Matt_In_NH

Lots of missed ipportunities by this team but Allen showed us a lot today. If he can get his accuracy down he will be a real weapon.

He did not get his head around. That was an easy PI to call. To be going for the ball you have to look for the ball.

Nice game by Allen. I personally am not too concerned with the loss. Allen though the ball net year hopefully we will have someone who can catch it. The penalties are worse than under Rex.

I don't think the benefits outweigh the potential benefit. Running backs can be found in rounds 2-5 rather routinely. You might be surprised at his lack of production in a different system.

It’s not fair but the video makes it worse. I do think Hunt will get an opportunity to play again though. The Rice video was worse and he was older. So if a team was going to take him on they had to deal with the blowback for one or two years maybe.

Who ever said defense did not matter? Retry much no one. But it does not change the fact the number one piece is your QB. That matters more. One game doesn’t prove anything.

Maybe they should try a sitting bull

We could have had Mahomeboy and Reich...mfer

back to tailgating for Schmidt

Its a famous Marv Levy quote and he is really good at English.

I think there is more than most are assuming. He has gone through spurts where he dances more than he should, a couple years ago we would try and bounce everything outside at the beginning of the season before he corrected it. He is in one of those funks again now. He needs to just get what he can on a lot of plays he is taking losses due to his dancing. One cut and go, that is what works for him. I know his numbers are down but I dont think he hit the wall. Having said that I think there is a good chance the Bills move on from him this offseason. Between his age, contract and girl friend situation....

Another good example of something most Bills fans ignore. Bottom line is the refs miss calls for all teams and make bad calls for al teams. A lot of people think there is a consiracy theory against Buffalo. There has always been missed and blown calls, it is more scrutinized today than in the past. Before replay there would routinely be turnovers and touchdowns that were completely blown calls.

I assume you dont win at fantasy football much. Actually your team looks great, but this is the kindergarten game...which player is not like the others.....

At this point I would be concerned he will "Albert Haynesworth" his new team. I would not do it.

Generally fans only care about calls that hurt their team or would be calls that would have helped their team. Any call that goes against the opponent is always "obviously a clear violation" and missed calls against the Bills? That never happens.

I dont see anyone saying they were all legit. But the reality there is holding offensive and defensive on every play if the official wants to call it they can. Yesterday it was just non stop.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh poor patsies

The results are similar to Taylor's. Again, pointing out a flaw or something that is not a super positive kool aid bomb does not mean I am saying I think Allen sucks and will never make it. It is a work in progress I think we all get that but that also does not mean we have to ignore everything does it? I think we also agree that the WR's need upgrading but I wont use that as an excuse because what I see is Allen is not throwing in rhythm and puts the receivers in tough positions sometimes, a little more often than you would want. I don't see throws with anticipation I see a guy who looks like a "see it throw it" type. Time will tell, the receivers will get addressed this offseason.

I want to see the the Bills with a franchise QB. I want to see the Bills win the division, playoff games, super bowls. I know the best way to do that consistently is with a franchise QB. I am not hung up on stats but I am realistic and objective, some of that involves stats. People get so emotional if there is any critical analysis of Josh Allen, its annoying.

I did not expect a finished product. Just because I comment on what he did not do well does not mean I expected a finished product. But I do think it is ok to objectively look at what he did do well or did not do well. It does not mean I think he is a bust or is trash or anything like that. I am not seeing him process things before and after the snap well but I guess I would agree he impvoed some from the last time we saw him. He was also playing a talented defense and made zero negative plays.

Generally speaking the qbs who have the best stats win Super Bowls over the course of time.

Not sure how that is relevant. I don’t evaluate college qbs much but based on what I read I thought mayfield was the guy to get. But i would have told you I really had no idea and I would leave it up to the guys who spend all the time doing the evaluations and interviews. In any event what dies it matter since they did. It have the choice. I see the rawness and my opinion is he has a lot to work on to become the franchise. He looks physically skilled, eager, full of desire. But in terms of the intricacies of playing qb in the nfl there is a lot of runway ahead. One thing I am certain of is playing qb is as much mental/cerebral as it is physical. Having the physical without the mental wont get it done. That is why guys can routinely play into their forties.

I was talking about the first 3rd down of the game, it was 3rd and 3. His stats look a lot like the guy we traded in the offseason to me. Minus the completion percentage. If he processes well why is he completing 52% of his passes? Many passes are easy completions if you process well. I guess some of it is his poor ability to throw shorter passes, that needs to get addressed.

Since it really happened lets look at the numbers, 8-19 for 160 yards 1 TD and 0 INT's. That is statistically bad in the NFL, would you agree? That won't be nearly good enough to win divisions and playoff games. On the flip side, he did not turn the ball over and did not take 1 sack which is fantastic. But there were roughly 30 passing plays called, that resulted in 8 completions and he scrambled 11 times with one or two designed runs. The guy does not slide, he runs like a running back which means he is an injury waiting to happen. He is doing that because he has to and in the long run that needs to become less of his game. You are right and I read about those "if's" all the time here. What if the penalites were not called what if the player caught the ball (which isn't always as realistic as people assume), what if the bills had Tyreek Hill and Kareen Hunt.

When I say he is a basically a one read QB does not mean he never ever gets to a second read. The play to Foster is an example of what he can do in terms of standing in there and throwing a dart way down the field on a quick release. I though he was getting sacked on that play. Generally his progression is very slow and he ends up late on passes or completely missing windows of opportunity. There is no way he could have known he can run for a couple more yards than throwing it and even if he could, its not worth the risk, yards are easy in the NFL these days. He looked way too late to see it, on a play like that the QB has to kind of "see" multiple things right off the snap using peripheral vision and cues from presnap reads.