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K-9

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  1. Lots of team related statistical outcomes placed solely on Allen here. And per the bold text, AGAIN, Allen’s growth is also the most stunted compared to his peers. Has Allen ever shown any passing skill? Ever?
  2. Willing to? Botterill already has. Those three will either hit next season or he’s gone. Simple as that. Personally, I doubt he will last the entire season.
  3. Precisely. Which is what makes Allen’s ascension all the more amazing. And he’s still early on in his learning phase to boot.
  4. And I applaud the effort. The offer was generous, but Jack has arrived and whoever gets the best player in a trade wins. Since Jack is the best player, it’s better to just keep him.
  5. Jerry Butler was so good. Just a damned shame he got hurt and had his career cut short.
  6. That’s really the ONLY answer at this point.
  7. The Monday morning quarterbacking on this pandemic will be unbearable. Baseless, useless, and perhaps even dangerous.
  8. People like me? That’s rich. But by all means, show me where I’ve dismissed any optimism by a scientist or doctor in this or any other thread. I’ll wait.
  9. We’ve taken science denial into a whole new realm when we not only deny it, but we also know more than the experts in any field of study or discipline. Acquiring knowledge and refined expertise to levels that used to require years to obtain can now be had in hours simply by watching a YouTube video or listening to our preferred news sources. Voila! Just like that.
  10. Being prepared for a worst case scenario is a hard fail? After the overrun health care systems we saw in Europe and China earlier on?
  11. Competition? I certainly hope not as that is beyond stupid. But when I hear references to the Hong Kong flu pandemic and how it killed 100,000 Americans, but we never shut things down, etc., I suspect some people are reaching for a false equivalency and seek to downplay the current situation.
  12. The Hong Kong pandemic lasted over a year. We’ve counted nearly as many deaths in just a few months and will most likely experience a second wave in the fall as well.
  13. Craig Bohl, QB whisperer. Say it with me! Craig Bohl has never been known as an some offensive minded savant . Indeed, his bio indicates strong experience on the D side; both as a player and coach. The ONLY reason he “produced” Wentz and Allen is because they both possess freakish physical traits that couldn’t be ignored by the NFL scouts. The point is college stats aren’t a reliable indicator of NFL success, regardless. But they come in handy when pushing an agenda.
  14. That classic route tree is known by most high school receivers and I’m sure Davis is more than familiar with it. The challenge lies in understanding route concepts in conjunction with various coverage schemes and combinations. Fortunately, we have three veteran receivers who have a good understanding of that and a QB entering his third year in the scheme. If Davis has a high aptitude, he should be ok in that surrounding.
  15. Prior to his last season starting? That explains it. NFL scouts don’t start the process in earnest until August and won’t have a preliminary book on most prospects until the Senior Bowl at the earliest. Even later for juniors who declare, like Fromm, who won’t be issued a preliminary grade until after the combine. I’m sure there was no shortage of talking head pundits, draftniks, and other wannabe scouts who took everything Fromm did his first two years and made projections based on that last summer, but that’s just not real world, brass tacks talent evaluation.
  16. Jake Fromm was never considered a day one prospect. Ever. As per the bold text, this defies all scouting logic.
  17. Good examples of the difference between quarterbacks and passers.
  18. I can find dozens with better college stats who never made it to the NFL, let alone became a top seven pick, let alone started 27 of their first 28 games in the NFL. All with precious little refined experience at the position to boot.
  19. I laugh because as I explained in my answer “intangibles” and other non passing aspects are valued more than other attributes, Beane implies this in your posted article, and yet you ask the question why would they trade up and spend so much on a project. And then you see fit to post yet more stats to say Allen sucks. On one hand you appreciate attributes unrelated to passing the ball and on the other you seem to dismiss them as not important. As I said, there’s a difference between being a quarterback and being a passer. We will know soon enough about Josh Allen. In the meantime, while it may be amusing, it’s meaningless to project his career path based on what other QBs have done in their first two years. But his trajectory since his senior year in high school has done nothing but rise. There’s reason to believe that will continue based on his history as he acquires more experience at the position.
  20. The intangibles? The world is littered with rifle armed QB prospects who could make every throw but didn’t have a clue about being a QB. In speaking to GMs and scouts over the years, they list “intangibles” like intelligence more highly than accuracy. And not for nothing, Beane and Co., in their exhaustive research on Allen during the scouting process, had to know better than anyone about Allen’s atypical route to the NFL and the steady upward improvement he has shown in his command of the position. Easy to understand why they think his trajectory would keep arcing upward.
  21. Let’s not act like Craig Bohl is some QB producing machine or the his schools are QB factories. And again, Wentz’s relative experience exceeded that of Allen’s.
  22. You’d have to ask Beane and co. for specifics, but I imagine part of it is that they understand the difference between being a quarterback and being a passer. The latter may be improved upon and we’ve seen that, if only incrementally so far. The former is something you either have or you don’t and Allen has shown he possesses those innate qualities.
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