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He's a rookie QB making a lot of mistakes out there. A lot of the pressure on him has been his fault. Loved that shot of him firing up the defense though. He's clearly got a lot of heart.

He's actually been pretty diplomatic about it. Allen is making big mistakes with protections, and he's been very inaccurate.

Yup. That was TD for sure. Edit: got lucky with the penalty.

Got lucky on that scramble though. Once again he screws up with the rush recognition. Needs to adjust those protections!

Finally!! a good decision by Allen on the read option.

Disagree. Also, a big part of our "poor blocking" is the lack of rush recognition by the QB. Josh has no idea where it's coming from, and so our protections are all wrong. The fact he's made questionable decisions on all the other read options, including two this game, would seem to suggest it's a problem, which was my point.

Allen is at fault for that Ingram sack. Again, he has no idea where the rush is coming from. Needs to change the protection there. Edit: announcers all over this

Allen is sooo inaccurate. Great catch by Clay though.

Lol completely misses Jones down the sidelines, throws it way late, big time under thrown and up for grabs...completion.

Chargers o line jumped on that TD throw. Should have been a false start.

Don't see how. It's pretty clear that Whaley wasn't the one making decisions in that draft room. Besides, McBeane's fate is tied to Allen now. If he turns into a franchise guy it won't matter that Mahomes is good too. Doesn't look great right now though.

In related news, Patrick Mahomes looks like a sure fire franchise QB

Is it a bad sign that Edmunds and Allen are the two worst players on the field?

Man Edmunds whiffed badly on that open field tackle.

McCoy had one edge rusher to beat in open space which he did (because the guy thought he had the ball). Instead Allen kept it, got chased out and threw it into double coverage. Pretty sure the right call was Shady there.

Just went back and watched it again. 54 on the Chargers was the only guy who could have made a play on him. Perhaps it's asking too much to have your QB make a running play to beat a defender in the open field. Possibly better than asking your RB to beat three guys though.

It was a read option. Allen needed to fake the hand off and run left where there were no defenders. It would have been an easy first down.

Another thing...Allen makes terrible decisions on the read option. He takes away a sure fire TD from McCoy in the preseason. He pulls the hand off back from McCoy in that FG drive this game only to get sacked. Now he hands off to Murphy when he has a runway to the left for a first down. He's literally guessing out there on the read options.

Literally anyone. Sign a QB off the street. Make a trade. Allen is not ready for this. If it doesn't get a lot better and soon he'll get the bust label and fans and teammates will turn on him. Once that happens, it's over. This is such a bad situation for him.

So...on the FG drive Allen has a missed hand off that results in a sack. He throws a sure fire pick which is dropped. He missed a wide open crossing route by the RB even though he's only 10-15 feet away. He airmails the receiver over the top by 15 yards. Gets bailed out by an unsportsmanlike penalty. Completes a nice a pass downfield to Clay. Gives up a terrible sack with Jones wide open over the middle because he ran backwards instead of stepping up in the pocket and keeping his head downfield. This drive is all the proof you need that Allen shouldn't be out there.

How does Allen miss that??? WTF Edit: and then he airmails the reeceiver by 15 yards on the next one. Lol

Just threw a sure fire pick that was dropped

Giving Allen weapons isn't going to make a difference if he has no idea how to use them. He could have Jerry Rice, Gronk, and Barry Sanders out there and he'd still get sacked or chased out of the pocket every few plays because he has no idea where the rush is coming from. We can blame the o line all we want for that but the QB needs to be able to make pre snap reads and adjust the protections as necessary. Allen is still clueless in that regard.

Yeah I would have Brady ahead of Rodgers all time too. But I do think Rodgers is the better player now and has been for some time. He has a higher ceiling IMO, and I would put him top 10 all time. Brady has had the better career though, no question.

I think the knock on Manning underperforming in big playoff games is fair. Manning's record as the higher seed is very misleading though. Go back and show me which of those games he had the better team. Outside of maybe one or two of the Denver losses I promise you you're not going to find many. The reason he was the top seed is because he was so much better than every other QB during his prime that he drastically improved the win totals of those Colts teams. Then when they got to the playoffs and faced very good defenses from the Steelers, Pats, Chargers, Jets, etc., he was just ok and it wasn't enough to overcome the fact that their team wasn't as good (outside of him). I always thought Dungy was so overrated. Colts were consistently outcoached in the playoffs. The early Pats losses will always be fishy. They seemed to know exactly what the Colts were doing in those games, and they're on record sneaking into walk through practices and taping teams during that period.