dave mcbride

Yes. Mind you, I don't think he's good, but my god, Allen seems to become a blind dart thrower when he targets him.

I absolutely agree, and see my qualifying post above. But when you're always low in the catch pct stats while others aren't, sometimes it's you.

He came back against the CJ Mosely-less Jets and the Bengals. He wasn't facing the Jets and the Bengals yesterday, but the best defense in the league. Past production against doormats is not a predictor of future late-game success against actual good teams. He was horrible yesterday.

The best comparions are with the guys who are actually getting a decent number of targets: Brown, Beasley, and Knox. All of those are over 60 percent. To be fair to Jones, he has been on the receiving end of a inordinately large number of way-off-target throws by Allen.

Look at the column entitled "catch percentage" in the rushing and receiving category and look at line 11: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2019.htm

Goff weas really good in his second season.

If you are going to play like that, expect those hits. Ask any rb in the league who seeks out contact. Those plays are going so fast and Allen plays like an aggressive rb. This is what happens when you play like that. Ivory is not a low-to-the-ground back at all. He’s closer to yeldon than gore in that area. He also sought out contact and liked to deliver blows himself. Somewhat famously, actually.

Yup. Bills fans don’t seem to want to consider that, though ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdolloff/status/1178427799947878405 just disagree with you, dog.

I actually kinda disagree even though i don’t want too. Regardless, guys like chris ivory get a hit like that every game, and if allen is going to choose to play like that, those are the predictable consequences.

It was illegal, but i really don’t think it was deliberate, and it’s the sort of hit rbs get all of the time. Basically, it was a garden variety hit that the chris ivorys of the world get all of the time. He plays a certain way at present that isn’t sustainable, but he’s been lucky up until today so fans don’t really think about it.

Well , this thread didn’t age well.

I hate the Pats, but he has a point here. Allen plays recklessly. This sort of stuff is inevitable given his running style. https://mobile.twitter.com/scottzolak/status/1178437298649739264

The thing is, the running stuff is what makes him good, but it was also always the thing that was going to get him killed. He plays recklessly when running, and it was just a matter of time before a hit like today happened. It won’t be the last.

True! I thought the same.

I think the thing is that in the middle of the field, teams will give him the quick slants, but when you get deeper and near the EZ, you have to be able to throw ropes outside the numbers. He can’t do it. He can place the deep sideline lob accurately, which is good and something Allen is incapable of doing so far this season. Again, he’s immobile and once the middle of the field gets taken away from him, he’s a sack/TO machine.

No, not that good, to be sure, but I’d say above average.

The OP is 100 percent correct. His deep throwing has been horrible this season. All misses so far. No drops by the receivers on any of those throws either. No, he has been horrible all season. He is something like 0-10 with two picks on deep/bomb throws. None have been catchable.

Barkley can’t throw effectively outside the numbers except when he does accurately placed lobs. And he’s immobile. Both QBs have big weaknesses (i.e., Allen can’t seem to throw an accurate deep ball to save his life right now. He is AWFUL in that dept. so far this season.)

TN’s D is good.

Avoid kool-aid. He was awful.

The next accurate deep throw past the final secondary line that Allen throws will be his first in the year 2019. He has a ridiculously strong arm, but it is entirely useless if he can’t even come close to hitting a bomb.

Yes to this. Pirates/buccaneers are basically mafias on the high seas. They are the epitome of organized crime.

Allen is a snake, yes, but Snyder is the king cobra in that organization. Just a lousy person - vain, petty, thinks he’s smarter than he is - from everything I’ve read.