HappyDays

I think Howie Roseman is probably happy where he is.

The Chiefs defense hasn't actually stopped the Eagles once. They got lucky the center moved his head and then Hurts inexplicably dropped the ball. And yikes Mahomes doesn't exactly look right running to the locker room.

This offense is smooth as butter. Howie Roseman deserves every award.

It's unreal how automatic those short yardage plays are for the Eagles. The defense might as well just save their energy for the next play.

I see a lot of times we try like two runs that go nowhere so we completely abandon the run for the rest of the game. The Eagles runs don't always pick up a lot of yards but they stick with it.

The Eagles are clearly the more talented team across the board. Hurts just has to not make any more goofy mistakes.

I admittedly haven't watched much of the Eagles this year. Hurts doesn't look quite as fast as a ball carrier as I expected. He can run but it's not as explosive as I thought.

You know what I respect calling the exact same play to start the drive. A+ coaching.

Bad play call, worse execution. I don't know why teams always do this crap against the Chiefs. A gimme 3rd and short to a defensive TD.

Brown created the position. He didn't just run his route, he understands how to create leverage at the end. He schooled Trent McDuffie.

I don't know what I'm more envious of, that downfield catching ability or that perfect pocket.

#55 jumping the snap early and giving up a free 1st down. I just had flashbacks.

They tried a couple stunts on that drive, Chiefs OL picked them all up. They finally got to him on that last play.

The Chiefs OL is ridiculous. Mahomes comfortably sitting back and going through his reads. The Eagles fierce DL isn't even getting close.

These are the two best OLs in the league. 49ers 3rd best. No coincidence that is 3 of the 4 last teams.

What is your take on Jalin Hyatt? He's the speed receiver I've fallen in love from this draft. The only knock on him appears to be that he played in a college offense so it's hard to project how well he will translate to the pros. I remember with Watson the fear was somewhat similar in that he played against small school competition.

No I think the offense was designed high to low most of the time. It felt like Dorsey read somewhere that the team with more explosive plays tends to win the game and used that single data point to construct his offense. Very rarely did I see designed reads to Cook/Hines or Knox. To be fair Allen's elbow injury may have made it more difficult to rely on shorter throws down the stretch. It was noticeable after the injury that he was missing short and intermediate passes which I know he can hit in his sleep. Go back and watch the Lions game, it is extremely obvious. And we now know that that injury was more significant than the Bills let on and persisted through the whole season. Allen has spent years refining his mechanics to hit some of those shorter throws which don't come naturally to him, and suddenly had to change those mechanics halfway through a season. We like to think of our favorite football players as gods but human beings are affected by things like that whether they're open about it or not.

It really isn't though. "Most valuable" by its definition has to factor in the team around the player. We all know it's really decided based on stats and usually goes to the QB of the #1 seed in one of the conferences. You could argue that the primary reason Mahomes had better stats than Allen and ended up with the #1 seed is NOT the talent discrepancy between the QBs, but instead the discrepancy between their supporting cast and their coaching. Football is the most context driven sport. It isn't like basketball or baseball where one great player can single handedly take a game over. Coaching also matters more than in other sports. QB can take over a game more than any other position obviously, but the result of any given play or game or season is about a lot more than the QB. I don't think their skill position players are a lot better. If you had me compare it all, Chiefs have a slight edge in skill position talent, a large edge in OL talent, and a laughably enormous edge in offensive coaching.

I'm not comparing us to other teams. I'm comparing us to other contenders. Of the real Super Bowl contenders, factoring in skill positions, OL, and coaching, Allen clearly had less to work with than the other QBs. If our defense actually played to the level of its heavy investments then it may have worked out just as well, but since they consistently fall apart in the playoffs this means Allen was playing with less from his supporting cast and coaching, and also had no defense capable of slowing down top offenses. Mahomes, Burrow, and Hurts all got more from their offense AND from their defense once the playoffs started. We're past the point of debating MVP accolades. I don't care about that. I care about the Bills winning a Super Bowl. For that to happen they need to get Allen the kind of help that his peers on other contenders get. It's too late to get him better coaching so we'll just have to hope Dorsey figures it out next year. As far as skill positions and OL that needs to be Beane's primary focus this offseason.

Yeah I edited it right after I posted it. I think we would be the best possible candidate for Ben Johnson too. Come start your head coaching career with Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs. I know we have gone back and forth on McDermott's future here, but I will say Ben Johnson being available next year colors that conversation for me. I agree with you that trading picks for Sean Payton or hiring Jim Harbaugh is not a good enough outcome to justify moving on from McDermott. But if you have a chance to get the brightest young offensive mind in the NFL? Then yes I think potentially moving on a little too early is worth the swing.

I have said my preference after next season if we have another disappointing playoff exit is to hire Ben Johnson as head coach. One year with Detroit and he designed one of the most creative offenses I've ever seen, and got Jared Goff to perform at the best level of his career. My biggest fear is that we give McDermott too many chances and Ben Johnson goes on to become the next Kyle Shanahan with another franchise.

I don't think they're the same tiers. Kelce will go down as arguably the greatest TE in history. Diggs will go down as one of the best WRs of his era. I love Diggs but he is not clearly a Hall of Famer at this point. Kelce is a no brainer 1st ballot selection. I don't think you can throw those two in the same bucket. JuJu when he was the #2 to a great #1 option in Pittsburgh had 917 yards as a rookie even though he missed 2 games. His 2nd year he collected 1,426 yards. They tried to make him the #1 WR and that did not work, but as the #2 target to an elite #1 target he had proven himself before he came to KC. Davis on the other hand had 599 and 549 yards his first and second years respectively, and hit a career high of 836 yards this past year. Davis was a fun fantasy football debate in the offseason but otherwise he is an afterthought to most of the wider NFL community. He has yet to prove himself capable of producing as a #2 target in a high volume passing offense. JuJu has already done that. So again, not the same tier.

Hines played 11% of our offensive snaps since the trade. McKinnon played 47% of offensive snaps for the Chiefs. This is a Dorsey vs. Reid stat, not Allen vs. Mahomes. Why we refused to use the explosive RB we traded for, couldn't tell you. Why we refused to throw the ball to the pass catching RB that we spent a 2nd round pick on, couldn't tell you. It goes to show that for all the talk of comparing talent, the biggest discrepancy between Allen and Mahomes this past season BY FAR is coaching. Mahomes got Andy Reid, whose experience designing plays and calling offenses goes without saying. Allen got a first year OC and first time play caller. This commonly gets ignored in the discussion. So if you want to say the offensive weapons are a wash, okay, but there is no argument whatsoever with the offensive line and with the coaching. Why is there even a debate if their situations were comparable? It is not close. I would love to see what the Bills offense looks like for one drive with Case Keenum at QB starting at the 2 line. If anyone here thinks he leads us to a TD, I'd like to hear your reasoning.

Allen definitely became noticeably less accurate on short to intermediate throws from the Vikings game on. Driving the ball was not a problem, but placing the ball was.

Now imagine if once Reid got Mahomes he made it to one AFC Championship game and that was the extent of his accomplishments. That's where we're at right now with McDermott and Allen. If the same kind of disappointing playoff exit happens next year I think it is fair at that point to call for a change. Having an elite QB changes everything about the evaluation of the coaching staff. The clock on Allen's career is ticking. If McDermott can't even sniff a Super Bowl appearance after 4 years of elite QB play, we have to try and replace him with someone that can. The alternate view is that we thank McDermott for making the long awaited cultural turnaround, and for whatever role he played in obtaining the elusive franchise QB after a two decade wait, while acknowledging that he is not the guy to finish the job. If we have to replace him after next season some people might consider his stint here a failure. I wouldn't. He was the right man for the job coming out of the slapstick Rex Ryan regime. He did what the franchise needed and got paid I would think tens of millions of dollars for his efforts. We like to think of football teams as more than just corporations, but that's all they are. Sometimes a failing corporation needs a turnaround specialist to come in and whip it back into shape. That specialist doesn't usually stick around to take the corporation to the next level once his job is done. Maybe that's what McDermott is.