NFL 23-24 Preview: Should Bills Backers Be Worried About Allen?
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00:00 We've talked about for the second year in a row, limiting his rushes by adding, and
00:08 we'll talk about Damien Harris, by adding Damien Harris, that is more of an indicator
00:12 to me than anything else because Harris is your prototypical old school first down, second
00:18 down and then comes out on third down running back.
00:20 So if they choose to do that more, they definitely have the pieces in place for that.
00:25 But they've said this in the past, Davis, and then you get to week three and then there's
00:29 Josh Allen running down the sideline taking a huge hit and you're praying that he gets
00:32 up.
00:33 I mean, look, you can't take that part out of his game and have him still be as effective,
00:40 I think.
00:41 I mean, when Josh Allen's 32, is he still going to be bowling over guys?
00:46 Probably not.
00:48 But when you're in this window, you've got Stefan Diggs, who's still fully good to go.
00:53 You have this great defense.
00:55 They hired a new defensive coordinator after that, that embarrassing loss to the Bengals.
00:59 And it's going to be restructured a little bit.
01:02 Sure.
01:03 Maybe in a regular season game against the Cleveland Browns, you're not calling very
01:07 many designed runs, but when it's third and seven and Josh Allen sees no one's there in
01:13 the flat, all he's got to do is shoulder through a safety.
01:17 There's not a switch in his brain in the middle of the play that he can turn off and tell
01:22 him not to go and do it.
01:23 So I mean, one, I think he could lead the league in passing yards, passing touchdowns
01:29 and all that stuff.
01:30 So even if he does run less, I don't really think it matters.
01:33 But I mean, he's going to be awesome.
01:37 He's going to run.
01:38 You're going to get maybe instead of 700 rushing yards, you get 500, but you're still getting
01:43 the rushing touchdowns.
01:44 They would be stupid to not call those plays around the goal line, I think.
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