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His team turned over 5 times and still scored 31 points. You can put the Jameson Williams interception on his play calling, but losing 45-31 isn’t really on the OC.

After watching 2 weeks of postseason football, my biggest takeaway is that these are the only two teams that I am certain won’t beat themselves. Both have played a tremendous amount of postseason football over the past few years, and there’s nothing they haven’t seen before. Philadelphia and LA took turns crapping their pants on Sunday while McDermott and Reid just sat back and let Baltimore and Houston shoot themselves in the foot time and again. I have zero doubt that Buffalo would have won that game even if Andrews didn’t drop the gimme. Baltimore looked unbeatable all year long…except for the part where they lost 6 games. They’re great at playing beautiful football. They’re so-so when it comes to winning. We have so much analysis and see so many highlights that it’s become easy to focus on how good teams are in their highlights while forgetting about what happens on the rest of the plays. It’s like playing golf against your grandpa and then being surprised when you add up your scores he always beat you even though you had the longest drive on every hole. Meanwhile, he didn’t lose a ball or miss a putt inside of 4 feet all day while you had to buy a second sleeve at the turn and threw your putter twice.

Lamar and Mahomes are two very different players with different strengths and weaknesses. Mahomes is much closer to Brady between the ears. He’s nearly impossible to confuse, and he processes things instantaneously. Lamar…does not. No, I don’t think Allen is bad against them blitz. In fact, he’s not bad against anything. That’s not really the point, though. Spags is going to blitz him because that’s what Spags does. If KC gets pressure with their front 4, he’s still going to blitz. You’re definitely right about his willingness to drop DEs (and even a DT every now and again, LOL) into coverage to replace a blitzing DB. He’s an absolute madman in that regard. If Josh can keep his composure against that crowd and those blitzes all the while knowing that the champs are coming for his soul, Buffalo is going to win. As a Chiefs fan, it’s a very real concern.

No, they have possibly the best pass rushing D-line in the game, and they whipped us up front with them.

It’s not the same going the other way, though. The Chiefs live and die with the blitz. Spagnuolo is the GOAT at designing exotic blitzes from any position on the field. Kansas City can and will blitz early and often. If he can help it, McDermott won’t blitz at all because Mahomes thrives against them. The way to slow Mahomes is to drop as many defenders into coverage as possible while still getting some pressure on him. When he’s struggled, it’s almost always been when teams dropped 8 and his receivers still couldn’t get open.

Against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead in the AFC Championship game? Yes.

If Buffalo can’t get pressure with the front 4, they will lose.

I would love that as well. Start the petition, and I’ll sign it.

The degree of difficulty was zero. Everyone here wants to find a reason to criticize Lamar because of the “rivalry” with Josh, but that was a TD in peewee football. Andrews absolutely crapped down his leg all night long, and that was his coup de gras. Had he caught the ball, he would have had to try not to fall into the end zone. That was 100% on him. If the ball was too far inside, it’s because Andrews drifted too far outside on the route. Lamar threw him into the end zone.

It’s a credit to the Bills. Literally every playoff game this weekend came down to the losing team gagging. Allen and McDermott have figured out how to win by letting the other team hang themselves. That’s incredibly important in the postseason.

It’s easy to forget that winning is really important. We get so caught up in stats and analysis that it’s easy to discount being able to win as a skill. Baltimore lost 6 games this year. There’s a reason for that even if it seemed like they should have won most of them. Somehow, close losses seem to have been given more credit than ugly wins. Baltimore is incredibly good at losing games while making everyone watching feel like the better team lost. Teams that are consistently unlucky are actually just not that good. Conversely, teams that always seem to pull off lucky wins in rock fights are much better than they’re given credit for.

Interestingly, that TD only moved the line 2 points from where it opened.

That might have been 6.

Milano was the spy.

Crowd’s definitely into it.