[duncan_idaho]

I don't think you can read much -good or bad- into how the Chiefs' D defended Allen in the run game, as it relates to Lamar Jackson. They're just so different.

Both incredibly dangerous. With both, you have to have guys in the right place to make the play. With Allen, making the play involves actually bringing him down, and he's so big (and they're so willing to push a pile he's in the middle of), that even stopping him could still mean another 2-5 yards of "push" yards. With Jackson, it's more about not letting him make a move and get past you. He's not going to take on contact and drive you for a few extra, cheap yards, and their OL isn't going to come in and push/drive a pile with him in the middle. Not like Buffalo.

Allen also has so much arm strength and such crazy accuracy that he can do what he did for the TD to Shakir (which was a crazy throw/play the likes of which only a few can make... to escape, get to their non-throwing side, and then deliver that ball with that accuracy and that zip... you're basically talking Allen, Mahomes, Stafford, maybe Stroud, Herbert). Jackson just isn't going to make that type of throw (where you get everything you want on D and it still doesn't work).