Buffalo Bills AFCCG: (2) Buffalo at (1) Kansas City; Sunday 1/26 @ 6:30 PM ET, CBS
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Jim Bob
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You are trying to get into a semantical debate around "wildly inaccurate".
Most talent evaluators will look at a guy with a sub-60% completion percentage in college and one who has less than ideal mechanics and label them wildly inaccurate.
And even trying to make excuses about it by saying his teammates at Wyoming weren't that great, well neither was the competition he was playing at Wyoming, either.
No matter how you slice it, few QBs have had sub-60% completion percentages in college over the past 10-15 years and developed as pros the way that Josh and Lamar have.
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I <3 McD. Really hoping he can bring a championship home. Josh talked about how early in his career McD was very controlling. As Josh progressed, he slowly loosened the leash. Allen also talked about how McD flipped his shit on him for a TO he committed in 2019, and that stuck with him to start being less wreckless with the ball.
A lot of people want to hang McD. They don't want to give him credit for playing a role in developing a raw QB into an elite QB. But, from everything I've heard from Allen, McD handled him really well.
It’s not even close to a semantics argument. He was not inaccurate, period. And it’s not “excuses,” it’s an explanation to you and others that accuracy is just one factor of completion percentage. Amongst many factors, it’s not tough to understand. A lot of people in the stats community got that completely wrong.
But it’s much easier to pretend this was unforeseeable and just a crazy exception to a rule, rather than admitting the rule was problematic. Which it was.
But I’m a stats nerd, so silly rules like completion percentages and draft prospects are funny to me.
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Jim Bob
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The problem is that a lot of your explanation goes against what Josh has said himself.
It also goes against what scouts said who watched him at Wyoming and the numbers backed up what they saw with their eyes. It's like how the Sabres scouts and analytics team try and layer stuff and if there is a disconnect between what the numbers say and what the scouts say, they investigate more.
But, by all reports, and even Josh admits, there were real technical and immaturity issues that led to him being an inaccurate thrower of the ball in college and early in his pro career.
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Most QBs have already had an absolute wealth of specialized coaching by the time they’re draft eligible. Josh was constantly overlooked and under-coached up to that point. He wasn’t a guy who couldn’t learn, he was a guy who hadn’t been taught.
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One thing on the Baltimore game to wrap it up and one thing going forward for the KC game (and they may be a bit related)
We held Baltimore to 25 points and scored 27. Baltimore this season, counting playoffs, was 13-0 when they scored 28 points or more, and 0-6 when they scored 27 or less. The most points they gave up in any of those 6 losses were the 29 (to Cleveland). Buffalo's 27 was tied for the 2nd most. So, again, kudos to the defense holding them under that magic number.
Looking forward (well, actually also looking back at the last KC meeting) - the KC defense actually held Buffalo's offense pretty well in check in the week 11 game. The backs in the running game, in particular, went nowhere fast (and the Bills abandoned it pretty quickly)
If anything, the defense played over expectations more in that game than the offense did. Both teams got 9 possessions, and Buffalo's defense got 6 stops, KC's 4.5 (counting a red zone stop as a half). I would not necessarily expect either team to score on less than half their possessions in this game, which means red zone stops to hold the scoring down will be key, as will doing a better job establishing the run on offense to avoid obvious passing downs where Spags can go to work.
KC's offense is playing better right now than they were earlier in the season when they played us. They can stretch the field a little better with Brown, and Kelce is going to be more of a factor in the playoffs. The big thing that concerns me is that KC really hasn't faced any "have to have it" moments on offense this year. They had a big enough lead on us for the conference when we met first that they could afford to lose that game, and the vast majority of the "scares" they've gotten this year they have been playing from ahead for most of the game. Since they lost to us, their opposition hasn't had a single possession while leading. They've got to have a handful of plays just sitting, waiting, that no one has seen before that they are waiting for an important offensive down to break out. That's not necessarily ideal.
That said, I do think we can play better on offense than we did in that week 11 game, and the Bills are certainly capable of winning this game.
We held Baltimore to 25 points and scored 27. Baltimore this season, counting playoffs, was 13-0 when they scored 28 points or more, and 0-6 when they scored 27 or less. The most points they gave up in any of those 6 losses were the 29 (to Cleveland). Buffalo's 27 was tied for the 2nd most. So, again, kudos to the defense holding them under that magic number.
Looking forward (well, actually also looking back at the last KC meeting) - the KC defense actually held Buffalo's offense pretty well in check in the week 11 game. The backs in the running game, in particular, went nowhere fast (and the Bills abandoned it pretty quickly)
If anything, the defense played over expectations more in that game than the offense did. Both teams got 9 possessions, and Buffalo's defense got 6 stops, KC's 4.5 (counting a red zone stop as a half). I would not necessarily expect either team to score on less than half their possessions in this game, which means red zone stops to hold the scoring down will be key, as will doing a better job establishing the run on offense to avoid obvious passing downs where Spags can go to work.
KC's offense is playing better right now than they were earlier in the season when they played us. They can stretch the field a little better with Brown, and Kelce is going to be more of a factor in the playoffs. The big thing that concerns me is that KC really hasn't faced any "have to have it" moments on offense this year. They had a big enough lead on us for the conference when we met first that they could afford to lose that game, and the vast majority of the "scares" they've gotten this year they have been playing from ahead for most of the game. Since they lost to us, their opposition hasn't had a single possession while leading. They've got to have a handful of plays just sitting, waiting, that no one has seen before that they are waiting for an important offensive down to break out. That's not necessarily ideal.
That said, I do think we can play better on offense than we did in that week 11 game, and the Bills are certainly capable of winning this game.
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Bills enter AFC Championship Week with 4 defensive injuries to monitor
Benford is in concussion protocol, Rapp is day-to-day, and where did Matt Milano go at the end of the game?
www.buffalorumblings.com
Sounds like Milano got hurt late in the game and Benford got a concussion on the onside kick. 4 potential injuries to keep an eye on now.
- Benford
- Milano
- Rapp
- Taron Johnson
Also knows as, the usual suspectsBills enter AFC Championship Week with 4 defensive injuries to monitor
Benford is in concussion protocol, Rapp is day-to-day, and where did Matt Milano go at the end of the game?
Sounds like Milano got hurt late in the game and Benford got a concussion on the onside kick. 4 potential injuries to keep an eye on now.
- Benford
- Milano
- Rapp
- Taron Johnson
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Allen changed his throwing mechanics after his first season, and that resulted in the improvement in his accuracy.
I don’t think the defense is going to pose much of a challenge for the KC offense, and they probably aren’t going to turn it over like the Ravens. I think this is one where we need to match them score for score and it comes down to the final possession. Hope I’m wrong and we smoke ‘em!
That sounds like last season, when half the defense was out vs Chiefs.Bills enter AFC Championship Week with 4 defensive injuries to monitor
Benford is in concussion protocol, Rapp is day-to-day, and where did Matt Milano go at the end of the game?
Sounds like Milano got hurt late in the game and Benford got a concussion on the onside kick. 4 potential injuries to keep an eye on now.
- Benford
- Milano
- Rapp
- Taron Johnson
Here's hoping they all make it for Sunday.
I think people are living in a fear bunker on KCs offense. All year they have won because of their defense. They have not scored more than 30 points all season.
If we lose, I suspect it will be because of spagnola shutting down the offense, not the KC offense steamrolling us.
Last year we were playing AJ Klein off the streets at MLB. This team is way deeper at those positions this year, thankfully.
Jim Bob
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I think Taron Johnson definitely plays on Sunday.
Benford is a complete crapshoot because concussion protocol. But, the hit didn't seem that bad...
I am doubtful on Rapp and Milano is a complete mystery and nothing really showed up on tape and McD has acted like he didn't know anything.
If they get 3/4 back for Sunday and they are near 100%, that should be good enough.
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With how Milano looked against the Ravens, we need him to play. The defense can just run more packages with him in the game. He looked great from what I saw. Fast, getting pressure, and making big plays in big moments (deflecting the pass on the first 2 pt conversion). Let's hope he's healthy.
Jim Bob
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Ravens' Marlon Humphrey eager to see someone beat the Chiefs in the playoffs
"I have no reason of saying this other than being a hater. The Bills or whatever NFC team gotta beat the Chiefs" Humphrey wrote.
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Jets want Glenn now as HC but he is interviewing with the Saints again this week and left New York. His choice for DC is Kelvin Sheppard btw.
Matt Harmon has said if the current betting trend on the KC-Bills continues it is going to push that game to even or even favorite the Bills.
Matt Harmon has said if the current betting trend on the KC-Bills continues it is going to push that game to even or even favorite the Bills.
