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The original article also had the sentence: “If this works, then stats really are for losers, I guess.” It was never about “maybe Allen will be a statistical outlier and succeed after all.” The entire narrative around that draft was the new analytics models vs the old dinosaurs of the NFL who draft players because they are tall. https://web.archive.org/web/20200111020229/https://www.barstoolsports.com/draft_josh_allen/ https://sites.psu.edu/nealondiscussion/2018/09/21/the-satire-of-josh-allen-is-tall/ It was all over draft coverage that year and the people who wanted to draw attention to predictive analytics planted their flag in the ground on Josh Allen being a bust from the start and anyone who thought he would succeed didn’t really understand the sport.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924131020/https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/4/24/17271686/josh-allen-nfl-draft-2018-stats-analysis-comparisons It had the original headline as recently as September this year and was changed sometime between then and late November. It’s obvious it was changed because it was a smug headline that made them look bad. It’s not just that they were wrong or that they predicted he was a long shot it was that they were dancing on the grave of his career before it even started.

4 first round picks or equivalent combination of picks and prospects.

Tim Tebow associates with Focus on the Family which is an organization that advocates against LGBTQ rights including promoting conversion therapy.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/assault-second-degree-missouri.htm “-recklessly causes serious physical injury to another -while intoxicated by drugs or alcohol, operates a motor vehicle with criminal negligence and causes physical injury to another”

By the rules of the league and the way it’s been called all year it does mean the ball was going forward.

Calling his bluff.

THE NEW YORK BILLS of buffalo

Yeah, if he's frustrated by St. Louis not buying him a new stadium Toronto's not going to be any more ideal. I imagine Rogers Centre is a worse venue than the stadium they have too.

#billsmafia

Lynch has nothing to do with Bryce Brown, but he was on his 2nd strike at that point wasn't he? And he had played himself out of the starting job and pretty clearly didn't want to be here. RBs don't get traded for much on good terms. What should they have gotten for him?

Seven pages and a lot of hand-wringing over a guy was inactive 10 out of a possible 17 games here.

And nothing of value was lost.

I doubt the team is going to do anything to draw attention to it at all today.