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If Allen and Cook get automatic game balls every week, Samuel and Bernard get automatic injury designations.

Exactly. I think people, especially McDermott, have been slow to realize Allen is a highly emotional player. When he gets fired up, he comes alive. It's no coincidence he played so well against Lamar, Mahomes, and Mayfield, three of his top peers. In the Miami game, I think if McDermott had gone for it on fourth and inches on their own thirty-yard line or whatever, Josh might have played a different game. McDermott's forcing him into a cerebral game-manager role is the worst thing he could do with this quarterback, that and not giving him weapons. He's not Tom Brady, he's better than Brady. Or rather could be if he had a GM, coach and coordinator who knew how to tap his enormous potential. In short, Allen is playing as well as is despite Beane, McDermott, and Brady, not because of them. I'm not saying they're awful at their jobs. They're just ordinary people doing ordinary things with an extraordinary athlete. And they're holding him back.

Maybe he started reading this board, which has been one step ahead of him this whole season.

Never in this lifetime.

Watching the Denver and Browns defenses now. Is it just talent that makes both so vastly superior to the Bills defense? Or it scheme and coaching? Asking for real, since I just don't know, although I suspect that it's McDermott's philosophy.

That last TD by Allen demonstrates what sets him apart from Lamar and other running quarterbacks. He absolutely trucked people into the end zone. Put that next to his long bomb TD, and you see why he's the best QB in the game. No other quarterback in the league can do both those things, much less in the same game.

Which is why you give your MVP quarterback receivers, Beane! (Took everything I had not to put that in all caps.)

Addition by subtraction. His replacement, Shavers, showed us today what we've been missing.

They were saying the same thing about Allen early in his career.

Why didn't they keep running it?

Turnover or TD coming.

Ok, maybe not.

True. It's like 2018 or 2019 Josh.

Samuel finally earns his pay!

$12 million cap hit this year, along with $15 million for Von Miller, the gift that keeps on giving.