HappyDays

Shavers continues to be more impactful than Moore.

That's not how McDermott and Babich are going to see it. Bishop took a terrible angle in coverage and gave up a TD. Guys up front are not getting any push. You can't act like these reps are totally unimportant, if they were the coaches wouldn't bother dressing anyone that will make the roster.

I would have liked to see Sanders and Walker push the pocket even a little bit, and Bishop is a starter who gave up an awful TD. Not going to overreact but those are legitimate problems.

I mean Chicago definitely wants to look good more than we do, but 2nd string pass rush has been non-existent and Bishop got cooked on that TD.

Andreesen's depth seems off

Looking like none of the starters will be playing. Good opportunity to evaluate rookies and young players.

No chance we could make this trade work, it's just good to see a conference rival flailing. Cincy will have to average 40 PPG to make the playoffs.

This is McDermott's defense. I won't accept Babich as a scapegoat if the defense disappoints again. Especially since McDermott personally chose him as an internal hire that he was already comfortable with. He's had almost a decade to get this defense right when it matters and it just has to come through this year.

Cam Ward slinging it:

That's what I figured. They want to bring the hammer down, make an example out of him. In the video he says the NFL wanted 10+ games... If the hearing still happens on September 30 and he loses his appeal, he could conceivably be suspended for the rest of the regular season.

https://x.com/LLysowski/status/1956390662925853098?s=19

I get the conspiracy theories about Chiefs favoritism but that's really not what's happening here. The media has done a poor job of explaining the facts. Or worse, deliberately misconstruing the facts to get clicks. The NFL's personal conduct policy is a lot more nebulous than other polices that allow suspensions. The substance abuse policy for example is clearly written into the CBA and there is not much players can do to appeal those. In Rice's case however there is no set policy for what he did. So in his case his appeal must be heard by a neutral arbitrator and Sue Robinson is the federal judge the NFL has appointed to that job. Like any federal judge her schedule is booked out for months, so the first date she has available on her calendar is September 30. Under the rules of the current CBA there is simply nothing the NFL can do to expedite the process unless they agree to a settlement with Rice. The fact that the NFL is NOT reaching a settlement with Rice's side indicates to me they are actually trying to bring the hammer down and set an example. If it was just a 4 game suspension they were offering I believe he would have already accepted it. Dragging the suspension into the middle of the season may in fact be the worse outcome for Rice and the Chiefs. It likely will even help us since he will probably miss our game.

Bond is probably too stupid to make it in the NFL to be honest. Vowed he would break the 40 record and instead barely got below 4.4. Made a statement he was signing with the Browns, turns out it's still up in the air. Would I still take a look at him? Honestly yeah I would given the state of the WR room. He basically just takes over Curtis Samuel's spot on the roster and there's zero risk if he doesn't work out. I doubt the organization will do it though considering Hairston's situation from earlier this year.

Nevermind, he immediately signed with the Browns: I'm just glad it wasn't KC.

I mean you have to at least... No, no, that would be crazy... Then again...

This is speculation on my part but if the NFL and Rice been unable to reach an agreement and the next step is Sue Robinson arbitrating the case, that indicates to me that the NFL is seeking a particularly long suspension and Rice of course doesn't want to accept it.

That's fine. He scored an unbelievable 4th down TD that kept us in the game to begin with. Our offense was struggling early until we started feeding him the ball. He was a key factor in a game where we scored more points than any other team scored against the Chiefs last year. I'm supposed to ignore all of that because of how the game ended? Am I supposed to pretend that with Ray Davis as the starter our offense would have looked the same? I wish the Bills would invest more in pass catchers that can make that winning play on the final drive, but in lieu of that we still need at least one legit playmaker that can sustain drives and score TDs. Right now that's Cook. He is the only skill player we have that I know can jump start our offense when we need it.

On one hand it's extremely annoying that the NFL is dragging its feet which means he gets to play in KC's tough opening stretch. On the other hand we play them in week 9... Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll be suspended for our matchup.

I think this narrative is just so overblown. Despite being on the field 45% of the snaps he still nearly doubled Ray Davis' rush attempts and quintupled Ty Johnson's. He had almost as many receptions as Davis and Johnson combined. People act like he was just a cog in a rotation. When in fact he was by far our most consistently explosive skill player and made a big difference when he was on the field. Personally I'm glad they're limiting his snaps. Keep his mileage low so he can continue making game changing plays for the next four seasons.