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This play looks so Allen-like its scary....and maybe a bit encouraging lol?

I think anyone that is still 100% convinced that Josh is the guy is lying to themselves a bit but at the same time if you are 100% sure he has no chance at being a decent starer in this league then you're also being disingenuous. Through the first two games, and a good portion of the Bengals game, there was more good Josh than bad Josh. That is encouraging and was progress from the year before. Every advanced stat showed that he was legitimately improving in decision making and accuracy. The biggest thing I wanted to see going into Cincy and especially NE was to be good Josh for 4 quarters and to minimize dumb turnovers. Boy howdy did that not happen at all. Im still willing to give him many more games though. I still have hope.

Yes, it doesnt have to be one or the other. I too still believe in Josh but this game was an unmistakable disaster in every sense. I have seen enough improvement in the first three games to remain hopeful. He has shown for at least 1/2 of every game through three weeks that he can take the underneath stuff and be accurate. I am not sure what caused him to abandon that for all but 1 drive against the Pats but you could tell him Daboll's sideline admonishing that he was NOT following the gameplan. I will be very curious to see how he bounces back from this.

Stats are one thing, and Im a analytics guy, but you have to see the way they play for it to make sense as to why I believe n JA more. EJ looked terrified out there, Allen looks much more comfortable since coming back from injury, save for this past game. I would rather have a QB that can do it all and try to reign him in than one that doesnt look like he can make the throws. EJs throwing motion was just so awful, throwing darts. I dont think EJ ever looked as comfortable as Allen has looked in the pocket through the first 3 weeks. But this NE was bad bad bad.

We should be able to move the ball more effectively against the Titans no matter who our QB is, getting Singletary back would help too. Eliminate the 5 turnovers and dont get a punt blocked and returned for a TD and I think we can win this game.

You can see this D laying an egg for what reason? Based on what evidence? They have played dominating defense for 4 straight games, save for 1 quarter against the Bengals. Mariota isnt Brady. I am profoundly more worried about the offense next week than our defense, especially if Barkley is the starter. Im really confused by your take.

This particular team is 2-0 on the road. This defense can make Mariota's day miserable. I think Tennessee is very very winnable.

If they can play a clean game with no turnovers, and our defense continues to be good then we CAN win. Im not gonna say we will. Both the Jets and Bengals games would have been won handily without stupid turnovers.

Isnt the first half the same article that was posted before the Bengals game? ok so it was before the Giants game. Same author though: https://www.bigblueview.com/2019/9/12/20862529/giants-vs-bills-what-kind-of-quarterback-is-josh-allen-in-year-2

Yea agreed. but YardsPerPass still shows gifs of the game every week and mentions some stuff. But its less in depth than it used to be. Still good though.

I think the problem is that he is very inaccurate in deep bombs. I think the only one hes ever really hit on with an accurate throw was the one to Foster against the Jags. I think BB would love it if we tried to beat them with deep shots all game.

The Jets with Mosely are a bottom 5 defense? And the Jets without Mosely still had Baker all types of confused. Allen looked much better against the Jets, even with Mosely, than Baker did withou t him for 3 Qs.

He wasnt even a coordinator. He was a RB coach that was moved to interim OC when they fired Hue. He had never had real coordinator experience and never gone through an off season as a coordinator let a lone a HC. Baker and him seemed to have a good relationship which is why they made the move but I think its beginning to show that he isnt ready to be a HC.

Please god no. "Big Time" WRs are such a waste. Whats missing is putting together 4 straight quarters. Defenses make adjustments in the 2nd half and we dont react quickly. Then Josh tends to get a little too much in his head; leaving the pocket, not trusting the line, etc. I think its mostly playcalling adjustments which translates to Josh's confidence. My wild card guess is that we run a lot more no-huddle than we have been. We have seen it a bit, especially late in this past game when we needed a score. My sneaking suspicion is that Daboll wanted to keep it under wraps but broke it out cause we needed a score. We will bring it out against the Pats since there is very little tape on it but they have probably been running it a lot in practice. Just a guess.

They look scary but their opponents so far are 0-9. Obviously ours are 1-8 and we have looked worse than them but the point remains they have not been tested at all. I still will never pick us to beat them but its something to consider.

IMO its because of the style of play at QB when its good. When Josh orchestrates a drive he usually stands in the pocket and delivers to an open guy and he uses the entire field. A lot of his next gen stats look good in terms of Y/A, depth adjusted completion %, etc. That type of stuff can be seen when you compare it to the style of QB we got from Tyrod or EJ. The thing with Josh so far has been eliminating TOs (which come on fumbles and one dumb throw yesterday) and putting a complete game together. With Tyrod we were saying he needs to learn how to use the field and throw across the middle and throw downfield more. Those all seem much harder to learn then learning to secure the ball more on fumbles and avoid some of the hero-ball stuff. At least thats where my optimism lies.

Yea agreed. Despite the turnovers, we moved the ball well against the Jets even with Mosely. But, all we can do it keep wining. Although even if we win this Sunday we coud very well be 3-0 against 3 winless teams.

Weve always gotta play well, as you said. This is the NFL, there are no gimmes. The Jets didnt look good against us but Im a bit perturbed that the most common take I see is that the Bills defense has only played against ***** teams when in reality the Jests had Darnold and they added Bell, Crowder and other weapons. This was a bolstered Jets offense we went against, not the Simean/Falk offense the Browns played against. I just wish I saw more of "The Bills neutralized a bolstered Jets offense" instead of LOL you only played the Jets.

They got within a touchdown in the 4th quarter. That is exactly what getting back in the game means. If you dont understand that then idk what to tell you. Yes of course the door was closed when we score again but we could have easily put the game out of hand in the first half with another score before halftime.

You cant coach in fear of previous games. Everyone knows players need to have short memories, so do coaches. Last game was exactly that. In this game they had moved the ball extremely well and scored 21 points. They have proved they are reliable in this game. Its coaching to not lose, not coaching to win. Of course we did win but we came out flat in the third quarter and they got to within a TD.

IMO thats even more reason to go for it. Double up on them, stomp on their throats. Instead we let them come back in the game with second half adjustments.

This is one of my favorite part about Josh. That said, I would rather we didnt end up in 3rd downs.

I didnt judge him. I am just using the rubric created by the OP. Im sure this random Power Rankings list has the Ravens ahead of us.

We do not play the Rams this season. We play the Ravens in that spot, so likely still a loss by OPs standard.

Dalton also beat us that year. So if he really wanted to "put us in the playoffs" he should have just let us win when we played him.