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He’s going to juniors. I don’t believe this is the case.

No. I refuse to watch little kids playing a sport. Used to have mild interest growing up but it’s the worst time of the year (LLWS and college World Series) for me.

Your first sentence seems to be the go-to response to any new rules. It doesn’t work like that. Plenty of rules have been made and applied without issue. This could easily be another one. And I’m sure they’d eventually find a new defensive adjustment nobody has thought of but that’s not an argument against trying new rules. And yes, there would be specific wording. As rules go. The Pats were notorious for sneaking in an extra olineman to confuse defenses and get a wide open target who was thought to be ineligible. Then people got pissed and the NFL changed the rule and the problem disappeared. Everyone tried saying they’d find a way around it. They haven’t.

Nobody conveniently ignored anything. As stated above it was recent starters. Those I named were the ones that started recent Super Bowls off the top of my head. But Eli didn’t sit behind success. He replaced a QB in a bad season.

I was listing recent SB QBs. He was a few years outside of the QBs I did off the top of my head. He and Kaepernick are the other two recent exceptions I can think of.

On the idea that a rookie QB needs to see success from the bench to become successful: QBs who have gone to the Super Bowl in recent years are... Carson Wentz (and Nick Foles but it was Wentz’ team and he was the MVP prior to a late-season injury) Tom Brady Matt Ryan Russell Wilson Peyton Manning Cam Newton The only one of those who sat behind success is Tom Brady. Really the only time it happens is if it’s a mid-to-low-level prospect drafted by a contender. Successful quarterbacks generally aren’t replaced.

I like the overall dead-horse-beating of Peterman and the San Diego game. Five picks is brutal in two games, let alone a half, but two of those pricks were legitimately 0% on him and another was borderline. A lot of really fluky/bad plays from his targets.

No. The question is if he would’ve had an opportunity at a bigger school. The problem with him coming out wasn’t ability. It was perception. He may have gotten devoured on a bigger campus but it’s sonetbing we can’t know. I have no doubt he would’ve been wanted by several big programs had he decided to transfer before his last season. But as I mentioned above that would’ve been bad for him.

No, I think the actual intention of the question is “what if this exact Josh Allen got the chance to play at a top tier school.” If he got the coaching and condition that comes with that it could have been great... or maybe he’s the type of guy who thrives off the challenge. He was the 7th pick as is and had a very real chance at going number one (reports said we had him as the number one QB, as did Arizona). But that was last year with an actually pretty different team. It doesn’t feel like putting Tyrod on this team would make them playoff contenders.

They got a third rounder for a not-very-gold QB. You take that any day. It doesn’t seem especially stupid because they are where they planned to be (minus having a potential starter get hurt). They used the pick they got for Taylor to move up in the first (can’t remember if it was for Allen or Edmunds).

A man gets home from a long day at work. He comes through the door looking for his wife... He says “honey?” No response. He looks in the kitchen, she’s not there. Looks in the living room, she’s not there. He goes up to the bedroom to find her packing her things. ”what’s wrong? Where are you going?” he says. ”I can’t take it anymore. I hear what they say about you around town,” she replies. ”Huh? What do they say about me around town, babe?” ”They say you’re a pedophile.” ”Pedophile!? ... that’s a big word for a 12 year old.”

This entirely. I’ve felt for a while that with five yards and under at the 50 or beyond you should just about never be punting. Some people go as far as saying you shouldn’t punt in any short yardage situation but I still imagine you’d be better off never going for it at your own 20.

The NFL still needs to sort out yardage for penalties. Offsetting shouldn’t happen if it’s a personal foul vs a hold or something along those lines. I’m fine if they make a judgement that one penalty couldn’t have happened without the other but they’re generally happening at very different parts of the field. I also wish they’d lessen the “automatic first down” calls. Like a defensive hold on 3rd and 27 that’s six yards down the field should not be a first down. Make it a ten yard penalty or a spot foul and replay the down. The offense gets way too many advantages in these cases. I know we all want to sound cool and fun and risky but punting is a part of the game. Having a good one helps.

That’s the idea of the what if. If he did get a shot to start at a top college program then... This is accurate. But also ignores the purpose of a “what if.” Based on where he comes from and his development he never had a shot. Maybe if he elected to transfer before his final year but that would’ve been useless for him.

Saw a wild stat just now: If Wanye Gretzky had never retired, played every regular season game without injury up until now, and scored zero points in any of those games it would have taken him until the 11th game of this last season to no longer have a PPG in the regular season.

He was 7th overall as-is and many reports stated he received serious consideration at 1 and before 7...

Cory Carter, who had a good shot at being our punter, tore his ACL last night on a penalty that ended up offsetting.

Haven’t seen it mentioned here but Kyle Williams suffered a right leg injury last night. He refused to talk to reporters after the game and was in a full cast on his right leg. And just as I post this:

McCarron broke his collar bone so looks like it’s Peterman or Allen.

Edmunds was a starter the second they drafted him and the team basically said as much.

What a play there by Allen. Bad play call to go empty against what you know will be a heavy rush but he dodges the free rusher and keeps his eyes down field for the TD.

Allen getting some run with the first team. Throw to Lee was nice but the throw to Murphy out of the backfield right not was atrocious. Have to work on those because he was never asked to do them in college and clearly has no idea how to. Coschable sutustuon, though. Also, the way the team talks about Coleman gives me the feeling he’s very much on the bubble.

The offensive line is getting thrashed. The first play was a great throw from McCarron that Benjamin has to have and then everything else has been garbage. McCoy a few quick bursts.

Just rewatched the new It for the first time since seeing it in theatres and this is easily one of the best new horror films I’ve seen. Maybe THE best. I loved the original (I’ve only seen the movie cut, not the mini-series cut), but this one tops that exponentially. Whenever someone asks me to describe it effective constantly comes to mind. They did a lot with CGI that just worked and some of the scares/creepy moments are done so well. The new Pennywise is great. The kids are great. Very excited for chapter two.