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This was not "social media" available to the public. It was a private text exchange. Whether there is "other" stuff in the public realm but we have yet to see it. It's also curious that this young lady does not call him out on having made a racist statement. She calls him out for using the word "elite" and implying that he himself was.

I would want to know what that says before I could come to a conclusion. As a member of the jury in the court of public opinion, I'd want to know that.

Context always matters. I do not understand the context in this case. Do silencers have a racial or class context? I was never aware of one. Was this some sort of gun control discussion? By specifying elite whites was he excluding the entire rest of the population or was he excluding lower class whites only? I could list all the derogatory terms about lower class, rural whites but they may or not be considered offensive now so I won't. I saw some Tweet that implied Jake was saying that blacks should not have access to guns. Come on now. If you need to distort what was said to strengthen your point, then it was weak to begin with.

As a fairly average, somewhat struggling, middle aged, definitely nonelite white guy, I am only moderately offended.

Against the NFC East the Cowboys were +97. Add the Dolphins and it's +122 and a 6 and 1 record. Blowout the struggling teams and go 2 and 7 against the rest of the schedule. Many of the losses where the offense fell flat, NE, NO, Bills, @ Phi. I am more anti Cowboys than anti Dak. Many points in my post are open to the possibility that Dak could be more successful outside their team culture. The 2019 Cowboy offense was all about racking up points and stats against bad teams and failing against good ones.

It's not like we could see the entirety of the NFL back then, but it seemed like he was the pioneer of that sideline footwork. Toes in, arms extended and fall on his face to make the catch count.

I'm ok with it. Have an opinion and justify it with some rationale. He mentions his misses on his rankings from last year which is respectable. I think his take on the Diggs trade is way off. Tell us which one of the rookies that were available for the Bills to draft will be as good as or better than Stefon over the next 1, 2 or 4 years. The additional picks were mostly house money anyways and were not of much consequence. We have seen a trend where Beane likes to acquire extra draft capital and then use it to target the guys he believes in. His hit rate has been way better than most and the Bills are in the mix because of it.

This is deja vu all over again. He is +15 for his NFL career and 9 of that is from 2016. So, that leaves +6 for the last 3 seasons. The leader of the over hyped Cowboys with mostly underwhelming results. There are other QBs like him that did get paid for their stats but whose teams have never amounted to much. Once they get the big money it's not likely team results are going to improve with the added roster restrictions.

I have have not watched much of the Cowboys. For almost 5 decades we have had them forced upon us, the NFL viewing public, whether they were relevant or not. The networks need stars to promote to the public so I have always thought that Cowboy players benefited from the over hype necessary to justify their national profile. Somehow, I think it starts with their owner and his ego and filters its way down. For those that do not believe in the importance of culture to winning, I cite the Cowboys as evidence of what it means to be "talented" but not perform well in big moments. Something is wrong with their culture. I doubt it was all on Jason Garrett and I doubt Mike McCarthy has the goods to fix it. As for Dak, some anecdotal points about their performance last year. They were 1 and 3 vs. the AFC East. He threw for 463 yards against GB and they lost. He threw for 355 vs. the Bills and only had 7 on the board with 4:06 to go in the game. The Cowboys scored only 10 points against NO and 9 vs. NE and 9 @ Phi in a game to win the division. He plays in a climate controlled, retractable roof stadium. Passing stats come much easier there. Something is lacking in that team and while Dak may not be to blame in any way, he appears to me to be less of a winner and more of a stat chaser. He has started 64 of 64 possible which is notable and he might get much better results on a team like the Bills but I would not care to find out. Trust the process and see what Josh can produce this year. I am 100% ok with that.

Many talk about the easy schedule last year but that really applies mostly to the offenses they faced. Sixth seems high. I looked at the DVOA for last year's schedule and it seemed pretty balanced. 2 against NE vs. 2 vs. Miami. (#1 vs #32.) Top 5 Pitt and Balt vs. bottom 5 Giants and Bengals. Jets, Broncos and Eagles were top 13 vs. Cowboys, Browns and Redskins in the bottom 13. Titans were at 16. So, very balanced. But those who talk about how the Bills offense faced a weak schedule last year and it will be much tougher this year are talking fiction at least so says their 2019 DVOAs.

One Bills Live had the owner/trainer of the facility on. I think he said 3 other teams had already scheduled some future time there. They really have a complete facility there which offers a scaled down version of what the team's have minus the coaches, of course.

As a fan of this team you either trust the process or don't. I can't think of a more anti process move than trading Josh. So on to the next silly topic.

Should have made this a ppv event. Like selling bottled water in the desert.

I don't know what Joe makes at TDN and with Locked On, but WGR should just hire him to do One Bills Live and be done with it. He probably could still do the draft stuff because the GR guys go to the Senior Bowl and combine anyways. He knows front office and roster personnel throughout the league better than most. As for this particular episode, it is worth a listen for the purposes of this thread discussion.

Booger blamed Josh for a late throw when JB messed up his sideline footwork and called Cody Ford selfish for the less than forcible bump of a block that got flagged. How much of the narrative on Josh changes if that call isn't made?

Joe Marino devoted Wednesday's show to Josh and two big takeaways I had are these: --Amazing correlation between 2014 Cam Newton (his year 4 and just prior to his MVP year) and 2019 Josh Allen. --2019 JA was a much bigger part of his team's success than 2018 Mitch Trubisky and 2017 Blake Bortles were to theirs. This is for those who are nervous about Josh having a 2020 season like Mitch did in 2019 and Blake did in 2018. There is a nonzero chance it could happen and it would put the progress the Bills have made in the last two years at risk. In this podcast they make the "20 games as a starter we know who they are" statement without pointing out how much better Josh was after game 4 (start 15?) So, this discussion falls into the realm of 2 guys chatting without having done any research.

I was pretty sure that Miller thought very highly of the Moss pick. So, looking at the article, I see the rankings are a composite result from multiple sources. This seems like a better way to do it but it also makes Matt Miller less to blame for the final result. I think 25 is reasonable to start but with a very real likelihood that they could be much higher by season's end.

It is Rick Azar's voice on the call for OJ's run to break 2000. It did not seem like he was doing the color in that clip. I had always thought he did the p x p so what you describe is news to me. I wonder how many years that lasted.

Been awhile since I watched it. My recollection is that Jeff Wright and Shane Conlan were among their better defenders that game and the comment earlier about 3rd downs being the difference agrees with my thoughts. The missed tackles on Ingram's 3rd and 13 conversion were the defensive fail of the game. Shane rarely played on third and long.

What's your point? My point is that the errant throw is not the result of an accuracy problem as was implied. It's the result of an arm slamming into a hard object prior to the release point. Watch what Hightower does to Morse on the play. Josh is willing to stand, deliver and take the hit but runs out of time to finish the throwing motion. Nice play by Dont'a Hightower.

At 44 sec, Josh's side arm flick attempt to Beasley runs into Dont'a Hightower's facemask.

It's a blur before the deflection and it's a blur after just like pretty much every other tipped ball shown in this thread. Batted balls are obvious. They go up or crash to the turf. Sometimes they get picked. Tipped/deflected ones are not, especially without a decent angle to view it and without ultra high speed cameras the wobble won't be seen. Actually, we never even see the laces on these throws which are spinning at ~600 rpm.

At :12 sec vs. Redskins, Cole Holcomb with the tip. Endzone shot of the play.

Singletary faced an 8+ box something line 5% of the time. For Gore it was near 40%. I thought Gore's usage leaned more toward the heavy, short yardage/goal line jumbo packages as the season went on. So, my sense is that Gore's ypc is more the result of the number of failures in those situations which may not have been much on him. I think Josh became the better choice in those situations anyways because they would usually just need to block a few defenders to make the play work. That is unless they messed up the snap.

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