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Harry Phillips makes a big play, recovering a fumble.

Look at it this way: The Bills are so good that picking against them is now considered a Bold Prediction.

Yeah, this one is relevant again.

That took the sails out of my wind.

I really don't care how effective he is at screen passes or how he can throw to the first read 20 times in a row accurately. Crown him if you want, but he is who we thought he was.

To clarify, what Rapoport actually said was "he was removed from concussion protocol after it was determined to be a neck/back injury" Sunday. He stated this was done by both team doctors and independent neuro, who determined there was "no neurological component."

Thanks for finding this, I caught the back half of this on TV and it sounded like Rapoport said he was not in concussion protocol Sunday, but the full parsing was "he was examined for a concussion, found to not have a concussion by team doctors and independent neurologist, and therefore was removed from concussion protocol"

I don't know if it ends up being criminal because so much of the world functions now around perceiving reality as how you want it to be rather than how it is. There's an ever-shrinking pool of objective truths that can be commonly agreed upon by reasonable people, apparently including whether grabbing your helmet and stumbling around is a symptom of that hit you took to the head 10 seconds prior.

Ian Rapaport on NFLN just alluded to Sunday saying Tua didn't go through concussion protocol because it was determined to be a neck injury and not a head injury. Now, that makes more sense than clearing it at halftime. As for the Bengal, what do you want him to do? Can't hit em high, can't hit em low, can't drive em down, can't land on em. That was basically a perfect rugby form tackle, hands around the waist and take to the ground. A severe injury on something like that means NFL QB might be beyond your physical capability.

By being a one-read rhythm passer. If that read isn't there, the play goes off-script, but he mainly stays locked in on where the ball was supposed to go, like what happened on the stretchering. Bills were coming off a short week and kicked the Dolphins up and down the field. Delusional fins fans applaud their team for not needing as many offensive plays to win. Yeah, that might work out once in a while, but it doesn't make you a juggernaut.

you stupid when you do dat, just some English pig with no brain.

One thing I'm not sure was picked up on: Miami activated their 3rd QB for this game owing to Tua's being less than hale and hearty after Sunday. Rare to have 3 QBs active on game day. Maybe nothing, maybe they knew more than they let on. Who can say?

Noodle arm means not attacking outside the numbers more than 10 yards downfield. It means safeties closing on deep shots and intercepting. it means what we saw tonight.

Flutie's arm, I realized in the season opener against the Colts, wasn't going to be good enough to win with. It was a harsh realization; I had so much hope. Tua is that but more pronounced. And without the scrambling. And made of tissue.

So in 10 days when Tua gets lightly tackled again and ends up like again, we can look forward to it being explained as actually being the result of head lice.

So... 60 minutes?

What is more unbelievable is the complete shock of the media about such an injury, as if we had no prior indication that Tua might have a susceptibility to having a (more intensive) head injury so soon after his (not really a) back injury four ***** days ago. This whole Twitterverse outpouring of "OH NOEZ how unprecedented and how unexpected we are praying for U nobody could have seen this coming how sad" makes me retch. Everybody with a willingness to accept the images being shuttled through their optic nerve since Sunday saw this coming.

Every offense that asked Tua to process at the NFL level failed. He's a one-read one-derboy even this year, and that's kind of what has led him to the stretcher, just waiting for that one read to free up.

Was that Alan Parsons guy? He was remarkably erudite. In retrospect, he always was, but then he was a trash talker too so I sort of never reconciled that.

I like that guy on Amazon with the Alan Parsons Eye In The Sky necklace. "What if the thought Sunday was, this is such a big game against the Buffalo Bills, that it overshadows the protocol"

Do you have trouble in doorways?

Until you kick a couple field goals. That play sheet was originally designed to be used in the 4th quarter only, wasn't it?

Both Lindros brothers. But that was an age without concussion protocols. Tua was asking what happened on the play that he ended up on a stretcher? Oh boy.

Don't chase the points till you absolutely need to.