Simon

I hear ya. I'm in the East also (NW PA) but my schedule allows me a month+ out West every summer. This year was 6 straight weeks of being camped in the Sawtooths, North Cascades and Rainier.

Definitely. And it's not over-crowded so you can go hiking in the backcountry and come across bunches of them and get a way more interesting experience when you're all alone and miles from shelter. 🙄

Probably, but you know it's only a matter of time before it comes back.

I'll give my golden a little extra today in honor of Mr Ruff. 😔

Forget it, he's rolling.....

Now that would be awesome! Can we bring back ICE for this (sorry sds, couldn't resist this idea;-)

He made an even better play going to his left earlier. It was 2nd/8 down around the Rams 30 in the 1st qrtr. I can't remember who he hit(Diggs?) but it was exactly the kind of work you want to see from your young improving QB.

I just spent a half-hour of my lunchtime cleaning up this thread because some people think they are too important to follow the same rules as everybody else. Having one person working overtime because other people can't or won't do their jobs is wrong. I would suggest re-reading the notice regarding political/covid discussion linked below, because we are approaching the point where warning points are just no longer going to be sufficient for repeat offenders.

I don't recall being tuned in enough to pick up on that kind of pattern last year. It just struck me as intuitive that a young QB would benefit from processing complicated information in a somewhat quieter environment. If he was better on the road last year, I don't know what would explain that. Maybe pushing too hard and trying to do too much in front of the home crowd? That makes so much sense in response to my suggestion that I will go ahead and give it the response it deserves:

I think that's exactly what it was about. They seem willing to move guys in and out at the same position depending on matchups. I'm looking for them to be doing something tactically similar in regards to Epenesa and Trent Murphy going forward.

I don't. I think crowd noise as a motivational factor is wildly overrated. But as a distraction for QB's who are trying to think clearly, it can be really detrimental.

You beat me to it.....

I think they've got the best shot to go 16-0 that I've seen in a long time.

Someday I hope somebody spills the beans about which magic word(s) Josh dropped on the chief zebra. I wonder if he's got a little Jim Schoenfeld hiding somewhere in his DNA.

Yeah, I've been meaning to start a thread about that the last couple weeks. I think the lack of crowd noise and distractions has helped keep him calmer and been really beneficial to his development this year.

Yep, might be the two best football teams in the world right now.

He does this so often (I think twice a game I have to deny my instinct to jump through the TV screen and chop his wrist) that we should come up with a short catchphrase for it. Uh-oh, he's Dangling the Lure again! There's The Tuna Loaf...... No Orca Calls today, Josh.

Your call, your thread.

Just a reminder that this is a thread on the message board about Bills football games. Not about Covid, not about the governor, not about state policies and certainly not about politics.

The players have absolutely come out of halftime with no edge this year, probably because they have been dominating teams in the first half so far. Today I even commented in the game thread during the first possession of the 3rd qrtr how much half-stepping was going on out there with the defense. I'm seeing the same thing as you and there's not a whole lot a coach can do about it; at this level you cant' waste time coaching effort. These guys need to come together and hold each other accountable.

I must have been grabbing a beverage and missed it. I'll guess he flashed an arm out to yank somebody else's man while he was already engaged with his own, since that was his MO for half the afternoon. 🤭

We all do sometimes.

Yes it was; he's got a unique knack for finding seams and getting every yard he can out of them. Good to see you again!

Mitch Morse. He was holding all day and I don't know that he got caught once!