Mikie2times

Fred Jackson can dribble a bowling ball

Daring Double Down Dingle, but hard to argue (even if on principle I also agree with Gunner). But we did this. This is why the nice things aren't meant for us.

I can't do those things on TBD

Stunning his his behavior is normalized by his base. Everything has a justification. How about impeaching judges vs just following the court system? When is that open defiance of the judicial system coming? He has prepped his base for awhile now that his defiance of the courts will be for the greater good. That it's the liberal judges that just want to stop American progress. That we, as Americans, need his strength. As he moves you slowly away from democracy, you will be the one arguing it's for the greater good, doing his bidding for him. It's already playing out.

Got it, we are just the little guy, everybody hates us or doesn't see us. Meanwhile, teams in major thriving metros like Baltimore and Detroit get all the rewards. Actually, funny you asked. Group 1: Teams with a QB that finished the year with a 65-69.99 QBR are 475-288 since 2010. Good for a 62.25% winning percentage. Group 2: Teams with a QB that finished the year with a 70 or better QBR are 582-208 since 2010. Good for a 73.67% winning percentage. Josh Allen has the following QB's 2020: 76.6 2021: 66.3 2022: 73.4 2023: 69.6 2024: 76.7 2025: 77.3 The Bills basically fall in line perfectly with that chart and the winning% in the regular season. Down year? Take a look at the EPA on the Bills defense last year when they didn't force a turnover. Among the worst in football. Which is indicative of the talent level of this team. We have had more talented defenses in the past, ones that at least took until the post season to fully breakdown, sure. We don't at this point. Not close. I also find the Cousins comment consistent with your takes. Atlanta had Kyle Pitts, Bijan Robinson, and Drake London. So three skilled position players better than anything we have and they still couldn't make it work. So you think Cousins is coming here and teaming up with star power like Keon Coleman and Dalton Kincaid and making it work? All Pro's, Pro Bowl's, Stats, Records, all take a back seat to how you carve up those narratives to fit your opinion. I'm just providing what the data says. I don't need to have an opinion. His record is under .500 without Allen.

Its the offseason, what else do we have to do?

Does anything past this point really matter? He's targeting a private entity that pursued action against him in the past. He's removing that companies ability to operate using tools of the executive branch. Once that company "apologized" and offered 40 million dollars in future legal services to the Trump administration (with the alternative being suffer 100's of million of dollars in financial losses) now they can operate normally again. You take this as a legitimate politics? It's normal to you that private entities are being coerced by the executive branch based on past, negative relationships with the president? Coincidentally Columbia University rejected Trumps proposal for them to expand in the early 90's into Trump owned properties. Most people around the events at that time made it pretty clear how much Trump was bothered with his interactions with Columbia and the fact that they wouldn't move forward with the deal. Tariffs are because of Fentanyl and Columbia is because of Jews and Paul Weiss is because of inclusion and woke policies. Got it.....

So in your eyes none of this has any elements of being self serving?

If I had a gun to your head would you admit wrong doing? His executive orders were going to all but shut them down. Is Columbia the only institution that is behaving this way or is it the only institution Trump has a history with that is behaving this way?

None of this has anything to do with the question. The executive branch is leveraging government funding and executive orders to force private entities to behave as this administration wants them to. In both the examples provided the President has a history with these entities. So are you saying these actions have nothing to do with retribution from Trump?

You think it’s about that and not the fact that Columbia rejected the purchase of Trumps properties in the early 90’s? Sort of like Tariffs are about drugs? Why was this law firm and Columbia so special? I don’t have to agree with your politics but you aren’t stupid. I’m asking an honest question.

Our executive branch will use its power to grant/remove funding or access to force business and institutions to comply with its request. These requests don’t appear to be on behalf of the American people. They seem to be derived from personal issues the executive branch has with these entities. While this is being supported (I assume) by Trump base? It’s almost like Trump is abusing the power voters gave him to pursue his personal grievances (stunning). I’m curious what arguments the Trump voters use to justify these types of things? I’m sure you have your talking points on how democrats engaged in similar behavior? Curious how similar those examples are… Columbia University https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna197261 Paul Weiss https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna197490

I would say that group doesn’t get that caught up with the regular season

Has DeepPass talked himself off twobillsdrive.com?

I think maybe two posters know how to properly use catch%. RB’s have the highest catch % in the NFL. It has very little to do with hands (as you’re aware). But let’s be real, Allen was the only guy on the planet that could even out that ball where he did. Your first round TE absolutely must make that play. That was a franchise changing catch and the degree of difficulty was about tenth of the Cook TD run. Our big players need to make big plays when it matters. Otherwise they aren’t big players.

Jim Kelly reminds you that we owned the NFC in the 90’s. Problem is you can only hang so many regular season banners. Hell, at least that team made the Super Bowl. You can keep arguing that we have the best everything, QB, roster, coach, GM, eventually that should at least get you one AFC championship if it was true right?

Apparently the moon isn’t as dangerous to Sean as the sun

He would be on the roster if we wanted him, no? That is if he intends to keep playing?

It’s certainly hard to block for a mobile QB but bigger than that, it doesn’t give you any accuracy with actual win rates. Even in the run game, so you think Cook is as successful as he was without Allen threatening every stitch of the field? Literally no element of this team fails to benefit from Josh. Even on defense, we often face one dimensional teams because we are always ahead.

We beat the best in the early 90’s as well. I think two prevailing schools of thought exist here. We are really close and we keep getting closer. We will eventually kick the door down. We aren’t as close as it seems, this will keep happening. We are missing ______ I’m in the latter pool. I believe the teams that are at the level we wish we would reach don’t tend to get to the places we have and lose 100% of those games unless deeper reasons exist why that is occurring. I expect those deeper reasons to keep leading to the same results until corrected. Talent being among them.

How does the line look with stationary QB? Sort of hard to tell. Allen is never in the pocket for more than 3 seconds.

I said likely, I didn’t say certainly and I will push my money closer to we don’t want him vs he doesn’t want us. If you think your speculation is better than my speculation so be it.

A play that stands out last year to me was when we scored a TD, Hollins was pumped and celebrating. He was giving everybody high fives. He got to Amari and Amari just shut him down. No emotion or interest in that crap. You could say that he’s quiet and been there and it means nothing, perhaps that’s true. But it could speak to his disposition a bit. Was he really that engaged last year? Was he doing everything possible? Hard to tell, but the fact that we likely could have already had him back and fairly cheap (I would think) sort of speak a little like that play did. I’m just not sure he’s got a ton of heart for the game at this point and he doesn’t strike me as a “do anything to win a championship” type.

I'll take some crap on this, but it looks like Beane doesn't know what he's doing. Even worse that Diggs was under Josh in that chart last year.