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Yeah. Much easier after next season. $4.1M hit to save $12.5M. Next year would only save a little over $6M. He's not worth his full salary, but he's worth $6M.

The Dolphins are a scary team when healthy.

Elam didn’t give up a single completion last week, and he’s not going to give up any this week either.

Of course he’s allowed a bad game here and there. This is a look back at 2+ seasons, though.

I was. If you want to attribute the fumbles to the passing game, then they should have been included in your original post. Either way, his rushing TDs and fumbles are a huge part of who he is as a QB for better or worse.

Things aren’t simplified under center at all. They put Josh in shotgun because it makes his reads easier. He’s never been great at processing, so forcing him to backpedal, turn his back to play fake, etc. works against him.

Fair enough, but I don’t really see how it matters if the fumble occurs on a pass or a run. Either speaks to the level of ball security.

His running is such a huge part of his game that anything omitting those stats is lacking. He’s got 13 TDs and 23 fumbles over that period.

So did Dorsey.

Josh, and it’s not even close.

No. Josh made a terrible decision, and no amount of better route running by Gabe was going to change the fact that Diggs was completely unguarded right in front of Josh’s face. Brady could demand excellence from his receivers because Brady made the right read 99% of the time. That’s not Josh.

Or what if Josh had thrown the ball to Diggs who was wide open right in front of Josh?

This is embarrassing. Josh was awful. He needs to play better.

He's over 30 and coming off an injury. Of course Beane is interested.

Or at the spot of the fumble. It’s ridiculous.

Time for the stupidest rule in sports to rear it’s ugly head.

I think it’s best to just acknowledge that Allen isn’t going to suddenly change who he is 6 seasons into his career. Let him stop worrying about it and just do what he does. Yes, it will probably shorten his career, but it is what it is. His willingness to take one in order to give one is part of what makes him effective.

Buy: Rousseau - I think he's strangely undervalued in this board. Allen aside, he might be the most valuable asset on the team in terms of his talent versus salary. Sell: Hyde and Poyer - They're old and slow, and that's only going to get worse as the season goes on. Hold: White - Looked good at times and not so good at other times. With Elam's status being in doubt, they really need White to get back to his previous level.

If you remove QB from the equation, the Bills have a very average roster. In the AFC, I would say that the Bengals, Ravens, Browns, Chiefs, Chargers, Jets, Dolphins, and Jaguars all have better rosters. In order for the Bills to make the Superbowl, Allen will have to outplay all of those QBs by enough to overcome that stagger. That's a tough ask.

Weird. He literally kicked a FG on fourth and 2 on consecutive possessions while tied and then up 3 in week 1.

He absolutely would have. He's one of the most conservative coaches in the game when it comes to 4th downs.

How does anyone come away from that game thinking that the Bills running backs were the problem?

So it's somehow not as bad of a play if your teammate happens to fall on the ball you fumbled? Josh didn't recover any fumbles himself, so it's not like he was responsible for fixing his own mistake. That's like saying the pass he threw yesterday that hit Mosley in the chest wasn't a bad play because Mosley dropped it. Fumbling 3 times in a playoff game is worth taking note of whether you care to admit it or not. It's also worth nothing that Allen lost the ball on another play last night, but it was ruled that his forward progress was stopped. He has a massive issue with ball security. That's not exactly a secret. In fairness, I edited my original post because I quoted the wrong piece of Cincy's post initially.

Take away two of the top 10 players in the NFL, and suddenly they're average. Who would've guessed?