Bobby Hooks

Tasker tries so hard to seem unbiased, he’s intolerable. Praising Mayfield now. He’d be the first to remind us Allen is facing mostly third team defensive players. In in fact I think he did say that earlier about Allen’s game facing twos.

Book it. Allentown, population: me.

Why wonder? Second game ever. He looks better than he did against Panthers third team which means he’s learning and getting better. He being smart, and far more accurate than advertised. Should only get better.

I’d just like to put this out there. I was a HUGE Rosen guy. I’m teally impressed by what Allen is doing right now. I get that it’s the Browns second team, but he looks even better than he did against the Panthers third team. He seems poised, always looking for the bigger play, and dare I say it... more accurate than advertised??

Okay, Edmunds is growing up before our eyes. I take back my previous Edmunds post.

I’m not ready to say we’ll be bad this year. I think the Browns really came to play for Taylor. Unfortunately for Mccarron he’s going to get the brunt of it.

Yikes. We did not come to play. Browns look like they’re playing their younger brothers.

Edmunds has looked really lost out there.

I am also hoping the players on the team we are fans of perform well!

I think so. Much in the way that a good row contributes positively to a camp battle, or a hockey game. Let them play!

And I’d wager more than 90% of people that wanted Allen had no idea why they wanted him outside of the media touting his good old boy persona, prototypical bod, and cannon arm. What does all of this matter now? Allen’s a Bill. We’ll all be cheering the same amount when he’s out there.

It looks fine. Rodaks exaggerating.

Really? Rodak needs to relax.

Playing Allen now would be akin to eating undercooked, nicely spiced sausage. Im sure it would taste good now but it would eventually make you sick and could potentially kill you.

I’m not talking about players. I’m talking about “realist” fans. Realism doesn’t = pessimism. And to your point, you sound like someone I’d never want to be at a party with. You’d probably ruin our first Super Bowl wine explaining why we shouldn’t have won and how we got lucky. Blah, blah.... Its football, it’s supposed to be fun.

Who’s asking you to have confidence? Who’ asking you to do anything? You can still look at the game objectively and say it’s a positive for our team. Saying otherwise isn’t “real”, it’s pessimistic and an outright lie.

Meh... I agree calling plays probably isn’t easy walking on as a 20 year old but I’ve got to say I expected to see something play wise. Outside of missed reads I didn’t really notice him. Nothing against him, I’m excited for him. I was just really hoping to see something tonight.

Yeah, I feel like that’s the motto of most reasonable people. You still don’t see reasons to be encouraged? Realism is the practice of seeing things how they really are. Some people seem to think it means painting everything with a grey brush. I wonder if Patriot realists talk about how the Super Bowls they won are ok, but could’ve been better?

Gotta say, I’m impressed. Yes, I know it’s PS. I don’t care. I feel better about the offense than I did the last few months. Sue me!

I’d be into Allen starting and taking his lumps. If the D plays as well as last year I think we should still be fairly competitive. Im sure for every poor play he’ll have a nice one. He’s going to make mistakes but as long as we can get a few field goals and a td or two he’d basically be matching Taylor’s output. Taylor was safe to a fault. It would be nice to see someone willing to give a reciever a few chances to make a play instead of waiting to punt. Playing safe up a touchdown or field goal is not a winning recipe. That’s the coaches fault too. Hopefully Dabol’s a bit more aggressive.

I’m assuming if we start out hot it will be because like last season was mostly because of the Defense and turnover ratio. If that’s the case I expect we’ll hear a lot of what we heard last year, “this style of winning is unsustainable.”

B I get the thought behind this because he’s been in the league longer, but hasn’t he started like 4 games? I dont know if thays enough to label him the mistake free safer option. I actually think all things even we roll with Peterman to start.

I’m in the same boat, kinda. I wanted the other Josh but I’m fully on board and willing to see it play out. After and during the draft I was fairly bummed but did an excellent job since then on selling myself on what Allen does bring to the table instead of focusing on what he may not.

In my group this phenomenon happened mostly when we lowered the basketball rim and had slam dunk competitions. “Jordan!”, “Dominique Wilkins!”, “Clyde the Glide!”, even Spud Webb at one point. I’m assuming it coincides with a particular year they were all in the slam dunk comp.

Yeah, disagree with Buffalo too. Every time I brought someone to a game and partied the weekend before they all had an excellent time. Some folks like to bash the area, pretty unwarranted in my opinion. Maybe they haven’t done much traveling to compare?