Good analysis, Chris, especially on points 4 and 6. Even though Pencilneck was praising his talents in the 4th last night, you can't mask the number of hits and pressures coming over his spot. And don't get me started about Brown.

I still don't think Buttkicker is 100%. I don't fault him for missing a 47 yarder, but we don't need XP drama.

One thing was obvious and that's the importance of Juju. You can't double everyone.

*whispers*

Mahomes holds the ball forever and a coverage sack that isn’t OBJ’s fault is marked as OBJ’s fault

We've got to figure out how to win games where defenses knock our guys around. Especially kelce. These are the games you can see Kelce look flat out spent at the end of games. First, the refs need to do their jobs and call it. But what else do we do? We historically have done very poorly recently against these chippy defenses

I'm aware. That's not really what I'm talking about. Plenty of snaps he just gets blown by. Wylie's even worse. That's what I'm talking about.

Well, we did win.

But that doesn't change the fact that we have some problems that need addressing.

Pressure with 4 and dropping makes it tough. But they have guys open, he's gotta stay in there and hit them.

They've gotta be able to run the ball some for sure. I don't know what the fix is for that (I think it's getting a RB worth a shit).

You should be able to run the ball against a light box, period. There should be holes. Too often, there is not.

Wylie blows goats. We could start there.

I'm shocked Vegas doesn't adjust their spread for him doing games against Mahomes.

Pat has a winning record in every situation BUT a Blakeman led crew. Unreal.

I hate to say it because, well, ****, but they've gotta be able to run the ball in these situations. Atleast a little bit.

Patrick has been great taking what the defense gives him but he still wants to go deep too often when he shouldn’t.

Multiple times they only rushed 4 and pushed everyone back like the Bengals did last year and the RB was open in the flat.

Just take that and get 5 yards every time until they are forced to move a LB to the out side opening up the middle of the field

Tenn has Henry and their defense.


And an attitude of taunting

We need to overhaul our RB room in the offseason including getting a RB coach who was an actual RB not a WR. Hopefully Niang can play in the next week or so.

Yeah, the quick game was working, they got away from it, then went back to it and it was still working.

Good post, I think I agree with pretty much all of it. As for the offensive "struggles" and particularly the run, i mean, I try and keep it in perspective! This is a team that is beating up on all but the very best Ds and it's faced some very tough ones. But the challenges aren't new, we all saw them from the beginning of the year.

It's a mixture. The OTs have played badly, Trey has been banged up and taken a step back. We have a scheme that doesn't seem to maximise our RB's strengths, or at least mask their weaknesses - and our OL doesn't seem to execute these plays that well. Against good secondaries playing man we miss an elite WR who can separate - and Mahomes has maybe held on for a tick too long on occasion, but it's connected. It all adds up. BUT - point 8 is right, this was a very, very good D. As good as this offence can be we're not going to put 40 on these teams every time. We're not going to put 40 on SF every time.

One of the things I really liked seeing was Juju working the intermediate stuff well. The fact that Toney was involved is promising and I STILL think Moore will be a valuable piece. The cavalry isn't coming or the OTs and run game, same with the DL. If we win it all it'll be partly in spite of these things and partly just better execution and cohesion.

I don't think you're gonna get much from Moore this season. I don't know what the deal is there, but he just doesn't seem ready for this level yet.