Forward Progress

The ridiculous standard for overturn is what killed this rule. If the standard was "get the call right" it would have been more successful than "change the call only if the official royally screwed up and you don't want to be his friend any more."

It's probably a good idea. It's really hard so say "I LOVE YOU MAN!!!!" while social distancing.

This reminds me... what ever happened to the Spygate 2 investigation and punishment?!?

I came in here to say, "No", but somebody... well, everybody stole my answer. I loved Shady while he was great - he was always prone to the negative play but he broke enough big plays to make a difference. In his last year with us, he still had lots of negative plays without the big plays to make it worth it.

For the 20 years before Beane arrived, we would have been more successful using the media mock drafts instead of having a scouting department. I don't know who the pick is, but in Beane we trust. We will have two more quality football players on our team before the day is done.

I think there is enough evidence to take away their first round pick for the next five years.

The throwback on the right looks awesome!! The rest are just garbage.

I always liked Robert Kraft. ?

I can’t believe that an organization as respected as the Patriots, led by Bill Belichek and Robert Kraft, would sacrifice the integrity of the game, for any reason whatsoever.

I agree 100%. Beane has said that his draft board ready to go before the Combine, to ensure that scouts are grading players as football players first. This year will be a challenging draft year for every team, but I trust that our team is more prepared than most. We may get some good players slipping down the draft board into our well-prepared laps.

How about the Tre White Goalie Academy to work with the Sabre's goaltenders. Seems like a legitimate business expense to me. ?

I didn't open the article (personal PFF boycott), but assume the concluding sentence ends with, "... but the world will never know because their QB is Josh Allen."

Patsfans.com now have two threads on their front page suggesting it is time to tank. This is the spark of joy America needs right now. ?

Brady's final gift to the Pats*.... A 3rd round comp pick

All I know is that we would have a poster on our board with the profile name, "Wrong Josh." The only difference to today is that this alternative world poster would have been right.

Gr-gr-groin injury...

My speculation on Josh's long ball misses: After throwing too many INT's in the first four games, it appeared to me that Josh was consistently throwing on the safe side of the receiver. I think his new-found aversion to INT's lead to him placing the ball were it's either caught or it hits the ground. I don't recall many long balls in the last 3/4 of the season that were at risk of being picked off. I hope he trusts himself on the long ball next year and I would trade a few long ball INT's (which aren't much worse than a punt) for some more explosive plays on offense.

That was a great throw, with Duke in great position for catch. Unfortunately, the DB also made a great play pulling Duke's arm down before he could secure the catch. In my opinion, Allen, Duke and the defender all did their job on this play. Sometimes their guys make plays too.

So,.... it’s really a 41-second play clock?!? I didn’t know that before today.

I was at the game. His daughter sang beautifully. I was too drunk to notice when Lorax was pulled.

I know there's a layer of sarcasm in your comments, but I've been completely irrational this year feeling like every week of the season is the most important game of the year. I know that I felt it Week 1 against the Jets, Week 5 against the Titans, on Thanksgiving in Dallas and this week in Pittsburgh. It's fun watching meaningful football again after what feels like 20 years of exhibition games. We are likely locked into the number 5 seed, so our playoff spot isn't moving unless we beat the Pats* and get some help from Fitzmagic. I would much rather lose this game and outlast the Patriots* in the playoffs than the other way around. However, we are all ready to knock off the Patriots and own the AFC East. To walk into the Razor and walk out with a hard-fought W puts an exclamation point on the statement that the Bills are for real.

He won every off-season too. What ever happened to our back-to-back off-season championship banners?

Our covert operations department is simply not keeping up with the Patriots**. Until we begin illegally filming opponents, interfering with our opponent's radio communications, bugging dressing rooms, searching hotel garbage bins for game plans, interchanging eligible and ineligible receivers, and deflating footballs, we aren't even trying to win the division.

The question is how many minutes until the tickets are gone.

I agree with your point about parity in college football. The predictable blowouts get boring week after week. You’re right about the driver being money, but I wish there was a better way. I would enjoy a relegation system like European soccer. There could be three geographic regions: East, Central and West. Each region would have tiers with 12 teams in each tier, so each team could play every divisional opponent once per season. Each year, two teams move up and two teams move down. The playoffs could have eight teams, with two from each conference and two wild card teams. Every game would match 2 of the top 36 teams in every week of the season. The barrier to this is money, but with more entertaining football, the viewership should grow, growing the overall revenue stream. i think college players would be better prepared for the NFL by playing against real competition every week. I know this will never happen because the redistribution off wealth would be an impossible negotiation.