Big Turk

Chiefs offense is not really excellent this year. The Bills were weak in an area you cannot afford to be weak against this team in however, which was up the middle. Especially weak when it's your 3rd string LB playing with a torn labrum and 5th string LB who is a PS callup that was on his couch last Wednesday planning a trip in an RV to Key West with the fam. Douglas was terrible this gam...by far his worst as a Bill and was clearly hampered by his knee injury. Should have been benched for Elam in the 2nd half. Benford out hurt as well. Jackson missed several tackles in the hole that led to big runs. Basically a D being held together by duct tape at this point needed the D Line to play exceptional and they sucked mostly.

Sure dude. The Bills are taking a 31.1 million dead cap hit when they are already over the cap by 40 million and will need to massage the cap as it is...just add another 31 million to it and then also have to pay another player to take his place. Good God, the intelligence on this board seems to get lower and lower every year.

Because when you are giving up 9 yards a play midway thru the 4th quarter, the fewer plays the other team has the better.

If Allen's shoulder doesn't get hit by Dawkins being driven back into him while he was throwing it would have been 31. But yeah...the margins are incredibly small in these games and the Bills were always up against it not only due to the crazy number of injuries on D but also the extra 2 days the Chiefs had to rest. I mean sure there were some plays the Chiefs likely don't make if the Bills had Bernard in there...but at the end of the day all you can do is play the hand you are dealt in a game.

They drafted Offense mostly this year. This team would likely have been giving up 25-28 points a game under a different DC with the personnel they had the 2nd half of the season. I think McD did a pretty remarkable job on D with what he had to work with the 2nd half of the year.

Not sure what to tell you. Defenses don't make much of a difference in most playoff games these days unless a team is clearly overmatched like the Texans were yesterday. The biggest difference they make is with a timely sack or takeaway now, but rarely are you seeing teams shut other teams down. Chiefs - Eagles Super Bowl is a prime example. Neither team stopped the other all game for the most part. Just a play here or a play there that made the difference. If you think the 86 Bears defense is coming back and making a difference nowadays in the playoffs, I am sorry to burst your bubble. It's an offensive league, and you basically are just relying on your D to make a play here or there now against quality teams in the playoffs.

They lift you up only before sending you crashing back to reality.

What "scheme" are you going to come up with that doesn't allow Klein to be abused in the middle of the defense? You can only polish a turd so much...it still smells like a turd tho when you get close enough to it. The man was on the couch ready to head to Key West in an RV with his family last week, came back on Wednesday before the Steelers game and was pressed into duty for most of the 2nd half of that game and all of this game...then he rolled his ankle late in the first half to boot, so his already limited athleticism took another hit.

One injury? Half the defense was out and the guys who were playing obviously were not anywhere close to 100%, especially Douglas who I thought had by far his worst game as a Bill and should have been benched for Elam in the 2nd half. Moreover the injuries kept being at the same position so 4th and 5th string players were being called upon, which is a recipe for disaster against a good team and coaching staff.

They had him a few times, the one time he rushed for a yard or no gain on 3rd down. The other time he escaped and threw it away. But yeah, by and in large, tremendously dissapointing effort from them when we needed them most with how beat up they were in the back 7.

I mean that is true. The Chiefs continuously took advantage of the Bills weaknesses in the middle of the defense and there wasn't much the Bills could do to stop them. The Bills did a better job slowing down Kelce in the 2nd half and then the Chiefs just started running the ball on them.

Allen had Dawkins shoved into him and hit his left shoulder right as he was throwing. Didn't really have anything to do with being flat footed. If you are throwing and you get your other shoulder hit backwards forcefully, the ball is just going to end up short. That's just physics.

In all fariness, there are not a lot of teams recently that can point to their D being the difference in playoff games with the way the NFL is designed these days. It favors the offense pretty heavily. See the Chiefs - Eagles Super Bowl last year.

They gave up 9 yards a play for most almost the entire game for God's sake, they were WAY worse! Think the Chiefs ended at 7.7 Yards per Play but that is still terrible. The only reason it didn't seem that bad is because the Bills had the ball so much and ran like 30 more plays than the Chiefs did to get almost the exact same yardage total. I think the Bill ended up with like 7 more yards than the Chiefs did for the game.

Just shows how insanely close the margins are in these type of games. A split second on that play turns it from an incompletion to a TD.

Just not true. Beat Baltimore 17-3. Beat Pats 47-17. Beat Steelers 31-17. I thought all those were pretty good performances defensively. Steelers literally only made it close because the Bills fielded a preseason D for much of the 2nd half.

Wow...this is pretty crazy if true....poster claims it has been confirmed.

Greg Joseph?

Am I the only one who thinks that if Cook bounced that outside he might have scored? There was lilterally nobody outside the last guy on the line and he crashed down hard. Cook might have jogged into the endzone, or at the very least got tackled inside the 10 by the safety coming over. They had 9 guys on the LOS, there was nobody past the first wave.

Guess we are waiting til 2026.

Has Diggs ever shown up past the wildcard round for the Bills? 2023 - Divisional Round against KC: 3 catches on 8 targets for 21 yards. 2022 - Divisional Round against CIN: 4 catches on 10 targets for 35 yards. 2021 - Divisional Round against KC: 3 catches on 6 targets for 7 yards. 2020 - Divisional Round against BAL: 8 catches on 11 targets for 106 yards, 1 TD 2020 - AFC Champ Game against KC: 6 catches on 11 targets for 77 yards Seems the last 3 seasons outside the wildcard round he has pulled a disappearing act. I mean 10 catches on 24 targets with only 63 yards and 0 TDs? That is pretty abysmal for a #1 WR on a team that scores the way we do.

Because you never make assumptions that you will have another opportunity at a later time for a TD when it's available right now. Anything could have happened. A sack, tipped ball INT, a receiver fumbling the ball, etc... Playing like you "know" you can just score at some later time isn't a luxury you get in the NFL.

Chiefs had 10 men on the field, Bills had 8 blockers to 6 rushers for the Chiefs. Should have been an easy first down. Honestly inexcusable they didn't get it done well enough.

For a lot more money than we were willing to give him...the Chiefs passed too.

I think he can. He did in college. He gets separation. Led the NFL in average yards of separation against man coverage his rookie year and was likely high again this year. Haven't seen those numbers come out yet.