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  1. He was? Mahomes stats for the Super Bowl against TB: 26 of 49 passes for 270 yards, 0 TD's & 2 INT's with a rating of 52. Also 5 carries for 33 yards, 0 TD's. Sure, the Chiefs O line was a wreck and Mahomes was running for his life but he still had a lot of weapons available. When Allen puts up numbers like this you people claim he sucked and if we point out a porous O line played a role you accuse us of making excuses for Allen. Mahomes is the best QB in the NFL. Allen is #2 IMO. But I also believe that Mahomes would not have won or even gotten to a Super Bowl on the Bills teams of the last 6 years.
  2. No one is disputing that Mahomes wouldn't win what is up for discussion is whether or not Mahomes would be going to AFCC games every year and winning a couple of Super Bowls in Buffalo. After all Allen wins a lot of games and has led the Bills to 5 straight playoff appearances and 4 straight division titles. I have no doubt that Mahomes would have equaled that production under McD had he been here. As an aside I shudder at the thought of the offense Reid would fashion with Allen.
  3. Maybe 3 super bowl rings as he would have been better able to handle Tampa Bays pass rush in that game. McD is what's holding them back. After that it's the decision to focus on defense at the expense of the offense. And Mahomes wasn't throwing 50 TD's in Buffalo in 2018.
  4. The numbers support your argument but I think they're impacted by the cheat code called Josh Allen. He has proven over the last 4 seasons that he can be wildly productive with average to below average offensive talent around him. This is what puts the Bills in the top 10 statistical categories every year and gives us a false sense of comfort. But what the Bills are missing is the possibility of how good the offense could be if you surrounded Allen with above average talent. Focusing on the offense sets up the possibility that we might see just how HIGH the ceiling of a Josh Allen offense can be.
  5. I disagree 100% with this take. Let's start with this from the article: "The Bills proceeded to draft, trade for and sign players to surround Allen in the hopes of having a year-in-and-year-out dynamic offense. It has mostly worked." How can anyone who covers the Bills and claims to know football say this? A more accurate statement would be that after tearing the Bills completely down in 2018 they signed serviceable guys to allow a functioning offense. The only thing that has worked in the Bills plan here is that Allen has been a far better & dynamic QB in his career then anyone thought he would be in 2018. The ONLY high end Offensive players the Bills have signed in free agency from 2019 - 2023 were Morse & Diggs. And the ONLY 1st round picks spent on Offensive players between 2019 - 2023 was the one to get Diggs and drafting Kincaid. O'Halloran calls out the failures of the defense over the last 3 seasons and then makes a weird argument that the Bills haven't emphasized defense over that period of time when they have used multiple 1st & 2nd round draft picks to address the D as well as making the biggest FA acquisition over the last 3 years with Von Miller. The only thing I like is O'Halloran's call for high volume on D selections. Yea, lets spend a lot of 4th - 7th round picks, sign lot of rookie FA's and sign a lot of low cost FA JAGS. But the #1 priority going into the off season must be to get, either through the draft or FA, a top flight WR.
  6. I disagree. Dunne is explaining to fans what they already have seen. Look I don't trust any Journalist on almost any topic. But whatever ax Dunne has to grind with McD his observations line up with what I've seen over the last few years and the comments that McD has made both in season and in the off season. All Dunne is doing for me is to provide additional info and a broader perspective. Just like how Knox was wide open for a 20 yard gain in 2021 and Allen ignored him to throw a 75 TD pass to Davis. #1 NFL WR's have to make that catch at least 19 times out of 20 throws. As to whether or not Diggs lost the ball or never saw it until it was on his hands we'll never know because he left before answering any questions.
  7. And here I thought the bigger problem was that Allen had left the Bills D with three leads inside of 2 minutes left in the game that they couldn't protect.
  8. But aren't people like you always telling us that Allen's TO' prevent wins? So which is it?
  9. And another franchise chooses an offensive guy over a defensive guy as head coach. You should see my shocked face.
  10. This is my fear to. If the Bills don't prioritize the offense, particularly the WR room, then Allen will soldier on but he will start to look elsewhere. My expectation, hope really, is that Bean & Pegula can't be so stupid as to not see this and they will adjust the priorities. In this case I'm confident that Allen will spend his career in Buffalo ad bring home a couple of Lombardi trophy's. BTW, I have no expectation that McD will see it. I believe Dunne when he says the man is clueless of how elite QB's see the game. If McD exerts substantial influence in the draft & FA and turns the Bills back towards the D then I would expect Allen to be gone no later (and probably sooner) then his 32nd birthday.
  11. Fair point but that play and situation in the game reminded me of Allen's 75 yard TD strike to Gabe Davis in the 2021 KC playoff game. Remember the Chiefs had just gone up 23 - 14 in the 3rd quarter and it looked like the Bills were on the precipice of getting blown out. So 1st down after the KO Allen did a play action drop back and ignored a wide open Knox across the middle for a 20 yard gain in order to push the ball 55 yards down the field for the TD. That play changed the game into a shootout that the Bills should have won but for McD's ineptitude at the end. On Sunday Allen hit Diggs in the hands at the 25 yard line. At worst Diggs is tripped up there but it looks to me like he would have scored putting the Bills in the lead half way through the 4th quarter. That kind of lightening strike immediately after the Chiefs had fumbled the ball through the end zone may have changed the entire rhythm and momentum of the game. I want Allen making that throw EVERY SINGLE TIME.
  12. So the Bills spend the entire game running the ball and throwing short passes in order to set up a couple of deep throws. That is football 101. Under that situation those are not "low percentage bombs". Brady calls a deep shot off play action (again football 101) and Allen throws perfect balls to 2 WR's that hit them in the hands. Both passes are dropped which IMO was the only real thing the offense did wrong the whole game.
  13. As you noted there is no perfect QB rating system. But QBR better captured Allen's play on Sunday then the conventional QB rating. To suggest otherwise is wrong and fly's in the face of what we all saw in that game.
  14. Against the Chiefs Allen took what was available. That will lead to a lower QB rating because YPC is reduced. The two drops on over 100 yards of potential passing yards prevented Allen from having a rating in the 100's. And as usual you neglect to mention Allen's 72 yards and 2 TD's rushing which was critical to the offenses success. BTW, Allen's QBR, which is a much better rating of how Allen plays then the regular rating, was 65.4 against the Chiefs Sunday. This is quite good and borderline great. But the way you present it is misleading. Do you ave a grudge against Allen?
  15. Again we lost 3 games when the O gave the D the lead with less then 2 minutes left on the clock. Sure the D won a couple of games as did the O. But given the uneven allocation of resources over the last 5 years the D should be winning a lot more games then the offense. And in the playoff losses the O has played in all those games except one. In contrast the defense has been awful in every playoff loss. And we've needed one for the last 3 years. Their refusal to get this hugely valuable piece (D Hopp anyone?) for Allen and the Offense has been a case of football malpractice.
  16. There are two elements of unleashing Allen: 1) Short term we're talking about the attempt to reign Allen in and have him run less and take less risks throwing the football. We saw this put into effect during the first 10 games of 2023 and Allen was miserable, the offense uneven and an OC was fired as a result. Dunne only points out the obvious: McD was the author of Allen's changed play. Dunne isn't making anything up here he's simply referring to the public statements and articles by McD in the off season & pre season. 2) Long term McD & Bean in their roster construction have sought to exploit Allen's unique talent not optimize it. This is a huge difference and the Bills have paid the price every year for this wrongheaded thinking. McD/Bean hoped that Allen was special enough to carry the O while they focused on the D. Look at the Bills neglect of the WR room, the most important position group when you have an elite QB to see that Dunne speaks the truth here. Every post season Marvin Lewis said the right things about how next season would be different. But they never were. So you can hope the Bills make changes NOW like I do or you can keep expecting things to get better doing basically the same wrong things for another couple of years.
  17. I can only speak for myself and while Dunne may have a personal grudge with McD what he says in that article matches many of my own observations. I agree that had we beat KC we would likely have lost to the Ravens next week. But the point Dunne is making is not unreasonable. The Bills have hit a wall at the Divisional Playoff round. And Dunne's argument that they hit this wall in large part because of McD & Beans refusal to focus the necessary resources and mindset against surrounding their uniquely gifted QB with the best talent available rings true to me.
  18. Twice the Bills struck deep and Allen hit the WR in the hands. BOTH were incomplete. In a game where you must be patient Allen exhibited unnatural patience. The WR must make the catch on those two throws. They would have been game changing.
  19. And that's why McD is 5 - 6 in the layoffs whereas Lewis was 0 - 7. But can you honestly say that McD will get us past the Divisional round? He did it ONE time in 5 playoff games. IMO in the playoffs Allen covers up a lot of the weaknesses of McD and how Bean has structured this team. If McD has hit his wall then the Bills must move on from him. Allen is to good of a QB to be satisfied with a divisional playoff appearance. Marv Levy's wall was the Super Bowl and that was acceptable. But if a coaches wall is anything less then a SB appearance when you have a QB as good as Allen then that is not acceptable.
  20. I hope he follows the Peyton Manning trajectory and lands a couple of Lombardi trophy's for Buffalo. But until I see a real change in direction for the Bills in FA & the draft starting this year I fear Allen's career will follow the trajectory of Dan Fouts & Phillip Rovers only with more yards and TD's. And that would be sad and a damning indictment of the Bills management.
  21. One more time. I lived through this down here in Cincinnati with Marvin Lewis. The difference was that while I supported the Bengals they were my #2 team behind the Bills. Now I'm seeing history repeat itself with McD. And it's almost an exact replication of the Lewis saga down here. The only difference is where Lewis was 0 - 7 in the playoffs McD is 5 - 6. But McD has a much better QB then Lewis had. So sorry if after 3 straight years of losing in the Divisional Playoff round I'm throwing up my hand and saying if you don't move on from McD now you will have another 3 or 4 years of early playoff exits.
  22. I didn't say McD didn't believe in the forward pass. I said that McD is unable to fully grasp & exploit the power of a modern NFL passing attack in the way that an offensive minded coach can. And I believe that McD wanted Allen to be Tyrod on steroids. Allen was a strong armed project that very few saw as morphing into the most effective dual threat QB in NFL history. IMO Allen has not tuned into the QB that McD really wanted.
  23. I follow LSU football closely and this is not correct. Brady was recruited by LSU to install and run an NFL passing attack. My understanding is that he had been a quality control manager for Sean Payton and the Saints who loaned him out to LSU to do a seminar on building an effective passing game. The Tigers were so impressed they offered him a job. Ed Orgeron (LSU head coach) and the LSU OC recognized they had elite NFL talent in the passing game but worried they didn't have the expertise to fully exploit it. Brady installed that fearsome LSU passing attack and called all the pass plays on game day. He sat next to the OC in the booth who called the running plays. Brady's impact on that team was enormous and was the reason they won the national title in dominating fashion. It was the most lethal passing attack ever seen in the history of college football.
  24. The offense you saw Brady run was an admission on his part of the weakness of the Bills WR room. I am confident that with the right WR's Brady will be a brilliant OC. I watched every LSU game the year they won the National Championship with Burrow, Chase & Jefferson. Go back and watch some of those games and you will feel much more confident that if the Bills sign a stud WR in FA or use a 1st round pick to take a top flight guy in the draft Brady will know how to get the most out of him. Brady was in charge of the LSU passing game that year. In fact I would go so far as to say that if Brady doesn't get assurances from McD/Bean that they're bringing in a top level WR talent either in FA or the draft he will be very tempted t leave Buffalo for another OC job.
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