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Two five-yard plays = first down. Josh Allen doesn't like that math.

It's not like he's out there thinking "god, my girlfriend is so hot" when he makes that split-second decision to throw a deep ball into double coverage. He's not thinking "pretty sweet to be on the Madden cover" when he doesn't look the ball into his hands on a shotgun snap.

None of that affects in-game decision-making. Teams have figured out his tendencies and are baiting him into throwing into coverage that he doesn't see.

Daboll was never OC in New England. He had various position coach positions there.

It was the second half of the GB game that provided the blueprint. You show Josh 1 on 1 man coverage on Diggs or Davis presnap and he'll take that shot almost 100% of the time. And he has problems reading what the safeties are doing because so many of his INTs are safeties jumping routes. The Bills have to becomes less predictable but the time to do that was in offseason.

The issue is that I don't think quick short passes will be the game plan this week. The Raiders have a poor secondary (at least according to PFF's preseason projections) and they may want to attack that.

I agree. There were guys open underneath all game. Josh just forced the ball downfield in the second half. He was going for the kill shot when long drives ending in FGs would have won the game. I worry that it's not winning that motivates him, but the dopamine hit from highlight-reel plays.

Jimmy Butler is also notoriously hard on his teammates in practice to get the best out of them.

People always overstate this. Brady played with Troy Brown and Deion Branch early in his career. He then had Randy Moss and Dante Stallworth for that incredible stretch that included the undefeated regular season. Then he had Edelman and Gronk (and Hernandez) during his final phase in NE. He always had a great running game and the best OL in the league. In fact, he left New England to go to Tampa Bay due to their offensive weapons. Yeah, it was never Chase and Higgins, but he had weapons.

We had the best Bills team in the playoffs. Going into the playoffs? We had that win against Atlanta where Josh had perhaps the worst stats of his career as a passer. Remember this play? If Matt Ryan doesn't get flagged for taunting, they probably score and that game could have gone sideways.

Of course he watches game film with his OC and QB coach on Monday/Tuesday after the game. He doesn’t have a choice in that matter. It’s part of his job and he would get fined if he didn’t show up. His problem is decision making in the moment, not a lack of preparation. In a way, In a way, I wish it was a lack of film study because that’s easy to fix. Changing in-game instincts is a much harder thing.

I was going to post that in 1992 every QB who’s name you remember not named Steve Young had double digit INTs. So yeah, different era. Didn’t make those 19 INTs any easier to watch as a fan.

I swear to god, 90% of what’s bad in the world in the 21st century is due to the existence of the 24 hour news media and content creators who are in constant need of scandals to generate ratings/impressions. Everything becomes a huge story because there are a whole lot of people dependent on a never ending stream of content to pay the bills.

You’re not kidding. In 1992, Jim had 23 TDs and 19 INTs. 19!!!! And that team went to the SB.

I went and checked and much like Cam it was injuries the derailed his career. With Josh it’s just the TOs. He passed at a 71% rate for 236 yards and a TD. Not a great day, but pretty good against that defense. So his accuracy is not regressing to 2018 form. He just can’t or won’t play within the offensive structure. You almost wish at this point that you had a preseason game to force him to play an entire game only taking underneath throws. But because the game on Sunday counts Josh will have to just play.

Tom’s not going to an assistant coach. And besides, he’s already a minority owner of another team. And Fitz makes a lot more money on Amazon than QB coaches make. What Inwould do is pay Jordan Palmer the largest QB coach contract in NFL history. But then again it’s not my money.

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I think the Bills going to 4 straight SBs was half due to how weak the AFC was in the early 90s. The Bills were a very good team, but would they have made a SB if they were in the NFC and had to play the Cowboys, Giants and 49ers in the playoffs?

This is why you want the HC to be the de facto OC if you have an elite QB. I wish Doug Pederson was coaching this team.

There is also an extra game now.

If Josh plays like that this Sunday, we have a Carson Wentz situation in our hands.

Thom Brenneman lost his job as the Reds play by play guy and all his national gigs (including NFL) because of something caught by a hot mic. Now, what he said was a lot worse than this.

My coworker (not a bills fan) said that Josh got hit in the head right before he dropped the ball.

Because everyone's freaking out about everything with this team. The owner's a racist, the WR swears at everyone, and the QB needs to grow up and watch more film.

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I remember the winning TD, but I had forgotten that Fitz tried throwing the game away on first and second down.