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That's a whole lot of energy and words to try to prove you're right. It has got to suck for you to be a Bills fan right now knowing that you have the statistical proof that your team's QB will fail to live up to expectations. I personally can't wait to watch the Bills play next year, and I'm really excited to see Allen's growth in year 3. Go Bills!

The game was not "completely different" by any stretch of the imagination, and the 2000's is the "modern" NFL. You're acting like they played with leather helmets and ran the Wing-T back when Brady won his first Super Bowl. Are you old enough to have watch the Greatest Show on Turf play? The idea that you would put Eli Manning in the same category as Rosen, Trubisky and Bortles is enough evidence to prove you don't actually know how to watch football.

I agree. Maybe if they're going to rule that the kicking team can't run until the ball is kicked, the kicking team should have the option to move the kickoff back to the 30 but still require the receiving team lineup on their side of the 50. That way both teams have the same distance to travel to get to the 40 yard line and recover the onside kick?

It took Drew Brees 6 seasons to better Josh's 2nd year TD% of 4.3 : https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BreeDr00.htm Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl with roughly the same ANY/A and a worse TD% than Josh's 2nd year. I also don't know where this argument, "you can't compare qb's from the 2000's" comes from. We're not talking about the 1970's, or even the 1990's. We're talking about the actual franchise qb's in the league today that people want Josh to play like.

It also doesn't matter that Josh's first two seasons are on par with Tom Brady and Drew Brees and better than Eli Manning because it doesn't fit the narrative. http://pfref.com/tiny/3epV5

Good thing data doesn't play football. And it's also a good thing that a 22 year old QB can learn and grow beyond his rookie year. But just in case, you should write "Josh Allen isn't a franchise quarterback" a thousand times.

Josh Allen's 2nd year stats in ANY/A are better than the 2nd and 3rd year average of Kirk Cousins, Ryan Tannehill, Case Keenum and Teddy Bridgewater and within a hair of Dak Prescott, Andy Dalton and Cam Newton. Are you really insisting that Josh can't be as good or better than any of those QB's bc his rookie year's stats skew him lower then them, even if his 2nd year was better than theirs was? Is he really always defined by his rookie year? His second year growth doesn't count? And he can't get better in his third year because his rookie stats have historical precedents? Then I guess you've got the magic analytic combo, as long as anyone who doubts it's predictive power has to tie one hand behind their back any only follow the rules you set.

So you don't care that Allen's ANY/A improved 30% from year 1 to year 2. No chance of similar improvement? A similar improvement from his year 2 performance would put him in the top 5 of the list you provided...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all

For sure. Israeli scientists are putting a breath test into trials that can tell within 60 secs if a person is infected. I'm hoping a similar test can be created for infectious particles. If this works, I'd hope the NFL uses them and has stations setup where you take the breath tesr in order to get into the facility. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may-13-2020/

What if they developed a football helmet that tests for expelled infectious particles?

New research is suggesting that the majority of people who are infected aren't contagious, and that small percentage of people are "super spreaders." I'm hoping we can develop a test to determine who is contagious. Scientists are saying that about 10% of infected people are responsible for 80% of infections. That there's a minority of people who give off 10 times more infectious particles when they breathe and talk than the majority of infected people, and that the majority of infected people don't infect anyone else. There's a measure of viral load emitted when you speak that can be measured, and that's perhaps what we should be testing. [Mod Edit: Hi, if you wish general discussion of covid and recent learnings, the OTW covid discussion thread and the PPP covid threads are at your service. I would personally be very interested in the references to the above-stated new research if you cared to share it in one of the OTW threads, because all the research of which I'm aware indicates that all infected people, including those infected asymptomatically, can spread covid-19. I haven't seen "scientists saying" 10% of infected people are responsible for 80% of infections - With the majority of infections it's my understanding we currently don't know how they were acquired!!!] However, please try to keep discussion on TSW as football-relevant - Thanks!]

He was 31st in pass attempts per game last year. I can see him averaging 5 more attempts per game. If he also improves his completion percent to 62%, that puts him over 3,800.

Polarized bickering aside, it would be great if we were able to develop a test to identify when someone was acting as a "super spreader" and shift into quarantining them when they are infectious. Also, shut up when you're taking to me! (Being loud spreads more virus than talking softly!?!) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all

I listened, and I'm interested in hearing the full unedited version.

In my best Cliff Clavin impersonation, " 'without evidence' in dat dare Business Insider article, refers to Mr. Rudy Googalinani..."

Reckless driving is for excessive speeding. It's a separate type of charge than a DWI. And since it was one of the reasons cited for pulling him over, I'm wondering why he wasn't charged with it? One possibility is that he wasn't actually speeding.

Got it. Same principle could apply for the initial call. And I'm still curious why he wasn't hit with a reckless driving if he was going 35mph over the speed limit.

Was it a lie that Flynn was paid $500,000 to lobby for Trump on behalf of Turkey and he failed to disclose?

I can not think of a greater conspiracy in the history of the United States of America than the outgoing President, his Vice President, the heads of the CIA and FBI asking for the name of an American citizen who talked to the Russian Ambassador to the United States about future American policy towards Russia! This is bigger than Dick Chaney fabricating evidence to invade Iraq! Bigger than the NSA under George W. Bush recording every phone call of every American. This is bigger than Bill Clinton having sexual relations with an intern in the Oval Office. This is bigger than the Regan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. How Dare President Barrack HUSSEIN Obama think he has the right to know the identity of an American citizen practicing their God Given Right to negotiate foreign policy with the Russian Ambassador!?!

I don't disagree with this. I wonder if Mahomes will be in position to make more money form endorsements and go the Brady route in order to win as many rings as he can. It's the Aaron Rodgers conundrum. He'll probably only end up with one ring through his whole career because the team around him wasn't good enough. And he has no one to blame but himself.

Yeah, at this point I want to see evidence that he was actually doing 80 mph and swerving in and out of lanes. If they have evidence, why wasn't he charged with reckless driving? I'm wondering if the officer's car that observed him has a camera? It turns out it was around 9pm, not 4 in the morning. Someone spotted him and called the police? I'm not saying Ed wasn't speeding and swerving. But it wouldn't be the first time someone called the cops on someone because they thought he looked suspicious driving a nice vehicle.

Did you see Paul Rudd's Living with Yourself on Netflix?