transplantbillsfan

You can hate me. I really don't care. I've gotten many nights of sleep on that sleep number bed I bought for that apartment. I could afford the bed because it was that free, beautiful 1 bedroom in your head. But dismissing facts because of the messenger might just show your own bias rather than mine.

This'll make a few of my favorite posters mad... but sure seems to ring true after week 2

Josh Allen is 8th in the NFL in terms of % of total yards coming from YAC.

Great post as always, Shaw. But Mahomes never STOPPED making stupid plays. He still does it. Just look at his game last year against Denver in Denver. But that just doesn't mean much. Mahomes will have more games where he makes stupid plays, just like Josh will. I think the real difference is that in 2021 after a Josh Allen like stretch (according to the national media) of about 7 games to start the season where he was pretty mediocre (15 TDs and 11 Turnovers), he figured out he had to play a different style of game and take what the defenses give him. That's what Josh has needed to do. Sunday it looks like that's what he did. It doesn't mean he can't still push the ball down the field and make mistakes, but it has to stop being all or nothing for Josh like it was in the 2nd half of week 1. I'm calling week 1 a mulligan. If our week 2 offense and QB is what we get for the rest of the year, it'll be the best season of Josh's young career.

Wow... should I buy furniture? Didn't even know I had all that free rental space in your head. As for your accusations, I assume you're referring to this thread: ...and thanks for bringing it up... only one game, but a lot of what I said there seems valid.

Highest completion percentage through 2 games of any QB in the NFL. 76.9%

Greg Cosell was on the Herd yesterday and was talking a bit about this in terms of Josh Allen. He actually referenced that 7 game stretch in 2021 when Mahomes wasn't Mahomes because he was clearly learning how to play against this new style of Defense. During that stretch Mahomes had 16 TDs and 11 turnovers. Allen just needs to learn. I think this game was eye-opening enough for him. You could see it in his post-game PC

I agree with absolutely everything you said here. What I disagree with is your statement that this was somehow on another level and this kind of game hasn't happened to other experienced great QBs. Allen sucked sucked sucked!!! You can simultaneously believe that and also believe it was a blip that won't become a trend.

Do you think this conversation wouldn't still be happening if somehow we eeked that game out with a Field Goal to win the game in Overtime?

No Brady wasn't playing a backup QB. But he was playing the cellar dwellers of the AFC East. Buffalo was 6-10 that year.

Kansas City went up by 27 points against the Broncos last year. Mahomes threw 3 interceptions in that game and the Broncos nearly came back to win it. Dan Orlowski in his One Bills Drive interview the other day was actually talking about how Mahomes had to go through a similar "grow up" phase because of games like the one Josh played on Sunday.

Neither was Josh. You understand that QBs are on offense, right?

Manning and the Broncos were up by 10 in the 2nd quarter in 2020 against Cleveland in a 3 Interception game for Manning. Fortunately they came back and won in OT by 3. Don't be stupid. You asked a question and I answered it. Now because you didn't expect the answer you have to throw in a logical fallacy to try to deflect. Be better.

Didn't have to look far. In a game we can all remember quite well, Brady and the Pats went up 21-0 against the Bills in the 2nd quarter and threw 4 interceptions.

Good question. You're putting this out there almost as a rhetorical question. Are you asking this because you know and none of them were?

Before making a statement like "this was on another level," you should have gone back to understand the context of all those multi interception games by all those HOF/Elite QBs. Myopic viewpoint without those.

Seriously? This was the worst game of Josh Allen's career. But Josh said today that he may have another game he throws 3 interceptions. That's just reality. Peyton Manning had four 4 interception games and one 6 interception game with at least 6 years experience in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers had two 3 interception games with at least 6 years experience in the NFL. Tom Brady had two 4 interception games with at least 6 years experience in the NFL. Drew Brees had four 3 interception games, two 4 interception games, and one 5 interception game with at least 6 years experience in the NFL. Mahomes had a 3 interception game last year. Burrow had a 4 interception game last year. Saying this game by Josh was at a different level of badness is just a myopic perspective.

That last interception was perhaps largely on Gabe's piss poor route running. Aikman and Buck were talking about it on the broadcast. If Gabe gave even the slightest head juke to the inside Whitehead would have likely been delayed enough for a completion there. Instead, he ran straight to a spot. Either Diggs hasn't taken Gabe under his wing and taught him how to run routes or Gabe is a terrible learner.

Fair question because I would also like to see Allen under Center a lot more. That's a Dorsey issue. But I think you could see the shifts in alignment and run philosophy as well. Just don't love all the shotgun habdoffs.

Just added that to the post actually. I think the atmosphere there was huge. You could hear it during the National Anthem. I've never heard the National Anthem sung so loudly in unison by the fans. Have you? I think the build up to that game all offseason and then the stage itself begged Josh to play hero and he tried to oblige, but failed miserably. But Josh bounces back from his bad games in his career. And with this being maybe the worst he's ever played, I think it's more than 1 game.

Have we all taken our deep breaths yet? Let's be honest, the Bills have wildly shifted their offensive philosophy. I understand it didn't necessarily look like that in the game against the Jets, but the Bills went from being the team with the lowest percentage of 12 personnel in the NFL last season to being the highest in week 1. That signals a massive offensive philosophy shift. But obviously it didn't look like that on the field, which was really just because of poor choices by Josh yesterday. Josh played what I think was his worst game in the NFL yesterday. So what? Disregard his previous 5 years? It took 5 years, but suddenly he's figured out? Idiotic. Josh will have bad games in the future obviously, but I think he needs to get his feet under him in this offensive philosophy. The Jets, in hindsight, may have been the worst team to trot out a new offensive philosophy and try to get comfortable against. It was Monday night on September 11th in the general metropolitan area and the atmosphere was clearly electric. Hero Ball from Josh seemed almost inevitable looking back on it. On top of all this, Sean McDermott is calling the defense (with a brand new young MLB) for the first time ever as Head Coach... mighta been an issue... particularly on an 83 yard run where everyone was misaligned. I was actually impressed with the play of Bernard and especially Benford on our D. I just think this idea that this national narrative in the offseason that "the Bills didn't improve because they stayed the same" is, at best, half true. We still have to wait to see if the Bills improved... but a lot has changed: Shift to 12 personnel All the offensive philosophies that go with that Shift to HC as DC (How much is he in Josh's ear) 2 new OL New QB of the Defense in Bernard New CB2 etc.

And he caught all 4 of his targets. please please please can Dorsey find a way to set our offensive game plan up so Kincaid is always in that short to intermediate part of the field as a safety valve to Josh and start making him the first read?

Honestly, I think Dorsey's playcalling is what's hurting Josh. A lot of weird calls putting us in bad down and distance situations and suddenly Josh feels like he has to be the hero. I think against most Defenses he could be just that. But the Jets D is clearly pretty awesome. I really would have liked to see more intermediate throws with Kincaid in the middle of the field in our game plan. And what happened to traditional play action with Josh under center? He's always thrived under that and utilizing more of those run plays under center would probably help Cook, too. The whole "Josh is broken" narrative is beyond ridiculous, but this team needs to get things right, and Josh and Dorsey are at the center of it.

How about bad 2nd half against the Packers in a game in hand, the Jets have Josh's number and an elbow injury...? Horrible game, but let's not say stupid stuff like Josh is a bad QB