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You’ll have someone come out and say Rosie looked better during her teen years.

You must not have watched the games. Allen’s first 5 years was not on Brady’s level in his first five. No objective thinker would believe otherwise. Yes, it is pure homerism and if you took this ridiculous take to anyone in the NFL, including Josh, you’d be laughed at. And as far as hardball? That would mean Allen would’ve had to hold out for more than Mahomes. Which was only slightly more. Need I remind you Allen set a record at the time for guarantees. There was no discount, no matter how much you believe there was. It was a fair deal for Allen. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-comparing-patrick-mahomes-and-josh-allen-contracts-making-them-nfls-highest-paid-players/

Mahomes has lived in the AFC Championship game (5 straight), so if any QB threatens Tom’s 7 rings it’ll be him. But he has to win next Sunday to make it less arduous of a feat. There’s this fallacy that Josh gave the Bills a huge discount on his contract and it’s simply not true. It was a fair deal to both parties at the time it was signed. Made him the 2nd highest paid QB in the league to Mahomes. Chiefs actually got a much better deal provided that Pat stays healthy for the 10 years and doesn’t ask to renegotiate his contract. Comparing the deal at the time to deals now signed 2 and 3 years later is off base. I’ll never forget what the OC of the Pats said when Brady stepped in his 2nd year after Bledsoe got hurt. He said that when Brady went into the lineup, the offense was much more machine-like. His play calling became easier, more stuff worked. Brady wasn’t setting the world on fire stats wise, but he was unflappable and still processed the game at a higher level than Josh does today. Brady was better than Josh Allen in their first 5 years, regardless of what the stats say. He also wasn’t asked to be the entire offense which helped, but he made the plays he needed to make to not only send the Patriots to the SB, but actually win the whole thing. To suggest Allen is a superior QB is homerism and I love Allen, he’s just far more Favre and Roethlisberger than he ever was Brady.

Nick Wright has already crowned Mahomes the 4th best QB in the history of football, says he’s behind Brady, Montana, & Manning. With a win Sunday he leapfrogs Manning. Would love to see the Eagles make Mahomes look pedestrian, partly to shut up Nick Wright and his worship, but I dunno. Pat has a good OL now and he’s never trash for 4 quarters. I do think the Eagles OL can keep Chris Jones from going off, but I’m not sure if Hurts is equipped to handle Spags aggressive blitzes.

I wanted a 4th poll question, but thought of it just after I hit submit: Philly Cheesesteaks or KC BBQ? Would probably be the BBQ for me, though I’ve never tried it.

Main priority is protecting Josh Allen.

Thought about putting that as an option, but the majority probably would’ve picked it.

Interesting matchup. As we know, the Eagles are loaded on the line of scrimmage. If we switched QBs for this game I think it’d likely be a blowout, but as it is will probably be close. The Eagles haven’t faced too many explosive or efficient QBs and did allow Dallas to put 40 on them. Meanwhile the Chiefs defense always seems to step up in the playoffs despite being mediocre in the regular season. Can that unit slow down the birds? Who ya got?

I have a very simplistic view of this. My question is “what has the player done or what plays did he make in all the Bills playoff losses?” If we lost the game but the player made ripples, you re-sign him. If we lost the game and you hardly heard anything about the player, you move on. I vote to allocate Tremaine’s salary to upgrading the OL.

I feel like I could’ve done a better job as DC against the Bengals if I had just asked my corners to play up on their receiver and my safeties to stay back. With all the zone and off coverage Frazier ran, there were too many breakdowns and confusion. Cinci WRs didn’t have to earn anything or make plays on the ball like they had to against KC. If we switched the coordinators and the Bengals had Frazier and the Bills had Anarumo, I think you’d be looking at a very different outcome to that game.

And two picks after we take Basham, they take Crees Humphrey. They hit it out of the park. EDIT: Just saw Dawkenstein’s post, sorry to pile on 😅

Late RD2 you mean. He went 2 picks before Basham.

Beane has had an issue evaluating the trenches as well as WRs, so I don’t know. Don’t have a ton of hope to be honest, but all I can do is ride it out with everyone else. There was definitely some home cooking going on, but the inverse happened last week. Bills got hit with all sorts of penalties (some I didn’t think were legit), while the Bengals and their makeshift OL got away scott free. Do I think it would’ve made a difference on the scoreboard if the officiating felt more equal last week? No. It was simply the Bengals’ night, aided by terrible game plans. But it definitely would’ve made a difference in the KC game if it was officiated more fairly.

I didn’t ask that question. Mahomes has a lot more cred (awards, MVPs, championships) than Allen, so I can’t pretend like I don’t see what most other football analysts and fans see. Allen isn’t on Mahomes’ level yet, but let’s see if that changes when he’s given a credible OL and WRs who bail him out rather than drop passes.

The elbow was an issue for sure, but it was halftime of that Packers game where he started to look like a different QB. The game that next week against the Jets was extremely rough long before he injured the elbow. And then the MIN game… nevermind. Anyway, the elbow hindered his arm, but he was still making questionable decisions, pre and post injury. The Packers game is seemingly where it started to derail and he never fully recaptured the magic from earlier in the year IMO. All QBs have drops, but yes, Josh had some brutal ones.

Odd because those weren’t the numbers that person had posted! Also odd that Mahomes would have a QBR of 35 vs Seattle with a 106.8 rating and a 68 against LV with a rating of 110. I know QBR takes into account actual game play more than the stats, but I don’t know how they reached those statistics. Perhaps it was rating, not QBR, that person had posted. EDIT: Burrow had a 96 rating to go with his 18 QBR and Josh had a 46.8 rating to go with his 63.9 QBR, so I’m assuming it was the ratings that were posted.

There’s 30 other QBs in the league… I remember a TD the Dolphins had against us after their play clock had already hit 0. Thought it should’ve been a penalty then and still think it should’ve been one now.

It’s also consistency. Someone posted Allen’s 3 lowest QBRs from the season and posted Mahomes and Burrows for comparison’s sake. Allen was far behind the other two, meaning when he’s been bad, he's been really bad. Of course it isn’t all on him, doesn’t help when his receivers are dropping passes, or when Saffold is allowing pressure in less than a second, but it is what it is. Allen’s ceiling is as high as any QB in the league, but his floor is lower than the other two and needs to be raised.

No one argued that the OL needs to be improved. Of course a QB needs protection. If you’re insinuating that Allen isn’t throwing to the shorter options because his OL isn’t giving him protection, then I disagree.

What does that have to do with Allen not taking what’s available? Or the speculation he isn’t being coached to do so?

I have defensive coordinator envy.

Mahomes seemingly never has a down game. He’ll have a half where he’s trash, but never a full game. The SB against the Bucs wasn’t on him.

I thought it was where the ball is when the player is ruled down. This isnt the endzone.

Burrow throws such a catchable ball. More “who dey?!” chants!

I’m more rooting for the Bengals HC than I am the team or the players. But then I’ll root for PHI to win it all.