GunnerBill

See I don't agree with this. They can win the Superbowl in the small ball offense and stout, opportunistic defense. I know that because they just did it last season. It is still gonna take a very good team to beat them. I'm just not sure how many teams they are gonna blow out on route.

The thing is they were still a small ball offense even in the playoffs last year. They let an undermanned Bills team hang around and could have lost. They beat the Ravens scoring 17 and basically relying on their redzone defense and then they were small ball in the Superbowl too but for one bomb to Hardman. While I think the Chiefs can improve on what they are doing now I am not sure that is by playing differently so much as it is just doing small ball better.

I hate them because they are petulant as *****. The complaint on our first goal today and the way they surrounded the ref was disgusting. The mood was set when Rodri dived to try and get Havertz sent off after 10 seconds. That he looks like he has done his knee trying to dive for a penalty later ib the half may be karma.

I agree Mahomes can play better than he is now. My point isn't about whether this is the best they can be. It is about this being the style that they need to be. And on Worthy there is just a lot of work to do. He isn't a route runner and when they just line him up wide and try and run vertical DBs are getting physical with him at the line. How quickly he comes along who knows. Maybe by the playoffs he is there and then it changes the way this offense and as such the team can play. But right now? This is who the Chiefs offense has to be in terms of style - run and throw short. I think the Hollywood Brown loss is bigger than credited. He would have given them the space to bring Worthy along slowly.

I agree with this FWIW. Although I don't think we have any top refs currently in England. The standard I see in Champions League games and at the Euros in the summer is way better than we have to contend with on a week to week basis in the Premier League.

I actually don't think it was. The Rice one against Brighton (also for delaying a restart) 3 weeks ago WAS a BS soft call when he rolled the ball about a foot. But the Premier League has made kicking the ball away to delay a restart a point of emphasis this season, Trossard volleyed the ball away already on a booking. It was idiotic. And it definitely cost us 2 points. If Arsenal have a complaint today it is where 7 minutes of added time came from when the ball was in play 35 minutes 2nd half (the joint highest in any 2nd half so far this season). But we'd have played until Man City equalised anyway.

I am not excusing it and the bad McDuffie call was an easy makeup call. That it still a brutal DPI to miss in the endzone inside 4 minutes. And I am the LAST guy to buy into the "its an officiating conspiracy" narrative. But that was a shockingly bad no call.

I'm not sure they are tinkering I just think this is who they are right now. They are a small ball offense that needs to win running the ball and throwing short for many of the same reasons as the Bills offense. And that is going to let teams hang around which means their defense will need to win them some games. Their defense can win them those games, and as long as Rice continues producing while Pacheco is out and Kelce is not quite himself they have just enough to get it done offensively. But I don't seem much sign that they could just turn the explosion on if they wanted to at this stage. Maybe if they can develop Worthy as the season goes along that will change but at the moment this is how they gotta play.

Those 2 play calls, while I agree bad, in a week 3 game are not defining the career of a coach. That is an overreaction.

For sure. But looking at two play calls in one game and concluding the HC is a problem? Big overreaction IMO.

We kinda had this conversation about the Bills the other day but the way KC are now playing they are not gonna blow a ton of teams out they are going to drag themselves into a lot of these games that go right to the end. It lets teams hang around with you in a way go back 2 or 3 years they didn't do. But ultimately they keep pulling them out.

They did run two bad plays, but that does not even come close to excusing the call.

Really? I hated the last two play calls - if you are running on 3rd down run it wil Bijan not Allgeirs and then a 4th down play that asks Allgeirs to make the key block is dumb (no surprise he whiffed). But overall I don't think Morris was the problem (albeit I haven't seen the whole game) and week 1 was all about Kirk being rusty as hell.

The first photo isn't from last week. They played the Bengals last week but I know the play from that game that you intended and it most definitely was PI. But so was the 2nd photo. Complete blown call. No idea how that isn't flagged.

Agree except the last bit. Collinsworth is fine.

The game management at the end was brutal.

I don't know if I'd quite go as far as "gem" but they have definitely found another guy as an UDFA who is good depth and can play in the league. Where his ceiling lies remains tbc.

For sure. The Bills did impact his failure to see him. But no question was a busted coverage.

Yea the Bills blitzed and the blitzer ended up right in Murray's eyeline as it pertains to seeing Harrison. That isn't to say the Bills are entirely responsible for him not seeing him, but they certainly contributed to it.

Yea once Mike Brown dies the Bengals are rip for moving IMO. The Chargers probably aren't in LA for good but who knows where they end up. My instinct on KC is they stay put but which state that ends up I'm less sure

Yea, I agree but he only lasted 2 games into 2016 though so McDermott couldn't have "kept him."

I don't really think that was a shootout. The Bills got the double dip and the Cardinals basically couldn't move the ball after that. The kick return touchdown made the game seem closer than it was. I mean a game where they come out 2nd half knowing they basically have to score every possession because the defense is gonna have a tough job getting stops. I agree Houston is where we might see that test come.

MVS was NEVER on the roster bubble. Despite what fans might have wanted or might have thought. They wanted his deep threat and his vet presence in the room.

I know someone who played for Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United team pretty well. He wasn't a star in the side but played plenty of games and he always said to me the joy of winning was dwarfed by what he called the "mourning of defeat." He said they could win 10 in a row and then lose one and the one had more impact on his emotional state than the 10. That is the life a lot of pro athletes lead. Especially those playing for teams where the absolute expectation is winning. I found it myself at a lower level too. When I was a semi pro soccer coach I made my reputation by overachieving for 3 years with a team that had low expectations. There the joy of wins outstripped everything else. I then had two years at a place where the expectations were much higher and I found winning stopped being so much fun and losing on a Saturday could ruin my week. It is hard to explain the mental toll that takes after a time.

This is completely why Tom and Bill worked. They were both relentless to the point of exhausting others around them.