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If they don't have this kind of data to help in-game decisions, they should.

The fumble at the goal line took about three lucky bounces for it to end up in Feliciano's arms past the 1st down marker. Those fortuitous bounces now avoid the discussion of Allen running straight at the defenders without a realistic shot of making a first down, instead of using the time and space on his left to allow his WRs to get open on a broken play.

I don't focus on the high profile plays that are dissected, but on the run of the mill mid-game plays where his weaknesses are clear. Daboll dials up a lot of great calls that a good QB would make with ease. For whatever reason Allen doesn't trust throws over the middle, doesn't hit the well-designed crossing patterns, and is generally too late to recognize open receivers allowing coverage to close in. He has not improved at all in these phases this year. That's troubling.

If you're measuring improvement from his first NFL game to now, then yes, there's improvement. If you're measuring improvement from game one this year to game 9 this year, then there's very little improvement, with the same persistent issues. I'd like to see examples of other QBs for whom the light suddenly turned on is season 3, but at this point there are a lot more parallels to Tebow & Young then there are to guys who went on to have good & long careers.

What is that chart supposed to show. that Allen is better than Tyrod Or Orton?

What gives you confidence that he will get better? He's in his 2nd season, and I haven't seen much improvement in the key areas, such as throwing with anticipation and reacting properly to any pressure. These are the critical aspects of good NFL QB play, but he's still late with his throws and bails to the run too fast. We can talk all we want about our OC and playmaker deficiencies, but the bottom line remains that Allen is too easily schemed by the opponents. He faced a lot of 8-man fronts and still hasn't found a way to consistently beat those. His style puts added pressure on the OL and while it's a valid question to why Daboll is trying to run a timing offense with Josh, the flipside is that letting Josh be Josh would be an utter disaster over a course of an entire game and season. The guy needs to show that he's elevating his game.

The offensive game plan isn’t executed in isolation. The DCs also scheme for the opponents weakness.

Two plays signified it for me. Bakers desperation pass to Landry to get them inside the 10, and Allen’s miss to Brown in the last series. Mayfield gave his WR a chance at the catch, Allen didn’t. Most people miss the point that if Allen makes the routine throws that an NFL QB is expected to make, there would be no need for 4Q heroics. He’s not there yet, and the progress is very slow.

You're not going to win too many games when the offense puts up 14 points. One of these days Allen needs to show he belongs in the NFL.

Philly did, but mostly because of Wentz. Until Mayfield can show the same poise in the pocket, I’ll reserve judgment.

He does, and does it competently. But that’s the extent of it, because he’s not agile or aware enough to make a better play if needed.

Almost as disturbing as seeing a Queda beheading

Hah, at least we got good food out of it. In reality, combing through the past it appear that 1/2 of the writers/intellectuals of the ‘40s-‘60s worked for OSS/CIA and the other half for KGB.

Absolutely correct, and I’m guessing that part of the stories absolving Star is the push by OBD to take some heat off their biggest FA acquisition. It’s fair to question last year’s FA moves on the DL that haven’t fully panned out. It’s also an indictment of McDermott’s scheme that is prone to complete breakdowns if only one player misses an assignment.

Thx. There’s never a shortage of useful idiots. As an aside, this whole Trump resistance episode encouraged me to follow on deeper dives into the history of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns of the Soviets going back to the late ‘20s and beyond. I know that you have a bad outlook on the CIA, and I haven’t reached the late ‘50s yet, but if not for OSS & CIA efforts in the ‘30s-‘40s, we’d be in a vastly different and worse world right now. My view is basically summed up by the belief that the crime wasn’t that the Rosenbergs were executed, but that they weren’t executed enough times.

If I'm not mistaken, don't Bills still have the longest win streak at MetLife?

And each incompletion was very ugly.

Every few years or so this line of thinking makes a comeback, and disappears when the kids realize they're the ones who now have to pay the bill.

That you should shut up at work and listen to your boss? Yeah, that's part of the deal in getting a paycheck, especially when you are working for a struggling company and replacement talent is readily available.

WTF, Australia?

Based on the sale price, the probability that it was profitable is less than zero.

It’s a business decision to save a money-losing site. New owners didn’t want Deadspin to stay in politics, because the culture voice wasn’t paying the bills.

My guess is to start planning for possible Bloomberg entry.

Cross-fertilizing is running the same piece that appeared in a sister publication. Cannibalizing would be running two different, but similar politically oriented stories in the sister publications. Why pay two sets of writers to write the same story?

The only way to save it is to roll it up under an umbrella of multiple publications, and cross fertilize the content. They already own a politics oriented publication. No need to cannibalize it with Deadspin..