Big Turk

I am not sure watching the Patriot game last week if I have ever seen a player put up decent numbers in a game but be less impressed than I was with Tua. I mean literally there was nothing he did that was really impressive. Maybe the throw to Waddle for the TD on 4th down but Waddle did all the work. The offense scored 13 points and he made a number of mind numbing decisions in the game and bad throws that luckily didn't cost them. If they are impressed with him, they are simply very easily impressed.

So I ran some numbers from stat muse which has punting stats from 1946. In the Buffalo Bills NFL history(starting with the 1970 season), they have had 7 regular season games with no punts out of 811 NFL regular season games. 4 of them have occurred since 2020. The last time prior to Allen the Bills didn't punt was the famous 1992 "No Punt" game against San Fran where neither team punted, then prior to that in 1990 against the Colts. Only other time was in 1974 against the Patriots in a game they won 29-28. As good as the Kelly led Bills were offensively, they only accomplished this feat twice. Since 1946, there have been 27,608 regular season "team games" played(ie, 1 game = 2 "team games"). 149 teams have not punted in a game during that time, equating to a 0.5% chance that a team will not punt during a game. So for a 17 game season with 32 teams, equating to 544 "team" games, there should be 2.72 times during an entire season that a team doesn't punt in a game. The Bills nearly did this by themselves, not punting in 2 games. Since 2020, the Bills have not punted in a regular season game at an astonishing 11.8% pace(4 times in a 34 game span). According to the historical NFL average since 1946, it should have required 800 games for the Bills not to have punted in 4 games. In other words, the Bills are not punting at a pace 23.6 times the historical average in NFL history. This is mind boggling! Add in another one in the playoffs against NE and it becomes 5 times in 35 games and 4 within the last 6, which is almost unfathomable.

And here is a preview of it... Lay's commercial with a reference to the coin toss... https://billswire.usatoday.com/2022/09/15/josh-allen-commercial-lays-coin-toss/

Hard to say because nobody knows where the T-Storms will be popping up. One area can get an inch of rain and a few miles away could get nothing. Talking 60-70% chance of rain tho, which is relatively high....however, the timing will be better known once we get into late Saturday and Sunday...ideally the storms start earlier on Sunday night and move out by game time.

I have heard from a close friend who owns a company that does business with a Pegula owned company ran by a very close friend of the Pegula family what happened. It's pretty serious and the prognosis for a full recovery is unclear. Out of respect for them I will not share this in a post, I had a brief Convo with some people in the shout box about it a week or two ago.

Looking more and more like potential TStorms. Could be some weather delays. Supposed to be a wet 24 hours leading up to the game with rain starting Sunday night and continuing through Monday night.

Shaq is likely dressing anyway as an exceptional edge setter and run defender with Derrick Henry coming up...likely will see AJE sitting out.

Allen has become Neo once he no longer thought he was The One, he KNEW he was The One... He knows he is the baddest MOFO on the field every time he steps on it and there is nothing he can't do. He is taking his game into the stratosphere.

He had several of those as well going back to 2020 and 2021

Mods please move this if need be. IMO those two topics have nothing to do with each other, I should not be punished.

Consider that other teams turn the ball over and still punt. Almost unheard of to not punt in a game regardless. Did it look like the Bills were going to have to punt if they didn't have the turnovers? Two of them happened well within FG range.

This is exceptionally impressive... Bills are the only team in NFL History to not punt 3 times in any rolling 4 game period during the regular season. I am not sure what this period in Bills history will be called looking back but it is already the golden age of offense for this team, even WITH the Kelly era Bills included. https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-los-angeles-la-rams-history-sam-martin-punting-record?src=rss

I mean just do whatever and get the chance to make the same mistake again?

No reason to rush him back...let the ankle rest as much as possible.

Just tell them their tip is "Don't eat yellow snow"

It's easy to say something in a press conference. I'll believe it when I see it in a game.

Perhaps OP is planning on drinking and doesn't want to deal with potential DUI/DWI issues. My advice would be to go somewhere after the game for a few hours and then call an Uber once the traffic dies down.

Hamburg is not far from the stadium. Uber is possible but you would be better off walking somewhere away from the stadium so they would have an easier time picking you up and avoiding the crazy traffic as much as possible. I would imagine the cost would be astronomical tho with how they price rides during peak times.

Because taking the ball out of Josh Allen's hands is not what they want to do.

We don't need to run it like the Giants did, nor will we try.

Miller's reaction on the sidelines was a look of disbelief and he said "What the f***?!?!" Sitting next to Edmunds...Edmunds turned to him and said "We told you don't blink!" The exchange is captured in the Von Miller Mic'd up video It was almost an inside joke that you could hit Cam whenever you wanted and you wouldn't draw a flag. He used to get hit late after throws that would have drawn flags for virtually anyone else and nothing...IMHO, that is what hurt him more than his running. He took way more sacks than Allen and way more hits than Allen.

Wow...looks like prosecutors have agreed to a plea deal with him where they recommend he serve no more than 4 years in jail. Judge has a pretty wide leeway in deciding length of time tho as they could sentence him to as low as 4 months in jail and 5 years probation. Family of the victim was opposed to the plea deal. Seems like he is getting off incredibly easy for the impact he has had on the victim and their family. https://www.yahoo.com/news/victim-family-outraged-over-deal-161952204.html

They don't have it in stock at the local ones in Buffalo yet that I have looked at near me.

Literally shocked at how much Russell Wilson seems to be universally hated amongst his former teammates, both college and pro. He seems to be the real life Bo Callahan, which is kinda funny because he went to Wisconsin... Have not heard a single person come to his defense that played with him when all of this dirty laundry came out...even Cutler was loved by some of his teammates and defended saying he was just misunderstood. Don't hear any of the with Wilson. They seem to despise him to a man. Basically say he is a poser who is willing to do anything to get in with the coaches even if it means throwing teammates under the bus or snitching on them, is fake and only out for himself, and talks trash about his teammates to the coaches and media(trashed his OLine saying they are the reason he keeps getting hit).

Yeah Henry had some good runs, but I don't think that is what beat us. Tannehill completing passes on 3rd and long to move the chains and his runs(he was a WR after all in college) are what really cost us.