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Is this one not on Amazon Prime?

Hasn't the time passed already to activate Milano?

Are we ever happy when we get any officials?

https://theathletic.com/2240098/2020/12/04/bills-49ers-josh-allen/ Why Josh Allen is the X-factor against the 49ers and 4 other Bills thoughts By Joe Buscaglia Dec 4, 2020 13 The Bills handled business against the Chargers, as their defense and running game each took a big step forward. Now, the degree of difficulty increases with their Monday night matchup. When the Bills take on the San Francisco 49ers in Arizona, they’ll face an injury-ravaged yet talented roster, led by one of the best head coaches in the NFL in Kyle Shanahan. The Bills aren’t taking the 49ers (5-6) lightly. With a win, the Bills would move to 9-3 for a second straight season. It would also make their Week 14 showdown with the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football all the more intriguing. How do the Bills match up with the 49ers and what are the keys to a victory? Here are five thoughts to get you ready for what could be a very tight contest. 1) Josh Allen has the chance to take yet another step forward The Bills have faced challenges throughout the season that have forced the passing attack to adapt, but none of their previous opponents have quite the three-level talent the 49ers do. This matchup is the biggest test to date for the Bills’ offense. Coming off his worst performance of the season against the Chargers, Josh Allen will be up against a 49ers defense that frustrated the Los Angeles Rams last week. Even without Nick Bosa, Dee Ford and Solomon Thomas, the 49ers’ defensive line forces the issue against opposing offensive lines. Arik Armstead leads the way, with the ability to line up anywhere along the line and use his length to disrupt plays regularly. Kerry Hyder is also an underrated disruptor, and first-round pick Javon Kinlaw continues to show potential. They help set the table for an impressive linebacking duo of Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw, who both excel in coverage. In the secondary, free safety Jimmie Ward presents another big challenge, and cornerbacks Richard Sherman and Jason Verrett are perfectly suited for their scheme. There isn’t an easy answer for the Bills, which is why Allen will be the X-factor Monday night. We’ve seen him take on a challenge like this before, when the Bills traveled for a nationally televised game against an underachieving yet talented Cowboys team with a good defense. Allen had the best individual performance to that point of his career in a win on Thanksgiving. While the Bills’ defense helped force turnovers, Allen took over the game. Now against San Francisco, the Bills need their quarterback to perform above expectations, especially with how well the 49ers bottle up the run. The 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh will look to confuse Allen with different coverages and blitzing schemes. This will serve as a good dress rehearsal for Allen, in terms of what he could see both next week against Pittsburgh and later on in the playoffs. We’re going to learn a lot about Allen and just how far he’s come in primetime on Monday night.

Has Milano been activated off IR or not? Isn't the deadline in like an hour and a half?

Good time to get healthy. Activate Milano if he's healthy. As important as he is for these last 5 games of the regular season plus a playoff run, it’s even more important for him personally and professionally to get through this run without another injury keeping him out of games. Sounds like all the more reason for Milano to be active if he's healthy

Have we heard specifically what Allen's injury is, yet? Is it an ankle or knee?

I thought Milano had to miss 3 games? Isn't SF #3? Or is this #4?

I don't think Josh Allen ever stops Superman plays... The thing is... those could be the plays that finally win us a playoff game or 2 or even a Lombardi.

One of the Joe B takes I completely agree with: https://theathletic.com/2228964/2020/11/30/bills-chargers-observations/ 1) Bills made an effort to balance the attack, but wound up uneven Sean McDermott made it very clear ahead of the team’s Week 11 bye that he wanted to get the rushing attack fixed. The Bills returned center Mitch Morse to the starting lineup, slid Jon Feliciano to left guard and activated blocking tight end Lee Smith to give the power rush a boost. The offense responded with its highest rushing output since the Week 8 victory over New England and a much more balanced offensive approach. Devin Singletary and Zack Moss collectively gained 141 yards and averaged over 7 yards per carry. Josh Allen chipped in with 32 rushing yards. Despite those numbers, the game plan had some holes in it. As in previous weeks, the Bills were intent on getting their backs to the edge and moving the offensive line with them. It seems that when Moss is in the lineup, they’re missing an opportunity by not having him run between the tackles and use his strength and explosiveness more often. It also would have helped the Bills mitigate Joey Bosa’ impact on the game. With the Chargers’ Melvin Ingram and Uchenna Nwosu not available for the game, Buffalo only had to worry about Bosa as an edge defender but did not avoid him on runs to the edge as the game continued. The decisions predictably resulted in multiple tackles for losses. Overall, the Bills revived their run game Sunday. But at what cost? The Bills are at their best on offense when throwing the ball and making the attack run through Allen, and it never seemed in sync Sunday. Allen never got on the same page with Stefon Diggs except for some forced short-yardage targets. Cole Beasley was essentially a non-factor other than his touchdown throw. Allen missed on some passes, was intercepted after a poor decision to throw and fumbled the ball away. The Chargers lacked another legitimate pass rusher next to Bosa and were playing with a depleted secondary. You never want to take away the best part of your own offense, and that’s what the Bills appeared to do Sunday. The Bills can still be an impactful running team without having a balanced approach. Good rushing teams don’t necessarily have the yardage skew in their favor every game; it’s all about the timing of your run calls and the effectiveness of them. The run game likely will not be the reason the Bills have success in the playoffs. If they want to reach their goals and chase a championship, their third-year quarterback needs to lead the way. When they’re on their game, the Bills have one of the most feared passing attacks in the league. It would be illogical for them to move away from that as the season winds down.

Huh???? Trump lost by 74 electoral votes and over 6 million votes across the nation or 4% of the voting population... and still counting. The truth is that a year ago the Senate really wasn't in reach and despite COMPLETELY neglecting all the down ballot races in the general, the Republicans must rely on 2 runoff elections in a state their Presidential candidate just lost in order to hold one of the remaining houses of congress after losing the Presidency.

I thought it looked more ankle than knee injury, but Allen wasn't limping in any manner after it and played the rest of the game. I'm guessing he'll be fine moving forward.

I don't know... when he says crap like this the implication is that he's holding the team back from its true potential: but the reality for anyone actually watching this team is that Josh Allen has really been carrying this team this season. Allen might be the ceiling, but that's true of any team with their QB. But Allen is also the floor and if we're 8-3 with him not even playing to his potential... watch out!

Today's game was a little weird. It felt like we came out kinda flat, but we were really never in peril of losing. This tweet sums it up: and this: 8-3 and in sole possession of 1st place in the AFCE heading into the final stretch. Allen’s toughness was the most impressive thing today:

I agree the Rams are all in on Goff. I agree the Bills are all in on Allen. And I agree it was head scratching to leave Allen off that list.

Wait... so Martin originally planned on the books being only a trilogy? Is that true? That would explain why I absolutely LOVED the first 3 books (especially the third one with the Red wedding) and then just abandoned reading the series altogether halfway through book #4.

Sonofa!!!! Having in-laws over exactly at the time that game was starting. Now I've gotta actually talk to them?!?! *****!!!

Thanks for correcting me. I heard it yesterday and wanted to post it when I heard it. Figured a day would distort that memory. Ahhh yeah thanks for bringing that one up. Heard that, too. Who were the teams on his list again? I think I remember Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City... ? I do still disagree to a degree. As @Hapless Bills Fan kinda insinuated earlier, "hater" may be too harsh a word but my impression is he doesn't like Allen but can't get away with criticizing a young top 10 QB at this point... so he's got his criticism in a box for now.

As if on cue, Cowherd had his "Herd Hierarchy" yesterday and again put the Bills at #5. He spoke almost entirely about our Defense and then at the end said (this is fairly close to a direct quote) "Their QB worries me. Turns the ball over too much. But he's an INCREDIBLE athlete." Allen has rushed for 75 yards combined in the last 3 weeks. What he's done this year is win games with his arm. It seems clear Cowherd is just waiting to pounce when Allen has a "typical Allen game" as defined widely by the media over the last few years.

I remember. I was wrong about my evaluation about Taylor on the whole. We all have our misses. None of our exercises with Taylor were broken down by the simple measures here. We were playing around with ball placement, which was certainly more subjective. Catchable vs. Uncatchable measuring accuracy is an entire debate you'll find in that thread. But once again, an UNCATCHABLE ball is obviously inaccurate. And those are pretty easy to measure. But measuring all those passes more than 8-10 feet wide and over 10 feet wide does. Measuring those really bad passes equals those "wildly inaccurate" throws Josh Allen was supposedly so much more prone to than all those other rookie QBs. And even you can go and look for just those throws and I'm confident even you will notice that Allen is not any more consistently "wildly inaccurate" than other QBs. As for those other passes that are "catchable," all I can say is: try the exercise rather than pursuing your Ad Hominem attack. I have my plays mostly annotated and noted. I did that largely in loving memory of you. Do you want to ask me about an individual play? Ahhhhh.... showing your stripes I see. Always thought you were a bit of a troll whose primary goal was to obfuscate.... glad you finally admit it. Don't know if you celebrate Thanksgiving as a transplant in Japan, but have a good one if you do.

I don't know if you actually felt this way and felt you were the only person who felt this way, but Thurm is right for once. Pretty well documented on here that I loathed the Josh Allen pick on draft day and quickly jumped on the pick after we drafted him. I get that it all has to be about you. But you definitely weren't the only one who went from "hate to exuberance."

And yet it's pretty obvious that any ball that is UNCATCHABLE would also be inaccurate and Allen threw a lower percentage of UNCATCHABLE passes (when excluding Throwaways) than Wentz, Watson, Mayfield, Watson, Jackson, and Rosen. I'm guessing those would be those "wildly inaccurate" passes you referred to with Allen. If you actually watched him and watched all those other rookie QBs their rookie years, you would realize that Allen was not any less consistently inaccurate (since that's a term I'm sure you'd agree one doesn't need to quibble with as there's no variance of an uncatchable ball with good ball placement Not when you remember that any uncatchable pass is also obviously inaccurate. Passes within reach of at least one of the WRs hands is a catchable football. Fingertips and beyond is not. That's it. It's significantly less difficult to evaluate that than it is ball placement. Of course there's some subjectivity. But I used those same measurements for every single QB, so the standards for the others were the same. What I thought of which plays? I provide examples in that thread.

Same ole Thurm. Glad to know you haven't changed. If you want to dismiss the exercise then do it by watching every single pass from all 7 of those QBs in their rookie years, collate the data, and let's compare. I make the methodology as objective as possible without considering ball placement... you can find it here: I doubt you'll find anything other than the fact that Allen was no less consistently accurate than your typical NFL rookie 1st round QB starting in year 1

Yes. Agree with pretty much all of this based on what I hear from Cowherd.

Depends on what you mean by "comparing." If it relates to an expectation of where Allen should already be, it's silly. If it's the target, it's fine. But Allen’s distance to that target was really no different than your typical highly touted rookie QB as far as accuracy was concerned. Decision making was another matter, and THAT’S been his most drastic improvement, not accuracy.