Yobogoya!

Chris Jones has been the Chiefs MVP the last two years. Legitimately takes over games. Mahomes is the face of the wins, but he could barely complete a pass in the 2nd half and it didn’t matter because the combo of Jones and Spags’ scheme is simply overwhelming for a pedestrian QB like Lamar Jackson. Mahomes just has to dink and dunk and wait for the game to end.

Like fumbling the ball into the end zone for a touchback? Fact is the NFL is pretty weak right now. Most teams don’t have even a serviceable QB, let alone a great one. Chiefs have the trifecta of top QB, top pass rusher and top coaching. Everybody else is playing catch up to get to that level.

From what I hear, neither QB was all that electrifying and Lamar was downright “pedestrian” or worse. I stand by my original statement. Allen spoils us, all other QB’s just aren’t as much fun to watch.

Mahomes is the only top tier QB in the league book ended by top tier coaches on both sides of the ball. Between that and their general good luck they’ve enjoyed on the injury front, he’s got it made.

It’s no accident KC looks so different in the playoffs when referees are encouraged to hold their flags and let teams play. Their mentality is to push the envelope and be aggressive and if the refs aren’t calling anything, keep doing it.

Whether it’s Purdy or Goff expect Spagnuolo to throw the book at them. Should be riveting to watch.

Nice spiral lol

Just wait the MVP has the Chiefs right where he wants them! 😏

I’m a very bizarre person. But yea, none of those teams have the most electrifying QB in the business. Is it that unreasonable that I’d rather watch Josh Allen than Brock Purdy and Jared Goff 🤷‍♂️

I’m 50/50 It’s funny, during the drought I would always watch the playoffs so I could enjoy top tier football I didn’t get from the Bills. Now that we have Josh, watching other teams play football often just feels pedestrian. We got the best in the world, watching other football games always feels like settling.

I don't know that this is evidence of a change in mindset, McDermott has always been willing to start a rookie... if they've penciled in to do so from the start. See: Tre White, Edmunds, Ed Oliver, etc. An anomaly might be Christian Benford, who wasn't drafted to start but did so after beating out a rookie who was: Kaiir Elam. What McDermott has traditionally resisted is moving a rookie up into a primary playing position after the season starts, unless forced into action by injury. For example not giving Shorter a chance this year, despite the struggles of receivers in front of him on the depth chart who were ineffective all year. And I'm not saying whether that's the right or wrong mindset for a coach to have late in the season, just making the observation that I think he's been consistent with that approach from day one.

An all-time play. And even though it wasn't necessary to win the game, the onside kick pirouette return was f------ incredible too. What a G.

Micah is a real one. One of the best Bills of this or any era. I don't know if he and/or Poyer are wall of fame worthy, but if they are? It would be awesome if they went up there at the same time. 🍻

Hey just cuz the Bills are too inept to capitalize doesn't mean I don't still want to see that franchise circle the toilet as much as possible. Whatever hardships they endure, I'll enjoy. 🍻

On the plus side, the other AFC West teams might finally provide more than a minor speed bump on KC's road to winning the division.

Yeah, Stef has always seemed to me to be sharper than the average player and if he's at all objective about his own performance he's not blind to his own struggles. In years past when we were bounced from the playoffs, he had the look of a guy who knew he was the best player on the field but the rest of the team wasn't up to the challenge. This year he's been more subdued, and you have to wonder if he realizes now it's him that's partly holding us back. Got to be tough to swallow.

Hell let’s just get a little cray and grab a #3 and #4 too huh what do ya say?

Meh, cold showers are healthier for you anyway, there's a multitude of proven benefits. 🤓

Yup. The resources we've put into the defense to be let down in excruciating fashion is honestly just too much to stomach. Makes me think we need new/difference criteria when evaluating who's a fit. Maybe less process/character types and more emphasis on talent? This defense could use a monster or two...

The absolute most concerning thing about McDermott is how often we keep teams playing terrible QB's in the game, playoffs or not. Easton Stick, Mac Jones, Zach Wilson, Skylar Thompson, Rudolph, Tyrod, etc. etc. An elite defensive mind does not repeatedly lose and/or win one score games to these types of players. They dismantle them. They embarrass them.

Something that's been on my mind for a while now is that while Beane has done a fairly good job of cutting losses and getting something for a guy we don't need/want anymore, he hasn't ever really "sold high" on an upper shelf type of player -- the sole exception being the fire sale we had year 1 / 2017 when McD and Beane decided to dump anyone who wasn't buying into their culture immediately. That's fine. But consider that we might have identified TreMaine Edmunds as someone we weren't going to make the top paid linebacker in the NFL before the '22 season started -- might we have traded him and gotten something back? Instead we spent all off-season monitoring whether we spent ourselves out of a comp pick for the guy. Consider that Gabe Davis never turned it on last year and moving him prior to this past season for a day 2 pick and signing Hopkins in his place would have had a huge effect on this season -- how many interceptions wouldn't have been thrown? How many big plays might D Hop have made for us? AND we could have possibly had a future pick to help restock moving forward. (maybe I'm overvaluing him going into this season, but I think his big games and big play potential could easily have gotten a rd3 out of someone) Unfortunately most of our "top shelf" type of talent right now is buried into their contracts with dead money. Diggs and Miller are unmovable, even if a team wanted them. Honestly coming into this off season we might not even have anyone of intrinsically high value -- those "pro bowl snubs" outside of Allen don't look like they were snubbed very much at this point. Might be we just don't have that level of talent some of us thought we did. But going forward McBeane might benefit from identifying they aren't going to keep a guy and making a move for top value while they can -- it certainly hasn't hurt KC after they did so with Tyreek.

Is it just coincidence Josh hasn't thrown an interception since Gave Davis has been out? I wonder..

We can't stretch the field, we can't separate and most importantly we can't catch the damn football. I'm ambivalent about keeping Brady or not, but it starts with us needing playmakers. After that, we need an OC to rebuild this offense from the ground up.

The crowd can be a nuisance but ultimately only the defense can make the offense uncomfortable, and our defense was equivalent to a mild breeze in Mahomes' face last night.

To be fair, that run heavy time-controlling attack is the only defense the Bills actually had this game. Otherwise KC just scores even more points even earlier.