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That was a copout ruling as well. How in the world are individual states going to put in a regulatory framework for a national network?

The final book hasn't been written yet, but Jones & Minshew so far have looked competent running an NFL offense without resorting to gimmickry to hide their flaws (Rudolph). We'll see how defenses adapt now there's tape of them. For me, the key plays for those two were finding the right guys to throw to that are NFL open, not just college open.

Of course they do. How many of those projects started after Trump became POTUS? How many of them are in the energy industry?

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Remember the old debates about a certain QB unable to throw receivers open? Do we have the same issue again?

Sounds like a good game plan for a QB just coming off a concussion

How do you define "playing better overall?" After the opening second half drive TD, Allen led a five play drive that lost 3 yards, followed by a drive of three plays with a horrible INT. On the drive Allen got hurt, Bills drove 20 yards until the drive effectively stalled (If there are no offsetting penalties, it's 4 & 1 at the 37). The real movement on that drive was done mostly by Barkley, who accounted for 39 of the 59 yards on that drive. After that, Pats* blitzed every down knowing that Bills had no choice but to pass.

That 4th Q situation is precisely where you don't want Barkley in the game, because that's where the vast majority of his mistakes come (ignoring of course hitting Zay in the hands for a TD) The point, again is that there's a good probability the Bills' offense operates better in the first 3 Qs under him, that there's no need for hero-ball in 4Q.

I don't know how anyone who watched last Sunday's game did not see that Barkley was in better control of the offense? You can argue that his arm strength limitation led to the critical short-hop incompletions to Beasley and Zay, but his throws were always to the correct targets, which is not something that you can say about Allen's game at this point. Allen's best drive occurred when he could still rely on the running game or throw to the underneath RB. Those plays were gone from Barkley's stints because the RB needed to stay home to block, yet he still found the open receiver. I don't know how much more evidence you need to see that Barkley was in better control of the plays as they were called?

Do you want to also look at advanced stats, that show the situations of when the turnovers occurred - such as the telling stat that 18 of his 19 career interceptions happened when his team was trailing, and that 15 occurred in the 3rd & 4th quarters? Or that 10 of 19 INTs were in games where he passed >40 times? How do these stats show that his INTs were the cause of Bears' deficits in points? I'm the good probability that this offense would perform better with Barkley at this point, because it's obvious that he has a better command of a very complex offensive system than Allen. Nothing more, nothing less.

It would help if you didn't move the goalposts if you want to have a reasonable discussion. The topic is how well did Barkley perform on a bad Bears team, not whether the Bears won or lost the games, because then we'd have to compare the defenses. Do you want to go down that road? If you want to quibble about statistics that you highlighted, Barkley's sub 60% completion is actually 59.61%, and if you focus on games started, his completion is 62.3%. He's also averaged 20.5 points scored in his Bears games, which goes up a bit if you include his Bills' start. So getting back to the point, nobody is calling for Barkley to supplant Allen as the QB of this team. By the same token, it's perfectly reasonable to see that Barkley understands the offensive plan that Daboll has drawn up better than Allen at this point. Barkley didn't have the same mental breakdowns when he was in, even though Pats* were totally teeing off on him on every down, when there was no threat of the running game. Barkley moved the ball on two drives under worse circumstances, while Allen was only able to do it on one drive. It's not a crusade to start the backup, it's an acknowledgement that the backup isn't still learning the position, and there's a good probability that this particular offense would perform better with him under center.

You say "Reasons" then proceed to list those exact reasons why people feel confident that Barkley can put up points with this offense. Why do you wash away Barkley putting up 41 points last year, or having multiple 300 yard games with a craptastic Bears team, as if they're anomalies? Allen's physical gifts come in handy when he needs to manufacture a heroic 4Q comeback. With Barkley, the hope is that he doesn't make the boneheaded mistakes that we've seen Allen make in the first 3Qs that the comeback isn't needed.

Anyone have a site that tracks military jet flights? There have been fighter flyovers up and down Hudson River for the last two days - too far south for regular Stewart AFB trips. I'm used to seeing Ospreys on a regular basis, but not two-days of fighters.

It's highly unlikely that Hunter did anything wrong. It's also highly unlikely that Hunter did anything at all. It's a neat deflection to pin the wrongdoing directly on Hunter. The question though that everyone wants to sidestep is why would a second tier energy company in Ukraine pay $600K/year to a board member who had no experience in the energy sector and very little experience with corporate boards? The US regulators slapped JP Morgan for hiring sons of senior Chinese politicians for entry level bank jobs. Shouldn't this standard apply to much more senior level hires of US politicians' kids?

That clearly stood out. Even after a mistake or an errant pass, there was always a Sabre covering. Looked like Pens didn't know what hit them. If they can maintain this intensity it will be a fun season.

I take it you didn't watch.

You were saying?

Who is this team?

A bit disappointing though. After the first game, he was on track for a 3,200 yard season.

Wasn't last week the first time he didn't hobble off the field? His old legs are very tired.

Just a sad turn of events in Hartford yesterday. As an aside, we were at the Cape May air show over Labor Day and this plane was at the show, among many others that were taking passengers along. Unwittingly we were joking on who'd dare to take those rides, because the engines didn't sound too healthy to untrained ears. Lot's of popping and backfires.

I think his job is to pick up any blitzer. Looking at the play design, all Yeldon would need to do is slow him down by a split second.

The question in reality is which player can make a game changing difference for this team? Looking at the makeup of this team, I'd say that a real pass rusher would be a bigger boon than any of the available WRs.

Judging by the player reactions after the play, my guess is that it was Yeldon's screw up. It looked like his job was to stay in and block, but looked right at the possible blitzer and decided to help block the inside rush. He then had an Oh ***** moment when he saw Van Noy sprinting to the QB.

He's right though. If Beane was able to pull off the trade for Mack or Clowney, this defense would be truly elite