Billz4ever

I'm not a video editor. I'll let the people who are do that.

Want to know how you can't just blame the turnovers on Josh and that the line has culpability here too? Josh took 33 sacks this year vs 26 each of the 2 previous seasons. The line was clearly an issue. Josh will own them all and he repeatedly says they're on him, but the line cannot be overlooked.

By the end of the season, it seemed like the offense had completely abandoned the short passing game completely in favor of those slow-developing drop-backs and when you have a subpar O-line, that's not a good recipe. I don't understand how they saw any logic in that.

I really hope you're being sarcastic here and I'm simply not picking it up.

And you would think those are the types of higher percentage plays that Dorsey would be drawing up, whether it's for a TD or just to keep the chains moving. Nope, the short game all but completely disappeared by the end of the season. It was feast or famine.

Philly only allowed the Chiefs 7 offensive points in the first half, so they were doing a decent job. It fell apart in the second half. Reid made adjustments and Mahomes was getting rid of the ball quickly, so sacks weren't going to happen. With the points and the offense we saw in this game, it should be crystal clear that no matter how good the defense, the great offenses of today are going to score. Which brings us to the Hurts fumble. While not obvious when it happened, was a huge factor. But regardless, refs should not be injecting themselves into a play like that unless they've been calling a tight game from the start.

And they had let those same type of plays slide literally the entire game until then. That's the point. You're either going to call a tight game, or you're going to let them play. If you're not going to call it the rest of the game, you certainly shouldn't be calling it when it will literally decide the game. Refs must be consistent. It was a very weak call.

On the TD to Skyy Moore, the Eagles blitzed up the middle and the Chiefs had the perfect counter called. The blitz came and Mahomes simply tossed it to a wide-open Moore.

It didn't stop him momentum. What stopped his momentum was the receiver himself since he was going to turn it up field. The spilt second grab of the jersey never impeded the receiver from getting up field. How could it? The pull is in the direction he was going to be going.

If I remember, Allen's explanation for that was the rusher at the top of the screen that was being blocked and later broke free to get closer to Allen blocked his view and he never saw the defender there. Either way, yeah, not a good ball. He should've recognized the coverage.

True, but that game also showed that you don't even need great receivers to beat a good defense. You just need good play calling, good blocking up front, and a QB that can deliver the ball on time and the defense is going to have a hard time stopping you no matter what they do. That's how the league is designed these days.

Yep, we can claim Josh isn't on a level playing field with guys like Mahomes, but the Bills really have no one to blame for that besides themselves. I'm hoping after watching this Super Bowl in particular, the lightbulb comes on and they figure out that it's the offense that matters most in today's NFL.

The odd makers must have confidence that the FO makes the necessary moves this offseason to make that possible. I certainly hope they're right. I'm looking forward to the draft, but also dreading it at the same time.

And my worry is our defensive-minded HC will never figure that out.

Yep, as soon as it happened it reminded me of the Mahomes fumble against Cincy. Only difference was there were Chiefs around to prevent them from advancing it.

If nothing else, it should keep those other guys at the table hungry. If our FO and coaching staff can get their s*** together, there's no reason Allen can't accomplish that too. Same for Burrow and depending on where Lamar ends up, maybe him too. Mahomes is in any QBs dream situation right now. He has an offensive wizard as a coach, a great line, along with a TE that seems to open all the time. The Chiefs are actually sitting pretty good with the cap too, so they could potentially even improve their WR corps, which could make them even tougher.

Yep, even more so now with the high-powered offenses, the number of possessions is key. If a defense can force a mistake and generate a turnover, that's really all you need to win now because you will just outscore them.

No, but actually more important.

The old adage "Defense wins Championships" is a thing of the past and no longer relevant in today's NFL. Between rules changes and offensive schemes that take advantage of them, offenses have the clear advantage now. The league wants to see points scored and lots of them. I don't even know if the 85 Bears D would be able to do much to stop the high-powered offenses of today. The defensive-minded dinosaurs need to understand this, or they will just become fossils of a bygone era.

He threw us 2. TJ picked him off thanks to Von's pressure to end the game.

If they had been calling it consistently all night and then decided not to call it for some reason, sure. But we had the opposite happen here. If you're going to let them play, then let them play. You can't all the sudden start calling something you've been letting slide all night and then make a game determining call on what was a very weak instance of a hold.

That was a very split-second occurrence; he didn't continue to pull. As you can see by that very picture, it was prior to the receiver's turn upfield, so it didn't impede the receiver's ability to get to where the ball was going to be thrown. If anything, that's a pull in the direction the receiver wanted to go anyway. And the greater point is they hadn't called other examples of that all night long. Refs have to be consistent.

Yeah, maybe someone with some editing skills will comb through and pull them out. I hope they do. For that to happen at the end of what was a good Super Bowl is just awful to have the zebras determine the outcome like that. The game was over as soon as that flag came out.

I don't care if he admitted to the JFK assassination. They hadn't called that all night when there's plenty of examples of it and worse ones. Refs must be consistent. For them to throw that flag there, it needed to be an egregious occurrence. That's not what happened. I've watched the replay of that several times and still can't believe they threw that flag. That was one of the weakest cases of a defensing holding call I think I've ever seen and they chose to do it on a 3rd down with less than two minutes to go in the game, and it essentially ended the game. If you're not going to consistently call it, then keep the dang flag in your pocket and don't determine the outcome of a Super Bowl.

Yeah, because the teams that do it the most are the ones who are good at it. Who cares?