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Yea idk…this feels like a game the bills will be able to run and stop the run. KCs big impact playmakers seem to skew more to slowing down the passing game whether it be pass coverage or Chris jones rushing the passer and they have to be able to stop the run to give those guys a chance to make plays. the bills were running effectively on two teams that really nobody runs on to the point where Sean Payton pretty much admitted ‘yo I don’t understand how that happened’ in his press conference haha and kc has looked a little bit leaky in their rush defense as of late some of those late runs that got bottled up by Baltimore were there we just had a few execution errors. I think when people see a run fail they assume it was a bad call but a handful of them down the stretch weren’t.. and on top of all that, outside of the goal line sequence passes outnumbered runs pretty significantly in that second half and quite a few times josh looked to push it deep but ended up settling for a check down that went for a decent gain and kept everything on schedule

Brown,Milano,Kincaid, and Coleman were out

I think people aren’t factoring in that there were so few drives in the second half.. that Kincaid drop/not great throw whatever you want to call it and TE screen audible killed half the second half drives. Compare that to like the eagles/rams game that ended in a pretty similar score where each team had 7-8 second half drives.

This might spark a debate with our resident chiefs fans haha but I think the missing player additions assuming Milano is good to go is at worst a wash. We were down Milano,spencer brown (huge) Kincaid and Coleman (not as huge but still pretty meaningful) Milano and brown have been two of the best guys on the field for us the last two weeks

I still think damar intercepts that ball the vast majority of the time if it’s the play I’m thinking of, Lamar definitely got away with one there I don’t think he saw Hamlin at all. Probably should give them that Andrews fumble back and add an INT as far as getting it closer to ‘what should’ve happened’ goes lol

People are not remembering this correctly imo…the ‘vibe’ of the second half doesn’t really match what actually happened.. the second half ended up being somewhere in the 15 passes vs 13 runs ish range assuming I’m counting correctly and a lot of that was skewed by 5 straight runs leading up to/during the goal line sequence which if I’m understanding correctly people wanted runs still just sneaks instead of that shotgun run on the final play. Outside of that it was throws for the vast majority of the second half, we just shot ourselves in the foot throwing the ball in a few big spots

That holding call was absolutely massive momentum wise. I think the call itself was for sure worse than the Tre white call but both were definitely bad

It seems like they selected the ref the chiefs have a mediocre record with to avoid any possible controversy so you never know. I think it’s gonna be a classic no flags game with both sides absolutely manhandling eachother lol

I still don’t really see this after going through the game again. Lots of execution issues in the second half…the offense didn’t really fundamentally change between halves at all though to my eye there were only 4 total offensive drives outside of the game sealer, one was killed by a missed connection to Kincaid, one was killed by Josh probably reading the defense right but having false confidence in Knox to pick up that first on the TE screen audible, one was killed by what looked to me to be a pretty big hold of Shakir although maybe it’s uncatchable, the goal line sequence is certainly questionable but we valued taking that 8 point lead. I don’t think we ever doubled up on runs on any series of downs.. looked like Baltimore committed more resources to slowing down the run as their second half adjustment which probably should’ve made throwing easier we just weren’t connecting. Some of it was your classic playoff grabby defense which maybe we benefited from a bit too

This is exactly the kind of ‘grass is greener’ stuff I’m talking about. In your mind the SF defense played good and the offense let them down and the bills offense was high flying and let down by their defense? Final scores last year: Chiefs: 27 Bills: 24 Chiefs: 25 49ers: 22 let’s just talk about how those three teams/hcs have fared against mahomes+kc that you implied are upgrades: Shanahan: 0-5 career vs kc 0-2 playoffs Taylor: 3-3 career vs kc 1-1 playoffs **lost last 3 (1 playoff game) and fired DC Harbaugh: 1-5 career vs kc. 0-1 playoffs rolling those stats up into one, the teams you mentioned are 4-13 against KC (1-4 playoffs). Just Harbaugh and Shanahan are 1-10 against them and even that one win was awfully lucky. KC more or less had it sealed up and fumbled the game away. Those 3 dudes combined have as many wins against KC in the mahomes era as just McD lol. In the last two years, they are 0-7 and mcd is 2-1 with a shot at 3-1 it absolutely boggles my mind they get talked up with regards to kc and that some people around here have enough confidence in a completely unproven first time head coach to fire pretty much the only guy having any kind of success against kc in the league 😂 Reid would laugh his a** off if the bills fired mcd this year lol

I just can’t understand this with the chiefs doing absolutely historic things to every coach in the nfl come playoff time. If it was just mcd with the issue I 100% get it. Let’s say for arguments sake they beat the bills and threepeat this year against the eagles. That would put them at 18-3 in the mahomes era in the playoffs with the only loss in regulation being against the Bucs in the superbowl. Clearly if you’re gonna beat them it is pretty much assured it’s gonna be a ridiculously close game that could go either way much like the last two playoff games we played against them and all of the recent regular season ones. The head coaches responsible for 2 of those 3 wins are retired and the third is Zac Taylor lol like where is this head coach coming from that’s gonna flip the script? In fact, I think a big part in Ben Johnson taking the bears job was to stay in the NFC to avoid the chiefs. if you take out the 4 bills games(assuming we lose this one and they win the Super Bowl) the chiefs would be 14-3 still, and do we really think the ravens would’ve had more luck based on their history vs kc? I doubt it. Baltimore won one fluky game against them where the chiefs fumbled away the game in gw field goal range and lost the rest.

I’ve said a similar thing about broncos fans saying that so I’ve gotta apply this to the bills too. There’s just no such thing as ‘I’m happy with where they made it’ to me. Buffalo will likely always come in as the 2 seed having to get past KC at arrowhead, much like Denver will always come in as a 6/7 seed having to go on the road the whole way. KC isn’t going anywhere and they get to draft players/make moves in free agency too. the bills already do beat them in the regular season and since nobody else can really do it with any consistency it’s not enough to flip the seeding at some point you’ve gotta win this exact game, it’s not gonna get a whole lot easier. KC only has some exploitable holes because they uncharacteristically whiffed on a few OT picks/free agency acquisitions.

Yea I think we swapped them in because they were fresh and fresh did not outrank talent in that moment haha watchin Baltimore pancake the entire dline was wild. A couple of those plays there wasn’t even a passrusher standing 😂 somehow it sort of worked out accidentally because I don’t think we were stopping them in 4 down territory and they scored so fast there was plenty of time left for our offense

It’s so funny because I said the EXACT same thing as you about Denver’s defense overall leading up to the bills game haha so I definitely wasn’t talking about total defense I gotta say I feel like the chiefs fans on here are some of the best opposing fan posters we have, I felt kind of bad I insulted one by accident lol

I’m reading between the lines here and could be entirely wrong, but if it was scheme related I don’t think mcd would want to openly admit that. I’m leaning not injury related but it’s a guess obviously. could be that Milano was absolutely gassed from chasing Lamar down all night

How many times have two playoff teams played eachother 4 times in a 5 year span out of curiosity. just the collision course these two teams are on every year feels historic before you even get to results

This id at least understand but why do we get hit with BS penalties when we’re about to open up the game against scrub teams pretty consistently lol. Felt like it was happening every week

Even when they say certainly individual calls are right they are incorrect, because these supposed ‘right’ calls aren’t called both ways

If it makes people feel better whatever year we ultimately win the superbowl there will be a big group of fans saying we’ve got no chance of winning it every single week all the way up to the superbowl 😂

Oh yea and just because you beat some amazing team doesn’t mean you’re gonna beat the really good team anyway.. beating kc,Detroit,Baltimore makes you feel like anything is possible but you still have to go out and play well.. that’s why one game elimination is so hard

It takes a monumental performance the rest of the game to make up for coughing up really good field position on two turnovers and getting stuffed on the two yard line and Lamar did not do enough. Absolutely a below average game for him but peoples brains only can remember the last 30 minutes these days 😂. I’m all for downplaying like deep ball ints, not every INT is the same. But he set the bills offense up really nice both times. An absolutely horrendous holding call stopped them from probably giving up 14 off those two turnovers they had to go absolutely perfect late td, 2 point conversion, and stopping the bills from driving down for the game winner due to Lamar’s mistakes and didn’t even make it to step 3 of that.. he came up pretty small in all the big moments…the late td that probably doesn’t win the game anyway doesn’t change everything

Probably not a hall of famer but Flacco is the classic guy that hung around too long so you forget that he was actually pretty darn good way back when lol his 2012 playoff run was ridiculous.

well, you missed the word RUSH before defense in my post which was literally the entire point of the post so this is awkward haha im sorry you felt insulted but it’s entirely due to reading comprehension. Baltimore and Denver allowed 3.6 ypc and 4 ypc (1st and 2nd best). in the regular season and were 1st and 3rd in rushing yards allowed per game. If we’re talking about total defense I’d agree that KC is right there with those two teams or better because Baltimore and denver were giving up some big passing plays when they had issues. I was specifically talking about rushing though because that’s what the bills like to do

A lot of those negative plays led to trouble for Baltimore though…Lamar seemed to really struggle when the offense was off schedule. That first negative Henry run led to the INT, second negative Henry run was the goal to go stand, justice hill negative run led to them having to settle for a fg just outside the redzone. Some 10-20 yard runs between the 20s doesn’t hurt you nearly as bad as that stuff is hurting them. An offense like that is gonna get their yards, 5/6 losses they outgained their opponent and the one where they didn’t cleveland outgained them by like 15 yards

Ehh I don’t think so, that was kind of an odd game. That ravens team is an absolute powerhouse just had a pretty flukey game with those missed kicks which forced them to roll the dice earlier on 4th down than they should’ve had to. Philly is still really good don’t get me wrong but they’re a tier below Baltimore imo