CincyBillsFan

It was the one play where Allen had to be superman and he delivered. We're leading 10 - 7 and it's 3rd and 13 from the 34. If we don't convert it's a long FG try. Miss it and game momentum turns on a dime. Instead he makes a spectacular throw to the one yard line and a play later Cook scores to make it 17 - 7 and we now have control of the game.

That may be harder then it sounds given that Allen can go into beast mode when needed.

I'm not sure that the hand was bothering Allen all that much. He took a lot of snaps from under center and he made a couple of wow throws like the one to Shakir where Poyner had the PF and the 34 yard dart to Johnson.

Kincaid caught 2 passes in the 2nd half.

He was asked to be Superman on only one play and he was. 3rd & 13 at the Dolphins 45 leading 10 - 7 and he throws a 34 yard dart to Johnson to the one yard line. Bills go up 17 - 7 and the game was effectively over. This is the complementary football McD is always talkign about and I could grow to love it.

Reed came through big time in the playoffs which is why he got into the HOF. Diggs has been at best average in the playoffs.

I think if CMAC was on the field a couple of those 49 FG drives would have been TD drives and it would have been an even bigger blowout. The holes that were being opened in the Jet D line were huge and CMAC likley would have also taken one to the house from distance to. Last night was a bad sign for the Jet's D as they were awful.

I would say the Bengal's and Andy Dalton ended the drought by going into Baltimore and against every reasonable expectation beating the Ravens.

Imagine CMAC running through some of those holes the 49's are opening up. I'm actually stunned at how bad the Jets D is playing considering CMAC is out and two key players just signed a couple of days ago.

Wait, so the Jets might not win the division?

The Bills are very tight lipped about this sort of thing so I'm not surprised we haven't heard any details yet. I suspect though that if it was bad news that would seep out and we would be hearing stuff by now.

The difference is what I would call the danger of penalizing a virtuous cycle. The other calls you mention broke both ways (on the play before the Allen fumble there was a clear hands to the face by Cards DT on a Bills O lineman that was not called) and involved the usual subjective issue with calling late hits on the QB, holding & PI. What makes the screw up on the Murray "hit" different is that the NFL has elevated this to a special status as a way to prevent injury. College & High School football have done the same. This is the one penalty they have to get right or as others have noted you might as well nail the guy. College football employs a replay for this one penalty and the NFL should also. As I said anytime you get away from rewarding (no call) virtuous behavior and penalize it instead you introduce a rot to whatever system you're trying to run.

Not sounding an alarm just noting why the line may have moved a point. Like I said, some key pieces were out. As for Murray's stats I would give the Bills D line and the wind some credit to.

I'm not sure I would agree that the Bills secondary was fine yesterday, I would characterize them as a work in progress with some key pieces out. In the first half they were pretty bad and had a very bad blown coverage on Harrison late.

What made that call so bad is that in the future coaching clinics are going to use it to show how DB's should react to a last minute slide by a QB. Even though Ingram had very little warning he used great athleticism to avoid hitting Murray. That call needed to be overturned by NY in the moment. Instead the gross incompetents penalized a player for doing the right thing.

I think it would move a lot more if there were Questions concerning Allen's health. My guess is that it's conformation that Johnson is out and the Bills secondary looked very shaky against the Cards.

Cumulatively these numbers shine a spotlight on just how great Allen is. And for those that know football illustrate that turnovers are not the only metric to consider.

And if he slides it becomes 3rd and goal from the 4. Then it's 4th and goal from the 3 and we kick a FG to go up 27 - 20. At this point the last Cards drive only needs a FG to win the game 31 - 30. So yea, IMO he had to hurtle and score that TD which should have locked the game up. The problem is that the ST then allowed a 98 yard TD KO return. So the real issue isn't Allen putting his body on the line but how a Bills unit, through gross ineptness, almost wasted Allen's effort. This has happened to often over the last few seasons.

I just don't see how they pass up a guy who scored 4 TD's - 2 rushing and 2 passing - for a guy who scored one.

And taking snaps from under center.

There ought to be a rule on 2BD that if Allen loses a fumble in a game you must mention how many TD's he scored also no matter the context in whch the fumble is mentioned.

Did you notice the flags flapping madly? It was a very windy day in Orchard Park and you're just not going to throw the ball all over the place.

Unless Rogers lights it up tomorrow night even with the lost fumble Allen is AFC OPOTW. Have people checked out the stat boxes so far? QB's are turning over the ball right and left. Even worse I can't remember a week were so many QB's were under 6 yards per pass (11 and counting).

I would add that through the first two games there seems to be a lot of turnovers by the QB's - 2 lost fumbles and 4 INT's. On top of that I saw at least 3 and maybe more dropped INT's in the two games. Perhaps the D has fully caught up with the shiny passing attacks? If this continues Allen TO's may pale in comparison.

Both things can be true: Jackson is fun to watch and electric where anything can happen at any moment and he's not a very good passing QB.