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    “It’s not a basketball shot where you can improve the mechanics and just rep it, rep it, rep it. In a basketball shot, you’re sitting there, your feet are set, then you’re shooting,” Tice says. “In football, you’re all over the place. You have to throw off-platform, and make a play throwing sidearm, and over the top, and the next one you’re throwing off your left foot. And I think that’s why it’s so much harder to get more accurate, is because there’s so many more mechanical things happening when you’re throwing a football.”

    Allen’s metamorphosis likely came from a mix of better footwork, a dash of mechanical fixes (that may or may not have stuck), and a lot of help from a front office dedicated to giving him the right supporting cast of coaches and teammates. “Calm feet and calm mind have led to [Allen’s] improvement,” Tice says.

     

    https://www.theringer.com/2021/4/28/22406266/quarterback-development-nfl-draft-josh-allen-buffalo-bills

     

    Good read.

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  2. 24 minutes ago, GreggTX said:

    I am officially 'concerned' about Ed Oliver. I haven't given up on him, but all we got out of him was an assisted tackle. That's it. Zimmer played better. Hughes played better. Trent Murphy probably had the best game of any of our DL. Harrison Phillips did not play well either, though I wonder if he's 100%. Edmunds and Milano both dinged. It's not time to hit the panic button, but Oliver needs to start playing at a much higher level or he's going to make me miss Lotulelei.

     

    Very concerned about this concern concerning Oliver. 

  3. 1 hour ago, dave mcbride said:

     

    If legit - and I am not saying it is - it's super-problematic for the obvious reasons, but also because Fromm has painted himself as Bible-quoting devout Christian whose hobby is praying. (I'm not making the last part up). https://sportsspectrum.com/sport/football/2019/08/30/georgia-qb-jake-fromm-follows-god-embraces-pressure-as-he-chases-elusive-title/

    When someone exclaims how devout of a Christian they are as a point of self-promotion, you can rest assured they are a terrible person. 

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  4. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-do-you-find-good-nfl-defenders-by-measuring-whats-not-there/

     

     

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    The Bills defense has been outstanding, giving up 304.1 total yards and 197.8 passing yards per game through Week 11 — third best in the league in both categories. But we can see a clear disparity in how opposing offenses are attacking starting cornerbacks Tre’Davious White and Levi Wallace. White’s reputation and production seem to have discouraged offenses from throwing in his direction. So far this season, White has given up a 58.9 passer rating on 66 targets, compared with a 101.2 passer rating on 79 targets for Wallace.

    The beauty of the Bills’ defense is that their star cornerbacks don’t “shadow” or follow specific opposing WRs wherever they line up. Instead, they mainly stay on one side of the field, no matter who lines up there. Through Week 8, White had lined up on the left side of the field for 97 percent of his snaps, and Wallace lined up on the right side of the field for 96 percent of his snaps.

    Our chart reflects that, as well as which cornerback scares off opposing QBs and where on the field that is. Opposing offenses target the left side of the field significantly more against Buffalo (to challenge Wallace, the weaker corner) than when they play against other defenses.

    This approach to analyzing defense assumes that teams react rationally to defensive weaknesses they see on tape. That assumption may not always hold true, but taking note of changing tendencies is still one of the best ways to look for those hidden absences of activity that are key to identifying good individual defense.

    We still don’t know if these splits have any predictive power. But this is the next logical step in understanding passing: analyzing the horizontal level. At a minimum, these new visualizations provide an interesting new insight into how offenses change in order to attack defenses.

     

  5. https://sports.nbcsports.com/2019/06/17/five-nfl-players-who-could-become-stars-in-2019/

     

    Levi Wallace, CB, Buffalo Bills: If there’s a player with the backstory to rival Wake’s, it’s Wallace. With precisely zero scholarship offers coming out of high school, Wallace walked on at Alabama, and eventually earned a starting job. Then he had to do it all over again when he went undrafted before signing as a collegiate free agent with Buffalo. As a rookie in 2018, he earned the highest PFF grade of any first-year cornerback, along with the highest coverage grade, and wasn’t beaten for a catch longer than 29 yards all season. Though he played far fewer snaps than first-round selection Denzel Ward of Cleveland, Wallace looks like a potential star in the making if he’s given greater opportunity in year two.

  6. 12 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

     

    So, you will neither answer the question (which we all know you can't, because there are exactly zero indictments relating to collusion

     

    Off the top of my head, isn't the Richard Pinedo indictment/plea deal directly related to Russian Collusion? To my understanding, he was selling bank account numbers that were created with stolen IDs, that were used to pay for Russian propaganda efforts in the election. 

  7. 41 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

     

    Source?

     

    Not that I expect much from a guy who recently voiced the opinion that it's desirable to the federal bureaucracy to drain the financial resources of American citizens who Democrats dislike in lieu of actual criminal charges. 

     

    "Cohen's attorneys argue that Avenatti, in his report, used bank records and information about a Michael Cohen who is a Canadian in Tanzania and another Michael Cohen in Israel. Those transactions amounted to less than $1,000 each, Avenatti said."

     

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/michael-cohen-avenatti-false-information/index.html

  8. 8 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

    www.snopes.com/myth/99e7ff32

    Duhr

    Spare me and learn to internet better.

     

    You googled it. Took the first result and a later result that showed the topic in the preview. Then posted them

     

    Fact: 100% of material searched on Google will agree with the information sought

     

    You suck at interneting.

    You're assuming quite a bit and are completely wrong. Since you seem to be good at interneting, google "Appeal to trust" fallacy. 

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