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I heard Beasley just texted Sammy Watkins for tips on how to be an effective decoy.

All the time. I have had some weird recurring dreams too. After the MCM, I had the same Titans/Bills dream a bunch of times. I was standing and watching in the back of the endzone, as Peerless Price caught a deep TD pass, putting the Bills up 70-7. I probably had that same dream like 5 times. Oddly enough, it never came true. Before this season started, I had some vivid dreams, which I posted on here-- which I will paste below (because they are kind of funny in hindsight): ____________ I posted on here a month or so ago a Bills’ dream i had, which involved some overall good play by Josh Allen, some near turnovers, and a blank look by Stephon Gilmore. Well, last night, I had another very specific Bills’ dream, and I think it warrants some psychological interpretation. First series of the season. First two plays were total nightmares— sack, loss of yards on a running play, penalty. It put us in 3rd and Super long. Instead of your draw or dump down, Josh Allen does a pump fake on a fake WR screen to the left. He rolls slightly to the right, and throws an absolute dead-on accurate bomb to Gabriel Davis. 65-yard TD!!! Here is the wrinkle—in the dream’s instant replay, Davis severely bobbled this pass, but re-grouped and barely hung on for the TD. This made me very nervous.

good thought— but I think there is no chance. It’s pretty amazing, but he is so much more lethal Now throwing. Basically like Mahomes and Russell Wilson. Running is a waste of a play. You can even tell his mindset has changed re running generally— he had a nice run last week on a scramble when he was under pressure and it almost pained him to have to run.

Agreed— this sounds much better to me!!

I don’t know. Going into last game, I said I was excited about McKenzie getting some opportunities in the return game. And everyone reminded me of his bobbles and fumbles and bad decisions. Then, this past Sunday, on his punt return TD, he almost fumbled the ball on the catch, if you go back and look. On another punt return, he got out of the way Too late, and the ball missed hitting him by like an inch. My buddy is a Broncos fan, and he said McKenzie made a lot of mistakes and bobbles and fumbles in his very limited time in Denver too. I love McKenzie, but remain nervous with him on returns.

haha. I thought I was the only parent who lived through that trash. What a brat.

Same. I get nervous thinking about it. I can’t wait for it to happen, so I can stop feeling sick to my Stomach!

People sort of forget, but we made the Rams No. 1 defense look silly. As I recall, Allen even stiff armed Donald to the ground. I know the game ended up being close due to the Rams O coming back— but I still consider a good part of that game to be dominating, especially as against their Defense.

I think there may be a drop off. You can argue that Josh made Daboll look good. That’s probably partially true. But Daboll’s playcalling this year has just been superb. Unpredictable, aggressive, creative. It seems to change too week to week. His playcalling in the red zone in particular has been brilliant. Hopefully if Dorsey is the guy, he has learned enough to be able to call at least similar plays and similar games. (Though I also worry that Dorsey could go with Daboll— I don’t know how close they are).

Isn’t BB under contract?

It is amazing. Before this year, josh was great against zone and pretty bad against man, as I recall. now he is great against both. i think the improvement re man is our receivers are better and Josh’s accuracy is better.

Is it Saturday yet? I can’t take the stress of waiting any longer.

I said the same thing above— but the reality is that it’s not going to work. Even against 6 and 7 DB sets playing zone coverage, the Bills have been carving up teams through the air. The Colts weakness is their pass defense. They could probably put 11 DB’s out there and it wouldn’t matter.

Agreed. 1) on offense, run the ball, and drain the clock. 2) on defense, I would do what the Patriots did in their first game against us. Basically, play the whole game in a Dime defense, and force the Bills to beat you by running the ball with Singletary or Moss.

I think it’s been due to covid. Nowhere to go basically. Even in Ohio, the curfew for bars and similar places is like 10 pm— which is why it’s sort of surprising that the Browns have Been able to get in trouble over the last few days (eg, Baker and Hunt at bar; Higgins and their LT racing).

this stat is a bit misleading in terms of understating Josh’s completion percentage on deep balls. Over the last 4-5 weeks, his deep ball accuracy has improved dramatically. He is putting a lot more loft on those balls, and it’s leading to a lot more catches.

I don’t get it. The Patriots draft picks and free agent acquisitions for years have been totally underwhelming.

I would amputate. Many people have played football with only one oblique. Pretty sure Thurman did.

Flores clarified: ”Tua is our starter at QB. But we plan on using the #3 pick on our “closer” QB.”

It really is amazing how good the ST is. Remember the years of complaining about Crossman?! this ST unit too plays with swagger— eg, they have Bass intentionally kick it high and short of the endzone m so they can go down and knock the stuffing out of the returner.

exactly; I was thinking of the Kroft debacle too.

good points. I don’t disagree with you on a lot of this. the concern I have is the NFL cannot see one of its star players here come down with covid through no fault of their own. And even the model teams, get a positive here and there, and then that knocks out a few others based on contact tracing. The idea I proposed a few weeks ago was basically each player can designate a protected player or two. If that person had to go on the covid list, you reschedule. To minimize issues, you could make that rule applicable to just the divisional or conference games and beyond.

NFL needs to reschedule. This is going to happen to other teams. Better to set a precedent now. If critical players or coaches are out, reschedule. If it means playing the super bowl in March, so be it.

It’s fun debating the ethics of running up the score!!