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They may have been better served leaving Thuney at LG and making do with Wanya Morris at LT. I understand the thought process but putting an almost unrosterable player at LG just to get average LT play was probably a step too far.

My hot take is that it wasn't much different from his other Super Bowl appearances. Especially last year's. Middling play in the 1st half before turning it on in the 2nd half. The difference this time is his defense wasn't able to keep them in the game so by the time he found his groove it was way too late. Everybody forgets now but last year against SF he led his offense to 3 points in the 1st half, then started the 2nd half with a brutal INT that gave SF the ball at midfield. I give major credit to Jalen Hurts for playing an almost perfect game and doing enough to build an insurmountable lead. Purdy last year let KC hang around.

Chiefs have a tough offseason to navigate. Now I'm sure there are some moves they can make to push up that $11M but the Hunts have not shown a willingness to pay a lot of money up front to create cap room. I don't think they can afford to re-sign Trey Smith so they start the offseason in terrible shape on the OL. I expect that to be their focus in the draft. We thought Coleman and Bishop were disappointing, well their 2nd round pick OT Kingsley Suamataia was so bad they moved Thuney to LT just to keep him off the field.

Biggest thing I noticed is they executed their contain rush to perfection. Mahomes had no escape lanes. In our game in the 1st half we had zero contain discipline, I almost couldn't believe what I was watching.

I'm fine laying off of McDermott this offseason for all the reasons you mentioned. But that comes with the obvious caveat that all of these excuses go away next year. We're going to have close to $40M in cap space when the various restructure and cuts are done, and we have a lot of draft picks. The entire core of players is returning and both coordinators are back. So this year has to be the one. If the year ends in the exact same fashion - losing in the playoffs while giving up way above average production to our opponent - McDermott has to go, and he can take Beane with him. They cannot be allowed to lead Allen's career into his 30s after wasting all of his 20s. Just get it done.

Looking at it again, that tweet was posted when the game was 34-0. So spiritually I feel like it's true even though by the letter it isn't. Brady never had garbage time TDs in the Super Bowl because he wouldn't ever play as poorly as Mahomes did in this one before the game was out of hand.

The crazy thing about Brady is he had a 1st ballot HoF career in his 20s. His early to mid 30s he put together a lesser HoF career. Then when he turned 37 he put together his most impressive HoF career yet until he retired. Literally three HoF careers in one. And in his Super Bowls he was doing this: I have a hard time seeing a QB ever dethroning Brady's GOAT status. But Allen and Mahomes are almost a full decade away from reaching Brady's 3rd HoF career. Their stories aren't even halfway finished yet.

Being real - the play was to make drafting WRs high a focus of the organization three years ago. Instead of drafting exactly 1 in rounds 1-3 over a four year period. The problems in the WR room are not the result of a single decision made 9 months ago. But hopefully everyone is on the same page now - keep investing in the position, and when it's finally in a great spot keep investing more.

Sorry folks but nobody will know the outcome of that trade and the Coleman pick until two years from now. I'm not going to bother listing the litany of players, Bills and otherwise, who have siginificantly elevated their play in their 2nd and 3rd seasons. For all we know Worthy spends the rest of his rookie contract perpetually injured while Coleman turns into Eric Moulds. We just won't know for a couple years. Best thing Beane can do is keep investing in the position to protect against the very real possibility that Coleman doesn't get significantly better.

Yeah Worthy was a luxury pick for them. They're missing meat and potatoes on offense. Reid and Mahomes hid the weakness as much as possible because they're great but ultimately it cost them their season. It's good to know KC isn't totally exempt from the rules the rest of us mere mortals have to follow.

Calling a timeout there is classless. Accept your fate and move on.

Best thing the Eagles did was build an insurmountable lead before KC's offense found its groove. If you keep it close they're going to win every time. Play of the day was the PA deep shot to Smith. Leave no doubt.

This is why all the "Michael Jordan of the NFL" crap really bothers me. Football is the ultimate team game. Of course QBs represent the plurality of the team's success but not the majority of it.

Have they had a false start on every kick?

Yup. Nothing I can add to this. Since the coaching change isn't coming we need to figure out a different way to win.

The truth is I just have zero faith the defense is going to be any better under this coaching staff, not without an unrealistic infusion of elite talent. I know mine is an unpopular opinion. I'm not of the mind that we are just one elite player away from forcing the Chiefs to punt more than twice against us. I admit I feel a bit ridiculous living in this mindset where I think we need a 40 PPG offense to win a Super Bowl, but deep down I really believe that's the only way. I respect your opinion though. It's where I was after the 13 seconds game. Since then my thinking has changed.

I know the defense hasn't been close to good enough, and that falls on Beane and McDermott both. But we are ridiculously far away from fielding a defense like Philly's. Like 10 players away. I don't see any way that happens any time soon. The offense is close. We're 1-2 players away from closing the deal against KC in each of our past two playoff defeats. So that's my point. Not that we should ignore the defense entirely, but that the path to glory is still much easier to realize through offensive investments than defensive investments.

Yeah that's my point. Two years in a row the offense had the ball last with a chance to win and failed. Do everything possible to make that a winning scenario.

Mahomes always starts playing a lot better at this point in the Super Bowl. The difference this time is his defense didn't hold down the fort for him. If he had the Bills defense in his career he'd have 0 Super Bowl wins. Guaranteed.

At the very least this game ends the GOAT talk. Brady is probably silently grinning while calling the game.

Ok @MasterStrategist the MVP is 100% his now. No other single player can make the case. But this is the definition of a team victory.

I get it but we've had even top 5 defenses and still seen the season end in exactly the same way, with KC's offense dominating us. I just don't buy that our defense is going to perform at a top 10 level in the playoffs no matter how many investments we make. I believe pushing our offense to an even higher level is much more attainable than that.

I mean that's just a weak terrible pass.

What has this regime shown you that makes you think this is a realistic possibility though? We've had 4 chances against them and their offense continues to dominate us at a level they dominate nobody else. When people tell you who they are, believe them. This regime has shown they can build a championship caliber offense but not a championship caliber defense. Keep building on that strength and see what happens.

It also demonstrates how close we are on offense though. Forget building a defense that can shut out KC in the playoffs. That's not happening. An offense that scores 4 more points is however within our grasp.