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I used to do NCAA first and second round games with my dad. One of my favs was duke losing to Mercer in Raleigh in a noon game. Little kids were melting in the stadium and Mercer fans were out of their minds.

Joe Marino was the one I heard mentioning it.

Thoughts on Grable to guard. Grable is tall but his arms are an inch shorter than dawkins. I sorta wanna see him on the field and guard seems easier to get time than tackle and I feel comfortable with RVD as a swing.

Agree, also don't think we knew how to handle a team being prepared for us to play man coverage. Other times we caught teams off guard with it and it worked cause they werent expecting it. KC seemed to know it could come and had man beaters built in that we were prepared to work through (switches or having the spy influence the crosser). Sorta wished we had run it more during the regular season to see the adjustment teams would make to it.

Do you have any metrics that say were not a great blitzing team? I went looking but couldnt find any articles (I think Cover 1 videos have mentioned our efficiency). I was under the impression we are efficient when we blitz, but we choose not to.

Not just minimal other injuries, the primary backup (Bishop) has had a ton of run and seemingly getting more acquainted with the position. Though the Chiefs in the playoffs are a test like none other.

youre providing commentary about this forum. your status as newb here is pretty pertinent. talk some x's and o's and youll do fine.

Just wanna reiterate some of the comments above for why i donated. Andrews is a great player/person that I always like and its absolute sucks that hes getting this treatment. This is a way to make a crappy situation have some upside. Then there is stuff bigger than football. Hoping we can play each other in the AFCCG next year after one of us (or another team in the WC) takes out KC.

I think they were trying to get their main 3 a couple snaps off before a potential goal line stand. Agree it back fired, but all the primary DL were on the field for the 2pt conversion (not that it mattered). Odd mirror did fail against lamar as he did a good job of taking his time and avoiding rushers. It should be noted that Mahomes is who they developed the odd mirror rush for and it has worked effectively against him (2+ picks). I do expect more Von in this game. I believe Marino wasnt saying prevent shell but that when we blitzed versus when we didnt (not all of these should be considered prevent).

That would be me. But arcane is def the right adjective. Knew I was missing something

I maybe be missing something but yeah cover 2 man is usually a problem because you rush 4, 5 coverage players play man, and 2 deep to protect. Thus noone accounts for the QB and you have to contain rush. Obviously thats a problem with Mahomes, but with odd mirror you sacrifice one of the primary rushers and spy the QB to be a second wave rusher.

I love what odd mirror (not mentioned here but thats the name of the front) enables from a coverage perspective too. We have run cover 2 man on the back side of this rush. Typically that defense suffers because theres noone accounting for the QB, and with Mahomes or Lamar youre gonna get roasted. However, with a QB spy you feel a lot better about running cover 2 man. That defense is so powerful because you can get into a trail technique and jump under routes knowing there are 2 deep defenders that got your back. I expect to see a ton of it this weekend.

He exemplifies the "Be you with us" mantra better than anyone else i can think of. He certainly is being himself.

Thanks. I was referring to when Bills/Chiefs played earlier. Against the Texans Kelce had a big day cause Al Shaair could/would not stay with him. Conversely when we played KC, TB was leaving his coverage responsibilities at times to guard Kelce. TB's focus on Kelce is why Gray had a fair bit of impact (2 first down catches, 2 TDs on 5 targets). Will be interesting to see what happens this coming week.

I got 4 for 23 with 2 TDs and 2 more first downs from pro football reference (care to link yours). “Big Day” was maybe hyperbolic but he was important to them maintaining and finishing drives. Worthy seemed to be focus of their explosive plays.