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Allen’s defenses have given up 19 PPG in the playoffs when they aren’t playing teams Quarterbacked by Mahomes. They’ve given up 33 PPG when they are.

The fact that he had a very reasonable contract factored heavily into that.

That Hairston appears to have called a lie.

Reading the responses, I’m pretty sure it’s being treated as a “what do you hope happens in 2025?” thread rather than a bold prediction thread.

That guy is a hack.

Is your sport wheelchair basketball?

The Chiefs are so clueless, amirite?

Maybe more telling is that they’ve got a bunch of slot WRs, and Shakir’s still entrenched in that spot. If he could effectively play on the boundary, they’d put Coleman or Samuel in the slot and instantly improve at two positions.

That’s actually really cool.

In this case, it’s less about the contracts they have and more about the ones they don’t. They have very little dead money, and the closest thing to a bad contract they have is Jawaan Taylor who is a solid to good RT who will be gone after this coming season. When you’ve got a ton of key players on rookie deals and nobody on terrible deals, you can afford to keep most of your core intact. Even with that, they’ve had to part with guys like Thuney and Sneed recently, though.

Maybe I’m misreading this. Are you saying that adding a top 5 pass rusher would be less impactful than adding Saquan? Cook played his ass off against the Chiefs whereas Saquan wasn’t really a factor. The reason the Eagles won is basically the same reason every time Kansas City loses. Their defensive line overwhelmed us. There’s simply no solution to that problem. The Texans did the same thing in the Divisional round, but their offense wasn’t good enough to take advantage of it. You don’t beat Mahomes in the playoffs by having a better RB. You beat him by planting him in the turf every time he drops back.

That is incredible.

He’s a lower end #1 edge or an excellent #2. I think he’ll live in the 8-12 sack range for most of his career. He’s not an athletic freak, but he wins by being relentless. If he’s your best pass rusher, you probably don’t have a great pass rush.

In 4 seasons, Rousseau has 25 regular season sacks and 3 postseason sacks. In 3 seasons, Karlaftis has 24.5 regular season sacks and 8 postseason sacks. He’s now under control for 6 more seasons at $110,000,000 total. That’s a very reasonable deal.

He’s won Defensive Player of the Year and finished in the top 5 in voting 5 times. He also has more sacks, QB hits, and tackles for a loss than any player since he’s been in the league. Pretty stupid to pay him, though.

Paying the best defensive player in the game is stupid?

The problem is that you can’t simply extrapolate stats as target share increases. Shakir’s 2024 season compared to 2023 is a prime example of that. Shakir had 120% more targets in 2024 but only 34% more yards. His catch rate dropped by 12%, and his yards per target dropped by 40%. Adding 15% more targets, as you suggest, would only further degrade his efficiency. Shakir is best suited for what he was in 2023, a guy who works within 5 yards of the LOS, primarily between the 20s. When the field shrinks and defenders play closer to the LOS, so does his usefulness (as evidenced by the fact that he has 7 career TDs). He’s a bit of a niche player. He’s fantastic at that niche, but it’s unlikely that he’ll ever become a guy who stretches the field, makes contested catches, or pressures defenses in the red zone. That’s why they drafted Coleman and traded for Cooper last year.

It’s not so much of a “road” thing as it is that the home team is (theoretically) the better team as well. As far as the defense goes, what do you consider healthy to mean? The AFCCG is the 19th or 20th game of the season. Nobody’s going to have all 22 of their starters healthy and available. There’s a 100% chance that you’re going to be missing multiple starters in the postseason.

So you think he’s “getting the book thrown at him” over this? I guess we’ll see. I said 4 game suspension originally. That’s probably about right. I’d be very surprised if it’s more than 6.

Well I’m just glad that Chiefs fans are immune to that. 😀

Yep. Not exactly sure why 90sBills seems surprised that when Mecole Hardman (the guy at the bottom of the WR depth chart) went down that he was replaced by a player from the practice squad. I assume he’s just trying to find ways to validate letting the Chiefs draft Worthy by pretending that Andy Reid is terrified of exposing Worthy to injury risk. Meanwhile, guys like Rashee Rice, Hollywood Brown, Juju, Mecole Hardman, Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel, Dalton Kincaid, and Amari Cooper were all injured to varying degrees last season while Worthy played over 900 injury-free snaps. Coming into the draft, I had no interest in Xavier Worthy, but I’ve learned that you don’t get rich by betting against Kansas City’s front office when it comes to identifying talent. I’d be lying if I said I had no concerns surrounding his durability, but that’s a risk worth taking for a guy who impacts the entire defensive game plan.

He’s not the team’s top WR. Rashee Rice is WR1. Hollywood Brown is WR2. If those guys get injured again, Worthy won’t be returning punts. This isn’t that complicated.

Yeah, I’m sure Andy Reid was losing sleep over who was going to return punts for his 10-1 team when Mecole Hardman went down. You realize that Brandon Codrington returned punts for the Bills, right? Teams don’t tend to send their top WRs out to play special teams, particularly when they’re still learning the offense. Again, he played over 900 snaps on offense last season and they’re talking about sending him out to return punts this year. Literally nothing about that indicates that they’re trying to limit his use in order to shield him from injuries. In fact, he played more snaps than any other rookie WR last year.

When did they really need a punt returner? That’s much more of a luxury role than a need. All I ask of a punt returner is that he not fumble. Any return yards are just gravy. That practice squad guy came in and averaged 10 yards a return, so there was certainly no reason to pile more onto a 21 year old rookie’s plate who was thrust into the WR1 role unexpectedly.

Probably because he was a rookie learning the playbook and was thrown into a much larger role than anticipated after Rashee and Hollywood and Juju got hurt. He played 70% of the regular season snaps (week 18 excluded) and 85% of the postseason snaps. For the sake of comparison, that’s 200 more snaps than Shakir saw. No way they were going to have him split time practicing with special teams while learning Andy Reid’s playbook and building chemistry with Mahomes. It certainly had nothing to do with fear of protecting him from injury.