It's another bad day to be a Josh Allen hater: Bills v Rams week 3 recap

 

 What a fucking roller coaster of emotions that game was; there's a lot of takeaways from today's game from the shoddy defensive play, to Aaron Donald embarrassing our O-Line, but let's stay positive and face the facts: this is Josh Allen's world and we're all living in it. 

Forget a global pandemic 2020 is the year of Josh Allen and all the haters have to be sick by the first three weeks of football he's produced. Remember back in week 1 when I said that a Bills QB hadn't had over 300 yards of offence since 2016? Well this season Josh Allen has put together 3 straight weeks of over 300 yards of offence with another 311 yards against the big bad Rams Defence. Remember last year when he threw for a total of 20 TD's all year? this year Josh Allen already has 10 TD's in the first three games of the year.

Want some more Josh Allen stats to throw in the haters faces? of course you do. Josh Allen is the first player in NFL history with 10 passing TD's and 2 rushing TD's, he also passed the goat Jim Kelly is now the Bills all time passing yards leader through week 3 with 1,038. That 1,038 yards is already a third of the yards he had in total last year he turned a major corner this offseason and you just love to see it, obviously you're still going to get a random pitch play that fails, an interception here or there, or a fumble after having to evade getting sacked 15 times. You can look past that when he's dropping dimes to Diggs or getting a facemask called on him for literally throwing a guy into another guy.  

After pumping Josh's tires we have to come back to reality and face the fact that our defence looked like dogshit. With the defence we have there's no way we should be going from being up 28-3 with 8:05 left in the third quarter to being down 32-28 with our only hope to win coming off of a pass interference call when it was 4th and 9 with 25 seconds left in the game. 

The defence looked decent enough in the first half picking up 2 sacks (with rookie AJ Epenesa getting his first of the year) and an interception by Levi Wallace, the cracks were already starting to show. Cooper Kupp and former Bill Robert Woods were left wide open with room to move, Darrell Henderson Jr. was an issue finding every possible hole to run through and just like Gaskin last week the linebackers couldn't seemed to stop him when he broke free. With Micah Hyde going out injured that didn't help the defence but if he's out next week hopefully Josh Norman will be healthy and able to help the defence get the stops we need. Hopefully the poor D play is just an aberration and we're back to picking balls and cracking heads against Vegas but after this week we'll really have to see.

Josh Allen deservedly got a lot of praise but the rest of the offence was clicking, with Dawson Knox out injured Tyler Kroft and Lee Smith picking up that slack. Stefon Diggs looked unreal again making me more thankful for the highway robbery we pulled on the Vikings, with John Brown going out with a calf injury rookie Gabriel Davis slotting in and filled that position handedly. Our top receiver ended up being none other than Cole Beasley who's been great these last 3 weeks and made a drive saving catch on the last drive of the game. Getting Devin Singletary going this week didn't hurt either he only had 71 yards but looked awesome on those carries. 

All and all it was a tight butt cheeks, check your heart rate, close your eyes and dummy another beer just to drown out the sound of Robert Woods ripping off a 25 yard TD reception kind of game. But a win is a win and i'm not gonna complain about being 3-0 at the top of the AFC East before heading out on a road trip to visit Jon Gruden and the 2-1 Las Vegas Raiders.