transplantbillsfan

Okay my bad. He played QB in college and then worked with WRs and other aspects of the offense for 17 years in the NFL before randomly becoming our QB coach. At least Palmer had 7 years in the NFL as a QB somewhere on the depth chart of an NFL team and has been working for years coaching up young QBs.

This would be a pretty awesome move, I think. Unlike Culley, Palmer played QB and has recent experience independently coaching up the position. Plus, since he isn't currently a coach of ours, he hasn't been breaking any rules in the CBA in working with Allen despite the fact that McDermott said that he would make sure “we’ll be in touch with Jordan and make sure we’ll in sync with stuff as much as possible in terms of terminology, technique, things that we feel like he’ll need to work on." McDermott you are a sly fox if you put off hiring Palmer until after he's done working with Allen

Yes, clearly Schatz doesn't like Allen Doesn't matter. Perception is reality. Allen looks like he could be an excellent pocket passer if his OL actually gave him time to throw it. He demonstrated that last year when he was given time and often when he wasn't given time and was smashed while making a great throw, like the TD to Foster in the Jags game. I actually kinda do wish that others would try this exercise. I look at something like PFF and see a series of tweets like this: and I just can't take them seriously having watched all of these guys play.

This is the kinda stuff that made me start this exercise. Schatz has been one of those really highly respected guys saying Allen is somehow so much more inaccurate than other rookies. He's not wrong that Allen misses easy throws, but he's very wrong that Allen is unique in that sense among good rookie QBs. This kinda statement is the equivalent of, "before you eat that lemon, watch out! That one is sour!"

These semantics don't fly anywhere. Saying someone has had a traumatic brain injury or that they sound like they had a helmet to helmet with no helmet is simply a loquacious way of obviously calling them stupid. You're smart enough to understand that, right?

Lied about you calling someone stupid...? Okay then...

I haven't reported anyone. I rarely do. But you're getting personal calling people stupid and questioning brain cell counts. Yeah, that's not just talking. And the fact that the arguments you're actually trying to make in the context of this topic are weak and unsubstantiated makes it that much worse. At the very least, if you choose to insult someone's intelligence, do it while you're making intelligent contributions yourself so you have a leg to stand on.

Halfway through The Punisher season 2 and loving it. Wife and I just finished season 1 of The Good Place, which is super funny. Has anyone watched Castle Rock on Hulu? I don't even have Hulu, but in the last 7 or 8 months I've read The Outsider, The Stand, and I'm almost through Salem's Lot right now so I kinda dig the idea of a Stephen King multi-verse. Haven't started that show mainly because I don't currently have Hulu.

Honestly why even tune into SU regular season basketball games? Syracuse just needs to get into the NCAA Tournament in whatever fashion. At that point they're going to make their inevitable "improbable" run to the Sweet 16 or beyond. I think Boeheim is very transparent about his general regular season complacency and his players are a reflection of that.

With the itchy trigger fingers certain mods have these days, you're just begging to be banned.

Thanks Mitch. And I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Wait... did you just say Kellen friggin Moore is now an OC?!

Jesus who is this #34fan and why does he hate Josh Allen, the Bills, and distort reality?

You and Foxx must be like best friends.... I guess curmudgeon stick together.

So you seem to acknowledge here that Palmer is a good teacher, but not a coach. Well, lucky for us he's actually coordinating with Allen's coach

I disagree strongly. Allen's greatest opportunity for improvement is a mastery of Daboll's offense, particularly in the short to intermediate passing game so he can make quick, decisive throws. Frankly the RBs, WRs and TEs just need to be able to catch the damn catchable passes that come to them.

Allen doesn't throw every ball 100 MPH, and disregarding the obvious hyperbole, he doesn't even throw every ball crazy fast. He could use more touch on occasion. That's all you need to say.

This I agree with. Allen's bigest problem isn't accuracy, it's consistently throwing it on time in the context of the offensive plays. He isn't choosing to hold onto the ball completely and not throw it, but he definitely hesitates. And not all the time, but enough where it's something he should be consciously working on this offseason. And I wonder if McDermott's comments on terminology and everything is an indication that maybe the Bills brass truly is kinda working under the table with a wink and a nod to work on subtle things like that.

Okey dokey so I finished up with Deshaun Watson's rookie season and pieced him into the picture of the 5 2018 rookies in the OP. Watching him only reinforces my feelings that this national dialogue of Allen being wildly inaccurate is bonkers. Gonna do some of the other notable rookies over the last half decade or so in the upcoming weeks. I'm gonna focus on only the rookies who have had GOOD rookie seasons, though, not the ones who were bleh and then picked it up in their 2nd years. So I'm not going to look at Goff or Trubisky. Sounds reasonable, right?

I don't know how we would bet on something like that, but I'd bet against it. I'm sure the #1 thing they're working on is consistency in his mechanics.

And coincidentally, Allen will only be a proficient passer if his WRs and TEs actually catch the passes Allen throws

Can you determine accuracy by watching a QB throw a ball to a wooden block moved around by a track of some sort that can't catch? Sure, accuracy and completion percentage are related to each other. That still doesn't mean completion percentage tells you how accurate a QB is.

Only 2 more games left to go with Watson, which I'll probably get to tomorrow, but with most of his season done now, I have: Catchable pass % excluding Throwaways and Spikes: 76.3% Throwaway/Spike %: 4.1% Interceptable Pass %: 10.1% Catchable pass % excluding BOTH throwaways AND tipped/batted balls: 79.1% So right now he'd be just behind Mayfield in Catchable pass % and only better than Darnold in Interceptable pass %.

I don't think ball velocity was much of a problem. The complaint that Allen has no touch and puts too much into every pass is overblown, especially by the end of the season.