Josh after his 6 TD performance: "I didn't play well."

[WotAGuy]

1 hour ago, Mark Vader said:

Allen wants to score a touchdown on every offensive possession, when we don't he feels that is a failure.

Me too. 

[TheFunPolice]

imagine 6 TD Allen who also hits nearly every throw in a game. 

 

That's basically 13 seconds game Allen. 

 

I want KC here in the playoffs when it happens and we win 45-28 and the place is going nuts for the entire 4th quarter. 

 

 

[BearNorth]

6 hours ago, CirclnWagons said:

Imagine an “off” day like this with just one actual NFL caliber WR. 

And with your #1 TE inactive.

[Buffalo716]

A six touchdown game and Josh still did leave some on the table 

 

You will never hear that out of a six touchdown game in the NFL....

 

Josh says hold my beer.. we might see a 7-8 TD game one day

[dave mcbride]

10 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

About 9 and a half minutes.

 

Regarding the recent and fairly unprecedented criticism of Josh after the Miami game, we all love him but also we've all seen him play better than he has this year.

 

The best is yet to come...

 

My take: Josh didn’t play well, actually, but he did play great. If that makes any sense!

[BearNorth]

3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

A six touchdown game and Josh still did leave some on the table 

Well for starters - If he had completed the two point XP to Gilliam, he would have Had 3 passing TD's, a passing XP, and 3 rushing TD's.

[Scott7975]

10 hours ago, The Jokeman said:

You can win a whole lot more games if you prevent your opponent from scoring than attempting to outscore them every game.  Complimentary football gives you a much better chance to win. Case in point the 1990s Bills teams, we had Thurman and Jim as key cogs on the offense and we routinely beat Marino and Dolphins. Why? In part because the Dolphins let Marino be Marino and never give him a RB of Thurman's status to compliment him. 

yeah well our Defense sucks so…

[WideNine]

11 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

Hard to imagine, but he could’ve wound up with 8 TD’s had just a few more reads/throws been on point…dude’s floor is others’ make believe career days! 😝

 

We have had more than a few games where we will never know how much Allen and/or Cook could have run up a score

 

With a faster start it would have likely ended up as another game where Allen watches from the bench while Trubuski mopped up.

 

 

 

 

[The Jokeman]

Just now, Scott7975 said:

yeah well our Defense sucks so…

So minimize mistakes by the offense and put defense in less of a position to step up aka complimentary football.

[Scott7975]

43 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

So minimize mistakes by the offense and put defense in less of a position to step up aka complimentary football.

 

Nobody plays perfect football. Sure, limit the turnovers. That doesn't mean go into small ball snail mode. More possessions = more opportunities to score = more room for error. When you are a flawed football team and you limit your own possessions then you are just giving yourself less room for error and more need to play mistake free football.

 

Defenses love teams that try 10-15 play 7-10 min drives because it gives them more opportunity to create a mistake for the offense they face. This is the backbone of McD's defense... keep plays in front of you and make them grind out drives so you can get them to make a mistake. Its a mistake to do that to ourselves.

Edited 4 hours ago by Scott7975

[Big Blitz]

9 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:

I completely agree he was off, but I’ll give him a pass.  😁
 

Some of the issues were him trying way too hard early.  I think there were game plan adjustments, such as RB passes and down field throws.  Remember that Josh hasn’t really had a downfield passing attack since Brady became OC.  
 

I think Houston is in for a surprisingly hard game despite their good defense.  I think Brady, Josh and McD have finally decided to unleash the offense with the returns of Davis and Palmer and we’ll be the better for it.   

 

I think a lot of it is was:

 

No Kincaid. 

 

Almost an entire “new” WR group/combo

 

Palmer hasn’t played a full game since New England.  
 

Shavers increased role. 
 

Hardman.  
 

Welcome back Gabe. 
 

No Keon.  

A TE I never heard of.   
 

 

 

Find a QB that gets handed THAT and does what Josh did.   

[Old Coot]

12 hours ago, SCBills said:

But when you can’t stop the run, and then on offense you want to establish the run.. you play a game on offense that forces your defense to stop the run all game.  Clock bleeds, possessions limited and Josh/passing game never gets in a rhythm. 

That was the Giants' gameplan in our first SB loss.

[Dr.Sack]

6 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

imagine 6 TD Allen who also hits nearly every throw in a game. 

 

That's basically 13 seconds game Allen. 

 

I want KC here in the playoffs when it happens and we win 45-28 and the place is going nuts for the entire 4th quarter. 

 

 

Here’s how that happens:

#1 Broncos

#2 Patriots

#3 Ravens

#4 Colts

#5 Bills

#6 Chiefs

#7 Chargers/Jaguars/Texans/Steelers

 

 

 

[That's No Moon]

13 hours ago, SCBills said:

Wasn’t recognizing pressure looks early resulting in untouched rushers.  
 

This has been a more consistent issue of late and that's often because of preparation. Is he unprepared because of him or are the people in charge of getting him prepared doing a poor job of preparing him? I don't know the answer to that question.  I do know they and he looked really good against Kansas City in ways that they and he often haven't looked against other, often lesser, competition.

7 minutes ago, Old Coot said:

That was the Giants' gameplan in our first SB loss.

And yet, if they'd handed Thomas the ball more than 15 times they'd have probably won that game. He was killing them. 9 yards per carry.

[Old Coot]

1 hour ago, That's No Moon said:

And yet, if they'd handed Thomas the ball more than 15 times they'd have probably won that game. He was killing them. 9 yards per carry.

Good point. I read that Belichick designed the Giants D around the Bills' passing game. To limit YAC they played to keep all passes in front of them.  So they were vunerable to our running game.

 

 

[GASabresIUFan]

2 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

I think a lot of it is was:

 

No Kincaid. 

 

Almost an entire “new” WR group/combo

 

Palmer hasn’t played a full game since New England.  
 

Shavers increased role. 
 

Hardman.  
 

Welcome back Gabe. 
 

No Keon.  

A TE I never heard of.   
 

 

 

Find a QB that gets handed THAT and does what Josh did.   

I agree.  Given the injuries and other issues Brady and McD finally said F’it and gave Josh the green light to go downfield.  Throwing to the RB seems to have been installed against the fish and it carried over in this game.  Kate they finally also started opening running lanes for Cook and Josh.  
 

I hope they utilize this same game plan against a tough Hou defense.  Make it impossible for their DC to take anything away. If they stack the box, throw over them.  If they cover deep hit them with RB and Josh runs.  If they blitz hit the RB out of backfield or Shakir in the space the blitzes vacated.  This is the way everyone truly eats.