HappyDays

Rousseau unfortunately did not have the breakout season that I expected him to have this year. He is possibly the best run stopping DE in the league and has been since his rookie season, but his pass rushing has not developed. 6.0 sacks in 18 games played is not what you hope for from a 1st rounder in his 3rd season. I saw a stat that tonight was the first game since 2021 that Oliver had 0 pressures. The Chiefs have the best IOL in the league so this was somewhat expected. We needed our edge rushers to make an impact and it just didn't happen.

Let's be honest. If Bass hits that FG, the Chiefs are kicking a walk off FG of their own a few minutes later. If Allen hits that TD to Shakir, Chiefs are scoring a walk off TD. Every Bills fan knows deep down how the game was going to end one way or the other.

Yeah he thought he was creating a storybook moment with Hamlin getting the 1st down. Unfortunately in the real world that doesn't work. Should have just kept the ball in Josh's hands and trusted him to make a play. But our head coach regularly has these brain freeze moments in critical situations.

It really is insane. He was affordable (if we handled our FA right), he wanted to be here, we openly flirted with him, he was an obvious fit for Allen's skill set, and he filled a need. What in the hell happened that led Beane to pass on the most obvious signing of the millennium? I sincerely believe it was a season-altering mistake and I just can't begin to understand why.

It isn't even a difficult catch. I mean this is unbelievably bad.

And to think, there were posters on here that thought DeAndre Hopkins would have been a waste of money and who thought that Davis would finish the year as a top WR2. You know the ones.

I think scheming works against zone. Against man which the Chiefs play a ton of, you simply need your guys to win their 1v1s. Our guys weren't doing that tonight. You can only call so many versions of crossing routes and rub routes.

Just can't have this from your #1 WR. And I'd like to say it is a new problem, but Diggs has disappeared in all of our playoff losses. Diggs has been a #1 until this year but he is not a true alpha physical #1 like Hill, Jefferson, Brown, etc. We need to strive for better.

It is, but that wasn't Brady's fault at all. He can't force our WRs to separate deep, that isn't something you just scheme open. The guys have to have to the natural ability to do that in the first place and then they need to execute. And we had 3 brilliant deep passes to open WRs that all went through their hands.

This was just the 3rd time this year the Chiefs allowed over 21 points (and the only such game that they won). Allen made that happen while basically playing without outside WRs. Think about that.

Disagree with this. I thought Brady called a perfect game plan. It is hard for an offense to function without a single outside WR playing at even an average level. Brady took the only possible path of feeding the RBs and leaning on Josh's legs. There is only so much you can do when you're forced into that game script, but he maximized it as best he could.

Make fun of the Chiefs pass catchers all you want. Other than Hardman who tried to single handedly lose the game for them, all of their pass catchers made every play that was catchable. We can put all of the other factors aside and say that the game ultimately came down to one side's skill players performing much better than the other side's. Mahomes' #1 performed like a #1. His #2 WR made the difficult catch downfield. That was the difference.

He had 3 catches for 21 yards...

Diggs also declined to speak to the media after the game. He's a team captain who loves to hold his QB accountable, but apparently not himself. The shtick has gotten old.

Absolutely. I debated titling this thread the official fire McDermott thread but didn't want to be inflammatory. But yes I want him gone even though there is a 0% chance of that happening. We are wasting years of elite QB play. We had the easiest possible opportunity to go the distance this year given the state of the conference and once again we blew it when it mattered. I don't think McDermott deserves another swing at the bat.

Another case of our head coach's brain freezing up in a critical moment in a playoff game. It now takes two hands to count such moments. I have zero optimism about this franchise under McDermott. Really good guy, albeit wound very tight, but just not a championship coach.

Because McDermott freezes up and coaches scared in big moments. Klein was awful, as I expected. But he's the "safe" choice so McDermott couldn't help himself. And then as soon as Dorian Williams comes in for him we stop the Chiefs on two consecutive drives.

Here's a fact that really hurts - We likely win this game with DeAndre Hopkins on the roster. He catches those two deep balls that Sherfield dropped, and makes several other plays over the course of the game. A true #2 WR was there for the taking and we let him get away for the likes of Deonte Harty and Jordan Phillips. It's an inexcusable miss by Beane, and the outcome was entirely predictable.

Nah he was brutally bad in this game. Same as in all of our playoff losses. Starting Klein over Williams was a mistake. As soon as Williams came in we suddenly got a couple stops on defense. There were no defensive adjustments as KC casually moved the ball at will against us. The fake punt was dumb as hell, both situationally and the play call itself. As usual our head coach froze in big moments in a playoff game and we all suffer for it. Why should I expect that to suddenly change?

Throwing that route to Shakir against cover 2 was not hero ball. He was wide open in the end zone. Unfortunately Dawkins got walked into Allen's lap and he didn't get the throw off the way he wanted. But the game wasn't lost on that final series or on the missed FG. It was lost on multiple consecutive awful defensive drives, awful WR play from top to bottom (excluding Shakir), and an awful fake punt call. It is the same bad coaching and personnel decisions that have kept us nowhere near the Super Bowl every year that McDermott and Beane have been in charge.

This was the weakest version of the Chiefs that we will probably ever see under Mahomes. We got them in our stadium. We had an all-world Josh Allen performance. Mahomes missed 2 TD passes. We got lucky with a fumble through the end zone saving the game for us. And it still wasn't enough to get it done. I felt all along like it had to be this year that we beat the Chiefs to give fans some kind of confidence that this regime could get over that hump. After today, can we honestly be confident that this regime will ever take us to the promised land? That means McDermott AND Beane by the way. Defensive coaching in this game was awful. And ultimately poor WR play was once again our biggest issue on offense, after years of under investing in the position. I don't know man. I can't even find it in me to feel hopeful about next year with the same guys in charge.

But he had Shakir for a TD. The play was right there. He got hit so it ended up off the mark. It is so incredibly frustrating for our season to end like this.

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***** that was a TD

I think running the ball was the right choice there. Get to the 2 minute warning.