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Joe Milton PFF Rating: 95.8
Josh Allen Best Rating 2024: 92.5
Josh Allen Best Rating ever: 94.8
MVP Joe Milton!
I’ll get back to Milton at the end. I reviewed the offense on all-22. Weird game due to the lack of starters for Buffalo.
Offensive Line:
PFF Rating: Wallace: 32.2, Robinson 39.5, Lowe 47.1, Jacobs 49.2 and Strange 52.9
They were the 5 lowest rated players on offense. They were not THAT bad.
-Wallace: When Wolf said he made the mistake of assuming they would have players already on the team improve this year and he learned not to count on that it applies to Wallace for 2025. Wallace has promise. The second-year leap can be a real thing. However, considering the competition you can’t pencil him in for RT in 2025. I hope he can be, but he needs to improve. He was once again beat on a play with a strong bull rush, unlike last week he did not go flying back on his behind and just pushed into the pocket. He seems to have one of those plays every week. Missed a run block on an early series. He completely whiffed on a run block later in the game. He was fine for most of his plays. He put 1 pass rusher on the ground on 1 rush. He handled a couple of stunts perfectly. He had 1 play with 2 blitzers and only him and he got a slight piece of each blitzer though think he should have just taken the inside man and made more of an impact, as the 2 still got through him. One hold was the typical “guy leaves the pocket and you don’t know it” hold you see all the time. The other holding call he had an arm bar across the guys chest, they tend to call that 1, but I thought it was iffy. He was way downfield too early on a screen. Did a good job of getting out in front of a screen pass another time and other than those mentioned plays he played well. He has potential, there is hope but he needs to improve.
-Robinson-PFF had him at 3 pressures, the high for the team. He’s in the same boat as Wallace in terms of whether he can be penciled in the starter in 2025 but he is much closer than Wallace. With so many holes to fill you need Robinson to be the guy next year (Sidy Sow is in witness protection). He does enough good things you think he might actually work out as a starter. He has trouble engaging guys on the second level, He’s handled stunts and blitzes well after starting out horrible against them earlier in the year. He’s good for a missed block here and there, mainly from being out-quicked. He could have had 2 holds called against him, gets a little handsy. He’s best with a guy right in front of him and he can lock on. He makes a second year leap I think he starts.
-Strange-I’m sold on Strange at Center. Drafted in the 3rd round as a center would have been the ideal spot. PFF gave him a good 78.8 Pass Block rating. I think that’s what you get with him, Really good athlete, he should be able to pull on plays as a center. Very light on his feet. Not the strongest guy, will need help with NT on run plays. Most centers get double team help on run plays so not a killer. Robinson will be a good run blocker, Strange will be a good pass blocker and Onwenu is good at both. None are great but Strange as a PB has potential at Center. He just moves so well.
-You need to add 2 tackles (Surprise!), not even getting into Lowe and Jacobs, they need to upgrade there. I think they can live with the 3 in the middle but if you can upgrade all the other areas of need and bring in a veteran guard, great. But with higher priorities I think you have the 3 middle guys for 2025. Strange and Onwenu for sure. Let’s hope Robinson improves on a solid, considering the start, rookie year.
-Javon Baker-Was open the majority of routes he ran but was as not an early QB read on most. Quite honestly there were receivers open more than normal. Maybe they are getting good? LOL The competition make this hard. Milton was throwing to DD, Hooper, Bourne, Gibson and Boutte with Baker in there for quite a bit. The other guys got open more than normal so not many attempts left for Baker. He has some solid release moves that TT never had. He looks better than Polk. His one catch he let the ball get to his body. His hands are still a big question. He uses his feet well. He still looks like he can be a player with his skills. I wish they had designed more plays to go to him to see if he could make catches. Overall receiver group had weak competition so not much to glean from them.
“Bazooka” Joe Milton
-2nd highest velocity of the year on the scramble TD throw that wasn’t a TD
-The biggest positive to take from Milton’s game was his accuracy. I know Josh Allen had terrible accuracy in college, changed his lower body stride and was able to correct that a couple years into his pro career. I have not looked at Milton in college vs pros to see if his mechanics have changed. But he was mostly accurate, which is good. On the bad side he never made a real touch throw. Even the soft ones were line drives. He made some good anticipation throws. Yeah, he had more time than Maye has had to throw. 3.33 seconds on Time to throw Average. Maye averages 2.82. He did go through multiple reads on some plays but he stays a little too long on the first read, he’s not a Maye level processor but he is adequate.
He did not need to make too many tight window throws. One to Hooper for a short gain and he made a really good pass to DD on a scramble. He kept his head up on the Boutte TD scramble. He probably has the strongest arm in the league. I don’t know what you take from it with the receivers getting separation and him getting time to throw. He escaped a free blitzer, he is big and strong. He had a couple plays he missed seeing open guy by not going through his reads enough.
Big, strong, athletic. Been saying since day 1 that him and Maye on the field in the red zone together could result in some fascination play calls. Backups around the league stink. Bring a veteran in and let him compete for the backup job and see what happens. Improved accuracy will be very helpful to his development. He still has the touch issue and the only OK processing issue but for a 6th round QB not named Brady he’s got a lot going for him.
That’s a wrap until next year!
Josh Allen Best Rating 2024: 92.5
Josh Allen Best Rating ever: 94.8
MVP Joe Milton!
I’ll get back to Milton at the end. I reviewed the offense on all-22. Weird game due to the lack of starters for Buffalo.
Offensive Line:
PFF Rating: Wallace: 32.2, Robinson 39.5, Lowe 47.1, Jacobs 49.2 and Strange 52.9
They were the 5 lowest rated players on offense. They were not THAT bad.
-Wallace: When Wolf said he made the mistake of assuming they would have players already on the team improve this year and he learned not to count on that it applies to Wallace for 2025. Wallace has promise. The second-year leap can be a real thing. However, considering the competition you can’t pencil him in for RT in 2025. I hope he can be, but he needs to improve. He was once again beat on a play with a strong bull rush, unlike last week he did not go flying back on his behind and just pushed into the pocket. He seems to have one of those plays every week. Missed a run block on an early series. He completely whiffed on a run block later in the game. He was fine for most of his plays. He put 1 pass rusher on the ground on 1 rush. He handled a couple of stunts perfectly. He had 1 play with 2 blitzers and only him and he got a slight piece of each blitzer though think he should have just taken the inside man and made more of an impact, as the 2 still got through him. One hold was the typical “guy leaves the pocket and you don’t know it” hold you see all the time. The other holding call he had an arm bar across the guys chest, they tend to call that 1, but I thought it was iffy. He was way downfield too early on a screen. Did a good job of getting out in front of a screen pass another time and other than those mentioned plays he played well. He has potential, there is hope but he needs to improve.
-Robinson-PFF had him at 3 pressures, the high for the team. He’s in the same boat as Wallace in terms of whether he can be penciled in the starter in 2025 but he is much closer than Wallace. With so many holes to fill you need Robinson to be the guy next year (Sidy Sow is in witness protection). He does enough good things you think he might actually work out as a starter. He has trouble engaging guys on the second level, He’s handled stunts and blitzes well after starting out horrible against them earlier in the year. He’s good for a missed block here and there, mainly from being out-quicked. He could have had 2 holds called against him, gets a little handsy. He’s best with a guy right in front of him and he can lock on. He makes a second year leap I think he starts.
-Strange-I’m sold on Strange at Center. Drafted in the 3rd round as a center would have been the ideal spot. PFF gave him a good 78.8 Pass Block rating. I think that’s what you get with him, Really good athlete, he should be able to pull on plays as a center. Very light on his feet. Not the strongest guy, will need help with NT on run plays. Most centers get double team help on run plays so not a killer. Robinson will be a good run blocker, Strange will be a good pass blocker and Onwenu is good at both. None are great but Strange as a PB has potential at Center. He just moves so well.
-You need to add 2 tackles (Surprise!), not even getting into Lowe and Jacobs, they need to upgrade there. I think they can live with the 3 in the middle but if you can upgrade all the other areas of need and bring in a veteran guard, great. But with higher priorities I think you have the 3 middle guys for 2025. Strange and Onwenu for sure. Let’s hope Robinson improves on a solid, considering the start, rookie year.
-Javon Baker-Was open the majority of routes he ran but was as not an early QB read on most. Quite honestly there were receivers open more than normal. Maybe they are getting good? LOL The competition make this hard. Milton was throwing to DD, Hooper, Bourne, Gibson and Boutte with Baker in there for quite a bit. The other guys got open more than normal so not many attempts left for Baker. He has some solid release moves that TT never had. He looks better than Polk. His one catch he let the ball get to his body. His hands are still a big question. He uses his feet well. He still looks like he can be a player with his skills. I wish they had designed more plays to go to him to see if he could make catches. Overall receiver group had weak competition so not much to glean from them.
“Bazooka” Joe Milton
-2nd highest velocity of the year on the scramble TD throw that wasn’t a TD
-The biggest positive to take from Milton’s game was his accuracy. I know Josh Allen had terrible accuracy in college, changed his lower body stride and was able to correct that a couple years into his pro career. I have not looked at Milton in college vs pros to see if his mechanics have changed. But he was mostly accurate, which is good. On the bad side he never made a real touch throw. Even the soft ones were line drives. He made some good anticipation throws. Yeah, he had more time than Maye has had to throw. 3.33 seconds on Time to throw Average. Maye averages 2.82. He did go through multiple reads on some plays but he stays a little too long on the first read, he’s not a Maye level processor but he is adequate.
He did not need to make too many tight window throws. One to Hooper for a short gain and he made a really good pass to DD on a scramble. He kept his head up on the Boutte TD scramble. He probably has the strongest arm in the league. I don’t know what you take from it with the receivers getting separation and him getting time to throw. He escaped a free blitzer, he is big and strong. He had a couple plays he missed seeing open guy by not going through his reads enough.
Big, strong, athletic. Been saying since day 1 that him and Maye on the field in the red zone together could result in some fascination play calls. Backups around the league stink. Bring a veteran in and let him compete for the backup job and see what happens. Improved accuracy will be very helpful to his development. He still has the touch issue and the only OK processing issue but for a 6th round QB not named Brady he’s got a lot going for him.
That’s a wrap until next year!
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