‘Steph [Curry] Should Sue For Defamation’ — NFL World Roundly Rejects Bills HC Joe Brady’s NBA Comparison For Josh Allen

Just eight years into his career, Josh Allen is already putting together a stellar resume. One of the premier dual-threat quarterbacks in the NFL, his consistency has made the Buffalo Bills a perennial contender in the AFC.

But after a demoralizing playoff loss last season, the team opted to make a change in the head coaching department. With Joe Brady assuming the reins, it appears he’s wasting no time letting it be known that he has full belief in Allen’s ability to lead this team to the holy grail of football.

There’s little doubt that Allen has cemented himself among the upper echelon of quarterbacks in the league. A consistently dominant player, both on the ground and through the air, he brings the best of both worlds on the gridiron.

Since coming into his own, he’s been a virtual guarantee for 4,000+ total yards and 40 or more touchdowns. Given his physical traits and dominance, there are certain things that only Allen can attempt successfully during the course of a football game.

As a result, Kyle Brandt of the NFL Network likened him to the famous description Steve Kerr had of Stephen Curry in the Golden State Warriors’ heyday. Claiming that some of his decision-making left him puzzled until it ended up working, Brandt wondered if Allen illuminated a similar feeling in Brady.

“Oh, absolutely. You’re going through the interview process, and there’s a playbook that if I took a job somewhere else, I couldn’t do because not many people can do what Josh can do. I have plenty of those moments.”

Moreover, the former offensive coordinator for the Bills revealed that some of their more dangerous playcalls came at the behest of the four-time Pro Bowler himself, rather than the other way around.

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“There’s plenty of moments where he’s like, ‘No, I need to do this. Put me in this position, give me that playcall.’ Where I’d be like, ‘Ooh, this is a little tough.’ But like I said, there’s way more of those moments than the alternative of ‘Oh, we love this’ to ‘What is he doing?’ So it’s a lot of fun to coach him. He keeps it fun, he keeps it competitive.”

Unfortunately, for the majority of social media, that comparison rang extremely hollow. As one fan pointed out, “Just a 4X champion compared to a guy who’s never touched championship turf, great comparison other than that.”

The one major knock against Allen, at least currently, is the lack of championship hardware on his resume. Despite a ton of regular-season success, he hasn’t gone past the AFC Championship Game.

One fan was way harsher in his assessment as he fired back, “Steph Curry is a 4x NBA champion, 2x NBA MVP (only unanimous MVP in NBA history), and one of the greatest shooters to ever exist. Please don’t compare him to that [expletive] Josh Allen.”

For one fan, though, the problem started with the media as a whole. With Brandt serving the comparison on a silver platter, they believed that it was a concentrated effort to give Allen a standing he hadn’t yet earned.

“NFL media has tried extra hard this offseason to manufacture Josh Allen into the face of the league and Matthew Stafford into some all-time pantheon-level quarterback legend, and neither are really sticking the landing.”

One Kansas City Chiefs fan made it clear that the comparison for Curry only worked with Patrick Mahomes and was essentially common knowledge. “No. Patrick Mahomes is the Steph Curry of the NFL. This has been stated many times before.”

Another fan was so aghast at the comparison that he declared, “Steph should sue for defamation.” Simultaneously, Scott Kacsmar offered a different comparison to a few other NBA MVPs who he believed fit better with the Allen archetype. “More like Harden/Westbrook (late 2010s versions).”

The shot at the turnovers that have plagued the Wyoming product throughout his career was hard to miss from Kacsmar. Apart from a virtually flawless performance in 2021, the reckless style from Allen has always been a bitter pill to swallow.

Apart from that stellar run that ended in the infamous 13-second game, he has totaled 29 passing touchdowns in his postseason career against six interceptions and seven fumbles, driving up the risk factor with his quarterbacking style.

But Brady believes the upside trumps any potential limitations that style might bring. Now the hope for the Bills has to be that he can do what Kerr did for Curry when he took over as the head coach in 2014.

This article originally appeared on Pro Football Network.