Josh Allen is a broken man.

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don't worry, Robert.

I've pointed that out several times.

Now the counter is ultimately that the reason Allen didn't get that protection call right is that Spags rope-a-doped him.

So if you don't want to criticize Allen, maybe just go ahead and credit Spags so we can put the finishing touches on that HoF case.

There lies the question...would have Mahomes recognized the defensive formation and adjusted in that moment?

I would guess yes...and that is why one of them is playing in his 5th SB.

From Russell Street Report. Quality post:

And...

Stop it. This is basic QB101. Numbers vs numbers.

There's no rocket surgery going on here.

They're trying to get pics of Patrick changing Bronze's diaper so they can scream pedophile

Reid probably doesn’t go empty there , but would have either change protection or the play .

It's like watching a man have a mental epiphany. At first he's thinking that he'll come back with experience and some better players and he'll win it. By the end you can see him realizing that even after he devoted his entire offseason and season to getting better and eliminating all the little mistakes, he's still not good enough. It's like watching a man come to understand "I will never get that promotion."

I've always liked RGIII. He was a lot of fun to watch play when he was healthy, and he has better takes as an analyst than most talking heads.

I wonder if we'd have just 'played it straight' so to speak.

There HAS to be a way to lean one direction or another without completely selling out the other side.

Maybe not. Maybe he was doomed to fail. But if Mahomes had seen that, I think he might have left the protections pretty static and relied on his processing ability to attack wherever the blitz came from.

I don't think he would've felt the need to completely 'kill' the blitz, but rather would've thought that merely slowing it might be enough. So rather than get a coverage adjustment, maybe he just lets it ride and plays things as they come. Maybe ONE blitzer gets through that way, but the entire right side of the line wouldn't have failed like it did for Buffalo.

If Allen had played 'numbers vs. numbers' he wouldn't have gotten his shit pushed in.

He got too cute by half.

We showed the numbers on the right side, he slid the protection left because we'd been deking with that blitz all night.

The problem is that Allen THOUGHT it was rocket surgery. Had he just played it straight, things would've gone much better for him.

Spags got in his head. Not in as open and obvious a way as he has in the past, but this was unquestionably a mental error brought on by Spags playing head games with Allen the whole night.

He's Stannis Baratheon after the Battle of the Blackwater.

His fires burn low.

Honestly the play may have gone differently if their rg didn’t let both players in front of him run by untouched. Dude blocked nobody, and watched in awe as Allen got drilled by FuriousGeorge