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The NFL ratings are up because those patriots who were turned off by the player's anthem protests in 2017 wandered back in because there were no visible anthem protests in 2018 except a very small minority... and those were not put on TV screens front and center. The NFL did a good job of minimizing its effects. If the anthem protests start up again in 2019, I can guarantee that those patriots who left last year to cause a deep dip in the ratings will leave again and maybe this time for good.

At the very least this pushes an area of serious concern moving forward to the back burner that can be resolved in the spring by resigning DA or finding a practice squad QB for next season. So many other areas of need can now be focused on via draft or free agency.

What would have been truly fantastic would be if Josh bought his fiercest critics on the forum a brain!

Wow! You really build up your veteran posts with mindless cheaps shots!

Bulldog DID say he thought Allen played good but since he was drafted he has been critical of Allen, the Bills, McD and everyone else associated with pick. Allen was not his choice. We have heard his "attitude" non stop since April. This is why many called to call him out. The fans are correct. This is NOT a joke. Bulldog opens his mouth true, but the fans HEAR what he is saying an he just doesn't get the backlash, nor do you.

As I said Allen haters will hate. You are one. Does the stat line show his leadership skills or doesn't that fit your narrative? Does it show a 4th quarter comeback win or doesn't that fit your narrative? Does it show Allen 1 Stafford 0 or doesn't that fit your narrative? You love the box score because you think it helps your sad narrative. Does WIN count or doesn't that fit your narrative? Like I said haters will hate for no other reason than their guy didn't get drafted.

We did get the right Josh despite all the national media and TBD forum haters. I am very happy to see the haters becoming increasingly silent on this forum as they begrudgingly acknowledge their error or slither into the darkness of no posts on this subject while eating their crow. It was getting tedious just reading their hate. But then haters, blinded by their hatred will always hate especially if they were disciples of Rosen, Darnold, or Mayfield.

Just another pile of garbage by a clueless national reporter. Funny he didn't say that Allen's QBR is the best of all rooks and is almost identical to Aaron Rodgers. That of course didn't fit his narrative and wasn't in the box score.

Trusting any receiver on this team to do something that should be ordinary is a big risk. Even Zay who had a decent game did NOT make at least 2 important catches that he had his hands on. Allen trusted Charles Clay to make a catch on the last play that any decently skilled high school player not making 8 mil would make and you see what that got him. No, receivers have to EARN the trust of the QB or if I am Allen and know I am the best athlete in this offense and I want to win really badly I am less trusting of my teammates until they demonstrate they CAN be trusted, especially with his physical ability running the ball vs our "drop" rate. The evidence is clear.

I was going to say that national media just don't "get" this kid but then again neither do many of the local media either. The haters like to point to statistics that paint a negative picture of him because they fit their narratives. For instance, both Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, and Ben Roethlisberger that I know of have had games this year where they had 20 or more incompleted passes. I guess all those incompletions were the receivers fault or maybe the coaches or maybe the wind or temperature but certainly not bad mechanics or poor decision making or "all THOSE negatives!

Here is the problem with anything you say about this. You state " If Allen starts and does great it will be the first time." Here is some perspective for you. Can I trust you were in Siberia when Allen went 15/22 68.8 1 0, and scored 2 rushing TDs for QB rating of 111.2 wk 3? I guess that fact didn't fit your narrative and therefore anything else you said only supports the same faulty narrative.

I am so impressed with your observational talent. Geez. So enlightening! Another waste of keystrokes!

That was a great line Sestak, McDole, Dunaway, and Day....... They were beasts.

Well the big knock on him was accuracy and Mayfield has been anointed as the most accurate passer. Truth is YTD Mayfield is 55.6%, Rosen is 55.6%, and Allen is 54.0%. Based on that alone I would group them together and when you look at their QB rating that is also close (and pretty identical if you throw in Allen's 3 TDs via legs. By that I would say your eyes are bloodshot and you are looking for negativity to spew your trash.

Everyone has opinion which is fine. However, it is what it is. Then again their is always the greatest word in sports talk and analysis if one's opinion turns out to be wrong, "OOPS!"

Please stop this madness! Are you kidding? Watch some tumbleweed highlights or something rather than waste time posting this stuff. 0 - 3. It was ALLEN who set up the defense by marching them downfield vs. Vikes. Defense went onto the field with the lead. They then played great complimentary football and the result is historic. McCarron couldn't even make this team and was traded away. What would the Oakland Raiders record be IF ONLY AJ WAS THEIR QB is what you should have asked.

In one short word. YES. That comment is just plain crazy dumb. Amazing that a reporter that close to the Bills can be so clueless to say something that stupid.

He is arguably the best player on the defense but his value to the team and JA's value to the team even in his rookieness is not the same. I doubt that if this franchise had to trade away either TW or JA even at this point in JA's career that they would trade JA. Franchise QBs are very hard to come by as we all know and this one looks every bit what is hoped for.

So you are saying that Beane was "secretly" calling the shots for the Bills when he was with the Carolina Panthers during last years draft? Did he quietly phone McDermott and Whaley and tell them he thought he might be the next GM of the Bills so pass on Mahomes? Comical.

I somehow also felt that if he did get his first TD pass I wanted to be there in person to see it. The stands were full at the beginning but very few were actually there to see it in person...not that it meant much other than to me.

Kudos Josh! No one has yet accused him of not having the requisite leadership skills for sure. I stayed until the end of the game just to watch and support him and the team. Kinda looked like Jimbo a few decades ago in his passion. I hope he becomes a great one! Go Bills!

I would argue that Allen as the #7 pick overall was disrespected, treated like a kid, forced to get 3s reps vs 3s D most of the off season. While good to learn the playbook (after AJ and Nate had a whole 2 weeks headstart (lol) which gave McD grounds to keep that "plan" going right through training camp, in the end all of those reps from a supposed "open competition" are lost forever. How short sighted. Now here we are going into Week 2 and those hundreds of reps 1s vs 1 given to McCarron are GONE. All of those reps given to Nate are on the bench. Now Allen will learn "speed of the game" by trial of fire on his own. My hope is that he rises above all and the decisions of his HC and saves his butt from further ridicule and proves to be the franchise QB we all want. No thanks to our HC who had to dust off an old dusty "notebook" from 20 years ago to inform his practice about when to play Allen.

So now after the Baltimore fiasco isn't it sad that he might well have said both? Having read some of your posts I am confident you have been there and back several times so I will defer to your deep space intellect.

The people who watched him...... what does that mean? Or do you mean the "right people who watched him that support your argument?" He was on many boards as the Top QB of the group. This is what I do know. A lie is a lie. A deception is a deception. McDermott is absolutely guilty of both when it comes to how he has handled Allen. An open competition is just that. Not 2 QBs get all the reps that matter and 1 gets none. That would be a deception at best and a lie at the worst. Here is another goodie. McDermott said in the beginning of the so-called QB competition that he would play "the QB that gives the team the best chance of winning." He now says that Nate has "earned the right to start." Is he saying that Nate is both? What happened to the QB who gives the team the best chance of winning criteria? A deception? A lie? I believe he changed the criteria for this reason. By saying that Nate has "earned the right to start" he is distancing himself from the outcome should Nate fail. He can always say that "Nate had his chance and blew it." If he stuck to the criteria and stated that Nate gives us the best chance of winning, then HE can be accused of "blowing it" for picking the wrong QB... duh. I do like him for what he has done but think he is way over his head in developing QBs and WILL make the wrong decision more often than not.

I think McD does a great job of keeping his team on a steady course. I think however he is clueless as a QB Guru. He was asked repeatedly what informs his decisions regarding Josh Alllen and he had to keep coming back to his experiences 19 years ago with McNabb when Andy Reid didn't cut him loose until later in the season. He does not even want to talk about Cam Newton who started Day 1 and seems to have no thoughts beyond that. He is a sophomore Defensive HC whose defense under performed all year. He did make the playoffs however and his coaching was a big factor in breaking the drought. This year he said there would be an open competition for starting QB and then gave only 2 QBs reps with the 1s. vs 1s for the majority of the off season. He kept Allen with the 3s until Week 3 of preseason. WHY? His "this is a rep chart not a depth chart" when explaining that Allen would learn the offense just as good with the 3s is hilarious. So McD is saying that the speed of the game is the same going against the 3s as going against the 1s all off season except for a smattering later? Yet the proclaimed starter and the one traded got hundreds of more reps than Allen. WHY? I wonder where we would be right now if Allen and AJ got most of the 1s reps vs 1s and Nate got only 3s work. I wonder if Nate would be so steady going against the 1s vs Bangals. McD decided very early that he was going to really slow play Allen which IMO was very unfair. He had all kinds of excuses for that. In the beginning he used the excuse that Nate and AJ had a few weeks jump on the playbook. OK. but Allen scored the highest on the Wonderlic Test of QBs at the Combine. So why after a month off after OTAs was he still working solely with the 3s? Allen had Week 3 prep with the 1s but the few days of practices is not sufficient to prepare a rookie #7 pick for the Bengals D. McD did everything he could to make it difficult for Allen including musical O linemen chairs and not helping him keep drives alive by not challenging the dive for a 1st down. Yes, McD deserves kudos for the teams performance last year and I hope he does well this year, but he did NO favors for Allen. IMO he disrespected him from Day 1. He talked about earning reps and made Allen do that all off-season while handing the MLB the job from Day 1. He has repeatedly favored a certain QB and ended up trading away all the reps of the other QB to Oakland that Allen needed. No. He is no friend to Allen and I think Allen knows it. He seems quite angry judging by his comments after being told McDs "piece" and after Beanes sit down with Heather Prusak. I hope we go undefeated with Nate as QB and I wish him well but Allen has every right to be stewing with the way his HC has treated him.