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Interesting question. I can't find anything, except that he was committed to Duke and changed to Utah at the last second. He was only a 3-star prospect, so his options may have been limited. A spot opened up when the Utes starting safety left on his LDS mission (that's all that I can find).

It was a play that required perfect timing and the timing was slightly off. For all his faults, Tua is great at that type of stuff. Josh? Not so much. But I'll take the 6'5'' guy who trucks LBs with the cannon arm every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Then Josh needs to start taking more risks with the football. We like to assume everything good that happens is because Josh is great and everyting bad that happens is because Brady sucks. Brady is calling the downfield shots, but Josh keeps audibling into runs or taking checkdowns. That might be because of the WRs, but he also is a lot more risk-averse than he was when Daboll and Dorsey were OC. That could be coaching, but I also think he got tired of throwing 16-18 INTs a year. Remember when he was a turnover machine who suffered from "arm arrogance?"

There are multiple plays a game when it is clear that Brady is calling a downfield passing play. You can tell by the personnel they come out in. For example, if they come out in 11 personnel with three WRs and Kincaid it's most likely a deep shot is the first play that is called in the huddle. But Josh Allen will audible into the second play, which is often a run or a screen, when he sees cover 2. Or, when they do run the downfield passing plays, he'll take the checkdown when guys don't get open because teams are playing with 7 guys in coverage. Do you want him to go back to forcing balls downfield and throwing picks? He forced a ball to Shakir against the Pats that got picked that probably cost us the game. We begged him for years to "take what the defense is giving him." Now that he does that, everyone wants him to push the ball downfield, defensive coverages be damned. We just want what we don't have.

They play was designed to be a sneaky inside handoff with a fake to Cook going the other way. The Pats defense fell for the fake. It would have worked.

And he sold coneys at the in-stadium skyline on gamedays.

Someone wrote something positive about the Bills coach? That's like the bat signal for some posters on here.

They gave him a roster with which no coach could win, and then fire him for not winning. And before anyone call for him as Bills' OC, he didn't call plays in Cincinnati. I don't know what he did.

I hate the PI call the most. The Pats. would have WRs run comeback routes. Brady would purposely underthrow the ball. The WR would be coached to just stop and let the DB come through the back of him. Boom, automatic DPI. Brady took that crap to Tampa. Remember losing a game in OT in Tampa to this BS in 2021?

I've gone back and watched the play a bunch of times from both the sideline and endzone angles. If that had gone off, it was going to go for a big gain. I'm sure they worked on that in practice and just flubbed it on gameday. Knox was there a split second too early and was ever so slightly past Josh when he turned to hand him the ball. But in general, I don't want them to stop trying to run creative plays just because that one didn't work. Here's the handoff moment:

2 hours in Atlanta traffic is like 2 and a half miles.

The fact that the Fins haven't called a press conference yet is pretty shocking. It's 1:00 on Monday already.

Remember when Andy Reid's game and clock management used to be awful? Then he got Mahomes, and now in the popular imagination of NFL fans he's been a flawless head coach since 1999. https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/1/18/18185839/andy-reid-kansas-city-chiefs-clock-mismanagement-timeouts

It's a sunroof, not a convertible.

Poyer has taken Hamlin's role as the backup SS, behind Rapp. Hancock, the rookie, is the backup FS. Poyer is not taking a young player's role, and the only way he's getting snaps on defense tonight is if Rapp gets hurt. Did you want them to play a game without a backup at that spot just so you wouldn't have to see Poyer standing on the sidelines? Or would you rather they sign Vonn Bell off the street, who couldn't crack the lineup as even a PS player in Cincinnati? But hey, at least he hasn;t been tainted by ever wearing a Bills helmet. Also, who is the magical athletic rookie that they are currently playing a vet over? Landon Jackson? Walker is playing most of the snaps. Sanders was playing until his injury. We have two rookie DBs on IR, one of whom was getting snaps despite being a low-round pick. Some people want to blame Beane for injuries. If injuries are the fault of the GM and are a fireable offense, then Brad Holmes (Lions GM), Eric DeCosta (Ravens GM), and John Lynch (49ers GM) should be taken out back and shot. Some teams have been incredibly lucky with injuries so far, and others have been decimated. The Bills are sort of in the middle of that continuum.

Even this isn't true. There is collective amnesia amongst Bills fans about the 2021 and 2023 regular seasons. In 2023 (two seasons ago, you know, the season where we lost to the Broncos and fired Ken Dorsey), the Blls were 6-6 after the overtime loss in Philadelphia and that NYT playoff simulator gave them just 19% odds of even making the post season. The division was out of reach, unless Miami did stupid things like losing to the Titans at home (which they did). Even at that, it took a Kadarius Toney toe and a punt return for a TD in week 18 in Miami to win the division. In 2021, the Bills were in a tailspin with blowout losses to Indianapolis at home, the wind game, and that damn Jags game. They were 7-6 after losing in Tampa, and had to win out to win the division. The Pats led the division until we beat them in week 16 (the day after Christman on Thursday Night Football, the Diggs taunting the crowd game).

Because there isn’t anything better out there. It’s either a washed gay you know or a washed up guy you don’t know. But youse guys would get all excited about the washed up guys you don’t know because you haven’t been tracking their performance since they’ve been washed up. Case in point; this board would get all excited if the Bills signed Justin Simmons, but he looked completely done last year in Atlanta. Same goes for Vonn Bell, who lost his starting job and was cut from Cincinnati.

The record is 4-1. In your extreme negativity, you gave them an extra loss.

First of all, almost every NFL team runs zone at least 70% of the time. They can’t switch to man just to cover Kelce because they don’t have the DBs to do it. Secondly, he’s too big to be covered by DBs and too fast to be covered by LBs. If he’s on, he’s Gronk levels of undefendable.

As a former QB, he is really good at reading the defense and finding the gaps in the zone. He often doesn’t have a called route. Rather he has free rein to read and react.

Remember when the Jags were gonna get wrecked. Until they didn’t l.

You might as well tell Dan Campbell to stop going for it on 4th. He’s the most fun HC in football. Never change, Kneecaps.

That seems like correlation, not causation.

Preemptively bumping this. Youse guys will need this tonight.

It probably would have, but at the time it would have felt like the end of the season. The Bills would have been 6-7 and would have needed the Jags to completely collapse down the stretch to get in. As it turned out, the Jags did just that. What I remember is that the NYT simulator had the Bills at a 19% chance of making the playoffs after their OT loss in Philly going into the bye.