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To me, it's the Vikings and the Browns. Vikings They're the vanilla ice cream, the joke you only chuckle at (but ya did chuckle!), the 5.5/10 movie on IMDB, the OK dinner that you paid $30 for... But for some inexplicable reason there's always this expectation that this year sirloin steak magically becomes prime rib, or Green Lantern becomes The Dark Knight. Look, there is a Kirk Cousins in every profession. A guy who is fine, even pretty decent at what he does, but nobody really wants to hire him. Someone always does, because he's fine, and he'll do a fine enough job, but they are never excited about it. He's an almost anonymous "meets expectations" for almost every question, with 1 or 2 "exceeds expectations" on the performance review type guy. OK. Fine. I mean, you're not going to fire him for that. When you're hiring, yes, you could do a lot worse, but he always leaves you asking "do we have anyone else?" It's a hire with a sigh. Zimmer is exactly the same as a coach. He's fine. Standard NFL coach. Certainly not bad at his job, but the Kirk Cousins of coaches. Middle of the road "meets expectations" type for most questions, with a couple "exceeds." If Zimmer and Cousins were a business, their office would be in a plain, nondescript 1970's strip mall, and your grandparents would go there because that's who they always had do their taxes or whatever. It would look like a DMV inside, with its original 1970's decor, complete with dusty plastic plants and soul sucking elevator music. Mind you, they aren't going to make any big mistakes or get you in trouble if you hire them. But man, just walking in that door is depressing. And they also aren't going to come up with anything innovative if you're going there for business advice. Buy property young man, they aren't making any more of it. Browns LOL They are the Vikings if you gave everyone a raise and said "you're Super Bowl contenders now!" As if it could be spoken into existence.

A lot of it depends on how good Allen turns out to be long-term. Is Allen one of those QBs who is really good for a short window or a long-term guy? For example, Cam Newton was league MVP, led his team to a SB berth, and was just dominating the game for a short window. Then DONE, and I mean DONE almost overnight. Cam is only 32 right now but has been done for at least 2 years, maybe 3. So he was really only the Cam Newton many of us loved to watch until he was 28 or 29. I think that a lot of fans forget how truly dynamic Newton was. He put on a show for a few years. I say this with respect, but Cam played with ZFG (Zero F's... Given). He was going to plow you over if he could, and he usually did. Plus, the Carolina offense was Cam up the middle. Cam to the right. Cam throwing the ball. Cam up the middle. Cam on a draw. So he just took a pounding and played the game like a LBer. Eventually his body just broke. Their window slammed shut and has been nailed shut ever since. At first I worried that Allen was going to come in, take the league by storm, and be broken by age 30 like Cam with the way he played his first couple of years. But if you notice, he's gotten a lot smarter about protecting himself. Yes, he'll occasionally go in head first or try the hurdle type plays when it's a gotta have it type moment, but 99% of the time he's looking for the sideline or sliding as soon as a defender closes when he scrambles. He has gotten the message to protect the body and not accumulate hits and injuries when they can be avoided. Big Ben played to age 40. That's with appearing to have given up on any sort of regular exercise regimen 3 years ago. There's no reason that Allen couldn't play til he's 40, barring any major injuries. That's 15 years from now, so IMO that's the Bills window. McDermott is young. Beane is young. Allen is young. Diggs just turned 28 a couple months ago, so he should be able to play at an elite level for 4-5 more seasons at least. Our LT and RT are young. We have a bunch of young DL. White is 27. Poyer and Hyde are 30/31. Milano is 27. Edmunds finally turned 21. This team is young and should be able to roll pretty much as currently constructed at key spots for 4-5 more seasons.

Losing a playoff game shouldn't get a coach fired, IMO. Rams are a Pro Bowl roster that has been hit or miss all year. When they show up and everything is clicking and good Stafford shows up good luck against them.

Bills went 2 consecutive games against NE without a single punt.

Spencer Brown is one of my favorite Bills already! Dude plays with a mean streak, and he is an absolute giant out there, which I love in a lineman! Imagine once he gets a full offseason training program! Doyle is also a nice bonus. Looks like Beane nailed those 2 picks! As far as bringing up Beane's misses, every GM has them. BUT I loved this last draft especially. Tons of linemen, who you can never have too many of. Just look at Tampa. Pro Bowl RT goes down and Brady starts taking insane hits on the right side. IT was the Eagles, so it didn't matter, but Von Miller and Aaron Donald vs a banged up center and back up RT? There are simply not that many good OL in the game. Having some depth is enormous.

Cardinals won that quarter 8-7

They'll be watching next week you can guarantee that!

The greatest part of sports is that there's a scoreboard. Let em talk I say! There's still plenty who think Allen isn't that good.

I think it was a case of 2 guys smashing hard then in the immediate aftermath Akers got a little carried away before he realized what happened

That looked really bad... Let's hope this is another case where we get better news than expected. He was out cold and landed right on his head and twisted his neck it looked like

That was a freaking car crash

Watt is proof that calves are next to impossible to really grow

Rams need to smarten up .. America needs you next week, dummies

Donald needs to be smart. We don't need anyone suspended for next week

This type of beatdown would be amazing

Plus Tampa will get every call and the Rams will have a couple of big plays called back for holding

I really, really hope so. Enough of Brady

I'm going to be a mess all day Sunday. Wish the Bucs Rams was Saturday but obviously I get why it's Sunday.

Colts and Saints would have been nice 7 seeds

Turbo means run

That's really close

Nice play design if he threw it lateral

Aaron Donald vs a not 100% center is a matchup I love as well as Miller vs a backup tackle if they win this game

Rams. They can score and have a loaded DL

The Savior Bowl: who will be the team to (hopefully) end the Brady nightmare for this season?