Is Josh Allen regressing? | Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast
With the Buffalo Bills offense lacking firepower over the first two weeks of the season, Yahoo Sports' Scott Pianowski and Andy Behrens wonder if Josh Allen has taken a step backwards. Hear the full conversation on the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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- One additional thing that I want to get to with you before we hit this week's pickups. And it just a little note at the end of the booms and busts feature Buffalo. They just, I mean, they just want a road game in the division 35 to nothing, which you know that's pretty good. That's it's hard to complain about a thing like that. We should all be feeling good about any bills, presumably. It's just that, and look, Josh Allen entered this season MVP candidate. He was marvelous last year made a huge leap, one of the biggest leaps that I think I've ever seen at that position, from where he was as a college player to where he is now.
But the first two games of his 2021 season. Sure, look a lot like they belong to the 2019 game log. You wrote about it just a little bit. Some of it's probably fluky. I think he was one for seven on deep attempts in week one, and that is skewing some things, and of course, he connected on that big one to Emmanuel Sanders in the opener. We'd, maybe I'd be feeling differently about him. Is there any level of concern? Any level of nervousness there?
- Yeah. I guess the main takeaway I wanted to make is that when Buffalo wins 35 to nothing. If you didn't get a chance to watch that game or analyze that game, you might think, Oh, OK. They're back in business. The offense was a little sluggish against Pittsburgh, but they got everything back in order. They only had just a little over 33 to 14 yards of total offense, 21 first Downs. They had what would probably should have amounted to maybe 17 points. It turns out they finished all of their drives in Miami put up just about no fight back. I think they lost too early in that game, and nothing went right for Miami.
Defenses have adjusted to Buffalo. They're laying back there asking Allen to make shorter throws. I think Buffalo made a mistake just saying, look, we're just going to pass every down, and Pittsburgh try to stop it, and Pittsburgh did stop it in week one. It's still a good offense, but I just. The thing I want to guard against is just the thing. Just to see the 35 points and think, Oh, OK. Everything's back in order. I'll play Josh Allen in DFS next week. You know, obviously look, I'm not telling anybody to sit Stefon Diggs or anything like that, but they're still trying to figure out how to adjust to what the new blueprint is. I think they will adjust. I'm very curious to see what they do against the WFT this week. A defense I thought was going to be a monster, and I've been very disappointed. I mean, last week against Daniel Jones, I was looking for 17 defensive points I didn't get any turnovers.
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- I don't know how that happened. So I feel like Buffalo's offense is not really firing on all cylinders. I feel like the WFT defense is the same thing applies. I'm curious to see who shows their best foot forward. Just make sure you don't see the 35 points and think that Buffalo magically fixed everything because they still left a lot of yards and a lot of points, believe it or not, on the field Sunday.
- Yeah. Fully agree. Allen was, I think, just over 50% as a passer through a pick. Not great. I'm relying on Allen in a couple of places, and I'm sure he'll be fine because last year really happened. And it was glorious, and I'm sure he's going to be OK. But it was an important note. I thought there were a couple of late rushing scores that really didn't mean a lot within the context of that game, but it sure made the lead in the point differential look. A little bit more dramatic than any of it actually felt.
