What's wrong with Josh?

[UConn James]

Re: Hailee's anxiety having any bearing on Josh.... I really do hate to dismiss other peoples' struggles bc you can't know exactly what another person goes through in this life. But. With that said....
 

If it's something that can be helped / fixed with 10 minutes of a bit of solitude or a blanket and warm cup of tea.... that's a Hollywood version / privilege-class anxiety.

... It's not crying on the floor, wondering howTF you're going to make ends meet, 99 problems and the car broke down is one, mom's been in cancer treatment for two years, the world these days just feels like a complete poop show, insomnia is an old friend, and you don't know what the next step is or whether you even want to take a next step... kind of crippling anxiety. 
 

A NSFW (language) extraordinary poem, ~3 minutes.

"My dad says therapy is a rich person's thing -- poor people've got ***** to do!"

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by UConn James

[Tulsabillsfanz]

2 hours ago, Bill51390 said:

Teams figuring out we have no receivers, get the pressure on Allen, even if he scrambles can’t find anyone. Defenses aren’t afraid of being beat deep. Offense is easy to defend. Thankfully we have cook and great run blocking. 

Very good point.  If you noticed today, both Cook & Shakir were past all defenders quickly on their TDs. Carolina didn’t think our WRs could beat them deep, so the defense plays close to the line of scrimmage.  
 

This lack of respect for our WRs allows more blitzing from the DBs.  It does make it harder on the offensive line to protect the QB. 

[Brand J]

6 minutes ago, Riverboat Ritchie said:

While I think Jordan Love is talented, he is not JA.  Watching GB PITT game and scheme and speed can make anyone look great and Bills need both. JA can play better but we need some speed. 

Both Curtis Samuels and Elijah Moore are 4.3 guys. Shakir is mid 4.4s, as is Cook. I don’t think speed is the issue, I think the passing game design is the problem. How those players are utilized. 

[Returntoglory]

4 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Here’s the thing: The Times of India is mostly a rag. I sorta regret saying this, but I know of what I’m speaking of because I’m the politics publisher at Princeton University Press and used to have the same position at Oxford UP. In both places, I have published a LOT of books on contemporary India, and I can tell you that the Times of India makes the New York Post read like NPR. It, and most of Indian media, is super clickbait-y. As a consequence, I treat the source as mostly trash.

Here's the link from her own page.

 

https://beausociety.com/bs-issue-30

 

 

9 minutes ago, UConn James said:

Re: Hailee's anxiety having any bearing on Josh.... I really do hate to dismiss other peoples' struggles bc you can't know exactly what another person goes through in this life. But. With that said....
 

If it's something that can be helped / fixed with 10 minutes of a bit of solitude or a blanket and warm cup of tea.... that's a Hollywood version / privilege-class anxiety.

... It's not crying on the floor, wondering howTF you're going to make ends meet, 99 problems and the car broke down is one, mom's been in cancer treatment for two years, the world these days just feels like a complete poop show, insomnia is an old friend, and you don't know what the next step is or whether you even want to take a next step... kind of crippling anxiety. 
 

A NSFW (language) extraordinary poem, ~3 minutes.

"My dad says therapy is a rich person's thing -- poor people've got ***** to do!"

 

 

I get where you’re coming from — real, grinding anxiety is nothing like what gets glamorized on screen. But pain isn’t a competition. Everyone’s threshold and context are different, and what’s small to one person can feel massive to another.

[Buffalo716]

FYI for all my bills brothers and sisters out there Peyton Manning didn't win his first super bowl till he was 30 years old 

 

Josh Allen is far from done.. I know it's hard to be a Bills fan but just like how losing to the dolphins for a decade was spectacularly crazy and the drought was spectacularly crazy

 

Our super bowl that the Buffalo Bills win will be extraordinary.. I can see it now our kicker we signed out of coaching high School football is getting his dream of booting that 43 yard field goal down the pipes erasing wide right

[ColoradoBills]

5 minutes ago, Brand J said:

Both Curtis Samuels and Elijah Moore are 4.3 guys. Shakir is mid 4.4s, as is Cook. I don’t think speed is the issue, I think the passing game design is the problem. How those players are utilized. 

 

I would like to add I'm not so sure Adam Henry is working with these WR the way that is needed.

He hasn't kept a job more than 2 years almost all his career.

I would like to know more about his teachings skills.

[Returntoglory]

4 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

FYI for all my bills brothers and sisters out there Peyton Manning didn't win his first super bowl till he was 30 years old 

 

Josh Allen is far from done.. I know it's hard to be a Bills fan but just like how losing to the dolphins for a decade was spectacularly crazy and the drought was spectacularly crazy

 

Our super bowl that the Buffalo Bills win will be extraordinary.. I can see it now our kicker we signed out of coaching high School football is getting his dream of booting that 43 yard field goal down the pipes erasing wide right

Among Peytons receivers over the years he had:

 

Marvin Harrison: Manning's top receiver in Indianapolis, holding the most receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns of any player he played with. 

 

Reggie Wayne: A consistent and dominant force, ranking second in receptions, yards, and touchdowns with Manning. 

 

Brandon Stokley: An excellent slot receiver who was a key part of the Colts' passing game, particularly in 2004. 

 

Dallas Clark: A standout tight end who was a primary target for Manning. 

[dave mcbride]

14 minutes ago, Returntoglory said:

Here's the link from her own page.

 

https://beausociety.com/bs-issue-30

 

 

I get where you’re coming from — real, grinding anxiety is nothing like what gets glamorized on screen. But pain isn’t a competition. Everyone’s threshold and context are different, and what’s small to one person can feel massive to another.

Here’s the thing: despite having the worst receiving corps of his career, he has the second highest quarterback rating of his career this season. It was 103.2 going into today, and his passer rating today was 108.0. They were 4th overall in both points per game and yards per game before today, and I assume they’ve moved upward in both categories after today’s performance. 

Edited 2 hours ago by dave mcbride

[Buffalo716]

13 minutes ago, Returntoglory said:

Among Peytons receivers over the years he had:

 

Marvin Harrison: Manning's top receiver in Indianapolis, holding the most receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns of any player he played with. 

 

Reggie Wayne: A consistent and dominant force, ranking second in receptions, yards, and touchdowns with Manning. 

 

Brandon Stokley: An excellent slot receiver who was a key part of the Colts' passing game, particularly in 2004. 

 

Dallas Clark: A standout tight end who was a primary target for Manning. 

And Sean McDermott has already put together more top 10 defenses than Peyton Manning had  with Tony Dungy and Caldwell.. which resulted in one super bowl

 

It's a give take

 

Manning and the colts use most of their salary cap on offense.. Bill belichick and Tom Brady and the Patriots used it mainly on defense in the offensive line and they always won in the postseason

Edited 2 hours ago by Buffalo716

[Returntoglory]

5 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Here’s the thing: despite having the worst receiving corps of his career, he has the second highest quarterback rating of his career this season. It was 103.2 going into today, and his passer rating today was 108.0. They were 4th overall in both points per game and yards per game before today, and I assume they’ve moved upward in both categories after today’s performance. 

Imagine if he actually had a top-tier receiving corps… the league wouldn’t know what hit it.

[Brand J]

3 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Here’s the thing: despite having the worst receiving corps of his career, he has the second highest quarterback rating of his career this season. It was 103.2 going into today, and his passer rating today was 108.0. They were 4th overall in both points per game and yards per game before today, and I assume they’ve moved upward in both categories after today’s performance. 

Some like to judge based off QBR rather than QB rating and that was poor. A 48 I think I saw. He had 160 yards but 50 of those came on Shakir’s catch and run. Allen didn’t need to be magical this game because Cook was going off, but he WILL need to be magical next week. He’ll need to have his most complete game of the season.

[CincyBillsFan]

18 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

Not only is Cook a top-3 RB in the league but almost every player on the offense is a better contributor to a rushing attack than a passing one.  The OL are exceptional run blockers,  Jackson Hawes is a revelation in this capacity, even the WR group blocks better than it catches.

Like I've been saying - all of this is entirely by design and I suspect that Brady/McD would say that Allen played great within the confines of the system they want to run. 

 

The way the offense is designed and the care with which the Bills are managing injuries strikes me as an organization that has broken the season up into parts with the goal of not wearing themselves out before the playoffs. We are in the first part where the goal is to stay near the top of the seeding while staying fresh.  The last couple of seasons has seen a battered & beat up Bills team run out of gas in the playoffs.  What we're seeing now is a direct response to that.

 

Only time will tell if this is the right way to go.  

[Gunsgoodtime]

He is married now.  She took his balls away from him.

[Returntoglory]

11 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

And Sean McDermott has already put together more top 10 defenses than Peyton Manning had  with Tony Dungy and Caldwell.. which resulted in one super bowl

 

It's a give take

 

Manning and the colts use most of their salary cap on offense.. Bill belichick and Tom Brady and the Patriots used it mainly on defense in the offensive line and they always won in the postseason

Yeah, defenses are great… until the QB has no consistent target. Josh Allen deserves a WR1 to match his talent.

[Buffalo ill]

4 minutes ago, Gunsgoodtime said:

He is married now.  She took his balls away from him.

They go from sucking one thing to sucking the joy out of life after marriage.

[CincyBillsFan]

17 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

And Sean McDermott has already put together more top 10 defenses than Peyton Manning had  with Tony Dungy and Caldwell.. which resulted in one super bowl

 

It's a give take

 

Manning and the colts use most of their salary cap on offense.. Bill belichick and Tom Brady and the Patriots used it mainly on defense in the offensive line and they always won in the postseason

But McD's defenses failed in the playoffs far more often then either the offensive minded Colts or defense obsessed Pats did.  In fact with the exception of the first Baltimore playoff game McD playoff defenses have been terrible. 

[Buffalo716]

9 minutes ago, Returntoglory said:

Yeah, defenses are great… until the QB has no consistent target. Josh Allen deserves a WR1 to match his talent.

I really haven't looked it up cuz even when I'm chatting here most of it is all off the top of my head 

 

But I'm pretty sure Marvin Harrison was drafted  before Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne was like 01 or 02

 

 Peyton started with Marshall faulk and Marvin Harrison then they traded Faulk.. and got edgeron James was another beast 

 

 so they added Reggie Wayne but he took a really good wide receiver and made him great.. Reggie Wayne is two times the wide receiver Julian Edelman is and he's not in the Hall of Fame

 

Edelman has the super bowl

Edited 2 hours ago by Buffalo716

[Fan in Chicago]

40 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Here’s the thing: The Times of India is mostly a rag. I sorta regret saying this, but I know of what I’m speaking of because I’m the politics publisher at Princeton University Press and used to have the same position at Oxford UP. In both places, I have published a LOT of books on contemporary India, and I can tell you that the Times of India makes the New York Post read like NPR. It, and most of Indian media, is super clickbait-y. As a consequence, I treat the source as mostly trash.

I used to read the TOI in the 80s when it was a respectable publication and had great analysis of Indian and foreign affairs. Somewhere in the 90s, they went in a different direction and the once respected newspaper has been utter trash for two decades. 

[Returntoglory]

1 minute ago, Buffalo716 said:

I really haven't looked it up cuz even when I'm chatting here most of it is all off the top of my head 

 

But I'm pretty sure Marvin Harrison was drafted  before Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne was like 01 or 02

 

 Peyton started with Marshall faulk and Marvin Harrison then they traded Faulk.. and got edgeron James was another beast 

 

 so they added Reggie Wayne but he took a really good wide receiver and made him great.. Reggie Wayne is two times the wide receiver Julian Edelman is and he's not in the Hall of Fame

So, were in agreement then? 

[Riverboat Ritchie]

11 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

Like I've been saying - all of this is entirely by design and I suspect that Brady/McD would say that Allen played great within the confines of the system they want to run. 

 

The way the offense is designed and the care with which the Bills are managing injuries strikes me as an organization that has broken the season up into parts with the goal of not wearing themselves out before the playoffs. We are in the first part where the goal is to stay near the top of the seeding while staying fresh.  The last couple of seasons has seen a battered & beat up Bills team run out of gas in the playoffs.  What we're seeing now is a direct response to that.

 

Only time will tell if this is the right way to go.  

Wish they could of employed this with Ed today. Honestly I don’t think they have any clue and playing it week by week.  I did use to trust the process but between the last few years in draft, beans WGR comments about a WR, constant crapping bed in playoffs, the process s just words and nothing more. The guys we put in for the guys we are supposedly resting looked better today.