This. One Hold, one false start, one sack, one stop on 3rd down.

I really don't want to see scores each week of 47-42, 51-38, 39-35 or the like.

The old days of boring defensive games of 9-6, 14-3, 12-9 are mostly gone due to the better protection and safety of players.

I'm fine with the current level.of scoring and as a previous poster commented, defenses have made adjustments and figured certain things out.

It's funny. Mahomes was the first one exposed to the defense thats commonplace today. Now he's the one most adept at dealing with it. He's become the dink and dunk YAC master, while still making unreal throws from time to time. Everyone else has yet to catch up.

I saw that average passing yards was something like 185 yards? Yeesh.

I think a lot of it has to do with preparation too. I don't know why teams have decided to just not play their QB in the preseason. And lots and lots and lots of offense holdouts. An offense will take way longer to get into rhythm than a defense.

It’s the same strategy Belichick’s Giants defense used against the Jim Kelly Buffalo offense. The Giants were totally cool with letting HOFer Thurman Thomas run all over them, but they focused on slowing down Kelly’s receivers. And it worked. Buffalo’s offense averaged 47 points per game in 2 other Playoff games, but they scored only 19 points in the Giants Super Bowl.

Lousy QB play.

The whole making teams do long drives is a huge part bc yeah, it's damn near impossible to sustain 10-plus play drives without a drive killing penalty or turnover.

Makes the elite QBs even more valuable than ever cause they constantly gotta bail you out.

And I think they've learned most of the current QBs in the league aren't the technicians needed to orchestrate these long drives putting the ball in tight windows over and over again without making a mistake. The majority of them do something bone-headed before they finish the drive. A lot of QBs have trouble taking what you give them and will eventually get impatient and force things. I think that has played out MUCH MORE than anyone ever expected when teams started running the shell defenses though. I mean common sense would tell you they're professional QBs and they will be patient and sit back and pick you apart, but in most cases that hasn't really come to fruition.

Young QBs and coaching carousel.

Then you have bets getting injured.

Also, QBs either don't receive enough time or they have lousy coaches.

Colleges also don't produce pro style QBs.

I still don't understand the rationale behind benching your starters in the preseason. It's almost as if a bunch of coaches got together and tried to pull a Todd Haley by outsmarting the league with this stuff. Like, how did they all come to the same conclusion this preseason

Pretty much this. DCs figured out a way to slow down Mahomes' deep ball and it worked well against others too.

They all listened to BWillie. He's world renowned for his football advice.

Because we are the Chiefs

Something that no one talks about is that, as players have gotten bigger and faster, the field has stayed the same size.

This leads to less space for the offense to operate in by default.