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Allen has a rocket launcher. Cardale Jones has a cannon. Nathan Peterman has a .22.

Let me ask you a question. Are you blind? Did you not see the Texans player smash his helmet into Josh's elbow. This was a blunt force injury and if you debate that you're crazy. Here's the video for you: https://twitter.com/meagantownsend/status/1052212802490957824

Great read from Peter King in today's FMIA on Drew Brees and what made him great. If JA follows this example, he can be a great QB too. FMIA Saints coach Sean Payton on what he has learned in 12 seasons side-by-side with Drew Brees, the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards. “So what has Drew taught me?” Pause. Four, five seconds. “Mental preparation. Every young quarterback should see what he does to prepare for a game. It’s extraordinary. “The time he takes to play the game in his mind has been a revelation to me. In his first year [2006] he’s still coming back from his major shoulder surgery, and he’s working so hard to get every edge he can. So we have our bye, and I’m in the office on Sunday afternoon, and I look out onto the practice field, and there’s this one guy, alone. “True story. The field’s a little far away, and I can’t see who this is, but he’s out there with a football, dropping back and I’d guess you’d call it simulating playing football—playing quarterback. So I go out there. It’s Drew, totally alone. I say, ‘What are you doing out here? It’s the bye. You’re off!’ He says, ‘I wanted to get my game in. I wanted to stay on my schedule, and this is the day and time we’d be playing.’ He’s just out there, you understand, playing against nobody, running through our plays, playing the game mentally. “I say, ‘Who’s winning?’ He smiles and says, ‘We are.’ “I get in the car. And I thought, ‘I’m glad he’s mine.’ Sean Payton and Drew Brees. (Getty Images) “So what do you learn from this story? His passion for perfection is off the charts. It rubs off on the guys he plays with. It has made us better every single year. I think these teammates become better players than they’re supposed to be. Every week he’ll take the top 15 to 20 plays in the game plan, plays he’s almost sure we’ll run. And he’ll go through every one mentally. He’ll think how he’ll go to his first option, then go through it again and think how he’ll go to the second option, and then again with the third option, ad nauseum. Is that the right word—ad nauseum? He believes in the power of visually seeing something, and every possible option on a route. On the play where he set the [passing-yards] record, the throw to Tre’Quan Smith for the 62-yard touchdown, I can tell you, we worked on that all week, and we never thought the ball was going to Tre’Quan. But he was open, Drew threw it, and it was the right choice. He throws to the guy who’s open. Who was the guy who wrote that book, ‘Throw Me The Damn Ball?’ “ Keyshawn Johnson, he was told. “Probably wouldn’t have worked with Drew. “I have also learned another thing from Drew—faith. Back in 2006, we were all-in on Drew. But it was tough. Our city was half destroyed, and he was coming back from this huge shoulder surgery. And our team wasn’t good. Basically, our city and our team were both startups. It reminded me of that scene in ‘Jerry Maguire,’ where Tom Cruise quits that big agent firm to go off on his own. There was that great scene where he storms out and says, ‘Who’s coming with me!’ And here’s Renee Zellweger, kind of meekly, saying, ‘I’ll go with you.’ That was exactly us. And Drew saw our city and our team as sort of a calling, I think. He had faith in us, and we had faith in him. “One of the most incredible memories of my coaching life comes from that first year. I come in one day and the message light on my phone is on, and I pick it up and I don’t remember exactly what it said, but it was something like this: Sean, this is coach Bill Walsh. I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy watching what you’re doing on offense—the precision, the timing, the discipline. There aren’t many offenses I enjoy, but yours is one. For a young coach like me, wow. We played phone tag after that, and I never got to talk to him about it, which is sad. He died the next year. “Drew is such a big part of it all. He demands everyone be committed. His dedication, that’s something everyone can learn from.”

If he doesn't get injured yesterday, JA is 3-1 as a starter. Let that sink in. The recipe right now is play conservative on offense while JA gets experience, use the QB run game, run the clock, and let a solid defense win you games. Next year, when we have the cap space and draft picks we improve the offense. JA will be in his second year and we will know better what he is.

Stick to soccer. I don't think football's your thing. If you expected a star QB off the get go, that's crazy.

To accuse JA of being a bad teammate is blasphemous. His teammates love him. You know who has a bad personality? Josh Rosen. And he's also an atheist.

Nope. Allen was injured. They showed him on the sideline, high fiving his teammates, trying to keep everyone pumped.

Did you not see the 50 yard bomb Allen threw today that was called back because of illegal formation? The WRs suck. The OL sucks. Shady is OK, but not great. Josh doesn't have any help. We won't know what he is for a couple years.

Allen's biggest strength is his ability to throw the ball down the field. He has the potential to be better than anyone in the NFL for 20+ yard throws. His short passing game leaves a lot to be desired and will have to improve if he wants to be an elite QB. We all knew he was a project that would take a couple years to fulfill his potential. So far, he's been about on schedule given the circumstances. Even the great Peyton Manning threw 28 int's in his first year. Allen made a few phenomenal throws today. One was called back. One was for zero yards that showed ridiculous arm strength with Watt pushing him back. Calling to draft another QB is crazy. If he hadn't been injured we probably win and JA is 3-1 as a starter. The most important thing is to win, not completion percentage.