Alphadawg7

Because so many in the shout box and game day thread declared the game and season over in the first quarter and the football karma gods said “hold my beer” 🍺

Huh, we had a fine discussion. Did not realize the prerequisite for said discussion is that I had to end it being persuaded by you to yearn for Diggs.

I have 3 leagues, and the one I got him in I had the 8th pick and took St. Brown. I did not love Bijan at 8, so it was really Saquan or St. Brown as my pick was one away and then he took Saquan at 7 making St. Brown the easy pick for me. Then it went Bijan, AJ Brown, Johnathon Taylor, and Garret Wilson. So Puka came back around to me. Although I didn't love Puka with a healthy Kupp in the first, was still happy to get him in the 2nd.

My dogs name is literally Diggs. I was all about Diggs, I defended him and said he is more misunderstood than he is of a give me the ball Diva. I have no doubt in my mind that Diggs is more driven to win a SB than pad his own stats. But...for all of Diggs regular season dominance where he was a perennial top 5 and even top 3 WR at times during his four years here, he was also remarkably ineffective in our biggest games. That is just a fact. Now you can blame Allen, which most of your write up does above, or you can blame Diggs...or more importantly...you can look at it more as something just wasn't working and clicking in these moments with Josh and Diggs. Last year, Diggs is on pace for his 2nd biggest individual season of his career...but we are 5-5. And in 7 of those games, the offense went 2-5 to teams with a .436% win rate and we were lucky to not be 0-7 as Giants and Bucs blew the game on the final plays of the game. We also averaged under 20 PPG in those 7 games. Then, Brady comes in and we go 6-1 to save the season, average 8 more PPG than we did in the final 6 games under Dorsey while emphasizing Diggs less. And once again, we are in a big game against KC...Diggs has his moment to make the big play to get us over the hump and ball goes right through his hands. I care about wins...you win games by scoring more than other team, not padding the stats of one player. We won more games, scored more points, and had a better chance to win when Diggs was less involved. Those are just facts. And in 4 playoff exits, Diggs was not the man no matter what excuse you want to bestow on him. Shakir on the other hand made big plays in both our playoff games last year, including a TD in each and would have had the go-ahead TD too had Dawkins not been blown up by Chris Jones into Allen on the play you showed Diggs open. But once again, that play should have never even happened if Diggs had just done his job earlier. I think Houston is a good place for him, and I think the Bills are in a better place without him. It was a win-win split up IMHO. And lets be real, Diggs days as a top 5 WR are likely in his rear-view mirror. Houston already voided his contract after this season, he will be a 31 year old FA WR next year likely coming off a season with less than 1000 yards.

Browns looked like Clowns when they did the deal, and that was still when everyone thought Watson was a top 5 QB. Now they just look like some fool at a Homie Da Clown party

You know what we were replacing in Diggs was a guy who averaged 8.9 ypc his final 10 games here though right? And while he got 2 short TD's, he still averaged just 5.5 ypc in his debut with Houston. And as far as Kincaid goes, you know we scored 34 points Sunday with Kincaid only getting 1 catch right? And Coleman led the receivers in snaps, targets, receptions, and yards...plus Allen said he had a TD to him on a slant he didn't throw because he had an easy running lane to run the TD in, otherwise Coleman would have added a TD to his impressive debut. Shakir now has 3 TD's in his last 3 games going back to the 2 playoff games too. And Samuel didn't even get involved yet, guessing because of his toe. So I am struggling to get to where you are here in this post after Sundays game. I don't care who is on the field...if we keep putting up high scores is all that matters.

Of course he is after I drafted him in round 2 ha

Josh is Josh. Because he makes insane plays people say its all on him. Why aren't people asking if Mahomes is being asked to do too much when he puts the team on his back and makes big plays only he could make? Josh's weapons all came through all game long for Josh. But somehow its all on Josh again? And for the record, Josh literally said he had Coleman open for a TD on a slant but he elected to run the ball on his first running TD because it was there. He admitted he should have thrown it to Keon and that because of this play and seeing Keon win all day, he trusted him to throw up that deep shot for him. So a lot of this are decisions Josh is making in these moments. And when you can run the ball in with an insanely high degree of success, its easy for him to just do so. No risk of a tipped ball or misread of a defender, etc. Josh is not a running QB, but he will on his own accord take off without hesitation with his legs if he sees a path to a big gain, first down, or TD.

Post of the week hahaha, you win the internet

Dropping the pass is what led us to this play. So you are blaming him not getting the ball here, when this play should have never happened had he not dropped the pass before. And again, work up his last 4 playoff exit games. Hint...you won't be impressed.

Not when you don’t have enough of them and keep going home early. Think I care about stats against a lowly NE team, a Miami team with a bad defense and 3rd string QB in the first rounds? No, not in the slightest. I care about the big games against the teams that keep sending us home and keep us from reaching a Super Bowl.

Now do our last 4 playoff exits and see what it looks like

Neither did the team or Josh Allen 😁

I get that, but also to be fair, Josh said he had Coleman for a TD on his first TD run, but he had the run there and took off and scored. So some of that is Josh Allen making those decisions out there too. In fact, Josh made it a point to say he just has to trust the kid is ready after seeing him win his route for a TD and not throw him the ball and its why he let it fly later in the game for Keon's big catch. As the season goes on, I think Allen will trust he make more throws down low as well as he builds more timing and trust with this new group of weapons. I also expect Ray Davis will start to mix in more on the goal line too and short yardage. But the thing is too, Allen is such a weapon with such a high degree of success on running the ball in short yardage situations, it's hard to go away from him as you are not likely going to find other plays with same high level of success you have with Allen.

Yeah, that is where I think a lot of people have missed about this group who have been down on it. Brady can create a lot of mismatches and different looks with this group, including athletic size with just about any formation compared to previously just really 12 personnel. Still, it's week 1 and 5 or 6 weeks from now DC's will have a lot more film on this offense, so we need to see they can consistently do this kind of thing and adjust when say some things aren't working. Not gonna get out over the ski's here, but week 1 was exactly what I expected from the offense after they preached all summer that everyone eats. 2 things I want them to clean up though ASAP are the penalties (hopefully just some rust) and how Josh Allen was carrying the football Sunday, it was like a loaf of bread out there. With how physical he runs, he needs to be more protective with the ball instead of carrying it out there just palming it or fumbles are going to be an issue again. It looked like his first couple years again with how he was holding it.

Just to be clear, neither Hollins or Coleman started the game. First play of the game was a Dart out of 12 personnel and the only 2 WR's on the field were out left in Shakir and Samuel. The 2nd play of the game was a passing play, and Coleman was the one in the game essentially making him the starting WR in the passing game. He also had the most snaps of all the receivers Sunday too. It's pretty clear Coleman is the "starting X" out there. There were many times when Hollins and Coleman were also on the field together too. But honestly, still a little surprised you weren't at least encouraged by their week 1 games.

You sound fun at parties

Also, neither Mack Hollins or Keon Coleman started on the first play of the game, we ran a Dart out of 12 personnel and the only WR's on the field were out to the left which were Shakir and Samuel. The 2nd play of the game was a passing down, and Coleman was on the field, so he essentially was one of our starting WR's in terms of the passing game and that was further established by having the most snaps at WR week 1.

I dont disagree that Diggs can bring good value though still the Texans, they have deep threats in Nico and Tank, so he doesn't need to be that. In Buffalo, he was supposed to be the WR1, supposed to make plays all over the field. I don't know he still is an elite WR1, especially for his drama. He even admitted recently he had bad focus and head space last year. Thats not what a team wants in a WR1. So for me, its a win-win for Diggs and the Bills with the separation. I think both benefit from it and both can have good years this year without each other.

I would be happy in a since that hopefully the 2 TD's helped us win. But Diggs averaged 8.9 ypc his final 10 games last year, and he faded the back half of the season before too, and his playoff production has been all or nothing with more nothing in regards to what you want and need from a $26m WR1. So seeing his 5.5 ypc and having again no value outside the short areas of the field for the 11th straight game stands out despite the 2 TD's. Now if Coleman did that in his very first game, sure, seeing your rookie whose best attribute in drafting him was to make us better in the redzone go and execute in the redzone would be an exciting start. But I sure as hell would be concerned about Keon if 10 games later Coleman was averaging under 9 yards per catch which is bad for even a backup TE.

Ha all kidding aside...it's just one game, lot of football left and lot more for this offense to prove. But still, a lot to like from week 1.

Yeah, I don't get this either. Josh is Josh. If he makes great plays, people say its too Josh Centric. Are the Chiefs too Mahomes centric? I mean it makes no sense. Every one of his weapons both catching and running made big plays yesterday and some in big moments for their only play like Knox did. If anyone thinks yesterday was all Allen they only watched the highlights of his TD's and not the whole game.

One, I like all kinds of music (except not a big fan of country), so excited about Kendrick Lamar. But I do love AC/DC and one of my dreams was to see them live and I was lucky to have gotten the chance at Coachella like 5 or 6 years ago and they crushed it. In the 10 Coachella's I have attended, they are easily top 5, probably top 3 favorite performances ever. And you see a lot of performances at Coachella given its 3 straight days of lineups across 5 stages from like noon to midnight, and they are still one of the best ones I have seen.

Funny, we didn't really know, and my wife and I were discussing that this weekend actually. So we googled it and it was mostly related to the fast growth after WW2 where it was faster and easier to build above ground. Also cost, it is usually cheaper to build above ground. And something about the frost line being thin here as opposed to other parts of the country. Here is one of the articles we found on it: Why dont CA homes have basements

Awesome and yeah, Rocklin is atop our list as well along with Roseville, Granite Bay, and Folsom too. Everyone we come across who lives in the area or has lived in the area always raves about it outside it being hot. But both my wife and I grew up in places that got almost as hot, so won't be too much of a shock we hope ha. But one of the reasons we targeted these areas is my wifes mom and stepdad just bought a house in Truckee like 90 min away right next to Donner Lake and like 15 min from Lake Tahoe. They have a room all setup for us and the boys to come stay as often and as long as we want. So, we plan to dodge a lot of that Summer heat spending a lot of time up there over the hot months as summers are super nice up there.