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I like his story and the type of player he is. He should be way ahead of rookies and his body type is only matched by Davis. I am sure that if the Bills do waive him they'd love to stash him on the PS. WRs get hurt all the time in normal years and Duke would be a great to have as an option to move to the active roster in 2020.

Sort of similar to the Antonio Brown story, I'd think the Bills would want to push back against the Ross Tucker story if it;'s a widely held view. It would not play well in the locker room. It's much better to say that the Bills kept their agreement than that they caved to a negotiation ploy. They are headed toward some really important negotiations in the next few years.

Ross Tucker had a "Tucker's Take" where he referenced tweets from "numerous AFL" insiders that claimed the timing was due to Diggs threatening to opt out. He seems to believe it. Diggs using the COVID-19 opt out option as leverage and the Bills caving or the Bills honoring an agreement made ~5 months ago and could only make it official the day before the opt out deadline? That's a huge difference in the narrative.

It was a weak, tepid, apolitical response to to generally weak, overly simple question. If the answer MLJ wanted to hear needed to be political to be "acceptable" then it should not have been asked. He probably hoped for a response that was more profound but Fromm given the time he had to reflect on it but Jake is not in a position to be a lightning rod for anything. MLJ will be on OBL after commercial and it's likely to come up.

He played well in the RZ and 4th quarter without throwing a pick in those situations. He was a strong road performer as well. I think that, collectively, it's a good sign. That can be a sterile stats thing but that can also be a scouting observation. It can be a result of how he is wired as a competitor.

I think this answers the Ginger or Mary Ann question for anyone on the fence.

If there is any passing play of Allen's 2019 season this is the best resource I know of to go and get them. Separarte threads for each game, dropped passes, converted 10+ 3rd downs, best throws/runs etc. This guy did what I suspect is huge amount of work to put these all in one place. It seems to be a mixture of TV broadcast clips and the All 22 versions of each pass play. If you have no reason to ever want to view any of them for any reason that's your right. Some here continue to hash out issues of accuracy, drops, decision making, and pass protection. Here is a go to place to review any of that and I thought there would be members here that might appreciate it.

This thread of posted video clips shows his 18 3rd and 10+ first down conversions. 17 were via the pass (10 from the pocket and 7 outside) and 1 via the run. This number apparently led the NFL. Most show what a power arm, often combined with great mobility, can produce. Clips of 3rd and 10+ Conversions

QBs miss throws and WRs drop them. I think you can see some trends. Knox with All QBs make poor throws or misreads. All pass catchers peak for defenders or misjudge the time and space they have to work with. I think Beasley does not track the ball well over his shoulder. He doesnt often run routes that require him to do it, maybe for good reason. Knox and Singletary had so little collegiate passing game experience. Hopefully they make big improvements this year. It would make the offense so much better. 400+ points or bust!

Here is the "dropped" pass thread: Compilation of 2019 Dropped Passes This has often been a point of debate. Some have the (knee jerk, imo) view of "poor ball placement" or " thrown too hard." They are all (according to Stathi) here for some review.

He has attempted to Tweet every nonspike Josh Allen throw of 2019. He has compiled separate threads that showcased the balls that might be considered drops, some of his best runs, etc. If there is some play you might wish to review, he has probably documented it, usually from two angles.

Bruce Nolan said on his podcast that the voting actually occurred last year around Thanksgiving. So, my theory about projection is not so good. It might be more about the plays he made in Dallas. Lol.

It may be a projection over production issue. Some feeling around the league that Josh is going to have a big 2020 and maybe what Diggs will do for the offense. If it was totally based on 2019 results it would be less interesting. It is the top 100 of 2020 not 2019.

Right. That image does persist. I wanted to see an All 22 clip of that play. It seemed like it had huge potential to maybe even score. As for taking the big hit, that play was very unusual in that there was no time for Josh to react to a totally unexpected, whiff of a block so close to him. Knox ran by it and Morse? was there too late. To me that was the biggest "if only" offensive play of the day but it was in no way similar to any other hit he has ever taken before. A hit akin to a sucker punch that Josh ran into.

Back in the olden days of 4 nationally broadcast preseason games and a majority of publically attended practices they managed to keep important info private. Maybe they forgot how to do this and all those new plays that they will run this year that they had not put on tape last year will be exposed because they chose to 100% of their practices in their entirety.

Just practice all the plays they ran last year in the live stream. Practice the new stuff out-of-view. Jets will be like the German army waiting for the real invasion of Europe under Patton's command at the Pas-de-Calais.?

We shouldn't live in a world where the Bills let the Browns do anything better than them........... Bills.

The NBA has a thing about players not wanting to be "posterized." Think of the defenders Josh has posterized. Barr X3, Alonso X?, Ngakoue, Lee, etc. Lots of poor angles in pursuit, some embarrassing stiff arm put downs, broken tackles, broken ankles and the like. My suspicion is that since most defenders are a physically proud bunch and that when a QB beats them physically (it's rare) it earns their respect.

Josh has played only 2 meaningful vs. the Jets. In 2018 the game was one of his worst clutch performances in that he threw a late 4th quarter pick on a rollout to the the right and a cross body heave. To make it even worse, I think it was a first down play, early in the drive, IIRC. Those type of ints largely disappeared after the Patriots game and Josh got better at either picking a legit target or throwing it away but that 2018 Jets game was one of his worst performances in the clutch. The 2019 game was certainly an unimpressive 3 quarters of football but we would tend to want to call most of that due to fluky turnovers. All this is to say is that we generally think of other teams' QBs in terms of how they played against the Bills. How many of us really believe in what Ryan Tannehill did last year and are really concerned about playing him this year? So, I think I can understand some of the Jets' fans view. Dolphins fans know better given the 4 games Josh played against them. As for Josh, I think this is mostly a "futures" sentiment. Most everything is trending up for Josh in 2020: roster and coaching continuity, addition of a premium WR talent, the foundation of a solid 2019 playoff season and his own growth mindset. He owns his deficiencies, balls out, has physically dominated a number of good defenders, never shows up his teammates and maintains a positive public persona all the while dedicating himself toward personal improvement. He is not a prima donna QB and other players around the league respect that, I think.

Good thing the border is closed.

Tickets by Bobbit? Ooh, bad joke.

I think you have to specify a Cam Newton season. His 2014 and 2017 seasons look much like Josh2019. Cam 2013 is better and 2015 is best. Imo, due to their size and the way they play, the thread could be which of Cam Newton's seasons do you think Josh's will most look like in 2020? Then we could argue about that.

All single game ticket sales are now invalid with refunds. When seat availability for the games is determined, season ticket holders who choose to leave their payments on their season ticket holder account have dibs by a system yet to be determined. If you want to see that particular game you should get to know as many season ticket holders as possible and be kind to them.

Fans in Denver and Indy liked him because he brought some passion/intensity to preseason games that usually lack any. Fans at Ole Miss liked him for the same thing, imo, and for beating Alabama, LSU and Auburn in their Sugar Bowl Championship season, which was unprecedented there. His arm is upper echelon, throwing for over 70 yds. as a 15 year old but without any more current numbers. In a really bad run up to the draft, he wrecked his knee in November, got disinvited to the combine (maybe over threatening to use, allegedly, an AK-47 two years prior) and then destroyed his wrist tendon at his pro day. He never got the athletic testing that NFL prospects usually get and any team that drafted him in 2017 knew he would not be ready to play until 2018, thus the Mr. Irrelevant draft status. In my experience, hyper competitive people are often jerks especially when they aren't smart/mature enough to know when to turn it off. But, it doesn't mean that they aren't decent, charitable human beings in other settings. Not fighting the home owners and police after that Halloween party incident was actually a step forward for him. I suspect the conditions the Colts put on him when he was signed involved some sort of counseling and Chad seems to have done well there. Beating out 2020 4th rounder Eason without preseason games will be tough and his NFL future continues to look shaky. If the Colts could trade Brissett, maybe some team suffers a major QB injury before the season starts, they clear ~ $16 million in cap space and it would be good news to both Kelly and Eason. Jim has many nephews currently playing or who have played football at the college level that will never get a whiff of the NFL so it can't be just his last name.

Here is Cam Newton in 2013, the EJ's rookie year game included. I think Josh can match this but I am hoping for more. It looks much like the Josh's 2019 road stats extended over a 16 schedule that I posted earlier. ▼ W L T Cmp Att Inc Cmp% Yds TD Int Rate Sk Yds Y/A AY/A A/G Y/G Att Yds Y/A TD A/G Y/G TD Pts Fmb FL FF FR Yds TD 16 12 4 0 292 473 181 61.73 3379 24 13 88.8 43 336 7.14 6.92 29.6 211.2 111 585 5.27 6 6.9 36.6 6 36 3 1 0 0 -8 0