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Josh Allen has a wingspan like a condor and could stiff arm a T-Rex to the dirt. Just ask Anthony Barr or Yannick Ngakoue.

I will go look at the replay tonight. These kind of plays happen way more often than we notice live. Fitz and EJ had passes like this that we fans as a group ripped them for based mostly on their reputations. Unless the TV guys notice it, you have to suspect that it may have happened and then look for the evidence. The ball is moving at over 80 ft/sec so it's just a blur of a ball before and after the tip with the ball having more wobble than usual and having been slowed down a bit. All that is enough for a ball to miss its target badly, especially on a crossing route.

I think some TV broadcasts amplify the crowd noise thinking it lends to a better game atmosphere. I always thought Fox was most guilty of that.

I do not remember a "best ever" tag. I remember it as a "can't miss/sure thing" label. That's a totally different idea.

I probably need not point this out but Colt's OC is Southwestern grad Nick Sirianni, part of a successful football coaching family from the Jamestown area. He was with Reich on the Chargers as a receivers coach when Frank was the OC there. He is a fairly young guy with a bright future. Here's a nice article: IndyStar

There was a consensus before the season that the schedule favored a strong finish as the team improved over the course of the first half and the back end was filled with weaker teams and a bunch of home games. I think so many blowout losses have managed to blur that picture. But hope is a good thing.

Yes it was. Bill Polian was faced with a decision about either extending Edgerin James or Reggie Wayne who both mainstays of a great Colts offense. He signed Wayne and let James go with the reasoning that it took more time to develop Wayne as player than James and that Wayne was therefore tougher for the offense to replace. This is to make the point that it used to be the norm that WRs took more time to become good pros than most any other position and you shouldn't rush to call a rookie WR a bust. Eric Moulds seems like the best example of this from the Bills history.

For the he tipped ball play, his momentum was to the sideline and his feet were off the ground until the ball was 4 or 5 ft and a fraction of a second from the turf. I don't think he had any real chance at the ball unless he could defy laws of Newtonian physics, but the camera shot from the far sideline gives it a bad look. A high endzone shot from behind would not have give the same impression, imo.

I think I'll record the game with an option to choose to never hit play. Shades of Willie Totten.

I hope the team plays better for Josh Allen when he returns or we will not learn much at all about him as a player. At 21-0 I told my brother I had seen enough because it was only going to get worse from there and left. I did not leave thinking Peterman let his team down again.

Frank Reich was drafted in 1985 and did not start his first game until 1989. I see analogous talent level and personality traits. Unfortunately for him, he has been much too exposed to the NFL at much too early of a time in his development. He needs to step it up from practice speed to game speed and he needs to do it A.S.A.P. Good luck.

Whine-whine situation. Outstanding! I might ask if I could borrow that because I know a few people in my world to whom it may be applied. It may be worthy of a copyright.

Tough to believe that the NFL wants to flag Kelvin Benjamin's block but the NCAA would think this one is ok. The targeting call on Hodge near the end is likely bogus too. I'd need to see it again but I thought Hodge dropped his shoulder to initiate contact. Any head contact was glancing.

Shades of Chad Kelly's mug shot only his left eye is lower than his right. Must be something about the circumstances that exaggerates asymmetric facial features. Or maybe asymmetric facial features are somehow connected to lack of impulse control? Hmmmmm.

Poor impulse control results in his biggest screwups. This doesn't seem to fit that mold as he didn't seem to have any ill intent but embarrassing the Broncos does not bode well for his future with them. It's tough to imagine any details that could turn this in his favor. His brother Casey seems to be having a great season at Mallard Creek and has not had any such redflag incidents to hit the media. Not sure why he transferred there, maybe because Wegman's is expanding to NC or maybe because he is being recruited by UNC football or Duke lacrosse, but he seems like a much more emotionally mature person than Chad.

Sisypheus gets the boulder all the way to the top and the story changes.

The guy sitting in front of me thought KB quit on the route. I said that he is too slow and that DBs just need to cut off his path to the ball and he has nowhere to go. The DB might draw a cheap OPI call if he slowed down with Benjamin trailing right behind. That play needed both defenders to bite hard on the run play prior to the pitch and it did not look like they did but I haven't seen the DVR yet.

Thanks for this. Enjoyed watching it. Nice accumulation of different ways to beat a goal line defense. Robb was not that big but ran really tough. You don't see shoulder pads like that anymore. Most impressive one to me was near the end against the Oilers (playoof game?) where he went in backwards while under tackle with his butt about 2" off the turf. Lots of leg strength required for that along with an assist from Jim Ritcher.

I find it somewhat odd that Anthony Barr was the defender on 3 of Josh's splash plays. Maybe he wasn't a spy but I'd bet that he has seen enough of him to want no more.

I think it's the very bottom part of his left ear so you can cancel the nip alert.

Real neat story. Robb is one of my all time favorites. Lots of NFL players in his family and ryan would be of the next generation. Robb played bigger than he was and punished his would be tacklers. It took him a long time to actually start playing as he was stashed on IR for multiple years which was common back then. He was drafted out of Millersville and seeing him at Fredonia and preseason games, I thought he might make a good pro so I felt vindicated when he eventually did so. I saw a similar style with James Conner of the Steelers coming out of Pitt but at 230+ lbs. Both grinding out the tough yards on every play, not a whole lot of dancing, and making defenders pay a price for the tackle. Being a ready, willing and able blocker made him an effective 3rd down back. He had a great over the pile leap and his skill set made him a very good goal line/short yardage back. I find it strange that I have not heard much about him all these years. I hope he has fared well but given how he played, I fear he may be a candidate for the CTE issues we have all been hearing about.

NBA long had a thing about being "posterized", that you didn't want to be the photo prop in someone else's superhuman performance deemed poster worthy. I think Barr hit the trifecta, "The Pylon Dive", "The Hurdle" and The Stiff Arm" for good measure. This particular one is the best with the American flag, the field level to roof crowd backdrop, the goal post at the far end, the helpless defender and the face shot being so clear. It's almost perfect.

The player has possession with his arms down and the ball tucked. The contact was initially shoulder to shoulder then slightly shoulder to helmet after the whiplash action of the initial hit. The catch was right at the stick and its a first down if the receiver is allowed to just lunge forward as he would have done if he had a little more time. Tre did everything he needed to do to prevent the first down. Receivers that leap and do not catch the ball were always the textbook definition of defenseless. I think of the Tatum hit on Darryl Stingley. In those days DBs looked to make those hits just to send a message and plant the element of fear in a WR's heart. The NFL needed to get those kinds of hits out of the game. Receivers with the ball tucked and trying to get a first down are not any kind of defenseless. Sorry to see defenders getting penalized and fined for doing their job well. Unnecessary roughness vs.necessary roughness as was stated earlier.

I was most interested in the Army game later this month. The game time is still TBD so I haven't committed to it yet. Must be a TV schedule issue, maybe to do the the CBS Sports Network? They have or had the rights to service academy games in prior years.

IMO, he has stayed in the league so long because of his bold style of play. Even though it often backfires, he will constantly feed the ball to the players he trusts even when he shouldn't. The players around him appreciate that because it will get them better contracts. The list is a long one of guys who produced more with Fitz pulling the trigger than otherwise. Throwing blocks, taking hits in the pocket and diving head first for extra yardage, first downs and touchdowns goes a long way in building credibility within the locker room.