SirAndrew

Exactly. Some think that our D can shutdown everyone each week, that’s not reality. There’s no guarantee you can hold a team like the Chiefs under 30. Sure, we shutdown Jackson, but Mahomes doesn’t have those type of flaws. Eventually you need to score points to win games. People talk about how the Titans are doing it with D and the run game, but the Titans also beat the Chiefs 35-32 this season. They’ve won in the playoffs with our style of football, but can still put points on the board. We have no chance of sustainable success if we keep scoring 20 or less every game. I can’t fathom how anyone thinks we can do so.

Imo, we seem really close when watching the Ravens vs Titans game, but seem far from contending when watching the Chiefs vs Texans. So what do I take from that ? I think it means next year will teach us a lot. We get the chance to compete against almost all the big boys next season.

Sammy has always left a lot of yards on the field by stepping out of bounds on what seems like every reception.

The Josh Allen insecurity complex around here is annoying. I really like Josh, but do we need to point out every Jackson and Mahomes flaw? The posts regarding Mahomes today look a lot like the ones regarding Jackson last night. Josh will have the chance to prove himself by winning games.

Looking a lot like the Ravens in that aspect.

I do like their story, but I just can’t root for a team whose fan base won’t fully appreciate the meaning of a title. Do real diehard Titans fans even exist? It would be just another glitzy event for Nashville. Agree, they aren’t worthy.

I tend to root for certain fan bases more than players in this situation. KC is the fan base who I think would be most appreciative of winning it all. It’s also fun to watch a team like a Tennessee come out of nowhere to make an unexpected run. However, I just can’t root for teams with three fans like the Titans to win.

Yeah, there’s no team left in the playoffs that seem unbeatable. Many Super Bowl teams are those that seem unstoppable. The Ravens were supposed to be that team this season, and now they are sitting at home. None of those remaining seem very fearsome.

Wow. Andy Reid suddenly has an easier path to blowing it.

He probably won’t, but I think he’ll still be productive. I’m just not expecting Jackson to fade completely as some others believe will happen.

Tough loss for Baltimore. I think Lamar will be back in top form next year. I also really like Josh Allen, but unlike some others, I don’t find the need to trash Jackson to validate insecurities about my love for Allen.

Great point. We played bend don’t break defense with very few big plays.

I told people to relax about the lack of turnovers/big plays during the season, but now I’ve come around to seeing it as an issue. Henry is a phenomenal back, and a big part of the Titans playoff run, but the D has been just as important. Big plays on D have been critical to their success.

That’s another difference between us and a team like Tennessee right now. We could use oline help, and another WR, but our D doesn’t make the type of impact plays the Titans have tonight.

Seems like Jackson panicked and lost composure the minute his team got behind.

This is going to turn out real well.

Do you think he would have had other NFL teams interested in him as a head coach this season? The Giants seem like a big step up from Miss St. Tough for me to trust the Giants on this one. I didn’t like the Barkley or Jones pick, and Pats assistants have little track record of success.

Absolutely, officiating was bad this weekend, but the Buffalo Bills also played terrible fundamentally unsound football. Sadly, people seem unwilling to except that. We had a good season, and I look forward to next year. Hopefully we can improve as a team. I’ll look forward to that, as opposed to worrying about officiating.

The refs were terrible, but we still lost the game due to our own mistakes. I go into every game assuming poor officiating will need to be overcome to win. We allowed an opponent to convert a 3rd and 23 in OT. Something about makes it difficult for me to obsess over the officiating as the leading cause of this loss.

I’m making an overall statement that NFL fans and teams don’t benefit from the substandard officiating that occurs every week. That’s what I mean when I say “no one benefits”. Different teams (except maybe the Pats) are getting a bad deal each week. Officiating should be better across the board. College football has superior officiating to what we see in the NFL every week. As far as our game, we had some bad calls go against us, but we can either whine about bad calls, or simply realize that our team didn’t show up, therefore they didn’t deserve to win. Our team stunk on Saturday. The refs were awful, but that game wasn’t all their fault. If we need to win on a fluke kickoff return, we weren’t going far anyway. Blaming that loss on the refs is ridiculous, and I can’t believe how many people on this board are doing it. Here’s the list of reasons we lost: McD could coach with some guts, Allen could play smarter, our guys could block defenders, our defense could play a soft zone and tackle the ball carrier short of the sticks on a third and forever. Those are just some of the reasons we lost in addition to a few unlucky calls.

Right, when the officials make one horrific call that alters the game like “Fail Mary” or the “just give it to ‘em” game, I get it. However, it’s not as if a terrible call determined the final play of that game. We do this every time we lose. It gets especially bad considering our Buffalo complex where we think the refs are out to get us. I’m good with placing blame where it’s due. The officials were terrible in this game, but our players earned the blame for that loss. Literally no one on the team stepped up Saturday, with the exception of Hauschka. It was a complete team loss.

Fair enough, but I’m sure we committed penalties they missed. I’m just saying NFL officiating is generally bad. You never who’s going to get the short end of the stick from one week to the next. We still had plenty of opportunities to win that game.

Exactly, NFL officiating is a travesty, but often times the game can be won regardless. The Vikings had at least a field goal anyway. Who knows if Bress would have scored, they weren’t looking very unstoppable to me.

You could on for days with all the missed calls in an NFL game. Officiating is terrible across the board, and no one benefits from it.

16-0 can be a two score game, and you stated that elite D’s don’t give up a shutout. I kind of assumed that you were talking about pitching a shutout. I get your point, I just don’t trust defense to carry a team every week in the NFL. Both sides of the ball need to step up at various times. We had an offense that was rarely capable of stepping up this season.