thebandit27

If folks can watch the way this kid handles himself in the face of adversity both on and off the field and not think he's got a great shot at being The Guy, then I'm not sure what more they could want.

Hmmm...feel like I read some type of similar warning prior to the week 3 game against the Bengals that was supposed to be a blowout and ended up a last-minute win. But thankfully someone was kind enough to tell the moron that said that to shut his trap.

Pop quiz: what QB leads the NFL in completion percentage on passes of under 30 yards?

First off, those uniforms are great. All blue is snazzy as heck. Secondly, maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't recall the Bills ever losing in the current blue-on-blue since they debuted them against GB in 2014. They beat GB in them in 2014 They beat the Jets in them in 2015 Allen hung 42 on Miami in them last year Anyone remember any others? EDIT: now that I think about it they lost to Cinci in them in 2015

You know what I remember most from that game? George Wilson. It was perhaps the best game I'd ever seen from a Bills' safety up to that point. Of course, everything went downhill from there--for George and the Bills.

Meh, he can easily say that he was home with an illness when the incident happened. No league discipline. Scary for him and his family though

Knox is costing the team important first downs at critical times with his drops. It's bad.

Like I said 3 weeks ago with respect to Allen (and Brady for that matter): even good QBs can look awful against a very good defense.

Nope. It's brutally-over-the-top criticism that gets lambasted in my experience

ChanFuego? Is that YOU? Last year it was "he'll never be accurate", now it's "he'll never be top 10". Next year, will it be "yeah, he's top 10, but he'll never be elite"? Stay tuned...

I actually didn't mean "mediocre" as an insult. I don't think that Brown, Beasley, Duke, or the TE group qualifies as anything more than average on their best days. And that's okay--IF you have a great QB that can carry a team. We don't have that yet. So, like KC and the Rams, we need to build up the roster with excellent targets in the passing game that give our young QB some freedom to make irresponsible plays if we want to see him have the big-time performances. Either that, or we need to wait for him to grow into the guy that can elevate the Browns and Beasleys of the world. That's all I meant.

Honestly? Patience. Playing QB in the NFL is perhaps the hardest job in pro sports. This kid has gone from uncrecruited high school kid to 2 years of non-Power 5 ball at Wyoming to starting in week 2 of his rookie season. That he's shown as much growth as he has to this point is really encouraging. But we need to remember that this is a 23 year old kid who's surrounded by largely mediocre talent in the passing game. If we want him to carry the team, we're going have to give him the time to grow into that role.

Get used to it. From well before the draft it was evident that Allen was the most polarizing prospect in a very long time. There are a lot of people that just don't know how to handle evaluating his play. For me, it's really simple: call it like it is. He looked lost for much of the first half yesterday. Not terribly uncommon for a guy making his 17th NFL start. You know what's pretty rare for a guy making his 17th start? To have a near-perfect 2nd half en route to a 3rd come from behind victory. They're 5-1 and the kid is improved much from where he was a year ago. Relax and enjoy the ride, because nobody knows where it'll end up at this point. But it sure feels nice to be 5-1 with two more home games coming up.

It was a slow enough build that I didn't catch it right away, but he started laying it on thick enough in the last page or two that it became obvious

He's joking. I'm 100% certain

I agree, Allen is our guy

You can't fool me. I know you're just joking.

I would be VERY worried about anyone that didn't think that

Neither does his record: 5-1. Eat it

Orton believes that games end at halftime I'm now convinced that you're joking

I said scoreboard. You said it was about the defense.

If games ended at halftime we'd have 2 Lombardi trophies. Nice logic

That was the subject of my first post in this thread. Oddly, all I said was that some folks didn't know what they're watching. Didn't say who. Didn't say what those folks thought. Interesting that Orton felt compelled to reply huh? Show me where I said that Miami's D was good. You are the one straw-manning.

Nice D today huh? Looked great allowing Fitz to put up 21 points. Good thing we have the best 4th quarter QB in the NFL. The guy that went 10/11 in the 2nd half and lead the offense to 2 4th quarter TDs Like I said: scoreboard. Now cry about it some more

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