It's the way the NFL's rules are designed...protect the QB and Receivers at all costs. This allows a middling QB to get hot for three or four games and win a Super Bowl now. Franchise QB's are no longer needed. They certainly help, but they aren't needed. Better to do what Cleveland has done and build the lines. They have a middling QB, good enough to get hot for 3 or 4 games come playoff time and a Defense that can keep them in the games for it to happen. Buffalo has that now, though Allen has proven to be better than middling, though he's only done it for one season, so we'll see. NFL Defensive Coordinators are geniuses at taking advantages of weaknesses in a game of a QB that has one good year. The next year is usually more bad than good. I expect the same thing to happen to Allen next season. Think about how many QB's have been annointed in just the last five years the first time they have a good season, only to fall flat on their faces the next season.