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What you want to shut them out? They don't punt a lot, especially at home.

They punted twice...?

It's a rookie... and his average target depth is 15.2 yards. Cook's is 0.9 yards. Knox is 8.8. Shakir is 5.5. Samuel is 4.6. Ty was 8.2. And its much of the same... gabe complaints that pretty much came down to the same explanations of him being a downfield target, and diggs and others getting the underneath stuff.

Ya know he does block occasionally for the least sacked QB in like the history of the league and a top 10 rushing attack.

Right - I also absolutely hate all the hindsight takes. Well the chiefs took humphrey!! Where was Center on the bills priority list that year? Does he start over morse? does he sit for a year? We should have traded up for McDuffie and Thomas!! With who? What would you have offered to do so? Why didn't we sit pat for laporta instead of kincaid?! Because of draft grades and projections.

How many big time free agents have the chiefs brought in? Maybe 2? Thuney and Taylor?

People complain about cooper usage - "Cooper probably needed surgery" - INJURY EXCUSE! People complain about Coleman - "He's young" - HEARD THAT WITH EDMUNDS A team... that was expected by many pundits to finish 3rd in the division... went to the AFC championship and almost knocked off a dynasty (7 AFC championships in 7 seasons is ridiculous)... and people want to fire the coach that got them there, and the GM who put the team together.

Free agents aren't a roster building strategy.

Could've been 4 points off the board too though.

It wasn't 50/50 though... when bishop hits the ground he's got 2 hands on the ball, and elam has one - isn't that more like 33% possession? Also the ball hitting the ground can't help you catch it is my understanding. And if that ball doesn't hit the ground, worthy doesn't catch it.

1st and 10 at the 21 or 1st and goal from the 3. We had trouble stopping them all game, but more plays to get there is more chances for a mistake or for someone to make a play. Felt like a pretty solid win there. Also that was a trash holding call. As was the facemask on elam.

Arent you down by contact when the ball hits the ground though? And at that point, he had one hand on it. Did i mention it hit the ground? The wording of the challenge that buffalo was challenging that their guy caught it, may have been the undoing. I think it likely should have been challenged that it was incomplete.

Unless that gadget is some kind of button that allows you to get catches when you didn't catch the ball.

3 of the first 64 picks is kinda nice when you look at the gaping holes. I don't think you're getting WR1 at pick 30, so either you're moving up or making a trade. Trade-wise I'd look at someone like Metcalf in the last year of a deal where you can work out a shorter term extension, or potentially Chris Olave with the saints both short on cap space and he has a looming 5th year option in 2026. With several extensions of our own coming up - Groot, Cook, Shakir, Benford, Bernard - you will need some contributors on rookie deals. Defensive line is somewhere this team has spent a lot of cap on with middling results. Both interior and edge need a boost of young talent. The amount of draft picks (10) is probably still too many to make the roster - 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6 - and 2 projected 5th round comp picks so there's definitely some ability to move some of those picks for players. CB, IDL, DE, S, WR all need some help Bishop and Rapp likely start - but both missed time this year, and its a position with room for an upgrade Benford is really the only boundary corner of any quality so that position needs both a starter and depth so i could see 2 of the first 4-5 picks being corners. IDL - need a 1T pretty badly, but the 3T need behind oliver is still there. Carter flashed at times but its a 5 man rotation so there's definitely a gap at 1T as well. DE - Rousseau and AJE are back as starters, miller will be gone, solomon will get a chance to earn some snaps. Probably a vet and someone with one of those 2nd round picks.

I just look at the roster and other than josh.. our best players are Offense: Dawkins and Brown. Great to have 2 good tackles because they keep the best player on the team standing up, and make pretty much everything in the offense more effective. Cook. He's got a lot of the patience of his brother and a really nice 2nd gear to accelerate to the 2nd level. Shakir. Ideal slot WR, plus hands, faster than he looks, and the low center of gravity to break tackles pretty consistently. Defense: TJ - Still a great slot defender even if this season wasn't up to his standard Benford - Emerging player who really took a big step this year Groot - He had a bad game at KC, and a lot of it was misdirection targeted at him. I am not going to write off a player from one bad game when there's a ton of film of the guy being our most disruptive player on defense. Bernard - While i don't think he played nearly as well as last year, and continues to pick up injuries, his leadership is a driver that turned this unit into a better defense than the sum of the parts. Investments at TE and WR the last 2 years haven't fully paid off yet, but i don't think you can write off players in their first 2 seasons either. The team is going to need a lot more from these players next year: Coleman - the everybody eats philosophy is fine, but he needs to develop a better route tree so he can be more dynamic Kincaid - the drop heard round the world. He regressed this year and apparently was injured. Come back humble and hungry and remind everyone who you are. Bishop - Athleticism popped, needs to stay healthy and work on communication but i assume he's starting next year Carter - Played much better before the injury. Bringing in jefferson and phillips to me seemed to indicate that he wasn't going to be healthy the rest of the way. I'm not opposed to a WR in the first.. just not sure where the best players are going to lie in this draft and think its important to prioritize adding building blocks and potential pro bowlers.

I don't see it personally. I know he kind of pioneered the defense that appears to be the standard today.. the lack of true success caps the legacy imo. Buddy ryan with the 46 won a super bowl. Wade Phillips track record speaks for itself. Dungy/kiffin and the tampa 2. Dick Lebeau. Dom Capers. Jim Johnson. At this point McDermotts starting to have a better resume than fangio.

Seifert? I mean the guy won 5 super bowls too. And those niners defenses were pretty good for that stretch.

Pick #30 is... best player available imo. If there's a chance to find a stud, you probably should take it.

He's 21, made some pretty sweet highlight reel plays, is a plus blocker, and seems like a team first guy. He knows he needs to be better, and is definitely not happy with his performance this season especially in the playoffs. Considering the rotation samuel/shakir and hollins/cooper/keon worked this year - i do think they know they need more at the position. I also think they know they need more from kincaid and knox. They need to figure out how to stretch the field vertically more effectively.

So you don't want to dress the 2nd round pick from 2024...?

5 picks - probably would've basically cost us everything we got in the diggs trade. He's here through the year imo - even as a post-june cut you only save like 4.5M. Then you'd either draft a replacement, or sign someone - either way that consumes some of the savings, and anyone available in that under 5M range is likely a bit more limited as a player.

Considering both this year and last year's AFC championship hosts got Houston at home... not to say thats "like a bye" because houston's a good team. But man, one fewer game, and playing a team that's clearly worse on the road than at home. Feels like each of the last 2 years that there's 3 top teams in the AFC - might be nice to avoid having to play both of the other 2.

I think its crazy how quickly they've matched up this many times. KC is going to their 5th super bowl in 7 years with Mahomes, and have been in the AFC championship every year. For all the "Allens 0-4 against kc in the playoffs" talk, Mahomes is 17-3 in the playoffs and has only lost one game to a team that didn't have tom brady at QB, and they probably should've won that game against Cincinnati.

He coached a pretty mediocre roster with a massive dead cap hit to the conference championship game. If anything i think beane probably deserves more criticism all things considered. I think they made necessary moves to accelerate a rebuild and move on from an old roster that didn't win - but that doesn't happen and you all of a sudden add more talent.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201009190gnb.htm#all_pbp Looks like Fitz started the next game, but i don't think they cut him right away.