Mikie2times

Somehow thinking Josh Allen should have at least participated in one Super Bowl the first decade of his career is impatient? Not acknowledging literal history being made with playoff appearances and regular season success without playing in a Super Bowl? Perhaps fans that saw all 4 Super Bowls understand that this franchise can't possibly accomplish more than it already has without winning a Super Bowl. It also doesn't mean we can't enjoy what is happening right now like the 90's were really enjoyable. But that doesn't mean we should worship McD or not call out concerns with the team or direction just because we are great regular season team.

Shakir, Davis, Benjamin, Funchess, and Coleman are the most effective WR's Beane has drafted in his career. Not exactly a group to write home about. Shakir is the best of the lot, but one thing is clear, outside of Shakir, he likes them big and slow. Maybe he calls it "physical". Good thing he's better at drafting on defense.

Preseason doesn't matter It takes time for a rookie to develop Beane can't hit on everybody I'm sure he will be fine

If you can't see the difference from a coordinator that is externally hired vs one that is promoted from within, I really can't help you. All NFL HC's want control. Most are smart/confident enough to know the outcome will improve with the best people in these roles. We ended up with Frazier and Babich for control reasons, not talent reasons.

We are hardly the leagues best pass defense. Teams are picking the path of least resistance. Tua, Fields, and Rattler also have some input on it.

Except most of those other puppets established careers independently. Many of them have full creative control of the defense. With McD, with all of his coordinators, he has to promote from within. Which allows him far more control over the coordinator than any external hire. How can anybody think this is Babich's defense or Leslie Frazier's for that matter? McD says, here are all your toys. These are the only toys you get to use. I will give you the freedom to use these toys how you want, but you can't have any other toys. That is hardly freedom. That sounds like complete hell to be honest. Nobody who is talented would work in that situation.

Yup, the Tua pick isn't happening in the playoffs. The Rattler missed TD pass to take the lead isn't happening in the playoffs. All these people mocking the fact that we still won are the ones celebrating regular season trophies. This is not going to fly come playoff time.

2020 Just give it time we will figure it out. 2021 McD knows what he's doing, we will fix this. 2022 We can't help if Von got hurt 2023 How can we be good in the playoffs with half the defense hurt 2024 We just don't have the horses, let witch Beane sort this out 2025 We will really turn this around once we get healthy and more experience I know it's logical to think our young guys will get better and our guys who are suspended will help. But do I have any expectation of avoiding a full on postseason breakdown that can only be saved by Josh Allen? Absolutely f'n not. Shame on you if you do at this point.

Knox seems unlikely to be on the team next year. He could take a big cut. Pennies on the dollar basically. One the most most overpaid players we have had in recent memory which isn't even insulting the guy. He has a top 5 cap hit next year. He has been among our higher cap hits for several years. That will end next season. He can either go ahead and accept what less than half his current deal or he can sign elsewhere and come back for 1/10th of his current deal in 2027.

Horrible take. We perform well defensively against Mac Jones, Skyler Thompson, Mason Rudolph, Bo Nix etc. QB’s in the wild card round. We fail against any offense that has a pulse. Bengals, Colts, Ravens, Chiefs. It’s not just a Chiefs issue.

I’m in my early 40’s, also played from a very young age thru high school. Doing fine, but I would agree, it’s not like I haven’t thought about it a few times. I had 3 concussions, but just the nature of practice back then. How many times would get lined up 5-8 yards apart and just go full steam. That was just normal.

I would be inclined to agree. You hit your head thousands of times over ten years of youth and high school ball. I’m sure most have some evidence of it.

Don’t know enough about how the studies were conducted to say these things. What are you basing this on? I agree it seems to like everybody has CTE, but it also seems a bit crazy to think the NFL would be held hostage this effectively by a bunch of claims that had zero validity.

Its a bit scary that kids who never even played college ball are showing some signs of this. Is it reasonable to think a high % of people who played 10+ years from youth on have some evidence of this? I really don't know. I don't know if we could ever know that. But I don't think it's outside the realm of possibilities.

They ALL do it. Some do it better and in more sophisticated ways. Teams like the Patriots and Michigan got caught and went thru detailed investigations of everything they did. It looked really bad. I'm also pretty sure most of these other teams would also look REALLY bad if looked at with a magnifying glass. It's part of the game. It will never go away. Some will do it more effectively and with more sophistication. Just as everything else in life is pursued that way. We should be doing the same things.

I mean, Bill had to go deeper, consistently. Literally, ALL of the positive stats on our playoff defense are from the Wild Card round facing the likes of Skyler Thompson, Mason Rudolph, etc. Our PPG is fairly horrific outside of the wild card round. We, like Bill, also have the best quarterback. Unlike Bill, it just doesn't matter.

I like just the straight name. Honey, can you bring James Cook over here 😂

I’m going to name my bong after him

This was a photo taken while he was opening his birthday gifts

If you kick the ball a couple centimeters above the midline, it will truly knuckle. That is what the Rams did to the Eagles last week and they could barely cross the 15.

I think plenty of room exists to feel as I do and largely agree with this.

I get that KC looks like they're on the decline. Just wait until Worthy and Rice come back and we make the turn in the back half of the season. Baltimore might be better, but they're just not a clutch high leverage team. KC is the epitome of that. So I would prefer KC keeps on stacking up L's.

It is entirely possible to have executed the the QB position with flying colors and not the rest of the roster. Why we are here has a lot of opinions. Some people think the whole thing becomes unraveled without McD. Some people feel like the roster itself is just as much a result of the success as Allen. Then some people are in my camp, feeling like Allen has just masked a ton of warts for both McD and Beane. I don't think we have much here without Josh, even with an above average QB as his replacement. That is the only hypothetical I really need to land on to feel like the opinion I have is valid. I just don't think the roster construction can support average QB play.