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Man I don't know if any pass rusher is worth $47M AAV. They need Jordan Love to be a lot better than he was last year for this trade to work out. Would have been fun if we had made the move but realistically I didn't think he was affordable. Anyways I was never one that wanted us to pull off a blockbuster trade for Myles Garrett or any other defensive player. I think you need waves of pass rushers constantly rotating and staying fresh throughout the whole game to be successful - that was Philly's formula last year. Hopefully the numerous investments we made on the DL this offseason give us that formula.

I just don't us being able to afford his contract. Would be pretty cool but how?

I continue to be completely unperturbed about the safety position. Hopefully Bishop will rise to the occasion so that 2nd round pick won't have been a total waste. If not and Hamlin or Poyer need to fill in, so be it. They'll both hit their landmarks and we'll just have to scheme around their athletic limitations. It's not fatal. I actually think Poyer might be a better option than Hamlin if push comes to shove. The DL just has to be much better this year. And we need average play from our CB2. And we need the play calling to be better. If all of those things happen no one is going to care about starting one replacement level player at safety.

Rookie EDGE Bradyn Swinson cut from the Pats was the big shocker to me. Admittedly I hadn't followed him through training camp or preseason but he was widely mocked in the early/mid 3rd round and I know some draft analysts really liked him. He fell to the 5th and the thought was that the Pats had gotten a steal. Instead he was waived on cutdown day and went unclaimed on waivers, and ended up on the Pats PS. Not sure what happened there, I guess the draft analysts were just way off on him.

I've said no such thing. That is not my conclusion. We can go ahead and stop the conversation here.

Their lowest scoring games correlates to when they play better defenses. Shocking. They give up more points when they face playoff Josh Allen. Again, shocking. Sorry man but this is classic confirmation bias. You're trying to stretch the numbers to fit what you already believe to be true. Nothing about their playoff history indicates that if the Bills held them to 20 points, Allen and the Bills offense would randomly struggle to get past 17. That doesn't make any kind of sense at all. There is no sentient will of football that shapes KC/BUF games to be more exciting. If our defense simply held up its end and the offense did what it always does against them we would beat you guys by multiple scores.

The only thing you "proved" with that list of games is that KC regularly blew out playoff opponents when they had Tyreek Hill in his prime, and then didn't as much after they traded him. Big shocker, that. In fact there are still 3 playoff games they won by 2+ scores after trading him. Along the way they also got blown out in two Super Bowls where I guess according to you they just decided not to try and score. I'm sorry but you're not going to convince anybody of that ridiculous argument.

They literally blew us out in our first playoff matchup. 38-24 and it was only that close because we scored a garbage time TD. Get out of here with "they don't try to score points unless the game is close." That's patently ridiculous and you know it.

Ok but this is just a thing you said. It has no basis in reality and isn't a convincing argument. I didn't get that sense at all last year. If anything there were times where I wanted us to open up the passing game more. The Rams game would have been a blowout loss if Allen didn't start throwing lasers downfield. Two big completions to Amari Cooper are what won us the KC regular season game. Two big completions to Mack Hollins are what kept us in the AFCCG. Reverting to low % chance passing attempts didn't lose us that game. Quite the opposite - we did so many short yardage plays the game came down to a referee spot. On the final drive we tried dinking and dunking our way down, this failed and put us in a 4th down situation, and then when we absolutely needed a long completion our pass catcher failed in the clutch and that was game over.

Okay but it isn't just homers saying it. It's become somewhat the trend lately amongst national analysts to not have Mahomes ranked #1. Chris Simms, Kyle Brandt, even some of the NFL coaches and executives interviewed by the Athletic for their annual QB ranking. I'm not saying any of these people's word is law. But it is a legitimate conversation/debate. If you've decided game winning drives and total championship wins is your deciding marker, cool I respect that. A lot of analysts are ranking based on other factors and it is not as clear cut as you seem to think. I suspect Mahomes is aware of the chatter around his play dropping off and he will have a bounce back season this year. Especially with the addition of a legit LT and his best passing target returning in week 7. I don't expect them to go 15-1 again but I expect their offense to be significantly better than last year.

You've manufactured a binary choice. The correct answer which you decided not to include is that Andy Reid has had McDermott's number big time. We run our normal defense that they already saw in the regular season, while they add new wrinkles that we are woefully unprepared for. It's as big a coaching mismatch as I've ever seen between two supposed rival teams. FWIW I think McDermott is a good coach. But he needs to get his nemesis figured out and start performing at even an average level against him - hell I'd take slightly below average - or the result will never change. I'm optimistic that some of the defensive additions on both the roster and coaching staff mean there are real changes coming. But I need to see it happen when it counts.

Every fanbase of those 4 teams has an argument for why their QB is the best. Lamar unfortunately has a lot of bad playoff performances on his record and unlike Allen and Burrow he has an excellent roster, so he probably has the least excuses for why he hasn't gotten his Super Bowl yet. But like I said the differences in play are negligible. When you're playing at the level those 4 guys are over the course of a season, the ranking comes down to any given week. If you want to say Mahomes has been the most clutch out of all of them, I think that narrative is slightly overblown but I won't fight it. I'd add the context that the team around him has also been more clutch than the other 3 teams. Also game winning drives has never in history been used as a bulletproof argument for ranking QBs. It's for sure the stat that more than anything else makes him a tier 1 QB, but just plugging your ears and ignoring what happens over the first 55 minutes of the game isn't a sound process. So I default to my original stance that there are 4 elite QBs and each fanbase should feel comfortable proclaiming that theirs is the best one.

Baltimore and Cincy wouldn't. None of those 4 teams would trade their QB for one of the others because they've built their teams around their own QBs and the difference in play between them is negligible. Now if you gave those teams the opportunity to swap coaching staffs, every last one would take KC's. Rosters outside of QB, they'd all take Baltimore.

Allen and Cook, yeah. Not sure if you watched the game but KC's offense looked like it was facing a scout team in the 1st half. Four drives with exactly zero resistance. Mahomes felt bad and gave us the ball for free on one of those drives, which was nice of him. Our offense on the other hand was scratching and clawing for every yard and TD. Oh well. Last year is last year. Hopefully all the investments and coaching additions we made on that side of the ball this offseason make a difference. I expect KC's offense to get back on track this year with the addition of Josh Simmons and Rashee Rice after his suspension ends.

Turns out it's to the PS:

Good point. The Bills defense carried them to the Super Bowl is a more accurate statement.

Officially suspended for 6 weeks to start the season: They have a brutal schedule to start so hopefully they rack up a few losses while he's out.

That's my guess as well. Teams can only add 2 players to IR on cutdown day. We used our spots on Grable and Hairston. Adding Hancock today and using his spot on another safety who plays special teams makes the most sense.

Looks like someone who made the team, didn't.

Sorry. In my defense Sal and Eric look very similar.

He was a roster lock. Sal Capaccio reported that Kromer told him Hawes is the best blocking TE he's ever worked with. I'm expecting us to punish defenses in the run game, even moreso than last year.

A whole thread of people complaining about a move that didn't happen. 12 days to go.

Also worth noting that Tre White is NOT on IR so now we know the injury is not long term. Doesn't mean for sure he'll be ready for week 1 though. We'll see.