HappyDays

Houston's defense really is that good. You have to beat them 20-10. That's how our defensive coach wants his team to be built and instead we give them 20 in the 1st half.

Actually the awful truth is that this game would look identical if Trubisky was in there. This regime has made the MVP irrelevant.

I hated the offseason strategy of going all in on McDermott's side of the ball. But even I didn't expect this. I expected small improvements at the very least actually. Regressing to an even worse version of an already bad defense is a fireable offense for everyone involved given how many resources they poured into it.

I don't know man. We'll get into the playoffs as a wildcard but what's the point. We have absolutely no chance of doing anything once we're there. Abysmal defense and an offense that isn't remotely built to win shootouts. The opposite of complementary football.

Defensive head coach. All those investments given to his side of the ball and leaving Josh with scraps. And we are giving up easy drives to a terrible offense. Awesome

We've gotten lucky twice in this game that Higgins isn't an NFL receiver

Bishop woke up the morning of the KC game and decided he's Kyle Hamilton now

You can put the best defensive players on the field. That is where our coaches are failing right now

Houston is the best defense in the league. You should be able to beat them like 17-10... The defense has been unacceptable in this one

That drive is on McDermott for playing "his guys" instead of the best player on the roster. Get Taron off the field. Enough is enough

Seriously why isn't Cam Lewis out there yet

Poyer Hairston and Bishop are single handedly keeping them out of the endzone on this drive

Get Taron off the field. What are we doing here

Our interior discipline sucks

Shakir doesn't have it right now. Can't escape, can't make tough catches. He is clearly hurt.

Pretty sick of seeing Josh try to direct his WRs downfield and they just don't have a clue

Crap was that blocked?

Nice drive! That was the 2024 offense from start to finish.

That's how you set the tone early. Defensive struggle blah blah blah. We have Superman, you don't.

McDermott learned from the Miami game

We've had poor run defense every year since McDermott got here and it has never once been the reason we lost a playoff game. I just don't worry about it that much.

Beane could have saved himself a lot of criticism if he had taken another WR with that 3rd round pick, Troy Franklin being the obvious name. Not that Franklin looks like a superstar right now but in a bad passing offense he's on pace for about 800 yards. That's legit WR production. The optics look so different in that scenario. Beane doesn't fully believe in any of the WRs available to him at the end of the 1st round so he trades down and takes two WRs to double his chances. It's like when Elam busted but we got Benford out of that class so the 1st round whiff doesn't matter as much. Beane instead took DeWayne Carter with that 3rd round pick which makes the whole fiasco look twice as bad. If Beane is retained next year I honestly do expect him to go all in on finding a true WR1 through the trade market. He has basically no choice because of the spotlight on that room right now, especially with the ridiculous WGR rant and the buzz around the failed Waddle trade. It just sucks that it will have taken the worst case scenario coming to fruition for him to finally learn his lesson, and as a result we wasted a season where the AFC was weaker than ever.

We all have our senior moments 😁

I mean that the only away playoff games we have played were against KC (since Allen became elite so I'm not counting the Houston wildcard loss). Cincy is the only other team that has beaten us at all and that was at home in any case.

Since Allen became an elite QB we've only played away games against KC. It just doesn't matter to me nearly as much as avoiding KC entirely. Of course I'd prefer homefield advantage if we can get it but there's no opponent where I think that is going to be the difference in the outcome.