Artful Dodger

Allen and Jordan Whitehead have really good chemistry together!

Miami's offense looked well-nigh unstoppable in Game 1 against the Chargers and Tua is really coming into his own as an excellent QB. Oh, wait.

I believe that he's constantly seeking to recreate the incredible dopamine rush he got from throwing all those long touchdown passes in the playoffs against the Patriots and the Chiefs two years ago. He needs to figure out that that on a hot day or when you're playing against the Jets, a couple of beers can taste pretty good. You don't always need to hit the hard stuff.

Maybe we can get Jordan Whitehead to play wide receiver for the Bills next year. He and Allen seem to have some pretty good chemistry. 😶

Josh doesn't believe in Josh anymore.

Josh Allen is on the cover of Madden.

If Allen goes down, the season is lost anyway. What's the point?

Any objective observer would have to conclude that Josh Allen has the best elbow in the NFL.

Allen is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, but Allen isn't good at all.

If Allen had been drafted by Cleveland, he would not have developed as he has. On the other hand, if Mayfield had been drafted by Buffalo with its coaching staff, he would be much better. However, under almost any scenario you can think of, Allen > Mayfield.

I don't know. She seems a little young for him.

My statistics are a little rusty, but since you're hitting us with math, shouldn't one standard deviation above the norm put a team in the top third of all offenses?

Beasley has told Josh Allen many times that he loves him, mostly as the team has left the locker room and is in the tunnel on the way out to the field. And as we all know, the course of true love never runs smooth. So Prescott may have Beasley's respect, but Allen will always have his heart.

In the off-season, Diggs decided he only wanted to be 80-85% of his best self and it's causing a lot of friction on the team.

At important times during the season, the short to intermediate passing game would entirely disappear. I'm thinking of a series, possibly in the Cinci game, where the Bills ran the ball for a couple of yards and then Allen threw two long passes to Gabe Davis streaking 30 yards down the field by the left sidelines. The passing plays were identical and both resulted in incompletions. Perhaps they thought they could fool the defense, but they went three and out. I'm not sure how much of it is on Allen, but even if it is, it's up to the OC to sit him down and point out that it's possible to move the chains with short passes as well.

His magic eight ball. Pegula can afford a very expensive one that always gives the right answers. "Outlook cloudy."

It's asset inflation. And insofar as price increases make housing unaffordable for people and drive up their mortgage payments, it's inflation.

Perhaps this thread and this issue can help to illustrate why things are unraveling. The centrist position, as evidenced by polls, is that abortion should be rare, but safe and legal up 15 weeks or so. This makes sense to me. However, we all have different issues that are meaningful to us and it's not an important issue to me and I don't care much about it. The people who most care about this issue seem to be at the extremes; either ban it completely or make it legal up until birth. Those people are loud, and they like to shout at each other. For example, a thread about how the US has gone off the rails quickly devolved into a shouting match about abortion. This might imply that the quiet sensible center remains larger than it appears but less vocal. What Richard Nixon used to call the Silent Majority. But the agenda is set by the people at the extremes, and when they shout long enough about how you should be able to choose your own gender or why the Second Amendment allows people to use howitzers in shopping malls, they start to normalize what most people would have previously considered crazy. Or maybe they're just putting something in the water.

There's two other questions that are worth exploring. When did things start to unravel? And what caused things to start unravel? Is there historical precedent for large groups of people to start acting irrationally? I wouldn't even characterize this as a left/right issue. The sane center seems is shrinking quickly in this country.

I hate to be cynical, but it depends. Based on Dorsey's play calling last year, on a typical series on first down the Bills will run Cook off tackle into the line for roughly three yards, and then on 2nd and 3rd down, Diggs and Kincaid will run deep post patterns, despite the fact that the Bills' porous offensive line will allow Allen roughly 1.5 seconds to throw the ball.

I've always been skeptical of chicken bone divination, so I went ahead and sacrificed a goat and examined its entrails. The goat had a diseased liver which means that the Bills are going to draft a wide receiver named Zay in the first round. Sorry guys, but there it is. I'll go ahead and work up and I Ching divination this afternoon, but in my experience a goat's entrails rarely steer you wrong.

Unlike the Bills' own offensive coordinator, at least the ChatGPT sees the value of short quick passes. Good for it. Maybe they should give it a half to call plays in pre-season and see what it comes up with. It also probably works cheaper than Dorsey. If you were to ask Dorsey for a similar play call series, he would probably come up something like this: Play 1: Off-tackle run by Singletary Play 2: Deep post to Davis Play 3: Deep post to Davis

Marv Levy was inducted in 1997. Two Bills' coaches have made the William and Mary Athletics Hall of Fame.

She wasn't nearly as good as Up with People and Al HIrt back in '73. 👍

Is this how you play when you don't trust your safeties? If a fully healthy Hyde and Poyer had played, the tactics might have been very different. The coaches can be faulted for not recognizing that playing off the ball wasn't working and then changing tactics, though the Bengals did score half their points on the first two possessions.