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Ah back to the old Johnson/Flutie debate..... He didn’t move the goalposts. He backed up his point with stats and put a little icing on to boot.

Same as it ever was.

You may as well get ready, that is part of his game and may never change.

This is like that dress that was two different colors.

Wouldn’t you?

Allen clearly wasn’t using his head, he should have slid. He is going to have realize this isn’t Wyoming any more. He never faced competition like the NFL, no warm up against the likes of Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson. Running free downfield in the Mountain West is quite different than the big league. His situation reminds me of Mike Williams. At Texas, Williams was so much bigger than everyone he could just push everyone around. When he got to the NFL he found guys who were smaller still but 3 times as mean. It is the amount of fight in the dog. Josh has plenty but so do the other guys. Everyone readily admits Allen was fighting for the first down , and that being the case he should expect contact. Penalty? Yes. Flagrant? No way. And for everyone wanting to bootstrap this onto the Burfict hit, get over it. That receiver was defenseless and on his knees when he got speared. Tell Josh to watch tapes of Brady. Marcia doesn’t run his old body into traffic and he throws it away as soon as he sees trouble. Everyone said Josh was a project and still is. He should have sat last year as a red shirt. He hasn’t learned some of the fundamentals that keep you in the league for a long time. At the rate he is going I am not sure he ever will.

So my point being is he should have slid sooner and live to fight another day. Josh is a big dude and one guy doesn’t bring him down unless he is a really big guy. When I was coming up they called it gang tackling. On the very next play there are three helmets meeting Gore’s. Also if you look at your verb conjugation; being wrapped up and wrapped up are very different. Wrapped up is the ball carrier is done, stood up, stopped, play over. That play wasn’t over.

Coach Dungy just said “Jones was just trying to make a tackle.” It wasn’t spearing a defenseless runner. Josh was running down field like a tight end and should expect to get lit up. I got one word for the young man, SLIDE!

Because that would be heresy. If you don’t believe in the process and Allen you aren’t a fan. You are a negative Nancy. All I know is the eye test. Josh is making the same mistakes week in and week out.

Are these the 1980 Browns?

In this game you take the 3 and live to fight on.

Dirty? That was football.

Oops

He should have been pulled last week for a series.

As I have stated in the past; play everyone in conference like the EPL and PAC-10 do, 1 to 3 out of conference games as needed to meet revenue deals, and only 8 playoff teams per. Skip the WC weekend so that it’s a dog fight to get in. 1s don’t get a bye, sorry. If you feel they should then just play 1v2 and be done with it. An extra week off in the NFL is HUGE especially as the playoffs start.

Any. Given. Sunday!

No, we all have forgotten about that by now....

Oh it’s impressive all right.

Where does that leave Miami?

I think what they were trying to say is unless you zero on the clock at the end of the half the Patriots are going to have it last in the half. And the Patriots aren’t big on taking their foot off the gas. And sadly they generally close out halves by scoring. It doesn’t matter who starts with it they are going to close with it. By that logic, you may as well take opening serve?

Not me or most NFL coaches. Sending the lamb out to slaughter early is not how we want to open. BB feasts on inexperienced quarterbacks. Let the defense batten down the hatches, get the three and out. Let them take the first body blows, maybe take a little pressure of the offense with better field position. Plus the noise level at the beginning of the game is generally louder (much louder) than the start of the third period due to people not being back from the head, beer stand..... NE can be had but the game is going to have to be low scoring for that to occur, which for me starts with the D setting the tone early.

Thank you for that clarification. As with the girlfriend comment; I feel the same, who cares? They are gone and now I have a new one....On to New England.

If you read the article he doesn’t use them to decide when to go for two as opposed to the PAT. He admittedly uses them for scouting, contracts, and tech. Click

Jason Peters. Still opening big holes on the left side.

It is a great article for outsiders. Gives a nice take on the Buffalo game day experience and pride.