oldmanfan

Chris Sims on Sunday talked about how Allen doesn’t need to have huge games right now with our running game and defense.

Nothing wrong with wanting to see a big game. But coming up with reason after reason to denigrate the QB of a team that is 5-1? Wrong. The vast vast majority of folks on this board recognize Allen can improve. They also like how he plays in the fourth quarter of games.

Darnold will be OK once he gets a real HC. Why in earth would you let your young QB be miked against the Pats?

Men vs. boys

Let’s matriculate the ball down the field boys.

Around 20.

Simple. Some don’t think Allen will make it. They focused on completion percentage as his negative. Since he’s brought that up, they have to invent something new to criticize. Now it’s the lack of 300 yard games. When he does that they’ll Invent something else.

Quite true.

I reviewed some articles on line about this PFF group. Teams seem to buy their information not for the scores they come up with, but for the amount of film they generate so that teams can use the film for their own analysis. There was one article with Belichick, where he comments on the PFF approach. Simply put, his criticism (and it pretty much matches that of other critics) is that without knowing the play call, and the specific assignment for an individual player on that play call, it's pointless totry and grade a player on a specific play. Since this is about QBs' it becomes even more complex. Take the whole accuracy thing. Apparently Allen is getting criticized for only having perfect accuracy (which is really precision, but I won't go into that again) by these pff guys. here's the deal on that: the only way you can truly judge whether a throw is put exactly where a QB wants it, is to be in the QB's head when he throws so you know what the exact target is that he wants to hit. A QB may make a throw to the exact spot he wants, but the WR doesn't get to the spot in time, or the QB didn't read the pattern correctly. And so on. So to me teams can and do buy their product, but I really doubt they buy it because they feel these ratings per play mean anything.

You’re shortsighted in the 4th quarter comebacks I would say. Allen has things to learn to be sure. But if you watch his game he’s more accurate with throws, he has a higher completion percentage, he’s using shorter patterns. All good things. He still needs to make quicker reads and needs to quit throwing late back into the middle of the field. Those are bad. It really comes down to whether you think a couple guys throwing around fancy terms on a website have any more validity than the next guy. I don’t. Shaw, maybe you and I should get together and do one of these; we’d be as good as these guys and probably better. Oh, and the defense winning games? Fine by me.

Yes he has things that need improvement. But come on now. They harped on his completion percentage, he was 72% last game, and the one guy still says it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t care about this list for three reasons: 1. Made up stats that are made up to try and prove a preconceived idea; 2. Guys doing this that are no more qualified to do it than me or others here; 3. What appears to be confirmation bias. I don’t really care where the Bills QB ranks compared to others. I care about how he plays.

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This thread brings back such memories. Prompted me to go back and watch the highlights of the season opening Monday night game against the Raiders in '74. To this day the best Monday night game I ever saw.

I think it's Paul Krausse? Maybe Ken Houston.

I thought they have independent physicians that monitor the concussion protocol. If so, then Glenn has nothing to complain about.

Tom Janik or Hagood Clarke.

Great stuff! McDole, Sestak, Dunaway, Day, Tracey, Jacobs, Stratton. Best front 7 ever.

Refs have a thankless job. The game moves so quickly now and collisions are so forceful that it becomes impossible to get every call right. And as more and more rules are added on that rely on subjective interpretations at such speed it is no wonder there is a lot more controversy. Personally, I would scale back on some of the rules (like the calls on hitting a QB; the one on Milano was particularly absurd), let DBs play receivers more, and finally just do away with replay altogether. The only replays I'd allow would be for whether a first down is achieved or not or whether the ball breaks the plane on a TD play. Otherwise accept that it is a game played and officiated by humans and that some human error is inherent.

Based on the title of the thread and the content, your user name seems particularly appropriate.

Check another team off the wild card list.

Why?

No chance

I think $$. Lost some guys to free agency

What happened with Goff is the common misconception about what wins football. Goff lost some good O linemen and now he is getting more pressure. I know I’m old fashioned but football starts up front. Win the battles up front, win the games.

Mahomes is a real talent. To deny that is silly. Unfortunately for him he works under a HC who will screw up his chances at a title