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I kind of feel bad for Vikings and. They bought into the Sam Darnold hype and now it's becoming clear that he limits them from being legitimate contenders. As Bills fans we know what that desperate hope feels like.

Allen is never going to beat the media narratives until the team and coaching staff around him is good enough to win a Super Bowl. FWIW nobody in the media cares about his passer rating today. They care that we won the game and he had a miraculous TD pass in the 4th quarter. Nobody is going to remember 4 missed passes because they didn't impact the game at all.

You've let that BS perception influence your own perception of his play 🤷‍♂️

Instead of wishing Allen met an impossible standard, you should ask why he has to meet that standard to win a Super Bowl when his peers don't.

Missing like 4 passes short on 39 attempts is not even worth noting. He was down his #1 WR, our run game was pretty meh, and the pressure was on him all game long to keep up in a shootout. In that context he did not have a "fine day." He was brilliant. I'm probably being overly defensive, I just don't get the standards for QB play around here. Like I said, watch a Chiefs game or a Ravens game with the same critical eye and count how many passes the QBs are off.

Did I watch a different game today? Where is this narrative coming from?

Well, yeah. They drafted him after all.

I felt great when Miami got to midfield in just two plays, but started getting nervous when we started mixing in a few successful plays against them. It sounds insane out loud but that's genuinely how I felt in the moment. Luckily the timing ended up working out perfectly. In the 13 seconds game I remember feeling relived that Tyreek Hill had scored his final TD in one big play, because it meant Allen had just enough time to drive for the game winner with no time remaining. Ugh...

I was rooting for the Dolphins to score a TD as quickly as possible on that last drive and let out a cheer when they did with over 1:30 left on the clock. I had no illusions that we could stop them. McDermott's defense got so badly stomped it actually circled back around to giving us an advantage at the end 😂

You just described how most of our opponents in the playoffs are going to be built. So it's not enough to say "we got caught by one bad matchup." Our coaches need to figure out how to stop this style of offense from picking up chunk play after chunk play, or it will be another early playoff exit. That or our offense needs to start putting up 30+ against every good opponent and just win a bunch of shootouts. I have said one possible solution is playing more man. All those plays where leaking RBs and TEs get wide open in the flats would be defended better if someone was specifically responsible for those players. Watch the Chiefs - they play a lot of man and they're willing to blitz in unpredictable ways.

I'm sure they weren't focusing on the run, but you still expect your 1T to make some plays. DQ was brutal in this game. The LBs were never kept clean. Very possible a Super Bown run would involve beating Baltimore, KC, and Detroit. That ain't happening with the middle of our defense constructed as it currently is. I'll be shocked if Beane doesn't make an addition.

He wasn't exactly at the sideline. It's possible he would have caught it and ran out of bounds with a perfect throw but that's a scary proposition with 10 seconds left on the clock. All in all I was glad it hit the turf. He did not throw "quite a few" at his receivers' feet. When we ended up like 2nd and 30 because of phantom penalties he dirted the next two. Then the one to Kincaid at the very end. His accuracy was not a problem in this game, certainly it did not cost us any points. As usual the standards for QB are absurdly high around here. Every QB misses throws. Watch some full games of the Chiefs some time - Mahomes misses plenty. Allen should have had like 5 TDs today and made enough plays to win what basically became a shootout. And yet we have someone saying they were "bummed" watching him on the game winning drive. I really don't get it. To me this was an MVP performance and the last thing I expected to see was people questioning Allen after this game.

The drive when he dropped a pass in the bucket downfield forcing Poyer to commit a penalty? That's as clutch a throw as you'll ever see in this league. The final pass to Kincaid, I'm glad it fell incomplete. I don't know if Allen threw it low on purpose to protect the ball, but either way if Kincaid had caught that time would have run out.

Posted this in the post game thread too - My target right now is Sebastian Joseph-Day with Tennessee. Daquan Jones has hit the wall hard which is leading to big chunk plays against us on the ground. That plus Carter's injury means DT is the biggest weakness on the team right now. If anyone has ideas for other possible DT trades, I'm all ears.

I've seen Sebastian Joseph-Day thrown out there as an option, if Titans are in full fire sale mode as they should be. You'd think something like a 5th and getting a 7th back would get it done. Not sure what the cap implications would be. But that would immediately knock our worst player (Zion Logue) off the roster and shore up the biggest weakness on the team.

The injuries stink but the real problem is that our two highly paid starters have been a big disappointment this year. DQ I kind of expected this and was against the signing, Oliver on the other hand I have no idea what's going on with him.

Any good team that wants to commit to the run against us can do it... You know KC will, the 49ers, the Lions... I don't know what the solution is. You don't want to give up big plays, I get it, but giving up an 8 minute 97 yard TD drive isn't much better. I think we might need to trade for a big DT. Daquan has fallen off hard and Oliver gets pushed around.

Eh I don't think McDermott won us this one. His side of the ball was abysmal... Miami got chunk play after chunk play and we never found answers. Allen and Brady and Taron Johnson saved his lunch, and then Bass finished the job.

This is what the offense has to be with Cooper out. And now Coleman is likely to be out a little while if the broken wrist report is true...

Sigh that's another month of Mack Hollins taking a lot of snaps. We just can't keep this guy off the field.

Stupid November allergies...

Taron played his ass off as usual and made a game changing individual play. Everyone else on that side of the ball should hang their heads knowing they almost blew an outstanding Allen performance. Defensive coaches included.

By the way I dont blame Poyer at all. That was going to be a catch on a sick throw if he didn't launch himself like that.

Live check in from FinHeaven:

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