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worthy looks better and better every week. he's on the rashee rice trajectory. rice started slow, then turned into a beast. worthy more involved today than any prior game.

Eric Eager, formerly of PFF, studied the phenomenon of Andy saving his absolute best plays for the biggest games (ie playoffs and crucial afc games). He often referred to them as simply "the good plays." Eager has deleted almost all of his tweets since landing a job with the Carolina Panthers earlier this year, but it's an actual real thing and KC's offensive #s are disproportionately good vs good teams. Now, maybe Mahomes and the Chiefs in general just get up for big games and perform better in those games. I'm sure not all of it can be attributed to play calling. But it seems like it's at least a piece of the pie.

If the Chiefs were the 2 seed, I agree with you. Them being the 2 seed would have meant that they highly likely played hard in every regular season game, including the Week 18 game at Denver, in desperate pursuit of the 1-seed, only to come up short. Then they'd likely play either the Broncos or Chargers in the Wild Card round (not easy), followed by the Ravens or Steelers, followed by a road trip to Buffalo. Then perhaps Detroit or Philly in the Super Bowl. The Chiefs would have less than a 20% chance of winning all four. But if they're the 1 seed, they've got a very real shot. If the Chiefs win and Bills lose this week, the Chiefs in theory could have the 1-seed wrapped up after Week 16. That would enable them to rest Weeks 17 and 18 if they desired plus get a 1st-round bye. They wouldn't have to use a single good play in their playbook and would have pretty much have a month to reimagine the operation on both sides of the ball and get as healthy as possible. Part of the Chiefs' playoff success last year on offense I'd assume had a lot to do with Andy unloading the clip - he saves his absolute best plays for the playoffs. Being able to strategically deploy them across two games, both at home, with time off in between, and extra time to prep for possible opponent(s) is way easier than having to play every single week nonstop down the stretch in the regular season and then do it three times in the playoffs to advance to the Super Bowl. If the Chiefs actually do get the 1-seed they better enjoy it. The Broncos and Chargers are coming for blood starting next year. I don't see many AFC West sweeps in KC's future anytime soon.

the interior OL are considered best in the NFL and yet they've still given up 35 sacks now thru 12-ish games.

Chiefs left tackle.....still a problem. Maybe 4th time's a charm.

did anyone actually get paid last time?

the chiefs have the best interior offensive line in football. they have kelce who remains a top 3 tight end, and noah gray, who is a starter level caliber te backing him up. with mahomes as qb, they can get by with avg receivers, and i'd argue when hollywood brown returns next month a wr corps of hollywood, hopkins, worthy and juju is actually pretty strong. in the backfield, they have pacheco and kareem hunt. but the chiefs are atrocious at tackle, specifically at left tackle. what the chiefs have shown us beyond doubt is that if you are league worst at left tackle, your offense can look rather inoperable. every bad snap the chiefs play on offense can pretty much be attributed to their tackles getting smoked. the chiefs will get humphries in at left tackle starting next week. if he solidifies mahomes' blind side in a real way, i think the chiefs offense will look better than it has the prior two years come playoff time. they always step up the play calling and take it to another level when it matters most anyway. but the defense looks like a very real concern. which i don't totally get. other than the departure of sneed - and losing his replacement, jaylen watson, to midseason injury - it's the exact same defense as last year. except now they've got uche as an extra pass rusher, and just added omenihu back into the fold. there's really no reason why this D should be looking as bad as it has.

Chiefs will beat Panthers and Raiders to get to 11-1. They'll get all they can handle and then some vs the Chargers. They'll likely beat the Browns. at Steelers, at Broncos, vs Texans seems like 2-1 at best.

Shrader kicked some of the best looking extra points I've seen all season 😄

the 2020 afc championship performance wasn't exactly a master class.

not a good look here

Chiefs 26 Bills 25* *After taking a 25-24 lead with 13 seconds left, the Bills opt to go for 2 to extend the lead to a field goal, only to have Josh Allen throw an interception to Trent McDuffie who returns it back for a Chiefs 2-pointer.

it's crazy how terrible KC's tackles are considering the interior three OL are probably the best in football. mahomes has been sacked 20 times thru 9 games. that puts him on pace for being sacked 37 times. in his six prior seasons, he's never been sacked more than 28 times. poor pass protection, especially on the left side, has handcuffed the chiefs offense.

With Hopkins, JuJu, Worthy, this will arguably be the most complete WR group mahomes has had this year. He merely had Rice and Worthy prior to Rice's injury vs the Chargers. JuJu probably can't stay healthy for the whole year, he always has something come up, but if he does, the expectation is still that Hollywood Brown would be back for the Chiefs come playoff time. Hopkins, Hollywood, JuJu, Worthy, Kelce with Pacheco and Hunt in the backfield is a damn solid unit, certainly closer to the one they expected to have when the season began.

if the chiefs had a top 10 left tackle they would be among the very best offenses in the league. it is astounding how bad the left tackle play has been for them this year. it's made their offense look non functional at times, especially against elite pass rushers. groot is gonna eat.