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Hodgins

I'm one of those people who look at failed drives, no points it's a failed drive. Doesn't matter if it is punts, ints, fumbles, ToDs; no points you failed... The lateral certainly doesn't count. The end of half or end of fame TOs mean nothing...

It's him and Milano. When those 2 went out in London, my feeling was fire the season away. White, we survived last year without and figured we could scheme the back end. Those 2 players are what under Allen, diggs and Dawkins on the irreplaceable list? To me the only way to combat this is to lean heavier into the offense and follow the Chiefs motto, score TDs and get the other team playing from behind and one dimensional. Trying to grind clock to keep the D off the field allows them full use of their playbook and further stresses them team and puts even more pressure on the offense to work in heroics...jmo of course

Ty Dunne had an article awhile back with Farve talking about his career and Allen; when he brought up points about why he did something unconventional or went to make a near impossible throw - his response was because I can make the play. Total gunslinger mentality and Josh is wired that same way

Allen is simply not interested in the hot read or checkdown... You are spot on in your post

KC wins the superbowls with unstoppable offense and not great defenses. If you go up 14 + points, the opponent is one dimensional amd become easier to defend, you take away a large portion of their playbook. I will also add when looking at a top team against the league average, you are looking at fools gold. How can you compare the tops teams against averages of teams that are not their peers, the bottom 16 teams of the league are worse than us, where do we compare against the averages of the good teams? Especially on offense....

Part of the reason why I am a bit meh on trading for players at the deadline. Use you picks and players to move around the draft to go grab an eventual diggs replacement in RD 1. I pinch my nose as I say this, but if we aren't great this year, so be it and use this draft to get that WR (provided this class actually has someone). We can always make cap room, but I'm looking for younger playmaker. This year the QB run will help push talent down the board. An off year for us, well... I don't like it, but looking at how we are trending...it's in the back of my mind

Beane has repeatedly said he likes to keep his trades too the current draft, so I'd apply that philosophy here. As a GM he did have the responsibility to weigh out the odds of us making a run out not in what he gives up and for who. I'd also caution all of us, look at Hines last year and barely playing. Even if we made a move, how does it move the needle this year? I know it's a 1 player sample size, but getting that player up to speed and going, didn't seem like this coaching staff is capable of...

I'd also look for a Tre White replacement, Surtain is who I'd target, but it's gonna be pricey...

100% That being said, unless it is someone we can resign or hold onto for a few years and will pay dividends, I'm not sure I'm trading picks to try to go all-in this season, this team is not that team imo...

The biggest change in offense is the lack of a real WR2, John Brown and Emmanuel Sanders are more of a threat than Gabe. This has tremendously choked our offense... Allen doesn't trust the OL with pressure coming and he doesn't really trust Davis or Knox (drops I assume) the target share minus Diggs for every other pass catchers are very low. Add Milano out and we have to now really outscore everyone.

We need a WR 2 and Milano....

Has anyone went over to the Cheats* message board lately? Curious as to how they are doing over there LOL

It would be a world of difference you would see in the offense... It pushes Gabe down to wr3 and would allow him to work the defense like he used to (to freelance himself open down field) and to be able to swap him and Kincaid out when u wanted to attack in 11 or 12 personnel. I'll use Hopkins as an example but him diggs knox and Davis or him, diggs Knox and Kincaid is nice...

This handcuffs Dorsey's play calling as well

If you want to someone to catch to the ball, look for Diggs. Knox and Gabe are iffy pass catchers. I wouldn't trust them either... This has been a known issue and I do wish Beane pushes harder during the offseason for WR2. Kincaid is nice, but he isn't WR2 and neither is Davis....

I'll give the same comment here.... If the offense was better, Elam wouldn't even be a topic of conversation and it wouldn't matter

Based off of past experiences, without a wrist injury, his drop in a we really need a play to be made by you, is par for the course... All kidding aside, the lack of a bona-fide WR2 who can run a full route tree and quickly get off the line hurts this team more than anything else right now

If the offense wasn't so inept, this wouldn't even be a thread today....

Agree... Wrong thread (kind of) but since I have your attention and I do (most of us do) trust your insight... And comments or thoughts on this? I literally just had this pop up on Twitter. I want to go back and watch the entire thing...