WideNine

Way to go defense. . Why does this look like a replay of last season when Allen lead the league in 4th Qtr comebacks. The other side of that narrative is a defense that craps the bed and gives up the lead in the 3rd.

Not like they are getting the ball back a lot. Our D is making Fitz look like an all-star and has not gotten off the field. Glad for the stop, but our offense ended up starting in our own end zone... limits the options as you have to avoid the safety or easy turnovers for TDs

We need to flip this field.... have been playing in our own red zone feels like the whole 3rd

wow - they had that play totally diagnosed. We caught a huge break.

why can't we just watch the Bills blow someone out just once. I could take bathroom breaks, get more beer, pretend to listen to my wife a bit better, but NOOOO I have to sit on the edge of my seat nursing a heart attack the whole game. Even if we get off to a good start, I EXPECT our defense to start giving up scores and our offense to slow down. Time to start chewing the TUMS like candy.

man I am so glad they did not go to their TE on that play... he is eating our lunch.

As good as our defense was last year, they JUST DON'T SHUT THE DAMN DOOR. Arggggggg..... And their TE just made a one handed grab of a fast ball....

Oliver trying to trip someone and gets his leg destroyed. That was a Billsy thing.

Crap it is Oliver.

Too much cushion and allowing the timing routes to develop. Need our guys to press and disrupt these routes. Do that and we will dial up a Fitz turnover or two.

I want Miami's TE. Sorry - shouldn't say that, but the guy is eating our lunch right now.

I had concerns about Knox's hands coming out of ole Miss.... He is better than I thought he would be, but that elite consistency is just not there. I really think that is the missing piece of this offense, that big TE who can catch anything thrown his way and bail Allen out. Prove me wrong Knox please.... would gladly eat crow.

Flashback to last year. The announcers indicating that Fitz is targeting Wallace. Not going to dump on Wallace too much, but he needs to get a bit more physical. He does excel at playing zone and playing off receivers and making up ground in a hurry.

You can see how having a real TE helps. Fitz is starting to heat up, they need to keep those receivers from getting free releases. Its all timing routes right now, quick slants and such.

Darnold has not made a lot of progress under Gase. I am still not sold on the QB guru label Gase has had looking at how Ryan Tannehill has thrived after getting out from under Gase's tutilage. He may be just the opposite, the QB killer.

Watched Roethlisberger air mail a pass right between the numbers of a defender for an INT - thank god that wasn't Allen or it would be all you would see the talking heads talking about. Big Ben had like 8 seconds in the pocket too. All QB's have a few get away from them, not that Allen does not have elements of his game to work on, but I was always annoyed at the never-can-improve crowd. What a crock. It is now fact that Allen has pulled his accuracy numbers up a long ways from his college numbers. Probably will plateau to whatever his baseline will eventually be +/- some deviation over the next two years or so, but if that is the case it should be numbers that we fans can easily live with and he will only get more savvy with more time behind center in regards to when to throw it away and when to press as he sees more defenses and situations and takes some of the edge off that inner hero and reckless drive that can lead to negative plays. Spending time in a very complex offense with Daboll also bodes well for Allen if Dabs ever leaves for another gig - Allen would likely have an easy transition into another offense if he needed to.

He needs to do a better job securing the ball and had issues last year so I don't think he gets the benefit of the doubt. That being said, I think you are right and his knee and elbow too (have to see the replay again) hit the ground before the ball came out and if it had been ruled a fumble it was recovered by Spain.

..... and now lightning. Only with my Bills - blackouts first and now this.

Need to tighten up on those blitzes

Josh showing some confidence loss with Knox.... Just my opinion, but he needs Knox to be much better and with Knox putting 2 on the carpet that cannot help but get into a QB's head. I think Allen may have tried to hit Knox on that last 2 min scramble to his left, but kept it and tried to make all those yards on his own.

Better to just to go to an objective research think tank and pull the data. This is a Pew research data base that categorizes news media outlets by Left, Left-Center, Least Biased, Right-Center, Right, Pro-Science, Conspiracy-Pseudoscience, Questionable Sources, Satire, Re-evaluated Sources, Country Profiles. One could watch Fox and complain how far left CNN is, but Fox is just as bad in the other far right direction with slanting stories emphasizing what they know will rile up their base. Sensationalism generates the clicks and the ad revenue and they are both irresponsible and guilty of doing just that. Maybe we all should spend a bit more time away from the slant machines and visit those poor revenue-starved "Least Biased" news outlets and support their efforts. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/ APNEWS.com is one that I know and is rated least biased, plenty there that I have not really heard of, but perhaps should take the time to get to know them better.

All football aside, this chapter in life's journey is a painful one. Condolences Belichick family and RIP

I got irrationally annoyed reading Lombardi's narrative on the game. Sure he threw Josh a bone, but ruined it for me when he alluded to the Daboll tailoring the game plan to short passes limiting exposing Josh's downfield accuracy issues. Followed by stating the statistic that Allen was 9/13 on throws between 10-30 yards with two that were over 20 yards. Not sure what the point was, if anything I think there are plenty of times Allen bails Daboll out by extending plays that normally would get blown up 5 yards deep or creating offense on the fly and frankly I like that Allen is growing his game in a way where he can pick apart a defense and work clock-eating drives down the field - the rest will come. Last thing I want from Allen is him forcing the issue and air mailing the long ball into tight coverage with safety help over top and the Jets play a lot of cover-2 . Particularly fine with him avoiding this when the Bills were doing just fine taking what they were giving up underneath. So yeah... taking your advice. Allen played well and I am stoked and happy as hell that we have Bills football again to break up the monotony.

Truth, they are paid for their opinions but in hindsight I thought Phil had some keen draft day insight when it came to Rosen, and his critique of the things Allen does well and the areas he would need to work on.

Sure Biden pushed for Shokin to be fired this is neither news or scandal - it was an on-going policy decision as part of anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine The US, the IMF, and the EU all wanted to see Shokin removed in Ukraine as part of their anti-corruption efforts. This had zero to do with anything Hunter Biden was doing: Once again, this misinformation regarding Biden came from Andriy Derkach and it is all about context. Andriy Derkach —described by the Treasury Department as “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services”—stands accused of orchestrating a “covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives” about the Bidens via “edited audio tapes and other unsupported information,” which launched “corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day.” So who was the so-called "top prosecutor" victim in Ukraine (Shokin)? Well hardly a victim: He had been identified by the Obama administration, and US allies as part of the corruption problem in the Ukraine. His dismissal had been sought not just by Mr. Biden, but also by others in the Obama administration, as well other Western governments and international lenders. Mr. Shokin had been repeatedly accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his office and among the Ukrainian political elite, and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases. He was hated by the Ukrainian people as a symbol of the old corrupt regime. There were protests for his removal and even an attempted assassination. He would not prosecute snipers who opened fire on demonstrators in Kiev, he slow-walked investigations in the attempt to put pressure on individuals for bribes. The investigation into Burisma Holdings and its oligarch founder, Mykola Zlochevsky started in 2012 and drug on as Shokin slow-walked the investigation using the threat of prosecution of Zlochevsky and Burisma to solicit bribes. The Shokin way: On 16 February 2016, Shokin submitted a letter of resignation, although the next day an official of the prosecution office stated, "As far as I know he has taken a paid leave". On 19 February 2016 presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter that the presidential administration had received an official letter of resignation from Shokin. On 16 March 2016 an official of the prosecution office stated that Shokin had resumed his work. On the same day, his office carried out a raid against one of Ukraine's leading anti-corruption groups, the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), claiming that it had misappropriated aid money. AntAC was a frequent critic of the Prosecutor General's Office under Shokin. In one notorious case, two of Shokin's prosecutors were caught with stashes of diamonds, cash and valuables in their homes, likely indicating bribery. Prosecutors from another department of Shokin's office were fired or reassigned when they attempted to bring a prosecution against the so-called "diamond prosecutors". On 28 March, protesters called for Shokin's firing, after his office was authorized by a Kiev court to investigate AntAC. Shokin was formally dismissed in a parliamentary vote on 29 March 2016. The European Union praised Shokin's dismissal due to a "lack of tangible results" of his office's investigations, and also because people in Shokin's office were themselves being investigated. Following his dismissal Shokin went into retirement. The Ukraine investigation into Burisma was opened in 2012 and pertained to events that happened before Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden joined the board of directors of Burisma Holdings in 2014. US President Donald Trump's subsequent bid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation of Joe Biden and dig up dirt in relation to Burisma by withholding crucial Ukrainian aid led to the December 2019 articles of impeachment against Trump. Hunter Biden: IMO Hunter Biden screwed up (image wise and greed wise), but did not do anything illegal. It is simply not a good look to be cozying up to Zlochevsky as that guy is likely as crooked as any other oligarch, but Hunter's law firm was hired and the money was good. Unfortunately, I think this is the norm for political favors and posts that get filled with individuals with connections to our government. Hunter Biden had nothing to do with the prior Shokin investigation launched against Burisma and would not have stood anything to gain one way or another by it proceeding or stopping since Shokin was not doing anything but trying to shake Zlochevsky down for bribes. In fact, when Shokin dragged his feet investigating Zlochevsky the Obama administration sought other means to have him investigated regardless of Hunter's role on the board. Although no wrong-doing was found and I doubt any will be, Hunter has been justly criticized by government watchdog groups in the United States and Ukraine for what they characterize as the perception of a conflict of interest of holding a position in a Ukraine business while his father was a part of an anti-corruption task force, and trading on his family name and allowing it to be used to burnish the reputations of Burisma and Mr. Zlochevsky. Hunter finished his tenure with Burisma in 2019. Various Investigations into Zlochevsky have and probably will continued unabated and not sure if they will stop. I am sure there is probably some dirt somewhere in that guys not to distant past. It comes with the oligarch territory.