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    A Few Thoughts about the Vikings game, in no particular order

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    35 minutes ago, AlfaBill said:

    Just a comment on Josh. He played well BUT there were quite a few passes that the receivers had to really stretch and dive for. His passing has been off for 2.5 games now and that includes red zone INTS. I am officially worried about him. 

    That's a great point that will go largely unnoticed given all the eye-popping crap that happened yesterday.  On multiple occasions in the first half, I thought to myself, wow, these receivers are making amazing catches!  They were making Josh look better than he was - But, throughout the first half, I was generally thinking the Bills are back to their usual good form on offense.

    Allen playing!

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    This is getting ridiculous - We appear to have a super conservative team when it comes to the handling of injuries - If Josh plays, he's viewed as essentially 100% with no risk of injury or "injury" getting worse.  NONE of us are privy to the actual results of MRIs, etc. and NONE of us have spoken with the actual team physician(s), and even if someone has, HIPPA likely prevents any discussion of what the physicians know about his health status.  There has been speculation all week and we as Bills fans had every reason to be SUPER worried, but the actual data points are what they are and if we see no activation of Barkley, and Josh starting, that fills in all of the blanks for us, by and large.

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    On to Minnesota (get this game in the rear view mirror!)

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    1 hour ago, Nextmanup said:

    You know why we are getting hammered with injuries this year?   B/C we have had very few the last few years.


    It's all random and it was always going to even out with the passage of time.

     

    Kind of like "turnover ratio" that thing evens out over time too.

     

    Find the team this year that has the most takeaways, there's my guess for who will have the least next year. 


    It evens out with time.

     

     

     

    Agree to an extent.  If it's truly random, having a lot of injuries in one year has no impact on injuries in the next year.  It's only when you look at 5 or 10 years will you see evidence potentially of a random pattern.  Keep in mind the "gambler's fallacy" - Just because the roulette wheel hit black three times in a row doesn't mean red is more likely on the next spin . . . Sorry, the economist in me is coming out a bit here!!  All that said, I hope we are nearing the end of this brutal injury bug!!  WTF!!

    Josh Allen injury update(officially questionable - expected to start per Ian Rappaport)

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    9 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

     

    Thanks!

     

    I think you're absolutely correct that better pass defenses play a huge role.  Part of that role is, when you're playing a bad team with a poor pass defense, you can get away with some bad decisions and turnovers because you're still gonna get a ton of other opportunities and boatrace the team like we did the Rams and Titans and Steelers.   But if the Bills want to be Championship Caliber, then they have to train themselves and play like they're playing a great defense where 1-2 stupid interceptions that take points off the board and give the opponent opportunities, can be the difference between victory and defeat.

     

    What do you mean by "other factors beyond simply being aggressive", especially with regard to the 2 INT vs the Packers and the 2 INT vs the Jets?

     

    It's a valid point that there's a fine line between playing fearless/aggressive and willing to take shots (which we want) vs. being aggressive to the point of reckless.

     

    The two I mentioned are the primary ones, but I do wonder whether there's any truth to the mild concussion rumors from hits he took in both of those games.

    Josh Allen injury update(officially questionable - expected to start per Ian Rappaport)

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    10 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

     

    This is just me, but I don't think there is anything "sudden" about the refusal here. 

     

    I think Josh has been playing aggressive all season. 

     

    The thing is, when it works and we score TDs in 3 plays from scrimmage starting at our 2 yard line as in the Steelers game, everyone is ready to canonize Josh.  Someone ( @HoofHearted?) said that the Steelers game may have been one of the worst things to happen to Josh.  He had 19.7 yds per completion in that game, AND he threw a bad interception to Levi Wallace (the target was Gabe Davis) from the Pitt 21 that took points off the board when the score was 10-7.  He threw it on a line as though Wallace were not anywhere near Davis, when in fact Wallace was between Davis and the ball and closing fast - throwing on an arc Davis could have run under would have probably been a touchdown.  Same pattern of INT he threw to Knox vs. the Jets.

     

    My guess is that when their young QB throws for 432 yds and the team wins 38-3, Dorsey and McDermott can't read the Riot Act too effectively to Josh over whatever the hell that interception throw was to Davis. 

     

    They can say "Josh, you have to take care of the football; Josh, you hurt the team when you take points off the board; Josh, we could have used that touchdown when we were winning only 10-3, it could have changed the game.  Josh, you can't do that." and Josh will hear "Josh, football; Josh, points; Josh, touchdown, winning, changed game!  Josh, do that!"  The media MVP clamor and fan adulation must be louder than the coaches.

     

    There are a few INTs that can't be helped - deflections and such - or the receiver bobbles it and it's charged to the QB (though in those cases, the throw may have been poorly placed or had too much "pepper" on it - I thought for sure that one great catch Singletary made was gonna be deflected and picked).

     

    But I think most of Josh's 8 interceptions have been poor decisions.  At least 5 of them.

     

     

     

    It's some of what you wrote above for sure, but the recent head scratchers are probably also due to better pass defenses, miscommunication, and other factors beyond simply being aggressive.  But you make some interesting, valid points . . .

    What song describes how you feel about tomorrow's game?

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    BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE (TALKING HEADS) [with selected bolding of key phrases below]

     

     

    Ah, watch out
    You might get what you're after
    Cool babies
    Strange but not a stranger
    I'm an ordinary guy
    Burning down the house

     

    Hold tight
    Wait 'til the party's over
    Hold tight
    We're in for nasty weather
    There has got to be a way
    Burning down the house

     

    Here's your ticket, pack your bags
    Time for jumpin' overboard
    Transportation is here
    Close enough but not too far
    Maybe you know where you are
    Fightin' fire with fire

     

    Ah, all wet
    Hey, you might need a raincoat
    Shakedown
    Dreams walking in broad daylight
    365 degrees
    Burning down the house

     

    Ah, it was once upon a place
    Sometimes I listen to myself
    Gonna come in first place
    People on their way to work
    And, baby what do you expect?
    Gonna burst into flames, ah

     

    Burning down the house

     

    My house
    Is out of the ordinary
    That's right
    Don't wannna hurt nobody
    Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
    Burning down the house

     

    No visible means of support
    And you have not seen nothin' yet
    Everything's stuck together
    And I don't know what you expect
    Staring into the TV set
    Fightin' fire with fire    , ah

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    Steelers @ Bills Postgame Thread

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    Fantastic win, no doubt.  Like that rookies were highly involved, especially numbers 10 and 28.  The KC game is going to be super hyped (and it pains me to already see the 13-second stuff replayed a ton!) - In my view, the game while very important and interesting, is unlikely in and of itself to determine home field advantage.  And as at least one other poster has said, we just need to win the last game against them!!!  GO BILLS - Very nice job of taking care of business today!!

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    Chance encounters with current/former Bill players. Did it change your opinion of them?

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    Just had a chance encounter with Scott Chandler this past Saturday!  Randomly met him at the Aspen airport with his wife and four kids!  Extremely nice guy (wife was super nice too) who indulged me in a selfie (see attached).  I let his son use the bathroom ahead of me on the plane and assisted him with the door and his dad (I didn't know who it was) thanked me on the plane.  Then at baggage claim, he thanked me, saw my Bills hat and said he used to play for the Bills.  He said he was at KC playoff game and I told him how hard it was for me not to be with my 11 yr old son for that game.  Again, super cool guy!

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    How much blame does Allen deserve for the Bills poor run game?(By not checking out of obvious poor run plays)

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    Big Turk raises an interesting point (and definitely game within the game sort of issue).  I wonder if a lot of it can be chalked up to the idiosyncrasies of the Miami game specifically (lots of subs/injuries/heat) vs a more systemic/long-term "problem"?  I noticed, as others have observed too, that some running plays seemed like they were in slow motion/awkward from the snap to handoff.  Maybe that too was mostly a Miami-specific thing?  But it is fair to assume that we would never intentionally have a running play where we were obviously outnumbered up front.

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