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I think there's some D3 college teams that would have given us a better games than whatever Mahomes was doing out there.

The ST was bad, I don't think we need to read into it more than that. I'm glad he's gone and hopefully whoever comes in can clean up that phase of the game.

I can't agree that he stepped up at all, but yes, the Chiefs got farther.

That was embarrassing for Mahomes. Legacy tainting bad. One of the worst QB performances I've seen in a superbowl. Talk about not rising to an occasion. I effing' loved every second of it. Let's hope this is the beginning of the end of the Chiefs era. I'm not going to bother tying the Bills into it. The meltdown was so satisfying to watch.

Worthy didn't really do much of anything until garbage time. Despite having massive opportunity all season he really wasn't particularly impressive. I'm not saying Coleman was or will be significantly better. I'm just saying it remains to be seen ultimately who is the greater impact player on their respective team.

The Totinos commercial was the best one and it wasn't even close.

I've been on the record that I'm fine moving on from McDermott, if only because I think philosophically having a defensive HC with an all world QB in today's NFL is backwards. That being said, I don't think it's fair to compare what the Eagles just did and hold that against McDermott. Roseman is on an incredible hotstreak as a GM, well above the norm in hit rate draft picks and FA signings. The Bills simply are not as good of a group of individual talents as the Eagles are. Despite that, the Bills are right there at the top of the NFL. The type of players that Beane and McDermott draft needs to shift. Whether or not they can do that remains to be seen.

Considering what the expectations were before the season and where we ended up, an AFC Championship game and Allen MVP, I'm not particularly bitter about this season. This is a well deserved honor and it's good to see a guy who was voted "Most overrated QB" shut those 11 players down definitively. Jackson also had a great season (and he's a phenomenal talent), but let's be serious. If we dropped Jackson into Buffalo, would he have gotten 13 wins with the roster there? I doubt it. Would Allen do as well as Jackson in Baltimore? I think that's pretty likely. That's the difference to me in my eyes.

I hardly think the offense was the real problem during that game, but yeah, Brady could have been more creative. The receiving core he's working with is one of most uninspired in the whole league though, I'm not sure how crafty you can get with guys who just can't win their matchups. They should have used Cook more, that I agree with.

He should have gotten more playing time over Hamlin in the regular season. Everybody knows how limited of an athlete Hamlin is. He’s not the future but McD is so conservative about mistakes that it takes 3-4 years for our rookies to develop, particularly on defense.

I voted yes but I also fully agree that Steelers WRs are always insane divas.

That angle makes it hurt even worse. Holy crap he was so open. Ugh. That just makes it hurt more. Can we please just get a few guys to STEP UP in the playoffs please!?

It's a scheme issue as much as it is a Von issue. No D-Line player looks particularly good in McD's scheme.

I'm tired already of seeing these shallow, irrational takes that scapegoat our best player. Our defensive HC couldn't scheme up a pass defense that has a defender within 5 yards of a receiver.

We're -2.5 million right now before anything, which is a little more than average in the league but not insane and we have a pretty low dead cap figure going into the season. I'm mostly parroting what I've heard other podcasters and NFL people say. Eating all the dead cap this season puts us in a favorable position this upcoming one.

Doesn't cutting Miller alone get us out of the red by like 15 million? I'm not a big salary cap follower, so maybe I'm off base here.

I've seen players make a catch like that all season routinely. In no way is that an amazing catch, it's an incredible individual effort from Allen to get the ball there. Shakir was open. I don't blame Allen for not throwing across his body to a receiver behind the line of scrimmage while falling backwards with three Chiefs on him when he made a very, very catchable pass to Kincaid beyond the line to gain.

Kincaid didn't look very covered when the ball hit him in the hands with the closest Chiefs players being 3-5 yards away.

He's better in the back end of drafts than early on, and I'd rather have that then the opposite because I think the later rounds are much harder to predict. The cap was pretty damning this season but that's mostly fixed moving forward. Beane is fine.

McDermott's scheme isn't good enough to stop the best teams, and it's seemingly the same no matter who the players are out there. We've spent more capital on the D-Line than any other position, and the results are identical every post-season. That's scheme. We've gotten the Chiefs to punt like 6 times in the last 4 meetings, that should tell you all you need to know. Either Beane gets lucky and we draft some All-Pro D Line talent or we just do the same thing over next season, barring changing the coaching staff (which I don't think we'll do). EDIT: And just because I'm feeling extra snarky, look at the guys from the D-Line who joined other teams. Poona Ford and Tim Settle had decent seasons after doing nothing with the Bills. What does that tell you? Scheme matters.

McDermott is a good coach and his scheme is designed to work against 85% of the NFL, but when you reach the upper echelon of teams it all falls apart. I don't know how many times we need this to happen before we call a spade a spade here. Without an elite of the elite D-Line talent ala TJ Watt, I don't see how you can fix this with the way McDermott wants to play. The whole thing seems to be predicated on generating consistent pressure with 4-guys. If you can't do that, then the QB just finds the guy with no one near him.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills seeing people trying to blame our only All-Pro talent with the loss yesterday. Did you all not see it hit Kincaid in the hands? If the argument is "he didn't completely dominate the game and play perfect, so it's his fault because we had the ball..." then you don't have much of a leg to stand on. It's excusing the play calling, it's excusing the receivers, it's excusing that absolutely atrocious excuse for a defense we had yesterday. A scapegoat is convenient, not reality. We almost won in spite of how badly the rest of the team played, and yall want to complain about Allen? The only reason why the team is relevant? Really?

McD's scheme just isn't up to snuff, or at least it isn't when it comes to competent teams. Bend don't break only works when the other guy makes a mistake or if you get a big turnover. We consistently have no pressure. We consistently have WRs wide open in our backfield. We consistently are bad against the run. This is consistent the past 7+ years, regardless of personnel. Unless we get some superstar talent in the DL, like a TJ Watt or Chris Jones type, I don't see the scheme ever working against Mahomes and Reid.

That sounds like pretty awful logic to me, since we have no idea what the game would have looked like by that point if things in the first quarter were dramatically different. Ultimately, Allen put the team in the position to convert the 4th (despite ridiculous and immediate pressure) and they let him down. Then the defense had a shot to get the ball back so we would have a chance and they let him down. I'll never blame the only player on my team that I know I could never part with in a re-draft. Especially when he drags us to wins we have no business getting.

Mahomes had guys open without any resistance from the Bills all night. Mahomes' runs were the most impressive part of his day. Allen put the ball into the hands of Kincaid that final. He needs to make that catch. Seems pretty asinine to blame a QB who hit his target in the hands under duress