held Brown's legs so he couldn't go up and get it. Blatant and there was no singular excuse for that DB. By the way, all of this is beside the point unless you honestly believe McDermott is just being shrewd in not challenging ANY DPIs the rest of the year because they aren't being overturned. Should've been challenged. Now you're being obstinate.

Exactly. @BringBackOrton just isn't getting it. The interior of the Redskin defense has been stout all year but their edges have been crap, which was why we had so much success with Singletary on Sunday and why it was so stupid to try 3 straight QB dives on the goalline with Gore.

Largely because of the guy throwing to them. The play of the Washington front 7 doesn't rely on someone throwing to them. Their play up the middle of the defense has been very good so far this year. It's why Daboll's initial gameplan with Singletary was fantastic.

https://theathletic.com/1343959/2019/11/01/bills-redskins-preview-which-defenders-buffalo-should-unleash-against-a-beleaguered-offense/ Matt Ioannidis vs. Bills interior The Bills’ defense has a considerable advantage on Sunday, but on the other side, Washington’s defense is quite underrated. Other than their struggles against the pass, Washington’s defensive front possesses a lot of talent and has kept most games close. Out of their entire front seven, five-technique defensive end Matt Ioannidis has looked the strongest. Ioannidis is a gifted one-on-one player at the line of scrimmage. He flashes the ability to get into the backfield after one move or effective hand usage. Against either right guard Jon Feliciano or left guard Quinton Spain, Ioannidis will win some battles and try to force the Bills into negative situations. In both run and pass defense, Ioannidis helps set the table either for pass rusher Ryan Kerrigan or for inside linebacker Jon Bostic. His teammates along the defensive line, in Jonathan Allen and nose tackle Da’Ron Payne, will make it difficult for the Bills to focus their attention on Ioannidis. If the Bills can neutralize his impact throughout the game, they’ll have a far better chance to move the ball consistently. What?! You thought that play was a legit play by the defender? Wow I couldn't disagree more! It was an absolutely blatant DPI. It was one that I think would have been overturned. The defender literally grabs Browns legs as he's jumping for a very catchable football. That play right there would have been a great test to see if the officials are being honest, because there's no way they could have not overturned it.

Exactly. If Allen fumbles on a naked bootleg? When do you ever see a fumble on a naked bootleg? What a weird statement. It's like you're saying Allen should never touch the ball.

If that's the case, I retract my criticism of Daboll. And honestly, I've been having my issues with McDermott lately. Last week he should have taken the Field Goal in relatively easy Hauschka FG territory. This week he should have challenged that John Brown DPI. I think there was another play this week involving a FG that was a questionable decision. 3 of the exact same play on the Goal line after getting stuffed on the first 2 plays. McDermott is a really good coach, but he's definitely still learning on the job.

Yeah. Goalline dives are fine, but not 3 plays in a row when you were completely stuffed the previous 2. Daboll even came back to it at least once later in the game and lost 3 yards. I think there was another time they did it and got stuffed, too. Now, if Daboll came in on that 3rd down with that exact setup to run it and ran a naked QB bootleg or told the TE to slip behind the D, then I'd congratulate him on his playcalling, even if we fail. I NEVER like it when you run the same play 3 straight plays after getting stuffed on the first 2. Maybe that's just me. Frankly, I challenge you to find a moment where a Belicheck coached team did that.

Glad this was the very first post here. OP is obviously clickbait. I don't hate Daboll. His offensive system and philosophy seem fantastic. His in game play-calling is inconsistent and sometimes putrid.

Obviously. 5% of the people voting in this thread are just idiots.

He's a 36 year old RB. Of course he's wearing down a bit. I blame Daboll for stupid play calling than I blame Gore on all those run stuffs. I think it was Joe Buscaglia who said that Buffalo lined up in that exact same setup and was stuffed 5 times in that game. You'd think Daboll would realize after the 2nd or 3rd time it wasn't working and not to do it again. We have a great 1-2 punch with Singletary and Gore. Let's stop looking at 1 game as a representation of Gore's season, which has been pretty amazing for a 36 year old back. See the post above. And he's NOT on this team mainly because of his character. Largely, yes. Mainly, no. Gore is on this team because we needed an RB who hits a hole and gets positive yardage consistently instead of dancing around in the backfield and losing 2 or 3 yards the way McCoy has been doing more and more the last couple years.

Frank Gore is averaging over 4 yards per carry and is on track for almost 900 rushing yards this year. Let's not pretend Frank Gore is on this team just because of his character.

These guys are such morons. I don't know who the guy on the left is (is that Sam Monson?), but he has ALWAYS belittled Allen. If folks want to know why this thread exists, it's because of dudes like that who find it absolutely painful to even say that his stats look okay. Unreal. I know we have those guys on this message board, but they're all over the national media.

This obsession with the 300 yard game is ridiculous. Allen has had 3 games where he's had 300+ yards combined rushing and receiving. The Bills were 1-2 in those games. Yards don't correlate with winning. Completion % and efficiency does for Allen though and I would bet it does league-wide for all QBs. In the 11 games Allen WON when he started: 62.1% completion % 26.6 passing attempts per game 7.5 YPA 24 total TDs 9 total turnovers In the 8 games Allen LOST when he started: 50.6% completion % 31.9 passing attempts per game 5.7 YPA 8 total TDs 15 total turnovers Truth is that in large part the way Allen goes is the way team success goes. Earlier I said Allen was 11-8 in games he start. His record in games he started AND finished is 11-6... so yes, I excluded the Texans game last year and Pats game this year. Losing him in both those games hurt the team. Do you 300 yard fanboys not care about team success? Naturally as Allen gets more comfortable, we hope his completion percentage goes up even in those Ls, which will naturally increase his yards and maybe it'll bring him into the 300+ yard category. I suspect we'll see one or two 300+ yard passing games before the season is over. But I don't know if that will be a good indicator for the team because it will mean we're playing from behind. Earlier this season Allen was "on pace" for 300+ yards in a couple of our Ws because he had about 200 yards passing by the half. But then--just in case you aren't paying attention--our playcalling turns strange and conservative and the entire offense tends to tighten up in the 3rd quarter. Allen is progressing and he's playing an important role helping to facilitate these Wins. Enjoy watching the team success and the ability of our coaches to develop Allen they way THEY want to. If you think he should be developed in another manner, go to One Bills Drive and put in an application for Head Coach.

The Bills are 11-8 with Allen as a starting QB. They're doing something good with him. And before you say that Allen doesn't factor into that record, there's only one game Allen played an entire game and threw the ball less than 20 times and that was vs. Jacksonville last year coming back from his injury and I think that's a game most would agree Allen was integral to that victory. As we say every year

Allen wasn't dreadful as a rookie. You just must not have watched him play. He played on a team with inferior offensive talent. Wide receivers and Tight Ends couldn't pull in contested catches. The OL couldn't protect him. Allen was a struggling rookie who showed some promise. That's common among rookies who go on to be successful in the NFL. @oldmanfan has had it right in this conversation with you. You can't compare Allen with Lamar Jackson or other QBs across the league the way you are in an apples to apples comparison because you always factor in coaching and gameplan. The coaching and gameplan is clearly to run things about as conservatively as possible in order to minimize potential mistakes by their young QB in order to win NOW. Basically, they've raised the floor a lot for Allen, but they're also keeping his ceiling lower in the process. Now, this isn't sustainable for his whole career, but you saw something similar with Big Ben early in his career in order to foster team success, while still trying to develop the young QB. I admit, I get frustrated with Daboll and McDermott in this respect, but this is what I believe they are trying to do. So yes, you can clearly compare Allen to last year and just see that he's significantly improved. And that's a good thing for Bills fans.

Back then Kelly's stats looked good? How old are you?

Look at our schedule. We might end up being 9-2 and still be dismissed because "they haven't played anybody." Frustrating, but oh well. Patriots haven't played anybody other than the Bills or Ravens. They got clobbered by the Ravens the way Buffalo did by the Eagles and they could have lost to the Bills if not for that ST TD and knocking Allen out of the game. The national media is just silly. Cowboys got smashed by the Jets. Packers got crushed by the Chargers. Ravens got pummeled by the Browns. Those teams are all somehow legitimate contenders. We're an afterthought. And we will be for at least the rest of November in all likelihood. Thanksgiving in Dallas is our first real opportunity all season to show we're a "real team." And the funny thing is we could potentially be 9-2 by that time. If that plays out, we'll still just be considered "pretenders" if we lose that game, even at 9-3. No one watches or cares about the Bills.

Of course we can't tell. But once again, no every team does not control their own destiny to the #1 seed at this point. I was actually incorrect earlier. There are really only 2 teams that control their own path to the #1 seed: Pats & Bills Ravens would need the Pats to lose one more. This isn't about speculating. It's just a fact that we've played half of our games this season and we control our own path to the #1 seed. Forgive me, but I think that's a pretty awesome thing considering we were 2-6 at this point last year. I don't think we're going 14-2. I think we're going 11-5 or 12-4. But who knows?

No, they do not control their own destiny as far as the #1 seed is concerned. For any of them to get the #1 seed, they need both the Bills and Ravens to lose at least 1 more and the Patriots to lose at least 2 more. That's just the simple truth.

Not until the Bills and Ravens lose at least 1 more game and Patriots lose at least 2 more.