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I agree. The miracle plays are still there, just not as frequent. So Allen's top end play this year has not been as good as we've seen before. But on the other hand he has by far his career best completion percentage which means he is playing "normal" QB better than he ever has before. That's what I mean when I say it's been his most consistent year yet. And it's not like he has an elite group of weapons or an elite offensive coach making it easy for him. The bad plays unfortunately really stick out this year because all of them are turning into the worst case scenarios of themselves and our team as a whole has zero margin for error so every mistake looks worse. He's also come up clutch in the 4th quarter while trailing this year more times than I can ever remember, but his defense has let him down every time (or tried their damndest to in the Giants game).

This is going to sound crazy but I think this is actually the most consistent year of Allen's career. A lot of efficiency and production metrics point in that direction, and he's doing it with the worst group of pass catchers he's had since 2019 and the worst defense/special teams of his career which is putting him in worse positions than usual. I see so many people say "I miss 2021 Josh Allen" but forget that he had some real clunkers that year. The 9-6 Jacksonville debacle. 3 INTs thrown against the hapless Falcons. But all of that is forgotten because of his historic playoff run that year. I think two things are making it look worse than it is this year: 1) Awful turnover luck. To wit: Yesterday was the first time this year a defender got his hands on the ball and didn't complete the interception. Literally the first time! That has to be an unprecedented streak in the modern era. 2) Less miracle plays. Allen this year has not been elite when throwing on the run as he has been in the past. The miss to Shakir on 4th and 2 is an example of this. For 90% of QBs that is not even an attempt, certainly not with a smurf WR as the intended target, but with Allen we have seen him hit that throw a dozen times and so we expect it. He also, as has been pointed out many many times, is not picking up chunk yardage with his legs like we're used to. But overall on a down to down basis I genuinely think Allen is mostly playing the best football of his career. Bad luck, zero help from his pass catchers, and incohesive offensive play calling have let him down more than he's let the team down. JMO. P.S. The whole obsession with checking the ball down needs to stop. You know what else moves the ball against defenses that drop everyone back? Just keep running it at them. You punish defenses on the ground until they're forced to commit to stopping it. Something Daboll and now Dorsey for some reason never understood. 11 play short pass drives are cute in theory, until the 7th play features your WR2 letting a ball pop into the air and into the arms of a waiting safety. Until an offensive lineman gets beat off the snap which leads to a sack and suddenly you're behind the sticks. Until you make it all the way to the goalline and call shotgun runs for negative yardage. You need explosive plays somewhere along the way.

I have been wondering this for a few weeks now. Like in that Dan Orlovsky clip going around about the 4th and 2 from last night, I have seen people criticize Josh for not looking to Kincaid on the zone beater side after the pre-snap motion clearly indicated zone. But there's no way Josh just chose to ignore that. Anybody that has played Madden knows that the motion indicated zone. Josh as a long time NFL QB clearly would have known that too. So I have trouble blaming him for that read because there's just no way he would unintentionally look away from his zone beater side and follow a different set of progressions. None of it makes any sense. And I have seen similarly bizarre reads several times this year, so ultimately something had to change.

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It was the last card McDermott could play to try and save his job.

I kept asking, how many times is Wilson going to step up and pitch it to his RB leaking out before McDermott actually does something about it? It happened over and over and over again, including the first play of their final drive. The defense played their asses off, but the scheme and play calling was Rex Ryan levels of bad.

Here's the INT as dots: Josh shouldn't have thrown the ball. But what are we doing here? This hole shot play has been picked several times this year, defenders are keyed into it. And we're running it with Deonte Harty with 27 seconds left in the half from our own side of the field? Dorsey is not putting his players in favorable positions.

Josh is more than fine in his personal life. Last I heard he and Hailee Steinfield are engaged. He's mega rich. No personal issues to speak of at all. If anything I think he has just gotten sick of the losing. He doesn't have confidence in the system or the players around him, and it's impossible to play fundamentally sound football when you lack trust in the elements around you. I don't think this is anything close to a Carson Wentz situation where Allen has lost the locker room and completely stopped caring about football. Personally I think it is an easy fix. He just needs a totally fresh support system around him this offseason. A new scheme to learn from an experienced offensive play caller that knows how to build the offense around his players' strengths. A head coach that isn't wound so tight and doesn't put players in the doghouse for occasional mistakes. A real WR2 would also help. Overall I think the entire team, Josh included, has forgotten that football is supposed to be fun. They need to get some new energy in the building ASAP.

This is nuts! I hope he gets torn apart by the national media tomorrow. Asked about 12 men on the field and he says "we practiced that substitution this week and didn't execute." I mean holy crap!

He just threw Sam Martin under the bus too! Talking crap about all his players one after the other. This is genuinely an unhinged press conference.

That loser is standing at the podium throwing his players under the bus. Blaming Cook of all people, blaming Josh, blaming special teams coverage. Blaming execution for the 12 men on the field. I can't believe what I'm hearing.

That wasn't even his worst call. That 3rd and 10 all out blitz, one play after giving the Broncos the exact script, was arguably the worst defensive play call I've ever seen.

If we were going to lose to the Broncos, this was the best way to do it. In full view of a primetime audience, in spectacular fashion, with nowhere for McDermott to hide. Pegula can't look away from this. I mean the 12 men on the field is of course hilarious, but somehow an even worse call came a few plays earlier when McDermott called a 2nd consecutive all out blitz on 3rd and 10. Poor Taron Johnson was hung out to dry by his awful coach and you look at his face on the sidelines and see he only blames himself. McDermott has turned all of the players into the worst versions of themselves. At least everybody can see it now.

Lmfao!!!

I'm in awe of how bad that 3rd down play call was by McDermott. Same exact play run twice in a row and Denver predictably beats it the second time. It's honestly insane.

I'm not even mad to be honest. This isn't a Super Bowl team. The front office and the coaching staff are out of excuses now.

Are we going to win this game because of a 2 point swing on XP plays? The Bills season gasps on for such a trivial reason?

Our best offensive player tonight was on the bench for a full quarter plus because of one bad mistake. On several drives after McDermott begrudgingly let him back into the game he also saw zero touches. I would say I can't believe how bad the offensive coaching has been tonight, but of course I can believe it.

Denver ran the ball down our throats on their last drive. Dorsey can't believe his eyes.

Oliver has been way too aggressive rushing upfield. He keeps running right by him. You have to be way more disciplined than that against a mobile QB.

Going away from what works is what this coaching staff does. 3 straight passes. Blitz on 3rd down. They can't get out of their own way.

That series was just bad play calling from start to finish.

There it is. Offense doesn't have to be complicated.

Like I said after the opening Jets game - Allen is not going anywhere. If Dorsey isn't the right man to get him playing his best football, they have to make a change.