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He's too much like McD in that while he's occasionally brilliant and puts together a coherent scheme based on team strengths, he's too conservative in certain situations. Calling run, run, screen to give the ball back with a chance to put the game away is the kind of crap that loses you games against good QBs.

What are the best working theories for why we consistently suck to start games but are amazing the further things go along?

This thread is beheath Josh Allen just like the comparison at this stage of their careers.

Credit to Cook for being amazing and Josh for coming through in the 2nd half when he needed to.

We need to do more than just run the ball here. Hve to get the 1st down.

run, run, screen pass was no doubt called with clock as main consideration. i hate this team sometimes.

Palmer blew his blocking assignment

We messed up the protection on that 3rd down. I swear a basic stunt is all it takes to throw us off and makes you wonder why we don't run them more on our defense.

We can surely do without Benard and Palmer for another week but it's pins and needles waiting for the Benford update.

Ok so basically there's no evidence. I opened this thread expecting actual reporting lol. I'm sure there's some tension over Ingram. These guys have worked together for seven years plus time in Carolina. There's bound to be issues. That said, surely they both know their fates are somewhat tied together at this point, at least in Buffalo.

Bernard is questionable but we're way better with Shaq Thompson at mike. McD must see this.

Are Pats really down to just one asterisk? I still think there should be at least three though I’m open to hearing suggestions on how long is appropriate to continue reminding everyone they’re cheaters.

Too early for this. It took a Herculean Josh Allen game (best ind performance of the year?) at home in the snow to overcome a team with a putrid defense, and even then we got a little lucky in the 4th with unexpected turnovers, pick six, etc. This team is very likely fraudulent. That doesn’t mean we can’t come out of the AFC but we could also very easily get bounced in WC.

Ok fine bad example. Take your pick of other well documented NFL cases of guys who developed CTE from multiple concussions and went through fairly extreme personality transformations as a result. I think you probably got my point.

This will be adjudicated based on whether he has post game concussion symptoms but he never should've been allowed back after the first head bonk. Those hits hit different coming back from one vs being fully recovered months out. This is how you wind up with an Antonio Brown situation.