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This offense has Mahomes playing game manager to his plethora of weapons and every now and then he pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Pretty tough to stop...

Or maybe Agholor was supposed to block? He acted like he was a receiving option on that play. Chalk it up to week 1 sloppiness I guess.

Pretty sure Lamar read that RPO wrong too. #15 is running open while McDuffie has leverage towards Flowers.

Eh. Mahomes needlessly threw a bullet out in front of him. RBs aren't expected to make catches like that.

That was terrible from Lamar... They clearly showed blitz but he stupidly audibled to play action, then held the ball... Just clueless. You can't give up free chances like that to the champs.

I think the cruel irony is that we have Joe Brady matching up against this wizardry

Rashee Rice looks incredible, unfortunately. The Chiefs found a true #1 WR. They had to invest a lot of draft capital to do it.

Well yeah he ran the fastest 40 time in combine history. If you give him a wide open tunnel of blockers he's going to do that every time.

Andy Reid the GOAT is how they did it

We're going to freak out over a well blocked well designed end around. I should have known this was coming but come on get a grip people.

Andy Reid still the GOAT. Way too easy.

Masterful coaching more than anything. The OL was really struggling and they found a way to make it work. Nice work by Lamar standing firm and making the throw to Flowers on 3rd and long too.

Honestly I'm good with all these flags. Offensive linemen have been getting away with BS that gives them an advantage. Taking that out of the game is a good thing and you have to make a statement to send a message to the league.

Ravens young OL players are really struggling

I'm rooting for Kyle Hamilton to welcome Xavier Worthy to the NFL.

Dude we're talking about investment. That's where you brought the conversation - investing in a WR means you aren't investing in a guard. So under that context which you, not me, specifically brought up, absolutely I would have taken the WR investment over the guard investment. And that was last year before we knew Diggs was playing his last season in Buffalo. And are you saying Jalin Hyatt wouldn't be a starting outside WR this year in our offense? He wouldn't be out-snapping Mack Hollins? If that's your opinion, have at it. I know where I stand.

Base level starting QBs absolutely ARE more valuable than any WR. Because the drop off from that QB to a backup QB is much larger than the drop off from Justin Jefferson to the next WR in the pipeline. If you don't believe me, check the point spreads when a QB is out versus when a WR is out. But likewise Jefferson being out would have a bigger effect on his team than say Micah Parsons being out. And so on down the line from there. You can't sidestep the valuation or act like the NFL has it wrong. The market is the market and the results are clear - it's QB, then it's WR, then it's everything else.

Admittedly I was not a fan of drafting a RB at that spot to begin with, namely because the difference between a RB there and a RB like Ty Johnson is practically nothing, so that certainly colors my opinion here. But I figure if you take a RB in the top 5 rounds they need to be part of the top two rotation from day one. I guess if Davis is the #2 within a few weeks it's not a huge deal.

Uh, yes, the answer to "how" is indeed spending draft picks and cap dollars on them. How exactly do you think most teams acquire valuable players? They just spontaneously generate in the locker room? So instead of wasting everyone's time by acting like there was nothing the poor old Bills could have done to improve the room, just come out and admit up front that you don't believe the position is that valuable. If you want proof that your opinion is wrong, rank each position group by AAV. Spoiler alert - the 5th highest paid WR is making more AAV than the very highest paid guard. Only the top 2 highest paid defensive linemen would make it on the list of 5 highest paid WRs. The value has been determined by the league. Here's a good starting point for you: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/player/_/year/2024/position/wr/sort/contract_average https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/player/_/year/2024/position/dl/sort/contract_average

Lol you're asking people to list realistic options, and you just rattled off three... I don't know what else there is to say. Missing out on Hopkins was incredibly dumb. Massive missed opportunity and there's really no excuse. As to this part - "Beane has been very clear that he doesn't like to do that" - this has only been the case with WR. With regard to other positions, notably on defense, he has wasted millions of cap dollars on bloated contracts which has led us into the cap trouble we're in today.

This remains to be seen. He had a poor preseason. But also he just plays guard, not a difficult position to fill. If I could swap him out for WR Jalin Hyatt, which is who I wanted with that pick when it came up last year, I would still take that deal now.

What did he say exactly? I had been hoping the depth chart was standard "humble the rookies" BS. I don't want to believe the RB we spent a reasonably high pick on is starting the season behind the RB we claimed off the waiver wire last year.

Did Brady really say Ty Johnson is getting the 2nd RB reps to start, over Davis?

I'm not worried about our run defense at all this year. We have one of the best run stopping front 7s in the league. Rasul Douglas has done very well coming up and making tackles in run support. If they try to run it down our throats it will be a long day for them. On the flip side I'm pretty sure the Cardinals have a mostly poor run defense so I believe we can control them on the ground pretty easily.

My dark horse team is the Bears. In the bold predictions thread I predicted them to win the NFC North. They have a top 5 group of offensive weapons, an exciting young QB that can rely on his physical skills while he learns the mental game, and a defense that statistically performed extremely well down the stretch last year. They are also graced with a 4th place schedule which really helps in what should be a tight division. In their first 9 games the only opponent I see as them being a true underdog against is the Texans and even that is not by much. Their schedule is very strange in one aspect - all 6 of their division games come in the final 8 weeks of the season. I think they can be 7-2 or 6-3 at that point and control their destiny to 1st place in the division, and by then a relatively young team should be hitting its stride.