Mikie2times

If everybody thinks you're a sleeper are you no longer sleeping?

Allens very nature demands that more is put on his back. He isn't going to sit in the pocket and use conventional weapons in the same way others would. Allen will always carry a team individually with his style of play. Perhaps nobody plays that style as well as him. That aspect will also be his detriment at times. Montana didn't carry his team like that nor did Brady. Not the way Allen does. They operated in a systematic way that allowed the rest of the offense to help with the lifting. It gave them incredible consistency in what they did. Nobody can really carry a team like Josh does and achieve the consistency they had. The two players are just different. Nobody is like Josh. It's almost pointless to ever think you could just sub Allen out into another team and have any clue what will happen. WIll Josh use the weapons in similar ways? Who knows. They're both elite and I expect both to be in the hall of fame.

So the choice is to gaslight yourself?

The Dolphins? The team that can't beat anybody over .500?

Why does the XFL have a better replay system then the NFL? Not to mention the transparency. You hear the microphones on the refs. You hear what is being discussed on replay reviews. It's faster.

It's very difficult to evaluate our pass blocking with Allen. He leaves the pocket so quickly. A lot of people say look! He avoided a sack! But he's bailing early in many situations because he trusts what he can do with his legs and in a broken play more than hanging in the pocket. Most QB's don't even get to make that choice. Given our improvement YoY it stands to reason the line was much better.

I'll take -130 he misses 6 games this year if you want.

Bernard was injured at Baylor in 2017 and 2020 and a fairly serious injury to end 2023. I can see why it was confusing.

Na

Bernard was injured for the year in 2017, 2020, and 2023. He's just so small. Very aggressive for his size. I don't think he can hold up to a full season. Milano strikes me as a guy that should get hurt a little more frequently. Usually the work out warriors can be a bit stiff in the joints. He has been very durable up until this point. I don't know how I could go under 11. Happy the Bills added some depth here. I think we will need it.

Perhaps, but it's been another increase in play at the Super Bowl level judging by Mahomes stats. He didn't exactly light up the 49ers either time and Tampa gave him his worst playoff game in his career. We would have made the AFC championship for sure. But it surely won't just be about getting past KC. The NFC has put forth a team who nearly beat KC every year. We will need a multi game run, multiple comebacks, winning competitive close games. Long way uphill.

Mahomes did something in 13 seconds that Allen hasn't been able to do in the regular season or playoffs. He won an OT game. It's certainly not like he has never had the ball in OT either. It's how we lost the Texans game. If you want to simplify to FG's that's up to you. I don't think that perspective is consistent with what has actually happened.

We desperately need a close win in the playoffs against a top 5 team. To do so I think we will need to see Josh bring us from behind to win. It's something the Bills have never done with this iteration. 13 seconds only had so long of a shelf life in thinking that was the smoking gun evidence that we could comeback on the biggest stage. We had a shot last year. We can talk about missed FG's, but we could also talk about his fumble to start that drive which took one of the most fortunate bounces I ever remember to even get to the FG. We needed six on that drive. We had a shot to end the Houston game. We got a FG instead of six and failed in our first OT drive. I don't blame Allen for either outcome but we are talking about comparing him to Mahomes and Mahomes had to come from behind multiple times in every Super Bowl run they had. I think Josh can do it. It just hasn't happened yet.

Well you did a hell of a job. Thanks again!

If you wanted to find a successful anti comp to Allen it would probably be Montana or Brady. It sort of feels like Mahomes has a smidge of that going on. What "that" stands for is just doing boring things consistently and better than others. It's not the super human stuff. Allen is probably the best at that of all time at this point. If a QB could win an award for most fun to watch Allen would have won every year since 2020 hands down.

They both play backyard styles at times but Allen has more turnovers and leverages his running more. Allen is more athletic and he uses it. While I want a mobile QB I find more value in a QB the less they generate production with running. It becomes more consistent to duplicate success when you don't depend on the run. I think that's part of what can make Allen inconsistent. Mahomes is the better passing QB and at QB I want the better passer. Changing teams or coaches wouldn't change this in my mind.

Mahomes is slightly better because of what he has accomplished and what he has accomplished can be attributed to McD to some extent in the games we have faced against him. If McD's defense offered even a mild speed bump of resistance to KC or the Bengals we have a Super Bowl. Your entire argument just ignores how bad this defense has been vs KC and the Bengals. So much worse than other teams who have faced them in the playoffs. You keep saying 15-1 as if just a baseline average performance wouldn't have been enough to disrupt the team you keep saying is unbeatable. Yet we can't even muster average.

Who is 15-1? The Chiefs have lost to the Patriots, Bengals, and Bucs. Not that it matters all that much but I figured if you're going to keep repeating something pointless it might as well be correct.

If I was a proponent of keeping McD I would be reminding people that we play a very specific style of defense and it will take more than one year to turn that around into a unit that can be effective in more traditional schemes. So to your point, I would be happy with that outcome. Anarumo can certainly scheme come playoff time in almost a Spags like way. But our roster is not close for what he wants to do and I imagine it would be awhile before it was.

We don't need to outcoach anybody. We need to produce an average level of performance vs the Chiefs and Bengals defensively. Average being defined as the average of every opponent they have faced in the playoffs during the time Allen has been here. If we did that we would have at least one Super Bowl. Maybe more. Can Sean do that?

I'm aware it took Chicago two years. I forgot the Colts only went to the Super Bowl. But ya, remember that pretty clearly now. Yes. It's what I truly believe. I wish I didn't. It's fairly depressing to be honest. By all means, prove me wrong McD! For me it cemented in just seeing how much worse we perform against KC than other teams vs KC in the playoffs. Then obviously how we have performed against the Bengals. I don't know how that doesn't role up to your defensive minded HC. But perhaps the final straw was the Burrow stat line. 14 of 14, 3 TD's, 181 yards I believe it is. Opening drives. You get time to really plan for an opening drive. If you get gashed a bit you can change things up the next time and the time after. This is the side of the ball that is the specialty of our HC. So to watch Burrow come in and do that to us three times in a row. Something is not right with Sean vs certain players or situations. Its possible it's schematic but it doesn't always go that way in the regular season so hard to tell. The level of performance against us is just not something that can be explained.

*They went to it

I guess the first part would be to ask why does it matter what the Colts, Chargers, Steelers, and Ravens did against the Patriots? This conversation is about Sean McDermott. You're trying to take this out to left field to just get some basis to argue from. You realize the Colts won the Super Bowl the first year after Tony Dungy left? Literally the first year. That is one of your examples? You have two other Super Bowl Champion teams as examples. New England won 6 Super Bowls over 17 years. 11 other years teams could have won a Super Bowl. This isn't going to come down to "can we beat KC". It will come down to can we beat a top 3 rated team in the playoffs. Then can we do it again, and likely again. Which given our excessive tanking defensively in such spots seems like a herculean effort. Impossible given the knowledge of what we have seen thus far and downright mindboggling that people like yourself think that it is possible. The Bulls couldn't beat the Pistons. They didn't say, well, the Pistons are really good. They're champions and nobody has been able to beat them so that's ok. They fired Doug Collins. Within two years they started a dynasty themselves. Why the hell are we willing to just hand it over to KC when we also have one of the best QB's in the league? Why can't you people see that we have just as much reason to believe we could be KC ourselves. Instead we hope to get one. At some point. Who knows when that is. It's no wonder we aren't KC. We cling to our division championships and wild card wins as if anybody cares about such things much past the year they occurred.

I hate saying this. But It was one of the biggest bets I have ever won. I will never do it again though. Felt all sots of conflicted. It's easy to say to yourself, well, if they lose at least I won my bet. But if it's for any amount of many that matters it's just better to stay away. Not like we get these games often in our life.

Can he beat the Bengals? That's the funny part. All of this talk is over the damn divisional round. We have never beat a #3 or better seed in a playoff game. We would have to likely to it in the divisional round and then two more times in a row to win the Super Bowl. Just seems like that ask is like climbing Everest.