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I think this was on the go ahead FG drive right?

This is another aspect often overlooked when we want to "compare QB's." Look at where the LOS is for this second down play. We seem to get a lot of first down penalties resulting in these deep downs forcing us to throw and throw "far," obviously our non-existent run game doesnt help this.

 

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This is the play where I thought he missed McKenzie high. Matt Waldman has a different interpretation, that he was trying to sneak the ball into Robert Foster but didn't look off the safety which allowed him to disrupt the play. It wasn't poor ball placement, the pass was where it needed to be. He just didn't freeze the safety. I actually feel better about that kind of mistake.

 

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This is the play where I thought he missed McKenzie high. Matt Waldman has a different interpretation, that he was trying to sneak the ball into Robert Foster but didn't look off the safety which allowed him to disrupt the play. It wasn't poor ball placement, the pass was where it needed to be. He just didn't freeze the safety. I actually feel better about that kind of mistake.

 

Agree, Waldman doesn’t even consider the ball was meant for McKenzie which I believe deflected off his fingertips. McKenzie appears to be the better read anyway as he’s moving away from safety help. 

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This is the play where I thought he missed McKenzie high. Matt Waldman has a different interpretation, that he was trying to sneak the ball into Robert Foster but didn't look off the safety which allowed him to disrupt the play. It wasn't poor ball placement, the pass was where it needed to be. He just didn't freeze the safety. I actually feel better about that kind of mistake.

 

 

Thought the same thing, but a rookie staring down his most clutch receiver...I can live with that mistake....providing it is not a habit.

 

This is also a case where Josh has to recognize the defense pre-snap, and understand that the corners have safety help. Without understanding that, he may not even realize that his receiver is not in man coverage, and that there is a safety he needs to look off or freeze.

 

The safer option was with McKenzie singled up in the slot underneath and heading for a nice safe sideline throw, but I'm sure Matt is right and Josh had made up his mind where he was going with the ball before it was even snapped, and stared Foster down the whole way. So there should be a lot of things Daboll and Culley can teach just out of this clip.

 

While on the subject of teaching, I am still not sold on David Culley as a QB coach with all his prior NFL coaching experience limited to coaching WRs -  It still feels like a heck of a risk the Bills are taking with their Allen investment not pursuing a proven commodity.

 

All we can do as fans to evaluate the coaching Josh is getting is to see if week after week he shows us something he could not execute the week before.

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20 hours ago, PolishPrince said:

I think this was on the go ahead FG drive right?

This is another aspect often overlooked when we want to "compare QB's." Look at where the LOS is for this second down play. We seem to get a lot of first down penalties resulting in these deep downs forcing us to throw and throw "far," obviously our non-existent run game doesnt help this.

 

Was at the end of the first half and the kick was blocked.

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Any team starting a rookie quarterback is going to deal with the highs and lows that come with an inexperienced passer. With Josh Allen, the Bills are finding that those are a bit more dramatic.

 

On the one hand, Allen has flashed franchise potential over the last three weeks. He’s now the team’s leading rusher after three spectacular performances on the ground. He’s also mixing in jaw-dropping throws and simpler ones that show his understanding of coverage.

 

But Allen also plays a risky brand of football. He’s prone to playing “hero ball” and trying to make the big play rather than the easy play. Allen hasn’t seen a throw he doesn’t think he can make.

 

“I think that’s one of the things that makes him fun to work with is his competitive nature,” offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said. “There comes a point in time in each play when you have to know when to say when, throw in the white towel, so to speak, and I think he’s still learning that. He’s a guy that wants to make every play he can make. There’s no play that he thinks is done. Whether it’s a late stiff-arm or a spin-around, he just has to understand when to say when.”

 

In the Bills’ 27-24 loss to the Jets on Sunday, Allen’s strengths and weaknesses were on full display. Former University at Buffalo quarterback Joe Licata joins us to break down the most noteworthy plays.

 

Q1, 14:29

 

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Something about this play bugs me - I noticed the DB and LB blitzes to Allen's right side on potential PAP downs throughout the game, and it seemed to be the Jets bread and butter PAP counter. While I've seen him fake the handoff and turn to throw without rolling out, I understand the reason for him to bootleg after faking the handoff as well, to give him time to read the defense after turning his back and escape an already timed out pocket, in some cases.

 

Pre-snap, the Jets do a fairly good job of disguising the DB blitz in a cover 1 man under look, and it's likely Allen thinks the DB will trail the slot wr/te and the read is to DiMarco in the underneath out. What gets me is that if Allen knows the routes are an out post and out route underneath to the right, those will likely be his hot reads off the play action flood concept. Instead of rolling out right, I'd almost rather see him try and pivot around and immediately read the out-post route and check down to the underneath out route. Granted, with the blitzing DB there's no guarantee he gets either throw off without rolling to his right, and I really want to see DiMarco try and at least chip the blitzing DB here on his route to give Allen as much time to throw as he can. But if he turns and reads his immediate routes, I see a 15 yard+ pick up and a dagger to what appeared to be the Jets main scheme counter to the PAP concepts with Allen. 

 

Of course everything looks better/easier on Monday, but I wonder if this becomes the achilles heel to the PAP scheme with Allen, as it still forces him to confront his blitz beater reads and decision making. That being said, having an actual right side of the OL would likely do wonders for this as well, and maybe help him to not have to roll out on every PAP.

 

Thanks again for the all22 posts, 26!

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