Maine-iac

Did Olivia Vernon retire? Supposedly he was still coming back from injury this year but he might be ready for next season. If the numbers were right he might be worth the gamble.

The biggest impact in last night's game was Reid vs McDermott. If McDermott knew to squib kick there would be no need to talk of speed because we would have just outscored the Chiefs with the guys on this roster. There's no doubt in my mind we need a legit pass rusher more than track stars at WR and how we acquire a pass rusher I don't care. No one has worked out yet (signing or drafting) but that doesn't mean we can stop trying.

I'm not sure AJE was ever supposed to have a ceiling like Bosa or Watt. He seems like he was more or less a replacement for Lawson, who in my opinion would have been a better pass rusher than anyone we had out there minus maybe Oliver. First year guys frequently need a year to develop and I can still see Rousseau getting better. Best case scenario with what we have (imho) is that Oliver and Phillips get even better at being disruptive and collapsing a pocket and our younger DE's can clean up because the QB can't step up all the time. The years that we had significantly higher sack numbers we had DT's that could break down a pocket.

We need a Garrett or a Bosa or a Watt. It would be our Allen of the defense. A guy who makes everything else work even if things aren't perfect.

It doesn't matter how many first round picks are on what side of the ball. You draft BPA or need. I can get behind needing some talent on the o-line. That said what this team is missing hands down is a pass rusher who can chase a QB all game long. Someone who plays in the backfield all game long like Garrett, Bosa, or Watt.

If you kick it deep but not into the end zone they're not going to take a knee because they'd be starting on their own 15 yard line.

I'm talking about tonights game. Epenesa made at least a couple of plays. Addison did nothing. Addison made a few plays over the course of the season you're right but he hardly played up to his contract and I'm not sure one of the rookies couldn't have totaled 6 sacks if they had played as many snaps as Addison.

BPA or need doesn't dictate us drafting offense. I'm not saying draft defense but I'm not saying not to draft defense either. I wouldn't be surprised to see Rousseau or Basham play much better with Hughes and/or Addison gone after having a season under their belts. I'd go far as to say they were better than Hughes or Addison tonight. They aren't beating their blockers though and that's what we need. I don't care if we get a FA or keep drafting but we need a legit play making pass rusher.

Is something wrong with the offense?

I actually thought the young guys were noticeably better at containing Mahommes than Addison and Hughes. No one was beating their man off the edge. Oliver is possibly our best pass rusher at beating the guy in front of him.

Epenesa made a couple good stops in the run and did more than Addison (not hard to do). Our Interior line wasn't bad at all. Hughes and Addison are useless.

Don't forget Addison .............. he didn't even register on the stat sheet today but I promise you 97 was out there doing nothing most of the game.

I'll buy the got pressure but (and maybe I'm asking for a lot here) non of our defensive ends ever win. They never beat a tackle and come around the edge and bury the QB. They come around the edge and get pushed past the QB as he steps up and escapes the pocket and either makes a pass or runs for 20 yards on us. If every QB was as athletic as Mahommes they'd all do it. Hell Matt Ryan should have scrambled for a TD on us. We need an end who blows tackles up a few times a game.

Don't care how they get a pass rusher. Just get one. Addison was not even on the stat sheet for this game and yet I saw him out there falling on his face several times. Addison and Hughes our two most expensive DE's were basically non existent.

Can't blame Beane he has tried but we need someone who can win on the D line. No one on the front 4 was beating anyone on the regular. Oliver might be our best pass rusher and he's at DT.

Hell i would have settled for 10 yards. We gave up 20 yards on the first quick hitter and they only used 5 seconds.

Sad thing is, this teams best defensive quality is playing coverage. We play coverage. We don't give up points. We're not a big run stopping team in identity. We're not a super pass rushing team by identity. We play coverage and we get turnovers, keep teams from scoring. All we needed to do is play our football and not do some goofy situational crap. Cover the recievers and make Mahommes burn time finding someone. Don't let them get two plays off and we win.

Squib kick it .......... run off 3 or 4 seconds. They get the ball with ten seconds left and have to go 50 yards. Now they can run one play tops because if they run another play with less than 5 seconds the clock runs out without ever kicking.

13 ................ it was 13 seconds. We gave up 20 yards in 5 seconds. It was already apparent we were going to let them get into fg range and then we gave up another huge play that made it go from hoping to get a kick off to an easy kick for Butker. Just ridiculous. They went 55 plus yards in 10 seconds.

Almost all of the one score losses you can point to horrible game management. I'm not going to hate on our coaches because they do so many things right most of the time but our situational game management leaves much to be desired.

Can't let a team score from the 25 in 13 seconds. You just can't.

Complete pick on that play.

At least 50 percent of our line just fell down. No one blocking them. Just tripping over their own feet.

Hughes getting stoned by a rb.

Hell if they didn't let Mahommes get a pass off in 2 seconds that picked up 20 yards they never would have gotten 2 plays off. Play absolute coverage and make Mahommes look for someone for a while before he throws. Instead they give up a quick hitter for 20 yards that only used 5 seconds. They should have just kept playing defense.