HappyDays

I've watched every single Mahomes snap this year and he has actually missed a bunch of wide open deep TDs. They probably win the Eagles game if he hits one of them.

Hoecht is the only one of those that I expect to make an impact this year. Ogunjobi looked like a JAG in preseason and Hairston is going to have trouble finding his way onto the field. Would love to be wrong on at least that last point though. The biggest concern to me is the defensive coaching which has shown no signs of improvement from last year. And that's what kills us in the playoffs every year. The 3rd down defense if anything looks even worse and those plays a lot of times are about their OC vs your DC.

He does that one thing really really well. KC is the polar opposite of our offense. They can't run the ball but they can hit deep throws.

I like Humphrey continuing to give it to Mahomes out of bounds. If he wants to play bully ball on the sideline as he's done a few times this season, play it with him.

Was Tony Romo just caught on a hot mic criticizing Lamar for not wanting to take a sack?

That's a ridiculous penalty call. What was unnecessary about that play? Flowers was trying to stay on his feet.

I don't think Shaheed is a great player by any means but he gives our offense the vertical element that it just doesn't have right now. Defenses are daring us to beat them deep and we can't do it. The one playoff opponent we faced we had to score 41 to beat them. My fear is that it will be like that against any Super Bowl contender and we don't have enough juice right now to do that consistently.

Ravens pass rush is so bad. And that was true before they lost Madubuike.

The problem is we don't have a WR capable of an 80 yard pass play. That is exactly what this offense is missing to put them over the top.

Commentators have been making all sorts of excuses for Mahomes this year. He just has been off on a lot of his ball placement this year.

But the defense every single year looks worse in January. I want to buy this narrative but what reason is there to expect a different outcome?

I think that narrative is a bit overblown. You can still hit downfield passes against cover 2 especially with Allen's arm strength. The honey hole and the seam are both available. You can catch one of the safeties flat footed and get a WR streaking behind them. But we don't have the personnel to make those plays consistently.

Difference with the Chiefs this year is their defense isn't clutch and doesn't make plays.

RVD was brutally bad and Brady singlehandedly killed a drive. But the on schedule downfield passing offense was also once again very limited, and the Saints secondary is not good. It's the second game in a row against a poor secondary where we couldn't take advantage. Feels like if Cook isn't picking up chunks on the ground the drive is DOA.

I just can't believe the exact type of WR we needed was right there for a 2nd rounder and we didn't take the opportunity. The result of missing out has gone exactly as I predicted - the downfield passing offense is almost non existent and all the defensive investments have created a defense that is identical to last year's.

The injury history worries me but sure if they want to make him available I wouldn't say no. Palmer was supposed to br our outside route runner/separator but he has been mostly invisible through 4 weeks. That role remains open.

I'll take your word for it, I admittedly have trouble keeping up with safety play on the live broadcast. What should have been the Saints go ahead TD was on him, he got lucky there.

We need to add a downfield WR. This defense and this coaching staff is not going to suddenly fix itself by the time the playoffs roll around. So we need to be able to score 40 points against any opponent to have a real chance. It's too late to add Metcalf but maybe New Orleans will be willing to part with Rashid Shaheed. There needs to be some kind of addition made on that side of the ball or else I just don't think we can get it done this year.

Allen Cook Bernard That's it for me. Honorable mention to Bishop for that awesome INT but other than that he once again looked a bit slow in coverage today to my eyes.

I feel for the Chargers. They are down two elite level OTs, and it is just hard to function as an offense when that's what you're up against. Giants got the rookie QB bump and that's all she wrote.

My Fanduel team could have really used that fumble recovery, come on guys!!

He had a 3rd down conversion on the first drive, and slipped on what could have been a huge 3rd down conversion in the 1st half. Haven't seen him since then.

It was a safe throwaway because a defender was there to jump the pass

It's a bit frustrating for me though because they are possibly a legit downfield WR from being a historically great offense. I sincerely think 40 PPG was in play.

I guess you force them to get 2 TDs instead of a TD plus a FG. With 0 timeouts and 2 minutes to go that is pretty much the game.