I truly don't understand how the Lamar discourse breaks so many people's brains.
We have @billbarnwell, who I truly believe has been the single smartest person covering the NFL for more than a decade, earnestly arguing that Lamar & Mahomes' *playoff numbers* over the last two years are "basically identical" and acting as if the Zay Flowers fumble (which happened with them down 10 points, and was immediately followed by an egregious Lamar INT in the end zone, with them also down 10 points) and a Mark Andrews drop (which would have simply tied the game, and their BEST CASE scenario was stopping the Bills from getting a FG with 2 TOs & 1:33 AND THEN winning in OT) are why folks are criticizing Lamar.
That's not it! It's that in the regular season he IS the guy you guys say he is... one of the greatest players of all time!
And then EVERY YEAR in the postseason, he has one of, if not his very worst game of the year!
'18: Lamar has multiple TOs, BAL has 3 points with 7 mins left, finishes with season low 17
'19: Lamar has multiple TOs, BAL has 6 points heading into 4th Q, finishes with season low 12
'20: Lamar throws a 100yd Pick 6 while trailing 7, finishes with a season low 3 points
'23: Lamar has multiple TOs, BAL has 7 points with 3 minutes left, finishes with season low 10
'24: Lamar has multiple TOs for the first time all year.
Obviously, yesterday was not as bad as the previous 4 playoff losses, but when a player's team scores the fewest points it has all year in 4 of 5 playoff losses, and when a player, who has multiple turnovers in less than 15% of his career regular season games, has multiple turnovers in HALF of his career playoff games, it's not a coincidence!
So you're telling me the Ravens have nine pro bowlers and four all pros, and I'm supposed to believe that Lamar Jackson is more valuable than Josh Allen is to his own team. Yet the @BuffaloBills have two pro bowlers and just Josh Allen as second team All pro.
People need to stop getting the MVP confused with who has the best stats and who is the most valuable to their franchise.
The decision to try a QB sneak on first down was stupid. The decision to call the timeout after was even stupider. The Bills chances of winning were marginal, but throwing away your chance because of poor clock management can’t happen.
Jocko Willink asks RFK Jr. why he decided to run for President
“I saw the Democratic Party moving to censor political opponents.”
“I saw this explosion of chronic disease in our country that was just being covered up.”
“I saw [both] parties become parties of war.”
“I saw the Democratic Party go to war against the American middle class.”
“Why do 5 of my 7 kids have food allergies? Why does this entire generation have autoimmune diseases? Why are we the sickest nation on the planet?
Why did we have the highest Covid death rates? We had 16% of Covid deaths and we only have 4% of the world’s population.
Somebody needs to explain that. Why are people getting awards for this?”
“Nobody is asking the questions, like with Iraq, why were we at war in Iraq?
Why did we spend $8 trillion over there destroying the one country that was the bulwark to Iran?
We’ve spent $8 trillion on wars since [2001] and we’ve killed millions of people, all unnecessary.
We’re less safe here, Americans are less safe abroad, our country is depleted in power, we’ve got a $34 trillion debt that’s gone up another $1 trillion in the last 100 days.
To service that debt, we now pay more than we do for our military. Within five years, half of every dollar that is collected will go to servicing the debt.
That’s not tenable, and nobody’s talking about this, nobody’s trying to do anything about it, so I just felt like… the only way to fix it is to run myself.”
President Biden wants to discuss how our kid aren't getting as many potato chips as they used to. We lead the world in obesity and chronic disease. According to the CDC, 60% of Americans have at least one chronic condition. When my uncle was president, only 6% of Americans had chronic disease. All of these plights fall heaviest on our young people. It's time for us to say enough is enough. #StateOfTheUnion
I know on football stuff #BillsMafia is no fine of mine, but on a human level, y’all are some of the finest people on earth, and Patrick was a representation of that.
What a happy accident that phone call was.
Mitchell Robinson offered his high school coach to live with him after his wife passed away in September.
The two have been roommates the entire season.
This team has been poisoned by a culture of playing not to lose instead of playing to win. It works when your franchise was in a two-decades long spiral. But it only gets you so far. They have reached their ceiling with this coach and I sincerely hope ownership doesn’t waste another year of Josh Allen’s prime with this guy.
Stephen A . Smith says Lightning McQueen is NOT the GOAT:
“Strip & Lightning are both tied with 7 piston cups, how can you be the GOAT if you have someone tied with you? You didn’t think I knew about Cars, did you?”