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Doesn't cutting Miller alone get us out of the red by like 15 million? I'm not a big salary cap follower, so maybe I'm off base here.

I've seen players make a catch like that all season routinely. In no way is that an amazing catch, it's an incredible individual effort from Allen to get the ball there. Shakir was open. I don't blame Allen for not throwing across his body to a receiver behind the line of scrimmage while falling backwards with three Chiefs on him when he made a very, very catchable pass to Kincaid beyond the line to gain.

Kincaid didn't look very covered when the ball hit him in the hands with the closest Chiefs players being 3-5 yards away.

He's better in the back end of drafts than early on, and I'd rather have that then the opposite because I think the later rounds are much harder to predict. The cap was pretty damning this season but that's mostly fixed moving forward. Beane is fine.

McDermott's scheme isn't good enough to stop the best teams, and it's seemingly the same no matter who the players are out there. We've spent more capital on the D-Line than any other position, and the results are identical every post-season. That's scheme. We've gotten the Chiefs to punt like 6 times in the last 4 meetings, that should tell you all you need to know. Either Beane gets lucky and we draft some All-Pro D Line talent or we just do the same thing over next season, barring changing the coaching staff (which I don't think we'll do). EDIT: And just because I'm feeling extra snarky, look at the guys from the D-Line who joined other teams. Poona Ford and Tim Settle had decent seasons after doing nothing with the Bills. What does that tell you? Scheme matters.

McDermott is a good coach and his scheme is designed to work against 85% of the NFL, but when you reach the upper echelon of teams it all falls apart. I don't know how many times we need this to happen before we call a spade a spade here. Without an elite of the elite D-Line talent ala TJ Watt, I don't see how you can fix this with the way McDermott wants to play. The whole thing seems to be predicated on generating consistent pressure with 4-guys. If you can't do that, then the QB just finds the guy with no one near him.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills seeing people trying to blame our only All-Pro talent with the loss yesterday. Did you all not see it hit Kincaid in the hands? If the argument is "he didn't completely dominate the game and play perfect, so it's his fault because we had the ball..." then you don't have much of a leg to stand on. It's excusing the play calling, it's excusing the receivers, it's excusing that absolutely atrocious excuse for a defense we had yesterday. A scapegoat is convenient, not reality. We almost won in spite of how badly the rest of the team played, and yall want to complain about Allen? The only reason why the team is relevant? Really?

McD's scheme just isn't up to snuff, or at least it isn't when it comes to competent teams. Bend don't break only works when the other guy makes a mistake or if you get a big turnover. We consistently have no pressure. We consistently have WRs wide open in our backfield. We consistently are bad against the run. This is consistent the past 7+ years, regardless of personnel. Unless we get some superstar talent in the DL, like a TJ Watt or Chris Jones type, I don't see the scheme ever working against Mahomes and Reid.

That sounds like pretty awful logic to me, since we have no idea what the game would have looked like by that point if things in the first quarter were dramatically different. Ultimately, Allen put the team in the position to convert the 4th (despite ridiculous and immediate pressure) and they let him down. Then the defense had a shot to get the ball back so we would have a chance and they let him down. I'll never blame the only player on my team that I know I could never part with in a re-draft. Especially when he drags us to wins we have no business getting.

Mahomes had guys open without any resistance from the Bills all night. Mahomes' runs were the most impressive part of his day. Allen put the ball into the hands of Kincaid that final. He needs to make that catch. Seems pretty asinine to blame a QB who hit his target in the hands under duress

Yeah, I'm about to lose it here: "no IDEA why Josh did not throw the orbit to Shakir." I know why. He was backpedaling for his life as soon as the ball's snapped. He had no time to evaluate and he STILL THREW IT TO AN OPEN MAN AND HIT HIM IN THE HANDS.

Look, we can complain about the refs and I'm right there with you. The Chiefs seem to get crucial calls in their favor when it matters consistently. But I don't think that's all of it. How many years in a row do we need to watch the guys around Allen let him down? Kincaid should have that ball. No, it's not an easy catch, but in the moment it's what he needed to do. I'm tired of watching Allen play with 2nd rate coaching coupled with 2nd and 3rd rate talents. He's the reason we're even a team worth talking about. Something's got to give here. I'm absolutely gutted.

Rapp's best quality is that he's a homing missile. I think Cole Bishop can adequately fill that role, just needs to not get beaten deep. It makes Worthy slightly more dangerous. The Chiefs haven't been beating folks with explosive plays though.

I mean sexuality really is a spectrum and there have been reports of Diggs out with women as well. I don't know why any of it matters. I don't care about any of it so long as everyone involved is a consenting adult. The weird fan fiction speculation of a Diggs/Allen fallout because of homosexual tension is really weird.

True. It's too bad I've been cursed with a love of beer, pizza, video games and naps. Hard to making a living doing those things.

I'm gonna work till I die too, just not by choice. I'll never understand this mindset. Go enjoy the time you have left. Stressing out and ignoring your family, friends, and the world outside of football hardly seems worth it to me.

31-20 Bills The only way the Chiefs have a shot is if Noah Gray / Kelce can pick apart the Bills. I'm not really worried about much else offensively.

Yeah, that's totally understandable, but it's hard for me to not be on the "let's maximize Allen" mindset.

~800 is what I spend to get from NY back to Hawaii. I would never spend that much to go Missouri in the winter...

I'd draft someone earlier. Good WRs on rookie deals are the 3rd best value proposition in the NFL (QB and DE being 1 and 2). As much as Josh is elevating the WR Core, I think the passing game is showing some minor limitations compared to some other high powered offenses.

Has he ever done well without Tom Brady? It doesn't seem like it. Just to be clear, that's the point I was making. There are coaches who had elite talents who are seemingly good coordinators with the elite talent, but then go on to do nothing. That's Adam Gase in a nutshell, and I think it can apply to McDaniels to some degree as well. Either way, I'm not going to go and worry about the Patriots until they prove they're worth thinking about again.

Gase was an awful coordinator too though.

Definitely agree with that, but I think that offense is significantly easier to stall out than the Ravens, so we won't need to rely on turnovers as much. The Bills have all the tools on offense to sustain drives and put points up every time they have the ball. I'm not so sure the Chiefs can say the same about their offense today.

Overwhelming evidence to support your claim: Adam Gase. A guy who coasted off being Manning's coach for nearly a decade while being objectively awful at his job.

What KC have you been watching all season? They are not a score fast team in any regard now. All you need to do is play mistake free football and you'll probably win. It's significantly easier than beating the Ravens. The Chiefs have won so many games this season on technicalities, teams beating themselves, and referee interference. It's a miracle (or a conspiracy) that they're in the position they're in now. I'm not trying to be overly confident here, but I see the Bills coming out with a win on Sunday, and I think it looks a lot cleaner than the win against the Ravens.