Josh Allen's Performance and Tactics Against Carolina

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00:00Another interesting quarterback though today, Joe, is Josh Allen because we were three weeks

00:07into this season and it felt like he had already won league MVP, right? The incredible comeback

00:12against Baltimore, clean football, nothing to see here. In his last three games since that mark

00:18though, he's actually thrown four interceptions, which is not what we saw from Josh Allen last

00:24season, who had six total across the 17 game season. He goes up against the Carolina team who

00:32at home, the best team in the league basically, right? I mean, Bill's off a bye. Josh Allen does

00:39not lose off bye. They're a big time favorite here. What do you expect from the reigning MVP?

00:43Well, again, I talked about the rushing attacks, right? Dallas was held to 31 yards. The Jets only

00:494.1 yards per rush, 81 yards in the loss last week. This is a team to your .3 and 0 at home

00:56have won those games by an average margin of 12 points per game. They're on a three game win

01:01streak. They've won by 4.3 points per game. So this is a hot football team. And again, it's going to be

01:07a veteran and Andy Dalton. I think Buffalo does win this game, but I don't know if they cover the

01:13seven and a half. What I do feel though, is because of how stout that front seven has been for Carolina

01:18and how active, that instead of going in with James Cook and running the football, they're

01:23going to have to open it up. I expect a big day potentially out of Shakir. He's got great numbers.

01:28I took him 70 plus today to break out, but it's got to be Josh Allen. You're talking about a team

01:34in Buffalo that's lost two straight games. And from an identity perspective, New England shut down

01:40your passing attack and so did the Falcons. And they blitzed Josh Allen early and often and made

01:46them uncomfortable. If I'm Carolina in passing situations, that's what I'm going to do. But

01:51they have to be aggressive. Buffalo throwing the football on first and second down. They have a

01:57tendency at times, Kev, to be a little predictable running James kick on first down and then getting

02:03into long third down situations where they can't seem to get out of that needs to change today.

02:09I would take the points with Carolina, but I think there's no doubt that Buffalo does win the game.

02:14I think the fascinating element here while we are, you know, talking Josh Allen is how much talk

02:21there is around James Cook. James Cook, you don't have the long hold off during the off season and

02:26ultimately the bills made the decision to pay him and, you know, kind of circle him as a key guy.

02:32And we now have this team start 4-0, all this work for James Cook, and then go 0-2.

02:40Oh, wow, they didn't use James Cook as much as they did the first four weeks. It's like,

02:43I'm not saying James Cook's the best player on this team, but for a team that is somewhat

02:49weaponless on the outside, certainly lacking a star weapon, to leave these games,

02:56maybe we should have got it to cook a little bit more, is so ridiculous. And it's putting

03:00Brady under some fire a little bit.