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Cam Newton used to laugh and ham it up when people dropped him like a sack of potatoes too. It doesn't matter........the damage accumulates. No QB has taken the kind of punishment Allen has to this point of his career and remained a franchise level QB for even 9 seasons.......he's in year 5 now..........so you might want to re-evaluate your "maybe 30-31" he's gotta' think about adjusting his game estimate. Unfortunately the Dolphins pushed the right button with the Bills yesterday. Allen was not razor sharp throwing the ball like he was against the also aggressive Rams pass rush.....so the Bills lack of explosive players on offense just lead to tons of small plays despite the Dolphins sending extra rushers and playing light in the secondary ALL DAY. The Bills ran over 90 plays........that is a MASSIVE amount of plays.........that's not just tryna-catch-up-in-garbage-time-passing numbers it takes 40 minutes of possession to do that. You'd think teams that do that would win the vast majority of games played but according to NFL now episode today, teams that have ran that many plays are just 32-31 in those games all time. Because big plays matter. It's great that they can put up a 10+ play drives practically every time they get the ball but big plays change games. They haven't surrounded Allen with an ideal balance of either pass blocking talent or YAC guys. So it's going to be a very physical 20 game season for Allen if he is going to win a SB.

They were moving the ball well because Josh Allen is a beast. His ability to buy time, break down defenses and (usually) make incredible throws to areas of the field that can't be defended makes some players look a lot better than they are. Josh runs A LOT more than John Elway but there is a similarity between this receiving corps and the one Elway had in the 80's with Steve Watson, Vance Johnson and company..........those dudes weren't very good but Elway elevated them to the point where they looked good. It's crazy that Gilliam and Morris are getting important targets in week 3 of year 5 of Josh Allen. The receiving talent is not where you want it for a SB favorite. It's Diggs and a grab bag at receiver. No depth behind Knox. They knew Gabe Davis had a history of performance limiting foot problems and inconsistent play and had subsequently failed to put together a full season of 600 yards or more.......yet but they brought in no competition. They retained Dirty on the cheap and now they are so desperate for speed that they have to keep him on the field even though he is a mental error waiting to explode every time the ball comes his way. Allen has too much on his shoulders, plain and simple.

You look like a bigger idiot every time you post. Gotta' admire your commitment, though.

Yeah dressing only 5 receivers.......one of them injured(Gabe Davis)..........and then throwing a team record 62 passes..........another controllable and questionable organizational move.

The offense killed their home field advantage hopes last year as well. They have limitations on offense that were not addressed in the slightest last offseason. The defense has been overloaded with 1st round picks and big dollar contracts...........they played "well" yesterday........the big pass to Waddle goes on Frazier........but they didn't make the game changing play or turn the ball over. If Milano catches that gimme pick six they win the game. There are going to be days where the defense has to do more than they did yesterday because that side of the ball has been favored lopsidedly with regard to personnel. We know about the injuries but the defense is practically two deep EVERYWHERE. The offense is threadbare on the OL and at WR and TE after the starters.

This is true. But the reality is that the Dolphins and teams that live in that heat have to condition better just to play in it. I watch tons of college football played in the south and those games go on for 4 hours regularly and the players don't drop like flies the way we saw the Bills doing yesterday. I don't think conditioning is a strength of the Bills team because their sports science probably tells them not to push players that hard..........because it results in greater chance of injury. That is the trade off. The Bills have had a very healthy team in terms of the controllable soft-tissue type of injuries but they are not built to be on the field for 40 minutes of the game on either side of the ball. We saw it in the divisional game vs KC when the defense was totally gassed at the end. You could argue that their approach leads to a lot of dominant performances but also that it hurts them in battles of attrition.........which is coincidentally what a lot of these 1 score losses have been. Hell, they were gassed in Jacksonville last year. Who are we kidding that this Miami game was just some kind of outrageous outlier weather wise?

If you don't think Allen took a lot of hits in that opener in LA then you clearly didn't watch the game. He ran a ton and didn't have a single one end without a hard hit or landing. He's been roughed up a lot already this season. This is the style of offense they have........they have skill but don't have speed or YAC ability so Allen needs good protection to buy time for bigger plays to develop.........or he has to dink and dunk down the field or pay the price himself physically to keep the ball moving. Same situation last season.......like yesterday, he averaged a lowly 6.7 yards per pass attempt last year because his receivers aren't good at making yards after the reception. They were dead last in the NFL in YAC, in fact. Most QB's in his position are throwing passes away and punting with this kind of pass pressure and lack of blitz beating speed..........but Allen will pull it down and take a big hit to run for a first on 3rd and 6 when all of his receivers are covered. It's a cheat code for keeping the ball moving but as a result he takes a beating in games like this last one.

Correct. The Bills organization put him in that bad situation. The rest of your post was unnecessary..........I'm not saying the offense couldn't score because of Allen.........just that it was not an "MVP performance".

It sure wasn't an A. The rest is irrelevant because you don't win MVP awards on the strength of lesser performances in defeat. Hopefully a 19 point performance where he averaged less than 7 yards per pass, turned the ball over, and missed a wide open receiver with the game on the line on 4th down........in leading his team to a once-every-decade kinda' loss where one team out-yardages the opponent by about 300 yards but fails to score points.........is one of the least impressive performances on his ledger of a championship season. But if you'd be happy with a repeat performance of that production in the Dec 18th game then I can't help you.

I was referring to the original post that I was responding to. Obviously. Which was by @ToGoGo. A lot of people exposing the fact that they don't bother to read posts before they take offense. It was absolutely NOT a great performance from Josh or the Bills. He stacked up counting numbers but his percentages/averages weren't exceptional, he turned the ball over, made some mental errors and his mechanics betrayed him on the 4th down throw to McKenzie. On a side note..........John Murphy needs to call it quits. He has never been good but he is washed at this point. He literally screamed "TOUCHDOWNNNNNN!" on the one hopper to McKenzie. I kid not. He is clearly as blind as a bat at this point, that ball bounced 8 feet in front of him.

So the worst games of Rodgers season were still "MVP performances". They obviously were not. Try reading the post I was responding to before getting your back up. Allen may win the MVP but today was not a great day for him by any means.

The OP said his performance against the Miami Dolphins today was an "MVP performance". Not hardly. As for whether he might win the MVP........sure.........but you are barking up the wrong tree.........that wasn't what I was responding to.

The bumbling play before the half and the woeful wounded duck on 4th down to McKenzie were really, really bad plays. He battled.......it was a day...........but the standard for an MVP performance is much higher than that..........too many mistakes mixed in with the good plays.

They may reach a point where they are comfortable giving up on offensive series...........but I do think today they were concerned about their inexperienced secondary getting speed-boated today........so they were not willing to sacrifice series to work on their run game. And with good reason. This start to the season is brutal.........loaded with highly important playoff tie-breaker impacted games......they might not get a chance to get their run game going until November. Hopefully Allen survives this stretch.

Yeah and you neglected the most important part of his coaching bio...........the fact that he had never even been a coordinator until NOW. It's rare for a HC to bypass the coordinator position. If he had it would have been extraordinary. No common sense. Then you doubled down like people misunderstood you. You took a crazy leap in logic suggesting that might be why he hasn't been offered a HC job.

Your point about him maybe not getting a head coaching job before this because of mental health concerns is one of the most ill conceived notions I've ever read on this board. You aren't qualified to be making the point you are trying to make because you are either ignorant of his bio or have no common sense. The man has never even been a coordinator. THAT is why he hasn't been given HC opportunities. The man was FURIOUS after one of the most mistake plagued offensive performances you will ever seen in a game that comes down to the closing seconds.

It's NORMAL for a player to get concussed and then feel great 10 minutes later and be fine for the first 2-3 hours...........only to have the brain gradually swell and have excruciating headaches and symptoms for weeks. This is why they have the protocol.........players frequently feel fine initially and want to get back into the game and then they compound the injury by taking more hits.

The guys that they added to the OL with the intent that they may have to play a lot.......Saffold and Quessenberry........are guys who have been playing with a QB taking snaps at the LOS and running the hell out of the ball and benefitting in pass blocking from the defense anticipating the run. They are going to look like garbage if Allen is in the shotgun all season. I understand that they felt they were in a shootout today.........and I know why Allen wants to be in shotgun.........but at some point they need to get used to doing at least SOME of what this OL is built to do.

Davis is enigmatic. The Dolphins held Allen to under 7 yards per pass attempt despite exposing themselves to big plays with the blitz all game. Allen is in for a beating this season one way or another.........the defensive investments are yielding great but they shoulda' put at least one blue chip into the offense. Instead they signed a bunch of run blocking OL........probably because those are much cheaper(though they paid top of the market for a mid-30 something OG of any sort).........and took a flyer on Crowder and drafted a WR in the 5th. That was not enough...........maybe they can bully their way thru this season with all of the D talent.........but Allen is taking a beating in the meantime.

The Dolphins simply determined that the Bills combination of weak OL play and their lack of YAC type talents on offense made it a good strategic decision to blitz Allen like crazy. Just attack and try to create a turnover or negative play..........and all the Bills will get out of it is a modest gain. The lesson for the opposition from the first two games is that the WORST thing you can do is give Allen time. That's when he makes guys like Gilliam and Morris look like NFL receiving talent. Needed some juice or some better OL to take the burden off of Allen..........they appear to have gotten neither.

The inability to win one score games can't just be excused as some mathematical oddity. If they are playing a team they are supposed to beat and that team stands up to them......they make too many dumb mistakes...and then Allen just clenches up and makes emotionally altered plays in the clutch. That goes for Leslie Frazier as well, not just the players. I'm just mystified by that call that set up the winning TD for Miami. Called such a good game and then that inexcusable bonehead f*cking call. Hopefully this is somehow a learning experience about dealing with adversity better but this is not much better than the Jacksonville loss. They had the ball all game on offense and couldn't score because of mistakes. Some of that is the lack of dynamic offensive players causing them to have to go 20 plays to get the length of the damn field.........but clearly too much of their offense is Allen buying 5-7 seconds to throw, in which case even the Reggie Gilliams types can get open.

Were you in the upper deck by chance? I sat in the upper deck for a couple decades before moving down into the mostly standing-only area of the lower bowl and people really don't stand in the upper deck unless there is a score or a turnover. But there is the occasional spaz who jumps up mid-play every time a RB gets clear of the LOS and blocks the view of the conclusion of the play for those behind them and seems to be clueless to why this would be annoying. Does this describe you in this instance? How you explain it sounds that way. Whether it's a rare trip to the stadium or not you should be mindful of not obstructing the view of "another Bills fan". Those people who do that are worse than people who stand for the entire play because you can't adjust to their lack of situational awareness. They and the people who don't have the courtesy to wait for a play to be over to leave or go back to their seat are worse than chronic standers.

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