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Many Kyle Whatshisname is SO over the top nowadays I really can't watch through these segments.

I agree with you that I thought the Bills coaching decisions and strategy showed improvement over some of their previous meetings. I think you bring up a key point "injuries can certainly change things". We've had some pretty bad luck with injuries playing the Chiefs in the post-season. The key and unanswerable question will be, how healthy are we next time we meet?

I mean, on the football field, where he has 3 superbowl rings, 7 straight 1000+ yd seasons (and miss an 8th by 6 yds), 4 1st team all-pro's, and are the acknowledged "Guy" for arguably the best QB in the league right now, he IS a "main character", and he thinks he's always on camera because he pretty much always is? I grant you there's a "chicken and egg" syndrome there, does he posture and pose because he knows as a top player and Pat's go-to-guy there's always a camera on him, or is there always a camera on him because he can be counted on for a good "sound bite"? I haven't a clue what he's like away from football or when the cameras aren't there. Tidbits here and there suggest he may be kind of a dick, but the likes of me never gonna know.

I'm pretty old too. Wanna compare timelines? 40 years ago was 1984. 50 years ago, it was legal and acceptable for banks to deny a credit card to a woman, because she was a woman. 56 years ago, it was legal and acceptable to deny a mortgage or refuse to sell a home to a black family. The attitudes behind that didn't disappear when the law changed. I don't know you, and I don't want to judge you - though you do seem happy to judge others - but I'd like to respectfully suggest that what you consider the "good old days" when you could drape nooses around your construction site and you think no one had "hurt feelings" or considered it "offensive", probably means that the people who found it offensive considered that they had to "go along to get along" and could not, safely, object. In my experience, when someone starts yelping about how "we live in an age of hurt feelings" where "people are easily triggered", what it really means is I could chat with them for 20 minutes and come away knowing EXACTLY what to say and what jokes to tell to offend THEM and have THEM squirming uncomfortably. /mic end thread

Now that would be EXCELLENT

If it's just tied to a stick to raise it up meh. If it's actually a noose, No.

I think you'd be an outlier then.

I think they did it because he's the QB of the Chiefs and they hate him, but I don't think people get a free pass to behave reprehensibly because they're fans and they're drunk.

I think it's way over the top. Hanging a player in effigy is crap. How would you like it if an opposing team had a doll showing Allen being hung, or stabbed, or bloody and dismembered? Then add in that Mahomes is black, and from Texas - a state that has a documented history of at least 600 lynchings of black people between 1896 and 1945 and it has racist overtones. Frankly, dismissing it as "fans being fans" is IMO not a good look for you. Dismissing anything that involves actual assault/murder or depictions of actual assault/murder as "fans being fans" or "boys being boys" or whatever is just..... Ick.

Where does the secret part of it come in?

The team was 4-2. That projects out to an 11-6 season. Wilson was a brilliant, HOF-trajectory QB once upon a time. But last year, he was rocking a mighty 205 ypg. Took 45 sacks, ANY/A of 6. TL;DR it's been a couple years since Wilson has played like a very good QB. So yeah, it was a controversial, somewhat ballsy move

Seriously? I mean, his clappy reaction really didn't move a needle for me one way or another. The only F I give about Kelce when KC plays the Bills is his stats. 2 receptions for 8 yards, 6 YAC, no broken tackles - Color Me Content. But the man has been a big star in the NFL for a decade and is now attracting even more attention as Mr Taylor Swift. He just had a pass intended for him picked off. You better believe he knew the camera was on him in that moment. You're Joshin'

Chris Simms made that point in his Unbuttoned episode. The idea is, in Zone, you got 6 spies.

Tomlin took the Big Balls step of benching his starting QB when the team was 4-2 and had just won. Many prognosticators prognosticated that was a move that would end in disaster. The QB is the most important player on the football team, and Tomlin has 8 wins now with a team QB'd by a first-round pick who washed out in Chicago, and a former all-pro who couldn't get-r-done for 2 years in Denver - on a Denver team that is doing at least as well with a rookie now At receiver, they have George Pickens and who? Second round never-was Van Jefferson? 33 year old Cordarelle Patterson? 30 year old "Can now cover Mike" Williams? Right or wrong, the perception is that Tomlin is leading that team to over-achieve Let's all focus on this last part. Say it louder for the people in the back of the room: "Rarely does COTY win the SB"

Exactly

I believe the thinking is that McD has one of the best QB in the league who creates on his own. Also, as another poster said, the Bills are expected to be perennially good now. The people who vote for that stuff don't read the fine print and say "how is he managing to have such a solid D when they've moved on from last year's starting safeties, they lost their all-pro LB before the season and their MLB for an extended period, how is the O managing when they started out thin at WR and injuries made them thinner" etc etc The perception is that McD is a solid coach but he's working with a full cupboard of player talent

10 touches in the 1st half, 5 touches in the 2nd. Certainly wasn't being used as much. Still being run in the 3rd Q though, we just had a 3 and out, and a 6 and out prior to our drive that extended to score in the 4th. My guess would be got dinged some on that TD drive because Ray Davis took all the RB snaps after the 2nd handoff to Cook. Cook came back for a play in the 4Q TD drive and maybe decided he couldn't go after all (And Davis may have got dinged as that drive was Ty Johnson) I think the passing chart shows the Bills were trying to attack the edges as you suggest. I think the Chiefs will have a somewhat different defensive philosophy if we meet them with a healthier group of receivers. I think they looked at the cast on Amari Cooper's arm and said "you got Who? catching downfield passes?" so they really choked out the short stuff. If we have a couple guys with some success getting downfield, they won't feel that luxury.

Luck plays such an unacknowledged part in success, especially at the end of a long season. For example, injury luck. See: AJ Klein and one-winged Dodson, Bills LBs vs Chiefs. But anyone who thinks Reid and Mahomes don't set out to do "whatever it takes" to win when they step on the field, is delusional. See: "Paddy Melt" after Toney's Offside called back.

Contain this Built different, he is

Ohio and WVa are opiods Arkansas is meth like MO but half the people Everyplace is every substance now If you actually read the article you linked, it points out that MO couldn't compete with Cali, which had a well-organized distribution network of biker gangs and organized crime. MO was #1 for home lab seizures though.

Yes

Tim Settle looking good for the Texans Jerry Hughes still playing for them too, I did not realize. Overall: 1) the Cowboys are all around inept - bad coaching, bad execution, sloppy play 2) Texans playing sloppy in many ways, but more than well enough given 1) above Nico Collins makes a difference for the Texans CeeDee Lamb is Truth Apparently referees can overturn a non-catch where the ball hits the ground, Who Knew?

I wouldn't visit Chiefs Planet without BSL-4 precautions and observed decontam for unsuiting. Like MSF treating Ebola.

Josh said he could have checked out of the play and chose not to. I think he and the coaches saw something in how the D reacted (they ran a similar play earlier, right, and were successful with it?) and felt they could exploit Which, they did.

I know it's just a typo or an autocorrect....but Man, what a Freudian Autocorrect. I'm still laughing.