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Bills QB Josh Allen has now faced QB Drake Maye twice and mentioned that he is one of his favorite quarterbacks in the league. Allen will likely be seeing Maye more in the future as the two are in the same division.
“I think Drake is super talented, he’s one of my favorite young quarterbacks in the league,” Allen recently told Sports Illustrated’s Liam McKeone. “I’ve spent some time around him, and he’s got his head on his shoulders the right way. He just does things the right way. I think that he exemplifies football.”
Maye is now being joined in New England by Allen’s former WR Stefon Diggs, which Allen believes will be beneficial for the young quarterback.
“I think he brings a lot of security for Drake,” Allen said of Diggs. “Obviously, having the knowledge of playing in the league for so long, he has that veteran mentorship that he can give to Drake. He’ll take it and run, he’ll throw it, and to have someone like Stefon is going to help him out a lot.”
Former Dolphins LT Terron Armstead made an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show on Tuesday and said that he feels QB Tua Tagovailoa has similar qualities to future Hall of Famer QB Drew Brees, whom he played with during his time with the Saints.
“I see similarities. I’m not saying they’re the same player or same person, no two people are,” Armstead told Eisen. “The anticipation, the accuracy, timing of throws, the ability to knock a wing off a fly repeatedly. Those guys throw darts. They don’t throw to areas, they are very precise. And that’s an elite talent, it’s an elite trait. Very few people possess [it]. He’s one of them and Drew Brees is another.”
Armstrong noted that Tua needs more time and reps and was curious as to how similar Brees was going into his sixth NFL season.
“I would say time on task,” Armstead continued. “Having more experience, getting more reps, getting more snaps. I don’t know exactly where Drew Brees was going into his sixth year. I know he had a shoulder that had to get reconstructed when he signed to New Orleans and really pushed his career even further, to be the Hall of Famer player that he was.”
“The thing about Tua, he plays the game with such love for the game. He’s such a fierce competitor,” Armstead added. *“He is willing to put his body on the line in any situation. But he has to understand — and I think he’s starting to understand — his value is deeper than any one play or any one game. Him being out of the lineup changes the franchise — it does. It changes the identity of the offense, it changes the franchise. So, I believe that he has to play the game with that in mind, as opposed to let me do whatever I need to do to get this first down....
