The Bills came into Thursday night’s preseason opener with a plan

and that plan called for Josh Allen to get in a lot of throwing before giving way to Matt Barkley.The Bills called for passes on 15 of the 17 plays they ran during Allen’s first two series. He was 6-of-11 for 66 yards through the air with two plays wiped out by penalties https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Margus-Hunt-Jersey , a sack and a scramble accounting for the plays that don’t show up on that line.Allen’s development as a passer is crucial to the Bills’ chances this season and their offensive approach on Thursday night made it clear that the team will do whatever they can to boost that process.Allen would have thrown fewer passes and avoided the sack had wide receiver Zay Jones held onto a ball thrown to him on the goal line. Jones dropped it and took a hit to the head, which led to a trip to the medical tent on the sideline. Jones eventually returned to the locker room for further evaluation of a head injury.: Jones was cleared after a concussion evaluation, but will not return to the game now that backups are in on both sides. When Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri missed a 23-yard field goal on Saturday in Kansas City, people were shocked: How could the great Vinatieri miss an easy pick in a big game?Actually, no one should have been surprised. Vinatieri does it a lot.Although Vinatieri is best known for his big kicks in big games Peyton Manning Jersey , including in the snow in the “Tuck Rule” game and two Super Bowl game-winners, Vinatieri has been wildly inconsistent in the postseason and has actually been a below-average kicker in the playoffs over the whole of his 23-year career.Since Vinatieri entered the NFL in 1996, he is one of 35 kickers who have attempted at least 10 postseason field goals. Of those 35, Vinatieri ranks just 22nd in field goal percentage.Vinatieri is 56-for-69 in the playoffs in his career, and while it’s nice that he’s lasted long enough and played for good enough teams to attempt 69 postseason field goals Al Woods Color Rush Jersey , that’s an accuracy rate of just 81 percent. That really isn’t very good by modern kicker standards.Plenty of today’s kickers have been more accurate in the postseason than Vinatieri: The much-maligned Steelers kicker Chris Boswell is 15-for-15 in the playoffs. Denver’s Brandon McManus is 10-for-10 in the playoffs. Stephen Hauschka is 20-for-21 in the playoffs. Matt Bryant is 14-for-15 in the playoffs. Justin Tucker is 9-for-10 in the playoffs. Mason Crosby is 26-for-29 in the playoffs. Vinatieri’s successor in New England, Stephen Gostkowski, is 34-for-38 in the playoffs.Fortunately for Vinatieri, the kicks we remember are the famous ones. The Tuck Rule and the two Super Bowl game-winners will always be the first kicks that people remember about Vinatieri. And his incredible longevity while playing for good teams make him likely to end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame some day. But when that day comes, we ought to consider his entire record. That includes some great kicks https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Erik-Swoope-Jersey , but also some misses that other kickers would have made.