HappyDays

So in your opinion the Chiefs who will likely be missing their top 2 WRs and their #2 CB are not favorites to win the AFC this year?

If only their offense had had the ball at the 2 yard line with a chance to take the game out of the defense's hands

Multiple times. His offense bailed him out on a gritty drive and he decided to toss their effort in the garbage. What a loser.

Can't imagine teams playing MNF into OT look great the following week. Denver travels to KC next week.

The ideal scenario is running the clock down to score a TD with less than 20 seconds and then score a 2 point conversion. Not play for OT when your defense has looked hopeless this half.

I've never once been angry at the Chiefs. I've always been angry at their opponent.

Bucs screwed everything up after getting down to the 1. They turned what would have been a certain win into less than a coin flip

Way too much time on the clock and how does Bowles not know to go for 2 here?

Honestly glad he didn't score there. Leave no time on the clock

To be fair that was textbook holding

I gave the Bucs too much credit thinking they could make it to 4th and 10

Watch. On this drive TB will be forced to go for it on like 4th and 10 because they passed on the easier conversion on their last drive.

Rooting for KC to score a TD here so I can see the camera pan to Bowles' clueless stupid smirk

I'm not in favor of being always aggressive all the time but in that spot against this team it's a no brainer. As I type this KC makes the easy decision and converts a 4th and short. Bowles deserves the upcoming 7 point deficit.

I still can't believe Bowles punted. TB might have the worst defense in the league. This drive getting back to the spot of the punt is the most predictable outcome of all time.

Uhhh did he just blow his achilles?

Yeah I'm watching the Chiefs right now and they do what Miami did - they get big people into the 2nd level and block your small back 7 players out of the screen. We need to come into that game planning to shut down the run first. It sounds insane to say about a Mahomes led offense but that's who they are this year.

Just a dumb blitz on 3rd down there. Todd Bowles has never watched Mahomes play?

Their offensive strategy worked. Their defensive strategy did not. I don't know how anyone can disagree with either of those statements. The Dolphins punted once. One great individual play from Taron Johnson stopped another drive. At all other points in the game, they took our souls over and over again.

When is the last time KC had a phantom penalty go against them? I don't even mean a ticky tack penalty, I mean a penalty that literally did not happen. Can anyone remember?

I don't know, the injury is the most convenient rationale but it doesn't really appear to be affecting him. I think he just hasn't been very good in practice which means he hasn't earned a bigger role... Early OTA/training camp reports were that he wasn't getting involved much. There were only a couple days where I remember his name coming up as a bright spot in training camp. My best guess is that for whatever reason he hasn't been able to grasp the playbook. It doesn't make much sense considering he played in Brady's offense before, but that's usually the reason when an otherwise talented player is treated as barely an afterthought. He was on the field a decent amount yesterday, Josh just never looked at him. The one time he did, Samuel was not in the spot where the ball ended up landing. So I think he just is not in the trust tree right now.

? Josh is throwing to his 1st read less than any QB in the NFL.

I won't lie, I had the same thought. He has a bad habit of jumping unnecessarily on downfield catches. The pass he dropped against Seatle on the honey hole shot was the same thing, he jumped for no reason and it made the catch attempt awkward. I think like anything else it just comes down to reps and developing muscle memory. He needs to learn to just finish his route normally and trust that the ball will be where it's supposed to be... Going from Jordan Travis to Josh Allen has to be a bit of a shock to the system.

The Colts scored a TD on a fumble recovery tonight after strip sacking Darnold. However, the official threw a flag and it was almost certainly going to be a roughing the passer that wiped out the TD, or a facemask. But in slow motion replay you could clearly see the facemask was not actually grabbed and it was a clean sack that just looked bad in real time. The officials then announced that there was no penalty and the TD stood... So that seems like a situation where the enigmatic eye in the sky stepped in and said "pick up the flag, it wasn't a penalty." As I mentioned in the live game thread these sorts of reversals do sometimes happen after apparent intervention from the league office, but seemingly only in primetime games that they know everyone is watching. In a random 1PM matchup there's no accountability. There's no reason that system couldn't be applied to every single game, it would take all of 10 seconds for a neutral observer to call down that Torrence did not hold and Allen's TD should stand. Because it's not just a subjective call, it objectively was not a hold. Period. It's also flat out better for the league that an exciting player gets an exciting TD in his highlight package. Literally everybody involved loses when the officials are allowed to make objectively incorrect calls and no one will reverse it unless it's a primetime game. The whole system is broken but the NFL doesn't care because it isn't costing them any money. They go the extra mile in primetime games because a widely viewed game could create controversy and controversy could lose money. That's all it comes down to.

Flacco doesn't give a **** about your silly "defensive coverage." See Colts jersey, throw ball. It's that simple.