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The back and forth discussion of milking the clock? I don't know how many pages back that discussion goes, but that's what I saw in the 7 or 8 back and forth posts between you guys. Whatever I might have been wrong on as far as the discussion between the two of you goes, I do believe in general that a Sean McDermott coached football team will never be a team that averages 30+ points because of his approach to the game, which I do believe involves protecting a lead once you have it, which involves milking the clock more with more running and short, safe passes, which results in fewer explosive plays and less points. I'm not a fan of that approach. But I do think that's been McDermott's approach as a Head Coach.

Again, you're making what happened early this week a binary choice. It wasn't. There were much better and more diplomatic ways to do this than taking the rug out from our Kurdish allies and abandoning them. Whatever else your argument might be, are you disagreeing that the Kurds had prior knowledge it would happen this week?

Yes. 3rd quarter is absolutely the problem. I saw Allen's numbers in the 3rd quarter in an article I think in The Athletic recently and they are utterly atrocious. On the flip side, his numbers in just the other 3 quarters are really impressive. I don't know what's going on at the half, but it needs to be fixed.

I think the "protect the lead" generally conservative type play calling is a philosophy that scores fewer points, don't you?

I think (just a wild guess) what he is pointing to is that in 3 of our 5 games we got a lead in the 1st half, looked like we might score a bunch and then stumbled offensively quite a bit in the 3rd quarter, for any given number of reasons. That poster might believe that a slight or major shift in game plan is the primary reason for the slowdown. The old school "protect the lead"mentality. Just a guess.

Man. I sure will give you your undying devotion to Trump. Have fun with that. You clearly don't see the inherent problem here. This wasn't a binary choice and, for some ungodly reason, that's what you're making it out to be.

It's not oversampling. There's a reason for that number. I'm confident you can figure it out.

It's not just the US And read what I wrote. I didn't say they've declared formal war... but does it matter?

26???? Behind Mariota, Darnold and Mayfield???

Read my very next post please That's not the only alternative, but this is largely what the United States has been through the last century. I get that there's this desperate attempt to turn inward because of big bad globalization, but abandoning a force like the Kurds that the US largely trained and who were massively responsible for (as Donald Trump would claim we have) "defeating ISIS" is misguided, short-sighted, and goes against American values of protecting our allies.

I see your misunderstanding. What I'm suggesting is that Trump is a jackass who just allowed Turkey to declare war on neighboring Syria because we opened the door for them to do that. And regarding your 2nd paragraph... those of you on the right are Trump's biggest critics? Oh man... thanks for that... didn't have my good laugh today, yet.

Funny. I said war? Weird... don't see that anywhere in what I said. The onus of these attacks is clearly primarily on Turkey. Trump, who stood behind a locked door for them to happen, just unlocked, opened the door and walked out to let them in. And I think it's strange for you Trump folks to defend NATO when that's one of those alliances it's pretty clear agent Orange could do without. If our troops remained and Turkey attacked the way they are now, that would have been an act of war against America on THEIR part. And I wonder if that's what Erdogan said he was going to do in that phone call and our paper tiger President just rolled over. But these economic threats on his part right now look reeEEAAAlly effective

I think if Zay fights even a little for 2 of those balls they aren't interceptions and the outcome of the game is different, even with Allen getting knocked out in the 4th.

What a scumbag. Trump, with a phone call agreement and abrupt withdrawal of troops, has now made our country directly responsible for at least 100,000 civilians to be displaced from their homes and (last I checked) at least 20 deaths, with half of those being civilians. Literally just within a couple days after we withdraw troops, Turkey basically declares war as some Kurds fight back and others abandon posts, like those imprisoning ISIS fighters. Bu..bu..but WHY would Trump make this type of sporadic phone call agreement with the President of Turkey????

Yeah. Fox News might actually be coming back to reality a little bit and the conspiracy theorists Hannity and Inghram losing some steam with guys like Chris Wallace and Shep Smith getting it back.

Just to show it visually... From the Presidential propaganda machine itself.

I don't know who knows about this, but there was a poster in one of the other Duke threads at the end of the preseason who alluded to a bunch of physical problems/injuries Duke had right around the Combine that affected his combine numbers negatively. If that poster is reading this I hope he/she can enlighten us on those issues. I'm curious because if you look up some of his stuff going back as far back as High School, there are some references to a 4.3 40 time. One myth has pretty clearly been debunked already: Duke is NOT too slow to play WR in the NFL and should NOT be converted to TE.

Feel free to form an opinion on how he played by actually watching the damn game.

Are people taking away his best play statistically just 'cause? Really? Okay, then take away his worst play, too. 22/30 (73.3%) for 169 yards, 2 TDs and 0 Interceptions. Pretty efficient game

You have such frustratingly horrible logic, and this is a solid example of it here.

Is there a team with a bottom ranked D that has 4 or more wins right now?

3rd in the NFL passer rating in the 4th quarter. Considering the Bills have only led in one 4th quarter so far this season and the Bills are 4-1, seems he's damn good when it counts. But he (and the offense) absolutely needs more consistency.