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Yes, I screamed at the TV last week when he fumbled that he should be cut, but here's an excerpt from Joe B's Athletic Observations on the game: They tried running the ball up the middle with Frank Gore, which worked to a degree but never took pressure off Allen (and later Barkley). Whenever the Bills dropped back to pass, the Patriots went into attack mode, and Allen didn’t seem comfortable — except for one drive. On the Bills’ opening drive of the second half, Allen seemed to temporarily graduate from his reckless decisions. It all had to do with a specific matchup that the Patriots couldn’t handle, and one that the Bills exploit until the second half. If you thought you noticed running back T.J. Yeldon in the lineup in the second half, that’s because you did. Yeldon ended the game with more time on the field than Gore. It was a pass attack personnel that presented problems to the Patriots all second half. Dawson Knox, John Brown, Cole Beasley and Zay Jones joined Yeldon, and the Patriots didn’t quite know who to key on in the formation. Yeldon wound up being the mismatch, and he finished with 68 yards on only four receptions. Had the Bills spotted this earlier, it could have led to earlier success. It also would have taken some pressure off Allen, because in those formations the young quarterback looked more confident in his reads and delivered the ball with a purpose. Now Allen, for reference, was as awful as awful can be in the 1st half... well, maybe not Peterman awful, but awful nonetheless. But know who his 1st completed pass was to in the 2nd half? Yeldon. In fact on that 1st drive Allen completed a couple passes for 42 yards to Yeldon, and it just really seemed to open up the offense. The snap count numbers above were pretty interesting. No, I'm still not the biggest fan of Yeldon. But what I'm hoping is that when Motor gets back in the lineup this week (hopefully), he helps open up our offense a bit. But I will say that I'm encouraged the team finally had a decent 3rd Quarter after all the putrid 3rd quarters we've had thus far. (Allen was 7/11 for 93 yards, an INT, a sack losing 11 yards, and 2 rushes for 8 yards with a TD... not exactly anything to write home about, but much better than the 1st half) Sure would be nice to put a whole game together.

Yes, I believed this was about to happen. But what frustrated the hell outta me was the way we came out in the 2nd half dominating with that fantastic no-huddle drive, but after that TD we went back to huddling. Everything from play calling to execution was fishy in this game. I really hope Allen crosses that threshold I still believe he's going to cross this year.

Ummmm... what? Allen is our starter

Can't say that yet. Need a few more games. QB play across the league is down so he still has a shot. Don't worry. I'm not hiding and won't weasel out of the bet.

New England has a pretty damn good defense too, ya know. I love Barkley as a backup, but it's so ridiculously premature to even consider benching Allen at this point. He was awful today. Next week is a new game. Move along.

It is

Out? Regardless, Zay is wasted space. Promote Duke to try something new.

WTF are you talking about bad in 3 of the 4 games? Watch the games, not the stat lines.

After 1 game against what was, is and will be for the season one of the best defenses in the NFL? No. Not remotely time to move onto talking about that.

Agree. Today more than any other NFL game he looked just lost and rattled. Yet, we lost by only 6 and had a chance to win. I'll call them growing pains for now, but obviously if we see multiple games this year like that we should all be very concerned. Hope the helmet to helmet knocked some sense into him. Yeah it was super weird. Was the game plan to constantly take deep shots? Didn't understand that. I also didn't understand why we didn't continue the no-huddle that worked so well on the 1st drive in the 2nd half.

But I think if Duke were in there he fights for those balls and 1 or 2 more aren't intercepted. I don't know how anyone can think Zay Jones is anything other than a waste of space right now. Another pass that isn't officially a drop and would have been a tough catch that he, yet again, just couldn't pull in. Honestly, if Allen is out next week and Barkley is in, I think the likelihood of Duke being promoted just goes up.

58.8% at 6.7 YPA. For those keeping track. 4th game Allen just looked rattled the entire game. Big bounce back against the Titans. Other than the horrible Interception he was really good. Weird game against Miami but Allen showing he's pretty clutch late in the game. Eagles game was UGLY. Josh needs to protect the football better. He seems to fumble once or twice every week. Passing he looked okay, though I wonder if we trade for or acquire a WR before the deadline. Not a fan of Daboll's play calling along with the strange decision to go for it on 4th and 10 in FG range. Allen looked good against Washington, other than the deep miss to Foster and the obligatory fumble. Browns game is just further evidence Allen can't hit the deep ball. He's going to need to start hitting those. On the plus side he is very accurate on his throws pretty much everywhere else. No INTs in 5 games is another big plus. He REALLY needs to stop fumbling. Miami 2nd game against this year and 2nd game last year against Miami are his 2 best games as a pro statistically. I was rooting for us to just keep passing to get him to 300 yards to shut some of the idiots up, but oh well. Other than 2 frightening passes from Allen against Denverthat was intercepted and 1 that should've been--Allen was excellent against Denver, including a couple beautiful TDs. And WHAT A GREAT national debut for Allen!!! No, he didn't pass for 300+ yards and 5 TDs, but that's because he didn't need to. Allen's just clearly improving as a passer as the season progresses. Even though the Ravens game was just UGLY offensively, seems to me it was a much bigger playcalling problem than an Allen problem. Allen was off. Clearly. But that was a great defense. I think the Ravens have a better defense than the Patriots. Next time will be different. Steelers game... I think I hate our coaching coaching philosophy... but a W is a W. Patriots game was obviously a mixed bag. Allen had some really awful throws, including the potential game winner to Knox he missed. However, he protected the football and was really the main reason the Bills were even in the game. 2 TDs and no turnovers. Throw away game against the Jets... onto the playoffs!!! GO BILLS!!!

At least the chiefs are also getting shut out right now.

Was hoping for the best, but honestly, how could anyone just not expect this at this point? Right now it just looks like the stage is too big for Allen. He looks awful.

He has an injury? I thought this was a healthy scratch.

Coffee and brandy for me. Game starts at 7 AM here, afterall.

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It was 2nd and 4

Good one. Real clever. No one in the history of a message board has ever thought to say that

Created in 2006 Clearly took some number of years to explode. Place where ANYONE has a voice. Argument for it of course is that all voices are heard, not just the select few among the media who have historically progressed from pen to typewriter to computer to smartphone. Argument against it is also that all voices are heard, not just the select few among the media who have historically progressed from pen to typewriter to computer to smartphone. Yes, I fall in the latter group, but I'm curious the general sentiment. Twitter has more than tripled in active users since 2012, a Presidential election year. I read tweets as I lurk on here. Most are opinions. Some are referred to as "source material" but often imply or mean something a shade or completely different than what the original poster believed it meant. So... twitter... Empowering? Dividing? Neither? Both?

This post should be reserved for a separate thread: Is a large minority of our country seriously stupid? Smoked? Do you think we smoked the Bengals last Sunday?

4th Quarter. Down by 3. 3 minutes left in the game. Pressure in the situation. Pressure from the DL: 2 plays later, because of ANOTHER scramble by Allen on a drive where he would account for all but the final yard, Gore punches it in for a 1 yard game winning TD.

That was AWESOME!!! I've never attended one of those higher profile tailgates, but been to enough home games to know how special it is. Honestly a big part of the reason I tend to fly 6,000 miles to see my family in Rochester during my Fall Public School recess is to get to a Bills game. Unfortunately, this year that lines up with a road game against the Titans and our bye week. PS: I love Stevie Johnson. I think he coulda been really good with the right QB, OC, and mindset. Gotta love his continued embrace of Buffalo.

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