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Welcome to the first ever "Question of the day" thread proposed by @BuffaloBill! It's an honor to kick this off for TSW and thought there was no better place to start than a question about our best and most important player, Josh Allen. There has been a lot of discussion this offseason about the WR position, but there are more changes around Josh and this offense than just who the receivers are (or aren't). Josh will also have a new center for the first time in a long time, and there is a chance it could be a rookie in SVPG and Joe Brady is going to now truly install his own offense here rather than manage it around Dorseys when he took over last year. So now that we have a pretty good idea on personnel between draft and signings, do you think Allen will be better, worse, or about the same as he has been the past 2 seasons?

Not sure if thread worthy but this clip hyped me up and it's 615 am. Thank God again that 6 teams passed over him, this response is gold and genuine imo , as well as 100% factual . Love this dude, imo he's QB1 on n off the field league wide, he'll catch up to Mahomes accolades GO BILLS Edit - they weren't teammates in 2014 🤣🤣

In my opinion, there are two primary factors separating the drought era Bills teams from the Allen era Bills teams. The first and foremost is having Josh Allen as QB. The second factor which may be equally as important is having the financial resources to compete in free agency. Among the drought era coaches I think I liked Chan Gaily the best. I credit him with being the inventor of the Fitzmagic. It would have been interesting if he and Allen had aligned in time. I am not sure if any of the other drought era coaches would have been anymore interesting than the Allen era coaching staffs have been. How would others like to rewrite history?

When many are trying to tear Josh Allen down, remember this game that will go down in NFL history. 2022 playoff game Buffalo 47- Patriots 17 1. The Bills scored TD's on seven straight possessions. 2. The Bills never punted, turned the ball over, or faced a 4th down. 3. Josh threw more TD passes (5) than incomplete passes (4) 4. The Bills had 51 offensive plays and only two plays were negative and those two were Josh's kneeldowns. When the "experts" try to convince us that Josh doesn't play well in the playoffs, this is one example that totally contradicts that. This game was the greatest offensive game ever played in NFL history since the beginning of the superbowl era.

Josh Allen recorded his fourth game with multiple passing and rushing touchdowns, tying Hall of Famer Steve Young for the most all time

Don't shoot the messanger...mostly predicated on the he's a turnover machine theory... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41001234/nfl-patrick-mahomes-lamar-jackson-caleb-williams-quarterbacks-ranking

Maybe the greatest olineman to ever play the game.

Let me start by saying I come in peace! Just having a conversation here. I know this is kind of a negative Josh post. What do you think? Does it matter to you if he doesn’t train or work on his game as much as he use to?

First quarter struggle, Cardinals soar,Bills defense, Searching for answers. Second quarter fight, Allen ignites, Bills claw back, Halftime hope flickers. Third quarter surge, Bills defense finds its rhythm, Momentum shifts. Fourth quarter tension, Cardinals fight, Bills hold on, Nail-biting finish. Final whistle blows, Bills triumph, lessons learned, Season's journey starts.

Former PGA Tour player YouTube guy Grant Horvat has a channel where he challenges other PGA pros and celebrities in a round of 18. He recently went up against Josh, giving Josh 10 strokes. This is just over an hour but a really good watch. I'm not giving any spoilers

Haven't seen this mentioned on here. I used the search, so if it is please feel free to merge. Pegula apparently is upset that Allen has not embraced being in more of a CEO type role and instead is more of the "guy's guy" with teammates. Pegula wants Allen to be "above" teammates and the clear leader in that way as well similar to how some other QBs are...most notably like Brady probably. Pegula wants Allen to exhibit more of an "Executive Demeanor" and less of the "buddy buddy" way he is now with teammates... Assuming this is because it blurs the lines and allows others to think it's OK to get away with some things that otherwise they may not feel it would be OK to get away with? Or perhaps that they are a little more lax than they should be? Article eludes to that being part of the reason Diggs wanted out or had some issues? Either way sounds like we are likely going to be in for a new version of Allen this year if they are successful, and one where he may be holding others more accountable. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2024/7/27/24206901/terry-pegula-urging-qb-josh-allen-to-be-a-new-kind-of-leader-for-buffalo-bills-in-2024

Allen ranked 4th last year directly behind Mahomes. Good chance if the ball isn't complete when Allen is throwing downfield, it's not on him.

First quarter struggle, Cardinals soar, Bills defense, Searching for answers. Second quarter fight, Allen ignites, Bills claw back, Halftime hope flickers. Third quarter surge, Bills defense finds its rhythm, Momentum shifts. Fourth quarter tension, Cardinals fight, Bills hold on, Nail-biting finish. Final whistle blows, Bills triumph, lessons learned, Season's journey starts.

Can't believe that it hasn't been posted yet..... but today is QB1s birthday.

So I recently got a bit irritated after hearing a segment that mentioned Allen's playoff stats being "inflated" due to the Pats game... as if that's the reason his stats look so good overall. They were also talking about Burrow & Lamar, but they seem to always get the benefit of the doubt due to Lamar's 2 x MVPs & Burrow's SB appearance & beating the Chiefs. So I decided I'd comb through all their stats & see how "inflated" Allen's stats truly are. Allen (Without Pats Game) - 9 Games: - 63.2 % Comp. / 2,912 TOT YDS / 323.5 TOT YPG / 22 TDs / 4 INTs / 95.5 RTG / 61.5 QBR Burrow - 7 Games: - 67.3% Comp. / 1,927 TOT YDS / 275.3 TOT YPG / 9 TDs / 4 INTs / 93.8 RTG / 52.6 QBR Jackson - 6 Games: - 57.4% Comp. / 1,845 TOT YDS / 307.5 TOT YPG / 9 TDS / 6 INTs / 75.7 RTG / 50.6 QBR *** Burrow has a higher completion percentage, and that's it. Jackson comes in dead last in every category.*** Ok, now a hater might say "well Josh played 2 more games than Burrow & 3 more than Lamar!" so in that case, I'll combine the 2 and do their average over 13 games, AND I'll do another where I just cherry pick each player's BEST avg stat for each category: Burrow + Jackson (Combined Totals & Averages) - 13 Games: - 62.4% Comp. / 3,772 TOT YDS / 290.2 TOT YPG / 18 Total TDs / 10 Total INTs / 84.8 RTG / 51.6 RTG ***In 4 more games, they average less YPG, have less TDs & more than double the INTs*** Burrow + Jackson (Cherry Picked BEST Averages): - 67.3% Comp. / 307.5 TOT YPG / 1.5 TDs Per Game / 0.6 INTs Per Game / 93.8 RTG / 52.6 QBR Allen's Averages for same stats (Without Pats Game): - 63.2% Comp. / 323.5 TOT YPG / 2.4 TDs Per Game / 0.4 INTs Per Game / 95.5 RTG / 61.5 QBR *** Even when cherry-picking the best stats of both Lamar & Burrow OR using their combined numbers, Josh has more total TDs, more TDs per game, more YPG, less INTs per game, a higher passer rating and a higher QBR!*** In conclusion, it's clear as day that no matter how you break it down, Allen has played SIGNIFICANTLY better than Jackson & Burrow. Again, this is WITHOUT the Pats game to "inflate" his numbers. That's 5 x TDs, 350+ total yards, a 130 passer rating & 98.8 QBR not accounted for, yet he still out performs Burrow & Jackson's individual and combined totals & averages. The END!

First off I want to say I respect Beane’s game. He always finds a way to fill holes and gives McD as much depth as possible every year to keep the team competitive. He did a great job putting make up on an ugly pig of a WR group after the draft. BUT what if we went all in on surrounding Josh with as much young cheap talent as possible. What if Beane didn’t play it safe year in and year out with high character dependable players and went with some potential home run hitters. Humor me and lets play this out, let’s reverse time back to this epic 2024 WR draft. AD Mitchell and Troy Franklin may have had some character flaws that dropped them a bit in the draft but their talent is undeniable. In a year where even before we lost Davis and Diggs we needed another young WR, let’s pretend that we did something unconventional and actually took 3 WR in the first 3 rounds! 🤯 Now how would this play out? Pick 33 is still Coleman and we got some draft capital pick 51 or higher (trade a 5th this year and a 3rd next year) AD Mitchell Pick 95 Troy Franklin The rest of the draft stays the same BUT wait we don’t have Bishop at safety or Carter at DT whatever will we do!?! Hmmm maybe this year we let McD get a couple FAs to plug and play. Maybe we don’t go dumpster diving for leftover WRs and instead grab a couple veteran defensive players instead. Why not sign Justin Simmons and Calais Campbell and then next year when it’s a better defensive draft you can address the DT spot Josh now has Coleman, AD Mitchell, Troy Franklin, Khalil Shakir, and Curtis Samuel…oh and McD can have his special teams WR with the last spot too in Hollins, Shavers or Shorter. You know you’d love that WR corps and so would Josh for the next 4+ years Again, Beane did a great job making the best out of a bad situation with his WR room but man what could’ve been if he just leaned into helping his franchise QB out long term instead of short term bandaids.

Stumbled across this on YouTube, this guy has under 2k followers but looked at comments and had to check it out. It's depressing as well but they did a great job documenting Buf since 2017 and Mahomes as Allens white whale, even though he arguably outplayed him. Salute to KC though, many more wars to come. But if you have 50 minutes to kill, this is dope What a wild few years, we'll get ours. Love yall

Keon Coleman: Josh Allen texted me “You’re the guy I want”

I think it's safe to say that if you polled the coaches, GM's, and players that Allen would be QB2 behind Mahomes by the end of that poll. And I think the vote would be pretty decisively Mahomes 1 and Allen 2. In the media, amongst fans, social media, etc he would probably still finish QB2 but likely by a narrower margin as he has a larger group of detractors there then the people who play against him. But what do the numbers say? Well I think they may surprise some... The QB's job is to score points, and right off the bat we know he has the most TD's in NFL history for a players first 6 seasons. Now the detractors will come back and say that is only because Mahomes sat his first year...well that isn't accurate, Mahomes played 1 game and Allen missed 6 games. So Allen only played 9 games more his rookie year and did so throwing to Benjamin as his lead WR without the luxury of sitting a year behind a quality vet. But...lets remove this argument all together and just focus on since 2020 when Allen arrived as a top tier QB. Since 2020, Allen has the most TD's in the NFL with 174. In 2nd place is Mahomes with a distant 151. 3rd place is even further back at 125 (Herbert). Allen has an NFL record 4 consecutive seasons of 40+ TD's and counting. He puts up 40 again and he extends that record to 5 consecutive seasons. And Allen has done that with 3 OC's in 4 seasons, and an inferior set of weapons compared to many other top QB's Some were saying 2023 was a down year for Allen, like he regressed and took a step back. But did he really? He led the NFL in TD's He led the NFL in TD's vs top 10 defenses with 20 He is first in points added per game vs top 10 defenses wtih 3.8 He again finished in top 5 voting for MVP and only person not named Lamar to get a vote and the only player to finish in the top 5 the past 2 seasons...and that was with Dorsey clown show for 75% of those games. And this was with tension with Diggs and an OC switch week 11. Then there is the argument that Allens turnovers are why he has not won a Super Bowl and why some lower is QB ranking below guys like Burrow who also has not won a SB, but had his defense help him reach one. Allen has the lowest Interception % of all QB's with at least 350 career playoff passing attempts at just 1.1%. Mahomes is 2nd at 1.2% He only has 2 lost fumbles in his playoff career too. There are a lot more stats you can review, I picked some of the more interesting ones from a couple different articles I came across, I will add the links below. So...who really is the best QB in the NFL if all things were equal? On one hand, Allen has statistically produced more with less advantages than Mahomes, but Mahomes has the rings ...but he also had the supporting cast make the plays when it matters, especially on defense because SB rings are a team accomplishment and too much credit/blame is assigned to the QB in regard to winning a SB or not. Josh Allen stats that will irritate non-Bills fans 20 Unbelievable stats for his 28th birthday

Only QB higher is Joe Burrow. "Gotta Have It" drives are drives where they are trailing with under 5 minutes to go in the 2nd half. Lamar Jackson was 3rd, which means this HAS to be a regular season stat, Brady was 4th and Mahomes was 5th. https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/lamar-jackson-better-clutch-than-patrick-mahomes-tom-brady-past-five-seasons-analytics

You know the event is for fun and for a great charity, but Josh Allen, again displayed what a talented athlete he is. While most of his competitors struggled to hit 2 or 3 homers, Josh belted a total of 15 homers in the 2 rounds of competition. He is amazing.

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Per Tim Graham Josh Allen snapped at Stephon Diggs after the Jets loss. Explains alot. "Josh Allen snapped at him, and he said 'It's one f****** game' and motioned I'm not talking to you here," Graham said. "Diggs walked away and Josh sat there...He didn't snap at anybody else. A stream of players were coming over, popping him on the shoulder pads, or patting him on the back, or dapping him up. Whatever Stefon Diggs said to him, Josh Allen wasn't having it." https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-stefon-diggs-trade-argument-new-york-jets#:~:text="Josh Allen snapped at him,back%2C or dapping him up.