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Funny in a dark, bitter way.

I am perfectly fine with your kind of critical spirit. You're one of the posters I always read because you have insight and interesting comments. This is quite different from the kind of crusading negativity that rubs people wrong and there is a lot of that.

Ahh, you know he's pulling double shifts here for all the folks disappointed Josh Allen had a good game.

OP begins "Against a team he was supposed to put up good numbers against, Allen comes through." After briefly giving relevant statistics it ends, "He was calm in the pocket, went to his 2nd and 3rd read, put a lot of passes right on the money so the WR could get YAC, beat the blitz on a number of occasions, used his legs when the opportunity presented itself, and he didn't throw an INT for the 5th straight game. The young man is growing as a QB and that should be evident to all." Neither the tone, nor the substance has any connection to the idiotic hyperbole with which you conclude your assessment. Ridiculous counter-narratives don't work that well when everyone can read the original.

Some folks on this board are not going to like this. OTOH, they probably won't be here for most of the week.

Go hibernate. Okay, you can stay up, but right to bed after Walt Disney. (This will not make sense unless you are old.)

It's still an equivocal situation that could go either way, but some folks who are habitually a downer on Josh Allen are certainly more invested in being right than hoping to be proven wrong no matter what lip service they may give to the latter. I think nearly all who support Allen are not "irrational fan boys" which is a cheap, ignorant defamation. Most are aware that Allen needs to improve and show consistency, just as they are aware that Daboll is an uneven, perhaps below average OC and that the talent, while upgraded, is still lacking. Year three should be determinative. RIght now, I am happy to see progress, hope for consistency, and enjoy that we are mid-November and playoffs are still plausible, though not at all certain.

Yes, yes he is . . . and you are a cultist for finding fault with it.

A number of folks will tacitly admit it by being scarce this week.

Yes, I know. Only when Trump does something precedent becomes a unique, treasonous event.

Honestly, the reasons for the divide are substantial, not surface. The left is totalitarian. The only abiding peace they permit is a cowed or absent opposition. Trump annoys progressives because he is immune to their intimidation and too rough a figure to feel the sort of attacks and coercive behavior that were effective for generations against standard GOP champions. He doesn't care that liberal elites think he is a bufoon, nor is he interested in the praise of academics and media talking heads. The folk, who are equally fed up and alienated, and know they're not stupid just because they disagree with leftist consensus aren't going to disappear when the Trump presidency is over. Yes, I agree, but when Trump does it to the snowflake in Ukraine the media cabal suggests it is perhaps an impeachable offense. Just pointing out the ludicrous and the hypocritical.

Obama fired W's ambassadors en masse back in 2008. No one said a word.

And somewhat inscrutable. I am unclear what your crime supposedly is. In any event, maybe we can start a thing. I apologize for the fella who is sorry for you being you.

Your analysis is on point as usual. The only rejoinder I would offer is that the cynicism of the Dems is such that I suspect they believe the GOP less likely to engage in such political expediency, partly because many conservatives have principles and they would not want to engage in actions harmful to the republic (the left interprets this as an exploitable weakness.) Also, the Dems count on the entrenched bias of the deep state, education, and media to consistently promote their causes and to dismiss as illegitimate any charges brought by Republicans. They are not wrong about that.

Ahh, I like French maids.

I agree with you, but after a loss the usual suspects are going to be making hay. Even after a win they are questioning Allen when most of the questioning should be directed towards the coaching staff imo. Allen is certainly not a sure thing, but I think he is likely to end up very good if developed correctly with more resources devoted to getting elite playmakers while he is growing into the kind of qb that can carry a team. It's not a good sign, however, that the coaching staff appears to be coaching all the bravado out of him.

Your original comment appears to be an irrational denigration of Allen. If you have a problem with Daboll's playcalling, you need to explain yourself better.

Except for those fourth quarter comebacks . . . patience is for grown ups. He's coming along fine.

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You got a confused emoji for the comment. Spelling it out probably wouldn't help. Testing is considered culturally biased to begin with. Color-blind objectivity is therefore a ruse. For the same reason, MLK's criteria of character is also presumed crypto-racist.

I think your cat should play DT.

An egg is a proto-omelet to the omnivore. In Eastern mythologies it is often the cosmic ur-object from whence the all derives. Faberge turned it into an artifact of bejeweled baroque delight. Some posters here are good eggs, though there are also quite a few rotten ones. The hard-boiled make claims to realism, whilst the sunny-sides are ridiculed for being homers. Neither literalism nor metaphor can approach the infinite semiotic density discovered in traces, analogies, and the menu at Waffle House. In short, the egg is an enigma wrapped in mystery. It is for this reason that the chicken crossed the road.

Everyone's lives are constructed on the basis of some kind of faith. It's epistemologically unavoidable.

The petulant and the dim. I surmise much of the negative vote is simply an expression of the belief Allen will not develop into a franchise qb, because it's nearly self-evident Allen has improved his game overall from his rookie year, though the long ball has regressed.

How are they going to achieve turning up the heat with the current talent? We don't blitz much, but I don't really expect much from our front four. I do wish they'd think about sending Edmunds after the qb now and again.