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I guess we pay attention to different media and political pundits. The whole idea of criminal conspiracy was always a very high bar that I never thought would be undeniably proven. What was undeniably proven was that Russia interfered in our election, trying to tip the scales in Trump's favor, and he knew about it. The obstruction of justice was always the biggest and most visible thing for Trump. And an incredibly strong case for it was laid out in the Mueller report. One that would have had the impeachment process begun--and possibly ended--already if we didn't have a Republican Senate so hilariously hypocritical (*ahem*...Lindsay Graham) in their undying loyalty to this President. All that's just the Mueller stuff. Then you have all the investigations into Trump's personal business and background, which are completely warranted and constitutional. Trump broke precedent (and his word) of sharing his taxes the way every single other Presidential candidate has done for the last half century. Are you seriously telling me you aren't the least bit curious as to why he's so ferociously protective of his business dealings? The Emoluments lawsuit going (slowly, of course, because Trump's an obstructionist) through the courts is maybe the most important among the plethora of issues with the guy. The guy is just out in the open corrupt. He always has been. I'm one of the silly ones who really thought he didn't stand a chance in the election. But unlike a number of those other silly people, I actually went out and voted. Trump won't be impeached and will remain in office for another year and a half, barring some kind of unbelievable and unforseen flip or something so ridiculously and outright in the open illegal that even the Senate can't ignore it. But again, I don't expect that will happen because Trump has basically had his whole life to build a working knowledge of how to be a crook without getting thrown in jail. The guy knows how to use the courts, that's for sure. However, when it's Biden (almost certainly the Democratic candidate, I believe) vs. Trump, I believe Trump will not only lose the popular vote by millions of votes AGAIN, that he'll also lose the electoral vote this time.

This bodes really well for this season that this was his primary focus in the offseason. I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict Allen makes a gigantic leap in completion % to 62% or higher https://billswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/23/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-aims-to-improve-accuracy-during-offseason/ Josh Allen aims to improve accuracy during offseason “Consistently, delivering the ball where it needs to be. Ball placement is huge, especially in this league,” Allen said. “That is something that will never change, you always want to try to work on ball placement. Every day you come out, it’s kind of a new thing and sometimes the ball comes out of your hand a little bit differently. You have to make adjustments and understand what your body is trying to tell you and try to go with it.” “Just trying to get the ball to the playmakers because we can’t do anything if they don’t have the ball in their hands,” he added. Throughout his rookie season, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott pushed aside the notion that his QB’s completion percentage was worrisome. While McDermott fell short of addressing Allen’s accuracy on Tuesday, he did say he believes Allen knows where he needs to improve upon in his game. “Yeah, first day. I’ve been impressed with his methodical work ethic and approach. It seems like he understands the work that he has to and that we have to do this offseason to get us to where we’re trying to get to as a football team,” McDermott said.

Definitely not. This is the only username I've ever had, here or at BBMB or over at Billievers. Decade and a half probably now running with the same name.

by whatever name? Are you implying I'm lurking on this message board under other usernames? That might be the dirtiest shot I've seen anyone take at me on here. No, this is and always will be my ONLY username.

I know. The poster above made a false claim, though. Flaccid wasn't the reason he made the playoffs. But he absolutely was the reason they won all the way through the playoffs. And any sane Ravens fan acknowledges that.

Geez. This place really just is a cesspool of conspiracy theories. I have a question... if/when Trump loses the election in 2020 (said "if" for your sakes... sadly the broader pronoun "your" is necessary in this case considering, despite the fact that some of you might protest this, you're nearly all clearly in this same boat over here at PPP), will you accept the fact that the American public woke up in a "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" moment? Or... Will you hope Trump not merely resists the peaceful passing of power but goes even further and actively resists in the manners a sitting President could do so? I worry the latter is the case. And I fear you'll get your wish.

Flacco was absolutely the reason the Ravens won the Super Bowl... were you actually paying attention to that historic run he had in the playoffs? 0 interceptions.

It was: ...it might be--I think it will: You're welcome.

I was talking about the 58%-60% completion percentage, not him being in the running for MVP. I think his career completion percentage will be higher than 60%. And yes, I still believe he's going to be in the running for league MVP this season.

Yeah, I don't think we ever have to worry about Allen being Captain Checkdown. The guy threw the ball like a yard farther on average more than any other QB in the NFL. And with Allen's style of play, he can hover in the 58%-60% completion percentage range and still be very successful. Not saying I want that or am even predicting that, but Cam Newton won an MVP at less than 60%.

Who's our long term answer opposite of Hughes? The E in DE stands for End. There are 2 Ends to a Defensive Line. Who's going to play opposite of Hughes and be productive for the next few years? DE is still probably our biggest need going into the 2020 regular season.

Wait... Peterman is still in the NFL????

Completion percentage is what correlates most with team success, but because so many factors go into completion percentage separate from actual QB accuracy--QB & WR communication, WRs ability to catch, tips and batted passes, Throwaways and Spikes, QB decision making, etc--this actually does matter in terms of the conversation as to how to increase that completion percentage. And I'd bet you anything Beane & Co. analyzed the tape for the purpose of having the very same conversation. Notice how offense-heavy we went this offseason? Start off by cutting our least reliable pass catcher over the year and then go out and get one proven speedster WR and another who was 4th in the league last year (pretty sure that's right) in catching balls on plays he was targeted. Then you bolster the crap outta your OL so that you give your young QB time and Windows to make good decisions and throw the ball. It matters in the grand scheme of our current year 1 to year 2 conversation because all any of us want to see is a successful Allen. The point, really, is that his distance from rookie QB to Franchise QB isn't greater than that distance is for the typical rookie QB as far as passing accuracy goes. It matters in this grand offseason sports message board conversation we have. Of course, since you're here on this sports message board, I assume you believe this grand offseason sports message board conversation we have every year is meaningful. And if you don't, why don't you go fishing in an actual body of water rather than on the Internet until the season starts? And I like you. I get some right. I get some wrong. I feel good about Allen. If you need to calm your mind somehow, just remember that even broken clocks are right twice a day

Awesome!!! Love it!

I want to say thank you for actually trying a similar exercise to see if my assessment of Allen lines up with other similar analyses. There are a few Foxxy pals posting in this thread who just baselessly categorize the analysis as ill-conceived, among other things, when I genuinely wanted them to actually try it themselves and post their conclusions, like you are. But I think some are just more comfortable with strident negativity and the general narrative that Allen is inaccurate.

The moment this series jumped the shark was when John and his men were stranded well beyond the wall and help seemed to arrive minutes later after he sent someone on horseback to travel likely dozens of miles for help. Too much of the last 2 seasons have been completely implausible, including tonight's episode. And honestly, not Martin's fault. It's the fact that HBO apparently hired crappy writers.

No excuses for what? What level do you expect he's required to play at now? This sounds like he must be an All-Pro... or else...

https://theathletic.com/981080/2019/05/17/how-much-better-can-josh-allen-and-the-bills-offense-be-an-analytical-breakdown-heading-into-2019/ How much better can Josh Allen and the Bills’ offense be? An analytical breakdown heading into 2019 By Matthew Fairburn May 17, 2019 Aggressiveness NFL Next Gen Stats tracks aggressiveness as the percentage of throws a quarterback attempts when a receiver has one yard or less of separation from the defender at the time of the completion or incompletion. This is a way to measure how often a quarterback is throwing into tight coverage. Allen finished at 13.8 percent in this category, though the number alone doesn’t correlate to a quarterback’s success. Allen’s percentage was within a decimal point of those of Tom Brady, Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers. Josh Rosen was the most aggressive quarterback in the league last year, and his rookie season was a disaster. Meanwhile, Patrick Mahomes ranked near the bottom of the league in this metric because his receivers were constantly running open. What this metric does tell us, though, is that Allen, despite having a sub-par group of receivers, wasn’t often throwing into tight coverage. Did he not trust his receivers to make plays on contested catches? Did he not trust what he was seeing? It could be a combination of the two. It would be understandable if Allen was less than confident in the receivers the Bills had. They also went through quite a few receiver combinations throughout the season, and without ideal timing, these tight-window throws aren’t as easy to make. Allen noted that after the team’s Week 16 loss to the Patriots. “It’s all about timing, trust and the relationship that you have with the guys out there,” Allen said. “We’re still relatively new with each other. To go through and play games like that and have opportunities that were so close but slip away, it definitely gives us confidence as we move forward. We’ll work on them and clean those things up, and in no time we’ll be completing those — having trust on depth, on timing in my drop and expecting guys to be where they are and they’re going to be there.” Now that the Bills will have three new receivers, Allen will once again have to establish timing with them. The difference is that he will spend the entire offseason working with the first-team offense and the receiver room shouldn’t have as much turnover as it did a year ago. What matters about this for now at least is that the narrative that Allen needs some kind of Herculean improvement from his 1st to 2nd year in terms of passing accuracy compared to his peers is incorrect. Completion percentage, yes. Accuracy, no.

To go through 11 pages of comments? No. I read some. Seems people feel similarly to the episode and season.

Feelin bullish about this...

I'll bet money on one thing... Dany WON'T end up on the Throne. This episode suddenly turned Dany into Cersei and made Cersei vulnerable. It's just so weird. Regardless, I think Jon clearly saw firsthand what a violent, cold-hearted malicious leader can do. He takes the Throne, or one of the 7 if they're divided up, at the very least.

So I finally had the chance to watch this episode. I haven't read any comments, but I'm really curious as to how people feel about it. To me, while I want to see Khaleesi go down, this just isn't believable (cue the "like Dragons are believable" guy to chime in). Not only did she get all angry at first and start burning down the city, she kept it up for... how long exactly are we supposed to believe? Sure seems like a long time. I wonder how Martin would feel about this. Was this his plan all along? We are watching the supposed rightful heir (up until recently at least) just spiral quickly downwards. And now it'll end predictably with Jon Snow on the throne. It almost just seems obvious. Can we even have Tyrion or Sansa or Arya on the throne? It's almost silly at this point. With that said, it's at least a wildly entertaining silly. I'll miss the show, but it's high point clearly was the Red Wedding. Such a shame it chose to go down such a relatively formulaic path.

Ummm... okay.... relevance?

So as I look at that chart, how are you keeping track of all that? It looks like you've got partially charted seasons for some of those QBs. That's a lot of categories... how are you assuring consistency in the way you grade each one across the categories? That was hard enough for me and I just had 4 categories (Catchable, Uncatchable, Throwaway/Spike, Batted/Tipped pass) to keep track of with the additional Interceptable passes that would fall under any of those 4 categories. And have you been offered money for your study? I'm not trying to be mean, but you might not want to get your hopes too high... in another couple months the interest in discussion of past play in the NFL will all but disappear as we creep into Training Camp and the start of the 2019 season.