@AR27iselite On Braves opening day my optimism that my foot meeting your ass is very high. Sure you could try to mount a defense and make me look silly or the most realistic option is you won’t. My final prediction is pain for you. I won’t be wrong #Malice
It's Braves Opening Day and my optimism isn't very high. Sure they could win 90 games and make me look silly or they could win 75 and make me look smart. My final prediction is 83-79 and miss the playoffs. Hopefully I'm wrong. #BravesCountry
Man, Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch are a LOAD for an opposing team to handle. Sabres win and have an identical record as the Red Wings. Both with 23 games. Sabres are a playoff lock. They are the 3rd or 4th best team in the Conference. Kevyn Adams GM of the year.
Drake Maye now holds the worst statistical playoff run of any QB this century (min 3 GP):
1. '25 Drake Maye (-29.2 EPA)
2. '15 Peyton Manning (-22.7 EPA)
3. '06 Rex Grossman (-22.5 EPA)
4. '08 Joe Flacco (-18.2 EPA)
5. '18 Jared Goff (-9.2 EPA)
6. '00 Kerry Collins (-7.6 EPA)
In the playoffs the #Patriots had 53 drives.
They averaged 1.13 points per drive in those games.
The 2017 #Browns, who went 0-16, averaged 1.22 points per drive.
There is absolutely no difference between this play and the Buffalo play. Adams did not make any move. He caught it, secured it as he was tackled and then stripped on the ground. Same exact thing. Same exact. This is why fans hate the NFL refs. No consistency game to game
I will gladly give a rebuttal to this because I believe context matters.
The problem with this critique is that it collapses years of context into a single moment and pretends everything Josh Allen has had in Buffalo existed simultaneously. It didn’t.
Allen has never played with all of these things at once: an elite defense, an elite offensive line, a top-tier run game, and high-end receiving depth. Those units have peaked in different seasons, often with one compensating for another’s collapse. That’s not the same as being surrounded by a consistently elite roster.
Stefon Diggs was a top-7 receiver at his peak but Buffalo has rarely had a second reliable pass catcher. The offensive line has oscillated between average and good, not dominant, and the run game has only recently become functional. The defense has been top-10 on paper, but in the postseason it has repeatedly been injured, compromised, or outright overwhelmed (13 seconds, anyone?). Framing this as Allen operating inside a stable, balanced ecosystem is revisionist.
By contrast, the Ravens have consistently fielded deeper, more structurally sound rosters during Allen’s tenure. Lamar has played with elite defenses almost every year, top-tier offensive lines, and the league’s best rushing infrastructure regardless of who the running back was. Baltimore’s system has always reduced variance for its quarterback. Buffalo’s has embraced it.
That’s the key distinction.
Josh Allen is asked to create offense, not just run it. His turnovers are the byproduct of being the release valve for every offensive deficiency. When things break down in Buffalo, the answer is “Josh, fix it.” When things break down in Baltimore, the answer is usually schematic, philosophical, or situational.
And yes Allen had a brutal game. Four turnovers is unacceptable. But pretending this is some pattern of media protection ignores reality. Allen is criticized constantly for recklessness; it’s literally the defining knock on his career. The difference is that Buffalo’s postseason competitiveness often exists because of Allen’s ceiling, not in spite of it.
If Lamar had four turnovers in a playoff loss, the conversation wouldn’t be “move on” because he’s a fraud it would be about whether Baltimore’s offense can function when forced outside its identity. That’s the same grace Allen deserves when Buffalo’s margin for error is razor-thin and he’s asked to be the solution to everything.
This isn’t about excuses. It’s about context.
Josh Allen hasn’t failed because he’s been propped up by a great roster. He’s fallen short because Buffalo’s championship formula has required him to be extraordinary every year while Baltimore’s has been built to make that unnecessary.
That difference matters.
Excited to watch Josh Allen throw to Allen Lazard and Kalif Raymond next year to fix this problem that’s evident to every person on earth outside of the Bills front office
Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson have combined to play 18 playoff games.
In those games they have accounted for 25 TDs.
Josh Allen has 36 TDs in 14 playoff games.