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? thought Allen was wearing a glove on his left hand the last several games (rummage) looked at NE highlights - yeah, Allen still wearing a glove. Lions highlights, same. My guess would be extra protection against opponents stomping on his hand, though it could also be he's been practicing and playing for 11-12 weeks with the thing so he didn't want to make a change.

I think what that says is that it's pretty well healed at this point and the glove is just there for protection at this point. Allen stopped showing up on the injury report for his hand in week 13; 11 weeks should be enough for a break to heal, but maybe not enough for the bone to come to full strength thus still wanting to protect it. *shrug* having had several hand and finger injuries that did not involve broken bones, but that did involve tendon damage and that were splinted for long periods of time like, 12 weeks....was clear there was a hand injury, was not obvious to me what the injury was.

In case anyone missed it, Josh admitted it's true during his presser after practice today. At 5:16 into the interview, someone asks Josh about the report that he's been playing with a broken hand, is that accurate? Josh says "yeah, ah...(little smile) it's the left one so it doesn't really matter all that much" https://www.buffalobills.com/video/josh-allen-be-smart-with-the-football Says his shoulder and elbow are a little sore from last game because he gave them too many opportunities to lay their hands and pads on him, just got to be smarter.

I wish the post game team would have given Fitz a little more airtime and encouraged him to talk about what he sees. Because Fitz was a young QB in the NFL who was smart but didn’t know where his answers were, once upon a time. AFter being in the NFL a couple years, Josh Allen admitted as a rookie “it embarrasses me now to recognize how little I understood about our protections then”. I think Fitz saw some stuff and could have given some good insight into what’s probably going on in Williams head and what he likely needs to be given, as far as learning his answers.

Ya hate to see it, but it Is what it Is. Can't say that Pittsburgh put up enough of a fight.

Yeah, don't see Beane trading 2 1sts or whatever. But as far as assessing credibility, Garrett is gonna be 29 in like 4 days, let's start there.

Imma gonna try it with the traditional red then!

Oh, my, those White Christmas margaritas sound good - but where do you get the White Cranberry Juice? I have never seen such of a thing! Tonight, we will be drinking egg nog spiked generously with rum. This is home made eggnog that our upstate farm-dwelling forebears would make, the eggnog Almanzo Wilder carried out to the fields in Farmer Boy, no relation to the oversweetened supermarket product. Tomorrow we will start the day with mimosas at my moms Assisted Living, then move on to wine and brandy But, those margaritas.....

It appears to be Dell's kneecap sticking out the side, kind of muffled from view by the pants It looked like it might have been the same injury that Teddy Bridgewater suffered, in a shorts-and-jerseys practice with the Vikings. Several Vikings teammates reportedly threw up after seeing it. The Vikes cancelled the rest of practice and sent everyone home, that's how hard it was to look at. Stroud identifies Tank Dell as his "best friend". You do You, buddy

Of course he's playing today. The question is how effective he'll be playing today.

Huh? What did Tim have to say? Edit: Oh, I see. Shut Up, Tim. https://kckingdom.com/texans-player-threatens-patrick-mahomes-before-chiefs-game-01jfdp7tqwat

No, not at all. I was a "wrong Josh"er. Heck, I kind of wanted the Bills to draft the Reindeer. The differences are: 1) I don't hold myself forth as a draft expert 2) I didn't make exaggerated claims like "If Josh Allen succeeds, the Bills will have outsmarted basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself" or call him a "joke of a first round draft pick" 3) I sign my work - I admit I was wrong and take my helping of Crow Pie 4) I'm not going back in the archives of this site and trying to change or remove my bad takes, they're all there The above is true of most folks on this board.

I haven't watched Drake Maye much or listened to McDermott's pressers this week. Historically McDermott exploits rookie QB. He'll say stuff like "show me another QB that's playing better than Mac Jones right now" and then turn around and figure out how to bemuse and confuse them. d There are a couple QBs he's said something like "he sees the field extremely well, I don't think we'll be able to make him see ghosts" I don't know what category Maye falls into

I'd take a one point win. Just WIN

Looked it up. 8 ST snaps against Miami. So yeah, we got 'Nard-dog, Buffalo Joe, and Ulofoshio. I'm guessing Willams will go, maybe wearing a brace on his elbow, but that Milano and Spector may sit this one out.

I know, right? I'm looking at this thing going WTF, we don't have healthy DBs or LBs? https://www.buffalobills.com/team/injury-report/

I think when he lands on top of them, he has to be careful how long he stays, is that correct?

Oh, Jesu, that drives me mad.

Generally fans of other teams who come on the site to be rude get asked to knock it off, then airlocked by the mods if they don't 'cuz fundamentally this is a discussion board, not a place to *****-talk back and forth. If they're subtle enough in their trolling they can manage to stay for a while, We've had fans of other teams that come here to swap insights and can be pretty good - there was a Ravens fan a couple years back who started out rude then stuck around for some good discussion. Seem to recall a couple good Steelers fans too, and a pretty good Bengals fan. And of course there are our resident Chiefs fans.

Thanks for sharing that. I found this response more pungent. Who is the black man in the red tie? For a guy whose team just got whalloped 47-17 in a game where their defense got taken for 47 points by an offense that scored a TD on every drive and they lost 47-17 (7 of which were 4th Q after Bills starters left the game), he's mighty Chirpy about how the Bills are not a good team.

To be fair, are Jason Kirk and Sam Monson properly considered "members of the media" or "sports journalists"? Sam Monson's gig is PFF, which isn't media. Isn't Jason Kirk a podcaster and newsletter editor? He's parlayed his way onto the staff list of the Athletic, but it's as a "newsletter editor" not a journalist. "Jason Kirk is the senior newsletters editor for The Athletic, co-host of the Shutdown Fullcast and Vacation Bible School Podcast and author of the well-reviewed novel "Hell Is a World Without You."

On a certificated airplane like a Bonanza, I would say the hardest part is getting the FAA to approve the 337s and/or supplemental type certificate for the major modification to the equipment the plane was certificated with, but this is a digression to the accident so I'm not gonna debate what are the most common ways to modify an older aircraft and why with ya. We agree that there's reason to consider information that flys around immediately after a GA accident as not necessarily correct.

No, they called a hold on Edwards which, to be honest, I think it was was - the DLman tried to reach for Josh and couldn't move sideways to get him, which, I think is not going to happen if the OL doesn't have a firm hold. But part of what drew the ref's eye was defenders toppling over behind him, which is Josh able to move in ways which sends defenders running into each other pursuing a QB body that is no longer there. OLmen hold like that on almost every play and it's seldom called except when it is.

It's inexplicable to me that is called a hold. It's like the officials are "DLman wound up on the ground, must have been holding"

Correct. The pilot reporting "mechanical issues" and declaring an emergency are two things that can be known pretty rapidly after an accident. Ceilings were good at KBUF. Lowest on METAR 3,700 and usually higher with 10 miles vis . But where he crashed was about 10-11 miles south of that airport. The FAA makes plane owners jump through hoops to make major changes to the instrument panel of an older plane such as replacing the vacuum, pitot static or static actuated instruments with a glass panel (EFIS) especially if you don't want to be limited to day VFR. Been there, explored that. So what most certificated aircraft owners do is rearrange the panel to fit the EFIS but keep the instruments the plane was originally certificated with. And if you do want to go all glass, 2 EFIS and a backup power source are typical. Anyway, outside of the fact that the pilot is said to have declared an emergency due to "mechanical issues" we know nothing about what happened at this point and it's pretty well fruitless to speculate. Small planes do have redundancy built into their instrumentation; most small plane pilots who are flying cross country do carry a backup radio and a GPS, though those would be a lower priority to set up in the face of a mechanical emergency. They're not that complicated, really; the typical thing is "we're going to land over there, and go get coffee; the plane may not survive" which is why initially I was willing to make a joke. It's very sad that he died in the crash.