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You're missing the most obvious reason: the word spread that the Chiefs were being humiliated and tuned in. That's the only reason I did. Don't underestimate the power of schadenfreude.

Want to play the hindsight game? 2024: Round 2: Beane picked Coleman over Lad McConkey, Cooper DeJean, and Kamari Lassiter (and Worthy, of course) 2023: Round 1: Moved up for Kincaid instead of down for Joey Porter, Sam LaPorta, Rashee Rice (all in the second round), and Tank Dell (third round). 2022: Round 1: After KC jumped over us for McDuffie, Beane moved up for Elam instead of down for George Pickens and others. I have to stop. Too depressing.

Agree. It was drop back, pause a beat, throw. Last night, it was drop back, pause a beat, get sacked. The defensive line is getting the heat, but it's the linebackers and secondary that were the problem, either the players or the Babich/McDermott "Let them have eight yards, maybe they'll get a penalty or something, hopefully" defensive philosophy. I wonder if McDermott and Beane are on the same page. Beane seems to want overwhelming pressure on the QB, and McDermott wants bend don't break (or break, fine, but hope the offense will bail us out).

He learned what to do in 2021 when Tampa Bay did the same thing to KC. That's why he immediately drafted Rousseau and Basham and gave away the store for Von Miller. Knowing what to do and doing it are two different things. I know how to dunk a basketball but never have done it nor ever will. The Bills look pathetic against KC be a) the line can't get pressure; and b) McDermott likes to play soft. When will that change if it hasn't yet?

Think this game will finally--finally!--stop all the Mahomes worship in the media?

Diggs would have dropped that.

Yep.

Maybe I'd feel different if the Bills went all the way, but the names you mention, along with most of the other ones that don't start with an "A," scream mediocrity.

If that's not the dominant narrative after the game, it should be.

Agreed. I'm just saying the Bills would have done better because Allen is extraordinary. The defense would have been humiliated.

I'm feeling pretty down on Beane's drafting.

I think yes. Really. Allen would be the best player on the field, and he would have done more with less than Mahomes, as he did all season.

How is that possible? He's the best quarterback in the league! I read that!

But somehow the halftime show will find a way to praise Mahomes and KC. Meanwhile, the rest of the sports world is all thinking the same thing: "How does it feel to not have the refs in your pocket, KC?"

Get both, man. Give away the rest of the D-line, except Rousseau.

Sorry, but Hurts is not a very good quarterback. He's a poor man's Lamar, at his best.

Beane would have had to trade up to get him. He trades up for Elam and Kincaid but not McDuffie or DeJean, go figure.

God, I'd love to see KC humiliated. Next best thing to Bills being in the Super Bowl.

"Patrick, the best in the world at everything, loses track of the defense, but did you see what an incredible throw it was to DeJean? There's not three people on the planet who can make that throw. He's just amazing. No one, and I mean no one, does it better, even interceptions. A thing of beauty!"

Even when Mahomes and Kelce mess up, we hear how they're the best in the league. I heard that before I could mute it.

Just tuning in. How do you mean not like the Bills?

You mean LaPorta, whom Beane could have taken (and saved a fourth round pick) instead of Kincaid? 6'3 245 Ibs, 4.59 40? Not taller, but bigger, faster, and stronger. And better.

Me, my gorge rises with every glaze of Mahomes. I don't mind anyone else receiving praise, but there's something about the prohibition of ever--ever!--criticizing that Kermit-voiced, fey, whining, graceless cretin and the equally strong imperative to deify him as All That Is Holy that makes me turn the channel whenever he's on the field. GAAAA! (Seeing my counselor again Monday. 😔)

Any sense of what they don't like?

Must be tough for Ravens fans, to have Lamar beaten twice by Allen in just a few weeks. First, he ends Lamar's great season, then, to add insult to injury "takes away" his MVP award. Not much left for them but ashes and vinegar.