WideNine

Correct. The 2-deep shell and you play him the same way teams play Allen. If I know ol' Bill, he is going to dial up plenty of runs to attack our suspect front and work the TOP to keep the game close. He knows a frustrated Allen is a beatable Allen.

Not really. Belichick is a better coach than McD and I like McDermott. He is a good young coach, but is not at the goat's level yet. Ol Bill is coming off a slide that is unprecedented for NE and this is a division game against a familiar opponent whose OC is also very familiar. We are the walking wounded and I suspect we have a good chance of losing this game. I would be disappointed, but not crushed. I have never counted our NE games as wins and I wont till this team can actually prove they can beat them on the field and not just look better on paper. I am hopeful, but skeptical.

Daboll used Kroft on some bubble screens that were really effective when the Jets corners were playing off with zone looks, they need to go to that well more often. 5-7 yards is a good play and Allen will eventually understand that. I don't mind Jet sweeps in the red zone, but their success is dependent on creating hesitation on players getting to the outside and your receiver setting the edge. There are usually 3-4 options with that play; Hand off to Mckenzie, Allen draw play, toss sweep to your HB the other direction (you could sneak your TE out too for a quick pass)...so you are attacking the field sideline to sideline. I think you need to fake that play to McKenzie a few times to see how teams react before it is money. I would like to see our red zone offense use more gun bunch formations that would allow quick rub plays to free Beasley (the dude is slippery and should be a prime red zone threat), I like Kroft in the 11 personnel down there in a 3x1 set and wonder if they could motion him into the backfield as a lead blocker for Singletary, with a naked boot option for Allen, or pass out of the bunch if they sell out to stop the run. My hope is that Allen would hand off more than attempting the bootleg as you have to sell the direct play a few times before teams bite on a misdirection. Lots of ways Daboll can use this roster to better punch it in for scores. I don't like the slow developing razzle-dazzle in the red zone....they either end up penalties, sacks, or Allen chased out of bounds trying to force a play with the scramble drill. We need just quick scripted hitters, 1-2 and the ball should be out of Allen's hands, if he is not running it himself.

Cole is awesome. Always shows up...one of the most consistent players we have.

I was not a fan of the too cute double screen fake thing then ended up with Allen dirting the pass and our team getting called for illegal player downfield. We were in down and goal territory and the Jets were rushing 4 and we went 3 straight pass plays that were broken up. I also feel like Allen rarely if ever gives up the ball on read option run plays. The reason it is called a read option is supposed to be Allen reading a specific defender or two has the option to give it to the running back or keep it. Allen has to take the option of giving the ball to the RB a few times to have that play work. At least three times today I saw the read option called where the running back had blockers and daylight yet Allen kept it and dove into a scrum of bodies. Seemed the Jets knew that too, and I did not see them attack the running back on those options. Rather, they targeted Allen each time - you would think they might have spotted a hero-tendency or something.

I get the defenseless player thing... reason why there is a fair catch for kicks because the guy is focused on making the play. In the case of a receiver I just don't like it, does the defender have to just pull up and let him complete the reception and begin RAC then hit him instead of breaking up the catch. There may be a fine for Hyde, but tough call for a safety who is normally coming at a receiver from a deep angle instead of trailing in coverage... let a player make a reception or lay a hit on him to break up the pass. Hyde was covering a lot of ground too to close with that receiver and was looking to time his hit... to break up the catch. Clearly there were a lot of Bills players wanting to verify that the Jets player was OK...

It was a good hit, he lead with his shoulder and was aiming for the ball, the receiver ducked down when he knew he was going to get hit which made it look closer to the head than it was. I would say the same thing if it was a Bills player catching the ball... would not like it, but could not fault a safety for trying to knock the ball out with a hit. Football is still a tough game, and whenever a player goes down after a big hit the flags launch on automatic. Defensive play today was better, but it was the Jets.

The fix is in. Again.

Winters... just sucking against a 4-man rush. I blame Daboll with that cutsie double-fake screen.... regressing to complexity when his offense needs simple/effective play calling. Not one run against 3 4-man rush fronts in the red zone.

You said when referencing Spain, "where that literally happened not too long ago". That threw me off as 1936-39 did not fit in my own take of not too long ago; it was a subjective reference. Not sure it fits our scenario either as their conflict was also very much a proxy war between Allied and Axis elements supporting either side.

Ah... I think you are referencing Spain's recent extreme quarantine measures? It does make one muse about how far a democratic government would go if we had something more virulent with a greater mortality rate than Covid-19.

Fine if Spain is not your cup of tea, then move to a cheap villa in Italy. Where one decided to go if this nation decended to such a state was hardly the point as you well know. The point was the absurd and delusional idea of the feasibility of armed conflict involving citizens against an autocratic US government backed by its military.

Pump the brakes on the fake news. I live near one of those "terrorized" cities. Two blocks around a federal building where each night idiots throw burning garbage at federal property protesting, while DHS robo cops stand guard and paramilitary folks come from around the country to stir things up and make things worse. It is like some kind of absurd comedy that is set on repeat. Every other hour of the day folks go about their lives, come and go, commute to work, and it is business as usual. You can go downtown, eat at restaurants, shop, whatever. I partly blame irresponsible media sensationalism, and then the idiots who buy into the "sky is falling" rhetoric of Trump trying to justify using DHS as his personal secret police. As long as the media is camped there the far left, far right, anarchists, and DHS will continue this farce for the cameras. If we ignore them maybe they will lose interest. The feds have a right to protect federal property, that I do not dispute, but it is hardly Beirut on a bad day.

Well yes and no... I still do not believe a so-called "well-armed" populace is a major deterent because the gap in arms capability is just too large. Now folks could try to close that capability gap, then the rational becomes even more ridiculous...so you allow your average Joe or paramilitary to buy tanks and RPGs so our well-armed citizens are closer to being more capably-armed deterrents to an autocratic regime? ...the impractical and dangerous absurdity of that train of logic becomes clear. I do believe that the rank and file members of the US military as well as their leadership would refuse to be used in such a way against their own countrymen. So in truth it is the conscience and the sworn duty of our nation's military to protect this nation's citizens, combined with peaceful means of enacting government change which are the real deterrents. No need to arm folks with quasi- military assault weapons.

We can both agree there and thank God that for now we have men and women of high character and sensible leadership over our military who would condemn that kind of overreach by a sitting President. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/trump-military-troops-protests.html Also by that rational, you eliminate the argument for citizens arming themselves with assault weapons as a last line of defense against a government gone bad. Since, as you say, our military would never back such a government. That leads us back to peaceful forms of protests and insurrection and voting as the rational tools of resistance to bad government.

Truth. Rather than tit for tat poll references for Florida here is collection of poll data by different groups including Rasmussen which has a rather small sample size. https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/florida/

I know enough, some in my own family - Army and Marine. Heck my own wife served in the Army. Some argue, but most agree that we need to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and the mentally unstable. It is usually there that they don't really have a clue what to do beyond their concept of 2nd amendment intent. Most would say they are not criminals or mentally incompetent and have the right. Then I ask what policies would they create to keep guns out of the hands of criminals or the insane? I get nothing. What happens when you die, and you will someday? Do your ARs disintegrate, do they go to a licensed dealer to ensure the next owner has a background check? Or, do they go to that nephew who is a few beer's short of a 6-pack and lost his hunting license when he mistook a sheep for a deer? Too many guns in this country is part of the reason our police go into confrontations with ichy trigger fingers. It is dumb not to have better controls around gun ownership. Personally, I would gladly take on the extra hoops and oversight if it saved one innocent life and I know I am not the only responsible citizen that feels that way.

And I care... not.

As I said, it was the Fed and the CDC responsible for policing our international airports...and are you reversing course on your Big Fedoland comment? Dems and Republicans alike share the blame for a country poorly prepared to take the appropriate measures to counter a pandemic. The first SARS virus was shot across the bow, but little real preparation happened, then MERS, and an outbreak of ebola that had front line experts working to contain it horrified it could mutate and spread. Stopping folks coming into the country had little effect once the COVID-19 virus had already established itself. It takes just one person at a party, or a church choir practice to turn one into 60. With sporadic and insufficient contact tracing combined with the added asymptomatic spread meant careless folks that feel fine spread it to others. It is a well-evolved virus for doing what it does, hang around and keep spreading. The best we can realistically do is keep riding the brakes so we do not overwhelm our healthcare systems and work towards a vaccine. Not enough resources or masks for front line workers, no ability to really test or trace effectively. That is bureaucracy. The wheels do not move till tragedy strikes. It was Trump's ill-conceived war against wearing masks and following the science when he was told, he was told by top infectious disease experts early on how contagious the virus was, that I cannot forgive. It was a callous disregard for American lives in the name of political survival. It was that stance that had GOP-led states like Florida and Texas keeping bars and beaches open and never really following the Phased opening guidance. Folks from Washington and California flout rules with the best of the far-right idiots in their maskless mass gatherings, so safe to say they never adhered to their state mandates either. This pandemic does not have political affiliations, but may well be the downfall of Trump and serve as an object lesson for future administrations.

That may have been the case when folks carried muskets. Now it is a delusional take of folks that watched too many action movies. If it ever comes down to armed citizens vs the US government and its military, folks would be better off leaving the country. I hear the coast of Spain is nice. At that point we could all say the great experiment of democracy called the USA had failed as we would not be able to stand in the way of an autocratic regime thus armed. Which is exactly why the military and its leadership pushes back against a President who is far too quick to dust off a Sedition Act penned in 1798. Or, good luck folks hunkering down in your bathroom with your ARs and body armor, while a remote controlled reaper drone flying at 25,000 feet surgically vaporizes you with a hellfire missile, or turns you into human confetti releasing a bunch of spinning blades. https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411 Our military has become very efficient prosecuting anti-terrorism and asymmetrical warfare.

You do have to admit that we are 2 years in and the downside observations of his college tape are still pretty obvious in his current game. His strength early on was covering the shallow zones in a heavy nickle role. His speed, height, and length allows him to cover sideline to sideline and take away throwing lanes. I remember a few games where he had multiple batted down balls. His weakness is still biting on misdirection, attacking the right run gap, using his hands effectively to fend off blocks, and demonstrating the strength and proper leverage to stack and shed blocks so he is in position to stop the run. Some (not all) of his woes can certainly be attributed to how guys are playing in front of him, and their own gap integrity. I know he is still young, but if teams are going to attack us with a heavy dose of runs (why wouldn't they?) then he is either going to have to evolve more quickly, or the Bills are going to need to find someone else to sub in who has more instinct for shedding blocks and playing the run while capable of providing some coverage and move Edmunds to a role that better suits his skill set - Edmunds does have a lot of god-given natural athleticism. It is a win-now league, but I am satisfied that McD has gone deep into his bench trying to find guys he can try to plug in to improve play. If nothing else with the injuries and dodgy play up front and at LB we are building some experienced depth. Oliver and Edmunds are not busts, but are looking more like longer-term projects and this team desperately needs more early returns out of those early 1st round defensive pick investments. Beane is going to have to steer away from his instincts looking for athletes for the d-line and rather find that big nasty fat guy who loves the game and does not mind playing slobber-knocker football in the trenches. Much that is suck about our team would right itself if our d-line was not getting blown off their spots.

Not to criticize - but - Shaw66 has been providing these for years and you are free to move along and read your other sources. No one twisted your arm.

I really don't care if ol' Rudy is playing pocket pool, it's when he is asked about passing along info from his Ukrainian friend and admits that yeah, there's a 50/50 chance he's a Russian spy. How far off the rails has this guy gone??? https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-said-theres-a-chance-he-worked-with-russian-spy-2020-10?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

Similar right???

The fact that people from China flew into the US via the largest airport on the West Coast (LAX) is kind of academic if you consider you know...geography. I doubt it has much to do with politics on the left coast, also, the Federal government and the CDC were in charge of monitoring and restricting entry at our 5 biggest airports servicing Asian countries. A more accurate way to describe Trump’s Jan. 31 proclamation is as a “restriction” on travel from mainland China — not as an outright ban. There were numerous exemptions in place that appeared to nullify the goal of preventing travel into the country to stop the spread of the virus. These exemptions included people traveling from the Special Autonomous Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and U.S. citizens, residents, their spouses, and close relatives. Exemptions: https://archive.li/cfUMD#selection-347.0-357.1 The exemptions are listed in section 2, I did not copy them here. Even before the restriction was imposed, Americans and other nationalities came into the U.S. from mainland China unabated. According to an April 2020 report from The New York Times, at least 430,000 people arrived in the United States on direct flights from China since the outbreak was reported on the last day of 2019, including nearly 40,000 in the two months after the February restrictions were put in place. Thousands of these travelers flew directly from Wuhan. At least 60% of the travelers arriving in the U.S. on direct flights from China in February were not American citizens, according to government data. Screening and monitoring of many travelers was found to be sporadic, and the data shared with states was incorrect, plagued by bad telephone numbers, erroneous itineraries, and travelers even claiming they had never been to China. According to internal notes and emails received by The Associated Press, there were numerous examples of travelers slipping through the cracks in the system. Basically, the federal travel restriction response amounted to a porous proclamation then a cluster **** that lacked the tools, resources, and coordination to be implemented effectively.