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Mid Season Super Bowl Predictions. Who Ya got?
Alphadawg7 replied to BuffaloBillyG's topic in The Stadium Wall
Preseason guess: Bills vs Niners Personal Want: Bills vs Niners (wife is a Niners fan, would be epic here haha) Current guess: Niners vs KC -
All good on the disagree, but I don’t think we actually do disagree. I was saying he won’t have a shot unless we tear through this tough schedule. I’m saying today, he really has no shot of the vote because of the narrative, not because he isn’t deserving. Bills and Allen are going to have to win the division and come out and win these tough games against Mahomes, Hurts, Tua, etc for him to have a legit shot at getting the votes. Most important games are going to be Mahomes and Burrow because they have been the last two teams to knock Bills and Allen out of playoffs, so those are the ones where he can really start to shift the narrative on himself.
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I don’t disagree with that, not saying he can’t win it, saying he has to do more to win it to overcome Mahomes because of the narrative. Which is why I said if we tear through the schedule he could still win it, but it will take that for him to have a legit shot to win it. He won’t win it if we don’t win our division, not over Mahomes.
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Yet they did it to Allen last year when he had a hurt throwing elbow. Allen does and has always taken more harsher criticism than other QBs. With Allen it feels more like a game of proving he is good or not good rather than fair evaluation on his play. Allen is basically being asked to prove them wrong every week where other guys can have down or bad weeks and no one bats an eye about it. It’s just an “off” game or other excuses applied. With Allen it’s more “see we told you he sucks” type coverage.
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Post of the season 😂👏
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Im normally a glass half full guy, but this just furthers my concerns. Because that is the conundrum, we are barely beating or losing to the only weak teams remaining on our schedule outside Denver and Pats again (who we already lost to). We should have won all 4 games by double digits, yet we still lost 2 and then barley held on and got lucky on last play of both wins.
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2 things blow my mind about this team...can we return a punt without a penalty and can we defend a freaking hail mary? If we are honest with ourselves, a case can be made we should be 0-4 in our last 4 games during our weakest part of our schedule if not for some luck on the final play of the Giants and Bucs game. It is crazy how we put ourselves in these situations, especially in a game we should have won with a blowout but shot ourselves so many times in the foot this game that we allowed this hail mary attempt to even happen in the first place.
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I know this thread is dedicated to the MVP race, but the reality of the situation is Josh Allen isn't really in it right now. Technically he is, but not really. With embarrassing losses to both Zack Wilson and Mac Jones, and a near loss where we only scored 14 points against a 1 win Giants team starting a QB who hasn't played meaningful football in years is going to leave a long bad taste in the mouths of the voters. Add in now the narrative even after this win is that we only won because Godwin didn't see the hail mary (and there is some truth to that) and you have got a team that is 2-2 in the last 4 during the easiest part of its schedule, and both wins a case can be made more that the other team lost it more than we won it and we got lucky. Whether or not that is true or fair doesn't matter, that is the narrative. So right now, Allen and the Bills are probably going to have to win out or lose no more than 1 more game and definitely at least win the division for Allen to have any real consideration. He will have to do a lot more than Mahomes to overcome him, who is the definitive leader for MVP right now. And that is the issue with Allen...while everyone always is willing to acknowledge him as a major MVP candidate, he also is someone the media and everyone seem to hold to a higher standard of near perfection or they tear him down. He is grossly outplaying Burrow right now and yet Burrow doesn't get nearly the same criticism to the level Allen does for example. It will be tough for Allen to win an MVP unless he really definitively beats everyone else out because he is not going to get the votes in a close race. And the thing working in Josh's favor to help him do that is also working against him and this team...and that is the toughness of our remaining schedule which is rough and the defensive injuries. Given the difficulty of the remaining games and the added difficulty with our defensive injuries, if Allen and Bills run the table or lose maybe just 1 close game and still win the division, then that could help propel Josh back into legit consideration. But that won't be easy as we have seen against lesser competition already.
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True, but Woolen came from a small school, harder to tell where they will go. So you’re right, he could have gone anywhere, but he was more likely going late first to early 2nd based was all I was saying. He wasn’t a teach based on expected draft slot. Easy to call it that now, but on draft night he wasn’t considered a reach is my only point.
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Fitz even talked about how poor of a play call that was during halftime
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The run out of shotgun on the goal line almost cost us the game. It took 7 points off the board in a game we almost lost on the final play of the game. It’s unbelievable he tried the same horrid play in the same situation again this week that didn’t work last time. It’s these dumb decisions that make it hard to have faith in him over the season and against tougher opponents. I mean what happens when Knox is back? Will he revert back or are we going to see less 12 personnel and keep guys like Shakir more involved? I hope this game shows him the blue print of what makes the offense flow better and he builds on it.
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Here is how I would fix the offense (Listen up Dorsey)
Alphadawg7 replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
I literally can not believe he again on 3rd and the goal line ran it out of shotgun with Murray and lost yards. Like how does he justify this??? And this time he didn’t get bailed out with a 4th down TD. And it almost cost us the game. And it’s dumb things like this that over shadow other positive adjustments, although I have to wonder that if Knox was not hurt would we have seen these other changes still? -
Not sure why you’re getting negative reactions, he’s not close to being what he was yet. Doesn’t mean he won’t get there, but he’s just not there yet. He should still get reps though as we need to get him the opportunity to work all the way back as much as he can. But I think AJE and Groot both should get starter level playing time until he does.
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Initially I thought the receiver rounded his route and angled to the sideline, but watching it again I can see the subtle change of direction by the receiver from the under throw when Allen let’s go if the ball. Although I still don’t think it was a good route by the receiver out of the break IMHO (think it was Kincaid), but I see where Allen under threw it now.
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The fact you have to ask that tells me you either didn’t watch the game or just are going out of your way for what ever reason to challenge or disagree with me no matter the comment as usual lol No one in their right mind would have watched Dorsey once again on the goal line on 3rd down call a run out of the shotgun instead of a QB sneak and think he didn’t blow points. Once again we lost yards and had to go for it on fourth down. And this time we didn’t convert and came away with 0 points. The fact he did this again after not learning his lesson last time is unreal. Even the Bucs Coach knew they should have run the ball with Allen there and didn’t.
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Bills have left too many points on the field because of how stupid Dorsey has been with play calling at times. While he’s finally doing the obvious elsewhere, he still is blowing points with bad decisions.
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Shakir needs to be given some of Gabe’s snaps…prove me wrong
Alphadawg7 replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
Turns out it was Knox that needed more snaps so Shakir could get more involved and it seems to have helped Davis produce as well. All that matters to me is that Shakir is more involved. Glad to see Gabe making plays too finally -
Here is how I would fix the offense (Listen up Dorsey)
Alphadawg7 replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
I mean I gotta say this is proving pretty spot on for the most part with how this game has played out, including Dorsey’s goal line stupidity of not sneaking it. Maybe Dorsey does read my threads 😂😂😂 #Alpha4OC 😎😜💪 -
Shakir needs to be given some of Gabe’s snaps…prove me wrong
Alphadawg7 replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
One of the reasons I wanted him more involved. Gave was the obvious place to find snaps given his 95% consistent snap count, but if it comes from Knox then so be it, just keep him on the field and hopefully it helps open up more stuff for Gabe and everyone else too. And so far much better start for Davis too -
Shakir needs to be given some of Gabe’s snaps…prove me wrong
Alphadawg7 replied to Alphadawg7's topic in The Stadium Wall
Still liking his involvement which was what I wanted to see more of. Hopefully Gabe does more too if Shakir is making more plays out there.