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This might be true, but I don't know how you can be so confident of it. Mahomes simply might be good, and Allen simply might not be...and irrespective of coaching and surrounding talent, that would come through in some visible form. There's little question McBeane has done no favors to Allen this year, but if I have to go through an entire season of "we'll never know if Allen is good because of the supporting cast" I'm going to lose it.

Such is the problem with Allen. He looks like he should be a lot better than he ever ends up playing.

I mostly agree. Allen wasn't terrible, but he also wasn't good. The only way you can think he looked good is if your baseline is "better than the self-immolating Peterman." In a league and week where the below happened, our guy posted a stat line of 18/33 for 245, 1 TD, 2 INTs, 16.1 QBR, and 63.3 rating. And about 100 of those yards and the TD came in garbage time. Some of this is on McBeane and some is on the players...but anyone defining how Allen looked as anything better than "meh" is having a serious case of Bills-colored goggles. Football Perspective‏ @fbgchase 1h1 hour ago More I just spent five minutes figuring out what was wrong with my data until I realized... NFL teams actually had an average passer rating of 103.4 for week 2. Teams went 767/1103 (69.5%) for 8,489 yards (7.7 Y/A) with 61 TDs and 18 INTs. 17 QBs had a passer rating over 100! Wow!

The defense certainly looked better in the second half, but it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. The Chargers were up 22 points and more interested in closing out the game than running up the score.

I'd imagine he smiled a lot when he, ya know, quit. But keep romanticizing about him if you must. The refs wouldn't have been in position to matter if Marrone didn't turtle for the entire second half. The Jags roster is stacked outside of QB, so yea, they're going to be a good team...especially in the putrid AFC. Edit: Didn't just, like, one page ago you accuse Flagg of making posts that ignore a whole bunch of important details? "The refs cost the Jags the game" isn't exactly taking into account any mitigating circumstances. Boldin retired during training camp, no? Not quite the same. That's not common, but it has happened before. Davis, though? I've never seen anything like it. He couldn't at least gut it out for 1 half of football and retire afterwards?

Apparently after the Raiders game, Jon Gruden said they have to do something to get more pressure on the quarterback. Something other than just paying Khalil Mack, evidently.

Did you feel that way when his gutlessness cost his team a trip to the Super Bowl?

This might be the best idea you've ever come up with. And that's not an insult--the idea is that good.

Given how he played all offseason, one might say he retired well before halftime.

Only thing it's missing is a season ending Brady injury. Preferably to his throwing shoulder.

Speaking of field goals....*glances at the Vikings*

And yet, they still manage to be the Browns. Score what should be the go-ahead TD...and miss the extra point, letting Brees go down and win it with a FG. Hilarious. But yea, once they fire Jackson after the season and start Mayfield, I think they might actually be good.

Did we just have a pass rush on two consecutive plays?

I had to Google it.

I can't blame McDermott. When your defense is locking down the opposing offense, you win with field goals.

Sure, and some of those big plays were players performing at a level they are unlikely to repeat (I'm looking at you, safety duo). Anyway, we can re-litigate last season at some other point. During this game, I'd prefer to focus on something we agree on: how bad our current defense is.

All part of the process and meticulous plan, I'm sure. Meanwhile, demand for space in the Patrick Mahomes fear bunker is off the charts.

I would argue the distribution of the turnovers was important, even if the ultimate number wasn't anything special. Regardless of last season, our current defense looks like hot garbage for a second week in a row. They can't stop anything.

At most half. Deductions too, charitable or otherwise. Plus endorsement money is likely larger in a place like NYC than in Nashville, regardless of tax differences.

It's not debunked, it's just overrated and hard to calculate the actual difference without knowing what deductions the athlete takes, endorsement dollar differences, etc. The agent should definitely know. Us or Joe Journalist? Not so much.

I hope 11 fulfilled his dream in the preseason.

Seriously. If I had a say, I wouldn't employ either of them. Not an ounce of professionalism between them.

I have no doubt there were receivers open he missed...that happens to even the best, there are busted coverages, scheme allows guys open they think the QB is a low rist to complete passes to, etc. But the notion there were receivers just open all the time, with our receiving corps against a good pass defense, doesn't do much to pass the sniff test. I think it's a hard sell to argue a QB can improve his pocket presence from the bench. Oh, I'm plenty worried. But realistically, unless every game is a 40-point shellacking, they're getting another offseason to finish their rebuild.

I have zero belief that Ennis will be on Matthews' wing for any real amount of time, but him resurrecting in Toronto would perfectly encapsulate how everything in their rebuild has worked.

I have a pretty hard time believing that this WR group was just running open all day. Methinks there might be some shoddy video interpretation going on.