When Veach traded for Clark….I’m sure he was aware that Clark’s play would fall off a cliff AND that the cap would tank because of COVID. Just like I’m sure when he signed Reed this off-season, a move that EVERY talking head ****ing loved, he knew that he would basically be invisible.

Now did the DE get ignored? Yes. And that can be put on Veach’s shoulders. But people can stop acting like the stars underperforming are somehow on Veach because he knew it would happen and paid them anyways.

Who knew Reed was going to bust THIS bad?

Or that Thornhill would languish on the bench in favor of the stuck in molasses coverage skills of Sorensen?

Or that Jones on end would be such an abject failure that no one will admit and then refuse to move him back inside?

No one. Which is why this article is dumb.

I have been saying this for a while. Thank you for re-highlighting these points

It's a great article for the doom and gloom chicken littles who are determined to find anything to justify their position.

I think Reed would be much better with CJ back inside next to him.

Aside from injuries to key players, fans that think personnel is a bigger factor than scheme or execution are falling for the simplistic answer.

The fact is that the teams have prepared well for what the Chiefs are trying to do on offense and defense.

Chiefs need to dial back on the creative innovative BS and play more basic and play more physical.

Chiefs need to run more basic plays from traditional formations and hit the other team and stand up to them. The Bills played much more physical than the Chiefs and it was because Chiefs are relying too much on design and not playing basic physical football.

Chiefs need to have defensive guys healthy and on the field, but the personnel available is more than good enough to win it all. Chiefs just need to play harder and hit the other team harder than they get hit. That starts with running plays that depend on effort moreso than tricking the other team.

Andy Reid used to have a dozen plays a game for special situations and the Chiefs would win those dozen offensive plays on design before effort. Now Chiefs are trying to win almost all the plays on design before effort. Get back to playing hard and tough and have a dozen special plays.

I typically prefer an inside/outside pairing if we can get it. Or an outside/outside.

It spreads the danger out a bit. If you have Jones/Reed out there, you can almost do a floating double where you have a C/G combo that will peel off if/when someone gets in trouble.

That's a lot harder to do when you've got someone on the edge and someone else in the middle or the other edge.

It's just a more varied way to attack.

This shit is gonna look so funny in a few months. LMAO

I cannot believe the ****ing clowns counting us out around here after 2015 and 2019.

This team is led by forces of nature that have been through ALL of this shit before. The year we won the SB we lost two HORRIBLE games at home, consecutively.

They are not done. Not by a long shot.

Hindsight is 20/20, this is a different situation than Green Bay for example where they largely have sat on their hands and chose not to give Rodgers weapons around him etc. Veach was aggressive and brought some players in and they haven't worked out (Jarran Reed) or they have regressed majorly (Clark). Pretty much the entirety of CP was praising Veach for his ability to overhaul the offensive line in one offseason.

I think the CEH draft pick looks particularly bad right now as CEH isn't as effective as we had hoped and it was a luxury pick at the time. Could really use another stud on defense with that selection. This is the first time the Chiefs have found themselves with some real adversity in regards to the overall talent on the roster. Seems like we got too many holes to fill right now particularly on the defensive side of the ball and I'm interested to see how the coaching staff and Veach respond.

I think it's effort related, too. Like, guys just are flopping around out there, not much passion, just...I don't know. That attitude the defense had in 2019 is gone.

It's just gone.

They would RAPE FACES.

This sounds accurate.

Attitude. Beat your man.