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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Odd that you cite our DL 'vaporizing' in 2018 but hand-waive the DL's performance against an OL that was quite possibly the worst in NFL post-season history last season against Cincy as "Mahomes fault".
We lost both games in overtime and our defense had multiple opportunities in the 2nd half of both games to earn us a W but didn't. And at least the Patriots DL was victim to Brady simply getting the ball out immediately. Against Cincy, Burrow was getting murdered every game before and after that one yet when the DL no-shows you see "mahomes fault".
Again, you're just seeing what you so desperately want to see to salvage this guy. Frank Clark has taken as much off the table in the postseason than he has brought to it in his time year. And that's to say nothing of the multiple seasons worth of no-shows in the regular season.
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Dude, this is not a good take. In general, your takes are pretty good, but come on now with this.
It's the defense's fault that KC didn't beat CIN in the AFCCG now?
Which unit is responsible for scoring points, the defense or the offense?
The defense held CIN's offense to under their season scoring average in the AFCCG. To their average in this year's regular season game, though Boyd flat dropped a TD, so it can be argued that the defense didn't really perform to their average in 2022 vs. CIN, fine. But really what else were they supposed to do? In either case, CIN didn't score 30 points, they only scored 24 and 27 points respectively.
Meanwhile the offense literally scored just 3 points in the entire 2nd half of the AFCCG game, and they scored a TD less than their season average. In this year's game, after the 5 minute mark or whatever of the 3rd quarter, the offense again did diddly squat, except turn it over and struggle to even get into FG range for the rest of the game.
Where's all the vitriol and general recriminations for Mahomes and the offense literally underperforming below just minimum expectations?
To somehow blame the defense for those losses is just . . . irrational. The defense isn't responsible for scoring points, last time I checked. They're tasked with preventing the other team from scoring more points than our offense can put on the board, and they did that both times.
The offense shit the bed, period. That's not even debatable.