Mikie2times

Thousands of positive articles have been written about Caleb and McD. They’re still the overwhelming majority of media content about both. Caleb has been more neutral but it wasn’t that way when he entered the league or in his times at USC. Even a lot of his first year. I don’t want to keep on here, the point its scrutinized because it’s negative. Positive content doesn’t go thru that process. Both are just as likely to be missing the full perspective. So I don’t see a problem with his style. I appreciate it somebody who is willing to not just write puff pieces.

Do you consider the insanely glowing reports to be the truth? Reports like that were everywhere last year about Caleb. Doesn’t seem like those reports were all that true at this point? I really don’t understand the difference here. One is bias to the positive and one is bias to the negative.

How many unnecessarily glowing pieces have been written about Caleb Williams? The same for McD or anybody else in his cross hairs. The balance is the complete saturation of positive news angles for most of the people he is writing about. Not that Caleb hasn't had some critical pieces, especially of late, as has McD. But take his "hit piece" on McD. People actually DO feel that way about him. That is the case. Other people don't feel that way about him. We read those articles all the time. The actual truth is probably somewhere between these stories. I don't believe the truth is just the the droves of news that is all but Buffalo Bill sponsored content. Somebody SHOULD be writing about the other side because it gets as closer to what is real. I can't believe either the exceptionally glowing or the exceptionally negative. Nothing is ever so black and white and the reader should understand as much. So I don't mind his content. It actually gives balance in my opinion.

What does that say about what surrounds Josh. Put it like this, most of us know the Ravens are built to give us problems and probably have the most talent in the NFL. But we are only worried about them because it's the regular season. You guys fold harder than even we do, but in your case the QB1 is leading the charge. In our case, it is everybody but QB1. You swap QB's and the Bills are in the same place but the Ravens are SB champions and probably multiple times. Lamar's playoff losses Baltimore has allowed 22.4 PPG, in Buffalo? 31.3 PPG, Last 3 years? 20.33 vs 28.66. Allen has had to overcome over a TD more on average in defeat than Jackson. Again, you give Baltimore that ball protection and that production and it's lights out. They just haven't gotten that.

His career FG% on the road is 81.1% which is not great, that's lower the Bass at home or away. His last two years he actually played was 24 of 26 so a little more reassuring. I'm not so worried about the dome thing, but a bit worried if this lasts into the winter. Buffalo is about as far away from his historical kicking environment one could get. Even if you don't care for Bass much, which I don't, you have to like the fact that he understands how wild some of these kicks are late in the year and has attempted plenty of them.

I think it might bother them a bit to hear all offseason that the dynasty is over and the Chargers or Broncos are overtaking the division. KC is not losing a divisional week 1 game after how it ended last year.

Chargers always play them close, but I have a feeling Chiefs make a statement today.

Off script is outside the called route structure. It doesn't matter if everybody under the sun knows what tends to happen when structure is broken. You can't time that sort of thing and you can't cover a guy for 5 seconds. Its outside of the play, at which point Brady didn't contribute, most QB's aren't able to do it. It's all Allen and it's a big, sometimes, depressingly big, part of our offense. It's not a positive thing to be off script as often as we are offensively. It doesn't produce consistency in the ways traditional, on time passes do. But it's not like I blame Allen, how many match up winners do we have outside that allow him to be on time? From a pure production stand point, he is likely the best in the history of the sport. I think that stats back that up. He is an entire offense himself. An entire style that is unique to defensive coordinators to play against and yes, one that I will keep doubling down on as far as covering massive warts elsewhere.

When you jump into the debate of who is best, one thing is clear, Allen is responsible for more output than anybody. His off schedule plays are a significant amount of our production offensively. I can't imagine anybody in NFL history has generated more production off schedule than Allen. Which isn't ideal all the time, but when we value the contributions of #17 I think it extends a little further than a conversation of what an elite QB is worth to a team. I don't believe this offense can work without out him. Which you might be able to say about several others, but the decline would be so significant even with an average QB. Which is really saying something given it was one of the franchises most productive offenses ever last year.

and TBH we missed on a lot of really good kickers the last year or two as a result of sticking with him.

I imagine over the course of the next several weeks it will lead to a lot of reflection. The memories of the Super Bowls and those 90's are just so entrenched in my youth. All those ups and downs and times that followed. These seasons almost act as a time machine. You remember other times in your life and what it felt like in those times when you think about these teams. I imagine I will wake up for about a month straight and it will be my first thought and it will be incredibly positive and in a lot of ways peaceful. I think it will make me a lot more relaxed as fan as well. I can't disagree more with people that think one won't be enough. I'm sure you will always want another one, but it just won't be under the thought of potentially never being able to experience it.

I think is a really solid take, but I wouldn't make the assumption it will force Baltimore out of these sets. Likely missed time last year and Charlie Kolar filled in. Then they brought in Lucas Scott, a rookie, near 300 pounder to play FB. He is on the practice squad, but I would imagine they activate him for Sunday. Mind you these players are less impactful than Likely and Ricard, but I don't imagine these issues will force a complete identity change.

Or we blew a 16-0 2nd half lead to Houston. Got blown out in the AFC championship game vs KC. Blew a FG lead with 13 seconds left because of the defensive alignment and kickoff strategy. Got blown out in the divisional round to the Bengals. Failed to convert a TD or FG in our final drive vs KC, and they would have got the ball back after averaging almost 8 yards a play and punting 1 time. Failed to get past midfield on our final drive, then couldn't KC off the field as the ran out the clock. If we score, they again, get the ball back. If you think just scoring either of the two years vs KC is close, just ask the 49ers or Eagles what that looks like. The trend is clear, failure to execute in the last 5 minutes with our competition being nearly Patriot like in execution in that time. You see close, I see an ocean separating us. Lets also not forget, we aren't even talking about the Super Bowl. A game we have seen previous versions of the franchise go to a fail 4 consecutive years. We have a long way to go.

I have made a few posts in what, page 6? I'm not yelling at anybody in caps, read the post. Companies and teams make a change in leadership all the time that has become stale. It doesn't mean the person is bad, it means the messaging has grown old. The Eagles did with Andy Reid and won a Super Bowl. The Colts made the Super Bowl the year after Dungy. The Bucs won a Super Bowl after Dungy. This is a thing. Doug Pederson won a Super Bowl and it wasn't because he was better.

I love the, well who is it going to be then? Tell me, TELL ME! Who is better! The answer is it's not about better. It's about different.

It's amuses me how insecure some of these posts can be. I never see the insults flying from people who ask questions about McD and Beane, but man, do they ever fly from his biggest supporters. You guys can't even make it a few sentences without throwing some limp sauce around. I've been on the site longer than 14 years by the way. In any event, they had the marbles to take him and they should get all the credit in the world for that. Which Beane all but assures when he's doing his publicity tours. But to think a guy like McD who has zero experience on the offensive side made more of an initial impact than a guy like Jordan Palmer is questionable. Daboll, sure, he played a big role. McD hired Daboll, so I guess we credit McD. McD also hired Dorsey and put Allen in a horrible situation that played to his weaknesses as well. Beane brought in some great weapons at the start with big hits on Bease, Brown, and Diggs. But now seems content on using Josh as a piece to justify not having to invest further in the offense. Allen is self made more than anything. He is driven that way. At times his environment has helped and at times it's hurt, but make no mistake about it. Without Josh Allen, we have no process, no consistency, none of what you see today. You aren't getting that without winning and more than any other part of this roster along with our leadership, Allen is responsible for that. We went 9-7 and 6-10 with rookie Josh and some other QB's. We are a normal NFL team without him. What we were in the drought era. A QB less team with average talent, that at times threatens a wild card and times drafts near the top 10. Our fans base is making a huge mistake by over crediting these guys for this run. I hope it doesn't ultimately cost a Super Bowl but it very well could.

Just answer the question. With an average coach and GM and Josh Allen, how do you think we would fair in the AFC east the last 5 years? No playoffs? Some playoffs? Josh would never end up being Josh?

I'm not sure how many got a chance to watch this kid in week 1. A lot of hype, I had no idea what to expect. I was pretty floored by what I saw. Competition really doesn't matter with what I was looking at. How in rhythm is he, how quick does the ball get out, arm strength, accuracy, and composure. I was so impressed by this kid. In fact, I will go as far to say I have only been blown away by two freshman QB's in the last 25 years or so as far as watching the first games they played as freshman. Those guys ended up being Russel Wilson and Robert Griffen III. I have really liked others early, but not to this extent. Sometimes when you watch these kids you just get a feeling. They're just ahead of it all. The Oklahoma / Michigan is must watch football this weekend. Mateer is also very solid and Oklahoma should be a solid team again this year. Norman is not a fun place to play for anybody let alone a true Freshman in game two. But I think this kid will be up to the task and it should be a awesome game.

Teams who have a QB that finishes the year with a QBR above 65 win about 70% of the games they play. Over 70 and it goes to almost 75%. This is over the last 20 or so years. Allen has done that every year outside of his rookie season. Partner that with facing a complete rag tag group of QB's and teams in the AFC east during this run. This comment isn't to categorize either of these people that way. It's just an honest question based on your post. If you surround an average GM and an average coach in the AFC east the last 5 years with Josh Allen what outcome would you expect? Would we not be divisional favorites every year? To me it's wild that anybody could land on that not being the case.

I have said this a million times, but both Beane and McD can't be elite, with Josh, and not have done more. The perception by many here are all three are elite. I just don't see that as possibility. I have blamed McD for a lot, but have leaned more into Beane and the roster construction the last year or so. I don't particularly think rebuild #2 has gone very well.

Where does this stuff come from. Josh is ensuring that doesn't happen more than anybody. We might not hold hands as much as we do now, but this team isn't missing the playoffs with Allen at QB.

If I were to guess he was battling this a bit last year as well.

They did, I have called that out before I don't think the situation is unfair. He makes a lot of money and it's a highly coveted job. I just don't think the notion of him walking away has ever been discussed here and this is the exact type of situation where you can see that happening IMO.

When he's done golfing and marrying

We hear a lot of people say the Bills need to part ways. But I would guess McD decides to part ways sooner than we decide to do it. He's basically coaching every season with Super Bowl or bust expectations. Mounting pressure as he and Allen break into statistical categories that haven't occurred in the sport for achievements without going to the big game. That can't be fun and it can't be sustainable. He either does it and pulls a Dungy and walks away or he doesn't do it and he takes a break from coaching.