You need to play flawless football in the playoffs or you will most likely lose. That means no TOs, little to no penalties, stopping teams on 3rd and long, getting pressure on thr QB and most important no missed PATs or FGs.

We need to fix ALL of those areas. Very messy heading into the playoffs.

With our offense end of game tied I want to see more aggressive approach to get a touchdown because butker is broken. That was frustrating end of the 4th.

Dallas lost to Jacksonville. Vikings beat Colts by 3 and had to go to OT. Philly beat Chicago by only 5. Buffalo beat Miami by 3. Any given Sunday, yada, yada, yada. But there is a lot of parity in this league. This time of year also seems to result in weird results. It’s like teams that are pretty nearly dead twitch and fight enough for close results or even unexpected results.

That said, we need to:
1) stop the damn turnovers;
2) stop giving up sacks;
3) stop giving up 3rd down conversions when its 3rd and long;
4) stop with stupid penalties, although it does seem we get called for some ticky tack stuff that other teams don’t get called for. But that could just be me being a homer.

Ultimately, we have Patrick Mahomes. He can cover a lot of mistakes but it would be a lot easier if he didn’t have to.

Memo to Andy… when you are deciding between relying on your MVP QB who finished the game with 20 straight completions and a now unreliable kicker… there is actually no decision to be made.

Well done DenverChief. (Ran out of rep from the rep threads.)

Xtra pts to coaching staff for NO Burton up the middle in critical situations.

#8 is a great point, thats two weeks straight now with Gay making a gotta have it clutch play... still can't believe Cheffers didn't steal it back from us

The defense allowed less than 240 yards of offense. 4/10 3rd down conversions. 3.8 yards/play.

i mean, when the offense plays hot potato with the ball twice, and the rules are already stacked against defense, and the ref has some kind of vendetta that converted 5 1st downs for HOU, what can the defense really do?

While I wouldn't characterize it as "flawless" turnovers and missed scoring opportunities for sure and no "dumb" penalties. I still think the Kelce "unsportsmanlike" penalty woke this team up. We were kind sleep walking up to that point

With #4 yeah its always fun to see him take off running on a busted play organically, thats when it doesnt scare me as much, and where he always does his best work

20-30 yard romps on the regular

But that clearly designed run for him in the 4th had me ready strangle Andy right there on the sideline in front of God and everyone else

Purposely risking him like that is a NO GO

LMAO - fair enough. I don't mind the occasional scripted runs. I kinda miss the Pitch option plays we played to perfection in our Super Bowl run.

I would have been fine with some designed runs - we were gashing their D up to that point. McKinnon loses 3 yards on 1st down and we went into a shell the next two downs.

Also - sorry to everyone for not joining in the conversation after creating the thread- home internet went out so I took a nap LMAO

Disagree with #1 that's a bad football team

yeah hard to believe by looking at the score...

313 to 125 yards passing
189 to 94 yards rushing