We've got Mahomes for 10+ more years. There's plenty of time to build a dynasty.

For now I'll just be happy if we finally get a win over a legitimate playoff team this century

We need to dump our history from 1970-1990 as well.

I didn't have an issue losing to NE or LA. We went down swinging. Just as I didn't mind our playoff losses to Pitt or NE... it frustrated the hell out of me, but we were simply outmatched. I hope Mahomes can take us deep into the playoffs but if we lose this way... there's always next year.

The Indy, Tenn, SD loss will always sting me in a different way because I will never like when we play not to lose instead of playing to win. We had no business losing any of those games.

They literally lost the Indy game because they played to aggressive in the 2nd half.

Had they not played the LA game like that, they probably win.

Mellinger is pulling a Colin Cowherd(hot take), and was an Chiefs apologist last season too.

We have the QB, but the defense will be KC's downfall if the opposition's offense has the ball last in the waning moments of the game, or just shits themselves when the Chiefs offense puts up 35 or more points.

Interesting take

He's not wrong on that part.

Can it really be that the ILB's and safeties kill this team that bad?

yes

We understood this going into the season, that defense was a problem. What has exacerbated the problem oddly, is that the offense has done so well, that teams come into a game with us knowing they need to score a lot of points to compete, and that plays into our weakness.

"There's always next year" is actually a good thing when you're in the mix every year... pre-Mahomes, there wasn't a 'next year', there was only the same old shit.

No, I would not be surprised if the Chiefs screwed it up.

I'm not going to dwell on that for the next two decades though. Personally, all I've wanted from them is to be competitive in the playoffs. That doesn't mean make the playoffs every year or 'win one playoff game against some shit team'... but I'd also not care if they only won a Super Bowl or two in the next 15+ years (well, as long as Mahomes is there and worth watching).

If they're a contender in mid-late January most years, I'll be happy... because it also means there's a good chance of winning a Super Bowl or two.

I think that's the most any sports fan can hope for without driving themselves crazy. :shrug:

Do you really think most of this is on Sutton? The run defense sucks, and the safeties and CBs are probably the worst in football. Do you think blitzing like Gunther and putting those same terrible DBs on islands is going to solve a bunch of problems? I understand varying calls so that a defense isn't predictable, but you'd think the futility of Buddy Ryan in Arizona and Houston compared to his success in Chicago and Philadelphia (and the fact that no one has run a true 46 successfully since), the tepid defenses fielded by Belichick over the last several years, and the spectacular flameouts of numerous defensive coordinators would teach people that the only thing that really matters on defense is talent. Dick LeBeau got into the HOF as a DC and he was slightly better than rewarmed pig shit as soon as he went to Tennessee. Amazingly, it's harder to be a DC when you don't have James Harrison, Polamalu, Casey Hampton, Brett Keisel, Timmons, Shazier, et al.

The Chiefs lack talent in areas that are easily exploited. No, Sutton isn't a great DC, but no DC is worth a shit when they don't have the horses. Jones and Ford are good pass rushers, but when the DL is getting annihilated by the run and the corners are not physically talented enough to cover the receivers, there's only so much you can do.

If you want to complain about someone, complain that Veach didn't bring in Eric Reid, Breeland, or pull the trigger on an Earl Thomas trade ASAP. Those are where the real problems lie.

Do you really think Andy Reid is any better as an OC this year than he was in 2017? Of course not, and neither does anyone else. The only thing that changed is the talent level.

Indy is unusual bc of bad clock management. It doesn't explain Tennessee, SF, Arizona, Denver. It doesn't explain the stalls vs Pitt & SD week 1 & 2.
People wanted to blame the Tenn loss on not running enough. But most on CP at least could see that Alex Smith was not taking the chances he was taking in the first half. He went back to managing the game.

Not running the ball doesn't mean we're aggressive. Our offense falls in to sideways passes and dink and dunk. It did with Alex Smith. It's continuing that with Mahomes, a QB capable of much more than that.

My hot take, but if you have an alternate explanation, have at it. Other than Jacksonville where Mahomes was ultra aggressive, it feels to me like he's trying to manage the game home instead of relying on his instincts as an aggressive passer. Let him loose. Tell Mahomes a 10 point lead is basically a 0-0 game. Anything other than what we've already been doing, which hasn't worked.

Mahomes has gotten away with a lot of shit because he's uber-talented, which is awesome, but you will court disaster with that approach, too. Point is, if he's slinging it, don't get pissed if he has two second half INTs that bring the other team back in the game, because that's the door you open.

It doesn't explain it because teams aren't going to come out and score on every possession or move the ball up and down the field every possession.

They scored on like 5 straight possessions against the 9ers, same with the Broncos.

He played like that against the Rams. We saw what happened.

You can't always do that.

The D scheme isn't overall garbage. It's a mix of talent gaps, some instances of egregiously bad situational playcalling, and poor coaching (players standing around, poor tackling, and 14 games in and we have no clue whatsoever will line up on the ball).

I don't have any delusion that a new DC fixes everything. But it fixes enough things.