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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.

Good on him for trying to cheat his neighbors and his country? So, they effectively reduced their own operational cost by 8.3% this year through collecting money from rich tax cheats. Sounds pretty good to me.

He's older and more expensive than Diggs. 0.0% chance.

The Bills have a pretty active and high quality social media presence for a sports team, imo.

Young and Elway are still considerably ahead of him. I'm also taking Mahomes ahead of him regardless of category, because while Allen might rush for more yards, Mahomes is an excellent and effective runner of the football, but he doesn't rely on it nearly as much as Allen. I don't really care that Allen piles up personal stats in the regular season.

Not a doctor, but I'll put an infinite amount of money on it not "working out". Anyone want some action?

Growing up it was John Elway. The guy had it all. He played the game so hard and had every tool in the belt. When I thought about what a quarterback should be, it was Elway. That is, until I saw Peyton Manning. Manning took it to another level, because he was the most cerebral football player I'd ever seen. When I saw Peyton rise up, it really made me appreciate the next level of football IQ. It wasn't just play against play, player vs player. it was 11 on 11 (or maybe 14 on 14) chess. Every player and every little nuance of their responsibility was something for him to analyze, utilize and adjust. It was breathtaking watching him line up into the mouth of a defense and then audible and hot-route guys into the perfect exploit.

Justin Tucker is the only kicker who's completely trustworthy. Bass is as good or better than 20+ kickers in the league. The difference between a percentage point is around 1 kick made or missed every 3 and half seasons. It's really not worth worrying about as fans. The difference between the best kicker last year (Folk) and the 17th best (pinero) was 3 FG misses. Basically meaningless as a stat without context. Also worth mentioning Pinero has the 3rd highest FG percentage of all time. Is he garbage now? The bigger problem is that McD has never trusted any of his kickers and it shows. You want these guys bang 60 yarders in warmups and then he punts when faced with a 50 yarder. That kind of move destroys a kicker's self-confidence, and it's a position where everyone is a headcase.

Then you took the wrong meaning from it. We had a superior offense, and still lost with the ball in our hand. A couple better decisions from Allen and and the game never comes down to a kicker.

Right. That's why so many in Bills fandom spent the offseason calling out Diggs, Bass and crying about a punter we released that's never played in the league. Meanwhile MVS, Sky Moore, And Kadarius Toney have SB Rings.

Ever since Mahomes started racking up rings, he makes it look like being a quarterback is easy. All he does is call the play, complete the pass, score the touchdown. Prior to the last few years, he made a lot more insane hero plays like Allen does. I was super excited when I saw how Allen look under Dorsey, because I felt that McD finally got it, that to win the big games consistently, your QB has to be boring. I've thought from the very beginning that Allen needed to be housebroken, and it looked like it was happening, despite the fact that he clearly didn't like it and was struggling with it. Instead, they abandoned that plan and let him go back to doing what he wants. It makes for a hell of a show, but it doesn't get you rings. It gets you blaming kickers, and punters, and WRs, because you start getting a ton of "did you see that play Allen made! How could his team let him down like that?". I'd rather Allen throw the ball at the top of his drop to Cook who's 4 yards downfield, in stride, than watch him throw the best pass anyone's ever seen across his body while falling down, right on the fingers of a guy 49 yards downfield. Give me that boring, high percentage play instead. If you need a hero, with 30 seconds left, you have one. Give me a game manager the other 59:30 Manning is my favorite player of all time, but he was a clear #2 to Brady by the end, and he's behind Mahomes now.

Why can't Allen just be "really good" and that be enough? Putting him ahead of Mahomes, who has probably already locked up #2 QB of all time, is completely delusional, even in a hypothetical. There's probably a healthy amount of people that would even have Burrow in the conversation for #2 right now, but they're both way behind Mahomes, imo.

I think Romo is already the best color commentator of all-time, but there are always contrarians for every great thing.

Re-read the post you quoted and you'll have my answer.

It's gotta be Von Miller. Right now he's a $40M boat anchor. He was supposed to be the missing piece to the Super Bowl, and now he's an albatross. Take away his name, and the player he was last year isn't good enough to be a practice squad player in the NFL at league minimum.

I guess you're just hellbent on having a bad take here. Well, I won't get in your way anymore. Enjoy.

Cool. What does that have to do with anything? KC has unique advantages that let them win super bowls with weak WRs, much like the early 2000 patriots. We, very obviously, do not. Until we wake up one day and have one of the top 2 coaches, QBs, and TEs to ever play the game, comparing how our team is built to theirs is beyond meaningless.

How many people think he isn't a "top 10 coach"? Put me int he "McDermott hater" category I guess. Top 10 isn't good enough if your goal is to win a Super Bowl.

So, this post is all about you talking umbrage with my use of the word "pedigree"? Fine, I'll rephrase. Lee Evans would be the best WR on the 2024 roster.

Matakevich is still a free agent, so that seems like an easy way to spend $4m I'd rather have Hamlin than Hyde at this point. Hyde is totally washed and Hamlin was more than serviceable when he filled in.

What makes you so co confident this group is better than that? Matthews had better recent seasons than any WR on our roster? Replace JA with Tyrod taylor and are you really saying it isn't much of a coinflip? I'm absolutely not. That said, if you want to argue that two year period, fine. You won't find another where we didn't have at least one legitimate WR on the roster. We had Reed, moulds, Evans, S.Johnson, Woods, Watkins covering the entire preceding span among others. Feel free to die on this hill. Lee Evans had more pedigree than every WR on our roster combined. A lot fo teams don't have more than 1 very good WR, if they even have that. 2010 was nothing to scoff at.

Why not? I'm not saying people expected the world from him, but it's pretty natural to expect a certain level of progression from a rookie WR.