CincyBillsFan

He's a local hack - nothing more. The guy doesn't provide any insight and he's obnoxious as hell.

Nah, you're a jealous troll. Hey I get it. I was jealous of Brady & Manning in their heyday when the Bills were throwing Orton and Edmunds and a bunch of other random QB's out there. But now the Bills got a guy who is ELITE AND is still getting better! Allen hasn't come close to reaching his optimum playing level yet. You have years and years of misery ahead of you.

WHERE'S THE DAMN HEMORRHOID CREAM!

I would add Diggs to this short list. But your point is spot on - without Allen we're a 4 or 5 win team right now.

I would expect Murray to pad his stats big time facing a Colts prevent defense the rest of the way out.

And Allen doesn't get a fraction of the YAC from his receivers that Murray gets from his.

Am I missing something in thinking Murray is average? Sure he makes some great plays but in the end the Cards have 13 points late in the game at home.

IMO, Wentz is outplaying Murray - SO FAR.

Really? Here's the stats so far: Allen 20+ yard completions = 47 40+ yard completions = 8 Murray 20+ yard completions = 42 40+ yard completions = 7

I think this comment stretches credibility just a bit. Given the violent nature of football and the demographic (young health adults) the players make up, covid is probably the least dangerous thing they face in the pursuit of their careers.

To be fair a much better way to think of this is the flu vaccine. If everybody gets the flu shot the severity of the flu season will be diminished as will hospitalizations and deaths but a lot of people will still get the flu and some will get very sick and even die. With the arrival of the Omicron variant of covid it's hard not to see the virus as having become endemic in the human population. We have reached the point with available vaccines and treatments to start treating covid infections like the flu.

Yes but in reality they are still missing games. My understanding is that both Washington & the Browns starting and backup QB's were fully vaccinated yet still missed their games. And I'm not saying it wouldn't have been better if Beasley & Davis were both vaccinated. It would have been as the CHANCE they could come back sooner is real. But the crisis facing the NFL is not caused by the unvaccianted. Plenty of the vaccinated are missing games and it's only going to get worse if the NFL doesn't change the rules.

The rules are human creations and when circumstances change it's stupid not to change the rules to reflect it. The covid world today is vastly different then the one we were in at the start of the season. That alone means the rules need to change. And the NFL agrees with this as they have changed the rules. The only problem is that they have been to cautious in changing their rules.

If a player was going out to the clubs every night I would get the anger aimed at them for catching the covid. But it seems petty & spiteful and a bit crazy to hate on unvaccinated players for catching the covid. In case folks haven't noticed a lot of vaccinated players are catching the covid and missing at least one game. Some of these posts have to much of a Salem Witch burning reaction for my taste. I think the anger would be more fairly aimed at an NFL that isn't being flexible enough or aware enough of the rapidly changing situation in the world of covid.

The same way that fully vaccinated players like Dawkins, Felliciano and Klein can.

With the latest variants vaccination no longer prevents covid spread. What vaccination does do is reduce symptom intensity, hospital visits and deaths. So unless the very few unvaccinated players in the NFL are getting sick & being hospitalized I don't see what their vaccine decision has to do with not playing. The fact is that the NFL should be changing it's rules on the fly. They need to adopt practical rules that will allow those that CAN play to play regardless of their covid status. They should treat this like the flu where if you're really sick you don't play but if the symptoms are mild you can play. I just don't see the logic in blaming unvaccinated players for the current #### storm when over 97% of the players are vaccinated. In the face of the new covid variants it's the rules the NFL has adopted that are the problem here NOT the unvaccinated players.

We'll never know as they've probably switched up the test kits and are testing for gingivitis.

Also I believe that if he was a close contact to an infected person that would also trigger a test?

This is the only way. Base it on symptoms and then only on severe symptoms actually keeping players off the field not whether they have covid or not. If they don't do this then in the next few weeks and through the playoffs and Super Bowl we'll have the spectacle of the NFL claiming to decide a championship with an Aaron Rogers QBing against a Joe Blow from the Practice Squad. Now that's competitive balance!

Why would you blame the unvaccianted players? They are NOT driving the covid spread in the NFL. In fact with 97% of the league vaccinated the unvaccinated players contribution to this is like a pea on an elephants back. Heck Dawkins IS vaccinated and missed games because of the covid. Even with the new rules the NFL adopted vaccinated players are still catching covid and not clearing up quickly.

Can you imagine what your typical NFL announcers would be saying if Allen threw an INT in the end zone; missed a wide open receiver for a TD and then threw an almost INT directly into the chest of a LB? My goodness the FOX studio analysts would be all over this. It really is strange how they react to the performance of different QB's.

I'm not sure we have the talent distribution on the Offense to give Allen those kind of easy throws.

I disagree. If you remember that first pass that sailed high and if not for a spectacular catch may have been picked off BB was not going to let Jones beat them. Can you imagine how effective play action should have been in the 2nd half? That they didn't try it tells me BB was terrified at what might happen had Jones been asked to throw the football. And as far as 14 being enough points, two trips into the red zone in the 4th quarter including a 1st & goal at the 7 argue that the Pats were lucky that 14 points was enough to win the game.

The good news is that Brown should see a big improvement from last week to this week. He'll have a game under his belt blocking a very good pass rusher, game film of his work that can be critiqued and learned from and a whole week of practice. We might be surprised at how well he plays this game.

Every time Bills fans visit me from Buffalo one of the first places they want to go is Jungle Jim's.