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Thanks Doc, I didn't realize he'd written a follow up. Glad to hear it's worth the read; I'll be putting it on the list. 🤙

The read was right but the blown protection forced it into being a desperation heave that was nowhere near where it should have been. You can scapegoat Kincaid til the cows come home but there were multiple mistakes made on that play that resulted in the incompletion and the late, wildly off-target throw was one of them.

He was definitely late getting back into the play. If the protection wasn't so fouled up, I think Allen would have had the time and space to throw a better ball.

Shakir could not have blocked all three of the defenders that stayed in their zones over there. Kincaid was the right read and the only realistic option; Allen was just a hair late realizing it.

This is not true. Two LBs and a Safety stayed in their zone between the hashes and didn't chase the flag or the drag. Both LB's were eyeballing Shakir and Allen was eyeballing them because I think Shakir was where he wanted to go presnap. Both LBs held their water and if Allen tosses to Shakir he doesn't make the sticks, if he rolls left and runs he doesn't make the sticks, if he rolls left and looks downfield he's fouled up his angle to Kincaid. The only way the play works is if he drifts back and gets a ball out leading Kincaid just before the rush gets home.

He was running right to the zone that had been vacated due to the corner blitz; it was 100% the right route. If not for the blown protection, Allen would have had time to drop it on him with a ton of room to run.

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If you assume the ball is in his right arm and the rotate the camera to the left so it's actually lined up with the 40, then he's still probably short.

Not only can you still not see the ball, but that image is also not perpendicular to the sideline and still taken from an angle that skews the perspective.

I understand and actually agree with that and I am usually much more accepting of that appropriate grace period, but this stuff has been going on for months, if not years. I just think enough is enough and it's time to cowboy up.

Those guys know when the scramble drill is on when he starts scrambling. And the guy with the flag in his pocket isn't looking anywhere near teh QB, he's watching his area of responsibility. I agree it's instinctual and thus a hard habit to break, but it accomplishes absolutely nothing but to compromise Allen's concentration, balance, ball security, etc.

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I'm not sure what Chase Daniels has been watching but Allen has been doing this for 5 years. Frankly, I wish he would stop because it has no positive effect on the play whatsoever and only serves as a distraction.

Were you wearing Bills gear? I think there was a kid in the back messing with you

He's running to where the ball is supposed to be, exactly like he was supposed to. Unfortunately it was short and inside by a full 15 yrds.

I'm not remotely titillated. I'm just disgusted by the relentless crybaby bull####.

I meant it shouldn't have been made into a tough catch in the first place. If it's only 10 yrds off target, he handles it easily; having it be 15 yrds off target made it waaaaay harder than it had to be.

He should have made the tough catch. But he also shouldn't have had to make the tough catch.

That was the opposite of a receiver friendly throw. He had to stop on a dead sprint, reverse field and dive back just to get his hands on it. That ball was a full 15 yrds from the vacated zone where it should have been. I'm not blaming Allen for it, but the idea this was an easy catch or a receiver friendly ball is 100% pure bunk.

I mean, they still had a guy pushing him. It just happened to be a scrawny TE from Utah with a bad knee.

He's running into the vacated zone and the further he ran into it, the more open he was. If Allen had been able to throw from any platform whatsoever that play ends up inside the 10 or possibly in the endzone. He should have made the tough catch, but he shouldn't have had to even make a catch that was tough. That ball should have been 15 yrds in front of where it was and that was what he was anticipating, imo.

Are you referring to Allen? Kincaid was running exactly where he was supposed to be running. That ball was 15 yrds short of where it should have been and he had to make a tough adjustment to stop on a dead sprint and come back for it.

In that case, I'll change my estimate to before training camp is over

If he had been throwing from any kind of platform that ball would have been 15+ yrds in front of where Kincaid ultimately had to come back for it. I'm not saying that Allen should have seen it coming, just that he didn't. And that's the reason he didn't make the right read (which it was) til it was too late to set up and make the throw with any sort of accuracy.

Bull. He misread presnap, was late picking up the corner blitz and ran himself into a position where he was off balance and couldn't get the throw within 15 yrds of where it was supposed to be. It was a mental mistake that will piss him off forever.