oldmanfan

I will stick with my prediction that Zay catches the first TD pass of the season

Keep confusing accuracy and precision. You'll do anything to blast Allen. And yes he needs to improve.

You're a professional football player and you get two hands under the ball, you have to catch it.

To me Allen's greatest improvement will be mental and not physical. Like many young QBs

You also have to have an offensive game plan to get receivers in space. Daboll should know how to run the pick plays that helped make Brady famous.

Absolutely. Take the easy yards.

Thank you. It is amazing how few people get this. That stat where some site said on average guys hit an exact spot 16% of the time and Josh around 8? That is precision. And not a measure of accuracy. Although to even measure precision you'd have to ask Josh exactly where he wanted the ball to go.

People are fixated on him getting to a 60% completion rate. He's 52 and change last year. Let's round off to 53%. If he throws thirty passes, and completes 16 that is 53.3%. If he completes two more passes that is 18/30 = 60%. So there you go. Two drops, throwaways, dumpoffs, etc and we're not having this debate. I don't care that much about comparisons to other guys like say a Brees. Different offenses, different players. And Brees is an all time great. I'd love Allen to be a 70 some percent completion percentage but he needs some years to grow, to learn to process defenses quickly and know where his best target is. And yes, he has to be more accurate in areas especially short passes. And more precise so WRs catch it in stride consistently and maximize YAC. Give the kid time. He showed good improvement the last part of the season. A year under his belt, some new toys, better O line to protect him, more knowledge of when to take the easy short pass. All these should get him over the mystical, 60%, a couple more completions a game magic number.

No they're not. Not in terms of statistics. Not in terms of test results, not in terms of throwing a ball or any object at a target. Refer above to the dartboard analogy. You don't understand what you're talking about.

That is being more precise, not really more accurate. The great QBs are both highly accurate AND highly precise. He needs to work on precision. Hopefully with more time with receivers and getting to know them that will improve.

Accuracy is not completion percentage. Nor is it ball placement. I have posted the dartboard analogy more than once around here: Completion percentage has nothing to do with accuracy. You could hit 20 guys right on the numbers and if they drop 10 your completion percentage is 50%. People use the term ball placement. That refers to precision or ability to hit a specific target repeatedly. Allen is reasonably accurate; his throws are in a catchable range for the most part (although he certainly had some that were not). Go back like I did and look at each pass over his last several games and you'll see that. He needs to be more precise with ball placement to allow receivers to make plays after the catch, and on his shorter throws.

The unfortunate thing is those who carry on the over the top antics are likely the first ones to sue the team if they get hurt in their parking lot

Take away two drops a game, if throwing on average 25 times a game, and he's right at the magic 60% threshold so many have. The kid has a ways to go obviously, like most young QBs the key is to get the game to slow down enough to make good reads, and thus get the ball out quicker. That is turn helps mechanics. Excited to see his progression.

Great player and a great guy. I caught a pass from him at autograph day when I was a kid.

I get the feeling Oliver is the type who will bust his tail to prove reviews like this wrong.

I think you want fan culture vs. Bills culture. Bills fans are defined by faith and passion. Bills fans have faith that this year is the year, every year, never mind what others say. No fan base is more passionate; Bills fans proudly wear their Bills gear wherever they are. They come out in any weather, under any circumstances to support their team, in opposing stadiums or not. That passion is sometimes shown in extreme ways such as table diving. But passion and faith, even after 17 years with no playoffs. That's the basis of the culture.

I have had to have waivers signed for different events, and I am told that from a legal perspective they are not worth the paper they are printed on.

Tends to be the lead blocker. Likes to be out front.

As to limited tailgating if they move downtown, my sister in law and nieces came in last year to watch the Bills-Colts game. Downtown Indy has plenty of parking areas where one can tailgate, including one right next to the stadium that was designated a lot for Bills fans to party before the game. We had a great time there, and I even did my first ever shot out of a bowling ball. I am sure if the Bills build a downtown stadium there will be similar opportunities down town as they have in Indy. These things grow organically.

I loved the tailgating back in the day when I lived there, and went to games with my grad school buddies. We'd hang out, have some beverages, but we never got blind drunk because we wanted to actually watch the game. I don't think it is a requirement to be completely drunk to smash a table, you can get a buzz on without getting ridiculous. As for those arguing you should have free will, that it is the man leaning on your, etc. Unfortunately those same people many times would be the first ones to sue the organization if a loved one did something really dumb on their property and hurt themselves. The Pegulas have a responsibility to provide a safe environment for all the patrons.

You mentioned Verizon. Look up Verizon and their two pizza policy. A big part of their culture is to have meetings where you only invite enough people that can be fed by two pizzas. It fosters collaboration and inventive thinking, and an important part of their corporate culture. Facebook has a "hacker" mentality at the core of their culture; it encourages rapid decision making. Those are just some examples from the two companies you mentioned. Every successfully run organization fosters a specific culture, a specific way of doing what they do. If you really don't think successful organizations don't foster specific cultures, specific ways they want to run their business, you are living in a fantasy land.

Next year is considered to be a good draft year for WRs. And also there are a lot of WRs in free agency, and we have a ton of cap space yet again next year. So just as Beane addressed the O line by bringing in a ton of guys this off season, I expect he would do the same at the WR position if he and Sean are not happy with performance at the position this year. Of course, if he does so the same folks carping and moaning that he didn't draft a WR this year will then carp and moan that he didn't draft a (name your position) next year. But that's another story.

They each have a culture, a defined way they want to do their business. I don't work for either so I don't know their specifics. But every successful organization defines how they want to exist. That's culture.

Give the kid some solid coaching and see if he can cut it at QB. And if not he's 6'7" and almost 250. Put a little more muscle on him and convert him to a receiving TE.

Pick it up. Solid in run defense, getting better on pass rush. One more year will allow a definitive decision.