Big Turk

Sorry for the lack of updates on this...updated post regular season. Allen is 126th and should start next season passing 3 more in his first game.

Considering the Bills tied with the fewest 3rd down attempts in the NFL with KC at 193 this season, I think they did pretty freaking good on 1st and 2nd downs.

Maybe he should start getting a list of the best Madden players out there and have them come in for interviews? I mean, what could go wrong here?

Yes, the Bills were #1 at 50.22% on 3rd downs. An absurd rate meaning they converted more than half of their 3rd downs to 1st downs regardless of distance. That is a very rare occurrence in the NFL...Saints in 2011 were the highest back to 2003 at over 55%! Chiefs last year and Manning led Colts in 2006 were over 53% but anything over 50 is exceedingly rare. Since 2003 only about 8 or 9 teams have accomplished that. They also were far and away #1 in the NFL at converting 3rd and 10+ at something even more absurd at like 40% when the average team is like 10%.

I just want to see the sun by then...been 12 days(and counting) since Buffalo has seen the sun.

No that does not. You are misinterpreting it. Regardless of how many yards to go they had on 3rd down, Allen threw the ball an average of 5.4 yards farther than he needed to get the firs down. If it was 3rd and 1, Allen threw the ball 6.4 yards down field. 3rd and 3, 8.4 yards down field(5.4 yards farther than he needed to pick up the first down). Also, the Bills did not fail on first and second downs, for the most part. So you pretty much made a completely baseless post. The point is contrasting what he did under Daboll the last 2 years versus what he did under Dorsey. Daboll seemed to reign him in in some situations like 3rd downs and the redzone while Dorsey has seemingly pushed him further towards pedal to the metal in those situations.

Led 2nd place Dak Prescott by a full yard...not sure ıf this was intentıonal design or just Allen himself doing it. Allen averaged throwing 5.4 in the air past the first down marker on 3rd down passes this year, far and away the most in the NFL. This seems to be a Dorsey designed thing as Allen was 13th last year at 2.3 yards and 14th in 2020 at 2.0 yards, whereas Russell Wilson led with 5.5 yards. Allen was ranked 3rd and 4th in 2018 and 2019 with 3.6 and 3.4 respectively, so it appears Daboll reigned him in a little bit in that regard, but Dorsey seems to even be pushing the boundaries with this further, forcing teams to cover well past the first down markers. Thoughts?

Bills also only the 7th team ever to finish in the top 5 for Offense, Defense and Special Teams. Just a note...they are pretty f**king good!

Toney is constantly injured. He probably will be out for the AFCCG. Hodgins reminds me of David Nelson. An OK guy on a team with not much else at the position but not really a legit player on a good team.

Haha...five years later it doesn't seem so reckless I bet

Yep...and when talking about it he lied and said Losman got hurt because he cut back to the middle of the field and he barely hit his shoulder pad as he went by. Still lying apparently.

It's kinda hard to justify how you could claim you believe one thing and fight hard for it to the other side and then switch sides to fight hard for something that is diametrically opposed to what his initial fight was for. Benedict Arnold or Judas comes to mind.

Wow...some more in depth info regarding what actually happened from an "unknown" high ranking official on either the Bills or Bengals. My bet is the Bills. Just absolutely trashes the NFL and Troy Vincent and says Dawn Aponte, the NFL representative at the game "held the line hard" even as Vincent tried to force her to make them resume play... Also claimed they weren't going back out on the field to play even if the "Lord himself came down" and that the Bills and Bengals decided to stop playing that game not the NFL. I'm not surprised. NFL is the king of doing one thing and then trying to gloss over it and make it appear they were doing the opposite once it happens. All they care about is the "appearance" of doing the right thing, not actually doing it. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl-vs-espn-over-whether-025927564.html

Broken thumb. That type of break he has usually keeps RBs out a few weeks as they can't grip the ball properly

These same posters are also scared of their own shadow when they see it and their tabletops have indentations from the number of times they have jumped onto it while seeing an ant crawling on the floor in their kitchen too. Some people are simply worryworts.

In his career Josh Allen against Miami(9.5 games): 3,238 yards(2,684 pass/554 rush) 27 TDs + 4 TDs rushing 5 INTs QB Rating 106.1 Effectively on a per game basis: 341 yards(pass/rush) 3.26 TDs(pass/rush) 0.52 INTs Dolphins worst nightmare

With Tua: Bills 38-24 With Bridge: Bills 38-17 With Thompson: Bills 38-10 Chiefs should be favorite...they likely get the winner of the Jags/Chargers while the Bills have to face the Bengals in round 2 barring upsets.

It's just hard to carry that level of intensity and focus through a long 17 game season week in and week out and be at your best. KC deals with that a lot as well...they play a lot of close games against inferior opponents...the games are close but most of the time you still think the other team would have to do something extraordinary to win tho. I imagine that is how most of the Bills games feel for opposing fans. They might be close, or tied, or even ahead, but you know it's only a matter of time and you are trying to hold off a 50 foot wave that is incoming.

It's not about evening it up. The schedule follows a set pattern for home/road games. There isn't really much to decide.

Yeah, that was just based on the records of the opponents, not including any of the other stuff.

Bills played the 4th toughest schedule in the NFL this year based on SOS. Cardinals, Falcons and Ravens were the 3 ahead of the Bills. Only the Ravens made the playoffs.

I don't think so.

Partially...the issue in the NFL, unlike other sports is that every team doesn't play every other team, so you need some way to try and normalize things to make up for the fact that teams play relatively tougher or easier schedules than other teams.

1st in DVOA, 1st in PFR's SRS(Simple Rating System) and 1st in ESPN FPI. Yeah they are pretty f**king good.

Uhh...no. The Bills controlled their own destiny for the 1 seed. If they would have won in Cincy, they would have been the 1 seed due to head to head victory over KC.