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Lol at Higgins. Not happening. We have 22 FA's that need to be replaced. This scenario ignores the Defense completely. Where we have just Rousseau, Miller, and Kingsley returning at DE from the 53. Literally ONLY Ed Oliver at DT. Poyer (who has an out in his contract and may need to be replaced as well) and Hamlin as our only Safeties. Here's hoping we are able to get a decent WR at a good price when musical chairs stops and/or move up in the 1st to get one. But Tee Higgins is going to be the most sought after WR in FA and his contract is going to be massive. We can't afford what it would cost just for him with all the holes we have. Side note: I'm pretty sure Hines is going to be here. Conventional wisdom says get rid of him and save money. But it appears to me that Beane and he struck some sort of deal to avoid a Players Union grievance over his money this year. Beane has said he'll be back and Hines has said he's been told he'll be back. It appears to me they made an arrangement to let him keep some signing money this year and also saved them some money this year in exchange for a promise that he'll be on the roster next year.

Tre is going to have to go. It's sad, but we can't be on the hook for what he's scheduled to cost on the cap for the next two seasons in the condition he's in. Deonte Harty, Connor McGovern, Ryan Bates, Tre'Davious White, Jordan Poyer, and Sam Martin all have outs in their contracts this offseason that can save cap space. A large number of them will be moved on from or take massive cuts in pay to stay. Restructures of Josh, Von, and others will make up for most of the rest to get us under. An extension for Douglas will also save us cap. But with 22 FA's, we're still going to have to go out and sign a lot of bodies - even with having 9 Draft Picks at our disposal. So it's going to have to be another year of smart shopping. Luckily, we have the core of our team under contract. Josh, Cook, Diggs, Shakir, Kincaid, the entire OL, Rousseau, Oliver, Milano, Bernard, Douglas, Benford, and Johnson are all safe. The big moves will be needing to find a #2 to replace Davis, a DE opposite Rousseau (hopefully there's another logjam where we can get Floyd back or a Floyd like player), a DT opposite Oliver (hopefully Daquan will work with us), and at least 1 Safety, if not both.

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I go the other way. It's easier for me to palate the Ravens winning. In that sense it's like "well, if we pulled out the Chiefs win - we probably would have lost to the Ravens". If the Chiefs go on to win it all, I won't be able to shake "if we just got over the hump in that game, we would have won it all". For some, that's a good feeling. To me, it makes the loss hurt that much more.

Trent is a Nickel CB playing the Nickel because of his size and short arms. Yes, he beat Taron for 1st Team All Pro. But there isn't much separating Trent as 1st Team AP and Taron as 2nd Team AP. We didn't need a Nickel on Draft Day because Taron has been solid for years. We needed an Outside CB. That's why we passed on him. Shame that Kaiir hasn't worked out, but Trent really can't play Outside. Humphrey on the other hand, yeah, that's a rough miss.

Weird how you ignored the last sentence of the third paragraph.

My guess is tomorrow during the Year End Press Conference - we're going to hear that Diggs was playing through something for most of the end of the year. You don't go from playing like he did in the first half of the year to playing like he did in the last half and being targeted that little for really any other reason. I'd bet the foot thing that has intermittently been popping up on the Injury Report was a broken bone in there that's been really hampering him. This caused him to be used less in the game plan to at least keep him on the field as a threat. They downplayed it bc they wanted teams to game plan for him, double him, and fear him. But the pain and infrequent usage caused him to mentally be off. This idea that he just hit a wall and went from a Top 5 WR in the league to "done" in a matter of weeks is crazy talk. If it isn't an injury, then I don't know what's going on mentally that has him off. But he's not done. You don't fall off a cliff that quickly.

Bass is 26/34 between the regular season and Post Season this year. That's 76% - basically one miss in every 4. He was an abysmal 2/5 in the Postseason, including a miss from 27 yards. One of two needed end of the game playoff clutch kicks that he choked on in back to back weeks (luckily we were bailed out by the Defense last week). This is not an overreaction. Kickers have lost their jobs for a lot less.

Yeah, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Beane's surely got a number of different things lined up to get us out from under our cap situation. Kicker is a relatively cheap position. Especially if we Draft a guy. You can't keep rolling out a Kicker as unreliable as he's been down the stretch just because of the money. It's not like other positions where you can say "well, we're stuck with him, but that doesn't mean we have to start him".

Your preferred headline isn't going to happen. McDermott and Beane aren't going anywhere.

Geesh - guilty conscience much? I wasn't specifically calling you out. You would have been far from the only one. And I don't recall saying Hopkins would be a waste of money. On the contrary, I said I'd be interested at his TEN contract. As for the Davis thing, I also never said he'd finish the year as a top #2. Just that at the time you and the others were calling him out, his numbers were among the top for all WR's.

It led to zero points scored by the Chiefs via a Turnover. Crisis averted. Weird thing to be hung up on.

Amen. We put 182 yards on the Ground. Outgained them in yards 368-361. 27 first downs to their 21. Controlled the time of possession 37 minutes to 23 - with a game plan to control the ball and not force things down field against a strong pass Defense. I refuse to sit here and let the takeaway of this game be the Offense wasn't enough. It was an already decimated Defense using reserves that weren't 100% themselves against a top QB and offense playing their best ball.

And to think, there were more posters on here than not that wanted him cut for Andy Isabella. Goes to show Pre-Season football means nothing.

I think Poyer will be back. Hyde may retire. He's not remotely the same player following the neck injuries and I think he knows it.

I agree. If by DeAndre Hopkins, you mean Matt Milano, Terrel Bernard, and Christian Benford. We possessed the ball 8 times. We scored on 4 and would have scored on 5 if Bass hadn't missed. Josh Allen played with his hair on fire. Guys like Shakir, Kincaid, and Cook were making plays when called upon. Diggs made some plays and had some drops. It wasn't lack of offense that did us in. Josh was an absolute monster. It was a decimated Defense. Many of the reserves clearly playing injured. Douglas couldn't follow guys downfield. The simplest move in the open field, even by Mahomes and he was lost. Dodson played hurt, went down again, and kept playing. Klein rolled his ankle and kept playing on it. The Special Teams was an albatross. Martin was clearly still hurt, giving them short fields when he did have to punt. And Bass? Well.... I don't want to talk about that. Even if he made that kick, it's clear that the Defense would have folded again as they were driving with no issue before the kneel down. Simply didn't have the Defensive personnel to stop Mahomes and company on the field. I don't think 1 player was going to put more than 10 more points on the board.

Oh, I don't blame Bass entirely for the loss. But he contributed to it. And it should be the final nail in his coffin.

I mean, it's going to happen regardless. Diggs, Shakir, Harty (who has an out in his contract after this year that we can exercise), and Shorter (who didn't even play this year) are the only WR's under contract.

If you're expecting or even hoping for that... you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Gonna be some changes. Bass is gone. There will be players coming in and going out. But Brady, McDermott, and Beane are safe. No question.

Bass is done.

Holy crap - that's a nasty hit to the head on Shakir. F-ck!

God I hope I'm wrong bc it would be a game changer - but that's gonna be a "call on the field stands" type of play. If they called it a fumble, it would stand. Calling it down by contact, that will stand.

Put Elam in at CB. Douglas isn't ready. Send more blitzes - middle of the field is being eaten alive regardless. Punch at the ball every opportunity you get.

Douglas is playing, but he's clearly still hampered. He's not keeping up with anyone and missing anyone who makes a move on him.

So, so many posters wanted Shakir cut for Isabella.