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“That’s a bad white boy.” 😂 Gotta love uncle Charlie.

😄 Thanks for the clarification and apologies for any confusion. Now that we are in agreement, I’ve removed the disagreement emoji.

You seem hung up on the stature as the only point in my argument and you’re making an unfair comparison here. For instance, Los Alamitos high school has over 3,000 students compared to just over 600 for Firebaugh. It’s a football powerhouse by comparison. Same with Pittsburg High school in CA. And while Maize high school is smaller, it still has nearly twice as man students as Firebaugh and is a highly ranked program in Kansas. So while all three of your examples are similar in size, none of them play for obscure little high school programs in their state. If any of them played for Firebaugh, would they have garnered the same interest? I doubt it.

Josh himself has alluded to his small stature in high school as well as playing for at a small school as among the reasons he suspects he wasn’t recruited. Yes, lots of 6’3” prospects get recruited, but not from smaller high schools with smaller programs playing lesser competition. Especially in huge football states like CA.

He was a skinny, 6’3” high school QB from a small school that played lower level competition who didn’t attend elite QB camps since middle school. Those players simply don’t attract much attention. Especially in CA. It’s no surprise he wasn’t recruited by any D-1 school, let alone a power 5 school.

Yep. Lotta hype after his 2016 college season. Glad he chose to stay in school.

Took Elway 10 years to reach the mythical and arbitrary 60% level. Cue up the “it wasn’t a passing league back then” responses.

Media types simply can’t and don’t put in the work. They tend to watch videos, look at stats, and make proclamations. I’m not surprised that Kiper liked him. He probably has the best connections to the pro scouting community, either directly or indirectly, of any draft pundit out there.

The majority of teams also had Mayfield, Darnold, and Rosen as can’t miss prospects as well. Can’t miss doesn’t necessarily mean top ranked at a position or even a top 10 pick in the draft. It just means a player is a can’t miss prospect. Nothing more. My point is that scouts who actually work in the league, who commit thousands of man hours to their profession, are able to add information and context to prospects that talking head pundits crunching “stats” as meaningful predictors of future success or failure just aren’t privy to. Josh was never an outlier in the scouting community. Not for a second.

I read three scouting reports on Allen from actual NFL teams shortly after the 2018 draft and they all suggested he was a can’t miss pro QB prospect. I suspect that was also the opinion of the majority of teams as well.

In addition to sheer physical immaturity at the time, he had little to no understanding of the position, which he really didn’t begin to acquire until he hit the NFL. He didn’t attend elite QB camps since middle school like nearly every other highly ranked QB prospect.

It’s sad because it’s old men desperately clinging to a 50 year old past. It’s pitiful because it’s a celebration of a team losing so their glorified past can’t be equaled. As if their own undefeated season could somehow be tarnished if another team ever did it. And they can still get together every year and celebrate it if they like, anyway.

Perfect season is a great accomplishment and something that can never be improved upon, so a tip of the hat for that feat. But to see these old men clinging to it each and every year by hoping nobody ever does the same thing and celebrating with champagne when the last undefeated team in the league finally loses a game? Well, that is just pitiful. Kinda sad, actually.

He’s certainly more than capable, but he will be handicapped a few times along the way by crappy weather games that just won’t allow lots of passing yards. It’s just a fact of life playing in the northeast during fall and winter.

All due respect, but that’s no counter argument at all.

If that was the turning point, then the turning point to the turning point was 3rd and 13 from the Bills’ one yard line. That play demonstrated nearly everything that makes Allen exceptional as a QB. I hope Cian Fahey was watching. System QB my ass.

Jones is another on a list of great DTs we’ve played this season. Donald, Simmons, Campbell, Heyward and now Jones. I know everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the mouth, but given how we’ve pretty much neutralized several of the best DTs in the game this season, I’m thinking we’ve got a plan for Jones as well.

System quarterback. Right, Cian Fahey?

That was the difference in the game and I see it as both a good and bad thing. Obviously bad because he killed us with his legs, but good because that indicated good coverage in the secondary as well. I’m with you on this. If we get the same level of decent coverage in the secondary (which we also had in last year’s regular season game, btw) and the D line contains him better, I like our chances.

I understand Cian Fahey has an endorsement deal.

McDermis? Is that the new skin care product from Ireland?

He caught a TD pass in the 2020 game at New Era.

Ask some people that ever worked for him at any one of his enterprises and they’ll tell you he was a grade A prick. Also, he’s a self entitled A hole who thinks the rules don’t apply to him like when he cleared a hundred some odd trees from government owned property for the sole purpose of a better view of the Potomac river from his house in Maryland.