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Flip your scenario around and see where that leads you.

I'll go further and say Allen SHOULD have thrown it earlier. That hitch in his drop threw off the timing of the route. Still, once the ball is in the air that's a very complete-able catch...not every play is going to have perfect timing and those are the spots you need your playmakers to step up and deliver.

Would be a very unlikely situation

Anything other than video review for the score is quite a problem.

Can't be the first guy to touch live ball after going OB iirc...if the DB tips it before you touch it after going out then I think it's ok but could be wrong about that

Have you watched other QBs in their first playoff games? Did you see the league MVP's first playoff game last year? How about Watson's first playoff start at home vs Colts at home no less?

Oh it's real. There's another thread full of em

That’s really what I’d like to hear from the league about...forget about the actual call, I want to know how they justified the procedure used immediately afterwards in changing it. As I read the rule book they don’t make a lot of differentiation between a runner, live ball, etc...I don’t think it matters if he’s in the end zone or not. At least that’s how I’m interpreting the rule book.

Those cost us the game too. And I'm sorry, but this is NOT a high degree of difficulty catch if Williams doesn't use awful technique. As a wideout you are taught to turn your shoulder inside to separate from DB and attack this pass up and through his contest. Instead he just allows DB leverage the whole way and tries to underhand the throw. That's bad technique. If you don't think this is 100% his mistake I don't know what to tell you. And yes of course other players made mistakes too. I'm talking about this one because that's what this thread is about.

I have gone over the Brown incompletion, in great depth. There was zero reason for Duke Williams to have lead every receiver playing on wildcard weekend in targets. Not every Bills receiver- EVERY SINGLE RECEIVER PLAYING on wildcard weekend. Think about that for a second. I don't blame Williams for not catching this ball. He's not very good. That's why he was inactive the majority of the year. I can point out how he's technically flawed, and I can question why he was the focal point of the offense when he's clearly not deserving of it, and how that strategy basically cost the Bills the game, but I'm not blaming the guy for being the player he's been all year. There's little reason to expect him to be a difference maker and he wasn't.

Just a bump to get this video back up in front. Poor technique leads to bad drop. Ask your local college wideout and he'll tell you the same.

I'm going to keep crying if you don't mind

Exactly, that's just poor technique. You open your body and high point that pass through the DB to take him out of the play. No wideout is taught to attempt this kind of catch on this kind of throw.

That's not how you catch that pass anyway. He's reaching when he should be attacking the ball. He's trying to catch this ball underhanded when he should be going up and making a play over and through the DBs leverage.

That people assume NFL teams are simply going through the motions when considering minority candidates speaks volumes in itself.

Clearly just fulfilling the little known chipmunk requirement clause in the Rooney Rule

That is for NFL head coach. The reason you'd take the median income of players is because it's more representative of what an 'average' player actually makes, the pool being much wider and the salary differences much steeper than that of the head coach pool.

Median NFL player salary: $860,000 Average NFL coach salary: $3.25M

^this is how you make yourself a target and fight for a ball through the defender. Brown doesn't do this vs baltimore and we lose shot at tying game ^this is giving your QB the chance to make a bad throw by extending your catch radius. I don't believe Brown makes this catch with regularity and he certainly doesn't score here ^this is coming back and fighting through defenders, again, to present a target for your QB. ^another example of extending catch radius and fighting through defenders. John Brown never makes this catch

Wat

I’m rooting for Minny. They are totally non offensive to my Bills sensibilities

Ok since you seem unable to grasp this concept: technically yes, you are correct- EVERY team has a WR1. I am speaking of a wideout who is able to make the tough catches in important moments without being wide open, who defenses have to build game plans around, who can score from anywhere, kind of guy who will extend catch radius which will be immensely helpful for a QB like Allen. We don’t have a guy right now whose catch radius extends beyond the length of his arms. Or can fight through a defender and present a bigger target. Maybe Knox eventually but right now the wideouts can’t.

I said no...I think that makes me a bad fan

Thanks I like making lists??

Guys I consider legit #1 wide receivers- hopkins thomas hill evans Beckham jr diggs jones Cooper allen Golladay adams Then some young guys like dj Moore, courtland Sutton, Godwin, Mike Williams who could get there soon. So maybe 10-15 teams? Probably forgetting someone A 1 by default imo. And don’t get me wrong, I love Brown. He’s got great hands and speed but he’s not the whole package.