JustHewIt

You can do it! Start looking for the positives and bright spots (Max, Bishop, our O line, James Cook, our return game improving, Joe Brady changing it up, not sweating every field goal attempt this year...oh and some guy named Josh Allen) rather than dwelling on every little thing that isn't perfect and expecting doom. When you zoom out and look at the top teams, our problems don't look nearly as bad in comparison. This isn't the NBA, there aren't runaway favorites in this league. And even that rare team that does come along and dominate all year might have the whole thing ruined by Eli Manning. Get in the tournament and we have just as good as shot as anyone else.

The thing is the landscape of the AFC is wildly different this year, so to just assume the playoffs will go the same way is silly. And also we can't reconstruct the roster in any meaningful way at this point, so every thread devolving into complaining about the roster make up is pointless. Not to mention most of the time its just reacting to whichever unit played bad that game. Last two weeks it was "Receivers bad!" Now its "front seven bad!" Beginning of the year was "Secondary bad!"

Can we talk about Cole Bishop? Another massive, game changing play. Credit to the staff for sticking with him, fun to watch

Today just shows that this is a week to week league and we're good enough to compete with anyone. Which anyone that pays attention and isnt a big negative nancy already knew. GO BILLS

Thanks boys, I feel awesome this evening!!!! GO BILLS.

Pretty much every team has had a stretch of losing 2 of 4, and has looked bad at times. Are they all bad teams? Apparently the Colts, rams, Seahawks, broncos and eagles are the only good teams. We can jump straight to Championship Sunday and be one step closer to what many here are dying for: the off-season! What a truly great way to enjoy the NFL

Coming out and rushing for 200+ vs the Panthers and then Josh carving up KC probably didn't help this cause. The Dolphins game felt like a true wake up call...wishful thinking probably, but contrary to what the vocal minority says McD has shown a willingness to embrace change and demand a higher standard when we've gotten off track in the past.

We do, because we won. Going into the game it was the "red hot Panthers" that we'd be lucky to squeak one out against on the road. But we blew them out, therefore they're actually a poverty franchise and the win shouldn't even count.

You guys are just relentless. Gabe, Hardman, Keon, Samuel, Moore, they're all JAGs. Either Brady is going to scheme things up differently and Josh is going to elevate us or the stagnant passing game will continue. None of those names are transforming our offense alone. You're all acting like we're stashing prime Randy Moss on the practice squad because that darn McBeane is stubbornly loyal to Keon.

My god. The Cavs won in what, Lebron's 12th year? We've had 4 realistic chances at it with Josh. The Cavs also came back down 3-1 to beat the greatest regular season team ever in the NBA. Good thing no one gave up on them.

Lol ok. That's a high bar

Superior to whom? They had the number 3 pick

Shout out for this poll, quality sports bar talk, its a 50/50 split with both sides arguing that their path is a no brainer

I'd expect a pretty even split with the added benefit of Ty getting more passing targets if he's on for later downs -- Ty took a goal line carry last week and converted, I don't see Davis as being the unquestioned backup in any manner

I'm (sort of) surprised by all the complaining about McDermott. For whatever you want to say about the timeouts, to me that's totally outweighed by the 180 the defense has done since the bye. If you're going to crap all over him for the defense when it's bad, you better praise him when it looks like this. Also, I feel like criticism of the offense "almost giving the game away" in the second half is a bit ridiculous. The narrative that everyone has beaten into oblivion is that we have no receivers whatsoever. But then when we lean on our running game, run the clock. limit KC's possessions, all the sudden that's a horrible decision? Would you rather throw it to our so-called crappy receivers, be inefficient and give the Chiefs an extra 2-3 possessions? It's just constant goal-post moving by the negative nancies no matter what the team does. Awesome, awesome win. If you aren't flying high today then why even watch the team?

It's amazing how quickly the mood shifted here from "Our defense is bottom of the league and a total joke, we'll never win anything with it" to "is Josh the problem?" All I know is that if Josh is our biggest problem, I'm feeling pretty good about that

Mahomes, he strikes me as a poor sport, he's Mr. Humility when things are going well and a whining baby that blames others when they're not. That "we play between the whistles" comment after the Detroit game was a joke also. Also the fans, especially when they yell "Chiefs" at the end of the national anthem and the tomahawk chop they copied from Florida State.

Can we pump the brakes slightly on the Pats? They look solid but they've beaten Carolina, New Orleans, Cleveland, Miami, Tennessee and then us. I'm not ready to pencil them in for 14 wins quite yet. We've been in this same boat with Miami's hot starts back when the league had no idea to what to do with Tua/McDaniels and that offense was running roughshod on everyone. Remember Miami's 70 point game? Sustained success like that is rarely seen in the NFL once the league adjusts to your fastball.

"We have a slogan we made up -- Just Do It" - Patrick Mahomes, probably

Josh has a 108 rating with no turnovers and we win by 30+: "Why are Josh's screens messing up his game? Can't he just throw it normal?" Good lord.

McD has clearly lost the team

Literally no one is asking for this. We just want to be able to have more than one topic of conversation ("McBeane sucks at everything they do!") every thread, every week for 17-20 straight weeks when there's nothing the team can do RIGHT NOW to change anything. Save it for the offseason

I understand this is yet another "McBeane cant build a roster" post, but stating that having an MVP quarterback wins you a lot of games and makes you a contender isnt really much of a point. Also, prior to this year we have a fantastic average margin of victory and have had many, many blowouts. You dont do that without a competent team.

To those stats, we've gotten to go against the Jets, Miami, Saints, Falcons...not exactly a murderers row of quarterbacks. In past seasons we'd have shut all those teams down and probably limited Maye more. The eye test in that Falcons game was pretty rough for me. To your point about the players though--yeah, it seems unlikely that our entire secondary is just suddenly awful. I'm surprised we're not axing Babich myself, the defense looks about as uninspired as the offense did at the end of Dorsey's reign. And we've seen how the same group of players can suddenly come alive with schematic changes

Everyone take notes, this is how you do a negativity post. So much better than "Yeah but chiefs playoff superbowl fire mcdermott hur dur"