dave mcbride

Yup. Bills fans don’t seem to want to consider that, though ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdolloff/status/1178427799947878405 just disagree with you, dog.

I actually kinda disagree even though i don’t want too. Regardless, guys like chris ivory get a hit like that every game, and if allen is going to choose to play like that, those are the predictable consequences.

It was illegal, but i really don’t think it was deliberate, and it’s the sort of hit rbs get all of the time. Basically, it was a garden variety hit that the chris ivorys of the world get all of the time. He plays a certain way at present that isn’t sustainable, but he’s been lucky up until today so fans don’t really think about it.

Well , this thread didn’t age well.

I hate the Pats, but he has a point here. Allen plays recklessly. This sort of stuff is inevitable given his running style. https://mobile.twitter.com/scottzolak/status/1178437298649739264

The thing is, the running stuff is what makes him good, but it was also always the thing that was going to get him killed. He plays recklessly when running, and it was just a matter of time before a hit like today happened. It won’t be the last.

True! I thought the same.

I think the thing is that in the middle of the field, teams will give him the quick slants, but when you get deeper and near the EZ, you have to be able to throw ropes outside the numbers. He can’t do it. He can place the deep sideline lob accurately, which is good and something Allen is incapable of doing so far this season. Again, he’s immobile and once the middle of the field gets taken away from him, he’s a sack/TO machine.

No, not that good, to be sure, but I’d say above average.

The OP is 100 percent correct. His deep throwing has been horrible this season. All misses so far. No drops by the receivers on any of those throws either. No, he has been horrible all season. He is something like 0-10 with two picks on deep/bomb throws. None have been catchable.

Barkley can’t throw effectively outside the numbers except when he does accurately placed lobs. And he’s immobile. Both QBs have big weaknesses (i.e., Allen can’t seem to throw an accurate deep ball to save his life right now. He is AWFUL in that dept. so far this season.)

TN’s D is good.

Avoid kool-aid. He was awful.

The next accurate deep throw past the final secondary line that Allen throws will be his first in the year 2019. He has a ridiculously strong arm, but it is entirely useless if he can’t even come close to hitting a bomb.

Yes to this. Pirates/buccaneers are basically mafias on the high seas. They are the epitome of organized crime.

Allen is a snake, yes, but Snyder is the king cobra in that organization. Just a lousy person - vain, petty, thinks he’s smarter than he is - from everything I’ve read.

?? - He played 8 years in Philly and had 124 (!!) sacks there. You are biased. His 2013 season is one of the best seasons by an LT in the last quarter century.

If there was ever a team that should seriously giving up a lot for Jalen Ramsey, it's the Eagles. The CB situation is the one thing that's likely to prevent them from being a legit SB contender. With Ramsey, they are. They were missing their two best receivers and a genuine red zone stud in Davante Adams. The injuries last night were brutal on both sides.

I don't know about that. I think that when they're healthy, they're as good as any team in the NFC. The issue right now for them is that their best WRs are either injured or playing hurt, and their current starting CBs are borderline-street FAs given the injuries they've suffered in that area. However, as far as I know, the injuries haven’t been season-ending, so they could get healthy and go on a big run. Relatedly, that game last night was ALL about injuries. They affected both teams pretty dramatically. Rodgers shredded the Eagles because of secondary injuries, but in crunch time couldn't pull it off because of injuries to his own receivers and o-line. Fletcher Cox went down for a while too and was playing hurt late in the game. He's the Eagles' best defensive player.

The Packers lost and the Eagles won. And the Packers lost largely because their two best receivers and their starting RT were not on the field for their final two drives.

It was definitely Tasker, not Pike. And he said Bruce Smith was an awful tipper.

Speaking of Bills and bars, all of my fantasy teams in baseball and football have forever been named "The God Squad" after what a friend of mine who bartended at Jim Kelly's bar termed the trio who showed up together often after games but never drank: Frank Reich, Metzelaars, and one of the other white born-agains (Mark Pike? Can't quite recall). He said they were always really nice, though! EDIT - I did not know this about Mark Pike at all. This is about his son: https://www.si.com/college-football/2016/12/26/zeke-pike-auburn-tigers-louisville-cardinals Another edit: Now I recall -- it was Tasker. https://www.si.com/vault/1991/09/02/124827/special-effects-the-choirboy-there-was-the-devil-to-pay-when-the-angelic-steve-tasker-landed-on-the-bills-special-teams

Loved the piece. Thanks for posting. I'm with them in spirit, although I never drink until *after* the games.

You're also assuming a 48 yard FG directly into a very strong (30 mph) wind. That's 50-50 at best.