dave mcbride

It was a bad throw! Sheesh. Is that even devatable? Plus he was completely covered.

Why do bills fans always blame the receiver??? It was a bad throw, the receiver was blanketed (again), and it wasn’t a good decision.

That was a great throw - I agree! But the Bills should have factored the issue into their playcalling. Arians and Trent Green were all over that.

Din’t let anyone off the hook who makes the ridiculous claim that foster should catch a pass when he’s looking directly into the sun. That criticism irritates me to no end because it is so wrong.

I feel like a lotta people here haven’t watched any baseball games where outfielders lose the ball in the sun. You literally can’t see at all, and when it happens, the catch never happens. Has anyone making this (vacuous) criticism ever played outfield? Foster was looking right into the sun on that play. It was a great throw but still a no-chance play.

Lol. You really think eye black helps when looking right into the sun? Man, you have gotta be joking ... right??

Given the perfect coverage, more often than not it’s NOT caught. I know everyone watches the deondre hopkins highlight catches, but those are the exceptions. For real.

How so? No receiver in the league catches that bomb given the sun issue. The second one was blanket coverage.

Please don’t blame the receiver for that. Great coverage, bad decision, and a throw that wasn’t even on target.

? - that was blanket coverage and the throw was off target — too inside.

Wow - Allen needs to see the field better.

That wasn’t a drop. No receiver in the league could make that catch given the sun. It wasn’t a bad throw, of course. Just uncatchable because of the sun.

Allen does look awful this game so far. Way too inaccurate and bad choices. Hopefully he pulls it together.

Yeah but. I guarantee you that there are good players on alabama who are not seeing the field but who would be starting - and impressing scouts - if they played elsewhere. I honestly think thay if you are really good, whether you play for alabama or utah is completely irrelevant in scouts' eyes. But they do have to see you play. As for Foster, he will make less money in his first few years than drafted players, and most careers are short in the nfl.

Thank you.

You seem to be conflating an argument about starters with an argument about backups here. In no way shape or form is Pennington a comparable (and, btw, his arm was good enough until the debilitating shoulder - rotator cuff - injury he suffered but played through for the rest of his career).

There are a lot of decent backups who took years to figure it out. They'll never be starters, but they're fine in a pinch.

LOL. He had a grade 3 MCL sprain (the worst kind) that he suffered on August 31, and it's hardly a 4-weeks-and-you're-all-better injury. As a sidenote, now you know what it must have felt like when I was defending Clay!

?? My understanding is that they signed Barkley immediately after he had recovered from his injury that he had sustained in the late preseason, and that he wasn't ready to play when they signed Anderson. If that's the case, then your supposition isn't really valid. More broadly, is the Matt Barkley-sucks hill one that you're really prepared to die on? Sheesh. Yes, this. The Bengals as far as I know were not planning on cutting him.

It is a great move. You'll be happy.

i always wonder why so many really good players choose a place like alabama, where logic dictates that they're less likely to play. The worst decision Robert Foster ever made was going to Alabama. If he had gone to, say, Wyoming instead, he'd have been drafted!

He has three seasons where he finished in the top 10 for AV (all players at all positions), finishing 2nd, 5th, and 8th (2015, 2011, and 2013). He was also the starting all-pro (not pro bowl; there's a huge difference) qb one season (2015). And of course he received 48 out of 50 first place votes for the MVP award in 2015. That makes him a very good qb in my book, and it's worth noting he was on course for his best season ever before he got hurt mid-season this year. Shoulder injuries are a bad thing; I hope he recovers. He's an exciting player who is fun to watch, unlike a lot of robo-QBs out there (e.g., Kirk Cousins, Tannehill, etc.).

https://www.boston.com/sports/sports-q/2018/12/19/tom-brady-knee-injury-mike-giardi

I actually kind of agree. They overperformed relative to the talent last week.

312 yds per game would put the Bills at ... 29th in the league. Better than 31st, I know, but my god, are we fans that beaten down to think that 312 yds at home against the freaking Lions (who let up 346 yds per game on average) is "efficient"?