HappyDays

Man you just aren't going to convince anybody with this. KC's defense is looking better against the Ravens than ours did against the Saints, let alone what ours looked like against the Ravens. And KC's defense isn't full of superstars. Spagnuolo is just that good. Be realistic about what you're watching, come on.

Wow Adonai Mitchell just had an insane downfield catch and broke a tackle to run into the endzone, but he let the ball go 1 yard outside of the endzone and it goes through the back. Colts stay down 3.

The one LB completely turned his back away from where the play went. This defense just doesn't have enough pieces with all the injuries, Reid is going to easily take advantage.

Well yeah our personnel decisions on defense are driven by our head coach's philosophy. I don't know how you can watch KC in this game compared to our defense in week 1 and not feel some kind of way about the coaching.

If Mahomes could hit those deep passes more consistently they'd be legit unstoppable. The scary thing is we know he can hit those.

Spags is just so good man. KC has the best defensive coach in the NFL and no chance of losing him to another team. Maybe still the best offensive coach too.

No it isn't just us. But Reid vs Brady and Spags vs Babich is about as big a gap as you can have, I'm sorry to say. I think we are more talented than them and I think Allen has been playing better than Mahomes, that's what gives us a chance.

Not this year they don't. McDuffie is the only guy in the secondary that pops. Chris Jones isn't the same guy this year. They are just extremely well coached.

Don't love that KC is ramping up and still have their best WR coming back in 3 weeks. Reid is still amazing. They have no run game and Mahomes hasn't been at his best, but the scheme and play calling just keeps sustaining drives. Every week they are out coaching their opponent.

Yeah you can without that WR if you have elite coaching and a great defense.

I've watched every single Mahomes snap this year and he has actually missed a bunch of wide open deep TDs. They probably win the Eagles game if he hits one of them.

Hoecht is the only one of those that I expect to make an impact this year. Ogunjobi looked like a JAG in preseason and Hairston is going to have trouble finding his way onto the field. Would love to be wrong on at least that last point though. The biggest concern to me is the defensive coaching which has shown no signs of improvement from last year. And that's what kills us in the playoffs every year. The 3rd down defense if anything looks even worse and those plays a lot of times are about their OC vs your DC.

He does that one thing really really well. KC is the polar opposite of our offense. They can't run the ball but they can hit deep throws.

I like Humphrey continuing to give it to Mahomes out of bounds. If he wants to play bully ball on the sideline as he's done a few times this season, play it with him.

Was Tony Romo just caught on a hot mic criticizing Lamar for not wanting to take a sack?

That's a ridiculous penalty call. What was unnecessary about that play? Flowers was trying to stay on his feet.

I don't think Shaheed is a great player by any means but he gives our offense the vertical element that it just doesn't have right now. Defenses are daring us to beat them deep and we can't do it. The one playoff opponent we faced we had to score 41 to beat them. My fear is that it will be like that against any Super Bowl contender and we don't have enough juice right now to do that consistently.

Ravens pass rush is so bad. And that was true before they lost Madubuike.

The problem is we don't have a WR capable of an 80 yard pass play. That is exactly what this offense is missing to put them over the top.

Commentators have been making all sorts of excuses for Mahomes this year. He just has been off on a lot of his ball placement this year.

But the defense every single year looks worse in January. I want to buy this narrative but what reason is there to expect a different outcome?

I think that narrative is a bit overblown. You can still hit downfield passes against cover 2 especially with Allen's arm strength. The honey hole and the seam are both available. You can catch one of the safeties flat footed and get a WR streaking behind them. But we don't have the personnel to make those plays consistently.

Difference with the Chiefs this year is their defense isn't clutch and doesn't make plays.

RVD was brutally bad and Brady singlehandedly killed a drive. But the on schedule downfield passing offense was also once again very limited, and the Saints secondary is not good. It's the second game in a row against a poor secondary where we couldn't take advantage. Feels like if Cook isn't picking up chunks on the ground the drive is DOA.

I just can't believe the exact type of WR we needed was right there for a 2nd rounder and we didn't take the opportunity. The result of missing out has gone exactly as I predicted - the downfield passing offense is almost non existent and all the defensive investments have created a defense that is identical to last year's.