Seven point favorites. Vegas knows that first game was illegit. Raiders outgained them in that WC and they got ref help. They only scored 19 vs Titans. They're lucky to be here.

We can't sleepwalk to a win but -7 is huge in a conference title game. That's closer to the spread of the Steelers game than the Bills game.

For4ever wont let me go home and has locked me in his guest bedroom. Having said that, K think we win.

Now his dog just busted down the Door and is licking my face. Gotta go. Peace out.

We should win this game but our defense needs to be better. Joe burrow and jamaar chase beat us by beating near-perfect coverage. Tonight, there were guys running WIDE open. It looked like a bob sutton defense. The bills third receiver absolutely torched our secondary.

Allen had all ****ing day to throw for the most part, and when he didn't, he was able to escape pressure.

Joe Burrow won't, and can't.

Hopefully HB and Fenton play.

If they do, I think we boat race them.

Based on tonight, I'd say Badger is more important.

Yeah, we gave up 200 yards and 4 TDs to the Bills #2 WR, so Chase and Burrow are probably giggling as they fall asleep tonight.

Spags has to make adjustments if he ever wants to be a HC again, and he said he wants one more chance. So......

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Bengals have played the Raiders and Titans. They haven’t played an elite QB yet and will find out just how hard it is to face playoff Patrick

Mahomes is going to show up and put 35+ on the board. That's literally what he does in the playoffs at home.

Some of you need to stop looking for monsters under the bed. If the Bengals somehow get 35 (hint: they won't), Mahomes will just score 40+ instead.

I don’t know man. You could argue that getting Hughes off the field is just as important.

Possible. But they looked so confused out there without him.

You need to look at HOW that happened.

It did not happen in the same way the Bengals did it.

The Bills got it because Allen just had all day to throw, and our corners, without Badger, can't hold up against him.

Cincy isn't going to have that kind of time.

We need to play conservatively on defense in this game. That will win the day.

Mahomes just lead us to score 36 points in regulation on the #1 overall defense and #1 3rd down defense in football.

36 points

We will struggle a bit with Burrow and Chase but I don’t doubt for one second that we aren’t out scoring these ****s

This.

Hughes is becoming a Scandsuck caliber liability.

We're going to the damn Super Bowl.

Just play mistake free and play our game and Cincinnati can't beat us.

But Veach sucks!!! And I want my GM John Dorsey back!!!

Coward.

It's going to be another shootout. Hopefully Butker can nail all of his kicks in this one so it's not even an issue in a close game. Mahomes and the rest of the guys on offense will need their A-game once again.

I don't think it is.

The complete lack of diversity in Cincy's offense is going to doom them.

I don't think they get more than 24.

Hope you are right. KC did not get enough of a pass rush on Burrow last time. It would be nice if they could do a lot better than that in this rematch. I wasn't impressed with the pass rush tonight. The coverage in the secondary looks pretty vulnerable too.

Cincy's OL is dreadful.

The Chiefs actually got some pretty good heat on Burrow, their mistake was getting greedy and bringing blitzes, allowing him to just throw 50/50 balls to Chase.

The Chiefs can get there with four and play safer coverage.

If all your offense can do is drop back and throw you're not gonna have much success against this team. The threat of Allen's legs is a real problem for us.

Mahomes just nuked the best defense in football and people are worried about the Bengals?

If Fenton and Tyrann are able to play and Ward is fine, we should have no trouble covering the spread.

The DL is going to nasty and we probably only need them to punt 2-3 times to win a game that isn’t close. They need to play a perfect game and for KC to play a sloppy game for them to win and that’s simply not happening.

Josh Allen as a run threat takes a defender out of coverage. He is a nightmare. Joe Burrow is great at moving in the pocket. Spag’s defense will not scheme Cincy the same next week. Still need better safety play. Maybe there’s another Eric Weddle out there.

The Chiefs completely outplayed the Bengals in their previous encounter and would have won easily if not for some very suspicious officiating.

Let Mahomes do his thing and have the refs stay out of the game and we'll win.

You seem angry.

We just won the best football game any of us have ever seen. Chill out and enjoy the ride.

Is it true your lucky vegetable is the eggplant?

Bengals dont have a prayer here

We will be in party mode the entire game

It's Playoff Arrowhead, shit will definitely be different

The Bengals will be doing nothing other than acting as onlookers to the latest Chiefs coronation as AFC Champs

I'm just worried that if Davis went off for 4 TDs against this defense, then Chase might go off for 8. The defensive secondary was in complete disarray.

I said this in another thread, but I'll say it here too.

We played the game without Honey Badger from the first drive on. His presence allows so much in terms of disguising coverages and secondary communication.

We played huge chunks of the game with our #4 and #5 corners and still, Did Diggs or Beasley kill us? No. It was their #3 receiver that killed us. I don't think you can ask for much more under the circumstances. Hats off to Allen, I didn't think he'd have the mental toughness to stand in there and hit the #3 on his reads.

Pass rush was not good enough, and that's a problem. But then again, Allen is tough to sack.

The pass rush was ok I thought. Allen just got away a lot. We had guys in the backfield enough to get stops. As long as they finish against Burrow, we'll get them off the field enough to outscore them. The bengals line just gave up 9 sacks. Pressure will be fine. Getting Mathieu back is key.

DOUBLE CHASE.

As I mentioned in another thread I know Chris Jones is looking forward to going against our OL but Titans have an elite DL and are 11th in sacks in the NFL. Chiefs are 29th so won't be quite as easy to pull off what they did.

Everyone expects Chiefs to win and the line validates that. Bengals can just keep playing like they have nothing to lose. If we were playing anyone else but the Chiefs and Mahomes that would work in our favor but they have been in this spot and won't feel the pressure. I do think Chiefs will win but also think it will be closer than some of you are predicting.

BTW, great f'ing game last night. One of the best I have ever watched.

Arrowhead stadium is a tough place for a young QB to play. Burrow is smart and talented but it could get rough for him.

I think the Chiefs saw the betting line a couple of weeks ago when they played and wasn't as sharp as they could of been. Not to mention Chase and Burrow both played out of their collective minds. Will be a good game but I don't routinely bet on one team beating the other twice in the same season. Especially when the underdog won the first meeting.

9 is a crazy number, but the Chiefs had 4 just a month ago in Cincinnati.

Without the advantage the crowd noise in Arrowhead will give their pass rushers.

They would have had about 6 last night against a less freakish QB.

They were decimated by injuries.

They have a week to figure out a new game plan that accommodates all of those backups.

Should be a good game. Glad it's at arrowhead, that will help.

So we better pray to the football Gods that Chris Jones calf injury isn’t too bad.

Hopefully HB will be back and maybe Fenton. But we have to come up with something creative for Burrow\Chase

so true about secondary. No Fenton, maybe Mathieu, maybe Ward after being beer trucked by Allen.

Sneed, Hughes, Baker and Sorenson spell disaster

First game against Cincy was schizo. We were steamrolling them in the first half, then came out and did nada in the second half. Bad D, O was ineffective and hampered by atrocious officiating, and coaching was ugh...so bad, esp on D.

Double Chase. Get pressure with front four... minimize the blitzes. Keep their receivers in front of you. Hell, we may want to play cover-2 zone. Minimize their big play potential. The Bengals are explosive. Burrow is legit, and Chase is their Reek. Higgins and Boyd are no slouches either. Bracket Chase all day long. Make Burrow look elsewhere. Hell, if we can get them to focus on Mixon, we will have a much better outing.

On offense, hit the accelerator and do not let off until the game is over. If we jump out early, great! Just don't relax or let off. Seemed like the second half we were on cruise control. Hopefully the lesson was learned and we continue the boat race into the second half.

Did anyone notice the Vegas Pro bowl commercial last night...It featured like 7 video clips of players.

One was of Cooper Kupp and another of Ja'Marr Chase. Five 49ers were selected, no video of them..no video of the Chiefs.

It may be nothing...but it was a strange decision for the NFL to market/sell players from teams that are still in contention...given they highlighted such a limited amount of participants.

If we can get Fenton and Mathieu back….

Put Sneed on Higgins and Ward on Chase. Bracket Chase the entire game and make their other WRs beat us.

We do not need to blitz this team. Their offensive line is so bad and Burrow will just hold onto the ball too long anyway. Double team Chase, don't let them have anything deep. We will destroy these frauds.

And for the love of God move Hitchens down to the third LB and let Bolton and Gay get more work.

Well, they aren't going to do that but it sure would be nice. It was pretty telling seeing some of the throws Bills made over the field and Hitchens had no chance of stopping them from getting to the corner due to his lack of speed. He's only 29 but damn he's gotten slow.

I guess he did run a 4.75 40-yard dash for the draft, which isn't great. Willie runs a 4.45. Bolton runs it in 4.6 and appears to have much more explosiveness in 5-10 yard sprints.

Pretty simple formula...dont let Chase beat you.

Their OL was terri-bad....and with Arrowhead noise?

He wasn’t out there towards the end of the game.

Have there been any updates on Mathieu?

The Bengals played their best (and luckiest) game with a ton of ref help while the Chiefs didn't.

We'll see what we draw on officials. That will determine if this is a 3 point win or a 14 point win.

Obviously Sacking Burrow is NOT the way to beat Burrow.

9 Sacks? 9 ****ing sacks and he was never rattled.

Rush 4 and hope they can get pressure. Double Chase all game!

Send ONE Blitzer on third and longs. Double Chase all game!

Score points in the second half AND the first half. Double Chase all game!

This should be an easy game for Spags to plan for.

And Mostly, Let the GRIM REAPER, REAP!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;He&#39;s still in the protocol and going through it, but he feels good. We&#39;ll see how that goes moving forward.&quot;<br><br>- Coach Reid on Tyrann Mathieu</p>&mdash; Matt McMullen (@KCChiefs_Matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCChiefs_Matt/status/1485675442732425224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Glancing over a few Bengals forums, their fans are oddly confident.

Why wouldn't they be? They're fans. Their team beat the Chiefs in week 17 and just went on the road and took down the #1 seed. No reason they can't play loose and win this game.....except for the fact that we are going to absolutely kick their ****ing teeth in :)

The bungle might see joe burrows get sacked 14 times

They should be confident.

They've beat some good teams. They are also blind to the fact of how our game went down.

Reverse the bullshit calls and the Chiefs win by 3-4 TDs.

Yeah Burrow, like Mahomes, eats blitzes alive. No reason to blitz him at all really with their OL. Needs to be a totally different gameplan defensively from the last game.

The first question I'd have to ask is, who's officiating this game? If we get this same crew that called it fairly well for both ways in last night's game, that's a good start.

Stunts. Lots of them.

Blitzing should be minimal and only in situational purposes.

2 finesse teams going at it. The winner will be the team that scores the most points . . Per league circles

Man, just rewatched the highlights of last night's game. We generated a ton of pressure, but Allen was unreal in his ability to evade and escape. Burrow does not have that mobility.

The Bills wrecked our secondary deep, however. That is a major concern, with Burrow, Chase, Higgins, and Boyd rolling into town. We need our safeties to play D E E P. Keep EVERYTHING in front of you. Do not let them gash us for massive gains with the deep pass.

I'll punch you right in your dumb face. How about that for finesse?

Teams with a competent offense are termed "finesse" by knuckle-dragging ****tards.

Same thing I said in the Bills thread applies here.

Chiefs are not a finesse team. Their OL is NASTY. Their DL is NASTY.

Tyrann.. what's 2+2?

If the tacks got 9 (shoulda been 11) sacks, the chefs should eat burrows lunch then. Or at least prepare his lunch.

Both QB's (Pat and Josh) did an amazing job avoiding pressure.

The key with Burrow isn't blitzing him. The key to defending him is to make him throw short, and generate as much pressure as you can with 3-4 man fronts. Their OL is garbage. Don't throw him a life line by blitzing and playing Chase (et al) in single man coverage with little to no help over the top. He threw some amazing dimes against pressure in week 17. They won EVERY 50-50 ball in that game. That can't happen again.

Yep I agree with those saying don't blitz. Let mahomes blow up their defense and make them work for every point. The line will get to Burrow just enough to keep them two scores behind us all game.

They got four sacks in Cincy I think.

I see them getting at least that in KC.

Four stops on the Bills last night, they get four again Cincy is toast.

Make me a sandwich, bitch!

I'm less concerned about the Bengals than the Bills.
I'm more concerned about the referees we get for the Bengals-Chiefs game.

Yeah, pretty obvious teams should stick to the 90’s style offense your mouth breathing coach runs. Apparently still works well.

We're in good shape if these guys play like this next week.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a game against the Bills ��<br><br>Here are the five highest-graded Chiefs from the Divisional Round:<br><br>1. Melvin Ingram - 86.1<br>2. Patrick Mahomes - 85.5<br>3. Jarran Reed - 84.9<br>4. Orlando Brown - 80.7<br>5. Tyreek Hill - 77.1 <a href="https://t.co/PMIq1pATtJ">pic.twitter.com/PMIq1pATtJ</a></p>&mdash; PFF KC Chiefs (@PFF_Chiefs) <a href="https://twitter.com/PFF_Chiefs/status/1485688854036189187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

PFF question.

In their evaluation, do they weight plays by importance? Or are all plays equal to them?

Mahomes’s last 3 throws of regulation (TD to Hill, short pass to Hill, short pass to Kelce) were all absolutely perfect in clutch time. That shouldn’t be evaluated equally to a pass in the first quarter.

If Reed can play like that next week….shit. Don’t blitz at all. Just rush 4 and kill Burrow.

My thoughts exactly

I can’t think of this team as finesse with the oline we have and just are style of play doesn’t say that. Hell almost every one will stick their nose in and get some on them