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Oof that is an awful punt at the worst possible time

I mean he was getting hit as he threw it. You could easily make the case that he was intending to throw if towards Perine and it came out of his hand awkwardly.

I don't like that call. Perine is right there. This is a Chiefs hack job.

A 2nd, two 3rds, and a 6th Versus A 7th And theirs is better. 🙁

If you're a defender running unblocked at Mahomes you should immediately realize you're getting scammed and put your hands up

In the same situation Allen would have thrown a dime that was dropped by Davis and fans would criticize him for taking a deep throw instead of just getting the 1st. Watching how easy these offenses make it for their QB is making me so mad.

Lol that isn't even fair. If only we sucked bad enough for a guy like that

Critical 3rd down with a chance to take back momentum and he throws a hopeless dump off.

Bengals and Chiefs rookie CBs are both making some plays.

Mahomes is choking this one away. Would have been nice of him to do that for us last year.

I had a dream that we drafted a press CB in the 1st round.

Mahomes missed open throws on 2nd and 3rd down.

Throwing the ball downfield in short yardage situations works when your receiver catches the ball. Hmm.

Andy Reid has coached for 20 years and still hasn't figured out how to use timeouts in the playoffs.

You want to see what Mahomes looks like with the OL Allen had last week? Go watch his Super Bowl against the Bucs. The Chiefs made it a point to fix the problem that offseason. Will Brandon Beane?

When I watch other defenses in the playoffs I see creative pass rush and coverage schemes. Our defense is not creative. We just cross our fingers the opposing offense makes a mistake instead of trying to create mistakes. Same thing on the offensive side. Our offense last week was runs from shotgun or bombs. No rhythm, no creativity, no scheming up mismatches. The more playoff games I watch the less confident I become this coaching staff can get us over the hump. I haven't been this down on the Bills in a long time.

Bengals D is keeping them in this, but they're toast if the OL can't figure it out. Every offense becomes dysfunctional when there's a jailbreak on every play. It's giving me deja vu.

Honestly I think the Eagles will destroy whatever team comes out of this one.

The Chiefs aren't giving free releases to their receivers. Not that that's related to anything that happened 8 days ago.

I will say though I think a lot of this is because of coaching, not talent. The handling of Elam all year has been baffling. When he was drafted a lot of Bills fans questioned the pick because we never play press man. My rationalization of the pick at that time was that it meant McDermott/Frazier planned to diversify their coverage packages which I took to be a good thing. But nope... They still constantly backed their corners 10 yards off the LOS and played a safe but below average starter in Dane Jackson instead of taking the high risk/high reward route, and predictably that defensive philosophy once again got taken to school in the playoffs. Every time I've watched Elam this year I've been impressed. Perfect, no, but he looks like he belongs. He just about shut down Tyreek Hill. How many other CBs can say that? He looks like a ball hawk too which is a skill set this defense has really missed since Tre went down last year. It's arguable we lose the Chiefs game and the wildcard Dolphins game if Elam isn't on the field. But for some reason McDermott/Frazier are terrified of mistakes to the point that they made him a healthy scratch behind washed up Xavier Rhodes at one point. So to me that is not an issue of talent evaluation, it's the coaches doing a horrible job developing their 1st round pick and using his skill set appropriately. And I think you can point to a similar issue for Cook and Shakir.

Parham gave up 55 pressures this year, the 2nd most of any OL in the league. I have no idea why he made the all rookie team, maybe just because he started all year and other rookie guards didn't? Bernard looks like a bust of a pick after just one season if we're being honest but I don't know that Parham would have been any better.

My take on it is that Ben Johnson looks like the NFL's next offensive genius, on the same level as Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan. I believe he will get his shot as a head coach after this coming season. If we have a similar disappointing playoff result next year I would not be shy about moving on from this regime and get the upstart young offensive genius in the building. Allen will be entering his age 28 season in 2024 so there is plenty of time for an offensive minded coach to get him a Super Bowl. The clock is ticking on Allen's career. If this regime can't even sniff a Super Bowl appearance after 4 years of elite QB play that is reason enough to move on IMO.

There is something to this. Drafting Oliver, forcing Epenesa to lose weight, and now Bernard. They undervalue size on defense. You look at the Eagles front 7 and it is all massive human beings. I don't care how good your OL is, eventually they are going to get worn out having to try and move those guys over and over again. Especially late in the season when everyone is already worn out to begin with. No wonder every year our defense is getting beat up by physical teams in the playoffs.

I think we mismanaged all of our rookies this year. We drafted a press man CB and never played press man. We drafted a pass catching RB and never threw him the ball. We drafted a blitzing LB and never blitzed him. We drafted a slot WR and refused to give him playing time even after Crowder's injury, when defenses were practically begging us to throw the ball underneath. There was a major disconnect between our front office and coaching staff. Beane made picks for an aggressive defense and a rhythm offense, and then the respective coaches of those units did the exact opposite.

Last year I had a lot of optimism because the problems on the team seemed so obvious and fixable, plus Gabe Davis looked like he had broken out as a legit #2 WR. This year I think we have a lot of problems with few resources to solve them, and we don't even look close to being in tier 1 of the NFL. So this year's loss no question was much worse.