oldmanfan

If he became available, absolutely. The primary reason they traded him was to move up and get Allen. I don't think any bridges were burned at all.

No I'm not. I have explained this concept more times than I can count. And the OP does a good job of explaining it as well, accounting for things like throw aways, etc. You have no concept what the term accuracy means. And saying I'm reaching proves it. I agree Allen has to improve. But drop the banal accuracy stuff based solely on completion percentage.

I don't know, when do you finally realize completion percentage is not the same as accuracy?

Just chronologic age? Maybe not much. But if you look at your list I think Edmunds took on a position that was fairly new for him, MLB in a 4-3. The others were playing positions they were more used to from college.

Interesting analysis. And the appropriate way to analyze. The only way to measure accuracy is to actually look at throws and determine how close they are to a target. And that's exactly what you have done. I have talked about the dart board analogy in terms of what is accuracy vs. precision, and your study is a good determination of accuracy. Too many folks, including columnists and sites that claim to use advanced stats to measure performance, mistake accuracy and precision, and use measures such as completion percentage incorrectly. What I would say is that Allen needs to improve his precision. Let's take a crossing route as an example. You can be accurate based on your analysis, hit the WR where he can make the catch. But if you throw it a bit behind where he slows down to make the catch then you lose YAC. A precise throw, and also accurate, would put the ball just out in front of the WR so he catches in stride and continues running.The best QBs are highly accurate and highly precise. Thanks for doing your study - it casts much needed light on Allen's performance.

Clay needs to go. Not hating on the guy but his injuries have piled up and he's simply not worth a roster spot especially at the $$ they'd have to shell out. McCoy? Assuming they focus on O line still worth another season; at minimum make him into a third down back.

No more or less than any other team in the NFL. There were nine teams ahead of the Bills pick that round that could have taken him, and any other team in the league could have moved up if they thought Mahomes was all that. This kind of hindsight crap is just that - crap.

The most important thing is to get a guy that is in synch with Daboll and can coach proper technique for what he runs. Not how fast we name a guy.

I have to say I have never found these kind of retrospective analyses worth much. Would they have taken Mahomes then knowing how he played this season? Of course. You can play that game with any pick in the draft for any team in the league. At the time concerns were expressed about Mahomes' footwork, and that he was coining from a program from which no QBs had succeeded in the league, given the one read shotgun offense they ran. These articles to me show the problems inherent in our Internet based communications. Guys have to write stories just to fill a blog or a website, and as such one just writes stuff without a lot of real thought.

I thought EJ might be the guy after than Carolina game his rookie year., but he got worse instead of better. Never did I say he was worth an entire draft.

True. Been a while since we've seen threads about how dumb it was to trade Ragland, hasn't it?

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And one of the folks on here who makes grand proclamations about how smart he is at assessing QB play, constantly criticizes Allen, etc. etc., when that draft was coming up claimed he'd trade an entire draft for Winston.

I have a feeling Mahomes is going to come up short on Saturday.

We cook together and then play a lot of board games. Football is on in the background. We just have a fundamentally different view of what should constitute a national holiday. I think they should be reserved for events that truly have had a historical influence on the nation. You think a football game should be recognized as such, and it seems more so people get a day off after drinking. That to me is hardly a reason to call for a national holiday. Do you think a game should be cause for a national holiday?

No I don't actually. But you just continue to assume the rest of the world is just like you.

My family gives thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us. You celebrate football. I guess we have different priorities.

Then he should be a QB coach or OC, not a HC. He just proved he's not a good HC.

Good

I could care less what Canada does with their holidays when the topic is Super Bowl Sunday. And now you're changing from making it a national holiday to a local one. Which is better, because there is no way a football game is important enough to merit a national holiday distinction.

I'm saying national holidays should be reserved for things of inmportance to the nation. Thanksgiving for example is a national holiday, celebrating the first arrival of our ancestors. Not military related but of obvious importance to our country historically. Or Labor Day, etc. I like football as much as the next guy, but to elevate a football game to such a level seems just absurd.

I cannot believe some think a football game should be put on the same level, say, as a holiday every November where we honor soldiers that gave their lives for their country and for our freedom.

I would suggest the reason the rules change towards offense is that defenses have a way of figuring things out and shutting down offenses. The cool thing now are the Reid and McVay offenses. Watch Sunday. I'm not sure which, but I would bet one of these two teams will get shut down (relatively speaking) and lose to a defense that figures it out. Just saw that with the Ravens/Chargers game; the Ravens offense got completely flummoxed by Gus Bradley's scheme. This kind of stuff has always been a ping-pong balls, and those in charge of hiring NFL HCs tend to be like monkeys that are attracted to the shiny ball without thinking about anything else. The nature of the shiny ball always changes.

In a few years when defenses figure out how to stop these offenses then everyone will want to hire young defensive geniuses.

Copy cat league. Everyone thinks you have to hire a young OC regardless if they have any clue about being a HC.