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Goff has been awful, he is just flat out missing passes that are there.

What is even the point of this drive? This reminds me of mid-2000s Bills two minute drills. No urgency, no attempt to use the sideline. Might as well have taken a knee.

4th and short, the Chiefs would have gone for it. It was the right choice IMO. The safety missed a chance at an interception. The Lions have a bad secondary, only one good player.

KC constantly runs stick routes in the end zone that end up wide open, it's insane.

They have a horseshoe up their ***. There is no other explanation.

Kind of a weird game to bring this up?

Tougher than it looks in real time. If he goes for a pick and then the TE catches it, it's a free TD. Safeties are coached to keep that in front of them.

Don't blitz Mahomes... unless of course he's missing his cheat code.

The Chiefs didn't stop that drive, the Lions did it for then. Second drive Gibbs trips over himself. It's insane how teams constantly give the Chiefs free mulligans.

Again... The Chiefs are a well oiled machine. Even if they don't win every play, they don't lose them. That's a sign of a young team succumbing to pressure.

That's the difference between the Lions and Chiefs right there. The Chiefs don't make stupid mistakes. It adds up.

Both offenses are very well coached and very well blocked.

I usually hate coaches being too aggressive early in games, but you're a young squad playing against a superior team with Mahomes waiting on the other side. In that case the aggressiveness makes sense.

Let's go!! I was about to curse the football gods for giving KC a free 4 points as Gibbs tripped himself.

Wow Lions aren't messing around. I respect the hell out of that.

Chiefs WRs aren't separating versus a mediocre coverage group.

Hyde already confirmed he'll be playing on Monday, so the injury report is as good as it could be.

Micah Hyde's wife:

With Jones and Kelce out, the Lions have a real chance to steal a win. But in critical moments in a close game I'm going to bet on the team that has experience in those moments versus the young team still finding its way. Chiefs 30 Lions 25

In a shootout decided by a coin flip? I don't think the center on either side had anything to do with that outcome. Are we saying Morse was responsible for that fumbled snap? I thought the common belief was that Josh simply flubbed it. It's not just my opinion, it's the common belief of everyone that makes decisions in the NFL. When is the last time a center only was drafted in the top 10? Currently only 6 centers have an AAV of over $10 million, and the highest paid center (Jason Kelce) has an AAV of $14.25 million. Just to be clear I recognize that Humphrey was inarguably a much better pick than Basham. But that misstep has had no impact on our team's success. There have been much larger and more glaring blemishes on Beane's record.

It has, but only at guard. Creed Humphrey has exclusively been a center since his college days. So no I don't think him being here over Basham makes any kind of difference. Similarly I think the Chiefs would have been just as good the past couple years with just a decent center but I know that opinion is not shared by everyone. I actually think we would have ended up the #1 seed with JuJu as our WR2 instead of Davis. Having a much more efficient player in that role would have been enough to make a difference in at least one of our losses IMO. The Jets and Dolphins losses in particular featured several negative plays from Davis and those games were decided by just a couple of plays. Flip one of those to a win and we get the #1 seed. The Bengals regular season game wouldn't have even mattered. If we head into the playoffs as the #1 seed that changes everything. So if you want to look at small decisions that had a big impact on the outcome of the season, that one free agency decision was monumentally more important than us failing to draft a great center.

No question that list of Chiefs picks is better (although it's fair to point out that they got two extra early picks by trading Tyreek Hill, which automatically gave them a 50% higher likelihold of finding good players). But I think a better question in this conversation is: do the Bills and Chiefs trade records, playoffs included, over the last two years if those draft classes are swapped? Without hesitation my answer is no. None of those players made a huge difference for the Chiefs - they are all either role players or devalued positions or just pretty good. No stars at premium positions. None of them would have made a difference in any of our games and certainly not our last two playoff losses. So if swapping the draft classes doesn't change our playoff fortunes or theirs, then it is fair to say that the discrepancy between us and the Chiefs is not because of Beane's somewhat lesser drafting in recent years. IMO the discrepancy is mainly because of three major factors, in no particular order of importance: 1) They had 1 elite defensive player in each of their last two playoff runs. We had 0 elite defensive players. 2) They had superior coaching on both sides of the ball in the playoffs compared to us. 3) Beane's free agency signings have not been as effective as other contenders. For a $3.7 million cap hit the Chiefs got JuJu Smith-Schuster - an effective WR2 with a 77.2% catch percentage and 933 yards. For a $1.975 million cap hit we got Jamison Crowder - a complete dud. That one example was far and away more impactful to our season vs. theirs last year than all of that draft value discrepancy combined. The conversation around Beane's drafting is a red herring IMO.