Simon

How do I make my towel 10" long? Fold it in half!

Is it really though? He's been in the league seven years on a top shelf team and has only gotten fatter and lazier and now somebody is going to give him even more money. How is he he going to look after hanging out in LA for a few years with 300 million dollars in his pocket?

I don't watch the Jets enough to have a legitimate "Reed" on this. But the last time I saw him vs the Bills he was just gawdawful. Buffalo intentionally went after him and he was a complete pigeon out there.

Immediately following the season where he showed up at camp in the best shape of his life

#1 - I said "probably" #2- Watch him staring down the LBs on his drop, seeing if they chase the drag or the flag. I think he had decided presnap he wanted Shakir on the flare and when the LB's didn't bite he had to come off it. Then he realized the protection was blown and tried to bail to his right. It was only then that he finally realized the corner was coming and he had no escape route on that side and it was too late to do anything but heave a prayer to the zone the corner had vacated. By that point he'd run out of time and space and couldn't set up to get the ball where it should have gone.

Late to recognize the corner blitz. Probably because he was so focused on his presnap decision to get Shakir the ball out of the orbit motion that he didn't finally realize what was happening until he had run himself into a dead end and had to chuck up a prayer.

They didn't have any trouble scoring fast at the end of the first half when they went 75 yrds for a TD in 1:30. Or at the end of the first half of the Ravens game when they went 70 yrds for a TD in under 3:30. And they didn't need to score fast vs the Chiefs. There were 3:30 minutes left, the 2 minute warning and they had three TO's in their pocket. If anything they were likely going to have to burn some clock at the other end. Yet they somehow completely ignored the best weapon on their offense because they felt panicky and rushed. This is more of a coaching issue than any perceived lack of downfield threat, imo.

Late

It's even weirder that you think the only active mod on a board with thousands of posters can be here every second of every day and see every post that is made.

Did they ask him whether he was pissed because the Bills didn't even glance at the best galdanged player on their offense during the final drive?

I don't believe in a million years that Allen would ever say that to a reporter. That guy is lying through his teeth.

Good clear-eyed post and you can probably add DC to that as well.

I thought he was nervous ruight from the get go. And he did miss a bunch more easy throws than he typically does, a couple for what could have been big plays. I'm sort of wondering if the hand issue was messing with his delivery.

There's probably no way we'll ever really know but I thought he came in hot because he was pissed off that Hamlin had given Mahomes some extra business.

I see Bills players rushing angrily to Allen's defense nearly every week. They are not going to call that a penalty in a tight playoff game unless he does something egregiously stupid; like headbutt somebody in the face.

When the defender has just bulldogged his QB face first into the turf 5 yrds deep into the endzone

Jordan Phillips got 15 for headbutting Kelce in the face

You must have missed that part of the sentence that said "regardless of the end result". Even if he had caught it, it still would have been 15 yrds from where it was supposed to be.

Trail technique

It's wildly off target when it's 15 yards from where it's supposed to be, regardless of the end result.

The protection problem was what caused the throw to be 15 yrds off target and forced Kincaid to have to reverse field and dive for it. That might have had something to do with the drop.

Thanks Doc, I didn't realize he'd written a follow up. Glad to hear it's worth the read; I'll be putting it on the list. 🤙

The read was right but the blown protection forced it into being a desperation heave that was nowhere near where it should have been. You can scapegoat Kincaid til the cows come home but there were multiple mistakes made on that play that resulted in the incompletion and the late, wildly off-target throw was one of them.

He was definitely late getting back into the play. If the protection wasn't so fouled up, I think Allen would have had the time and space to throw a better ball.

Shakir could not have blocked all three of the defenders that stayed in their zones over there. Kincaid was the right read and the only realistic option; Allen was just a hair late realizing it.