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Kelce is the only offensive starter over 27. Kansas City just drafted 3 players that made the all rookie team, and their first pick was 58th. Davis’s incredible performance notwithstanding, I don’t know that Beane has ever drafted a single impact player who wasn’t a top 10 pick. He’s brought in some good talent in trading a haul for Diggs (age 29), signing Beasley (age 33), Sanders (age 35), and Star (age 32), but they aren’t exactly youngsters. If you’re going to steal the show, you’re going to have to hope guys like Epenesa, Singletary, Moss, Edmunds, and Rousseau step it up. It gets tougher to find talented players when you aren’t flush with draft picks you acquired from passing on Mahomes.

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I would agree that they need to do that if they’re going to pay him long term. IMO you simply can’t pay a guy big money if he doesn’t play the vast majority of the snaps unless he’s a dominant pass rusher. He’s got 12 sacks in 3 seasons, so he needs to become one or the other.

The guy filling in for Mathieu literally tripped and fell down while standing still on 4th and 13 leaving Davis all alone in the end zone. Davis had 4 TDs and over 200 yards receiving. I don’t know how much more a team could possibly be impacted by the loss of a DB.

He seems like the perfect use of a 5th year option. If I understand it correctly, he stands to make right at $10,000,000. It’s definitely worth it for a one year deal, but the big question will be what do do with him long term. He plays about 55% of the snaps, so you’ve got to include 2 salaries when deciding how much to allocate to his position.

Then you draft new horses. Gay, Sneed, Thornhill, Bolton, Danna, Wharton, and Ward are all on rookie contracts. That’s 5 starters and 2 rotational DL guys who make next to nothing. Mathieu, Clark, Jones, and Hitchens are the big money guys on defense. Jones is worth every penny. Mathieu is great but possibly declining and is a FA. Clark and Hitchens are washed and will both be gone next year. That is a ton of money that can be put to better use elsewhere. This is why drafting is so critical. I’m not the least bit concerned that our young players will be good. They already are. I could point to Buffalo and ask what you’re going to do about your Safeties who are the strength of your defense but are both on the wrong side of 30. How are you going to get cheaper when picks like Epenesa, Basham, and Moss barely see the field? Maintaining success in the NFL isn’t about how much money and draft capital you spend. It’s about how much bang you get for your buck.

That’s different. You’re paying Milano, so not getting production from him means wasted money. Mathieu is already expensive. Letting him walk (which I expect will happen) frees up dollars to pay his replacement. It would be one thing if he was on a rookie deal and wanted big money, but he’s a $20,000,000 cap hit this season. He’s a great player, but he’s about to hit age 30 and I think the KC brass will use that money on a younger player(s).

I don’t know if you’ve recorded the games and are still trying to get caught up so I’ll try not to give too much away, but you might not want to write off their season just yet.

Why is that? The salary cap keeps going up, and the team keeps replacing expensive veterans with cheap rookies which frees up money to pay for the stars. This season alone, there are 3 rookies who were opening day starters. It’s pretty easy to pay a veteran LT when the rest of the line is making peanuts. Mahomes, Kelce, and Hill are bargains. Paying big contracts only hurts when they under perform. Guys like Anthony Hitchens and Frank Clark have been problematic, but they will both be gone after this season. Put it this way. Hill, Kelce, and Bolton will have a combined hit of $31,000,000 next season at WR, TE, and MLB. Diggs and Edmunds will cost $32,000,000 at the same spots.

It’s all about drafting well. The Chiefs drafted 4 starters in 2020 (RB, LB, RT, and #1 CB) and 3 so far from 2021 (LB, C, G) without a first round pick. They’ve got a lot of expensive players, but they’re offset by young players on rookie contracts. Rosters get expensive when high draft picks don’t get a lot of snaps. Veach/Reid have done a good on getting day 1 starters despite not having a top 30 pick since Mahomes.

Just got a text from a friend of mine on a large group text thread linking this article encouraging everyone to donate. The guy who sent it is absolutely loaded but equally cheap. This thing is really picking up steam.

That was without timeouts as well.

Instead of a coin toss in OT, there should be a 5 minute break where fans race to donate as much money as possible to the other city’s children’s hospital. Whoever donates more gets the ball.

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. If you think the special teams coordinator forgot to tell the kicker what the plan was, the other 10 players on the field also forgot, and Bass didn’t think to ask anyone what the plan was, that’s your prerogative. Frankly, if they’re that incompetent, I don’t know why you’d trust them to execute a squib kick. Half of them probably had their helmets on backwards.

Just donated $17. That makes donations of 17 and 13 which I’m sure I don’t have to tell you was the score of the 1924 game between the Buffalo Bison and the Akron Pros. This was the first ever final score of 17-13 in professional football history. It has happened 106 times since. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=17&pts_lose=13

Tell you what. Yesterday I donated $13. Today I’ll donate $17 more in honor of Josh’s performance if you’ll go $15 for Mahomes.

2 spies would have been even more effective at stopping Mahomes from scrambling.

It’s 50% snark and 50% respect for an incredible game. Either way, if you’re (not you specifically) so sensitive that you’re mad about people donating money to a children’s hospital then maybe you take sports too seriously.

If you’re under 18, you can have those wounds treated at a hospital that now has $13 of my money.

Yes, and as I said previously, there is precisely 0.0% chance that happened. The conversation has since expanded slightly over the 7 pages since then and I was responding appropriately.

The Bills gave up plenty of TD returns when Tasker was on the team including 3 in his last season alone. Kick return TDs happen. You know what didn’t happen all season until there were 13 seconds left against the Chiefs? Of course you do. Scott Kristie is one of the 6 billion people on earth who didn’t the ball through the end zone. Steve Christie is another one of those people. He just happens to be the one who did exactly what people in this thread were calling for only to get blocked to the ground while the guy with the ball raced into the end zone. I simply cannot believe that people are faulting the Special Teams who did their jobs correctly when it’s the defense who not only have up 44 yards in 10 seconds but then allowed Mahomes to end the game going 9/9 for 137 yards and 2 TDs. Personally, I blame Josh Allen. Gabriel Davis was so wide open in the end zone that Josh could have thrown the ball higher in the air thus burning more time off the clock. You see, it’s not enough to simply do your job correctly. You have to get cute and do it in a way that doesn’t put your defense in the impossible position of playing defense for 13 seconds.

I understand what you’re saying. You’re saying they should perfectly execute some hypothetical play. Every perfectly executed strategy works. The question is who do you trust to execute with the game on the line. Do you want $5,000,000 worth of salary on the field or do you want $100,000,000 worth out there? This isn’t Madden. You don’t get to just drop the ball on the 5 yard line because you sat on your couch and pushed the button. If you could, nobody would know what the term Music City Miracle meant. If the number 1 defense can’t stop a team from their own 25 with 13 seconds left then that other team deserves to win. Nope

Byron Pringle averages 25 yards per return. Let’s say they kick it short to the 15 and he returns it 25 yards to the 40 with 7 seconds remaining. That leaves you in the exact same position as when Kelce caught the pass. This was a defensive failure.

This doesn’t even make sense. Why would it take 6 seconds to return a kick 5 yards? Why would you assume that your special teams guys who make the league minimum are better equipped to defend the most explosive team in the NFL than the best defense in the NFL? There were 9 kickoff returns for TDs in the NFL this year. There were 0 scoring drives of 40+ yards that started with 13 seconds or less on the clock. In that situation, you don’t tell your Special Teams coach to help you win the game. The game was won. You tell him not to f*** it up. Every Bills fan on the planet wishes that Scott Kristie had kicked it through the end zone. That person is wrong. There were 4 TD returns that were kicked short of the end zone. One was on a squib kick.

That’s probably what they should have done (assuming Hill wouldn’t have cooked them on a deep ball). It has nothing to do with special teams, though.