Livinginthepast

At least with a blitz, you might get to Mahomes and hurry him, deflect a ball or ....horrors physically touch him!! Mahomes barely got caressed in that game. Maybe a few hits or slightly late follow throughs might have at least put him off and bruised him up a bit. They were getting beaten anyway. That or switch to double man coverage on Kelcey.

I'm always of two minds with Daboll. On the one hand , he's a creative genius who has really helped Josh's development and made our offense elite. On the other hand he arrogantly tries to keep with a plan and makes no adjustments even when it isnt working. I get that he was hamstrung by the injuries and the lack of options in the running game but the Chiefs never got punished for blitzing and never had to fear a run option at all, so they could go to town on our receivers with smothering man to man coverage. It was a recipe for disaster. Daboll should have run Yeldon more and had Josh run on designed plays. The one plus about Yeldon is he is a big body who punishes people trying to tackle him. The KC defense needed to be worn down by the run. Instead they looked just as fresh in the 4th quarter as they did in the first! Overall I was struck by how vanilla everything has been in the playoffs. Why are we scared to run a creative offensive play in an elimination game? We needed some trickery in that game in the worse way. Where was the running back or receiver option throw? why don't we ever do reverses? One jet sweep? The game plan on both sides of the ball was dumb at best, insane at worst!

Diggs is an elite status WR and closest player we have to the premium quality players we had in the early 90s. Josh is almost there and Beasley is close, but Diggs is a star. If we had a running back even 1/2 of Thurman last night we would have taken the pressure off Josh and the receivers to carry us and would have at least kept pace with the Chiefs. I'm really impressed that Diggs lasted the whole season with the punishment he took. It seemed that defenses couldn't get enough of pounding him fairly and dirty throughout the season.

I'm convinced that Trey hid an injury all year. He never looked like the Trey from previous years. He's a great player that looked mediocre all year with some flashes of brilliance. Also the changes of defensive personnel and ill thought out schemes combined with a pathetic pass rush when it mattered put Trey in bad situations over and over.

Our defensive game plan for this game? Hope and Prayer. Hope that Mahomes was out and pray a lot if he was playing! Embarrassing!

There was a small chance that we could have won the SB with that defense. But to do that all the stars would have had to align and we would have had to get some incredible luck on both sides of the ball. As I watched this game I got a sickening feeling of deja vu back to the Bills of the late 80s and how the Offense was always so good but if neutralized would expose our sometimes iffy defense. And those teams had some serious talent on D. Of the few name players we have on this defense, they just didnt show up in this game and some others this year. We were lucky to beat Indy. It just seems incredibly to me that with such a mediocre defense that the coaches didnt come up with something special for the Chiefs. It was like they were just hoping that Mahomes didn't play!

1. Coaching staff had their worst game of the season. Daboll's playcalling was mediocre at best and piss poor at worst. Allen should have been used on the 4th down plays instead of FGS. Frazier and the defense looked like they didnt prepare at all, like it was 1960s NFL when teams just played their simple playbook and watched no tape on another team. How could they possible be that clueless? McD's decisions to go for FGs just handed the momentum to the chiefs every time. You are in the championship game VS the best team in the league, VS the MVP at QB. Why the hell are playing so conservative. 2. A few small plays in this game that seemed not so important at the time but I think were huge. Bass's missed PAT. Didn't matter scorewise but psychologically was a bad omen. The missed punch by the KC lineman should have been an ejection and would have really changed their defensive scheme. Singletary's drop was an absolute gut punch. He would have run for 20 yards plus on that play. It just killed their momentum and probably contributed to Josh being even more under pressure and nervous.

Okafor should have been ejected in the first half!!

Game over

It really does have a similar feel!

Why throw that pass? double coverage!!

Our defensive line gets no penetration so they can do that underhanded pass all day

Hes been really disappointing this season!

Wow great job defense !!! Huge series and you tackle like Pop warner!!

LOL Jerry Hughes!!!

They should onside kick, the D cant stop anything and we cannot score TDS!!

Terrible playcalling AGAIN

Singletary get a first down FFS!!!

Im not sure if it matters but I think Poyer's facemask hit Edwards E's facemask . Is that considered helmet to helmet?

OMG FINALLY!!!!

Enough with the soft zone. play man and jam them at the LOS. or this game will be over (if it isnt already).

Thats because they are so rare!

Yes easily!

Every play wide open receiver. Every play!!

Trey cmon!!! that was garbage!