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Cowards WILL BE cowards..
...the morning after. how does it feel to be CHAMPS...?
I'M still walking on clouds, but that's just me...
I'M still walking on clouds, but that's just me...
After I've had time to digest what happened and the hot takes, all I have to say is 'they should've ran the ball more' which probably makes me sounds like an Eagles fan circa 2005.what a difference a year makes...
amazing the Pats fans that turned into Bucs fans last night, but it is what it is, i suppose...
so, this off-season is gonna get interesting. it's pretty evident that we're going to have to invest more into our o-line and our pass rush. I certainly see the need for another pass rush specialist DE or LB. but hey, whatta you guys think...?
Thats not why they lost by so much, though. The 15 points worth of penalties, the shanked punt, the dropped touchdown. The oline was the biggest deal but they still would've lost with Fisher playing.There is a reason offense tackles go as high as they do in the draft, without a stud there we get what we saw Sunday.
Not much more can really be said about the game, bummer we had that situation.
Mahomes had no time to do anything much less his progressions. And when you can't sustain drives here comes an already tired D back out there. Domino effect.
They had the potential to have one of their best OLs in forever and by the halfway point in the season it was one of the worst in the league held together by their ability to make opponents too scared to blitz Mahomes. I think they'll trade up for an OT or trade back and just plug away at talent. I'm kinda only expecting 1 Offensive lineman to be drafted, tbh.Gonna be an OL heavy draft ahead one has to think. Kinda makes me sick to think of the OL KC had out there on paper prior to the season and to see what happened as injuries and opt-outs cratered it.
The one thing I noticed in the game that was telling is that if you blitz the living shit out of Mahomes, you rattle him. He's a scrambler, all over the place. If you give him 5 seconds to throw the ball, he'll kill you. The league won't give him that anymore. Let's see.After I've had time to digest what happened and the hot takes, all I have to say is 'they should've ran the ball more' which probably makes me sounds like an Eagles fan circa 2005.
Bucs played a lot of Cover 2 and 3 with deep safety shells to my knowledge. Ran 10 stunts in the game. Yeah, the Bucs are great at stopping the run but they never really even tried. Chiefs should've ran the ball with Edwards-Helaire until the Bucs shifted to stopping that. CEH is shifty enough to where he can make big DTs miss him in space so the Bucs would have to dedicate the LBers and that would at least have opened things up. Chiefs only ran 2 play action passes all game because why would they ever run play action? PFF said of those 10 stunts that the Bucs ran, 7 of them got Mahomes on the ground. Thats awful. I don't know why you draft CEH in rd1 to ignore him in this matchup. He was getting 8 yards a touch. They needed to feed him more.
Then you have the defense having their expected sloppy penalties on top of unexpected sloppy penalties that weren't called in previous games. The Chiefs needed to keep Brady off the field and couldn't do it.
There is a video game called Ghost of Tsushima where a thief and a samurai are having a conversation about honor. The thief responds 'you haven't actually felt weak in a long time, have you? You need to do what it takes to survive. You fought one way and lost. Now you need to learn a new way'
Chiefs won too many games this year. They weren't as good as their record. They needed to lose a couple more times in the regular season to get the point across that the NFL is hard and you have to adjust. Their gameplan in the Super Bowl was garbage and their execution was worse. Now comes the hard part where they have to keep things going. Super Bowl losers often have a difficult year. Lets see if the Chiefs can reverse that trend.
Thats not what happened, imo. Mahomes has the #1 passer rating against the blitz.The one thing I noticed in the game that was telling is that if you blitz the living shit out of Mahomes, you rattle him. He's a scrambler, all over the place. If you give him 5 seconds to throw the ball, he'll kill you. The league won't give him that anymore. Let's see.
Said from day one that Fisher wasn't worth that pick, though I do understand the reasoning for it...Thats not why they lost by so much, though. The 15 points worth of penalties, the shanked punt, the dropped touchdown. The oline was the biggest deal but they still would've lost with Fisher playing.
I guess the big question is whether or not Fisher and Schwartz will be back. I think they are both under contract next year. $15 mil for Fisher, $10 mil for Schwartz. Neither under contract after next year.So, just sketching this out
Tardif and Niang should be back.
Allegretti moves to center.
Draft Leatherwood with pick 31.
Draft another guard again on day 2.
How *bad* could that OL be?
To reiterate, I also believe that a pass rushing specialist should be on the acquisition list, especially considering how much Spags blitzes...I guess the big question is whether or not Fisher and Schwartz will be back. I think they are both under contract next year. $15 mil for Fisher, $10 mil for Schwartz. Neither under contract after next year.
The Chiefs should be looking to replace Fisher regardless. I assumed thats what the Niang pick was last year. I think with both tackles going down you should probably see them look at someone else that at least has LT potential.
I don't see the Chiefs addressing interior oline. LDT comes back. Reid and Co seem fine just rotating dudes into the interior spots. We'll see.
There are multiple sites I've checked on that has KC's top need as DE/Edge Rusher. There are also some high upside guys that don't have the track record to go high in rd1 so its something that will probably be commonly mocked to KC.To reiterate, I also believe that a pass rushing specialist should be on the acquisition list, especially considering how much Spags blitzes...