A Sunday to Remember for Josh Allen

Josh Allen played just about as well as one can this past Sunday against the rival Dolphins. Throwing for four touchdowns and adding a fifth on the ground. It was exactly the performance that the Bills needed to secure a convincing victory against the then undefeated Dolphins.  On the day he finished 21-25, an 84% completion percentage tying his career high, and five total touchdowns. Those numbers were good enough for a perfect 158.3 passer rating (if you care about that stat). Let’s take a look at some of the plays he made on Sunday to put up such gaudy numbers.

Josh’s first touchdown pass to Gabe Davis was a fantastic play call from Ken Dorsey. As all Bills fans know Dorsey has run at least one or two of those swing passes to Deonte Harty each week, and they have not really worked. But, watch the tape here, the threat of that swing pass when Josh looks Harty’s way sucks both the linebacker and the defensive back, who is responsible for Davis, up and allows him to run right past him for the easy TD. This was a fantastic play call, and a great job by Josh to manipulate the defense with his eyes leading to his first touchdown of the day.

The second touchdown that Josh threw was to Stefon Diggs in the red zone. Diggs finished the day with three touchdowns, and scored his first here early in the second quarter. Josh gets flushed out of the pocket on this play and, for a second it looks like he might take off and run, and when he does that is freezes the linebacker allowing Diggs to break off his route and sneak in behind him for the TD. On this play, Diggs has a flat crosser route, but when he sees linebacker freeze at the threat of Josh taking off he breaks off his route and finds the open space. This play here shows the great chemistry that these two have and how comfortable they are playing with each other, even when the play starts to break down.

Josh looked so good on Sunday that even his incompletions were impressive, and with only four thrown it wasn’t a very large sample size. This throw here is on the run, the receiver has negative separation, and Josh still puts it right where it needs to be. Would have liked to see Sherfield make a play for his QB here.

It is clear that Josh has locked in since his disappointing start on Monday Night against the Jets. He has played very smart and has minimized the risks he has been taking with the football. If Josh continues to play like this for the rest of the season the Bills offense will be very very dangerous.