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Sweet..... no one near him.

Redemption for Roberts and a fake penalty

Was a bit nervous with Roberts being featured as much as he has been. The pass was a bit behind him and had a lot of heat... we forget how most of our quality receivers are hands-guys not body trappers that generally do not pop the ball up. The announcers also brought up a good point that maybe Roberts was supposed to sit on that route and the timing is off a bit without Brown. The Titans have a bad defense, but they lead the league or are tied for turnovers.

This mirrors what a lot of folks here noted after drafting Ford, and confirmed watching his college tape and his play with the Bills. He (currently) lacks the lateral foot speed to play in space and take the right angles to negate edge rushers as a RT, or to be a really effective pulling guard from the RG spot. His most natural fit would be at LG where pass-pro is faster, but is more about proper leverage than lateral speed and angles, and generally less pulling and more straight-forward blocking on run plays where Ford can be a mauler once he gets into a defender's pads. I like this about our coaching staff. They evaluate and demonstrate the capacity to evolve to get players into the best position where they can grow, be more effective, and help the team.

So now they want to be all friendly with the Bills mafia? PFT analytics guys be like...

I remember when they backed up the Brinks truck for him and then he would not show up to their voluntary training camp... sure its voluntary, but they just paid you a ton of money and that was a good chance to get to know your teammates. I don't think he is a McBeane "Process" guy. “When it’s time to play football…” Bell wrote on Instagram. “I got to stick to the formula that I know works for me to be the best player I can be…I’m not just tryna win football games, I want a ring. I want to desperately show everybody what I can REALLY do…I’ll take the heat right now, everybody will forget about that once January comes around.” https://jetswire.usatoday.com/2020/10/12/leveon-bell-likes-tweets-saying-jets-should-trade-him/

That, and having to play against the defense of the goat in NE several times a year as raw as Allen was coming out of Wyoming... talk about trial by fire. Thinking about Darnold having the benefit of playing for a big USC program and he was seeing ghosts and was mentally crushed playing NE. Iron sharpens iron; Another year under center and there will not be many defensive twists that Allen will not have seen. I honestly thought his learning curve would be slower and I was willing to preach patience for a while, but his aptitude for the game and dedication to learning is pretty special.

Reading the source material? Facts?

The same guy Tweeted this Doesn't really align with all the echo-chamber echoes in this thread of posting tweets of all the GOP hardliners and their many complaints that the media does not favorably view Trump or the GOP. I agree with him that the Steele dossier was poor media work, but it was not intended for media publication. Most folks here do not know the first thing about the Steele dossier, they just parrot the words and Tweets they've digested. Like the fact the Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier were originally funded by a Conservative group at the Washington Beacon as opposition research on Trump for other GOP candidates, it was only picked up again later by the Clinton campaign. Some of it was found to be true, and some elements were found to be false because Steele himself said that the information still needed to be vetted and did not authorize its release or publication. The intelligence community largely ignored the dossier although they did follow-up to vet if any of the information was true. The Mueller report barely made passing reference to it. The Steele dossier was used by the FISA Court to obtain warrants on Carter Page, which shows how much a rubber stamp process FISA warrants can be.

Most teams have given the Bills the ball in the first half, preferring to start the 2nd half with the ball as our half time adjustments have been suspect. Curious to see if that trend holds as Allen and Daboll have been money in those early possessions.

The other side of the equation is the Bills don't have to use a roster spot for someone who can kick deep on kickoffs. The kid made an open field tackle on a long return if I remember, but it was after he missed a chip shot and was short on the kickoff. He's a rookie.

Teams have been rolling out different flavors of that quarters defense against Allen for a while now because he likes to attack past the sticks. I think NE did some of that in Allen's first game against them last year with some man mixed in and it rattled him into his worst performance last year. Now, Allen and Daboll have seen it enough times that it does not throw off his game as much. Everyone says that the Raiders have a talented, but young secondary. Looks like they are starting to grow up.

My passion for effective government is real, but my meh for Pelosi's action is grounded in my firm belief that it is political theatre and deserving a "meh". I believe Trump is unfit for office based, at its root, on his psychotic ego and pride which demand utter loyalty and agreement from those around him or he jettisons them, and his unprofressional irresponsibility unbefitting the Office. That is why his tenure in office has seen a revolving door of cabinet positions, positions that he filled with his own picks, who leave after brief stints in role and each say the same thing - the man is unfit for office. These are people that worked far more closely with the man than you or I likely ever will, and likely have a better perspective. There are enough similarities in all the accounts of individuals who have left the Trump orbit of influence that it strains credulity that the issues the man has in regards to effectively ruling, abiding by our nations laws and norms, and working with others are somehow contrived or corroborated. But elections are intended to address the necessary changes we need in Washington, not what Nancy is up to. Two wrongs don't make a right, but it is just as bad as the GOP-led attacks on our election process, gerrymandering, and voter suppression tactics. Every GOP-funded study, every case that has gone to court and was asked to provide proof of significant voter fraud has failed to do so. Because, outside of some insignificantly small random Republican and Democratic instances of fraud, there just isn't enough of it to justify the voting suppression tactics that the GOP has increasingly used. Yet "significant fraud" is the excuse to limit the ballot drop off locations of the largest county in Texas to 1 location. And we have the audacity to chide other nations for voter suppression and disenfranchisement. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/520099-fears-grow-of-voter-suppression-in-texas If the only way you can win elections is by keeping the poor or minorities from casting their ballots then there is probably something wrong with the candidates you are backing. You and others don't have to agree with me and may never do so - that is fine. I would freely argue with you, but I would never get behind any practice that discouraged or prevented you from voting your conscience.

Very much in favor of it. Particularly those living dead creatures in our Senate.

Not really that odd...I vote and stand behind the individual based on their actions more than the party. Pelosi, to me, is cut from the opposite end of the same cloth as McConnell. I feel they both would sacrifice democratic principle and their responsibility to actually govern this nation in the name of partisan politics. To me they both represent a large part of what I find wrong about our government.

Not a fan of Pelosi, but that does not remove my utter disdain for Trump, his stupidity, and his epic mismanagement of this nation. I also am supportive of more conservative justices to balance the bevy of liberal justices, but I am leary of justices that have undermined democratic principles such as campaign finance integrity, and equal access to voting, and am not fully on board with Constitutional Literalist as they often lose site of context. Such is my more narrow view of the 2nd ammendment that aligns with the late Scalia's balanced approach in his majority opinion on the matter that most people incorrectly reference as if he advocated carte blanche unfettered guns for all. As with most things there is a balance between literal Constitutional translation and the complete twisting of intent as in Citizens United. Of course, Jefferson said it better: and hanging inference on inference, from heaven to earth, like Jacob’s ladder? such an intention was impossible, and such a licentiousness of construction and inference, if exercised by both governments, as may be done with equal right, would equally authorize both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and should therfore be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense.

You really think it works that way? Allow me to slam your candidate, and I expect you to start a new thread if you dare threaten my tenuous position and grip on reality.... Pretty much par for course when dealing with the MAGA echo chamber zealots.

Any NFL team with this logo just needs to rethink their whole season... Seriously though, they do have a decent defense, but Haskins got destroyed his first few seasons in the NFL behind that Washington O-line. I have rarely seen QBs fully recover from such a rough start and he never quite put up the passing numbers folks thought he would. Rivera strikes me as a very no-nonsense kind of coach and he has no real ties to Haskins. These guys have been pretty snake-bit as they got a decent coach in Rivera who then found out and announced he had cancer back in Aug.

Not sure how the franchise past mismanagement translates to disrespecting former players that had real accomplishments and made the game exciting to watch when they played. You don't have to be stuck in the past to acknowledge those contributions while embracing the future, but as I said - to each their own. You do sound rather bitter though - it is not like a lot of us did not live through the same drought....

Unfortunately, this is my take too. Have seen some really talented players that for one reason or another are unable to stay on the field each season. Not sure why, and it may be that they just throw their bodies into harms way trying to make plays and although you love that desire there is a bigger picture of living to play another day. Milano is a great fit for this defense, but only if he is able to stay on the field and contribute. Fair or not, his inability to stay healthy will factor into negotiations with him and the more time his replacements have to stay on the field the more ready they are to move into his role. That is just the way it works in professional sports. Wish him a speedy recovery, the team is better when he is on the field, but I will not be surprised if Beane is pragmatic about finding a successor to his role.

Yeah, that was a bit odd and myopic as a statement. Can only surmise that there are a few millennials out there that never saw the last great Bills QB and have no idea what it was really like waiting for another, or are unable to appreciate how much those SB team players kept active in the community and supported the team during the relevance drought. To each their own, but I find that it does not take too much personal currency to take a moment to be respectful and listen to what older generations have to say. When you are younger you take for granted the older people around you who are there when you need them. Even if you happen to be a stubbornly independent young man there is a subconscious safety net that you do not realize is there until death sweeps them away... then before you know it all the young adults are looking to you to be that safety net and make the grown-up decisions. Looking back that should never have been a surprise because it is the way life works - maybe when we are younger we are blessed with a healthy dose of self-centered denial

It could pan out this way if the ghost of Bills' defenses past shows up; 8-min drives that dink and dunk and run with a Bills D incapable of getting off the field causing Allen to press a bit. Hoping they figured some things out on the d-line and Mike positions and continue the strong play they flashed in the 2nd half against the Raiders.

Our defense needs to build on what they started the second half of the last game. Tre DNP for a week is not good news, and Milano is likely out again...not sure how long a pectoral strain takes to heal. I guess it comes down to can their offense keep up with ours. Their biggest offensive output was against the Vikings in terms of yards where both teams are poor defensively. They have forced turnovers and are 2nd in the league in that regard but that was against the likes of Cousins, Minshew, and the one game Lock played. I see them doing everything on offense possible to drag this game out run, run, and more run...TEs in the flat, 3rd and manageable, fresh set of downs then repeat. I will be certain if Tannehill takes the play clock down to the low digits early. Keep Allen and the Bills offense cooling their heels on the sideline. Still I think the Bills and Allen pull this out. Bills 23 Titans 21

I know KC won, but Belichick kept the game close, and it may have been closer had the officials not erased a clear Mahommes fumble deep in their own territory. He did it with basically scrubs at QB and strong defense. I cannot believe that there were some that thought Stidham was going to walk onto the field and be a star just because Belichick was there. Ol' Bill still needs some vet savvy to execute his game plans to win. Either way keeping that game close, and being able to roll with Newton in previous games, what does that say about the value that Brady brought to NE especially later in his career? There were plenty of articles that delved into the breakup and hurt pride, but my thoughts are that Belichick has a better chance (with Cam) of delivering in the post season than Brady has with Tampa. Time will tell. The ideal scenario is we knock NE off and the Bucs miss the post season too. That way they both are sidelined and irrelevant.