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There’s definitely some growing pains when so many new pieces come in/guys move positions. I don’t think they’re gonna transform into some offensive juggernaut by any means but even if we stand pat things will improve a bit. There’s a lot of blame to go around but we have had stretches of the oline looking awful for a few weeks then improving and that will make everything else a little easier

the game was 17-10 in the late third then in the final minute of the third they went up 24-10. Wasn’t really a whole lot of time for the bengals to take their foot off the gas there lol the offensive was worse, but that doesn’t even matter here. Singling out just the defense for that loss is objectively ridiculous.

Has it? A defense with freakin aj klein off the street taking 98% of the snaps against one of the most prolific offensive minds in history by some freakin miracle held up well enough for one of the premier qbs in the league to win the game with a 13 point second half. There’s absolutely no way you 100% blame the defense there 13 seconds sure, 100% blame the defense bengals game the offense was an absolute trainwreck and the defense held cincy to around their season average. afc championship year absolutely no chance we get past the ravens without a great defensive effort but only losses count apparently 😂

We used to pride ourselves on how good of a fanbase we are but man are some of y’all soft lol a team with one of the highest win percentages in years losing some regular season games then losing to a team that nearly everyone is losing to in the playoffs in a few close games and you’re worried about your mental health? 😂

There’s no excuse for not catching that ball…absolutely none. Then we can nitpick on the ‘a better throw would’ve been a td’ if it wasnt and there being two sides of the argument make sense using the throw as an excuse for not catching that ball is absolutely absurd. An average rec league flag football receiver makes that catch 🤣

My blood was boiling on those screens lol. They should’ve been big plays if the blocking was just slightly below average minimum

Yea if it just squeaked through I’d probably be a little more upset with the passing decision haha…I really think fairbairn was hitting from wherever Martin punted the ball to plus the return 99% of the time no matter what we did its a small miracle their drive started where it did

Ravens game yea I’d say…Texans all those overly negative posters said we’d get destroyed and I think the hyperbole is a bit out of control lol. there were a few interesting silver linings in this one where I think we actually might make a move at wr so everyone might win after that one 🤣. Dewayne Carter looks like an absolute stud, Javon Solomon looks good, I think the ceiling for this defense is very high once taron is back where we actually could go on a run if we got a receiver. the ravens game felt pretty hopeless because the defense looked so bad too where I don’t think we’d even bother giving up future assets to plug one hole

He gets criticized rightly when things go wrong but no credit when things go right which is skewing things a bit imo. I don’t think there’s many hcs or dcs that are holding the Texans to a 6 point second half with cam lewis, damar Hamlin, and first start Cole bishop on the field. Missing collins they still had diggs/dell/woods which should’ve given us massive problems on paper so my fear is the ‘Jordan poyer in Miami after leaving Buffalo’ effect is going to happen to a lot of these defensive players the second you fire mcd then you’ve got an offensive coach in here that improves the offense at a massive expense to the defense and the team gets even worse. It’s just such a huge risk when you’ve been right there against the chiefs in the playoffs where one lucky break for either team wins the game. If we start getting rocked like the cincy game in the playoffs a year or two in a row then yea definitely pull the trigger.. or if you’ve got a coach lined up that you absolutely love (do we trust pegula on something like this) it makes some sense also

Its honestly crazy…the screen was the perfect call pretty much every time we called it as far as defensive looks go and the blocking was so catastrophically bad lol I’ve never seen anything like that

Any stat heads out there know what the opposing teams fg percentage is on us from 59+ lol the last three I can remember were the eagles 59 yarder last year and the chiefs 62 yarder a couple years back all makes

Ah yea that was it…the throwing was not the right decision for sure but this notion that the Texans expected it so a run would’ve worked is completely wrong imo. I think there’s a very good chance they stuff three runs for no gain or a loss. so we definitely did the wrong thing and I’m all for people being angry but I think the coaching staff overcorrected for the situation where we get stuffed, kick an average Martin punt from the end zone and lose without the Texans even needing to run a play before the fg. it’s definitely on the coach for not trusting the punter who ended up getting a good punt off at minimum any way you look at it because he did punt it well. If they knew what the Texans drive start would be ahead of time there’s no way they pass

They couldn’t run on obvious running downs at all too for the record haha not saying you’re wrong though 🤣. I haven’t quite given up on the offense yet, I think SOME of it is the new guys not really knowing what Josh likes them to do on those scramble drill type plays yet which there were a lot of because of the oline play. Samuel was wide open on one of those final three throws and Josh either completely missed him or thought he would sit and not continue running across the field. there was an earlier play where Mack continued running across to the opposite side of where Josh scrambled to despite being wide open if he sat in the middle of the field

Some of this ‘blue chip’ business I’d argue is media biased. Benford is playing great the last year plus but gets no play from the national media just as an example. If he was in a market like New Jersey 😂 he would get his own cool nickname and be talked about all the time and then you have kind of the opposite situation where the media thinks someone like James cook is great but posters here don’t so he doesn’t qualify for blue chip status either then sprinkle in guys like tre white and von miller playing great then having career altering leg injuries, Milano missing a few playoff runs,etc. I’m pretty sure in that afc championship all our receivers were absolutely mangled too lol If things get really bad this season then sure blow everything up but losing mostly squeakers to the chiefs with the pretty bad luck we’ve had doesn’t warrant that yet imo

I mentioned the chiefs because I’ve spent a lot of time doing exactly what you’re suggesting before 🤣. They hit on some picks years ago that now command big contracts and have been mostly struggling to add talent with that limiting factor…parity has been eroding a previously insanely talented team despite dumping tyreek for even more picks. last year they were the healthiest team in the playoffs by a considerable margin which I believe evened out some of their deficiencies and this year it’s been evening out so we’ll see how it goes down the stretch

Oh yea I was responding to a poster asking which of his comments i thought were exaggerations haha I should’ve put them in quotes

And we snagged a DT that is lookin quite good in the process lol people are complaining we got an additional good player and the wr we wanted? 🤣

They changed the turf out before the start of last season I believe but people continued talking about the MetLife turf like nothing changed 😂

I would understand this point more if we lost like we did to cincy more often in the playoffs…these are absurdly close games more often than not where a bit of luck can swing the whole thing in either direction though

I mean that’s how it goes for most good teams. To make that superbowl run you’ve gotta be playing your best football at the right time and get some good fortune. Just gotta keep getting back to the playoffs if you want to win it

Yea people look at how many hits/busts he has without context. You’ve gotta look at the other perennially good teams that are drafting in the late first year in and year out the chiefs whiff all the time and they are a well run franchise. Late first there really are no sure things

No sir…the guy we got with the supposedly meaningless pick upgrade in that trade down lol. Rookie DT I think you are who I’ve been having the ‘we give up on young players too early in this board’ convo but Carter has looked like a difference maker right away I think Coleman is progressing pretty well…that’s not who I was talking about though 🤣

Oh yea you could argue that…but he was overwhelmingly given up on on these boards so him holding his own is a pretty big mismatch with how he was talked about haha shakir could be one of those types too but I figured he needs some more time to make a call on it

Early returns so far but Carter was the bills ‘star’ of the game (if you had to pick one 🤣) in my opinion. I would love the irony if he turns out to be great after the trade down with kc was such a big issue for people

I feel like everyone and their mother knows there was no chance in hell that call was getting overturned and people here wanted to challenge it out of pure frustration. mcd wanted to get the stop with three timeouts intact for his offense which is exactly what happened