colin

i agree. while we might pick d players, and they might be great picks, i think we have to come away from this offseason addressing wr in both the draft and if possible FA. said another way -- some bargain guys and late round draft picks filling out our roster could get us the same deffensive performance we had vs kc, namely a trash one. just one more wr at the top, and or a couple wrs filling out the list instead of 16 and 11, and we score 10+ more points and walk away winners.

so my silly take: back in the day, the RB1 was the most important skill guy on the team, in some cases more than the qb. the teams and the culture and what not were structured so that you really wanted a monster as your rb1. ricky williams, edge james, LT, AP, even as recently as marshawn, you had these guys who by themselves made your o run and made you better. that's changed, you now have great rbs, but they are devalued, and rb is a a platoon position no matter who the team is. you also have different rbs who do different things on teh same team. i think wr has become what rb1 was back in the day. the true wr1 is a guy who can by himself ball out and make things happen, the d has to double him, or account for him, or whatever. him being in makes all the other pass catchers better. anyhow, based on this, there aren't that many true wr1s in the nfl, cinci might have 2. miami perhaps, but im not so sure. and that also means diggs, by this rather restrictive analysis, is not quote a wr1. he's a great player, a top flight player, but he does not make other pass catchers better, or more open. he does not draw double coverage, he wasn't even covered by sneed on some snaps. it also explains why his second halves and stuff fall off so hard. he's doing a lot of work to get open, and has generally great hands, but he doesn't show up huge in big games (he tends not to show up at all) and having beez and brown and davis made him better, at least as much as the other way around.

we might get a 3rd comp pick for edmunds, but we have a lot of like 5th and 5th round picks, like 11 picks total we are going to have to let guys go for cap savings, and guys are off contract too (von and groot are our only signed DEs). we will have low round picks getting burn at DT and DE, and likely safety too. cb when healthy we are good (we could cut tre imo, but we have tre, douglas, elam, benford for 2 spots), and LB we have an oddly deep group (dodson, milano, williams, TB, spector). given how zero impact our safeties and DL had vs kc, i'm fine w that. time for mcd to make chicken salad out of chicken poop on D. we need to get better on O, and just fill out the roster otherwise. I expect a thumper RB to get drafted, at least 2 DL, and 1 S, but we need a real stud WR more than anything and can just find street FAs to fill in lots of spaces on D. cripes, we had aj klien doing SFA in our biggest game

ill take him, but there will prolly be a better wr target for the money given we have shakir. we need a guy to go deep and catch passes on the outside. he might cost too much, but i'd love to see a tee higgins or some such be added to diggs on the outside. with kinkaid, cook, and shakir doing what they can in the middle, imo a real guy on the outside puts us over the top. seeing 16 or 11 lined up outside one on one on 2nd and 3rd down its just a waste imo. 16 got smacked on the hands with two bombs and never came close to making a play. we can get better than that production out of shorter or any like 5th or 6th round rookie.

IMO this is incontrovertible. also, the diggs pass wasn't actually open like it looked like from the camera view from the right hand side of the field, the jones/dawkins mess was between him and diggs. josh saw dawk on jones and early and just trusted his pro bowl lt to make the block, and he nearly did it just fell apart late. imo josh made the absolute right call going with our best performing offensive player for a score. i also felt like we went from being a joke on with the ghost of aj being a target on every snap (they face their what, 4th or 5th 3rd down on their penultimate drive?, we didn't even slow them down) to bodying up and making it mad hard with dorian williams being a relentless savage. makes me think if we are up by 4, we legit have a shot at stopping a touchdown.

ok, i watched a podcast this morning with shannon sharp and chad ochocinco (his legal name i think, lol). anyhow, they had a debate about coming back from injury, coming off of an acl tear. chad was defending von, shannon was pretty militant about how if a player can be on the field, there are expectations that must be met. he pointed out in 1997 jerry rice tore his acl early in the season/pre season and palyed week 16 and balled out. rod woodson tore his acl week one and played vs cowboys in teh super bowl and was decent, if not great. terrell owens broke his ankle week 14, played in the super bowl w the eagles vs the pats, and was the best player on the field and frankly should have lead his team to a win but for old andy reid and out of shape mcnabb. adrian peterson tore his acl and came back the next season and played at a basically mvp level. all of these injuries were 10+ years ago, some over 25 years! i think tre white and vonn miller did not do everything they could to rehab as best as possible. guys like peterson and owens were known to be total workout warriors who never took a day off and played with insane intensity. in my mind, we have josh allen, matt milano, and at times stef diggs (i think something has been off w him and i don't think ownes or peterson would consistently now show like he does in the playoffs) who will play like absolute dogs and who i expect to will themselves via diligent rehab and hard work back to playing at their highest level. we've seen von get frustrated and after getting washed on a play put no effort in prior to the whistle this season. to me, that is such a clear sign of where he is in his career/dedication and how i figure he rehabbed. he was benched for performance and he agreed with it. in away that shows maturity, but in another way it shows a lack of fire. ownes, peterson, etc would be livid if they were benched, and i don't think they'd ever be in a position to not be giving the max effort.

that's like 5x the ratings of the nba finals last year. the nfl as much as we and for sure me like to complain is giving a product the public wants. the nba is going back to its own roots of being a sort of regional fringe league, altho the players are still eating off of mikey jordan and get insane endorsements. i stopped caring about basketball a while back, but i've seen so many reels and vids of insane non called travels it's laughable. i don't like how some of the calls went on sunday, but at least they aren't calling bounce passes as complete.

i thought we were gonna do it, but that's based on being (for me) zen after we were 6-6. going into the kc game, knowing douglas wasn't right, no benford, and no TB at linebacker, i had super low confidence. also -- aj klien shoudla stayed sat, or maybe as a back up, and we shoulda put williams in. elam too. rather a high pick young guy who might make mistakes but will make plays than an old zero or a hurt guy who can't stay up. still, even if im right and elam and williams woulda been hard upgrades, i was strongly doubtful vs kc. if tb and douglas never go down, not to mention spector, then i woulda felt like we win it.

we have, more or less, one premier player who is clutch, and that is josh allen. the numbers of us folding hard in the offseason due to defensive failings are true and obvious, but unless we add a player or two who are clutch monsters on d, and that seems unlikely, our best chance to win it all is to support josh allen who has come close to winning it vs kc himself twice now. our d is gonna fall off some next year w guys leaving, and it really doesn't matter. they blew plenty of games including this last one. when it comes to the big time stuff, josh allen is like no other and we need to build on strength. i think the way we get over this hump is make our O as deadly as it can be adding via draft, trade, free agency, kidnapping, human cloning, i don't care; weapons. WRs who give us things we dont have. speed, size, hands. we need to add a top flight guy, and other guys too. in 2020 we had zilch production from RB and from TE, and our Oline was pretty weak (cody ford, that dude from the jets at RT, we had some real slugs out there) but our o was massive because diggs and aging brown and beez gave allen too much to work with. now that we have rbs, blocking, and TE play, we gotta go over the top and just boat race teams. i trust mc corch to turn a less talented d into an equally effective d to what we've seen the last 5 playoff exits, at least.

i dig he doesn't want to talk to the media, deep down he knows how poorly he has played. he's been a lesser player than shakir for the last month or so. failed totally to get open vs the kc d (one on one) for the majority of the night and when he did get open he straight up drops a dime to the ground. not a way to win play off games. it's been put out there recently, he's a huge no show in all of our playoff losses. at this point i think we are a better team without him, putting that money to work on another wr. i remember someone was posting here that we woulda been way better off keeping the pick and taking the wr minni took. i disagreed at the time, but oh my, how right they were.

i still say we had to go for 7, but i feel you on this fellow jersey bills fan. what i noticed, and i might be coloring my view because of my decided personal bias, but once dorian williams went in for aj, we started bodying fools. sometimes you need an enforcer, and by sometimes i mean at all times.

No matter how this ends, this is hi drama

The last I dunno 24 minutes of my life have rendered everything I've ever learned meaningless I should be a wiser man and just enjoy the show

They gonna call this but ignore head to head hits and face masks and late hits for KC. Fug the nfl

We're honestly lucky that we are only down 3. I expect that to change for the worse with a quickness, but we are lucky

Even with that insane luck we can't get it done. KC is so so dirty and just doesn't get called for jack

I just don't think we are good enough.

Ok, that was really game

I feel like that play was game

We can't do anything on d. We are lucky that we've held the ball for as long as we have, literally only stopped them because of the clock in the first

Man, we just have zero d. Gotta be dirty and lucky

KC got away with murder on that drive. Face mask, late hit on sliding qb. I hope they give us some make up calls

Wow, what a play. Please lord give us a stop!

If we lose this it will be another year out d produced no effective pass rush a d wr lost on big easy plays by kc

We aren't even slowing them down. We need to score on every drive, I don't think that's possible. Without some miracle turnovers, we just might not have the horses on d