Brand J

KC offensive line has been suspect all year on the edges. Not so in the playoffs somehow. They’re like a wall. I feel like the team is playing far above their talent on offense.

Hopefully BAL doesn’t start pressing, making things worse. How many NBA legends would have rings if not for Michael Jordan? I feel we’re witnessing the same. Allen would have a trophy now if not for Mahomes.

I thought it would’ve been tough against the Ravens because their offense was more explosive than KC and defense was just as good if not better… looking like I was very wrong. The regular season KC offense has been nothing like the playoff KC offense.

Juggernaut KC offense I guess

I think how the INTs came (tipped, directly to a defender, etc) would matter, BUT when you’ve got MVPs,Super Bowl rings, Super Bowl MVPs, and first team all pro designations, you can get away with a lot more. When you have none of that you’re more highly scrutinized.

Remember, it’s not about where a player is taken, but rather who it is. Detroit’s impact receiver Amon-Ra St Brown went in the 4th. The 49ers Deebo Samuel? He went in that second round you worry about. There’s so much luck involved with these picks, a guy could pass every single test, athleticism, size, productive college career, and then can get to the pros and be a dud. By all accounts, it looks like Marvin Harrison Jr will be a beast at the next level, but for every Calvin Johnson, a Charles Rogers lurks 😅 I won’t get too hung up on where Beane takes a receiver within those first 5 rounds as long as he takes two of them. Preferably higher since the chances of hitting are greater, but I won’t worry one way or another. Let’s see what happens when they step on the field.

As a GM, the only trade up I would do (in general) is for a QB. Maaaybe I would trade up for an athletic freak at DE, but all other positions? It’s proven they can be had anywhere in the draft, just gotta hit on the right guy and get lucky. We traded up for Elam when much better corners went later. Traded up for Kincaid (hated it at the time) and although that pick worked out, another player was drafted later who is at least on par with him. Traded up for Edmunds when Darius/Shaquille Leonard and Fred Warner were still on the board and in Warner’s case went much later. The draft is a lottery and if I were a GM, I’d try to stockpile the most 1-5th round picks I possibly could year after year. I’m not sacrificing those to move up, because in doing so I’d be sacrificing the chance to hit on a guy who could be a steal.

Do NOT trade up. Whoever we take, I can just about guarantee a guy will go later who will be just as good or better. Happens every draft.

He’s a roster spot we don’t necessarily need. If he was an offensive threat in some way, blocked like Sam Gash or had hands like Larry Centers, okay. But he doesn’t really move the needle in one way or another.

He was in fact clinically dead on the field. I’m not sure what his future (career) holds, but I’m happy he’s resumed a completely normal life.

I felt that Brandon Beane coming out and saying “Diggs is a number one receiver,” in his season ending presser was curious. He no doubt hears the chatter and I believe knows he’s gotta get a guy who strikes fear in the opponent. Diggs is great, but I don’t think any of these teams fear him. Even the Chiefs were puffing out their chest saying “he knew what was up” when Sneed locked him up. We’ll have to hit on a guy, a future number one who plays like it right out of the gate.

Yeah Von was a force before the injury, but it’s always a “what have you done for me lately?” league. Von would’ve got my vote easily if his play hadn’t fallen off a cliff this year.

Yeah two completely different halves. Someone did say he was dealing with a shoulder injury, so that may explain it.

Not to mention Kincaid had a good chance to run for the first if the ball was on him right after his break.

Your eyes go where the ball is. You think because Josh isn’t throwing it, there must not be anyone open. Someone somewhere is almost open on just about every play, the defense can’t take everyone away but whoever it is that won the route doesn’t always get the ball. Whether that’s because the open player is only a yard or two past the LoS, or maybe downfield but Josh didn’t see him, or got pressured, I mean there are a number of variables. Bills have ran a number of rub/pick plays and the ball hasn’t gone to the receiver who got open as a result. It’s on film. I believe it was Dawson Knox in the Patriots loss who was wide open in the endzone after getting a pick and the ball never went to him. Shakir had one where Davis picked his man and was pointing emphatically. We do have guys get open. This is not to say the scheme doesn’t need to work on the finer details. As Warner pointed out in his video analysis receivers aren’t running routes correctly at times to force advantageous leverage. That’s on the OC and the receivers coach to fix. As to whether Josh could run a Shanahan offense, of course he could. But it may look completely different from the way Purdy and Tua run it. Those are first read QBs, they know where they want to go with the ball before the snap based on the look. If that read is taken away, the offense doesn’t look as smooth. Knowing and understanding where you want to go is part of film study and Josh has admitted he prefers to play instinctually rather than hang out in the film room diagnosing defenses. For comparisons sake, the offense the Bills ran under Daboll, Dorsey, and now Joe Brady, is mostly the same offense Tom Brady ran in New England, but I think we can admit the way a Tom Brady offense is ran is quite different than with Josh Allen at the helm. Tom said he was the biggest film junkie, he was always breaking down tape of what defenses were doing. When he got into the game he had such an understanding of where he wanted to go with the ball, it was frequently out of his hands before the DL had an opportunity to make a play. I’d be surprised if Josh isn’t at or near the top of the league in terms of time spent holding the ball. I do think he needs to become better pre snap to elevate his game even more. And when I say elevate, I mostly mean “raise his floor” as his ceiling is as high as any QB who has ever played the game.

The problem with Ken Dorsey is that he was trying to force Allen to become a cerebral QB, a pocket passer like Tom Brady who only ran out of necessity. Sounded good in theory since the coaching staff wants to prolong Josh’s career, but that’s not the way Josh plays. He’s not a surgical passer who consistently finds the open guy against any defensive call. Dorsey’s offense often had open receivers running around that Josh failed to hit, but to hit those receivers Josh would have to know and understand what his answers are against any given defense. What Brady did was not only simplify the game for him, but he allowed him to get back to doing what he loves to do - use his legs. If Dorsey goes somewhere and has a lot of success as that team’s offensive coordinator it’s entirely because of the QB he’s working with. Dorsey is not a terrible coordinator as this board would have you believe, he and Josh just weren’t a match. Dorsey needs a cerebral point guard running his offense.

Allen is a great player, most likely a future HOFer, but Mahomes is Michael Jordan in cleats. There’s no one in the league that plays the position better than that guy. I don’t think Josh could’ve taken the same KC team with those subpar weapons and made the AFCCG. We went from Tom Brady abusing us for over a decade, to Mahomes sending us home in the playoffs every time the two have faced off. The accolades speak for themselves, while our guy has none. No Super Bowl appearances, no MVPs, no All Pro nods, and is barely a Pro Bowl invitee (I know, the Pro Bowl means nothing). I do hope Lamar sends him home Sunday, even if that invites constant and annoying ball washing praise for Lamar. I’m just tired of Mahomes elevating that team when they should be in retool mode (last year) or in a down year (this season). He’s like The Terminator, or as Reid called him, “The Grim Reaper.”

That doesn’t bother me as much as passing on AJ Brown and DK Metcalf a year earlier. I’m not sure Beane and co can properly evaluate receivers. Of course the same can be said for the rest of the league given how late those guys went, BUT you’ve gotta take a swing on one at some point and he’s never felt any of them were worth the value.

From The Atheltic: Dear Beane, we need a young, big, fast and physical WR1 in the mold of DK Metcalf. Thank you.

Ivan Pace Jr (UDFA) would’ve been a phenomenal late draft pick in retrospect. All other players who made this list were 1st-3rd rounders.

The interesting part about the video is that when Josh decided to make the throw and Shakir had yet to uncover, the safety was in a position where he could’ve had leverage if he played the endzone rather than the man. Meaning, if he was watching Josh in his zone while keeping Shakir in his peripheral, it could’ve easily been an INT. Warner said based on where the safety was and where Shakir was running, he would’ve came off the read and hit Diggs on the crosser. I agreed watching the route develop on the tape and where the safety was at the time, but as we know Josh is aggressive. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t. Unfortunately that one didn’t and we’re back to waiting for the offseason.

FIFY. If we want to say the DB was holding Sherfield’s arm on the first, okay, but it didn’t look like he was trying to fight him off and get his arm away (which might’ve drawn PI), but the second long pass downfield I feel most receivers in the league will come down with. When Sherfield got up protesting to the ref that he caught the ball, he gave me hope watching from home and then I see on the replay it clearly hit the turf and I’m like “dude, what are you arguing??”

Final 2nd & 9 and 3rd & 9 really illustrate how Josh got out of taking what the defense was giving him versus wanting to go for the kill shot TD. Both plays had available receivers for potential first down yardage. But, as Warner says, up until that point he had played virtually perfect football. To beat another QB playing close to perfect, it would’ve taken perfection all throughout. The lapse got us. To be clear, I don’t blame Josh, I blame the sieve of a defense. It’d be interesting to see how often we disrupted their routes.

It’s unfair to attack him personally. Fans have to be bigger than that. I maintain the game was over if he had nailed that kick anyway. No way was that defense stopping Mahomes from getting at least a FG. All that said, I think Bass is cooked. It was discussed yesterday that once a kicker’s mind goes into yips mode, they never recover to become one of the best in the league, which is what we need him to be given that contract. He may have another year or two where he returns to form and does well, but make no mistake, if the yips leave it’s only temporary, they’ll be coming back at some point and now that he’s missed a playoff game tie/winner he has that to further cloud his mind.

A willingness to tackle doesn’t account for much if the play goes for a long gain because the tackle is missed. Without going back to look, I’m almost certain the 80 something yard run Breece Hall had in the opener happened because Tre missed a tackle at the LoS. He showed a willingness to hit Hall, but what does it matter if he can’t bring him down?