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He threw to an open receiver on 3rd down!!!! In your mind, you want him to throw a 2-3 yard crosser instead of throwing to an open WR who is past the sticks on 3rd down???? Thank Goodness you are not one of our coaches.

This NEVER happened. 1st down: Screen pass to Shakir that he dropped 2nd down: Every receiver was downfield. Only Cook was close. It would have been a 3 yard pass where Cook gets crushed by the linebackers. 3rd down: Shakir and Knox were open on 3 yard crosser. You wanted him to throw that and make it 4th and 7?

Oh look the troll is back. Shocker after a loss. Allen was 71% for over 300 yards and 2 TD’s. He played damn well. One poor pass does not negate that.

No. Pass interference still exists when a QB is outside of the pocket… Shakir was 100% interfered with. Youre thinking of illegal contact. Two different things.

That throw you want him to make is just stupid. Irresponsible even. With significant likelihood of interception. To which you would have criticized him for if he threw it.

He played damn well. 71% passing, over 300 total yards and 2 TD’s. 30 other franchises would give anything for their QB to play as “poorly” as Allen did last night.

That’s what leaders do. They take blame, even when it’s not their fault.

Huh? Play-action or false handoffs on seeeps are never done with two hands. You’re thinking of RPO’s. Allen does this hundreds of times per year with no issues. Knox screwed this up because he NEVER does that and didn’t get his hands out of the way.

List the exact plays this happened. I want to see the exact plays you are speaking of. It’s easy to throw out blanket statements like this, but let’s break down these plays where she Always so easy to say with hindsight. Do you know how QB’s make decisions on read options? Hint; It’s not by seeing the future and knowing which option will work better. They are looking at the DE to see which way he crashes. Go towards the RB = QB keeps it. If he goes toward the QB = He gives to the RB. Thats how it is taught. On this play, the New England DE did an incredibly good job of staying neutral. He didn’t crash either way. Look at this image of when Allen is deciding: Because the DE stays neutral, Allen has a choice. 1) Hand it off and hope Ty beats him to the edge. 2) Trust the best player in the NFL (himself) to get the yardage. He trusted himself, which he should. He didn’t have a window into the future telling him which option would work better. He did what he was taught - read the DE. And on this play, the DE played it perfectly.

How the BLEEP is the Knox fumble Allen’s fault? Allen hands the ball off 350 times per year and doesn’t fumble and you think it was Allen? Not the TE who never receives handoffs? Really!? Do any of you think before posting? How much harder do you want Josh to slam this ball in Knox’s chest!????? My guess is you think that Allen kept the ball for the handoff to Cook. And that might be the case! However, it would STILL Knox’s fault for not operating the false handoff properly. Again, Allen does this 300+ times per year flawlessly. It was a horrendous play call.

Ding, ding, ding. Finally someone with some common sense. Allen played very well. he had a couple poor throws. Any quarterback in the NFL has a bad throw now and then.

The number of idiotic posters coming out of the woodwork is mind boggling. Samuel only appears open because Allen is scrambling to his right (where he is very dangerous), and that shifts the defense to the side the QB is scrambling to. Why? Because defenses know that QB’s don’t throw 60 yards across their body. So they let those WR’s run free. What we have now is a bunch of fat old men in their mother’s basement criticizing everything the greatest QB in Bills history does…. only because we lost. Had we won, the minutea they are nitpicking would never come up. He had a bad game they say? What!? He was 71% passing, had over 300 yards, and 2 TD’s. And he would have had more if Coleman knew how to catch a back shoulder fade, or didn’t fumble the ball in the open field, or if Brady didn’t want to hand the ball off to Dawson freaking Knox. None of these people deserve Allen.

Quality is worse than Zapruder but the Patriots defender was assaulting Shakir before the ball got there. You can see the ball in the air in this photo, and the Patriot blob of pixels on Shakir’s blob of pixels.

Yes - as I already said, he could have hit Cook for a 3 yard catch (and gotten Cook crushed by two linebackers). He did NOT have Palmer for an easy 7-8 yards. I know what game you’re playing - it’s the “I see a player momentarily open while the QB is going trough his progressions, looking to the complete opposite side of the field” When Allen reaches Palmer in his progressions, he is blanketed downfield. You wanted Allen to throw thid 3 yard crosser… on 3rd and 10… to make it 4th and 7? Thats what you’re going with? Thats your argument? Instead of throwing to an open Shakir … who is past the sticks? Which is what he did. Some of you argue just to argue.

I am also tired of Joe Brady’s play calling. A tight end handoff in the 1st quarter when you’re moving the ball well? Really? REALLY JOE? You wanted Dawson Knox to get a handoff behind the line of scrimmage? It was infuriating in the first half.

If you go back and watch you will quickly see that what you are upset about never happened. On that final drive, Allen never passed up easy short passes in favor of home run balls. It didn’t happen. The best you could find is Allen not throwing a 3 yard pass to Cook and getting him blown up.

Yep. He didn’t move an inch to come get that ball.

What game did some of you watch? Its 1st and 10 at the spot where we eventually kick the game tying field goal 1st down: WR screen. Shakir drops it. 2nd down: Every single WR runs a route that is 10+ yards downfield. In fact, every WR is in the endzone when Coleman goes to catch the ball. Cook is the only person open short and it would have been for a 3 yard catch (and he would have been wrecked by the LB immediately). 3rd down: No one is open past the sticks. You wanted Allen to throw a 2 yard pass to Shavers, which would have given us 4th and 8? WTF are you watching?

The day your trolling ass is banned from this forum is the day that this website becomes a better place.

In surprised no one else is mentioning this. We were outcoached in every meanginful facet. Drake Maye escaped to his right the ENTIRE GAME and took until the 4th quarter for Babich and McD to spy that right side. But even after they figured that out, they couldn’t figure out to station a zone defense to Maye’s right so that when he is flushed, he has no outlet. This is football 101 we were failing at.

Game was over as soon as we settled for a field goal. Allen knew that there was no way McDermot was going for fourth down in that situation. He knew he needed all 10 yards or they were keeping the field goal.

It was over when we kicked a field goal instead of going TD.

yeah we should have went for 4th down

We have a defensive head coach who can’t figure out that Maye is continuously throwing to his RIGHT!!!! Blanket the right!!!

No… He sure is not. If he throws to the “open” guy underneath on that 3rd down, we are starting at 4th and 5. He bought time and threw to someone who would have gotten a first down if he wasn’t interfered with.