HappyDays

Watching some of our wildcard competition get wins today, I can't help but think we fired Dorsey a few weeks too late 😥

I swear the Jaguars under Doug Pederson have the worst short yardage offense I've ever seen

Then just kick the FG and go into the half up two scores knowing you get the ball to start the 2nd half. I don't understand why so many coaches are trying to win games in the 1st half, and in the process are actually losing the game.

Jaguars are so frustrating. 1st and goal from the 1 with :01 on the clock in the 2nd quarter and they do a dumb horizontal pitch play which predictably gets shut down instead of taking an easy 3 points. Then they are driving to start the 2nd half and Trevor Lawrence throws an awful INT, and suddenly a few minutes later they are losing a game they had under control.

Apparently the weather is expected to be poor. Cold, winds 5-10 MPH, and rain that is expected to get heavier as the game goes on. Not gonna lie that dampens my optimism a bit in this one.

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There are some early signs that Lane Johnson will not play today... Inactive list out in 20 minutes.

Doug Pederson just can't help himself with 4th down aggressiveness. He goes for every single one and I've seen it hurt his team more often than the opposite. Why not go up by two scores heading into half and put pressure on the young team with a rookie QB?

I'm surprised Diontae Johnson is still getting snaps after this display:

Are you serious? I genuinely can't tell.

He's the same player he was here but he happens to be playing in the best offensive system in the NFL. James Cook would be unbelievable in that system.

We're still doing the Isaiah Hodgins things? He's played barely half of the Giants offensive snaps this year and has 14 catches for 142 yards.

That's what the Shanahan system looks like with an actual talented QB. It's crazy to me that every offense isn't adopting some version of that system.

This is the first game since probably the London that I feel genuinely hyped up for. A top opponent where a win would mean everything. The Dorsey to Brady switch and how the offense looked against the Jets has given me some hope that this season is still salvageable... Maybe that hope will come crashing down today but it gives me a reason to really care about this one. Go Bills!

This would be a major development.

They need to get rid of turf entirely. Every player wants grass fields. It would improve the product over the course of a season with less season ending injuries to major players. It's a win/win situation for everybody.

How dare the billionaire owners let this continue. Even from a purely self-serving perspective, why would you want to endanger your own assets by trotting them out on this field? The NFLPA should release a public message advising free agents not to sign with the Jets or Giants or any other team with a similar field unless this crap is fixed. Advise high draft picks not to sign with those teams. Something has to change.

This game is so bad it culminated in a ref spitting blood. The Jets have invented several entirely new methods of ineptitude in this one.

It's pretty clearly the pass catchers. Mahomes can't find open guys and when he does a lot of times they drop the ball. In the Josh Allen era I've become somewhat of an expert on that handicap so I know what I'm seeing when I watch the Chiefs. I've seen more negative plays from Mahomes this year compared to last, but again I think having worse pass catchers makes him feel like he has to press more to move the ball. I don't blame him at all for their struggles this year. I mean it definitely mattered. That stretch of 2018-2020 was obviously the best offense in the Mahomes era. 2021 I thought Mahomes genuinely was the problem with some of their offensive struggles, including the AFCCG where I thought Mahomes was the single largest reason they lost that game against the Bengals. It happens. And last year he still had a great offensive supporting cast, it just wasn't "two HOF pass catchers plus a HOF play caller" great. I just wish people gave the same level of understanding to Allen that they give to Mahomes. We've seen what Mahomes looks like with a bad OL - he got blown out in the Super Bowl. We've seen what he looks like with a bad defense - he failed to beat the Pats in the AFCCG. Now this year we've seen what he looks like with a below average group of pass catchers. Allen has had to deal with all of these issues at various times since his rookie year. He's overcome them about as well as possible IMO. I agree that Allen's ceiling is higher than Mahomes and that as a trade off his floor is lower but overall I think they're very similar talents.

This is the dumbest half of football I've ever watched

He hasn't been a game changer all year. His skill set only works if he gets wide open space to work in. He is not good at all in small spaces.

It's a good reminder that having an above average WR2 really is THAT important. It has a trickle down effect to the rest of the offense. Going from JJSS to MVS is a massive drop off and it affects everything. That's why in the offseason I was so gung ho about signing DeAndre Hopkins. Also to be fair Kelce looks like he has lost a step too. Maybe dating a once in a generation superstar has caused him to lose focus or maybe it's just age. But clearly he is not his usual self right now. In retrospect isn't it crazy that Mahomes had Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce both in their prime?? I mean that is an all-time great offensive supporting cast.