Richard Noggin

Comparing QB numbers across three decades is tricky, as many can see. Comparing styles of play isn't exactly science, either, but I'd agree that Allen exhibits similar on-field characteristics to Favre: especially the joy, confidence, and creative recklessness.

That's kind of awesome.

They don't practice in Buffalo, and most of them live well south of the city. I'll bet they're doing a lot better in OP than those in the Buffalo metro area.

Can you say more about the "complete scheme mismatch with Wilson"? That's intriguing. Not because I disagree, but because I love to read about schemes and player fits. And also because Payton has helped a number of very different QBs perform at their best over the years.

This is the point for me: Tua seems unable to adequately defend himself when getting taken to the ground. He seems so much smaller than even his posted measurables, but more importantly, seems to go limp when forcefully contacted (the term rag-doll is apt) and therefore his body becomes a whip that accelerates his head into the ground. He's in danger out there.

A 16 game schedule would have the same issue, no?

But that's only because you have eyes and a brain and can see how lame and tired and unlikeable the entire TB12...everything is.

These takes are so chalky.

Hopefully it's a Dan Marino's-last-game kind of send-off in the postseason for TB12.

But when it's over we are left with our...lives.

I'm as happy as anyone to watch his demonstrable descent into mediocrity, but to ignore the team's litany of injuries and other obstacles is literally ignor-ant.

Why won't anyone finally kick dirt on this corpse of Tom Brady? Instead, the opposition keeps reviving him.

Offensive line injuries are a major factor. Sprinkle in Godwin's reduced explosiveness due to injury, the loss of Gronk, Fournette forgetting to cap his offseason bulking phase, Brady's wife divorcing him then moving in across the canal, Todd Bowles being the head coach, the defense losing pieces in the offseason and then during the season...and you got a s#!t stew going. With respect to the Cards fumble: What a joke.

Such a likeable game so far. Those who think it's boring just aren't petty enough to find the value.

It's a decent conciliation prize for all football fans with any shred of integrity.

Hate-watching the ghost of Tom Brady works for me.

Greg Dortch is kinda good. But otherwise, yeah.

Mere coincidence that so many came from Germany and Italy! Nothing to see here. Tua cannot drive the ball with velocity. And he's small. And maybe inaccurate when forced to go through progressions. And possibly just not built for the violence of NFL football. (We cannot ignore his determination, and his accuracy when throwing to his first read within 2.5 seconds.)

I've seen/heard this tendency discussed before, and it's a really interesting one. So, thank you. However, I think it actually SUPPORTS my observation about Allen trying to force the issue against certain coverages. It DOES, admittedly, provide a reason for WHY Allen might be feeling the pressure to make something happen, but that in no way absolves our QB of the original sin of falling into a defense's coverage trap. That forbidden downfield apple is so alluring, ESPECIALLY when the Bills are behind the sticks. It's human nature for a gunslinger like Josh. And that's when he often gets into trouble.

This is how you beat Josh IF he plays into it, as he did a handful of times today, and used to do too often in the past. It's the main regression we've seen this season: Allen has these maddening stretches where he gets stuck on what he WANTS to do on a given play, and either forces it into coverage or takes too long to check it down (and does so with sloppy/hurried mechanics and misses the layups). Both of these tendencies have resulted in turnovers. Against KC this season, on the contrary, Allen (and the offense) patiently took what the defense gave them, which includes attacking downfield the few times they got the single high safety/man/pressure looks. There were glimpses of this today against an undertalented, but well coached, defense. But those glimpses were interrupted too frequently by impatient and sloppy blunders from #17.

The Wikipedia entry for him lol: Chukwuemeka Kingsley Jonathan (born April 28, 1998) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Syracuse and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Buffalo Bills in 2022. He was also the number one overall pick in the 2022 CFL Global Draft. Without reading any further, I feel like I remember him being cut by the Bills and/or signing elsewhere, and then very recently being re-signed to our PS. Had to scoop him back up before the CFL got its hooks into him, apparently.

Sometimes hawks eat crow. Good on ya.

Seriously. Other than a few 1-high pressure looks, the Bears were backing way off today. Cook and Singletary got off, but there was even more meat left on that bone.

They definitely get to call him whatever they're already calling him. No reason to pee on their parade.