transplantbillsfan

Only if you have a conservative Head Coach. Patriots don't ever take their foot off the throats of their opponents. The Ravens didn't to Miami last week. I think the Chiefs and Rams are teams that wouldn't, either. Hope we don't when we get big leads against any team, whether it's this weekendor another weekend.

Great post, Shaw. I honestly can't believe all the dark clouds that have hovered over that organization since Spygate. They've won 6 Super Bowls and they're pretty much media darlings now, but I really do wonder how history will view them 20-30 years from now. It's crazy though because I think without a lot of their cheating and scumbaggery they still win at least 4 Super Bowls with Brady and Bellicheck... or do they???

Oy... Well, there's a good indicator of why Foster's playing time has been drastically reduced.

This is from Joe B's All-22 review on The Athletic, which requires a subscription. Not posting the whole review, just the bit on Murphy: Following a frustrating, injury-filled 2018, Trent Murphy returned in the spring without any lingering issues. He was healthy, and the Bills hoped he would become the player they envisioned when they signed him to a sizable free-agent contract in the 2018 offseason. Without Murphy on the field, the Bills wouldn’t have been able to bottle up Sam Darnold and Le’Veon Bell nearly as well as they did. Murphy registered an assisted tackle, a pass defense and a fumble recovery at the end of the game, which seemed measly by box score standards. Murphy’s performance is the precise reason why going back to review the film is so essential. Beyond the numbers, he was outstanding. The left defensive end led the way in snaps for all defensive linemen and consistently provided pressure off the edge to set off Darnold’s internal alarm clock. The play that most will remember is when Darnold eluded Murphy’s tackle to throw a touchdown pass the referees later disallowed. Regardless, if Murphy hadn’t read his keys and hold his spot on the read-option play near the goal line, Darnold would have been able to dive into the end zone for a touchdown. Murphy forced Darnold to throw while his team was blocking down the field and forced a penalty. The Jets scored on the next play, but that wasn’t on Murphy’s watch. His pass-rushing was good against the Jets, but it was his run defense that really stood out. Murphy’s ability to lock Bell between the tackles was one of the biggest reasons the defense had such success on Sunday. Edge contain is often a lost art with sack-obsessed defensive ends, but it is a critical component both to Murphy’s skill-set and the team-based defensive scheme Sean McDermott runs. Murphy used his long frame to keep the right tackle away from his pads on rushing plays. He combined his length with enough to power to shift the right tackle where he wanted him, essentially building a wall that prevented the ever-patient Bell from kicking it outside for bigger yardage. Murphy routinely set the table for his teammates to make plays at or near the line of scrimmage — and is likely receiving plenty of internal praise from his coaching staff and teammates. He didn’t register a sack on Sunday, but the way he played — and how it showed up on film — was more than worth the weight of his substantial contract.

My biggest issue was how long and how loud it was. Loved the cast though. Especially Hader. Started watching Barry on HBO the day before we went to see IT.

I don't think he holds primary responsiblity for any of the turnovers. Purty sure I stressed all offseason that Allen was just as accurate as any good rookie in the last few years and wouldn't have a problem getting over 60% if he wasn't throwing the ball consistently farther down the field than any other QB in the NFL the way he was last year. His adjusted stats? Hell, everything that went wrong in that game won't go wrong most weeks. At that point, we see those numbers pop that I was predicting he'd put up all offseason.

I wanted Hockenson and really thought we would have drafted him if he were there for us. Looked pretty damn good.

Yeah... that shows us!!!

Head's not stuck in the sand because I didn't say and don't believe it was an outlier for just the US. It was an outlier year globally in a lot of ways. A lot of places in the world are trying to self-correct right now or basically ride out the storms of the terms of guys who got into office due to what happened in that year or 2 span right around 2015-2016. Do you think if Britian revoted on Brexit, it would still pass today? Again, outlier Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Do you even listen to either of those? I'm sorry, that's a rhetorical question because it's extremely clear you don't. Neither outlet is a pundit talking the way Hannity or Rachel Maddow is. Each had segments over the years that have been pro and anti Russia collusion. Get your head out of the sand and stop just believing what your underground media is telling you. Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Sounds like our cheeto in chief Amen brotha. Amen.

Outlier Polls along with projected delegate counts along with believing strongly that the Democratic primary voters' #1 priority is beating Trump, not putting a particular candidate in office. Sorry. Not diving into your shadow world. I like NPR and PBS newshour because they're pretty fair and balanced, unlike the station that actually touts that as their slogan. Why? Are the Bills going to lose the Super Bowl in heartbreaking fashion?

I'm just still scratching my head that you called me out over here when Biden is still winning in the vast majority of national polls. I heard something on NPR today as I was driving to work that really struck a chord and made me think of this forum in particular. It had to do with essentially the fracturing of America due to media and social media and how those things have provided all these little bubbles for sub-cultures and conspiracy theories to bubble up and fester and cook until they become"legitimized" because there are just that many people who believe it. I could point out a bunch of examples because I think it would just touch some nerves over here. But claiming Biden is going to be irrelevant in the Democratic primary is just silly. And claiming he'll be indicted is the product of exactly what the segment above mentions. And it's alive partially because our commander in tweets is at the head of the classroom for one of those subcultures, of which many here appear to embrace. It's football season. Drown in your conspiracy theories over here. I'm happy to talk football, which I believe is the primary shared reason we're all here. Otherwise, leave me alone til this is all more relevant and clear. Any liberal bothering to come over here to chat would be the equivalent of a division rival taking time out from his own team's forum to go over to another team's forum to try rationally talking football.

Unfortunately

Evidently not

I disagree. And I still think Biden is the nominee. I disagree Whatever you give me I'll do if I lose. I honor my bets. I doubt I lose.

On what one? You talkin our bet? I bet the field of Democrats,who will beat Trump, not Biden. You bet Trump. That was our bet, correct?

Disagree that Allen looked like a rookie in the 1st half. That's the easy thing to say if you look at his 4 1st half turnovers, but that's not reality. Reality is 1 turnover by fumble on a dominant drive. Said fumble was a result of a blindside defender being allowed through. And any argument that "Josh should protect the football" is bogus because that's exactly what Allen was trying to do. Defender just, made a great play. 1 turnover was on an accurate pass to a normally sure-handed Wide Receiver who bounced the ball up in the air into the waiting arms of a defender ready to run in and score. 1 turnover was a bad 4th down snap with a center Allen hasn't really worked with for weeks on a play we probably shouldn't have been going for it. 1 turnover was a rushing defender with no one in front of him jumping to make a play to bat the ball. The Bills were dominant in this game. This game was just a game of extremely weird bounces. I'm excited about Allen.

Dude. Allen was good today. Seems pretty clear he improved in the offseason. 65% passing with at least a couple drops from a guy who's advertised as sure-handed, taking what the defense gives him, standing in the pocket rather than consistently searching for a run, came through clutch with a big 4th quarter deficit to overcome. What was your problem with him today? If it's the turnovers, go back and watch them. None of them were due to a stupid decision or inaccurate pass on his part. The ball just bounced funny for us. And yet we still won. We're winning more than 8 games, so brace yourself.

This is how the national narrative will be. But the truth is the Bills were pretty dominant in this game from the start, but this game is also a great example of how the football sometimes bounces as funny as it's shaped. Every single turnover was flukish in nature to one degree or another.

That's fine by me. Feel free to stop posting in this thread at any time. I just responded to a post where you seemed to be at a loss for a time something happened, so I just wanted to promptly provide you with an example. And then you tried to sidetrack it by redefining what a skill position is.

Wait... now QB is NOT a skill position?!

What's wrong with this guy? Better question: what's wrong with Gruden and Mayock that this guy is still allowed to be on the team? This is a person who's life is going to be empty in 5 years... or now...

Yes, it will.