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Dumb take. No one is suggesting he be a building block for the future. Just a stop gap for the rest of the season.

In this hypothetical, does the defense choke a away a lead with less than two minutes left in the game?

always with some passive aggressive manner of actually shifting blame to some one else.

Sean McDermott said he does not have the answers. Maybe the players are meeting to see if any of them have the answers.

I never said I did. I was just pointing out your mistake in your reply to the other person

Fair point. My point in the original post was that he was was arguably statistically avg. QBR is intended to compensate for the types of issues you raised. By that measure Allen was well above average.

25 points and a lead with two minutes to go is what mattered yesterday.

Regarding item 1. That is a polite way of saying we don’t have the talent to win. If our defense is not capable of holding the NFLs worst offense to less than 29 points in 27 minutes of possession time, we can’t beat good teams. The defense played badly yesterday. If they can’t play better, then the Bills likely miss the playoffs. If they can play better, then the need to own yesterday’s performance, which lost a very winnable game. Regarding item 2, this is all true. In a different thread someone made the observation that Kincaid needs to be TE1 and we need to move back to 11 personnel as the primary package. This solves the single biggest dropped pass problem. If the coaches don’t make this change for th next game, we will know that winning competes with other “process” priorities, or the coaching staff is not competent to adjust.

Just not true. Coming into the game Allen is too 5 in every improvement passing stat this season

I suspect your answer is intentionally over the top. But a slightly toned down version seems like it would be ok. "after seven games, its no secret we have made significant changes to our offensive strategy compared to prior seasons. Some of it has worked as we expected. Some has not. We have a special QB that gives us many options on how to run the offense. All of those options are on the table"

This is not true. Almopst everyone hates everything the are emotionally or physically addicted too.

I think Josh is following coaching orders on the sideline. There is an irrational fear of Josh playing with emotions. He is most likely doing what he is told.

This is probably the best single observation I have seen posted on the board regarding yesterday's game and the offense.

I don't know. If the defense is going to play at a level that allows Mac Jones to put up a 127 passer rating, I am not sure a few contested catches more or less is going to make a huge difference.

Dak Prescott has a season long passer rating of 91 - ranked 14th - Dallas is 4-2 Baker Mayfield has a rating of 89 - ranked 15th. - Tampa is 3-3. Yesterday Allen had a passer rating of 90. If you compare Josh to peak Josh it was not good. If you compare Josh to other NFL QBs, it was slightly above average. If you are a fan of ESPN's QBR (I am not), Allen had a 68.9 rating yesterday which as a season average would place him fifth overall. Despite Allen's slightly above NFL average results, the Bills lost to a 1-5 team. This loss is an indictment of the whole team. Josh is not paid to be average. But during the course of 17 games, if his floor is average, that is pretty damn good. If the expectation is that everytime Josh has an NFL average game we should be expected to lose, then we are barely a playoff contender let alone a championship contender. Look at Mac Jones passer rating. Look at Buffalo rushing yards /carry. Look at the Patriots rushing yards per carry. Then explain how the defense's effort for the full 60 minutes, is not the primary cause of the loss. It is worth nothing also that the Bills possessed the ball for 32 minutes to the Patriots 28. The defense was highly protected. And given a lead with less than two minutes to go. No intelligent person could conclude "the loss is Allen's fault".

In prior seasons fans were demanding we take the "sugar rush" out of Josh. Given the coaches offseason comments criticizing Allen for running, the new game plan strategy that has neutered Allen's game, it seems likely the "calm" Allen demeanor is a request from the coaches to keep level the whole game. The next step in improving Allen will be to have him nervously clap after crappy Bills plays. That way we will know he has the proper emotionally state for peak performance.

If they tossed in Tremaine Edmunds, maybe.

an oline giving the QB time.

first pleasant game of the day

quite the catch

Some version of "I am the head coach the buck stops with me" would be nice.

When McDermott uses the term he means "the defense is playing great, the offense is not making our job easy enough, for example, if they would leave the defense with a nine point lead with 2 minutes to go, my defense could close out the game"

Defense is bad. The injuries are one of the reasons.

Unless you lose 3 or 4 in a row. Then the criticism ramps up again.

He came into the game leading the NFL in completion percentage. So your probably wrong. He did not have a great game. Which is why the Bills lost. The Bills are have a middling coaching staff with a middling roster, and a great QB. If the QB has a middling game we lose. We have no other way to win.