as well with the Buffalo Bills. But Josh Allen, I think he
deserves earn the right to be the lead story here
and to get into Josh. I want to start just what
this way in the AFC East as a couple of things right now that
are coming off the weekend. Chris. I just to be celebrated.
First of all, Miami didn't lose in November and December,
right? Talk about to talk about the defense, going up against
quarterbacks aren't great. They didn't lose
in November and December.
That's awesome. Just like as a fan. That's a cool thing to
have around out the
Jewelle version of that from the weekend to me, is
Josh, Allen played and probably the biggest regular season game
of his career. Right? And he was phenomenal. Awesome,
like, applause for him, not as a fan of the bills, but just as
a fan of guys, showing up in a big moment with a giant
performance, how much better could it be than Josh Allen
in Foxborough over the weekend?
Take a look at it right now. 30 out of 47
314, passing yards, three touchdowns. No pixie ran for 64.
I think he dropped back over 50.
Chris Wright, not a sack. Yeah, not a fumble, right. Not
a pick. And his team won
outstanding. I'm glad you're saying it. And again, first
off. I'm just like absolute tragedy. He's not in the Pro
Bowl. No way. Lamar Jackson should make it in there before
him this year. I mean, no
way. So that's stupid. I just want to tell that to everybody
and then
unreal performance. Yeah, to jump off what you're saying,
unreal performance. We'd really have not seen people do that to
the New England defense. Not
Not like really on any Year, let alone, the years when there
are top five ish defense in the NFL
and we know they're famous for their past defense and that's
their strength and their bread and butter and then it's let
alone. When you go
wait, there's not really much of a run game to worry about in
Buffalo. Oh, no, that's an issue. They really only have
Stefon Diggs who that's kind of an issue. Yeah, right. So you
got all those things that you thought. Well, that means
they're going to
be able to really focus on Josh Allen
and that's what we're going to show.
Basically,
it didn't matter. Like to what your to your point. Josh Allen
was off the rails, good. Yeah, he is officially, I don't care.
Whatever. If you're not
ready to put Josh
like Alan and one of the five best players in football
conversation than not. You're just a hater. It's all I got to
say,
the guy is unreal.
He's carrying the football team. They did a lot of good.
Other things will show that on the defensive side of the ball
to yeah, but balichek called every defense Under the Sun and
the game look that way watch it on every day. That's out of the
sun and it Did not matter even on the place where his defense
one to your point. Alan, escape the pressure. Oh wait, they
called the perfect Blitz.
I'll make a mess and scramble out and still get a 10-yard. Yeah,
and that's when you start to get the Bill Belichick hug
a day after the football games. I was cool. That's what we're
that's when you know, that's when you've reached like Peyton
Manning. That's what he does with Aaron Rodgers,
you know, Ed to read.
That's when you know, you've reached the,
we do a lot to game plan for you and we still can't stop
you. So I'm going to come over here and give you a hug because
you're officially on the Bill, Belichick all-time team and
that's where I think. Challenge got now nothing for an athlete
like the respect of another athlete, or a coach,
whether it's in your locker room or not that you think
a lot of as well. So that's something he can hang on to
forever to a couple things to piggyback on that. Number one.
It's not like they Okie dokes New England with her. They kind
of tricked him or some kind of a surprise. They knew coming
in. It was going to be all Josh Allen. Yeah, so to have that
kind of performance when everybody knew it
was him. He write
without a lot of help. That's right. That adds to it as to
it. I will add on one concern though, Phoenix. It's six,
seven, eight weeks. Yeah, I don't know how much you can
I no, can you expect Josh to be an A+ every game? You can't.
I know if he's a B+ or a C+. Do they have enough around him? So
they advance in January? I don't know. That's a big.
That's a real question. I think it's
a real question by you. There's no doubt, you know last year
listen to what they did. It was magical and all that, you know
his play went to another level the way they attack defense has
kind of caught Everybody by surprise. It's not catching
them by surprise.
There's more on his shoulders this year.
This is why I thought they would
Lose a few more games this year because I went, I don't know if
you can really replicate what he did last year. That was
amazing. Yeah, you know, we've seen some games where yeah,
Jacksonville. He did some dumb sub but to your point again,
it's all
on him. And I don't know if you can replicate that going
through the playoffs either. They're tough on defense.
They're well coached and he's as good, a play making
quarterback as we've already ever seen in the NFL
and you know, playoffs
extra Focus, all that rising to the big,
you know, big lights, occasion and all that and enjoy. Josh
Alan's going to be nobody's going to want to see him
rolling into town. Come playoff time, just because he's so
Unstoppable out of the time. They're always stats and
numbers and figures that come out of a weekend. It can kind
of skew things and make you think. Boy it didn't look that
way. But this number looks good.
This looked exactly the way it represents here, third and
seven or more. Josh, Allen was 6 out of 7 67 yards, 45 first
downs in a touchdown
against the Bill Belichick defense, right? That was doing
a, they did a number different things like you pointed out.
What was everybody important 7 + like nobody in the history of
the bill. Jack has never liked no one ruins them on Third and
seven Logan, seven against a Belichick defense. Like what
would be good? Getting
a first down 30%? I mean probably first it would be
good. I would I would say so really good. Yes, 20 would be
accepted. You know, I got to look at the League wide
conversion rate against all defense has with third and
7 plus has probably
in the mid 30s. I would think that he's lasted that their
defense is last in the NFL, right? Part of its not
Cincinnati. The LA Chargers defense is just looking at this
charger. Third down defense has the worst. First, just over
fifty percent. Okay.
So I mean, that's the mean keep that in mind. Ya think about
the Jordan 7 or more, right, that he did that. So that's
what Josh Allen did just talking about it. I'd love to
see a little bit, some examples here
and start with the three yard touchdown to Isaiah Mackenzie.
First quarter. Well, write that mean. Hey, the thing we're
going to show here more than anything, and the point of all
this is just like, it's what we're going to show. I think,
23 plays here are
Josh Allen. It's just that
the Patriots exhausted. Every option. They called every
Belichick's ever run in his life to try to slow down Josh
down. And you know what Josh Allen does is? You know, here's
to be the first thing I would just say about the game. In
general.
They did a great job for the most part not playing dinkin dunk
football. It's not going to be here on the, you know,
the 3-yard line going in, but they called a lot of plays that are
aggressive down the field and they trusted Alan to make
the right decision. Hey, if it's there, let it rip. Go get it.
If it's not we trust you will have somebody
underneath working some coverage there
and you'll go to the All that way, I mean
for man rushes all-out, Blitz is cover to
double this guy.
Three-man marshes with a QB Scott, a spy.
All of these things were run by Bill, Belichick and the New
England Patriots and this football game and it just
didn't really matter. And here's what I'm going to show
you right off the bat. This is where third down.
You know, I mean, it's a fourth down, excuse me.
It's a kind of a four-man rush
but it's a 4-man rush and the fact of like, there's really
a bunch of guys just spying. And trying to keep him in
the pocket two guys just spying into guys really spying him.
I mean, he's watching anything up the middle.
You got
a Defender here at the one-yard line Vannoy. Who's rushing in
one of the four just to eat up the space. He's really paying
attention to him to not, you know, escape the pocket and
make a play with his legs to run it in from the three or
four yard
line. All right, and then this is where to me, Josh Allen and
like you heard Belichick's a this stuff, you know,
he reads the events as well. He goes through all the reads on
his side. Of the ball, you know, he's accurate and he
listed off all the issues, Josh out and poses. And this is to
me where he's become a different player over the last
two years. He just wait, he know, he has the presence of
mind and this play
right here, got three receivers to his right to the left.
Okay. They want to throw it up top here. Okay.
And do this and have Devin Singletary. Come out and get
a natural. Pick play with the to Patriot players. Patriots know
what's coming.
They switch it off perfectly. So that's where he looks first.
Look he's looking. And and then it's like, oh crap. Wait, they
pass this off perfectly now. Okay. Wait, it's a three-man
rush in his mind. He tells himself that. Okay. I got time.
Let me sit
here, go through the pocket
and the Patriots are proud to play,
you know, of coverage in which they pass things off. As you
can see down here. We got to under routes. Right, really?
What they're trying to do. MacKenzie's the first under
route miles Brian's, going to pass him off. Hey, Adrian
Phillips, you got him now. He's going to kind of sift off
because he knows.
Buddy else is coming off here to get the underground by digs.
And then Jesse Jackson should come back here to help out
McCourty. Who's in a compromised position. I'm
running the corner route. That's kind of the way they're
playing it. But
again, we're playing a guy here. Now, who's
this is no longer. Just great, physical ability. Oh wow plays.
It's a guy who knows how to play the quarterback position.
The right way. What a word that comes to mind. I'm sorry.
Chris.
We're that comes to mind is I'm watching listening. Yeah,
patience patience. Because the key to this game it's patience
and Poise in the pocket like as a court. He dropped back, and
you're expecting some Rush right away. You got to clock in
your head and way. It's yeah, what am I?
I gotta be thrown in here when it's not there.
What do you do? Do you take off and run? Because that's what
your instinct is or do you. Stay and hang and look for
somebody and he really did the ladder. That's a special skill.
Yeah. It's a skill that I know is beaten into his brain. By
Brian
De Palma's, has something New England used to talk about with
me when I was, you know, playing for Josh, McDaniels in
Denver or even coaching their three-man Rush. Take a deep
breath. And,
you know, don't panic that you got to get the ball out. Let
the play develop, you know, enough nothing's there. It's
still a three-man rush. Be patient, buy some more time in
the pocket compromise, some coverage with how you look
or where you look to see if you can move people.
And again, this is where you're in a tough spot.
Oh, hey, we'd like to rush three or four. So he can't run.
We'll keep him in the pocket. Well, he goes a fine. I'll stay
in the pocket. All right, fine. Then we can't let him do that.
He's gonna tear us up. Let's split somebody.
Oh, he escaped the guy and gotten still got to completion.
And that's where he's unbelievable. And he's just
hear
that. Again, the patients
and Trust they have in him right now. I think says it all
sits there in the pocket.
What a quick-release
Patriots. Can't pass it off. Quick enough.
There's too many things. They're worried about my
Adrian Phillips here
at the one-yard line. Who's responsible for Mackenzie,
you know, again,
he sees the guy coming across but he's also taking a peek
back because he's gonna wait this guy might run. I got to be
ready to pursue him. That way he takes that last peek at Josh
Allen too late guys, gone touchdown was a great reaction
by Mackenzie to. Well.
It's got it was a laser and it was a good Job, I have
Mackenzie. This is this just in. Mackenzie is the second
best receiver on the bills. He's more dangerous than coal
Beasley or Emmanuel Sanders.
I don't, when they play him. He makes plays. I don't know why
he doesn't play more. But to me, he was a Difference Maker
in this football and he's one of the few guys on their team
that I go you play one-on-one,
you better watch out because he can run away from you. It
really him and digs in the only two guys that do that to me
one-on-one whether it's 101. Says it's man. But I mean, it's
a lot about instincts. Yeah, that was kind of a zone is kind
of situation where
he was supposed to. Underneath and his sense just took him
over the top. Yeah. After he realized, Josh had more time.
He found that spot in the back of the endzone. The spot.
I don't think the play call, really sent him there. Yeah,
kinda probably said himself that right. I think so too. I'm
not really sure 100% there.
Either way. You're welcome the right place to go. Yeah, Alan
hit him and it wasn't just again and compensate. Another
shot of what we're going to show you here again
different defenses Belcher. We could we could spend the whole
show showing you different defenses. Balichek tried to
throw at the guy, just doesn't matter. He's
Smart, he's talented. He's been coached well,
and he was ready for
prime time. And this one, I mentioned a couple moments about
about the success Allen had on Third and seven or more.
This is early third quarter. Third down and 10
and he finds Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is
where it's just like, this is when you get classified into.
Well, what the fuck do we do to stop this guy?
I don't really know.
It's the perfect defense by Bill, Belichick and Company.
I mean, they exposed the pass protection here as we're going
to show. Well they've The the to start out with 5 or 6, and
who's coming, who's not going on? I got the look, we talked
about all the time. There's Five Guys across here. Who's
coming,
who's not? I'm not sure.
And really one, two, three, four
are to the right of the center.
So, you know, they're scared of that.
They're scared of that. So they're going to send
the left guard, the center, the Right Guard in the right tackle
out to get them. Well, you know, this is where, you know,
you know, knowledge of opponents. We've played this
guy. I know, Brian Day ball. Well, then that leaves Duggar
wide open.
And to rush. They've they cracked the code on this pass
protection and what they were going to get in this formation.
So not only did they do that. Okay, but now
it's a four-man rush.
You see one guy's totally free. You got two guys dropping out
underneath because they're worried about crossers. Right?
So, all the crossers are screwed. You're not going to be
able to throw that. All right. You got a guy here waiting for
the back out of the backfield.
There's nowhere to go
and the protection is screwed over by a great defensive play
call by the All the checks.
All right, and you go belcheck. Try sitting there going. Well,
we're going to win this play.
Yep. We're going to win this play. We're gonna win this play.
We're gonna win this play.
We're going to win. What he threw, the ball, 20 yards
across the field. I mean that that's just this insane. So
I mean some guys just have the license because if it was
a pick, everybody would have been rewind. And say, this is just
something you can't do with this much experience. Rookie
mistake. But yeah,
you you allow a guy with this kind of talent to make
a ridiculous throw like that's, that's That is to me, is
the point to me? Like, it started with the first guy I ever saw,
get the green light to a degree was Brett. Favre
Rogers. Does it a little but Rogers more? Careful Mahomes.
And Allen are. The first ones I've seen where they looks like
the coaches. Don't even say, don't do that. You just like if
he's off and go ahead. We don't give a damn you'll get it
there,
right? It's odd. I mean, these are as we know we grew up
around this and he's our quarterback. No nose,
but here is a play
where the Belichick's called
Everything. Perfect.
The play should be stopped. Its third and ten.
And he makes this play
and they end up getting
12 yards for a first down
and the perfect events, a call
and that kind of just in capsulize, has in capsulize,
has am I right about that or cap encapsulate. It's
the second time today. I think I've used in capsulize has that play
was a good snapshot. It was a good snapshot
that like that to. There we go.
That's easier for me to say
good. Snapshot of
these bulk plays of just what he got throughout the day,
right? He was always mentally in the right place and I think
again the
You know, there was enough of a run game where the Patriots
couldn't just go. Oh, we can just bypass all game. They
didn't just enough and sprinkle in that in there to keep them
honest.
And and to me, the other thing too is,
you know,
I feel like in previous matchups the bills against
the Patriots, and I know the windy game a few weeks ago is a tough
one. But even the two last year,
there was more of a short passing game attack. Let's try
to be Surgical and I don't know what the reasoning was, but in
this one to me. It just felt like when my eye that there was
more plays called to attack them down, the field,
attack them down the field. Make them cover that
and it's kind of the New England proach
from when they want to throw the football. And I tell people
this all the time, you know, New England. When they want to
hit Edelman, over the middle or do that
their genius was, they called aggressive down the field,
passing plays to where it got the defense backed up and away
and Brady would read it out knowing like wait. This is
really a coverage. I'm going
to go down to the short guy.
You know, but I'm going to still look at it just in case
a guy falls down and maybe I got the poster out or whatever, but
knowing that
I'm going to come to the short, the short guy
and get my completion there. If they play too much of a pass
defense down the field and I really got that sense
throughout the game that pressure really compromise,
the Patriots. They didn't trust it. They didn't trust defending
Josh Allen's arm down the field
and then the other thing I think it did do too
was it did help with the running game a little. And
we've talked about this too, when you spend people down
field
it gives the court.
Iraq. Some room to run. Yeah. All sudden. There's a big
laying that opens up and it so damn. He's gonna rip off 20
yards here. We're kind of screwed because we're down
field covering 40-yard routes down there. That was a little
bit of a change up to me for what the bills did on that side
of the ball to.
Yeah. It was I mean, just a couple plays there,
you could have picked so many different place to demonstrate.
Number one. How many different ways? The Patriots tried to
defend it in all the different ways are different answers.
That Josh had