UKBillFan

The run game is far more potent against the KC defence than the pass game. We were playing with one hand tied behind our backs.

KC are great - we made them look world class. The fact is everyone had, to different degrees, an off day against the Chiefs and we had to bring our A Game to have a chance.

Look it this way, we're the second best team in the AFC. For years, we were going into the season thinking we may just manage to be the second best team in the AFC East!

The one which resulted in a loss of three? 😄 EDIT: Oh yeah, the first down run was excellent.

As did Brady. And straight away the Bucs defence doubled up on Kelce and Hill.

I’ll preface this by saying I love Josh as Quarterback but I guess the easy way to settle this, taking the heart and emotion out of it, is if the Chiefs lost their senses and offered a straight trade for Mahomes then I think most of us, albeit not overly happily, would accept it. Hopefully next year, at the very least, it won’t be such an easy thing to consider.

Stefanski beating McDermott strikes me as very strange - maybe the former called a better game in the divisional round compared to the latter in the championship round but it’s meant to be about the season as a whole. I’m surprised of the vote count difference between Rodgers and Josh as well. Maybe I’m biased on both counts but feel Josh should have been much closer at the very least.

Josh is definitely our MVP - he had Diggs but Rodgers had Adams. Not sure about the gap in the voting there but maybe I’m a bit biased!

That's devastating news. Neil Reynolds, the UK coverage host, asked either Marc or Greg how he was doing either during the divisional or championship round and it was sounding positive. My thoughts are with his family and friends. RIP.

Every player has a question mark going into next season, at every team. Random things can happen which no one expects - some progress more than expected, some surprisingly regress, it's pot luck. Yes, you'd suspect those who have established themselves to keep pushing on but the NFL shocks time and again.

The question is did we struggle to adapt because of mentality or ability? In both games we should have at least given them something else to think about and in both games we failed to do so.

Which teams are definitely not looking for a starting quarterback? The Seahawks, the Rams, the Bucs, the Cowboys, the Chiefs, the Chargers and ourselves. I’d presume the Saints (with their cap issue I guess they’ll go with Winston, Hill or both), the Packers (though goodness know considering how MLF is acting at the moment), the Lions (depending on how much they trust Goff), the Titans, the Jaguars (via the draft), the Ravens, the Browns and the Bengals (dependant on Burrow’s return from injury) won’t be looking either but there’s perhaps doubts about the route they’d choose to take. Then there’s questions around the Texans and the Raiders in relation to Watson and Carr’s futures. Every other franchise may be looking for new quarterbacks either via the draft or by trading. I can see a side taking a risk with Trubisky considering the potential needs.

I suppose the only risk is reading more into those two games than they actually showed. Yes, the Chiefs practically blew us out in the Championship game and had it relatively easy in the league game with an injured Josh in the line up but that doesn’t mean the gap is as great as it seems. Look at what happened between the Saints and the Bucs; the former won 34-23 to kickstart the season and blew them out in Tampa 38-3. However, in the Divisional game the Bucs won 30-20. There is a gap which it’d be great to close but we are capable of beating the Chiefs.

We have to play them eventually - might as well get our hardest game of the season out of the way in week one. Of course if it’s another heavy defeat it might knock confidence so I guess I see the logic there.

Yes. Maybe they could ask Mahomes to sit out of the final quarter of the opener too?

Thanks. Of course it would have helped if I’d read the entire tweet. ☺️

Reading this thread Josh has to improve his deep play, his short play, getting rid of the ball quickly, reading coverage, his footwork... Going off that, is everyone sure they wouldn’t do a straight trade for Watson? 😅

So he basically needs to get more control of his arm strength - take weight off the fall I’m order to give it a better trajectory?

If allowed? Is Watson going to try and use Covid-19 as an excuse to get out of being fined?

I’ve seen a few mock drafts linking him to us.

The way anyone beats Kansas City in full flow is offensively, by winning a high scoring game. Unless lucky enough to catch them on an off day they won’t be kept to a low score.

Either Beane or McDermott said in their post season press conference that Milano deserved the chance to do the best for him but, budget wise, we wouldn’t be able to pay him what he probably deserves so they must be planning for this. I think he can do a job for us if he returns but otherwise best of luck to him.

Personality is key as well; after what has happened at Houston you have to wonder when Deshaun might pitch a fit toward the administration, especially if things aren't going well. They have been no concerns about Josh on that score to date. But I agree, on balance, taking into account age and quality I'd say the current pecking order is Mahomes, Watson and Allen. However I'd say Watson has reached his ceiling (albeit he'd look better surrounded by a stronger offense) whilst Josh should still have room to grow.

Depends which team came in for him. Watson and Josh are close to a like-for-like so the team who instigated it may chuck in a draft pick as well. Mahomes would be a swap with us giving the Chiefs a few picks in return. Josh’d be unaffordable to anyone else, either because age (Brady, Rodgers, Wilson) or quality is in his favour. Edit: Picks, not pucks!

If the Chiefs win the SuperBowl then I reckon we’ll travel there for Thursday night football. If the Bucs win then it’s between ourselves, the Saints (more likely if Brees strings it out for another season, but that’s improbable) or the Cowboys, with Dak’s return. The schedulers might be liking the look of the line ups should the Chiefs win as they could have us going there on Thursday night and the Bucs travelling to the Pats for the Sunday night game.