HappyDays

The wait from last Thursday to today felt like the entire offseason all over again. Let's go!!

I feel like it's probably not great news that he's traveling all the way to Germany to see a specialist. You have to wonder if he'll even be back this season. Everything is falling apart for the 49ers. They had their shot at a Super Bowl and blew it. While we're on the subject of disastrous player losses: No big deal, just 4 of the most important players on their team. Let me just check the schedule to see who's on the docket... Ah, what do you know, it's the Chiefs.

Also worth mentioning that having an elite FG kicker makes small ball a viable option, especially with starting field position now defaulting to the 30 yard line. They need to execute like five plays and they are guaranteed 3 points on every drive, and they are very likely to win or at least tie every game if they have the ball last. It is an offensive philosophy that has by and large not been very successful for most teams in recent years, but the Chiefs have proven they have the right player and coach ingredients in all three phases to execute it all the way to Super Bowl wins.

I wouldn't say their offense hit a different gear in the playoffs last year. Well, they did against us. Enough has been said about that. But in the AFCCG they got shut out in the 2nd half and in the Super Bowl they only scored 3 points in the 1st half, and started the 2nd half with a bad INT that gave the 49ers the ball at midfield. It was not smooth sailing by any stretch of the imagination. The Chiefs have been playing small ball since they traded Tyreek Hill. I don't remember the exact stat but I remember seeing last year that Mahomes had like 1 or 2 deep TDs in 2022 and 2023 combined. And I know his average air yards per TD pass was the lowest in the league those seasons, below 5 yards in each. Drafting Worthy and signing Hollywood Brown was likely an attempt to get back to their explosive passing days, but with Brown's injury and Worthy not being ready for a big role they aren't going to suddenly become that style of offense. The personnel dictates the style. So they will run up the middle and funnel the ball a ton to Rashee Rice because that's what works for their personnel.

It's really a shockingly bad call. All this talent on offense and in THE critical moment of the game you're instead putting it all on your offensive line who has been bad the whole night, when you don't even have the numbers needed for the play to have a chance. The thing about the Chiefs is they never do stuff like this in critical end of game situations. Never. They just wait for their opponent to blink and hand them the win for free. It's happened in every game they've won this year so far.

The head coach owns his OC's play calls in that situation. Ultimately it all falls on him.

You don't need anymore games to know that Raheem Morris isn't head coach material. Let's be honest, they should be 0-3. And everyone can see it's the coaching before anything else.

Why is Allgier in on that run and not Bijan? Atlanta's offensive coaching is hopeless. It's a miracle that they are in a position to win this.

They don't trust him to throw the ball forward. This peewee horizontal crap isn't gonna get the job done

Kirk looks so awkward throwing the ball. The blitzes are really getting to him.

Well that was definitely not DPI lol so I'll consider that the make up call I guess...

Yeah in slow motion that is textbook DPI. Refs afraid to make a call that decided the game but only when the Chiefs are involved for some reason.

Hmmm I don't know if that's definitely DPI but I've sure seen it called DPI many many times.

Yikes Atlanta got lucky. I thought the ball was starting to wobble a bit before his elbow touched the ground.

Jesus, Kirk's throwaways are so dangerous.

The scary thing is they aren't even doing anything special. Just basic runs up the middle, crossing routes, and WR screens. Mahomes hasn't needed to create any magic. So basic, almost boring, and it's dominating the opponent.

Wtf why would you all out blitz Mahomes on 3rd down...

I jinxed him. You're welcome everyone.

@Buffalo716 Rice already at 113 yards with 20 minutes left in the game... Will almost certainly be averaging over 100 YPG by the time this game is over. He is not Justin Jefferson but he is closer to that leve than he is to Khalil Shakir.

Really hard to make a living in the modern NFL with a completely immobile QB.

Atlanta is getting destroyed up front on this drive

He didn't look particularly special in week 1 either. He looked like a guy that ran the fastest 40 time in combine history.

I didn't see the play in question so I can't comment on it. A lot of the supposed holds from last week's Chiefs game were not in fact holds though. I don't need to scold anyone. It's how the rule is written.

His arm was hit, but even as he went to throw it you could tell he knew it was a bad idea and he led his arm right into the defender. He was flinching as he finished his throwing motion.

That has nothing to do with Kirk getting hit as he throws. That is just an awful decision and a weak throw.