Josh Allen on 10 Questions with Kyle Brandt TOMORROW

[SCBills]

6 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Why do you respect him for answering? 

Are you saying you wouldn't respect him if chose not to answer? 

 

I'd have no opinion if he chose not to answer.  He did answer, and I respect what he said... especially since the critical reaction from some is to be expected on this topic.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

5 minutes ago, wiseman3 said:

This is going to be a story now all offseason, Josh vs Vaccine. The tweets are already flying now on Twitter. 

 

Where?  It can't be surrounding Josh's personal account, he pretty much leaves that to his PR team as far as I can tell.

[HappyDays]

Ugh why did he have to ask him about vaccines? I thought this was supposed to be a fun interview. Not everybody needs to have an opinion on everything. I get the sense that Allen just wants to keep his mouth shut and play football and there's nothing wrong with that.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

12 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Ugh why did he have to ask him about vaccines? I thought this was supposed to be a fun interview. Not everybody needs to have an opinion on everything. I get the sense that Allen just wants to keep his mouth shut and play football and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

I agree, he seems to do a good job both being sensitive to the experiences of his teammates (like when he said last summer that he'd never had the experience of being pulled over by police and fearing for his life and he thought that was horrible) but overall just trying to stay out of politics and social controversy. 

 

But while I think his intent was to come across as neutral, he stepped into it a bit there when he started off on the "constitutional" stuff.  If he'd stopped with "no I have not, and I need to do more research on it" that woulda been better - after all, he's not even eligible to be vaccinated in Cali until 15 April, so if he said he was vaxx'd that woulda been controversial too.

 

[wiseman3]

18 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Where?  It can't be surrounding Josh's personal account, he pretty much leaves that to his PR team as far as I can tell.

Not his own account, I mean Western NY reporters and media. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

Just now, wiseman3 said:

Not his own account, I mean Western NY reporters and media. 

 

Oh, Lord.  I guess I'll look....I probably shouldn't.

[DrDawkinstein]

11 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Ugh why did he have to ask him about vaccines? I thought this was supposed to be a fun interview. Not everybody needs to have an opinion on everything. I get the sense that Allen just wants to keep his mouth shut and play football and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

Agreed. It really sank what was supposed to be a fun interview, and some light entertainment this deep in the offseason. No matter how he answered, it was a bad question for the time.

 

I also agree that he was most likely trying to give the most neautral, politically correct answer he could come up with. But that wasnt the right one if he wanted to shut the question down.

11 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I agree, he seems to do a good job both being sensitive to the experiences of his teammates (like when he said last summer that he'd never had the experience of being pulled over by police and fearing for his life and he thought that was horrible) but overall just trying to stay out of politics and social controversy. 

 

But while I think his intent was to come across as neutral, he stepped into it a bit there when he started off on the "constitutional" stuff.  If he'd stopped with "no I have not, and I need to do more research on it" that woulda been better - after all, he's not even eligible to be vaccinated until 15 April.

 

 

And CA wasnt going to open restrictions until May 1.

 

His answer could simply be based in the fact that he isnt eligible yet, and therefore hasnt even had a chance to "make a choice". And didnt want to sound like he was going to skip any lines or anything.

 

Bummer that this is the big takeaway from the interview. Oh well.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

10 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Oh, Lord.  I guess I'll look....I probably shouldn't.

 

So far it doesn't seem too bad to me

 

 

Some people praising what he said, some saying they're disappointed and citing studies, both fair takes IMHO.

 

Parrino's coverage is absolutely neutral on it, just what he said, for those who didn't catch it all and would like to work from what was said:

 

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/2021/04/bills-josh-allen-debating-whether-to-get-covid-vaccine.html

Couple of #######s in Parrino's twitter thread about it.

 

 

 

 

[Bangarang]

I haven’t listened yet but the discussion surrounding his vaccine response sounds so petty and lame. 
 

Based on what was quoted, it doesn’t seem like Josh said anything wild or crazy so who the hell cares? Peak offseason drama.

 

Nobody is going to remember or care in September when he’s torching defenses 

 

 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

I like this one:

 

 

[QB Bills]

That's unfortunate. I decided to ignore science and the words of doctors all over the world and was going to decide on whether I get the vaccine by what Josh Allen said. Sucks that he didn't give a straight answer.

 

Let us know when you know, Josh. 

[BillsFan4]

Anyone have the YouTube link to the interview?

 

edit - nevermind Spotify has the video

Edited April 7, 2021 by BillsFan4

[stosh64]

2 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

Anyone have the YouTube link to the interview?

Don't think it's on YT yet.

[BillsFan4]

32 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

I like this one:

 

 

I’m confident that if he means what he says about being a “big statistics and logic guy”, he will get vaccinated.

 

and who knows, maybe this answer will eventually end up helping more skeptical people choose to get vaccinated.

If Allen (eventually) says he looked at all the statistics and chose to get vaccinated, maybe it’ll influence more skeptics to get the vaccine too.

 

overall i don’t really have any issue with his answer.

Edited April 7, 2021 by BillsFan4

[YoloinOhio]

This was so good. I hate Justin Bieber. Me listening to josh break down Bieber music:

 

[SCBills]

 

10 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

This was so good. I hate Justin Bieber. Me listening to josh break down Bieber music:

 

 

Justin Bieber's new music is fire and I will not tolerate this slander.

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by SCBills

[Chandler#81]

3 hours ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

Having this kid as our qb makes the whole drought worth it. 

Personally, I wouldn’t go that far. To me, NOTHING is ‘worth a generation of suckitude’. 

But im thrilled he’s our QB!

2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

The problem is (and this is a self-inflicted wound, due in large part to poor public health messaging), from a public health viewpoint, there is no "neutral".  We can not achieve herd immunity individually.  It takes all of us.  Josh's decision (or yours) impacts me and mine.

 

As a Bills fan, there's nothing I want less than to see key Bills players suffer Myles Garrett-like persistant pulmonary effects, Cam Newton like "covid fog", or Tommy Sweeney-like cardiomyopathy, so "neutral" doesn't work for me personally as a fan.  Get the Jab, Josh!

Ruh Row..

[RiotAct]

1 minute ago, Chandler#81 said:

Personally, I wouldn’t go that far. To me, NOTHING is ‘worth a generation of suckitude’. 

But im thrilled he’s our QB!

Ruh Row..

we’ll see.  If we can be a perennial playoff team / Super Bowl contender for the next decade-plus, I’ll say it was worth it for sure

[Hapless Bills Fan]

28 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Justin Bieber's new music is fire and I will not tolerate this slander.

 

Now we're getting into the REAL meat of the interview.

 

I can't believe that Josh successfully defended "Yummy" and "Backpack" as "not bad songs" and Kyle Brandt gave him a point for it.

 

That should be highly controversial IMHO and Brandt should take a LOT of flack for that decision.

[SCBills]

5 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Now we're getting into the REAL meat of the interview.

 

I can't believe that Josh successfully defended "Yummy" and "Backpack" as "not bad songs" and Kyle Brandt gave him a point for it.

 

That should be highly controversial IMHO and Brandt should take a LOT of flack for that decision.

 

Yummy actually has a really deep meaning, but yes... I agree ha.  His new album "Justice" was done with  a guy I went to high school with named Jon Bellion, so even if it wasn't any good, i'd lie and say it was... luckily the album is a banger.  Also, the Easter EP he dropped.... great stuff.

[stosh64]

1 hour ago, BillsFan4 said:

Anyone have the YouTube link to the interview?

 

edit - nevermind Spotify has the video

Here is the YT link.

 

[BillsFan4]

Thanks @stosh64! Appreciate it.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

OK now to additional controversies -

 

Josh was asked to describe Cam Newton and said he's like a "Transformer", that he's huge.

Said that he came out to Cali to throw with Stidham and some of the Patriots WR and he felt small next to him.

(Cam is listed on Wiki as 6'5", 245.  Josh is listed as 6'5", 237 so that's a little hard to fathom)

 

Here's the controversy:  Josh said "he's got like 5% body fat, I've got like 25% body fat"

 

Truth or Lies?

Pictures of Josh with his shirt off are very scarce.

 

This is big.  C'mon TBD, we gotta delve into this one.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

46 minutes ago, SCBills said:

 

Yummy actually has a really deep meaning, but yes... I agree ha.  His new album "Justice" was done with  a guy I went to high school with named Jon Bellion, so even if it wasn't any good, i'd lie and say it was... luckily the album is a banger.  Also, the Easter EP he dropped.... great stuff.

 

Color me skeptical, but I can be educated...say more

 

Do you buy Kyle awarding him the point there?

[SCBills]

I liked that he openly acknowledged the line checks in relation to crowd noise.  Definitely seemed to affect us against KC after a year where he could easily change calls.  

[Sherlock Holmes]

44 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

OK now to additional controversies -

 

Josh was asked to describe Cam Newton and said he's like a "Transformer", that he's huge.

Said that he came out to Cali to throw with Stidham and some of the Patriots WR and he felt small next to him.

(Cam is listed on Wiki as 6'5", 245.  Josh is listed as 6'5", 237 so that's a little hard to fathom)

 

Here's the controversy:  Josh said "he's got like 5% body fat, I've got like 25% body fat"

 

Truth or Lies?

Pictures of Josh with his shirt off are very scarce.

 

This is big.  C'mon TBD, we gotta delve into this one.

Lies, who needs pictures when you got binoculars?!

35 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Color me skeptical, but I can be educated...say more

 

Do you buy Kyle awarding him the point there?

I buy that this should be the title of Josh Allen's entrance song out of the tunnel on game days.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 minute ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

Lies, who needs pictures when you got binoculars?!

 

Bino-photography is a Thing, Sherlock.  Don't bogart those views of Allen - be a good friend and share.

 

 

1 minute ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I buy that this should be the title of Josh Allen's entrance song out of the tunnel on game days.

 

Yummy?

[Draconator]

5 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I buy that this should be the title of Josh Allen's entrance song out of the tunnel on game days.

Heck. Let's borrow from another thread...

 

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Bino-photography is a Thing, Sherlock.  Don't bogart those views of Allen - be a good friend and share.

 

 

 

Yummy?

I'd upload some but it's saying the files are too large... I have to sort through my 10 1000 TB hard drives to find smaller files, however I doubt it as I found that Nick Foles had the same effect on my file size

 

If I had to describe Josh in 1 word Yummy would definitely be it...

[Dr. K]

4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

The problem is (and this is a self-inflicted wound, due in large part to poor public health messaging), from a public health viewpoint, there is no "neutral".  We can not achieve herd immunity individually.  It takes all of us.  Josh's decision (or yours) impacts me and mine.

 

As a Bills fan, there's nothing I want less than to see key Bills players suffer Myles Garrett-like persistant pulmonary effects, Cam Newton like "covid fog", or Tommy Sweeney-like cardiomyopathy, so "neutral" doesn't work for me personally as a fan.  Get the Jab, Josh!

Exactly. I was very disappointed in his lack of understanding on this point. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

21 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I'd upload some but it's saying the files are too large... I have to sort through my 10 1000 TB hard drives to find smaller files, however I doubt it as I found that Nick Foles had the same effect on my file size

 

If I had to describe Josh in 1 word Yummy would definitely be it...

 

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-reduce-jpeg-file-size/

 

I think we all would welcome visual proof that Josh Allen is lying about his 25% body fat

[Mango]

I generally like Kyle Brandt, I think he is good/entertaining on GMFB.  But this is way too hammed up for my liking, It just seemed to drag on. I guess I enjoyed it, but not enough to add it to my regular podcasts. It feels like he is trying too hard. The opposite of say a Sean Evans on "Hot Ones", who I think is a tremendously talented interviewer and does a great job of making guests comfortable and keeping the flow pretty natural. This feels like a weird mix of him trying really really hard to be a serious interviewer by thinly connecting the 10 questions to some weird historical references in the persons life and also to be just a cool dude like Pat Mcafee. 

The COVID thing was a little weird. Totally anecdotally, most people I have talked to who sort of take the same stance as JA17 did here, are anti-vaccine if you start asking some more for follow up questions. So that is the way I took it. Also anecdotally, I haven't really come across any pro-vacciners who are trying to toe the line of neutrality on the issue. I think Haps mentioned it, and I agree, in 2021, not sort of taking a stance on the vaccine here, is in fact taking a stance. 

Also, weird mention of the constitutional rights. He is from California and plays football in New York, both are states that removed religious exemptions for vaccines for public school students.

Otherwise it was a fun interview. You don't normally get too many lax segments with players that last a full hour. Best we generally see is like 4 minutes on ESPN. 

[Logic]

Josh Allen is a very likable, intelligent, well spoken, funny, engaging guy.

Between that and his exciting style of play, I will be shocked and disappointed if he doesn't become a big national star and get endorsement deals and the whole nine yards.

He has "superstar" and "face of the league" written all over him.

 

[H2o]

I really dig the Kyle Brandt and Pat McAfee style of interviews above all the rest. They are just more engaging and fun in general. Watching or listening to most people from the Bills FO, Coaching Staff, or the players these days is all so much more entertaining than before in general. It's partially because we're on the rise again, but it's also because of the vibe around all of the people involved in this organization. Josh, Tre, Diggs, Beane, Dawkins, I mean the Bills haven't been this fun to be around or watch since the early 90's and that's a fact. The Covid vax thing though? Not really sure why that was even brought up. We can have regular interviews, about sports, without having to throw things like that in there regardless of what side of the fence you stand on. It made for an awkward minute or two with Josh having to tip-toe around his answer. Completely irrelevant to the segment itself as a whole.  

[Ray Stonada]

An underrated skill of Josh's is dealing with people of many different personality types. Kyle Brandt's whole schtick is trying way too hard. I like him, but he's not a guy you'd want to go fishing with, or anything relaxing. And he's the guy who blabs about sugar high Josh, blah blah blah. It could have gotten tense or weird. But Josh charmed him with EASE. He's in control.

 

Gotta love JA17.

[DrDawkinstein]

14 minutes ago, H2o said:

I really dig the Kyle Brandt and Pat McAfee style of interviews above all the rest. They are just more engaging and fun in general. Watching or listening to most people from the Bills FO, Coaching Staff, or the players these days is all so much more entertaining than before in general. It's partially because we're on the rise again, but it's also because of the vibe around all of the people involved in this organization. Josh, Tre, Diggs, Beane, Dawkins, I mean the Bills haven't been this fun to be around or watch since the early 90's and that's a fact. The Covid vax thing though? Not really sure why that was even brought up. We can have regular interviews, about sports, without having to throw things like that in there regardless of what side of the fence you stand on. It made for an awkward minute or two with Josh having to tip-toe around his answer. Completely irrelevant to the segment itself as a whole.  

 

I was just going to post that Kyle Brandt and Chris Simms represent opposite ends of the Josh-fan spectrum (Kyle being super drooling fanboy, Chris being a more analytical, Xs-and-Os type fan), and that Pat McAfee is the happy medium between the two.

 

 

[H2o]

4 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

I was just going to post that Kyle Brandt and Chris Simms represent opposite ends of the Josh-fan spectrum (Kyle being super drooling fanboy, Chris being a more analytical, Xs-and-Os type fan), and that Pat McAfee is the happy medium between the two.

 

 

Yeah, I really like watching Simms as well because he goes into the full breakdown of everything. Coverages, reads, adjustments, just all of the nuances that the casual fan may miss at times, but things that people who played through HS and beyond will usually pickup on also. 

[Mark Vader]

6 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

There are sides.  That's a fact.  The problem is that there is no "neutral".  Josh holding back from making a decision is a form of making a decision, thus taking a side.

 

PSA: I don't want this to become "baby vaccine discussion thread", so thread editing will take place.  Narrow focus on what Josh said will stay.  Getting into personal opining or general discussion will go.

 

 

In other words, you see Josh as taking a "side".  I actually don't think that was his intent - I think he was trying to come across as neutral.

The way I saw it, Josh was being honest and not a phony.

 

I find that very refreshing.

[DaggersEOD]

6 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

The problem is, there shouldnt be "sides" about this.

The fact that there are sides categorizes it as a political issue and not a health issue. 
 

Hence the explicit main board ban. 

6 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I agree, he seems to do a good job both being sensitive to the experiences of his teammates (like when he said last summer that he'd never had the experience of being pulled over by police and fearing for his life and he thought that was horrible) but overall just trying to stay out of politics and social controversy. 

 

But while I think his intent was to come across as neutral, he stepped into it a bit there when he started off on the "constitutional" stuff.  If he'd stopped with "no I have not, and I need to do more research on it" that woulda been better - after all, he's not even eligible to be vaccinated in Cali until 15 April, so if he said he was vaxx'd that woulda been controversial too.

 

 

Constitution...controversial??

[Mark Vader]

5 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

This was so good. I hate Justin Bieber. Me listening to josh break down Bieber music:

 

Yeah, I feel the same way about this and also for his love of Will Ferrell.

 

Sorry, I can't stand Ferrell like everyone else does.