1ManRaid

I disagree, he doesn't have the home run speed to take a 5 yard sack for a 60 yard TD. How many downvotes did he get before deleting that post?

If you have to start with that line, you know it's not in the right place lol.

So your point is to argue semantics over his (admittedly hyperbolic) word choice? Kind of a straw man there.

I don't consider a top ranked D giving up 14 points when you KNOW virtually every play will be a run to be a victory. You know what's coming, and can't keep them to field goals?

1. What's your problem? 2. What dots?

Fans around the league love Josh Allen. Unless they happen to be a fan of Mahomes, Lamar, or Brady, in which case Josh is an arrogant overrated whiny jerk who deserves every bad thing that happens to him. Weird how that works.

Well the good news either way is that the tryptophan thing is a myth. Its levels in turkey are too low to have that effect. It's the 14 pounds of protein and carbs you ingest that shut you down.

Well you gotta be smart to "outsmart basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself".

Allen sucks they said Bills being Bills they said too Tweets last forever

I take it you have all the details and facts? It could be 100% true, it could be a lie to extort a settlement out of someone who just got handed tens of millions of dollars. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that based on your knee-jerk outrage over this, you've had something similar happen to you.

Notable cheapskate and thrift store enthusiast, but he does look fly in vintage coats.

Ugh, hate sweeps to the short side of the field. Limits your space to work with.

My favorite part about this so far is the idiots on Twitter not understanding that lightning exists, and that domes are beyond the budget of a smaller startup league.

Until Brady breaks his leg in camp/preseason/first game, and it ends up being the final touchdown again.

I guess you don't understand what SOME people means

Some people forget draft picks and mid-season signings aren't free.

I don't really have favorite phrases, more just a list of least favorite cliches people tend to throw around in the offseason and draft time. They're typically used as a vague lazy justification to "pound the table" for throwing money at their favorite mediocre free agent or to overdraft a player from their favorite school. "They're a winner"- They want the mediocre system QB that was carried to a national championship or bowl game win by a power school loaded with All Americans at WR and OL. Wins are a QB stat to them, and the only stat that matters. "Home run hitter/threat"- 40 times are king for a WR/RB, and you'll never convince them otherwise. Skills such as agility, field vision, or the ability to run anything other than a go route are worthy sacrifices for the 1 or 2 times a year they break a 50+ yard TD. Reminders of their low yards per catch/rush will be met with claims that the player would be elite if only we ran 30 jet sweeps or pitches per game. Fast DBs don't exist in their world. "Playmaker"- Their cherry picked stat of choice is INTs. They want to trade for Trevon Diggs, and it's not because he's Stefon's brother. The DB/coverage LB could get torched for 100 yards per game, but it's OK cuz INTERCEPTIONS RULE. "Breakout candidate"- They don't understand that breakout candidate means the player has actually demonstrated skills on the field and are ready for a larger role. Never heard of the phrase "potential means you aint done crap yet". Objectively failing at the task they were specifically drafted for is excusable because the coaches "showed great trust" in keeping them barely on the roster even though they got benched after coming back from IR. I'm sure I will be reminded of others as the draft approaches.

Remember that thread suggesting we trade up to #1 in what would be the all time greatest highway robbery of a trade? Good times.

When I hear Allen outside top 5, I naturally assume he has Mahomes above him. Garbage list.

You're the one strawmanning, because no one's making the claim that people are saying arm strength doesn't matter AT ALL. People (Patriot/Dolphin fans) are saying their QBs' lack of arm strength won't hold them back from being an elite QB and better than Josh Allen. Basically that short accuracy (which they use to inflate completion % with checkdowns) is just that much more important than arm strength. That or they just outright deny that Tua or McCorkle have weak arms, but that's another argument about delusion.

No, that is literally not the definition of a breakout star candidate, it's the opposite. Breakout star candidate is Josh Allen after his second year where he showed improved mechanics and accuracy but hadn't put it all together yet, or Gabe Davis after he actually showed skill in a deep WR corps with impending departures of older WRs. Stevenson is a candidate for "if he gets his head out of his butt and stops fumbling, and develops some field vision and awareness, we might be able to use him as a passable kick returner or speed decoy on offense to give better WRs a breather for a couple snaps". Also the fact you have yet to acknowledge that you thought he was from the wrong conference, and left a thumbs up on a comment saying "if you believe, it will happen" says a lot.

I thought degree of difficulty was factored into if something is flagged as a drop.

Your attempt to proactively gloat about his upcoming success is essentially blowing your life savings on a stack of lottery tickets and saying "you'll see this was a wise financial decision when I win the jackpot". If you happen to end up being "right" about him, it doesn't change the fact that this excessive optimism was baseless homerism for a personal favorite player. He simply hasn't shown anything to indicate your prediction is based on anything tangible. I'm not saying he won't be good, I hope he will, but the evidence simply isn't there. If he breaks out as you hope, you'll proclaim yourself a genius. If he doesn't and this gets dragged up, then come the excuses about him being held back somehow.

Worth noting that lower tier starters and backups are going to be less likely to receive patience and "no expenses spared" treatment from the teams than important All Pro talents like Tre White. He's much less likely to be out of the league in 3 years or whatever like the study suggests.

And this is why some people say "stats are for losers". When he's on the field, he produces. I defy you to find any players or coaches who don't think he's really good.