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Agree. If Gabe had caught that, this game goes down as “Allen magic” once again. Instead you have Allen haters coming out of the woodwork.

No, they don’t. Not when all of their receiving options are blanketed.

No. You don’t do this when the receiver is blanketed.

Ah yes, the old “QB should throw the ball on his 3rd step whether a receiving option is open or not”. Wonderful idea. Interceptions surely won’t come from that brilliant suggestion.

Yeah this is essentially McD saying “this is not Allen’s fault”.

He did it several times yesterday. Allen is desperately trying to make something happen and Dawkins decides to give up halfway through the play.

Agreed. And to be clear, it was a mix of long developing routes and mesh concepts where we ran receivers underneath where the Texans appear to have known our exact plays and routes. It was hard to watch. This. We are running the EXACT same plays every week. One example of this that any law person can see if the WR screens.

For future GENERAL reference for everyone: SEEING AN OPEN PERSON ON THE FIELD DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING WITHOUT CONTEXT. Read that bolded section over and over again. 1) The QB goes through progressions. The open receiver is often open AFTER the QB passes him in the progression. 2) Many plays are designed to get certain people open - like Palmer. That’s what happened on this play. And Allen was pressured making him unable to move on.

It’s incredible how people start these posts and have no idea… 1) As BuffaloBillyG said, due to OPI it wouldn’t have counted anyway. 2) Palmer was who the play was designed for. He was the bread the whole way. Knox was supposed to set a pick for Palmer to get free but he was just a step too late.

That play was designed to go to Palmer. He was the read the whole way. Knox was supposed to set a pick for Palmer but he was a step too slow getting there. Not to mention it wouldn’t have counted due to Gabe’s OPI.

You are wiser than I.

You’re talking to an Allen hater.

Throw them open? How does a QB throw a WR open when the defense is running the route for them? You’re asking him to throw interceptions.

I don’t think we will need to win 12 games to make the playoffs. 11-6 will make it (that’s 4-2 the rest of the way). 10-7 might even make it (that’s 3-3). Not that it matters, since I don’t see how this team could make a SB run anyway.