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Fine but who cares but random people think? A lot of random NFL fans thought Brock Purdy belonged in the MVP conversation last year. This is the last thought on my mind in the discussion.

LB is a plug and play position... Same with safety. As long as you don't have truly awful players in those spots you're fine. Football is still played primarily on the edges and on the boundary and the Bills have really good EDGEs and really good boundary CBs. The fans that thought losing Milano and Taron Johnson were impossible obstacles to overcome were wrong. They're both luxury players, not the engine that makes it all work. So no Spector and Williams to my eyes have not been outstanding, nor has Cam Lewis, but they have been good enough to let the more important pieces on defense function.

You can get there with basic logic. Let's say a team's success is 40% offensive roster, 35% defensive roster, 10% special teams, 15% coaching. In that scenario if you want to say a QB is worth 60% of the offense's success then you are saying a QB is 24% of his team's success. Feel free to quibble with these numbers but I doubt you'll argue with the overarching point and logic I'm using. Like I said this doesn't mean QBs aren't extremely important. A single player having a 25% impact on their entire team is ridiculous value actually. And that's why QB stats correlate with wins. But if you're talking about two individual teams the QB alone is not going to be the difference. Especially not in effectively a three game sample size which is what separates Allen and Mahomes in the playoffs. Easier way to say it is that QBs are responsible for a plurality of their team's success but not the majority. That's why my hypothetical trade example kind of ends the discussion if you're being honest with yourself. Mahomes vs Allen does not explain the Chiefs success vs the Bills success in recent years.

It makes it obvious. But it is very hard to get some people to understand that QBs are responsible for maybe 25% of their team's success. Now for the most part the other 75% that makes up a team's success isn't all that different from team to team, so that 25% is absolutely a BIG piece of what defines a team because of the higher variance. But when QBs are fairly equal between one team and another, the other 75% is what makes the ultimate difference.

You are transported back to 2020 and given the choice of the following trades: 1) Mahomes for Allen or 2) Chris Jones for Ed Oliver, Travis Kelce for Dawson Knox, and the Chiefs coaching staff for the Bills coaching staff Which do you select?

I wonder what the record is for consecutive targets with a catch for a WR. I haven't seen anyone talking about this but it is insanely impressive and deserves some attention.

Benched for an entire quarter and still had a better performance than Gabe Davis

I still don't love the WR room but I love the way Brady is deploying them, I love the way Josh is reading the defense and distributing the ball, I love the way Shakir runs with the ball in his hands, and I love the pass protection. When every single player and coach on offense is performing up to their ceiling, whatever deficiencies exist don't matter.

Allen Brown Dawkins Shakir Brady

In these uncertain times, it's good to know that there are still some constants in life like Mac Jones playing like garbage

Two weeks in a row that we're able to let our rookies get confidence building plays after the game is well in hand

That's actually a great rush from Solomon

If Casey Toohill brings your QB down you should have the right to surrender the game

The closer!!

Gabe Davis won't be getting to that 3rd year where all the money's waiting in his contract. Can't even beat Damar Hamlin 1v1 in coverage. Embarrassing.

Commanders 1st and goal at the 1 with a chance to go up 28-13...

Literally yes

Nothing like a perfectly timed blitz to make me shut my mouth

Not much to complain about tonight but the pass rush has been disappointing. Nobody is winning their matchup

How demoralizing for the Jags. Quick TD drive to give you some kind of hope and then the Bills come out and just bury you

10 different players have caught a pass tonight

This will be the last time in a while a defense tries to go man heavy against us

Is this the best game Josh has ever played?