DapperCam

I’m glad I only watched the first quarter and then the last 5 minutes. Otherwise watching this same script play out would be 100 times more annoying. KC basically got an 18 point swing by from the refs on close calls (or not so close calls on the DPI).

I don’t know what is or is not OPI, because the KC WRs just square up and start blocking while the ball is still in the air.

Jags play like professional morons. Good night.

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Bad spot

Rules analyst didn’t have golden boy screaming in his ear.

OPI as it should be

Lol, equal chance of an INT or catch there

This thread should be in the dictionary next to the definition of “Monday Morning Quarterback”. Allen played a “good” not “great” game. He had a 100+ passer rating, 300 yards, 2 TDs and 1 turnover (I attribute the fumble to Knox). If you are watching the game, you are seeing that nobody is getting open. Allen is floating around buying time and still throwing to blanketed guys. That is a “good” game from a QB. Our team can only win if our QB has a “great” game. 16 QBs had a worse passer rating than Allen this week, and 9 of them won their games. Our team only wins if Allen carries them. Otherwise they lose. In general nobody (other than Cook sometimes) is making a big play in crunch time on either side of the ball (credit to Oliver vs the Ravens, but it is rare). Other teams have QBs like Bo Nix playing terribly and still winning games against good teams on the road. It’s been this way for like 3 seasons at least.

There aren't 64 good boundary CBs in the entire league, let alone 32 more for good backups. It's a position with scarcity of quality players. White is probably one of the 96 best CBs out there right now. He makes a good play half the time, and gets burned the other half of the time.

I would say Allen cost the Bills 3 points, I don't think you can say he gave the Pats 7 points. The defense still had to do its part to let the Pats have a 90 yard TD drive after his pick.

This is just false

There is no illegal contact when the QB is outside of the pocket. That includes things like bumping and rerouting WR when they are running their route past 5 yards. There is still pass interference, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with making a play on the ball. You are never allowed to go through the back of the WR to make a play. It was textbook DPI, and it was just missed.

I think it might be time to get your prescription updated for your glasses because he put it right into Knox’s gut.

This game was like the Texans game in the sense that nobody was open, and everything seemed hard on offense. The difference is Allen actually played well in this game, and couldn’t get anything going in the Texans game.

I think Maye had a “good” not “great” game. He also got to play against the Bills defense, which is incredibly soft. I wouldn’t say he outplayed Allen (who had to go against the Pats defense which is good). Allen would absolutely torch the Bills defense.

If you are calling the Knox fumble Allen’s fault completely, then you are just salty about the loss. It was a failed handoff where Knox didn’t know he was getting the ball. It is impossible for us to know, as fans, what the play call was. Considering Knox is a lumbering oaf, and I can’t remember any other failed exchanges in the recent past, my money is on Knox being the screwup there.

We’ll never know for sure, but I’d bet the fumble was on Knox. If it’s a poor game by his standards it’s only because his standards are so high. We should be able to win a game where the QB has an average performance (can’t remember the last time we did though).

At halftime Allen had 9+ YPA, a 90% completion percentage and was the team’s leading rusher with 7 YPC. Allen actually played pretty well other than the interception (which was a big mistake, but at least partially caused by a BS offensive pass interference penalty). His receivers could not get open, and he had to buy time/create all game. That’s probably part of why his internal clock got screwed up and he bailed in a clean pocket here.

Pretty clear that Keon is never going to be a good starting boundary WR. He doesn’t have the physical attributes to succeed, and I really doubt he becomes an elite route runner to make up for it at this point. For a 2nd round pick I guess he isn’t a huge bust, but still not what we needed. Allen has made plenty of guys look serviceable, and then they look terrible when to move on to their next team.

My personal theory is Allen escaped a clean pocket because he was flirting with the idea of running for the first down (or at least running to make it 4th and short). Which is definitely a mental mistake because the Pats were playing zone and showed zone presnap (nobody went with the WR in motion). Maybe he thought they were pretending to be in zone but were actually going to be in man.

Bills ran their “four minute” offense. The idea was to score a TD or FG with very little time for the Pats to score. It’s kind of a risky strategy because if you fail to get a first down then you give the Pats the ball back with the perfect amount of time to run their 2 minute offense and end the game (which they did). It makes sense if you trust your offense to be able to get multiple consecutive first downs more than you trust your defense to prevent a score vs the other team’s 2 minute offense. Our defense was a sieve in the 2nd half so it kind of makes sense.

I think it’s telling that Allen was scrambling around last night for 6+ seconds and nobody was open. When he was throwing downfield during the scramble drill it was to a covered guy. Even Gabe Davis could get open given that much time. Allen can’t win with these cats.

2024 Chiefs literally got that exact DPI vs the Bengals in the regular season.

Bills games with Shawn Hochuli as the head ref. Tonight vs the Pats - weirdly reffed game, you could argue a big reason the Bills entered halftime with only a FG. 7 accepted penalties on the Bills before Pats got their first. Very ticky tack stuff. Divisional vs Chiefs 2024 - Bills doubled Chiefs penalties and yardage, to be honest I don't really remember much about this game other than Bass' missed FG to tie vs Eagles 2023 - Bad intentional grounding call, AJ Brown fumble, horsecollar tackle. Just a terribly reffed game. vs Patriots 2022- Fairly average penalties, this was mostly a beat down vs Dolphins 2018 - 120 penalty yards on 13 penalties accepted vs Ravens 2018 - 100 penalty yards on 10 penalties accepted, this was a big blowout with Peterman He actually got a decent amount of press before the Chiefs divisional game with Bills fans calling him impartial and complaining he got assigned to that game including a NYTimes article (here), so I wouldn't be surprised if he kind of hates us. He had an almost 4 year gap between being assigned one of our games, and I hope that happens again. Just totally kills the flow, which will benefit the lesser team.