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McDermott on Josh Allen: "He’s got icewater in his veins"


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And he's got a point so far on Allen’s clutchness.

 

Today was Josh Allen’s 30th career start, 9th career Game Winning Drive and 7th career 4th quarter comeback.

 

And I know last week he was 6/9 passing on 3rd down, which tied him with Mahomes in week 1 for 3rd down efficiency passing on 3rd down right behind the Great Gardner Minshew. Sure looked like he was still pretty darn efficient on 3rd down this week, though the play by play and exact number for him aren't up, yet.

 

As for that drive today... Joe B has a nice breakdown of it in his 7 observations from today at The Athletic:

https://theathletic.com/2081114/2020/09/20/seven-observations-from-the-bills-win-is-josh-allen-turning-into-a-star?source=user-shared-article

Allen’s defining drive

With the big picture out of the way, let’s focus on the drive when Allen truly took the game over. It’s when Sunday’s performance replaced the one Allen had at Dallas on Thanksgiving last year as the best of his career. The Bills had to shake off yet another dormant third quarter and watched as the Dolphins took the lead with 10 minutes remaining. It could have been a debilitating moment, one that unraveled some teams. So could some of the moments during the Bills’ ensuing drive.

 

Allen made a statement throw on first down, connecting with Diggs on a perfectly thrown deep ball, under pressure, and squarely between the defeated cornerback and late-arriving safety. The 47-yard connection quickly had the Bills in striking distance. Then the Bills took a step back on the next two plays. Center Mitch Morse received a penalty for an illegal block above the waist, making it first-and-20. Allen couldn’t escape the pocket and the Dolphins took him down for a sack. That has been enough in the past two seasons to sink a promising drive. The next play, Allen delivered a 24-yard touch throw to Cole Beasley for a first down, patiently waiting for his target to win on the route. After Devin Singletary ran the Bills into a first-and-goal situation, progress began to stall once again, and the Bills faced a third-and-goal from 6 yards out. Allen took over once again and showed he was in full control.

 

As he was scanning the field, he felt pressure coming wide from his right side. Allen knew he would have to change his spot in the pocket. Allen had the presence of mind to switch the ball to his left hand, and he broke the arm tackle. He then switched the ball back to his throwing hand, changed his angle to free receivers from the coverage and finally gave rookie wide receiver Gabriel Davis a chance, as only Davis could make the play. Luckily for Allen, Davis made an equally impressive full-extension catch for the go-ahead touchdown. Despite all of the things working against the Bills leading to that moment, Allen delivered a drive to remove the slowly creeping doubts about letting a certain victory get away. Those are the moments in tight games that define quarterbacks, and Allen gave further reason for belief.

 

 

 

 

Maybe Allen should just see if Val Kilmer will give him the rights already

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Very clear that Eric Wood believes this, too:

6. Josh's clutch comebacks

 

Josh is just the clutch player. His quarterback rating last year went up on third down, went up in the red zone and went up in the fourth quarter. Guys like that are clutch, some people have it, but it seems like the more pressure he's under, the better he plays. He's had a remarkable couple years now, in the fourth quarter, and that's an excellent characteristic for a quarterback to have.

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3 hours ago, transplantbillsfan said:

 

Wow. PFF sure outlines how good Allen is when they are using actual data, but when they make up their own they grade him poorly.

 

How is it that he is first in all those categories, has an AMAZING QB rating, hasn't thrown an INT, leads the league in passing, has 70% completion percentage, yet ... grades out worse than Sam Darnold!? They have a serious issue with their system and it's about time they realize it and fix it.

 

Is it just that they have the same guy grade the Bills every week and that one guy just grades things lower than his colleagues?

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