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Honest question for you - if Allen so far this year had 7 total TDs and 8 total turnovers (instead of the 15 TDs and 2 turnovers he has) what would our record be right now? I'm going with 2-5. 3-4 is the absolute ceiling. There's no need to pretend Mahomes has some kind of magic ability that allows him to get away with such a poor TD to INT ratio. The Chiefs as a team have an incredibly high margin for error. We are the polar opposite.

I doubt it. The Dolphins and Jaguars games are the only ones that would apply to. The Titans blowout if anything helped our run efficiency stats because of Davis' big run when the game was already over and Tennessee was ready to get out of the stadium. You're not the first I've seen to believe the run offense is better than it actually is. I think our high volume of rush attempts is skewing the perception of how efficient we really are. I've noticed 2nd downs in particular are usually 1 yard gains at most, if they even get any positive yardage. Anyways I can't bring myself to really care. The new look passing offense with Amari Cooper on the field looks even better in all-22 than it did live. For the first time since maybe October of last year I feel like we have a legit downfield passing offense again. Screw establishing the run. Put the fear of God back into these opppsing defenses and everything else will open up.

I don't see it. We're 19th in rush YPA, 19th in rush YPG. It feels like we want to be a balanced offense (we're 8th in rush percentage at 48.86%) but we don't have the interior OL or the run scheme to to be anything more than average.

If he was playing like Josh did against Houston the Chiefs defense would have held them to like 17 points and they would have won easily.

The 49ers defense was disgustingly bad. It looks better in the box score than it did live. Mahomes missed multiple wide open big completions. He had Worthy open on an over route that he might have been able to accelerate upfield and score but Mahomes short hopped the pass, and he overthrew Worthy on like a 70 yard bomb that would have been a TD. Underthrew Kelce on a seam route too. Plus the two INTs. But make no mistake, the Chiefs had open receivers all over the field and only their own mistakes stopped them from putting up like 40 points on them... The spacing of that offensive scheme is unbelievably good. Mahomes will probably start playing better at some point, when that happens I don't know who stops them. I actually think it might have to be their NFC opponent in the Super Bowl. I could see Matt LaFleur or Ben Johnson having some success against Spagnuolo. I don't see anybody in the AFC slowing them down, unfortunately.

I didn't mean just in this game, I mean in general. 27th in EPA per play in the 1st half is abysmal, and the stark difference in the 2nd half indicates that we can and should be much better than that early on. I can even forgive them a bit for the Titans game specifically - having to adjust at the last minute from a Will Levis led offense to Mason Rudolph may have impacted whatever game plan they had to start. But on the season as a whole there is a larger problem there.

As for solutions... maybe be willing to play more man early on? I know that does not match up particularly well with the skill set of our CBs, but anything is better than letting offenses come out and easily pick up chunk yardage through our predictable zone spacing. If it's gonna be that easy, at least make their guys beat our guys. Also I think we should be telling the DL to be a bit more conservative early on. Multiple teams this year have taken advantage of our penetration style defense. It's getting us burned on draws and screens especially early in games. If our players aren't going to recognize when the OL is purposefully letting them get upfield, the coaches need to adjust their style. There's no reason it should take us an entire half to make these adjustments when every team is killing us in the same way.

The injuries keep coming for KC. Not that it makes any kind of difference. The only team that can lose 4 starters and still be the clear Super Bowl favorites.

Not really. We rank 19th in rush YPA at 4.2... Cook only got 2.7 YPA yesterday and he was our main back when the game was still in doubt. Brady clearly wants to run the ball so we have a lot of attempts but the efficiency isn't there.

Kind of went under the radar with his other plays but this was my favorite play of his yesterday: We have not had anybody on the roster that can make this sort of play since Diggs fell off a cliff. Win against press with the release, then make a tough catch in a tight window. This is the kind of play that gets me really excited about the potential for this connection. When the Browns led by Joe Flacco had their run, plays like this were the formula - just throw the ball to Cooper 1v1 and he's likely to win with any kind of decent ball placement. Perfect fit for Allen's style.

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Correct. Fields would stare at the rush and then look to run before letting the play develop.

He hasn't played particularly well but he's managed the offense. Fields was out of the trust tree there because he wasn't executing. With hindsight those early 1st half misses feel more like shaking off the rust than fundamental problems. No one is mistaking Russell Willson with his Legion of Boom era self, but he is the best QB on their roster.

Lol this is the most predictable result of the season. Kicking myself for not betting the mortgage on Steelers ML.

It's better than Fields who misses reads, decides to run for no reason at times, and throws interceptable passes. Wilson is steady. And honestly throwing prayer balls to Pickens might just be a sound strategy.

See this is why Wilson is starting. Nothing flashy, he is just executing the offense.

I was just thinking exactly that. They need their best player to step up and make a play.

That's why they traded for Adams. Tackling machine.

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Wow some of these catches are unbelievably good

Almost every target to Davante Adams has gone poorly

Brady is a perfectly average NFL OC. We should have higher aspirations than that. But no Daboll would not be the guy I'd want to replace him. If McDermott does somehow get a chance to hire yet another OC in the future, all I want is for him to run a real interview process instead of handing the job to somebody already in the building.