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Great question. If only there were data and statistics we could point to that compare the Bills' offensive output and efficiency to the league at large.

You should. This is a pretty big tell-on-yourself moment. Shanahan is a hardass about blocking because of both the physicality element and the way it opens up YAC/scoring opportunities downfield. And defenders do NOT like guarding a big body when every other play said receiver is seeking out and maintaining contact til the whistle.

Death, taxes, and Mike Tomlin churning out wins despite an underwhelming roster

It's been incredible, honestly. Two teams just beating the snot out of each other as a matter of principle. Currently feeling nostalgic for an era of football I was literally not alive for.

Man, I really like our backs right now but I will always miss Fred Jackson. Watching him pick up yards after contact in both the run and receiving games was incredible.

In column A we have: -A history of offensive competence under this regime -A top 3 QB -High EPA/play -A balanced offensive philosophy that is sustaining drives In column B we have: -lol WRs bad IDK, definitely a toss-up in terms of which way our (limited) evidence so far points

Yeah honestly I'm pretty blown away that racially berating a biracial person because they're vaguely white-passing is apparently a completely fine thing to do in the football discussion section of the board

It's fascinating watching folks who pretty adamantly shot down anyone who thought we could still be a top offense this season realize that we might, in fact, be a top offense this season without a hint of introspection

Unreal implosion. That was a wild finish.

No no no, forcing big play ball against Cover 2 shells is clearly the innovative offense we need! We have Josh Allen! Why comfortably win games when you can throw 40 times per game and force your franchise QB to be superman instead?

My answer would be yes, and precisely because drama-free Diggs was not an option. He took that off the table.

He had a good series from everything I could see

Teams can generally shut down an element of the offense to some extent. It's part of what is allowing the Bills to move the ball on the ground. They don't want to lose to Allen's arm, so they're giving us the run game. A key element being that Josh can make a play tl get us the 3rd and 12 conversion anyway when needed.

That draft pick could be anything! It could even be a James Cook!

SURRENDER INDEX: 100

For all the complaining, is there any evidence that the TO isn't net helpful for the Bills?

Man coverage, honestly he did pretty well

Smart to force them to take 3, tbh. If the Bills score a TD out of the half they can just bleed the clock out the rest of the way.

@phyponI went back through what you linked for me as well as both of our prior posts. For what it's worth, you posting the periviability definition was the first reference to the term in this discussion.

That's periviability, not previability. Pre reflects that it's before viability, peri reflects the ambiguous survival odds and frequent long-term medical complications in that 22 to 26 week window.

Of course I do? It's a fetus that cannot survive yet outside the womb, even with medical care. Why are you asking?

Bruh. Trump was claiming that there are elective "executions" (his words) of viable babies occurring. It is an absolutely bogus claim. All of the nuance in our discussion thus far has been regarding why even the milder claims being made about abortion are inaccurate. Also worth noting that Kamala expressing a desire to return to the Roe vs. Wade status quo does technically answer the question, even if comes across as vague and unspecific. You can dislike the answer and find it lacking, but IS an answer. Trump was refusing to answer a yes/no question not about support for a specific stance, but rather whether or not he would veto a hyppthetical bill banning abortion that Trump's running mate had already said Trump would sign.

Yeah-- so a couple of important notes here. First is that "abortions" encompasses things like miscarriages (also known as "spontaneous abortions") and terminations performed to protect the life of the mother. A pre-viability fetus/unviable baby that exits the womb receiving palliative care instead of life-sustaining measures just means that the parent opted not to prolong the life of a child that was not going to survive. If comfort care was not administered, it would indicate that it was unnecessary to provide additional care based on the condition of the (again, unviable) child. Repeals of laws forcing life-saving measures in these situations is to reduce the levels of trauma to parents that find themselves in these situations and to reduce the expenditure of medical resources on patients who are guaranteed not to survive. I don't know it? You are fully ignoring this portion of my post: "Trump was also making unnuanced claims involving "executions" of full-term babies, which is what prompted the fact-check." Conflating false assertions of post-birth abortions with what is occurring in Minnesota is absolutely acceptable to fact-check.

Yeah, I've been looking into this-- there is nothing, even on extremely right-leaning or otherwise pro-life spaces, that indicates that any of these cases are elective abortions of viable fetuses/babies, which is what Trump's claims were about. Trump was also making unnuanced claims involving "executions" of full-term babies, which is what prompted the fact-check.

Were those elective abortions or medical abortions due to a combination of risk to the mother and conditions incompatible with life for the baby? All of the alleged cases I have seen so far outside of Minnesota have involved parents making decisions about how long to sustain the life of a doomed and suffering (wanted) infant. Harris did not make strong inaccurate claims outside of her opponent about matters of fact. You could reasonably say that she was misleading on how she answered questions about herself or attacks on Trump's positions, but again, moderators were not fact-checking attacks against opponents.