HappyDays

Yeah this is not the game to complain about officiating. Both teams got some breaks.

Meh. Quite likely the Rams score a TD on that drive anyways but take 5 minutes off the clock instead of 5 seconds. With hindsight getting the ball right back to our offense wasn't a terrible outcome and gave us enough time to try and score at the end of the half (even though we failed, we at least had a chance).

It isn't that hard. It happens to us in the playoffs every single year.

If it were up to me Ben Johnson would already be our head coach. My fantasy coaching staff is him with Robert Saleh as the DC. It's Super Bowl appearance or bust for me. McDermott has shown me nothing this year to make me think he is ever going to figure out his shockingly bad coaching in critical moments of close games and it's just impossible to win multiple consecutive playoff games with such a glaring weakness. At this point I think of it like the head coach version of Jameis Winston - you can tell he works hard and loves what he does but he is just missing a fundamental element that never develops no matter how many times he gets an opportunity. The highs are amazing but the lows are inevitable. At a certain point we have to accept who he is and move on.

Ben Johnson with a former good DC who failed as a head coach - Robert Saleh, Matt Eberflus, Todd Bowles, something like that. That formula plus an elite QB created a dynasty for the Chiefs. Time is running out for our potential dynasty. I'm worried Josh Allen will be 33 before Pegula finally makes a change and we'll always wonder what could have been.

Here's how I see it - the defense gave us like a 10% chance to win. The coaching at the end gave us a 0% chance to win. It's worth discussing both, especially in the context of those two issues being the main reasons our season ends early year after year.

Here's the play: No one got open and the IOL immediately collapsed. I think Brady needs to find some answers other than mesh. Defenses have this play figured out because we've put it on tape so frequently. Hard to be too upset with anyone on the offensive side though. Should have gone for it on 4th and 2 although on some level I understand why we didn't.

Yep this game definitely brought back my fear that McDermott's scheme is not a playoff scheme. Smart experienced QBs with smart offensive coaches have regularly not just moved the ball on us but dominated us without any resistance. QBs in those games have easy answers available to them at all times and we never make the right adjustments to slow them down. We had a similarly poor defensive plan against the Ravens. The reigning excuse from that one was that we were missing too many defensive starters to be competitive. Turns out even when all our starters are out there we are still capable of getting steamrolled like that.

Tony Romo of all people said it exactly right after we beat them - when you play the Chiefs you have to go win it yourself. So many coaches like Harbaugh tonight are playing for the Chiefs to lose instead of playing for their team to win. Like I said it's probably an ego thing. "Sure all those other coaches failed in these situations, but I'M Jim Harbaugh! I can do anything." No. You can't. Do the counterintuitive thing and give up the TD for free and then your offense has 2 minutes to go take the win for themselves.

That's exactly right. They don't need to be more talented than their opponent because they'll play better situational football than their opponent. So as long as they are within one score in the final two minutes that means they will win 100% of the time. The only game they lost this year was because they were down by two scores in the final two minutes. Harbaugh screwed up big time thinking he could stop them from executing a final drive that was all about situational football. If he had instructed his defense to let them score he would have pulled the rug out from underneath them and at least given his team a chance to win. Instead he went with his ego that told him he could just beat the Chiefs straight up. Andy Reid doesn't have that kind of ego. He just has his team do whatever gives them the highest probability of winning the game on every play.

Trust me I'm as annoyed as anyone. Especially after what we had to watch earlier. I'm just amazed at how every single coach that faces them hasn't figured it out yet. Every week I watch to see how their opponent will fail to capitalize on their opportunity. The Chiefs have only won a couple games this year. Their opponents have lost a dozen.

What is there to hate about the Chiefs? They've left the door open for all of their opponents to beat them this year. Only one coach and one player has accepted the invitation.

And that's game. Harbaugh failed to tell his defense that they needed to "accidentally" blow a coverage in the endzone. Either be up by two scores with 2 minutes left or make 100% sure you have the ball last. I don't understand how teams haven't figured this out yet.

Nothing annoying about the Chiefs. What's annoying is that their opponents don't understand there is a very specific game script youu have to follow to beat them. McDermott actually is the only one this year that understood this. Harbaugh is coaching this final series like it's a normal game. He like the rest of them still hasn't figured it out.

This is why I've been saying they are going 16-1 and getting the threepeat unless the Bills stop them. We're the only team that can. Everyone laughed when I credited them for barely beating the Panthers and Raiders. But they beat every opponent like this. They'll win the Super Bowl like this. Unless the Bills and only the Bills stop them.

Teams don't learn. Might as well just all out blitz Mahomes on every down in this scenario, seriously. Worst case scenario is they score a wide open TD and your offense gets the ball last.

They should have done it on the quick throw to Worthy. Or on that run just now.

Don't blitz Mahomes on 3rd down. This rule has been well established but I see defenses do it all the time

Bad kick isn't a terrible outcome. Get the inevitable score out of the way so the Chargers have a chance to drive for the winning score as time expires

Apparently this is what you think happened in the 2nd half:

Yeah there is nothing but bad things to say about McDermott in this one. His side of the ball was abysmal. The special teams run by the coach he hand selected had multiple critical failures. There were several game management decisions that he utterly botched. You could say McDermott single handedly ruined a historic QB performance. Something he has now done twice in his career.

But also the extra 3rd down play gave them 40 more seconds to run off the clock which absolutely mattered at the end. If the Bills had managed the end of the game appropriately we wouldn't have even needed to onside kick. We would have had all 3 timeouts and like 1:40 left after we scored our final TD. Our decisions in the final minutes turned a winnable game into a certain loss.

Luckily this is the first time ever under McDermott that a special teams communication error at the end has led to us losing a close game despite a historic QB performance.

Turns out we had 9 players on the field:

Holy hell there were like 10 different massive coaching failures that happened in the last 4 minutes of this game.