BullBuchanan

He's not good enough. You need a guy like Jalen Carter to make it work.

Sure, you can try to win by shutting down the Best QB in the sport and the greatest TE of all time (one of which they've actually managed to consistently do) OR (and just hear me out here) You could just "trust the process" and execute the plays you should be able to against an entirely beatable defense. KC isn't exactly trotting out the 85 bears.

Then score more points.

In a vacuum, yes. However this was addressed by one of the players that they were faking this earlier in the game, so you had to decide if they were faking again or telling the truth. Allen guessed wrong. Kinda seems like 50/50 call at that point if you're getting schemed against that well. Brady should have had a beater dialed up instead.

Reasonably well. We shut down his top weapon, held him to under 250 yards, 1 TD and forced a turnover. What's your goal?

You can be tired of it if you want to be, but it's the only way to beat elite QBs like Mahomes. He destroys blitzes.

Joe Brady was not an insignificant part of the loss yesterday. Not sure how he's earned a promotion. If you're going to move on from McDermott, I'd give it a clean sweep and get all the good ol' boys out of the clubhouse. Bring in Kellen Moore or similar and build a new staff around an elite QB and give it a shot with a new system.

That's cool that you think that, but you know the coaches and players openly said that they don't show their whole hand in the regular season right? It was just a few weeks ago, maybe the Rams game. This shouldn't be new information to anyone who watches sports. You don't see players run faster and hit harder in the playoffs? You don't see brand new plays and alignments you haven't seen all season? I sure do.

He probably shouldn't have. he was abysmal all night. I would have much rather seen a healthy Knox get his targets.

Just more excuses. That'll get ya a ring I'm sure.

For the Chiefs and the Bills, the regular season is just pre-season. They're holding back their best plays, and players aren't giving it every last ounce they have. It's pretty apparent that playoff football is just a whole different animal, which is true in every sport. Guys run faster, hit harder and lay out for plays they otherwise wouldn't when it's all on the line.

That's the formula for most teams who want to win a ring, and it's what Mahomes does every playoffs. You want to beat the best, you have to be the best.

KC leaked 29 points to us. Is that significantly better? Had we scored at the end of the game, it would have been 32 or 35. Should our defense be held to a higher standard than theirs? The defense had many many flaws last night, BUT They held kelce to 2/19 They held the top two running backs under 4 yards a carry They did not allow a 100 yard receiver. They forced a fumble I don't expect much more of a defense against the best QB and playcaller in the sport.

For vet minimum?

Even if you actually believe that - we lost by 3, so a TD on that drive instead of a punt wins it and a FG takes us to OT. We had 4 drives that failed to produce points while KC only had 3 (excluding the kneeldowns at half/game). It was a big deal.

Mahomes is 17-3 in the playoffs. Josh is 7-6. Any other stat is supplementary.

Nope.

Didn't ever say that. Try again.

Well enough to win against an average team, sure. Well enough to win against the best team in the sport? No. Not even a little bit. Mahomes was near perfect. If Josh wanted to move on, he needed to be at that level too. I already said it was a total team loss, but Josh can't control that. All he can control is his own play, and this notion that he can't be any better than he is, is false. He didn't look like an MVP out there last night. If he played an MVP game, that would've done the job. The defense, for all of their warts, did hold Kelce to 19 yards of two catches, and stifled KC's running game until the very end. We needed a play from someone - could have been Kincaid, Johnson, Cook, but there's no one better equipped to deliver one than Allen. Unfortunately, he didn't have it when we needed it either.

When is this going to stop? It's patently false. Mahomes outplayed Allen AGAIN yesterday,a nd he looked cool as a cucumber doing it. The game has never been too big for him - not once. Mahomes is in a tier of 1 right now and in a tier of 2 all-time. It's him and Brady - that's it.

Josh had a bad night from the opening drive and never really looked like himself, but it was a complete team loss. The playcalling and strategy was poor - completely abandoning the run that got us here Josh was rattled/rushed a lot of the game making poor decisions/executing poorly despite walking away with a clean sheet on the night. The offensive line was terrible The defensive line had a few big plays int he passing game and did well against the run for portions of the game, but they weren't consistent enough The secondary was a disaster, constantly taking poor angles to ball carriers. Elam in particular was a nightmare. I don't know if he's a redeemable player, but he surely isn't as a bill. Jackson should have played over Bishop.

They didn't have to be to beat the Texans. They were in command of the game the entire time. When they needed to get the plays to close it out, they did - like they always do.

He's 28... If you want to beat them, what alternative do you have? They're no worse than the 2nd most dominant dynasty in the history of the sport. They're flawless when it matters.

Hard pass.

calling football fixed is the laziest take anyone could possibly have. First of all, no it isn't. The Bills largely deserved the penalties they got just as much as KC deserved theirs. Second of all, Fixing pro football would be impossible. Third of all, if they were going to fix the game, why go with the Chiefs when the Bills upset would be far more beneficial to everyone in the league. The premise of parity is what's vaulted the NFL to the most profitable league in the nation. Ask Josh if he thinks the game was rigged, or if he and a bunch of his teammates absolutely sucked out there tonight. I bet I know which answer he'd go with.