Simon

Just terrible timing. He'd been gawdawful for weeks now and I'm convinced that somebody finally got after his ass in the locker rom at halftime because he came out in the 3rd qrtr like a completely different man and started really getting after it. Sure enough he proceeds to get hurt within the hour.

The ridiculous call on the tough hit Shakir took yesterday is a good example of that.

You were dead nuts on when you said something earlier about defenders struggling with taking bad angles on him. I still don't think he has great long speed but that burst he has is playing absolute havoc with guys' pursuit angles. You beat him to the spot where you want to meet him and the next thing you know he's a full stride past you and you're lunging at shoelaces. Guys that play him a couple times will certainly adjust to it, but even now you can already see him learning to make his cuts just a split second earlier.

I have definitely notice an improvement in that department. Getting 2-3 yards instead of zero doesn't seem like much but it keeps you on schedule and from getting too far behind the sticks. He's never going to be a physically aggressive back like Alvin Kamara (who he is repeatedly compared to, inappropriately so, imo) but that's OK. Different guys have different strengths and weaknesses and there is nothing wrong with making comments about those traits. By focusing more on being elusive than being powerful it will even probably add some years to his career so he doesn't batter himself into ineffectiveness like a Cadillac Williams. I just don't want to see people being ragged on by self-righteous homers for making honest, accurate observations about players strengths and weaknesses.

It's not messed up at all; any team can promote and hire whoever they damned well please. There is nothing stopping them from doing so. What you can't do is immediately promise/give somebody a job without just talking to other people first. The purpose of the rule is to help out guys who have not traditionally been a part of the old boys network by just providing them with an occasion to meet and talk with executives who they never would have had a chance to interact with otherwise. That's all. Just an opportunity to talk. The rule has given a lot of people a chance who never would have had one without it and has been a good thing for the league. As far as I'm concerned, anybody who is dead set against just giving a black man a chance to have a conversation and hates it so much they feel the need to kvetch and complain about it? Those folks have much bigger issues that only some serious self-reflection can address.

He got taken down multiple times yesterday with single arm tackles. He's becoming a really good player in space and a lethal weapon catching balls out of the backfield. But the fact remains that he frequently ends up on the ground on first contact, oftentimes with that contact being minimal. It doesn't mean that he's soft or that he sucks, it's just a part of his game where he could improve.

Probably Ravens, imo

And a coaching staff that probably feels like they have nothing to lose now.

Thank you. I've been temporarily deaf all season and had no idea if they were stilling playing good music in their outros.

He's making a few plays that you like to see but there are some times when he's still a bit of an adventure out there.

My wife wrecked another table

He looked sick. Maybe the Chefs in the endzone seats were flashing their bellies at him.

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It was well before that; they were down closer to the goalline at that point. Even at the other end of the field when the Bills first started that opening drive, it was clear that he wasn't right, imo.

I'm temporarily deaf and it is occasionally awesome.

If it's for your Mom, that makes stealing OK.

If they keep running it, at some point somebody is going to run into 250lb Josh Allen's ass and bounce back off.

There was clearly something wrong with Micah Parsons from the very beginning of the first series. Minimal jump, no power, sucking wind 4 plays in; he wasn't right tonight.

Spencer Brown's best game ever as a Bill

I don't think Dunne done did nuthin'. They came out of their annual midseason swoon well before he made his play for subscriptions.

Like 'em or not, butterflies are good.

Aaron Williams, Rich and Josh Allen

Feels like more variety and less predictability in a variety of down/distance situations recently