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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.

Honestly for me Benford is the only one of those that's a necessity. I'd be willing to shake up the entire rest of the defense if it means trying some new things. Anything is better than what our defense has looked like in each of our playoff losses. There's also a part of me that still worries the defense won't really improve until the coaching changes and all the other discussions are meaningless. But I know that change isn't coming.

Not until Reid and/or Spags are gone. No team in the AFC is capable of this. Philly's roster is just on another level. Like I said earlier it's a historically great roster.

This is exactly right. All year they've had issues with pass protection and WR separation. Against us it was easy pickings all game long. Really frustrating that every year our season ends looking exactly like that.

I thought this post was about Kendrick Lamar

I just don't know how the voters can watch this game and say it's a QB led victory. Realistically it's the entire Philly defense at all three levels but they have to pick one player.

So who is the MVP right now? Cooper DeJean? Jalen Carter?

I actually would be willing to take a flyer on Hollywood Brown for a low low deal, but with no expectations attached.