CincyBillsFan

He did? As I recall in the opening game against the Raiders his two lost fumbles, in the 4th quarter and OT ,cost the Ravens the game.

Are they? We don't know but with over 97% of the players vaccinated there is evidence that in fact vaccinated players are not getting back on the field all that much faster based on symptoms. The NFL protocol favors the vaccinated and perhaps it should, but we have no clue if the severity of the symptoms between the vaccinated and unvaccinated warrant the difference.

Is this true? Vaccination definitely reduces your chances of hospitalization and dying but my understanding is that the vaccinated can still spread the covid readily. The NFL is as close to fully vaccinated as you're going to get for any group of employees and yet covid is now spreading like wildfire through the league. Imagine how many would be testing positive if EVERY player was tested EVERYDAY?

I agree. The Omicron variant seems to be the one that will make covid an endemic respiratory virus among human populations. Like the flu, the key will be seeing how symptoms progress in the most a risk people. Vaccine interventions will probably be the choice of those wanting to take extra precautions and/or those at greatest risk much like those getting the flu vaccine skews to older Americans. The rest of us will either rely on treatments, a new one should be available soon from Pfizer, or just powering through the symptoms like a lot of healthy people do with the flu. And to be clear I'm not saying that covid was the same as the flu That's an argument for another time and IMO it was more severe. But RIGHT NOW the covid is going the way almost all respiratory virus go by becoming more infectious and much less virulent. In other words it's become endemic and will join the pantheon of other corona virus in making up the common cold. That is the reality of the present. So if the NFL wants to avoid the embarrassing nightmare scenario of a team deep in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl losing key players to covid they will start treating it like the flu. Again, today's covid is not the same as last years covid. The situation has changed and the NFL and society needs to react accordingly.

And by next season covid will be treated like the flu - if you catch it and get real sick you don't play. If you catch it and the symptoms are mild you will play. Beasley claims his symptom are mild and he could play. I believe him and suspect that he's payed with the flu before. Covid has become endemic and the sooner the NFL understands this the better

I believe Feliciano is vaccinated. So why should he not see the field the rest of this season? And compared to a lot of teams the Bills still haven't been hit all that hard by the covid. I mean I'm watching my second NFL game in two days featuring a PRACTICE SQUAD QB because the fully vaccinated starter and back-up were down with covid.

There's a difference between catching covid and getting very sick from it. Those that are healthy and young (under 40) seldom get very sick. The problem the NFL faces is its dealing with a strain whose spread is likley not impacted much by vaccination or natural immunity status. As such it will spread through the players. The only hope to not have a screwed up ending to this season is to adopt the same procedures that they use with the flu. If you're to sick to play you don't play. If you are asymptomatic or the symptoms are mild you play. But given the current climate that is very unlikely to be adopted. It will turn out that this season wasn't a bad one for the Bills to suffer a regression like in 1989. Imagine if we were 11 - 3 and started losing players to covid?

Well given that Allen was the rookie and Jones was in his what 2nd or 3rd season he was more responsible for helping Allen out then the other way around.

Rookie Allen made Foster look pretty good though.

Zay baby I never doubted you!

Throwing a deep pass to Jones is a waste of a play and can end in disaster. If Allen threw that pass under the current circumstances this forum would melt down.

IMO it's worse. The Brown are ridiculously depleted and this is a playoff game for the Raiders.

I'm rooting for the Raiders because it helps the Bills but they're embarrassing. And you ave to give the Browns credit for hanging with Oakland given all the guys that are out. And Zay Jones sucks.

CYA as a flood of angry Bills mafia types were letting FOX know how bizarre that halftime analysis was. Towards the end of the halftime segment Howie jumped in and tried to defend Allen. I think he realized just how stupid they were sounding. And it still boggles my mind that they choose to show Allen's first two incomplete passes to start the game as if that meant anything to what happened the rest of the half.

And they showed his first two passes of the game, both of which were routine over throws, to illustrate his inaccuracy. It was bizarre for them to do that. I get it if his first two throws were INT's but simple incompletions? WTH! And for the record after those two pedestrian incompletions on the first Bills possession and with the exception of the INT Allen threw the ball well in leading the Bills to 17 points. I mean they barely touched on Allen's foot injury or that the O-line was completely disrupted by missing two starters to covid.

And how many times have we seen back-up QB's come in and tear it up for a game or two then suck. A bunch of Bills QB's over the years come to mind and a guy named Mike White for the Jets is the most recent example. I do think that signing Allen was a no brainer but signing Jackson to a contract equal to or larger is not such an easy call. That's why Bean is to be commended for getting the Allen deal done. In a couple of years it will look like a bargain.

Remind me of the sack Allen took today with the Bills in or close to scoring range?

And don't forget that first TD throw to Davis. Only a couple of other QB's in the league could make that throw.

There's a difference between saying Allen wasn't at his best, which he wasn't, and saying he had a poor game. Under the circumstances he was solid today. * With that O-line EVERY pass play was an adventure from the get go. * Allen had a bad INT. He then led the Bills on a great 2nd quarter ending drive that resulted in a FG restoring both the Bill's momentum and two score lead. * Allen's first TD pass to Davis was spectacular. From Allen setting up the play by adjusting his WR's, to his freezing the safety in place with his eyes to delivering a strike only a few other QB's in the NFL could make. And all on 3rd and long.

How can you cite those cretins on the Fox studio show to prove your point? That was a classless hatchet job by the Fox clowns. They showed three clips - Allen's first 2 passes of the game that were poorly thrown and the INT. Are you kidding me? This is proof positive that the Fox studies hosts have an ax to grind with Allen. The Bills were leading 17 - 8 and they show Allen's FIRST TWO PASSES OF THE GAME? It's like they're trying desperately to prove the Allen is inaccurate narrative. Have you ever seen a halftime show focus in on the first two passes of a QB as a measure of how he did in the first half? It was bizarre and your citing this as proof of Allen's mediocre play tells me you also have an ax to grind with Allen.

Hey, give the guy a break, someone left a door open and it's howling down on the field. Hey, give the guy a break, someone left a door open and it's howling down on the field.

Hey, give the guy a break, someone left a door open and it's howling down on the field.

What the hell is Frank Reich doing? How can he put the game in the hands of Wentz? That throw was into triple coverage on FIRST FREAKING DOWN. Bad INT at this point in the game.

Wentz is playing terrible. With average QBing this game would be over. Play action should be lethal for the colts.

NFL officials suck.