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Why do kickers just suck in general; it's like borderline impossible to find reliable kickers minus a handful.

Price seems a bit heavy but his contract is likely the big reason. If he can bounce back to his abilities of last season; we'll have a legitimate 1WR. Just adding him does bring some clout to our WR corp. Cooper should be highly motivated seeing as he'll be looking to keep playing one would assume and he started this year rather bad.

If we want a new WR threat, we have to keep Bass until the end of the season

We sort of won in spite of it based on the end of the half.

Both the D and McDermott are at fault for that. The D for their lack of execution and McD for somehow not learning after all this time how to protect anything on short time constraint in desperation situations

While his hand heals he can’t use his left hand to stiff arm or really fight through tacklers. So he’s effectively left with either sliding or going out of bounds.

It is possible to to pass out without a concussion occasionally. My brother was tripped inadvertently at a friendly skate and went head first into the dasher of the boards and got a nasty cut as well as being knocked out briefly. The ambulance and the hospital both concluded he hadn't got a concussion. So in rare cases it is possible.

I guess the best way to describe it would be, the throw prevented a touchdown, Hollins made the play entirely worthless. Essentially even with a bad placement he still had ample opportunity to at very least catch the ball

I'd still put more blame on Hollins on the long pass than you are but besides that you are spot on. with the play breakdowns. Could Allen's throw been a bit better, sure, but as an NFL receiver you need to be able to adjust and track the ball better. The fact he got his hands on it tells me the ball wasn't exactly badly overthrown. Overthrown, yes, but not by any large degree. Plus we have all seen when Allen overshoots a guy and this ball had plenty of air to make a slight adjustment and make an easy catch.

He put a lot of touch on it and likely thought the safety would catch him akin to the 2nd to last offensive play.

The rule of thumb is to throw away from the safety regardless; we had this same argument in the reverse over a Gabe Davis throw for a touchdown where the two were on different pages.

You can't underthrow and overthrow the ball on the same pass. Was it a perfect throw, no, but rarely does any throw have zero work for the receiver to do. Additionally the farther the throw, the more the receiver is likely to need to do something.

I sort of agree however Allen's first couple years he had a solid number of great long passes. In my opinion his long range throws are off due to a combination of overthinking or overpowering the ball combined with a lack of catches when he does make a pinpoint throw. Essentially, Allen might overthrow or underthrow a deep route, the next time he tries he'll adjust accordingly. On try 3, let's say, he throws a perfect arc to his receiver who proceeds to drop it. (Diggs, Davis, Hollins, the list is rather long) With the drop Allen feels the need to even further adjust to make the catch even easier and thus falls back into over/under throwing the receiver and the cycle continues.

My guess its more of a combination of a lack of confidence in his receivers and Allen's patience waning due to pressure. If I don't trust my receivers to get open on a consistent basis and you see a slight opening deep, regardless of a better short pass opening up, you are going to be inclined to go deep because you want to avoid having to rely on nickeling and diming with a receiving corp that rarely makes that straightforward. Add to that his endless pressure and it recreates the younger Josh style of QBing without having the same underlying reason.

Based on the pocket I'd say the throw over the middle or sides would of been difficult to keep the ball low. I see it as if he looked at Kincaid but with the pocket where it was and him not daring to scramble or else a holding call ends them he chooses the long ball hoping Hollins can make up for his earlier blunder with the intention to make sure it can't be picked easily. The one option he had was to gun it to Ty Johnson up top but it would of needed to be a timing route to a RB which isn't exactly a comfortable play. His progression looks as if both top guys weren't even on the play's initial reads however. He had a short play to Keon potentially but I can understand his hesitation to risk a pick 6.