Randall Flagg

Probably because we look so consistently bad on his corsica.hockey site The tweet just made me snort which is why I shared it (though Ottawa's comment definitely should have been "They're a team") but based on what you're telling me i'm not gonna give him a follow lol

He's a Leafs fan, right?

I'm going to class. There better be a trade to talk about when I get back

Back on the ice as in skating for the first time, or ready for NHL action?

No the last two lines are mine.

Friedman also says that a potential hangup is that the Ducks are on Faulk's NTC list

Friedman says Ducks/Canes talking Faulk. We're keeping Risto Which I don't hate because Risto, I hate because our forwards

Doomed!

And you've gotta think that some of these RFAs just want to get to training camp this week, and that GMs would like to complete their trades to get everybody in for the same reason

I normally couldn't care less about the Eagles, especially compared to all their division rivals who beat the Bills in super bowls, but yeah now I can hate them too

If the tweet is dead then maybe the rumor was bogus?

That Laine to Anaheim was close to being done

That Brady pass was, maybe, 3 inches higher above the ground at most than the one to Cole, but Cole is 4 feet tall so it looks funkier, and Cole had no intentions of running any further once he caught it, as evidenced by the angles on his knees when he dropped to the ground because he knew Allen was sitting him down. Anyway, I was surprised at how good Leveon Bell looked. It's hard to describe him, but he feels like a psychic creature that levitates a couple inches above the ground and can't be bothered by physical attempts to stop him. Just the way his upper body doesn't move/bob as he's finding his seams and making his cuts. That guy is going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of teams. And we get Saquon next week who is going to torch us probably. Why did he only have five carries into the third quarter yesterday?

I also want to establish that I don't think Allen is some savior, and he's still incredibly raw to the point where my stomach clenches every time he lets go of a pass to a receiver I can't see on the screen. But damn guys we should be excited about yesterday We should be talking about those passes to Brown, Sweeney, and the touch on that ball to Beasley that he dropped on the sideline I don't think a single receiver had to break stride on a crossing route reception, even the ones 15 yards down the field That's exactly what we worried about

Just taking a step back, try and see what I mean here. That football, in the picture, was caught by the guy circled in red, and you wanted to give 100% of the blame for the pick to the quarterback, and grudgingly moved to 70%. That is simply insane, even if that throw isn't supposed to be that low, which it is, which Beasley was even bracing for because he was already crouched to about four feet tall before the throw even left Allen's hands, because when you stop and pivot and have 3 defenders behind you, your quarterback's job is to sit you down so you don't get blown up.

This does not contain the throw I'm talking about because it's not every Brady throw, it's the game highlight video. Liger, all of the routes in that video are crossing routes in which the receiver is moving and stays upright. I'm talking about a route where the receiver pivots and stops. Brady sits him down.

I mean that's what I meant to indicate by volley haha - whatever it was, I haven't seen anything like that since I played football in like sixth grade, and it's slightly worrisome to me because Cole has done something like it twice now for interceptions in his few snaps he's seen since preseason started Link?

If you throw at a normal height to Beasley there, he gets popped in the back before he can turn around, and drops the ball, and probably breaks a rib. You sit your stationary receivers down on the ground with a throw, and Allen's throw was about 20 inches off the ground, into Beasley's hands such that he could fall to the turf with it while catching it and be touched down rather than blasted. Beasley, like he did in preseason, volleyed a football for a pick.

To the outside? His route was a pivot and he was stationary. Why do you want him reaching his arms out? You're arguing about literal inches, maybe two or three, when a receiver took a ball in his hands and volleyed it up to a defender. Beasley is 100% to blame unless you expect your QB to be a perfect robot. He sat Beasley down like he was supposed to, and Beasley knew it which is why he was in an incredibly low stance as the ball was just leaving Allen's hands. That's just what you do on that route so you don't get killed. And I'm not screaming, I'm capitalizing the relevant words which highlight how I don't think you understand what is going on in that football play

It was a nearly perfect throw, whose only issue was that it was perhaps three inches off center of Beasley's body. it's a checkdown to a route that's about to get swallowed up by three tacklers, who can and will close the gap in your photo (still shots in moving sports are always borderline useless, see the Trubisky pic from earlier in this thread) in about a quarter of a second. I'm honestly shocked that you think QB's AREN'T supposed to sit their receivers down safely there. I've literally seen that exact play so many times. This is the first time I've seen the WR take the ball in their hands and then pop it up for the defender. ALL the blame?? Even if it was low it hit a RECEIVER in the HANDS.

Even if this were true, which it's not, that's where the pass is supposed to be in that situation, but even if it were true, would you bring the same criticism to the other QBs I saw turf footballs at their receivers' feet more than one time yesterday? Because their receivers didn't volley those passes into the arms of the waiting MLB. I'll give you a list of names that you can go into the 10 minute highlight videos and see make similar throws - Mayfield, Brady, Stafford, Rodgers, Rivers, Wilson. Welcome to the NFL. The inteception was 100% Cole Beasley's fault.

Brady threw the same pass to his WR on the exact same route last night, because that pass is supposed to be low. And it hit him in both hands.

This is the instruction on throws like those. Like I just said, Brady did the same thing. It's what you're supposed to do.

I completely disagree, I thought Allen was pretty good. That ball to Beasley was thrown exactly where it should be to avoid turnovers in that situation - low. And it hit Cole in the hands. Brady threw a pass to a receiver running the same route last night, only with a defender draped all over him, and he threw it harder. At the same height. Brady's receiver caught the ball. The deflection? We deflected FIVE of Darnold's passes at the line and they all fell harmlessly to the turf. Allen's lone deflection hit Jets hands. That happens to all QBs every game, and sometimes the result is unlucky. Usually it's not. Fumble #2 never touched his hands, Morse never got it up to them. Fumble #1 shouldn't happen, but Dawkins got blown up on his blind side, so whatever. He'll learn, but tell me a QB that doesn't get strip sacked from the blind side on occasion. The other two bad throws are the kind of thing that you definitely don't want your QB to make, but when you watch real football games with real QBs, you realize that throws like that happen every game whether you're Rodgers or Allen. They fall into the regime of being so zoned in and hyperfocused on every single Allen decision and ball placement that every bad instance of those looks like the worst and unacceptable, proving all of the draft worriers correct, which I am completely guilty of. But I watched about 10 other games yesterday, and every QB I watched made two equally bad decisions yesterday, from Wilson and Roethlisberger to the worst QBs playing. (The GOAT didn't make two bad decisions I guess, but he's the GOAT.) Some of them made more than that. And Dak Prescott was brilliant yesterday, and when he hit his WIDE open TE down the seam for the touchdown and the TE had to completely pivot his hips to the other side/reverse direction while running to catch the ball, a maneuver that could have easily made him drop it or trip, before scoring - my first thought was, forget about other Bills fans, IIIII would have been disappointed had Allen made that throw. There surely would have been talks here and elsewhere about accuracy if it was Allen. But that's NFL football, man. That's what it looks like. So is the attempted score when down 3 scores on 3rd down that almost got picked. EVERY QB is guilty of stuff like that, and every QB gets lucky. Allen was an NFL QB yesterday. Allen has thrown bad picks from bad decisions plenty of time, thinking of those times he rolled out and ran right while throwing across his body. That's a lot different from batted balls and Beasley being a dolt. Allen made two bad decisions on almost 40 dropbacks, and executed a fourth quarter comeback down three scores, with his arm, from the pocket. His day wasn't perfect, but it was impressive. And if you make an effort to watch his game yesterday without letting the narratives from his pre/post draft drive how you see every pass, like I've been making a concerted effort to ditch as someone who exploded with rage when we drafted him, it was a pretty damn hopeful game. The guy was freaking accurate yesterday, and he threw dimes with various amounts of touch as the pocket was closing in on him a bunch of times. He was incapable of that last year, and did it in his 12th start. It was incredibly encouraging.