interceptions last week is the bills are moving up and down
the field against the Vikings. But Patrick Peterson picked him
off twice. In the second half,
one of them coming in overtime.
Here is
Josh hollan talking about his habit of trying to do too much
at times and what he plans to do to fix again? I'm just
trying to make the best play and sometimes that's
the best play for our team. And,
you know, it's that constant.
I can make a play or,
you know, I can trust somebody else to make a play that,
you know, I've battled with my entire football career and
trying to do too much, sometimes it'll hurt you. So
again, just playing playing quarterback the right way and
the smart way, and again, allowing our guys to make plays
in space and not always trying to force the ball downfield,
and
just getting back to that
Peter. We bookended the to Vikings stars from Sunday. You
spoke to Justin Jefferson. I spoke to Patrick Peterson. And
the thing I took away from Peterson was
They're starting to pick things up in the film there. Get
a little too predictable, they aren't staying ahead of
the curve. They know what the book is on Josh Allen, when he
breaks the pocket, they know what
to look for. They know the Tendencies,
even though he's going off schedule, the problem is, you
go off schedule, enough
you develop Tendencies
and that's what Patrick Peterson and others. Surely are
picking up on.
Yeah, you know, the one thing about this game Mike and and
I'm unfortunately, I had to rely on Highlights
being in a hotel room, 5,000 miles away. But the one thing
that I thought in this game
is that on those two throws,
that was Josh Allen as a rookie.
And he wants to make a play so bad, and you just heard him
talk about it.
It's how he battles with his inner self sometimes,
and one of the reasons why I am not at
all worried, about Josh Allen, zero worries whatsoever.
You cannot play the position
for a year and a half at the level. He is played at until
the last two weeks. You cannot play at that huge. Hi vaunted,
great level of football,
for such a long period of time
and you have to bad game save. Whoa! Whoa!
Josh Allen big trouble. Now,
you know, he's gonna have trouble coming back from this.
He is not,
he's going to be fine and he's going to be great and, and
look,
you know, it would still be a matter of discussion. If you
said to me,
you're Being a franchisee right now who's your quarterback for
the next 10 years.
Be tough between Mahomes and Josh. L, I'd probably take Mahomes.
But if Mahomes has a hangnail and they say, well, you know,
he might be here at. Okay. Give me Josh Alan
and I'll be fine
you know II, just don't it because he
self police's.
Okay. In the offseason. When he works out with Jordan Palmer,
Jordan Palmer, always
takes what he needs to be better at and they drill and
drill. And Drill and drill,
and I'm sure Ken Dorsey does the exact same thing once he
gets to training camp. So, I think
this this worried about Josh Alan, I'd be worried about him,
you know, say for this week. Whether it might happen again
in a close game late, maybe it will. But for the long term,
I have zero worries about Josh Allen.
Well, and we've seen some similarities, I think between
Allen and Mahomes as it relates to
becoming Intoxicated by The Uncanny skills that they have
and wanting to use the homes, wanting to get the ball down,
the field to Tyree kill and part of the
maturation process
for a Young quarterback with this. Incredible set of
god-given skills is to teach them when to use them
responsibly and went to not excessively rely upon them. And
part of the problem may be the bills are expected. Passively
relying upon Josh Allen
and not being sufficiently creative in.
Structuring plays calling plays like Andy Reid does with
Patrick Mahomes that's the key. When you've got this great
talent, it increases the obligation of the coaching
staff to use it the right way and it can't just be
in Josh, we trust, there has to be more than that, right? When
you get to these moments where you need your guy to make a big
throw, and he needs to be listening to that voice in his
head, especially on that last one, the one that ended
the game
Why don't? I don't know what he was trying to do there. Now
Peterson said, when he knew there were no Buffalo Bills,
nobody was coming and
it's almost like he threw it right to Patrick Peterson.
I mean, it would have been a hell of a few do my thread that
needle. But the aim point was too low and too far to
the right.
But Mike, this is what I found myself thinking, okay?
So let's just say like it's second down right here.
So you now have two plays
to convert, okay?
You don't have just one, you have to place to convert.
That's what drove me crazy about this play.
Okay, so that's the first thing.
The second thing about it is that
nobody wants to tie,
I get it and you know a tie is some evil language
but would you rather be right now? 62 in one or six and
three?
I mean seriously, what would you rather be 62 in one or six
and three? And so
obviously you'd rather be 62 in one and the game was set up for
them
even if they Fail on the next two plays.
The game is set up
for Tyler bass to come in
Kick a chippy and for them to you know have to stop Minnesota
for what he, they get the ball back with.
I don't know, 40 seconds to go. I don't even know what
but they were set up to tie that game at the worst and so
that that would bug me
that would really, really bug me
if I were the bills right now.
Oh, and that's the thing
that would I'd leave the game. Just basically saying
the worst alternative is to lose.
It's not a great alternative to tie,
but it sure as hell is better than losing.
Let me say this as somebody who rode the entire roller coaster
in the fourth quarter and overtime,
with all the ups and downs and twists and turns, and the ride
keeps going. Even when you think it should be over
that game had to have a winner and a loser. That game
just cosmically could not have ended in a tie
too much stuff happened
in that game from really the two-minute warning. You could
also make their choice not to be Mike.
Winner. You could also make the point that both teams
deserve to come out of there with something in this game,
or you could also make the point
neither team deserved to win
in this game. You know, especially after Josh Allen
fumbles, the snap for Mitch Morse at the goal line, which
that is a play. I need the sir Pruder film
on that play because I still don't understand. I saw it very
grainy.
And Mike, I don't know if you, if you've actually looked at
this a few times I looked at it like five times. I can't figure
out why Josh Allen fumbled that snap,
it looked like it was right there.
On consecutive snaps in that game
in critical moments.
They used our idea
of not, not quite the way we constructed it two weeks ago.
But the idea of taking full advantage of the rule that
allows someone to push the ball carrier, CJ ham tried to push
Kirk Cousins into the End Zone. On the play. That fell short
and Gabe. Davis was in motion and he stopped
right behind. Josh Allen. Maybe that's the thing to look for in
the supporter film. Was that active gave? Dave is trying to
push Josh Allen
did that happen and here it is. You'll see him come in from
the right and the idea is Allen gets the ball and gave Davis
pushes him. It's not like he started pushing him before he
got the ball. So
forget about that thing that I ate, just the whole thing. It
just doesn't make sense and it may be as simple as Mitch Morse
freaked out because he knew he was going to get killed from
every possible direction. As soon as he snapped the ball,
I mean he could be and but, but
I also have to have
And it to the Vikings for not just saying,
okay, for not just basically giving
the bills, the easy, snap kneel down, whatever it would have
been,
okay? Because at that moment in time, you got to figure.
This is it. You know, that's it. And the fact that
Minnesota,
whoever it was, I don't think it was Eric Kendricks, but
whoever drove over the top, I mean, that is
that that's a football team right there.
That is a team that says
Hey listen, we will do anything humanly possible to win. That's
a team. You want to root for?
It was the Greg Schiano move under situations where it is.
Yeah acceptable.
That's the moment where you do it. Not out at the 20 but you
do it in that spot because they had to move y'all off
the point. If it had been a safety, they would have gotten the ball
with a chance to win it. With. A field goal is Just Amazing.
Just One of the many
crazy, kooky moments that happened in that game.
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