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CincyBillsFan

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  1. Sorry but yours is not a serious post. If we're going to play the "what if" game how about the 3 dropped long passes, and yes in the NFL I've seen all those catches repeatedly made during the season, that cost us at minimum 10 and probably 17 points. And if you're going to go on about Poyer's fumble keeping the game close, how about the terrible coverage and missed tackles that handed KC 14 of their points? As for the 4th quarter, the Bills would not have been shutout if Diggs catches that TD pass or Bass makes that 44 yard field goal. IMO in all 3 playoff losses to the Chiefs Allen was the least responsible of any Bills player for those losses. Tell me who you think played better then Allen in any of those 3 games? And in any of those games did the Bills coaches outperform the Chiefs coaches?
  2. And you can throw Reid & his coaches in there to. BTW check out Allen's stats after the last 2 playoff games against the Chiefs: 515 passing yards with 5 TD's & 0 INTS; 140 rushing yards on 23 carries with 2 TD's & no lost fumbles. That's 655 total yards with 7 total TD's and 0 turnovers. If you throw in the 2020 AFC companionship game against KC Allen has in his 3 playoff games against Mahomes: 1030 total yards with 9 total TD's and only 1 turnover. Anyone claiming Allen is the reason why the Bills can't get past KC or that Allen must work harder in the off season so he can get past Mahomes should have their NFL football fandom revoked.
  3. No he won't. In his last two playoff games against Mahomes Allen played great. The problem is that the coaching and/or some of the rest of the team did not rise to the occasion. Look at Allen's game stats for these 2 games and tell me he has to play better? This entire thread is madness.
  4. Very good. Given where the Bills sit with respect to the salary cap I think they had an excellent off season. As Bills fans we know that the losses while sad did not really hurt the team. I'm thinking that replacing Morse will be the trickiest part with the most potential downside. But any Bills fan knows that Morse was undersized and that caused problems against teams with monster DT's.
  5. The injury reasons you cite are not only great points but I would go as far as saying that the Bills medical staff have set conditions for what Allen should and should not do after the season ends. We know he had injuries the last 2 seasons to his elbow and/or shoulder and it stands to reason that there were restrictions to how much throwing he should do from February through April. I would be shocked if the Bills medical people hadn't put restrictions on Allen throwing the football during these 3 months.
  6. Are you basing this on Allen doing a lot more commercials then Mahomes in the off season?
  7. You can't read my post without first seeing and understanding the CIRCUMSTANCES in which the Bills off season started. When you have been a division winner and final 4 - 8 finisher for 4 straight years the off season isn't about getting better as much as it's about staying at the top.
  8. Under the circumstances the Bills have had a top 5 off season so far. They re-signed the two guys from the team they had to; they added a high quality offensive weapon, they solidified their coaching ranks; they got their CAP under control and basically Belichecked several players who were on the downward trajectory of their careers.
  9. I don't believe it either but my daughter in law who is a big Bengal's fan says it was blowing up her social media!
  10. Down here in Cincinnati this is big news today: http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-Jefferson-to-Bengals-rumors?page=2 Supposedly it would involve Higgens and 2 1st round picks to land JJ from the Vikings!
  11. Or maybe the poster is simply a moron trying to convince the rest of us about how football illiterate they are.
  12. People forget that McD/Bean gutted the Bills offense for the 2018 season. That unit was bad. The fact that Allen showed glimpses of the great QB he would become with that group around him is amazing in hindsight. A lot of rookie QB's would have been knocked out of the league facing what Allen faced his rookie year as a starter.
  13. A lot of people would have said something like this about Mathew Stafford when he played at Detroit. Then he was traded to LA and won a Super Bowl. You might want to look at coaching & the Bills roster rather then Allen here.
  14. I believe that the Chiefs would have had a better regular season record with Allen at QB this season and still would have won the Super Bowl.
  15. You can absolutely say that Allen's has been at a disadvantage versus the Chiefs during the last "few years" if you define "few" as 3 years. * During the 2021 season the Chiefs had Kelsey AND Hill, and Andy Reid, enough said. * During the 2022 season the Chiefs had Andy Reid and one of the top 3 rated offensive lines in the NFL the Bills had one of the worst, enough said. * During the 2023 season for the first time in Allen's career he had similar talent as Mahomes on the O line & among his skill players. And the Bills beat the Chiefs during the regular season, finished ahead of them to gain home field advantage in the playoffs and then only lost the game when their FG kicker missed a 44 yard kick in the last 2 minutes. Oh and Mahomes still had Andy Reid as coach AND a championship caliber defense.
  16. There you go again. Where in that sentence does it remotely suggest Allen NEVER makes an inaccurate throw? Rib's point, which is difficult to rationally dispute is that pressure as Allen released the ball impacted the throw and caused him to miss Shakir. A reasonable & defensible criticism here is that Allen should have stepped up in the pocket a half second sooner and made the throw. But again you demand PERFECTION from Allen and no one else on the team - it's crazy to me.
  17. I don't buy this. In the 4th quarter Allen drove the Bills 54 yards in 14 plays using 6:23 BEFORE he threw those 2 incompletions. On that drive Diggs dropped what would have been at minimum a 60 yard completion. Allen converted one 3rd down and one 4th down on that drive. The FACT remains that while the ending wasn't perfect Allen put the Bills in position to tie the game with less then 2 minutes remaining. Missing a 44 yard FG in today's NFL is inexcusable. You are criticizing Allen for not being perfect on that last drive where "perfect" in your mind was to score a TD to go up by 4 with less then 30 seconds to play. That is an amazingly unrealistic expectation for someone who has been watching football for 50+ years. For nearly three quarters of the Super Bowl Mahomes could only lead his team to 2 FG's while throwing a bad INT. He was gifted a TD late in the 3rd quarter after a terrible special teams play by the 49's. The idea that if Mahomes were the Bills QB playing against the KC defense we would have achieved the PERFECT outcome (TD with very little time left) is purely hypothetical. Finally, the charges of "homerism" by you and others because some of us debate what we think are your awful takes on Allen is getting old. NO ONE is saying Allen is perfect and can't improve his game. What we are saying is that the extent to which Allen can further improve his game is minuscule compared to the other places that the Bills need to improve their play & coaching. The problems preventing the Bills from becoming a perennial AFC Championship/Super Bowl games participant and winner has almost nothing to do with Allen and almost everything to do with other aspects of the Bills.
  18. Maybe, maybe not. A lot of us thought Jacksonville was going to be that team this year and look what happened. The Texans now must clear the first hurdle a bad team must overcome when they become relevant again - repeat it. This is easier said then done as Jacksonville and the NY Giants to name just a couple of recent teams that were unable to do it.
  19. Where stats do matter is when you're trying to determine where you are falling short and how you get over the hump to "just win, baby". And Allen's stats are a reminder that he is the Bills best player. Stats also provide compelling evidence to disprove the morons constantly claiming that "Allen has to do more". And in the NFL a single player, even a HOF QB considered by almost everyone to be among the best to ever play the position, is not enough. Just ask Dan Marino.
  20. I think you're on to something here. If QB had been listed as a reason for why he Bills had not been more successful the poll would have lost all credibility. I mean no sane person could list QB as a reason the Bills were not better. Heck, put Mahomes on the Bills and I am very confident they still would not have won a Super Bowl. Allen played very well in those games and made some monster plays to help win them. Also the threat of what Allen can do is a very powerful weapon and Brady deserves credit for using it in ways Dorsey did not.
  21. You mean like the trash pick Mahomers threw against the 49's in the SB that his D saved his butt on? Funny how when Allen would throw a pick in the middle of the game giving the team the ball 50 yards from a score it was the turning point but on a championship team like KC it's an opportunity for the defense to rise up.
  22. I went with coaching & FO: * Thirteen seconds was the year the Bills win a Super Bowl if not for that total meltdown by the teams coaching staff in that playoff game. With a win in 2021 over the Chiefs in the playoffs at Arrowhead and by definition the Chiefs are no longer the impediment. * This season the FO screw ups and MISSED opportunities in 2022 & 2023 kept us from winning the Super Bowl. I may not be fair here as injury's have an element of bad luck associated with them but the choices to sign Von Miller and not get CMAC and/or DHOP was the difference in the Bills not winning the SB this season. I know hindsight is 20/20 but is there any doubt that if the Bills had not signed Miller and traded for CMAC during the 2022 season and signed DHOP this off season instead of Floyd there would be a SB parade in Buffalo today.
  23. AMEN! Allen does elevate the players around him and that is exactly what he did with guys like Beasley, Brown, Sanders, McKennzie, Foster and others. The fact is all the great QB's out there such as Mahomes & Burrow elevate those around them. The difference between them and Allen is how far they must elevate those players to get to the Super Bowl. Burrow in 2021 had to elevate his WR group a lot less then Allen did in 2022 & 2023 and Mahomes this season had to elevate his coaching staff a lot less then Allen did in 2021. Does anyone think that Spags & Reid blow that lead with 13 seconds left if the situation had been reversed and Mahomes had just threw that TD? I don't.
  24. I agree and yes I do believe we can win a SB with McD IF he and Bean change the direction of the teams draft & FA signings to work at surrounding Allen with the best possible players and IF Brady is the real deal at OC. At the same time it will be a lot harder to win a SB with McD then with an offensive minded head coach. And what makes this station so frustrating to me is that McD is NOT a bottom tier coach he is actually in the top half of coaches. But living in Cincinnati all these years allowed me to experience Marvin Lewis who also was a good but not great coach who resurrected a dead franchise. IMO the only reason McD has had some playoff success whereas Lewis went 0 - 7 in the playoffs is Allen.
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