DapperCam

I think Palmer was his read before spinning out of the sack (he did flash open), and then rushed the throw (for all he knows he’s about to get clobbered from behind). Palmer shouldn’t have been his read anyway. They didn’t need to get it all in one play (and actually probably didn’t want to). Coach needs to be emphasizing down/distance before that drive.

I wouldn’t say the offense has struggled. They are the #1 offense in the league in points per game. Even in their “bad” games they put up 24 and 26 points which is enough to win a lot of weeks. They have the #25 scoring defense which is really bad. That is worse than my expectations. I was hoping for like 16-20th ranked.

I think a bigger worry than one loss is that the defense has looked really bad all season (sans one game, where the Chargers still moved the ball pretty well but turned it over). It’s possible they turn it around as everybody gels and Leonhard is able to install his vision. But it’s equally (or more) likely that we don’t have the horses to run his defense and we will be equivalent to last year’s Lions. Nobody is winning a SB with this defense. Absolute ceiling is AFCCG unless they figure something out.

Other teams have designed plays for a player to be wide open for an easy pitch and catch. When I watch the Ravens, there are players college wide open going across the middle of the field. When I watch the Chiefs, they scheme up short yardage plays designed so a player is wide open. Brady’s short yardage play is slamming Allen into the line, or have Allen scramble around and try to make something out of nothing.

I think the play of the defense gets into Allen’s head. Same reason for that silly fumble at the end of the half last playoffs. You feel like there is not way the defense is going to make a stop and go hero ball mode. Mahomes defense keeps the opposing offenses under 20 points often. It’s just way easier to operate with that sort of team (they did just surrender 27, but 7 of that was pretty much garbage time).

I wonder how they run their 2 point conversions. Is it a set play that goes to a certain player no matter what? The 2pt conversion they ran earlier in the year that was to Coleman felt like that (and was similarly awful). We are one of the best red zone teams the past 5 years but we can’t run a 2pt conversion. Very strange.

This offense feels a lot like the Ken Dorsey offense. Which was such a stupid offense. They need more balance and not chase so many deep shots.

Coaches play all sorts of games with the injury report. As long as he’s not limited in his activities in practice, then they have plausible deniability to not include him on the report (even though technically they are supposed to include anybody with any injury or ailment).

Allen has some sort of injury. I’ve never seen him kneel behind the line to avoid a tackle. He didn’t even attempt to scramble today, which is a big part of his game. He was running fine the first two weeks, so something is up.

Notice how when Mahomes just led a go ahead drive late in the 4th quarter his team didn’t immediately allow the opponent to score their own go ahead score and force him to do it again.

In the Texans game where they gave up 31 points and almost 400 yards to the totally mediocre Texans offense? Am I taking crazy pills? People understand a TD in the first quarter counts the same as a TD on the final drive of the game, right? And it’s the sum of scores during a game that determine the outcome?

Mahomes didn’t even make the playoffs last year. He looks worst than Allen does today so far.

Are you kidding dude? The defense gave up 400+ yards, 29 points, and the game winning go ahead TD drive against a bottom-3 offense up to this point. They were atrocious!

How many times do you want the offense to score a go ahead TD at the end of the game? If we have to score 30 points every week to win then we are in trouble. The defense is bottom-5 in the league right now.

Because our defense has allowed 3/4 teams they have faced to do whatever they want.