Brand J

KC in the Super Bowl again. Yay. /sarcasm

Maybe KC declines an offside in that situation? The personal foul guarantees they’d take it.

That’s a good penalty.

Cheating pick plays

The amount of pressure the Chiefs are getting on Lamar is surprising.

That guy wearing #15 helps mask many of the Chiefs personnel errors.

😂

Chris Jones may not have any playoff sacks, but he’s always making some sort of play at the right time.

I want Purdy to beat the Chiefs just to spite Nick Wrong.

KC offensive line has been suspect all year on the edges. Not so in the playoffs somehow. They’re like a wall. I feel like the team is playing far above their talent on offense.

Hopefully BAL doesn’t start pressing, making things worse. How many NBA legends would have rings if not for Michael Jordan? I feel we’re witnessing the same. Allen would have a trophy now if not for Mahomes.

I thought it would’ve been tough against the Ravens because their offense was more explosive than KC and defense was just as good if not better… looking like I was very wrong. The regular season KC offense has been nothing like the playoff KC offense.

Juggernaut KC offense I guess

I think how the INTs came (tipped, directly to a defender, etc) would matter, BUT when you’ve got MVPs,Super Bowl rings, Super Bowl MVPs, and first team all pro designations, you can get away with a lot more. When you have none of that you’re more highly scrutinized.

Remember, it’s not about where a player is taken, but rather who it is. Detroit’s impact receiver Amon-Ra St Brown went in the 4th. The 49ers Deebo Samuel? He went in that second round you worry about. There’s so much luck involved with these picks, a guy could pass every single test, athleticism, size, productive college career, and then can get to the pros and be a dud. By all accounts, it looks like Marvin Harrison Jr will be a beast at the next level, but for every Calvin Johnson, a Charles Rogers lurks 😅 I won’t get too hung up on where Beane takes a receiver within those first 5 rounds as long as he takes two of them. Preferably higher since the chances of hitting are greater, but I won’t worry one way or another. Let’s see what happens when they step on the field.

As a GM, the only trade up I would do (in general) is for a QB. Maaaybe I would trade up for an athletic freak at DE, but all other positions? It’s proven they can be had anywhere in the draft, just gotta hit on the right guy and get lucky. We traded up for Elam when much better corners went later. Traded up for Kincaid (hated it at the time) and although that pick worked out, another player was drafted later who is at least on par with him. Traded up for Edmunds when Darius/Shaquille Leonard and Fred Warner were still on the board and in Warner’s case went much later. The draft is a lottery and if I were a GM, I’d try to stockpile the most 1-5th round picks I possibly could year after year. I’m not sacrificing those to move up, because in doing so I’d be sacrificing the chance to hit on a guy who could be a steal.

Do NOT trade up. Whoever we take, I can just about guarantee a guy will go later who will be just as good or better. Happens every draft.

He’s a roster spot we don’t necessarily need. If he was an offensive threat in some way, blocked like Sam Gash or had hands like Larry Centers, okay. But he doesn’t really move the needle in one way or another.

He was in fact clinically dead on the field. I’m not sure what his future (career) holds, but I’m happy he’s resumed a completely normal life.

I felt that Brandon Beane coming out and saying “Diggs is a number one receiver,” in his season ending presser was curious. He no doubt hears the chatter and I believe knows he’s gotta get a guy who strikes fear in the opponent. Diggs is great, but I don’t think any of these teams fear him. Even the Chiefs were puffing out their chest saying “he knew what was up” when Sneed locked him up. We’ll have to hit on a guy, a future number one who plays like it right out of the gate.

Yeah Von was a force before the injury, but it’s always a “what have you done for me lately?” league. Von would’ve got my vote easily if his play hadn’t fallen off a cliff this year.

Yeah two completely different halves. Someone did say he was dealing with a shoulder injury, so that may explain it.

Not to mention Kincaid had a good chance to run for the first if the ball was on him right after his break.

Your eyes go where the ball is. You think because Josh isn’t throwing it, there must not be anyone open. Someone somewhere is almost open on just about every play, the defense can’t take everyone away but whoever it is that won the route doesn’t always get the ball. Whether that’s because the open player is only a yard or two past the LoS, or maybe downfield but Josh didn’t see him, or got pressured, I mean there are a number of variables. Bills have ran a number of rub/pick plays and the ball hasn’t gone to the receiver who got open as a result. It’s on film. I believe it was Dawson Knox in the Patriots loss who was wide open in the endzone after getting a pick and the ball never went to him. Shakir had one where Davis picked his man and was pointing emphatically. We do have guys get open. This is not to say the scheme doesn’t need to work on the finer details. As Warner pointed out in his video analysis receivers aren’t running routes correctly at times to force advantageous leverage. That’s on the OC and the receivers coach to fix. As to whether Josh could run a Shanahan offense, of course he could. But it may look completely different from the way Purdy and Tua run it. Those are first read QBs, they know where they want to go with the ball before the snap based on the look. If that read is taken away, the offense doesn’t look as smooth. Knowing and understanding where you want to go is part of film study and Josh has admitted he prefers to play instinctually rather than hang out in the film room diagnosing defenses. For comparisons sake, the offense the Bills ran under Daboll, Dorsey, and now Joe Brady, is mostly the same offense Tom Brady ran in New England, but I think we can admit the way a Tom Brady offense is ran is quite different than with Josh Allen at the helm. Tom said he was the biggest film junkie, he was always breaking down tape of what defenses were doing. When he got into the game he had such an understanding of where he wanted to go with the ball, it was frequently out of his hands before the DL had an opportunity to make a play. I’d be surprised if Josh isn’t at or near the top of the league in terms of time spent holding the ball. I do think he needs to become better pre snap to elevate his game even more. And when I say elevate, I mostly mean “raise his floor” as his ceiling is as high as any QB who has ever played the game.

The problem with Ken Dorsey is that he was trying to force Allen to become a cerebral QB, a pocket passer like Tom Brady who only ran out of necessity. Sounded good in theory since the coaching staff wants to prolong Josh’s career, but that’s not the way Josh plays. He’s not a surgical passer who consistently finds the open guy against any defensive call. Dorsey’s offense often had open receivers running around that Josh failed to hit, but to hit those receivers Josh would have to know and understand what his answers are against any given defense. What Brady did was not only simplify the game for him, but he allowed him to get back to doing what he loves to do - use his legs. If Dorsey goes somewhere and has a lot of success as that team’s offensive coordinator it’s entirely because of the QB he’s working with. Dorsey is not a terrible coordinator as this board would have you believe, he and Josh just weren’t a match. Dorsey needs a cerebral point guard running his offense.