Vic Fangio calls Josh Allen: ‘New John Elway on steroids’
Prior to their playoff-clinching matchup on Sunday, Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Vic Fangio gave Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen a unique compliment. Fangio called the Buffalo Bills superstar quarterback the “new John Elway on steroids.”
Allen has been alluded to as the strongest quarterback in the league while also presenting moments where he is extremely mobile. Allen has thrown for 22,344 yards across his career and added 3,544 on the ground. Now, the six-year quarterback has gotten in his flowers once again by a divisional foe.
“Allen’s just a beast of a guy,” said Fangio, per Chris Perkins of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “A physical specimen, like John Elway was in the the mid-80s to the mid-90s. This guy is the new John Elway on steroids.”
Of course, Allen isn’t actually taking steroids. But Fangio had to clear the air on the controversial topic in professional sports because after all the NFL cares more about smoking weed and gambling than assault cases.
“I don’t mean he’s taking steroids,” he said. “He’s just bigger, faster, cannon for an arm, tough. He’s a dude.”
Although Allen has been the reincarnation of prime Cam Newton since he started his NFL career–diving for goal lines and refusing to slide–he is starting to take a more precautious approach to his game.
“I’ve always had the mindset of, I’ve been a football player first and a quarterback second,” Allen said, according to Lorenzo Reyes of USA TODAY, via theScore. “At some point, that is going to have to switch. When that point is, I don’t know. I guess I’ll let my body tell me. It sounds crazy, but I’m getting older.
“I do want to be the smartest quarterback with the football in my hands … I don’t want to put the football in harm’s way because I know how detrimental that is to our team with the interceptions and the fumbles.”
Now Allen may say he doesn’t want to put the football in the other team’s hands; he has become extremely good at turning the ball over. Since 2022, Allen has thrown an astonishing 30 interceptions to opposing defenses and fumbled the ball 13 times, five of them becoming turnovers. In five out of six years in the NFL, Allen has thrown more than 12 interceptions in a single season.
For both the Bills and the Dolphins, this game isn’t an ordinary regular-season game. It’s a “win and you’re in the postseason” for both squads come Sunday. With an injury-riddled Dolphins team lined up for this week, Allen and the Bills have no excuse heading into their matchup.
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