HappyDays

Chiefs get the ball first in the 2nd half. They missed their opportunity to take advantage of Mahomes's injury. A 99 yard TD drive given up to Chad Henne is the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in a playoff game.

Oh well the Chiefs are 100% going to win this game but assuming we face them next week we are not going to get Mahomes at his best.

This drive started at the 1 and had an easy interception opportunity. This is why bad teams stay bad no matter what.

Kelce makes any QB look great

Never seen a team as lucky as the Chiefs. Teams drop simple game changing interceptions against them all the time.

I swear if the Jags lose to Chad Henne...

I don't root for injuries but no one cried for the Bills when we lost Hyde and Poyer, or White last year. If we take advantage of it so be it.

Ja'Michael Hasty is such a great name for a RB

This is honestly sad to watch. Mahomes isn't Mahomes without the mobility.

It's embarrassing that the Jags are still allowing this drive to continue, as Mahomes hops on one foot.

Jaguars have the worst defense in the league against TEs.

I'm so ready for the Jags to play just well enough to get me hopeful before they screw it up at the end. Just like every other Chiefs win I've watched this year.

I think we're going to be moving our DEs around a lot to try and confuse an inexperienced OL. Basham and Rousseau might get more interior rushes than usual.

What Allen and all QBs are actually doing is reading the leverage of the defender and since they know where the WR's route is going they decide if the WR is going to be open by the time the ball gets there. Waiting for the WR to be open before throwing is college ball. Diggs wasn't open when Allen threw him a TD against the Patriots two weeks ago, but the leverage of the CB told him Diggs was going to have a step. So in this case I believe that Allen saw the safety come towards Knox which left Brown in one on one coverage against Howard with good leverage if he continued his route the way that Allen expected. He was not throwing a 50/50 ball.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. I've never seen a QB criticized so much for throwing deep passes into one on one coverage with no safety help. In fact 100% of the time that is the correct read unless you're running out clock in the 4th quarter. Diggs, Shakir, and Davis all had deep passes hit their hands and fall to the ground. That was the bigger issue, not the decision to throw those passes. But none of it really matters because defenses will never give us that many one on one chances again. The Dolphins gameplan was a huge failure, we just had too many self-inflicted mistakes which kept them in the game.

Man I am so over this topic. We will never again see a defense play Allen like the Dolphins did. He was not recklessly forcing deep throws, he was making throws based on the rules of the system and the coverage shown. I guarantee against the Bengals it will look more like it did on the one offensive drive we had against them a few weeks ago. They're going to play 2 high and Allen will make the proper throws according to that coverage. Not everything has to be a referendum on Allen as a player. We just played against a bizarre and frankly reckless defensive gameplan. The Dolphins introduced chaos into the equation and too many times we fell on the wrong side of that variance. That won't happen again.

DVOA's post-game win expectancy agrees: The Bengals should feel lucky they escaped with a win whereas the Dolphins should feel lucky they ever had a chance.

Bring out EJ Manuel to lead the charge!

Teams are scared of Toney, they at least have to plan for him. Our version of him on Sunday was Beasley... The one interception happened because the Dolphins could squat on his route without fear. If teams try to play that way against Toney he could take a quick pass to the house. I agree in general that KC's offensive weapons aren't much better than ours, I think Simms is overrating them. But JuJu in his career has been more consistent than Davis when he's been healthy. For KC I would give a slight advantage to their weapons, a big advantage to their OL, and a big advantage to their play calling (which is more a compliment of Andy Reid than a criticism of Ken Dorsey).

We signed two WRs off the street that nobody else wanted and gave them both a good amount of snaps. That is proof enough that Chris Simms is right. Teams have figured out if you bracket Diggs the other weapons aren't consistently stepping up. The offense is mostly just Josh Allen making magic happen, that has been Chris Simms' point all year long. Hard to argue with him.

Seeing that the Bills are favored by 4-5 points makes me weirdly confident. That spread is begging casual bettors to jump on the Bengals. Like Vegas knows something.

There were no underneath routes open. The offense is high risk/high reward by design.

We have a hole at #2 WR right now. That needs to be fixed. If it's a matter of paying Hopkins or paying Ed Oliver that's an easy choice in my mind. We have a QB that loves throwing the ball downfield and we don't have any WRs with a skill set to match that. Davis almost has that skill set but it's not anywhere close to what Hopkins could give us on those passes. I heard Peter King on Pro Football Talk last week, he said that the word around the league is the cap will start going up "appreciably" in 2024 and even moreso in 2025 and 2026. I think we could easily structure contracts in a way where the big cap hits don't come until the salary cap explodes. I'm not a believer in being overly aggressive like the Rams have been but I think we could make this one work. If that means Oliver and Poyer walk, so be it. We'll get comp picks back.

Yeah I didn't understand that all. Even against KC I would take points there. Against the Skylar Thompson led Dolphins taking points is a no brainer. It continues a trend I've seen across the NFL this year of head coaches losing faith in their team and pressing for points early.