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He had more YPG than Gabe Davis last year. With an awful QB throwing him the ball.

Their offense has had issues all year. They moved the ball against the Bears and Chargers, but so does everyone. Their defense has been winning games for them. Their issue is they have no above average pass catchers behind Kelce and their OL isn't playing as well.

Oh no! Mahomes' pass catcher dropped a pass on 4th down and it looks like he might lose to an inferior divisional opponent on the road.

Great! He's a jackass that gets open and catches the ball, when it's thrown near his hands at least.

Russ is awful!! He has Jeudy WIDE OPEN on a quick slant and throws it at his feet. Then takes a brutal sack on 3rd down to take them out of FG range. I would easily give up our 2nd for Jeudy right now. He is being wasted with a bad QB. But if Denver pulls this one out do they still want to trade people away?

Meh. I think the chance of Pratt getting his arm to the ball and then also picking it off are pretty small. I won't fault a QB for trying to make a play even if the result was bad.

I agree Purdy is average at best but that INT was more just an incredible job by Pratt than anything Purdy did.

One good thing about this inevitable Chiefs win is the Broncos have no reason to hang on to Jeudy. Season is over for them if that wasn't already obvious.

Yeah there's a weird phenomenon here will someone will excuse our defense by saying one of the TDs they gave up came after a turnover or a punt return that gave the offense good field position. As if that means the defense had no chance.

Jeudy is open constantly, Russ just misses the pass. He would look much better with a real QB throwing him the ball.

And then how do you not dive for the 1st there? He just doesn't care anymore.

God, Russ really sucks. How do you underthrow that so bad?

Sugar high Pat

What would you call that play with Dawkins moving to block to the right?

They can't overturn that Jeudy TD. Looks like the left foot keeps dragging after the bobble.

Mahomes throws the ball late and high which allows the defender to put a big hit and force the fumble on MVS.

I hope Atlanta comes back so that Tennessee goes into fire sale mode. Hopkins is still a great WR and would fit in perfectly here.

Yes but with the clock run way down at that point. When up by 2 scores in the 4th quarter you use the clock as another defender.

One thing I appreciate about both Shakir and Kincaid is their understanding of body control and leverage at the catch point. That ability to catch the ball and immediately start moving to the cleanest window to maximize YAC is impressive, and something that has been sorely lacking from our offense.

We aren't aspiring for the norm. We're trying to be a Super Bowl contender. Teams like Miami and Philly are our competition for that goal... So when you use those teams as examples, you're proving the point. We have to beat those teams to achieve our final goal. Hard to do that when they're starting off with such a huge advantage over us in that one key area.

Weird report from Schefter. The Titans told Henry they don't "intend" to trade him, but he then implies that if they lose against the Falcons it is still possible he'll be traded.

Yeah the result of the game actually justified his decision making on the punts. The Bucs needed two 4th down penalties AND a couple crazy deflections AND a weird bounce on a muffed punt AND Siran Neal just missing a punt recover at the 1, just to get the team in position to try a low percentage hail mary. The only way you give the Bucs life is gifting them the ball at midfield.

A few nuggets from a Dianna Russini article at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/5007267/2023/10/28/nfl-week-8-news-trade-deadline?source=user-shared-article

I just don't see any good trade options to improve our defense all that much. None of the DT ideas I've seen excite me at all. A true #1 caliber CB is unlikely to be traded. WLB is a non-premium position and can be papered over just fine. On defense the realistic path to substantial improvement is Rousseau, Miller, and Oliver recovering from their nagging injuries and becoming the best versions of themselves. On offense on the other hand there is no realistic path to substantial improvement with the current personnel. Nobody is playing injured, we're kind of just stuck with the limitations we have on that side of the ball. Adding Hopkins or Henry creates an immediate and clear path to substantial improvement.

No. The Bucs are a poorly coached team playing on a short week and seemed totally unprepared. They had crazy off coverage alignments and never adjusted, which allowed us to funnel the ball to Davis in a way that we normally can't. To his credit he was able to make a couple plays after the catch, but we have seen him have these sudden high production games in the past before falling back into 2 catches on 5 targets for 27 yards the following week. Don't be a prisoner of the moment. A WR that can play outside is still a big need. To me, of the realistic available targets, Hopkins makes way more sense than anyone else. Right now in obvious man situations we are always throwing the ball to Diggs. That's obviously the right read 100% of the time given our current personnel, but Diggs is not a contested catch specialist and is not all that great at dealing with physical coverage, so if he doesn't outright win the route the ball likely falls to the turf. One of our drives against the Bucs in the 2nd half stalled out for exactly that reason, and it was at a time when we desperately needed to get out of our offensive rut. So now add Hopkins into the mix. Suddenly defenses have to be very concerned about those jump balls/contested catches and Allen can just kind of chuck it up to him, instead of always relying on Diggs to win his route. That hopefully will pull defenses out of man coverage more frequently which gets us into favorable zone looks that we can beat with our preferred spread formations. Hopkins also gives us an actual downfield explosive presence that we currently don't have at all. I'm at least intrigued by the idea of Derrick Henry because Murray has not been good the past couple weeks and we currently have no goal-to-go run offense. Henry/Cook would be a great 1-2 punch, arguably the best in the league. But I would prefer to lean into our strength which is obviously passing the ball downfield.