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His highest QB Rating, by far, was the 2018 game with the Bills. It's the only game he had in his career with a QB Rating over 100(117.4). He did have 3 games with over 300 yards in 2016, but he also threw a combined 10 interceptions in those games. I wouldn't consider those better games.

Is Case better than Barkley? Yes by a mile. There's zero chance he has to beat Barkley in TC. He has multiple years with better stats than Barkley has had in his career. There's only been 3 years in his career that Barkley has thrown a TD. Twice as many INTs as TDs(22 vs 11), sub 60 comp.%, 142 yards per game & a QB Rating of 66. Got nothing against him, but IMO almost every QB in the league is better than Barkley.

I get CB is one of, if not, the biggest need right now, but I can't see them going CB in the first 2 rounds. At some point this team has to stop putting most of its resources into the defense. I know we have the best QB in the league, but how much better would he be if the top draft picks(1st & 2nd rounders) were evenly spilt over McBeane's time here. I think you could get one of the better CBs and Breece Hall by selecting one or the other in the 1st and then trading up in the 2nd round to draft the other. Nows the time to do it. Get Josh a legit running threat and the offense will be unstoppable and Von Miller will be hunting QBs.

Important maybe, critical not really. It can be a good or bad thing, depending on the team. For some teams it helps propel them to a championship, for others it seems to disrupt their mojo and they come out playing rusty. Case in point the #1 seeds this year were 0-2 in the playoffs, both losing in the divisional round. Didn't seem to effect the defenses, but the offenses only averaged 13 points. Another reason I don't believe it's critical is we have Josh Allen. Plain and simple he played his best game of his career, in the loudest stadium to play in and still put up 36 points.

Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see how those 3 games show he can be what he was in 2020. 56.6 yards a game and no TDs in what clearly were his best 3 games in the final 11. Meanwhile there were many bad games in that mix. As I said in my previous post, I really like Cole and am thankful for his 3 years here, but I think it was pretty clear he and Sanders hit a wall once November rolled around. Some people are saying maybe it was playcalling or defensive scheme, but I don't think it was either. With regards to playcalling wouldn't the playcalling lean on Beasley more and his numbers at least maintain once Sanders numbers started to fall off a cliff, not lessen? With defensive scheme, about halfway through the year defenses started taking away the deep stuff, which should've been right up Beasley's alley, but instead we saw his YPG cut to less than half vs the first 7 games. IMO it's time to get younger at the WR#2 & WR#3 spots and let Diggs be the vet of the group. It's time for Gabe & McKenzie to get their chance to be starters. Draft a guy in the first 3 rounds to create some competition and depth. Loved Beasley's time here, but I just think its time has come and gone.

Per dollar better than Beasley's. Scored twice as many TDs on only 29 touches. Had only 21 less recieving 1st downs on 86 less targets, averaging a 1st down every 2 targets vs 1 for every 3.3 targets for Beasley. In the last 3 years McKenzie has caught 77 of his 99 targets. Except for receptions and targets all of Cole's other stats declined significantly this past year vs the year before. I like Beasley and am thankful for his last 3 years, but he and Sanders clearly hit a wall the 2nd half of last year. IMO the Bills are better off next season without either one coming back. I'd much rather see what Gabe & McKenzie can do as full time starters. This year Diggs was our youngest starting WR, hopefully next season he's our veteran. It's time to get younger at the WR spot.

😂😂 No he didn't. That was his stat total for both games in the playoffs, not just the Chiefs game. And the 1 catch for 19 yards in the NE game was in garbage time with Bills up by over 30 in the 4th. His average yards per game in the playoffs was pretty much on par with his 31 yard average in his last 9 regular season games and 1st downs per game. Over his final 11 games as a Bill there’s nothing to suggest his game is anywhere near where it was in 2020.

His "best" skill was only good for 1 year with us(2020) when he had 53 first downs. The other 2 seasons he's averaged 35.5 on an average of 109 targets. That's not good at all. His rankings this year.. Targets- 28th, Yards - 52nd, First Downs - 47th, TDs - 178th and YPC - 125th. We can find that production, on that many targets, anywhere. On top of that most of his damage was done before November(The first 7 games). In the 9 games he played after that his yards were 33, 15, 23, 46, 11, 64, 35, 22 & 31, for an average of 31 yards a game and zero TDs. For comparison Zac Ertz had the same number of targets and beat him in every statistical category.

He didn’t throw for a bunch of yards his first 3 primetime games(161 YPG with 4 TDs 2 INTs), but since then he has put up really good numbers aside from the wind game against the Pats*** this year. Josh's primetime game stats **Please note these stats include all Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night games and his 2 Thanksgiving day games. It includes the rescheduled game against KC last year as it was slated to be a Thursday night game, but doesn't include the rescheduled Tennessee game from last year as it was supposed to be a Sunday game.** In 10 career primetime games: 217/326, 66.56 Comp.% for 2,482 Yards, 25 TDs, 6 INTs, QB Rating of 107.17 He also rushed 65 times for 354 yards 5.45 YPC and 3 TDs in those 10 games.

Love this picture. This came out not long after he hurdled Anthony Barr his rookie year......It's been my avatar ever since.

He'd have to pick a new number anyways, Gabe already wears 13. Problem solved.

To the bolded....Brady beat Peyton in volume stats purely because he played in 52 more games due to Peyton's neck injury cutting his career short. Peyton had a higher completion percentage, yards per attempt, TD percentage and yards per game. Meanwhile Brady had a slightly higher QB Rating and a lower interception percentage. Peyton threw for 55 TDs in his 15th season, more than Brady ever threw in a year. Peyton was the better QB, Brady had better teams, a better coach and some cheating to help his cause. He also had more stability playing for the same head coach(considered by many as the best of all-time) for 18 years of his 20 year career and had Josh McDaniels for all but 3 seasons from 2004 - 2019. Same goes with the Mahomes vs Allen matchup, Mahomes has better weapons and a better coach. Mahomes had every advantage in their last matchup. Swap QBs for that game and Josh wins by double digits.

If left alone one on one Diggs is most DBs kryptonite.

He's put up some good numbers the last 2 seasons, but you wouldn't know it if all you watched was the games against us.

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I tend to agree with you on Josh being inconsistent, but there's a few things out of his control that he has to deal with that, we as fans, have to remember played into some of his struggles. First and foremost weather. Most of the home games this year either had strong winds, rain(some downpours) or cold temps(some games had a combination of bad weather). Been a fan since the late 70s and this was the worst weather for home games that I can remember in a season. Many of the other top QBs played in pretty good to great weather this year. His QB Rating was 14 points higher on the road this year, completion percentage was 7.3 points higher and a 1.5 ypa higher on the road. Second thing is talent on the offensive side of the ball. Of the young QBs(Allen, Mahomes, Burrow & Herbert) which team's skill position players would you rank last? For me, I love the Bills, but I would take them last and I don't think it's close. I think it's the biggest reason why Josh has finished 1st, in each of the last 2 years, at percentage of the team's total yards & TDs. Lastly saying Mahomes had a few "average" games is true as long as you also include, in a separate count, his below average games and yes he had several of them. QB Rating isn't everything, but when you're way below say what Josh finished the year with(Ranked 16th this year at 92.2) then they're not average games, they're below average. Mahomes had a game with a 57.2 QB Rating, another with a 62.7 rating & 4 more between a 70.9 - 74.8 rating. Like I said I know QB Rating isn't the end all be all, but I think it's safe to say a sub 75 rating for a game is indeed well below average. FYI just looked it up and the average QB Rating this year was 90.8

If you go back and look at Cam's career he took way more shots than Josh, there were games where he was taking hard hits all game long. One of the reasons was he took too long to process defenses if his first option wasn't open, holding on to the ball for too long and then he would just get creamed by multiple defenders. For the most part Josh either finds his 2nd or 3rd option or escapes the rush. I remember them playing us in Buffalo, probably around 2013-14, and he was taking some serious shots. He got sacked a bunch of times and IIRC Mario Williams went off and had something like 4 or 5 sacks in that game. My bet is Cam got sacked quite a bit more than Josh has and that doesn't include the QB hits he was taking that Josh seems to escape from. Cam was taking so many hard hits and ones that were seen as questionable that he started calling out the NFL for it. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/30/cam-newton-wants-to-talk-to-roger-goodell-about-horsecrap-hits/ https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/09/27/cam-newton-ed-hochuli-said-hes-not-old-enough-to-get-call/ Some retired athletes had their opinion... https://www.espn.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/23106/former-panther-kevin-greene-cam-newton-needs-to-pony-up-and-stop-complaining Not all runs and hits in the pocket are equal and athletes bodies seem to be "put together" differently. Some can take punishment and they're fine, while others seem to breakdown much quicker.

On a yearly basis Josh has averaged between 6-7 runs a game and in his first few years he did take alot of hard hits. Since then , and especially this year, he has made an effort to slide or go out of bounds unless it's a play they really need, in the 4th quarter mostly, and also as the playoffs approach. Alot of people are worried about Josh's future given his style of play, but I just don't see it. Here's why: 1.) He runs alot: Compared to other QBs, sure. But he only ran 7 times a game this year and probably slid or ran out of bounds 3 times a game on average. That leaves 4 carries a game. You could say his mobility allows him to escape big hits in the pocket that other QBs can't. (The kind that Burrow gets murdered on). That negates some of the punishment he gets when running the ball. 2.) He takes alot of big hits: Yes and no. He takes less than he has in the past and like I stated above he escapes a ton of big hits in the pocket because of his mobility. He weighs 240 during the year and admitted in an interview in Dec. or Jan. that he was approaching 245, he's got size that most QBs don't have. I would say there's more abuse on a LBers body than Josh's and the average weight of Edmunds and Milano is slightly less than Josh's. No one seems too worried about them, especially Milano who only weighs 223(Didn't know that). On a good number of runs he reaches the 2nd level, getting tackled by guys his size or less. Lastly he probably dishes out more punishment than he receives and quite frankly I think he needs it sometimes to get himself mentally into the game. I had no problem with how they ran him this year. Pretty conservative early through mid-season, then ramped it up during the big games down the stretch and in the playoffs. The offense is a different animal once Josh starts to take off and run. They are so much harder to stop once he's a willing runner. If the passing game is on they are almost impossible to stop, as seen at the end of the season and playoffs.

I agree. For one reason, Lamar's cap hit over the last 4 years has been next to nothing. Even this past season his cap hit was only 3 million. That all changes next year and the quality of talent around him is going to suffer. Add to that there's got to be a point, in the near future, that he's going to have to reduce the number of times he carries the ball. Josh runs quite a bit and Lamar has almost 200 more carries than him in 3 less games and he's 25 pounds lighter. Add to that Lamar's passing skills are no where near Josh's, so once there's less fear of him running, IMO he & the team will be in trouble then.

I 100% agree with you. Jackson makes the best case of the 3, but no way am I even going to pay Lamar Josh Allen money. There's a big talent gap between the two and it will only increase as he ages and can't run like he does now. All things equal, they will always behind against us if they pay him that much. All 3 are starting to get beat up, but IMO Lamar is going to be the first to slow just due to the fact of how much he gets hit. People here are worried about Josh running and what it will do to him later down the road, but he only averages between 6-7 carries a game on a yearly basis. On top of that he's gotten alot better at sliding and going out of bounds, maybe not as much as us fans want him to, but those probably account for 2-3 of his carries a game. So he's only adding 4-5 additional hits a game and to be honest more often than not he's the one doing the hitting. Could be worse, Lamar has almost 200 more carries than Josh, in 3 less games, and he's 25 pounds lighter.

If I remember right they showed how the Rams changed up their scheme to allow others to get home. After that resulted in about 3 sacks, the center couldn't cheat towards Donald anymore and that's when he started wrecking havoc.

Yes they did. When they didn't do that, they had Von Miller line up on the outside and loop back to an empty middle because the center was busy helping with Donald. That stunt got Miller a couple of sacks later in the 2nd half.

I agree with you that the defense and Donald caught fire soon after that play. But I think Donald got mad on the next possession, after Stafford threw an INT on the first play of the next drive, giving the ball to the Bengals at the Rams 31 yard line. A few plays into that drive Donald chased Burrow and pushed him out of bounds(A clean play) and a few different offensive linemen got right up in his mug and started shoving him in the face. A couple plays later Donald sacked Burrow on 3rd down to hold them to a FG. From that moment on the Rams defense was getting to Burrow on almost every pass play and Donald was a completely different player. Burrow was sacked only 2 times(-9 yards) in the 38 plays before that and 5 times(-33 yards) in the 23 plays afterwards.

Ah yes, we mustn't forget about the "great" poll. The one where you could only go back exactly 10 years, but not 13 years because it didn't fit the narrative. Or the one I love..... The example of the team that, you know, spent the last decade building to win now and in the future, but currently doesn't have a top 40 QB on their roster for 2022. I guess next year doesn't count as the future? 🤷‍♂️

It is stupid. If the Steelers were so "building to win now and in the future" for the last 10 years wouldn't they already have a suitable replacement for Ben on the roster?