For sure, I’d acknowledge it’s a bias thing to a degree. I should’ve phrased myself a bit better in my previous - what throws me off re: the Allen hate is like…he hasn’t done anything yet to really deserve it? Like with Brady, I mean when a guy is in that many Super Bowls and conference championship games, I totally get people getting sick of him.
And I just ignore the “he’s overrated” contingent because you don’t watch football if you think Allen is overrated.
That’s a good thing to point out - these days the hating/anti-fan energy (maybe because we’re all terminally online to some degree) is much stronger than I remember in past eras. For example, it feels like fans of other teams (that have nothing to do with the Bills) will hate on Josh Allen as much/more than I did Tom Brady.
…But Tom Brady made my team his bitch for the better part of two decades. So I’d like to think my hate was more justified.
I’m so fucking sick of watching the offense scheme utterly fail to catch opposing defenses off guard, Josh Allen throw idiotic “what the fuck are you thinking?” picks and the receivers dropping catches that hit them in the hands, just for emotional and erratic fans to scream about how Sean McDermott is the problem because “he’s the head coach, so he’s responsible.”
The man coached a defense, down 6 full-time starters, into holding the Bengals offense to 3 points in the second half of the game last week.
Is he perfect? No, but for the love of fucking god, everyone’s common sense has flown the fucking coop.
I’m a baby-faced 31 year old who routinely bamboozles people into thinking I’m 23.
What they don’t know is I have the internal organs of an 85 year old thanks to this fucking football team.
Agreed - I replied to someone else making that point re: confirmation bias which is definitely a part of it. Re-framing the sentiment I have slightly - with Brady I at least get it because, if for no other reason, people probably got sick of him. The Allen hate I don’t really get because (and yeah, definitely wearing the fan bias here) he seems like a nice enough chap and frankly hasn’t yet been shoved in everyone’s faces yet to really elicit the “Man, I’m fucking sick of this guy yet.”