BullBuchanan

Then you're going to have to live with results like this the rest of Allen's career. He has fewer years ahead of him at this level than he does behind him, and this style of ball has never worked. I don't see any way it which it's suddenly going to lead to a championship as he ages into his 30s and loses the ability to scramble at a world class level, extend plays by dodging defenders in the backfield, and eventually a loss of arm strength. It's possible these things are already happening. If Allen can only win "his way". Then he'll join guys like Warren Moon, Dan Marino, and Philip Rivers who always gave their team a shot, put up gawdy numbers, but ultimately were never really threats to win it all. I sure hope he figures out how to play championship football instead.

What does it matter? This team is in no way a championship contender, and that's the only point of going to the playoffs. It might be better if they don't make it. Missing the playoffs entirely could force staff and player changes, refocus some of our veteran players, and create a fire for next season. A week 1 or 2 exit in the playoffs will result in the same thing we've seen the last 7 years.

And that was his fault. It doesn't need to be as complicated as he's making it. It's not anything new. He was awful to start off the previous game before he just started racking up an insane amount of TDs too. He's looked off all year. He's processing slow and locking in on the play that he wants to hit, instead of the play that's there. He has lost the ability to sense pressure and is taking dangerous sacks He's no longer able to process defenses and is throwing balls in to prime places to be picked or easily defensed. He looks like a man who's tired, distracted, and not putting in the work to keep himself at his former level. In spit of this, a lot of folks are glazing him for his heroics, but those heroics are only necessary because he refuses to take the easy play. We have the best rushing attack in football this year, and he's still making the game hard.

Or, I want him to be Tom Brady. Take what the defense gives you and don't try to be Uncle Rico on 2nd and 6. Just complete the goddamn pass and let your teammates do their job. Allen insists on making the game all about himself when he doesn't need to. He's one of the most gifted players to ever play the game, and he's absolutely going to the HoF, but if he doesn't win a ring, it will be his own fault. It's a team game, not a reality show where Josh Allen shows how much better he is than everyone else. Davis Mills understood that assignment and his team won.

I will when the condensed game comes out, but suffice it to say he could have, and should have thrown the ball away on every sack he took. That pick he threw straight in the first half into coverage was inexcusable. I don't think he read the defense at all. The final play looked really bad too, but I turned the TV off as soon as it happened, so I didn't get a second look. I'll watch it again tomorrow.

Allen was beyond awful. The line was terrible too, but lets not excuse his play because of it. I'm starting to wonder if they built this line specifically because they know Allen holds the ball too long, and so giving him to most protection possible (on most days), cloaks one of his biggest weaknesses. There have been guys running open this year that he simply hasn't even looked at. He needed to be getting rid of balls at the top of his drop, not scrambling around int he backfield tacking atrocious sacks for huge losses.

Offensive line, embarrassed, defensive unit, embarrassed the entire first half. Josh Allen looking like a rattled rookie again. Playoffs or no playoffs, this is in NO WAY a championship team. Pack it in now before the backups' backups get injured and let's see if we can turn this ship around with a better draft and some quality FAs.

They changed the rule this year I believe for players released after the trade deadline.

No they aren't. The Pats are tied for the best record in the league. They'd be 31st on the waiver order.

Man, Stroud must've really been rocked to still be out.

This season JA should pass the career rushing touchdown total of players like Edgerrin James, Frank Gore, Corey Dillon and maybe even Marshawn Lynch. If he keeps doing anything close to what he's doing, by next year he'll have passed Curtis martin, Jerome Bettis, Priest Holmes, Franco Harris, and Eric Dickerson. Add another 10 TDs to that and he surpasses Barry Sanders, Marshall Faulk, and Shaun Alexander. Obviously he can't keep this up forever, but if he keeps pace for another couple years, he'll be one of the top 10 most prolific rushers to have ever played the game. 😶 With that, he's a Hall of Famer without a pass ever thrown. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_td_career.htm

Unless it's 3rd or 4th down and long.

Did you need two threads for this? Drinking this heavy on a Monday morning is wild work.

I think this is our weakest team since 2019. It's extremely unfortunate that it's happened in a year when the Chiefs appear likely to miss the playoffs. I think losing Hoecht was the death knell. If I were to write a script for how we get there, it would involve Benford returning to last year's form, Taron Johnson returning to form of 2-3 years ago, and Haiston taking a big step up to create a lockdown secondary. Our defensive line would have to start playing better than they have all season to shut down the run and get big time sacks. Milano would get benched for Dorian Williams who would play at an all-pro level and Bernard would return to his big play ability. Bishop would ocntinue to Ball hawk, and he'd also figure out how to read runs and shut them down before they could turn into big gainers. Allen would have to start taking what's there and making automatic reads, instead of playing 2017-2018 hero ball and throwing into coverage all the time. Cook would win the rushing title and be int he MVP discussion, and our TE's would be the bane of every team's existence. Brady would start faking the screen to shakir that would turn into broken play bombs down the sideline to Shavers and Samuel. Then I would wake up.