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I admit I had put Buffalo as the location vs Orchard Park. But I just check the hourly forecast in the link you provided and during game time about a 40% chance of snow overall with around .1 inch of snow per hour. If it was an inch of snow per hour you might be onto something, but a tenth of an inch of snow per hour isn't going to change the dynamics of the game on Saturday night.

If you go to the hourly forecast for Saturday night there's only a 24% chance of snow showers by kickoff. What little snow we are suppose to get(~1") is suppose to come during the day. https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/us/ny/orchard-park/KBUF/date/2021-01-16

Everything I've seen so far is saying no snow, 30° and only ~15 MPH winds for Saturday night. Which I think is ideal for our offense.

I believe playbooks handed out would be property of the employer.

I think it's Allen and here's why.... Allen separated his non throwing shoulder just before halftime in the week 4 victory vs the Raiders. The next 4 weeks he plays with a bulky LBers harness to prevent to from separating again. Matt Hasselbeck did a piece right before the Seahawks game on this and said it does effect your throwing and accuracy. Having had that injury before, Matt accurately predicts that it's about the time Josh should be feeling better and predicts a big game for Allen(31/38 415 3 TDs/1 Rushing TD) In those 4 games Josh was 71/129 846 Yds 55% 6.55 YPA 4 TDs 4 INTs QB Rating 72.69 only 1 Rushing TD....Win/Loss 2-2. Outside those 4 games he was 325/443 3,698 Yds 73.36% 8.35 YPA 33 TDs 6 INTs QB Rating 117.19, 7 Rushing TDs....Win/Loss 11-1. Neither Rodgers or Mahomes had to play as injured as Josh was and he still hung with them in wins and stats. He's the Most VALUABLE Player to his team.

I wouldn't trade him for anything. I know what some are saying with Mahomes, but we have no idea if it would be anywhere near as a good fit as Josh and I wouldn't want to risk it. As others have mentioned he is the only QB in the league that is 100% a perfect fit for Buffalo and really WNY & upstate NY also. He's self aware, knowing his flaws and works hard to improve upon them. He absorbs all the criticism and blame, while deflecting all the praise to other teammates. His athletic ability, size and arm talent are off the charts and now he's starting to "get" the mental aspect of the game and it shows. But probably his 2 best qualities are his leadership and competitive drive. He'll put his body on the line to win and his teammates would go to hell and back for him. IMO in 2 years or so he will be the biggest weapon in football. By then he'll be in his prime and the mental aspect of his game while catch up to his athletic ability and competitive drive. His vast improvement from his first 2 years should have all Bills fans feeling like we got a steal with the 7th pick in the 2018 NFL draft and that we have a real chance at winning it all at some point while Josh is here. As his teammates have said he's a stone cold dawg.

He doesn't need to match the best attribute of the 3 best QBs currently in the game. Not one of them is the best at all 3, so why would Josh need to? As a team we need to continue to win, go something like 3-1 in the 4 games against the Pats***, Seahawks and Chiefs & win our division. As for individual performance if Josh continues doing what he's doing how can he not be right there at the end of the season? He's the sole reason we're 3-0, we've scored 12 TDs this year and Josh has accounted for every single one of them(10 passing, 2 rushing) Of our 1,349 yards passing and rushing yards Josh has 1,122 of them(1,038 passing, 84 rushing). He's been pretty much our entire offense so far. Add to that having 2 fourth quarter comebacks already through 3 games and there's no doubt he's one of the frontrunners. All he's done so far is carried our offense and to date our bottom half defense through 3 games. That's what a MVP does for their team.

That's not right, it'seven worse.Josh has 12 total TDs, 10 passing and 2 rushing!😂

I think he cracks the top 15 this year, followed by top 10 in 2021. After that I could see him crack the top 5 for a stretch. There's just something about him, he has "it", that competitive edge, the clutch gene. In those two regards he reminds me so much of Kelly. Let's face it, he was behind the learning curve coming out of college and has been playing catch up ever since. After game 4 he had 17 TDs & only 3 INTs. Inside the redzone 12 TDs & 0 INTs Inside the 10 yard line 13/21 with 8 TDs & 0 INTs Played in his first prime time games, all on the road, won the first 2 and was knocking on the door to tie the game at the end of the only game he lost of the 3. His QB Rating last year, in the 4th quarter with the score +/- 7 points was over 110.0 with 5 TDs & 0 INTs. He tied for the league lead in 4th quarter comebacks. But it's not just on him, he'll need some help. He needs more help from the running game and with Gore being replaced with Moss I think he'll get it. Only 4 rushing TDs by the RBs last year, Josh had 9. The O-Line needs to play better. Way too many times we found ourselves in 1st or 2nd & 20, drive killers. Too many total whiffs throughout the year, usually in critical times. WRs & Knox need to cut down on drops. Basically about 10 more passing yards a quarter and another TD every 1.5 games and he'll crack the top 10(Using 2019 numbers). Fix the long ball and show improvement against the all out blitzes and he'll be well on his way. GO BILLS!!!

GP CMP ATT CMP% YDS AVG TD INT LNG SACK FUM RTG 12 169 320 52.8 2,074 6.5 10 12 75 28 3 67.9 16 271 461 58.8 3,089 6.7 20 9 53 38 6 85.3 28 440 781 56.3 5,163 6.6 30 21 75 66 9 78.2 Above are his stats from 2018 & 2019. I think it shows just how bad it was in 2018 and a pretty sizable jump in year 2. In 2018 he averaged 172.8 yards a game, if you exclude the last against Jets from this past year when he only played 2 series, he averaged 205.6 yards this year. If he can improve at about the same rate he would average 244.6 yards a game or 3,914.6 yards for the season. If his completion percentage increases at the same rate he will be completing ~63% - 64%, yards per pass would be ~7.0, based off of TDs per game played his TDs would be ~28 - 29. He went from averaging .83 TDs in 2018 to averaging 1.33 this past season. His QB Rating would jump up over 100.0. Most people know he needs to improve some more, he did last offseason and then again there was marked improvement after the Pats*** game in week 4 last year(17 TDs 3 INTs the rest of the year). There's absolutely no reason to believe he will not show marked improvement when he arrives for training camp this year and there's a good chance he'll show more improvement as the season goes on this year, like he did last season. He was a lot better QB at the end of the year vs the beginning of the year even though the schedule got a lot tougher and included a 5 game stretch where they played a top 11 passing defense which included the Broncos, Cowboys, Ravens, Steelers & Pats***. That stretch included his first 3 prime time games(Cowboys, Steelers & Pats***), all on the road, where we won 2 out of the 3 and were knocking on the door to tie it up at the end of the only game we lost. That's not even mentioning that the offense had 9 new starters last year, Josh was the only skill position player back and the O-Line had 4 new starters. With more weapons, the younger guys being a year older & the line having a year under their belt together the jump needed this year, I don't believe, is nearly as big as some people are making it out to be. Fix the long ball and show good improvement against the blitz and he'll be just fine. GO BILLS!!!

It might have been the Cincy game???, but we were one yard line and Gore got stuffed three times in a row. He just doesn't have the drive in his legs anymore. Almost every time he was contacted he got stood up or pushed back. I have no idea what the Jets see in him, except maybe leadership and insight on the Bills? He did pretty well through week 7, but after that he was really bad. His yards per carry after week 7 were....1.4, 2.4, 2.5, 4.3, 1.2, 1.5, 1.5, 4.3

Excluding the stats from the last game of the year, when he only played 2 series, Josh averaged 205.6 yards and 1.33 TDs per game. Let's just say he plays that last game and hits those averages he would've finished with 3,289.60 yards & 21.33 TDs. I would say moderate improvement would be about 3,650 yards 25 TDs. To hit that he would have to throw for an additional 22 yards a game and find an extra TD pass every 4.5 - 5.0 games. For a few references Watson threw for 3,852 yards and 26 TDs, Cousins 3,603 yards 26 TDs this past year. IMO the one stat line that never get's the attention it deserves is his play in the 4th quarter in games where the score is +/- 7 points. Last year he was 36 for 63 522 yards 8.3 Avg 5 TDs 0 INTS 110.7 QB Rating.

We tried that with Gore on goal to go at the 1 yard line and on 3rd & 4th and 1. The problem was it hardly ever resulted in a first down, so they found someone who could do it.

Josh is different to all but one of the other dual threat QBs because of his size and he's still quick & athletic enough to do so. Cam is the only other QB that he compares to and Carolina did him no favors not investing enough resources to protect him. More of the damage he's taken has been inside the pocket as opposed to outside the pocket when running. Josh did have 4 TDs from 1 yard out and also short yardage downs, but it was because our RBs had shown they couldn't do the job. Think Frank Gore up the gut for no gain over and over again. The image still haunts me. Allen got better with INTs and intermediate routes last year. If he improves his long ball and improves against all out blitzes this year he will be well on his way to being the QB we all have been waiting for since we had Kelly. That's all pretty much true, but what you failed to include was after game 4 last year Allen threw 17 TDs & only 3 INTs over the last 12 games. If he hadn't you would have a much better case.

Eliminate the last week of the season when he only played a couple series & threw only 5 passes and he's over 200 yards a game in 2019. While he was 23rd in passing yards and 21st in passing TDs, the league is going in a different direction at QB, drafting duel threat QBs is on the rise. Passing alone doesn't matter as much as it use to. Josh ranked top 10 in total TDs(9th) last year and I'm sure his passing and rushing yards combined would rank higher than his 23rd place in passing. In his first 16 games played(12 in 2018 + 4 in 2019) he had 13 TDs & 18 INTs, in his final 12 games he had 17 TDs & only 3 INTs. That's without a doubt a huge improvement. He had little help from our running game, especially inside the 20 last year, only 4 combined rushing TDs by our RBs. If he needs to get better, which myself & most other people here are saying he needs to continue to improve, so does the running game.

The Pats*** aren't winning the division this year or even coming close. They lost several key guys to the front 7 of their defense, a defense that carried last year's team. They have absolutely no talent on offense, lost the GOAT and replaced him with a QB that has 4 total passes in his career, one being a pick 6. I would be really surprised if they finish with a winning record.

He had 14 fumbles in the regular season, the other 2 were in the playoffs game. Daniel Jones wasn't in the playoffs, so it would result in Josh being 4 behind him. Like I said he got better as the year went on, in this area also. 11 came in the first 9 games, the other 3 came in the final 7 games and obviously the 2 in the playoff game. If I remember correctly a few of these were fumbled snaps(Who's at fault?) and a few more were a result of defenders not being blocked and having free shots of Josh. Once again does he need to keep improving, he sure does, but just stating numbers doesn't tell the whole story. A story that showed him getting better at throwing less INTs(By a ton) and fumbling the ball less as the year went on. http://www.nfl.com/player/joshallen/2560955/gamelogs

At times he was, at other times I thought he was too cautious, but after the first New England game there's no one that can say he wasn't more mindful with the ball. Only 3 INTs & 3 lost fumbles in the final 13 games(Counting the playoff game). Less than .50 turnovers a game in his last 13 games is a HUGE improvement over the 12 games he played in 2018 and the first 4 in 2019 when he was averaging 1.38 per game. In the 13 game span I thought he played against some of his toughest competition so far, including a stretch last year that he played in his first prime time game(Thanksgiving on the road), then the Ravens, then at Pitt(Sunday Night), then at New England(Saturday evening game). That doesn't count playing a really good Denver defense the game before the Thanksgiving game. In those 5 games Josh played against the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 10th & 11th best pass defenses. He played a lot better after game 4 against the Pats*** last year, once he had a full 16 games played under his belt. He has keep improving, no one is saying any different, but he has definitely improved in the last 13 games over his previous 16 games. That's something everyone should be able to acknowledge. What I love the most is he plays his best when the game is on the line. In the 4th quarter of one score games(+/- 7 points) last year he was 36/63 for 522 yards with a 8.3 AVG 5 TDs 0 INTs and a 110.7 QB Rating. He raises his game when it means the most. We haven't had a QB that has been capable of that since Kelly was on the field. I don't see this kid failing, he's too much of a competitor to let that happen to him.

So you're just going to blow by the NBA numbers, which is a much higher percentage as the MLB? I didn't question the MLB comments you made, I didn't even mention them. Does the study mention the percentage of false positives and false negatives? The MLB shutdown on March 12th when there were only scattered hot spots, unlike now where it's spread throughout the country. Given that, are you pointing to this study as a good control group for the NFL to use? MLB players don't come in contact with each other out on the field very often, unlike the NFL or the NBA for that matter, where they're in contact with one another throughout the game. You can also spread players out instead of putting everyone on the bench in the dugout. I'd go as far as to say that MLB will be the best candidate to open first among the "big 4" of professional sports. But a study that tested players in a sport that, on the day it shutdown, the country only had 1,631 confirmed cases vs today's reality of over 1.36 million confirmed case doesn't really have any value in my eyes.

Quarantine wouldn't be just for the person infected, you don't have to look past the WH situation right now to see that. It would be for any player and any personnel that came within close proximity of the infected player. That list would be extensive once you include all teammates & coaches, doctors, trainers, reporters that they were practicing against, anyone near their locker, anyone they were close to in the training rooms, weight rooms, film studies and that doesn't include the players from the team you just played against. Experts believe you may be most infectious a few days before symptoms show or before you would test positive. The NBA closed down quickly once the first player tested positive. 11 total players, from 7 teams, tested positive in an 8 day stretch from March 11th-19th.

I agree. I looked at that game and Allen's performance as this, after a slow start it was by far his best game against the Pats*** to date. Far from perfect, but definitely an improvement over his 2 prior games against them. That's what you hope for in a young QB, signs of improvement.

Very little has been mentioned in this post so far about his blocking aside from a couple of comments referencing the missed block in the playoff game. To be honest this is an area where he needs to improve as just much as catching the ball, maybe more. He struggled most of the year in this area. He has great potential, but it's his overall game needs to improve. I also agree he's a year away, there will be improvement, but he still has a ways to go.

How was Josh in 4th quarter passing, 4th quarter comebacks, air yards per completion, total TDs and things of that nature? You pick the stats you want to show, but fail to show the entire picture. He has strengths and weaknesses, just like every other 2nd year QB has had in the history of the NFL. I never said he excelled at everything, I simply said he improved upon his rookie year in almost every statistical category, which is what you're looking for from your 2nd year QB that was labeled a project QB with great physical talents to do. You're looking for improvement at warp speed, by leaps and bounds, yet nearly every QB ever takes these steps gradually, over time. From the day he was drafted he was always going to take longer to get there, but the upside was too good to pass on. You need to find some patience because he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Fromm is getting compared to OCs because chances are that's where he'll be in a few years, much like Kellen Moore. Having limited NFL QB arm talent and being compared to an NFL OC has always been a death sentence for QBs coming out of college. That's a fact.

He has second most sacks all-time in Bills history. He had an injury riddled 2008 season in which he only had one sack, but the other eight years he averaged just under 10 sacks a year. All in all from what I remember he was really good, but his career was only 9 years long.

Not even close to what one would think the way you were talking. I see one sure fire HOFer, one most likely HOFer and most of the rest did little to nothing or next to nothing in the NFL. After the 2 Mannings more than half the list never threw a pass in an NFL regular season game and another one who threw exactly 8 passes in his career. I would like to hear this also. Why would one think Josh would regressed when A.) He has more weapons than last year including a #1 WR now. B.) Josh improved in nearly every statistical category from year 1 to year 2.