MasterStrategist

Nah. Then we get a Josh mistake, or a critical offensive holding, etc. Our defense can't be a revolving door. And we've been top 5 and then suffered critical injuries. But even those seasons, our DL was not physical and secondary way too slow. Same issue every year. If that's on Coach or Beane, which I'd say Beane, either way something has to be done about both issues. At some point Beane has to be accountable for fielding a talented defense. Our offense shouldn't be counted on to be perfect. We basically missed a few key opportunities on offense this past game. Not saying we shouldn't upgrade a boundary WR, but that isn't the issue.

It's less about offense, at least right now. We need a defense that is Top 10. Eagles are 1 of 1. Super talented, well coached, healthy. Lions would be the same if not snake bitten by injury. We need to get some actual talent on defense. Less on coaching, more on talent. We've drafted players that are good, just not great. And mismanaged cap, all this on Beane. We are slow in the secondary, not physical enough on DL. We need to blow up both units. Keep Ed, Groot, Benford, and Taron (Bishop by default). I don't trust a Bernard/Milano unit to be healthy. I think Milano will be expendable soon. Get the offense literally 1 weapon outside that is a legit separator/1-1 matchup winner.

@HappyDays, Hurts for MVP pick looks like a lock. Unless Coop gets another pick/impact play. I was concerned about Hurts trying to do too much, but he's played a very efficient/Josh type game right now.

Posters laughing/mocking you, but you are spot on with the DL assessment. Beane has done too much to be fired. But his seat gets hot if our DL looks meh again next year.

A talented defense forces errors. Especially when KC skill players, minus Rice, are not impressive. Bills defense is just that bad. I don't think Chiefs played anything special/best game against us...it's just that our defense was that bad and made them look good. Reality is our DL and secondary was abysmal most of the year. Then you lose Benford, and our secondary turns into a below average unit. KC is just getting manhandled in the trenches, and their 1st half offense was too many long developing plays.

I agree, just knowing that QBs tend to get the glory/blame, I think all else even it's Hurts.

KC pulled off a lot of close games, some aided by crucial calls. They aren't as talented as advertised on offense. Point is on your original post, our defense lacks the talent up front and in secondary to do anything close to this. It's not about Chiefs playing poorly, it's about fielding a talented defense. Eagles went from basically worst to first, Beane needs to hit on FA/early in draft.

By end of night, it will be Hurts.

Talent can do that.

over under prop bet was 10 for entire game

Trenches in general. We built a strong OL, now go do the same on DL.

And this is Mahomes when the talent isn't on their side....best offensive coaching too. Josh does 100x more with less, hopefully that's obvious to entire league

Waiting for the zoom in on Swift/Brit crying

And million people on here would've went nuts that we didn't draft a WR....hindsight is, well you know

Exactly this. I'd either watch with my diehard friends, or be at the game itself. If neither was an option, alone is better than a social party where nobody is truly watching. Pick 1 of the other 364 days in a year to host a party, easy decision.

Haha why? It's still football and a chance for the Chiefs to lose. Not going to see real football for 6-7 months... think I'll watch. Should be a good game. Edit: forgot to post what thr OP was asking....wings and cheesesteaks of course

He and Babich are close, makes alot of sense and likely why Ryan chose to come here. More experience and ideas, from a trusted colleague, is going to help. But #1, we need more talent up front. And also improve our speed/coverage guys on back end. Bishop better come through, Beane has his work cut out for him this offseason and lots of decisions with Von/AJE/Daquon/etc

Directv? I'm watching on it right now. NFLNet or Fox, both have it

Diggs wasn't a #1 anymore, and he was battling injury/ego issues. Cooper coming in during season, creates challenges in of itself, then his wrist injury-and not even sure he's more than a #2 at this point either. I'm slightly concerned with the style of offense we ran, that it will be near impossible to replicate next year--- OL stayed almost perfectly healthy, 0 turnovers by skill players, Josh played most efficient I've ever seen. Can't argue with the results, but just felt like we were taking the ball out of Josh's hands too much. Understandably though, when our defense was so talent deficient and we wanted to eat clock. All that to say, I hope Beane can add more speed/"separation" ability to this offense. It's a missing piece that even 1 key addition could lead to a much more opened up offense. EDIT: I also find it alarming when we see Beane's top picks in past 2 drafts underwhelm this year. Plus, Samuel hobbled or not was a miss. And the Cooper trade never worked out as well as intended. Lots of variables. But I will say, Beane has missed alot on the draft at certain spots- rookie Josh contract allowed Beane to go after Beas/Brown/trade #1 for Diggs. Now, it gets tougher and he needs to start really hitting humeruns at DL/WR if we want to stay elite.

Thanks @GunnerBill, great job as always! I haven't started any player evals / draft board fits, but this has to be the year we hit the draft/FA hard on defense: DT, DE, CB (no particular order). Defense is slow, and often the coverage/rush never worked together because we lacked in both areas. Need more speed at CB, hopefully Bishop sees massive coverage improvement (talent is there). Rasul and Elam were liabilities in coverage. Safety play was slow, at least Bishop adds speed but he's out of position too often. WR to me, makes more sense via trade/FA. I'm a firm believer of mixing youth/vets, Keon is our youth at WR...Dalton as well as a big slot, we have 2 young guys in position to step up. Someone who can stretch the defense is still the top need at WR. Basically run it back, replacing Coop. Metcalf would be a dream come true.

That's every season, every team, every sport (for most part). Everyone gets dejected knowing how much went into the season. Any season is possible with Josh. We need to bolster the defense, but that's a conservation for another thread. March Madness, NHL, baseball starting back soon, etc. Lots of non-NFL opportunities, sports wise. Throw in FA, draft, etc and really not bad at all. Keep the hope for next year, we are as close as ever- and that's even sitting on a ton of dead cap, underwhelming play from DL, safety experiment gone bad, etc. in 2024. So I wouldn't say we had alot going our way.

Beane just isn't a Tier 1 GM IMO. Nothing wrong with that, he's doing what he promised which is build a competitive team each & every season, that has a chance to play in the SB. One eye in the now & one toward the future. Some day we'll look back and say Beane found us Josh, and a solid team ("good" players). Not great players, good players. And that folks is the concern --- it's not the "oh we drafted a bust in Elam in Rd 1" (that happens to every franchise). It's that we haven't drafted any great players, other than Josh. Beane has drafted some darn good ones, but again not great. In the era of Mahomes/Reid, "good" just won't cut it. Beane isn't going anywhere and I'm not advocating to fire him, but he does need to adjust his talent evaluation & find us "great". Cook is the closest thing in the past 4 years. All the hopes for Kincaid, drop aside, were being questioned most of this year. Knox outplayed him, because he's more physical & our offensive identity. We need to better mesh our "identify" and drafting, to start & find some top talent.

Some players regress for other reasons, isn't coaching IMO in this scenario. Elam has always been inconsistent, not sure we're seeing regression rather more inconsistency.

I'm not getting into your last comment, but there is "influence" and agree with that part in the concussion protocol. Not saying Buffalo pushed himself through it, there are many factors including what a player documents that can influence the decision to. You're not understanding, if you are making blanket statements that put Elam in Sauce/Joey Porter Jr playing level. Let's see what happens when Elam is gone and with another scheme. You act like it's a simple fact of letting Elam play aggressive/be himself ---- please call Coach's hotline immediately, we have a poster who thinks he has fixed Elam

By neuter, you mean they taught him that he can't pull/tug/grab on the WR and hold him throughout the route. Elam just doesn't have "it", to play NFL CB. Define "it" as many things with Elam -- confidence, footwork, technique, eye discipline, etc. He's a better true athlete, but looks lost on the field more often than not for a reason (and hint hint it's not because the coaching staff neutered his brain).