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That list makes NFL's "next gen stats" seem very sus. When you have players with historic seasons like Hill and Nakua down in the 20s, Amon Ra, Adams, Cooper and in the 40s, and Deebo, Diggs, Waddle in the 60s, it doesn't pass the smell test.

They didn't get "burned" at all with Diggs. With him on the roster JA put together his best season ever as a pro, and diggs was in the top 5 in the league 3 of his years and top 12 int he 4th.

Absolutely at home. I find it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to track what's going on live as well as I can on a TV. Plus, without commentary the game just carries a less dramatic feel. That said,t here's no replacement for an at the stadium, game day experience, but I prefer to go to games I don't care about, like pre-season games, or those of other teams. I'd never go to a Bills playoff game or Super Bowl should they make it.

And neither do I, which is I specifically mentioned that That's the game where after he did that, the seahawks promptly marched down to the NE 1 and were a Marshawn Lynch handoff away from being SB Champs, right? Do you have any other of these examples that disprove your own point? It'll save me a lot of time having to pull up data to support my argument.

The regular season is already becoming meaningless with the changes made to the game over the last 10 years. It's all just about trying to stay healthy and figure out the best plan for the tournament.

No, you don't take a touchdown "every time". The great ones understand that. You've been wrong since it happened and you keep dying on that hill wrong every time you repeat it. Under that scenario you score a touchdown and Mahomes marches the field and does the same and you incorrectly blame the defense. Football is about more than scoring points as fast as possible, as Peyton Manning learned all too well. It's about managing the game, which Brady knew from the get-go, Mahomes learned very early on, and Manning and Elway eventually learned. As long as you and josh keep thinking "hey, I left the field with the lead", we'll keep getting sent home in the playoffs while others collect hardware.

Lol at passing stats comparisons from 50 years ago. When Fouts retired he was 2nd all-time in passing. Allen is currently 97th and 78th in passing TDs. Of course he has a great chance to finish in the top 10, but I never said he wouldn't be a Hall of Famer at the end of his career, just that he definitely isn't one if he never plays another snap.

They play in a suddenly tough division and have a tough schedule. I think they'll be better than their record, but If they get more than 2 wins, it'll be because McCarthy is willing it.

The problem is Josh is not performing optimally under his current program. He's plateaued over the last 3 seasons and is further from a Super Bowl today than he was then. Unless he gets extremely lucky where both Mahomes and Burrow are out in the same year, he's unlikely to win a Super Bowl with his current level of play - especially as he's getting older and his physical gifts start to decline. 1) My own job performance is far from optimal. I'm currently quiet quitting or "resting and vesting". However, I have performed optimally in the past, but it took 16-18 hours a day of dedication to reach that level. You can't do that forever, which is why it's important to capitalize on the prime years of your mid to late twenties when you have the combination of skills/experience and stamina to make massive strides in short windows. Even these things considered, I would say I'm within the top 5% of my profession and would have been closer to the top 1% when performing optimally. 2)Yes, salary would have a massive impact, but so would prestige and the possibility of accolades. I'm not in a position any longer to become "the face of the franchise" but that is a massive motivator to a lot of people. Some folks chase MVPs, others chase 30 under 30, Nobel Prizes, Industry awards, magazine covers etc. 3) Yes. I consider myself a coach, rather than a "boss". I'm ultimately responsible for an outcome, so I will guide people on how we get to that outcome, but I take their perspectives into account and generally let them try to manage their own processes for how they get there. While we're in the process of building trust, I'll keep tabs on the process and direct if I see issues, again, letting them find their own way unless asked directly. I praise privately and publicly processes that are geared towards finding desirable outcomes, whether or not they do, as we can't control the result of a process, only the planning, execution and analysis of the process itself. If you did everything right, but something still fails due to things outside your control (and you anticipated the ramifications of potential events outside your control), then all you can do is try again. Most of the time though, this doesn't happen. There are rarely events that cannot be planned for, it's just we choose to deprioritize extremely unlikely ones that would take enormous time and expense to mitigate, so we implicitly (or sometimes even explicitly) accept the risk. 4) Yes. I think there are several areas that jump out to me where Allen can improve his game that give his team a significantly enhanced opportunity to win. The most important one is that he needs to learn how to be a game manager 90% of the time, because that's what is takes to win consistently in the NFL. We all know he's one of the best football heroes to ever strap on a pair of cleats, but he's far from one of the best Quarterbacks, because he doesn't manage the game. Guys like Brady, later career Elway, mid-later career Peyton Manning, and Mahomes after his first couple years, figured out that it's easier to win playing boring football, than exciting football, though it's a massive edge to have that in your back pocket if you need it. Specifically to Allen, he needs to not only be less aggressive with his throws when the situation doesn't call for it, he needs to make smarter reads. Those reads not only need to factor in the risk of a bad immediate result, such as an interception, but the reverse implied odds of what happens even if he's successful. Most times when we've blamed a defensive collapse for losing or nearly losing a game, Josh Allen had an opportunity to be the last one to touch the ball. Instead he chooses aggressive plays too often that result in scores or turnovers. When he scores as soon as possible, he then gives his opponent an opportunity to do the same. This happens not just at the end of games, but at the end of halves. While 13 seconds was definitely not his fault, an earlier example in that game had him giving KC the ball back with nearly 40 seconds left in the half, during which Mahomes promptly drove the field and put his team in position for a FG (that was missed). In the game against the Giants last year it's 2:30 left in the first half on 1st down and instead of throwing to a wide open Murray underneath, he chooses Knox with three defenders between him and the ball, which results in a turnover. Against KC in the playoffs, with 1:50 left in the game on 2nd and 9, he locks into Shakir in the end zone instead of a wide open Diggs on the left side of the field, and he gets bumped into by Dawkins/Chris Jones and drills in the dirt. Then on 3rd and 9, he locks onto the deep threat in the endzone instead of seeing a wide open Shakir to the other side that would have given him, at worst, a 4th and 1 and a chance to muscle for a 1st with the downside being an easier FG. Instead he has to throw it away, Bass misses and we blame him for the loss. Of course, we forget that even had he completed the TD to Shakir or Bass made the FG, we'd be giving Mahomes 1:42 left to drive the field, which he statistically was more likely to do than not. These aren't isolated examples. They happen all the time, have happened his entire career, and aren't just limited to scoring too quickly or throwing risky balls. It also involves not locking into reads, seeing the potential for an open underneath guy with YAC opportunity instead of a flatfooted perimeter WR, building momentum to keep the defense on their toes and tired, and there's more, but that should be enough. I'm fully prepared for this to be met with a "nuh-uh" or for others to rathole on some minutiae here, but hopefully this shares some of my perspective on where I think he needs to get better if he wants a realistic chance at multiple Lombardi's. I'm rooting for the kid, and I always have been even if I didn't like the draft pick when it happened. I want him to succeed. I just hope I don't want it more than he does.

Which team is that? The Bills have been my #1 team for nearly 40 years. Just because I give you hard truths you don't like doesn't make it trolling sweetie.

1) I'm not over caring what he does in the offseason, because he isn't getting the job done. If you fail every single year and you have an extra 5-6 months to improve your game and you have an extra 4-6 hours a day, you should be putting in the work if this is really the reason you're alive. If it's just a job and you're punching a clock, of course you don't do that, but those folks aren't going for greatest X of the year awards. We can talk all day about how he's second only to Mahomes, but Mahomes is the guy who's been to 6 straight AFCCG, 4 Super Bowls with 3 wins, has 2 MVP awards, 2 SB MVP Awards, and a OPOY award. Allen meanwhile has one AFCCG appearance on his resume and a trophy cabinet with a bunch of division championship pennant flags hanging off it. Personally, i think Allen is more than content to collect his half a billion dollars to give 70-80% in the offseason and 100% on Sundays. 2) Mahomes in the greatest in the world and at minimum the 2nd best player of all-time. He's doing everything he needs to do to hit that level, so if he wants to eat Wendy's with Andy and do commercials, that's his prerogative. If Mahomes retired today, he'd be a unanimous 1st ballot Hall of Famer. If Josh Allen retired today, he'd never see the Hall of Fame unless he bought a ticket. Maybe he could carpool with Andrew Luck.

His own actions and statements. He's openly said he doesn't watch much film, and I think this shows on game day. He can't wait to get on the golf course in the offseason, including when he had elbow and shoulder injuries that impacted him during the season. He's been making the same mental mistakes his entire career and has consistent execution holes in his game that he isn't improving. For the record, I think Allen is a top 3 QB in the NFL right now, and probably top 2, but I also think he's an underachiever that reaches the heights he does because of his immense physical gifts. I'm not making an argument that he's a slacker that comes into camp out of shape or doesn't know the playbook, but I don't for a second think this game means as much to him as it did to Brady or Manning. He's not putting in that dawn to dusk work that those guys were famous for. The first couple of years in the league it was clear he put in incredible work on his technique that propelled him to the largest turn-around story in NFL history. However, he peaked in that year 3 season. While it's not realistic to see him make those kinds of monument jumps, as the amount he has to improve is far smaller, you would expect some incremental growth, and I don't think we've seen very much in terms of growth in 3 full seasons since then. Everyone has leaks in their game, but Mahomes' leaks aren't costing him hardware.

You know what you call those "3 or 4 plays"? A leak. It may be a small leak, but it's one Mahomes doesn't have, and that's why he has a case filled with hardware while Allen has zero. Until he starts taking the game seriously, Allen will need an incredible streak of luck to get a Lombardi or an MVP.

He's often overrated around here with people calling him "the greatest player in the league" While there's guys in the league who have won multiple MVPs and have won multiple Super Bowls. I think the national consensus that he's int he top 2-3 QBs is much more reasonable and I wouldn't call that overrated, but the mistakes he's called out for here are undoubtedly true, and they're the primary reason he doesn't have at least one MVP or a SB ring.

It does apply to you. The difference is your company handles it on your behalf. If you file your own taxes, you're required to report earnings where they are earned.