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I see 32 year old Isaiah McKenzie on the jumbotron. They think Beane is giving Lil Dummy a 5 year extension??

The renderings look so fake. If you look closely you can see the Bills players standing on the field near the 20 yard line, but on the jumbotron they're standing in the end zone. This is completely unrealistic.

I mean this is a ridiculous and irrelevant gotcha question. But sure I'll take the bait. Given everything I know about the situation yes I would be okay with him dating someone I know personally. He doesn't have a history of abuse. He got violently angry while drunk one time in his life, and this is 4 years ago now. Yeah I believe people can make one mistake and be better 4 years later. I know people personally like that. I'm not going to excuse what Kareem Hunt did. Whatever the girl said or how she was acting he lost his cool in the worst way and he rightly suffered the consequences for it. That doesn't mean he is inherently a bad guy forever. I get it though, we live in a society where everyone has to act like they're the most do-gooder person in the room. It's easy to stand up and say "hitting a woman is wrong." It's hard to say "I forgive this person for doing a bad thing and I accept his ability to change." Hell even Deshaun Watson I would eventually be able to forgive if he actually stood up and took accountability and committed to being a better person.

It's kind of depressing reading through this thread and being reminded that we live in a "one strike, you're out" society. The justice system is supposedly meant to be a system of rehabilitation, but many people now refuse to ever forgive a person for one transgression, even if that person took full accountability for their actions and made every effort to be a choir boy for the next few years after that. I get that some acts are unconscionable and almost unforgivable, but not what Kareem Hunt did. As far as I know he did one awful thing ever in his entire life and took steps to rehabilitate his image after it happened. Here we are several years later with a bunch of Bills fans treating him like he isn't a human being capable of change, defining him by the worst moment of his young life. Pretty depressing.

I think it is much easier to find a good WR2 with deep threat capabilities than a TE1 that can be used as a pass catcher and as a blocker. Knox isn't the best at either skill but he is quite good at both. That's a rare skill set. The Texans are probably going to eat some of Brandin Cooks' salary just to trade him for a decent pick. You never see that kind of trade happen for a good TE because teams know how hard they are to find.

Knox has not had a lot of pure volume production, but he has been incredibly clutch several times this year as a pass catcher and as a blocker. The last play he made was a game winner against our conference rival. I would like us to use him more as a red zone weapon but I'm not going to complain about his usage when we have arguably the best passing offense in the NFL. When his number is called he's making big plays and we use him in every aspect of the offense. That makes him worthy of the contract.

I take this as a very good sign.

This is crazy: And yes that is a negative sign next to the first 4 teams. Josh Allen is the only QB with a positive EPA when pressured. Unicorn.

Oh is that all? A split second? That must be nothing in the NFL. Yeah, Tyreek Hill speeding by the defense is the same thing as Juju Smith-Schuster breaking a tackle. Good point. Honestly man everyone here knows your shtick. You're an anti-homer. Where some stretch facts to make positive points, you stretch facts to make negative points. It would be tolerable if you contained it to posts but you have to go and make a new thread every day and accuse the board of "groupthink" because we see through your crap.

What's weird is that the plays we missed him on this year happened on the TV broadcast! There were replays and everything! I'm pretty sure the announcers talked about them! But you know what they say, football isn't rocket science. Right Einstein?

See this proves that you have a really narrow view of football. This explains a lot of your posting history. But sure I'll spell it out for you. The game changing plays that Hyde makes are the ones that you don't see because he takes them away. How many times a week do we see an NFL offense score a long TD on a completely blown coverage? I can tell you how many times we've seen it in the Hyde/Poyer era - once. I remember it distinctly because it was so unusual. It was the Ravens game in Allen's 2nd year and I think it was one of their TEs who ended up completely wide open downfield for an easy walk in TD. That's it. The sort of play that happens multiple times a week throughout the NFL has happened once in 5 years here. The first game we are without Hyde this year and the Dolphins convert a 3rd and 22 on a deep pass at a critical moment of the game. Earlier they score a red zone TD on a play that our safeties rarely give up. Against the Chiefs, Hamlin misses a tackle and a comedy of errors leads to a 41 yard TD from the TikTok dancer. Those are game changing plays that Hyde takes away. But in your mind game changing plays can only be interceptions in the endzone in the playoffs. Please think before you post.

Yes, it used to be easier to defeat those looks when OL talent was on par with DL talent. Right now 4 DL are beating 5 OL more often than not, so offenses can't just run the ball to force defenses out of those looks and the QB can't hold the ball long enough to beat cover 2 over the top. So offenses are playing small ball dinking and dunking their way down the field. One sack or one drop or one inaccurate pass could kill the whole drive. The way that McDermott schemes his defense to force offenses into long drives, that's what the whole league is doing now.

Agreed. I actually get bored by shootouts. Especially if it's more because of bad defense on both sides. That isn't fun, it's just a coin flip. The one problem the NFL has right now, and this is going to sound weird, is Allen and Mahomes. Let me explain. Those two are both playing at a historically great level. I'm not sure fans have fully come to terms with that yet. Even great QBs like Manning and Brady, if you called the exact right defensive play and had enough defensive talent you could beat them on a play to play basis. There are plays like that against Allen and Mahomes where they still beat you anyways. You do everything exactly right and they turn it into a 1st down or TD. And in between these ridiculous impossible plays they're also very consistent at the boring nitpicky things that made Manning and Brady great, as opposed to someone like Lamar Jackson who does the impossible crazy plays but isn't consistent enough with the fundamentals. So defenses are overtaking offenses this year, but you have these two freaks of nature doing things the league has never seen before. I think their historically great play is making the rest of the NFL look boring by comparison. It's not that offenses have gotten worse, it's that defenses have gotten better but Allen and Mahomes are fooling everybody into thinking offenses should still have the upper hand. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone that reads this but that's how I see it.

No, we don't. Other than QB even the most elite players in the league are worth about 0.5 points in the Vegas odds. Fans vastly overrate the impact of a single player. But that doesn't mean you don't need elite players. Hyde and White aren't great players because they singlehandedly take the defense from 20 PPG to 15 PPG, they're great because they make game changing plays in critical moments and make very few mistakes.

I figured out why your name is Einstein, it's because your threads are black holes.

I don't think teams are undervaluing OL in the draft. I think what's happening is there is less quality OL talent entering the draft than ever before, while on the other side of the ball there are more freakishly talented DL than ever before. Plus it feels like o-linemen are more injury prone than other positions, and it only takes one starter going down to injury to kill the entire unit. You'd have to devote a ridiculous amount of draft capital to build a consistently top tier OL because you need 5 good ones and at least a couple good depth players behind them. That's a lot harder than finding one stud pass rusher or one stud WR who singlehandedly can change a game. A stud LT can't change a game if the 4 guys next to him aren't up to par. Because of poor OL play across the league teams have had to rely on the quick passing game and slowly work their way down the field more than we've seen in the last few years. This type of offense is more prone to mistakes and if you don't have a mobile QB capable of escaping trouble you're dead on arrival against any defense that can create a decent amount of pressure. I also think fans have gotten a little too accustomed to explosive offenses over the past decade. Football with great defensive play is still fun to watch and I would say the drop in the quality of offenses has coincided with a rise in the quality of defenses. When fans talk about a drop in the quality of games what they really mean is less scoring.

As long as there is this big of a talent gap between DL and OL throughout the league, mobile QBs will be the standard. It's almost impossible to have 5 above average OL at the same time, and if you do you're only one injury or free agency period away from having an average unit. The Colts and Rams went from having an excellent OL to a below average OL in a single offseason, and their statue QBs predictably are unable to perform.

He learned from his mentor Brett Favre.

Do you still think Belichick would turn down the opportunity to have Josh Allen as his QB?

Zappe is better than Jones but he's still a limited QB and can't create big plays. He'll carve out a nice career as a backup though. Not a bad gig for a 4th round pick from a small school.

The Pats are getting physically punished by one of the worst teams in the league. That's one way to get me to watch an entire game of boring football.

How did the refs catch that one but miss Chris Jones roundhouse kicking Allen??

Eh I think they would handle it the right way. Beane would stand up in front of the press and acknowledge Hunt's assault and say they did their homework on his recent character, etc. Hunt would get his chance to talk to local press and apologize for what he did. A couple members of the local media would try to turn it into a thing but 24 hours later everybody would move on. This is a league where one of the most celebrated WRs punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and we watch him showboat every time he gets into the endzone.

I respect the fans that don't want him here because of what he did, but I'm willing to excuse one bad act. It's not like he knocked the girl unconscious, he lost his temper in a bad way one time in his life. I'm not trying to make excuses for what he did but I wouldn't have a problem rooting for him if he was here. It's not right to put him on the same level as Tyreek Hill, Deshaun Watson, etc.

The Bears best (only?) play is Fields running the ball. He might be the worst starting QB in the league.