Clayster believes. Proclaim it in the halls; write it in your notebooks.

Clayster is a believer

Hard to tell. It was below zero against a team that's defense was decimated. I know the defense is Super Bowl material. Not sure about the offense.

If they can maintain this new norm that started after the playbook and WR rotation contraction we have a pretty damn good shot to win it all. If they can actually convert these RZ trips into TDs it's not even in question, we will repeat.

But we did what we should have to a beat up and injured defense. We dominated this game from start to finish.

They need to get Rice the ball more often than not down there. His vision and YAC ability is an insane combo. Even on end around.

As someone who was sitting in the stands, I’m not even mad about the drops or off snaps. That shit was ****ing terrible with 5 layers on. These guys are sleeveless and without real gloves. Bravo boys!

Buffalo is shaking in their snow boots know this resurgent Chiefs team has finally found their identity. We are the team nobody wants to play.

Conflicted. They don't look like a Superbowl winning team but I know they are a team who could win the SB just seems like two different things.

They don't really pass the smell test of that team that can win it all they do too many dumb things and don't capitalize offensively but at the end of the day all you have to do is beat other team it does not have to look good and they seem very capable of beating any team who lines up across from them. Just finding a way by having an elite defense and doing enough on offense.

Key will be limiting turnovers.

Go watch soccer ya ****ing Nancy we’re going on a run!

picked a good time to pitch a complete game and start looking like world champs

Too bad they’re gay and we aren’t lol

373 yards and 7.0 yards per play against Cincy
3-12 on third down
1 turnover
25 points

409 yards and 5.5 yards per play against Miami
6-15 on third down
1 fluke turnover that meant nothing
26 points
in an ice storm

they're ticking up

i'm almost to the point where my heart might get broken in Buffalo

Rashee Rice turning into a superstar. He was the 7th receiver off the board in the 2023 draft. If you could redraft would you take any receiver over him right now? Kudos to Veach and Mahomes for nailing that one!

Good win but I'm still a little worried about the ability of the offense to do enough against a team like the Ravens. Also, the Bills D is much tougher than a defense as injured as the Dolphins D was.

That said it was an absolute great win and the D played great. I thought it was one of the better games of the season for our offense as well. Particularly the offensive line.

As others have said if the D continues to play at that level and the offense continues to play well they can beat anybody but i am not going to get too excited just yet. That Dolphins team was playing like a team ready to go home and their dline is so banged up they were forced to blitz I suspect way more than they wanted to.

But great win overall and I can't wait to see how the Chiefs do next week.

Based on what?

Show me the pass rusher on Buffalo that should scare me.

The Dolphins are better against the run, too.

My supervisor say she agree. Refs cant even stop us.

We'll find out for sure next week. Whether it's at Buffalo or vs. the red hot Texans, if we win that game we're winning it all.

Exactly right. The Bills too have a ton of injuries on that side of the ball. We will see if they get through Monday unscathed thatll be a physical game. Thatll be an over my dead body game for Mahomes. Chiefs will be underdogs which will light a serious fire under their asses.. Mahomes first road playoff game. Bring it!

What was the story in the Browns/Texans game anyway? On paper that's a pretty scary defense Stroud completely dismantled. Was there some injury or something?

Furious George had a stellar game tonight. This defense is such a privilege to watch.

Offensive line had an awesome game. Taylor gets picked on a lot but Mahomes had a ton of time time set his feet and throw strikes. Man this is fun.

The offense has FINALLY broken out of it's identity crisis. This is a rugged unit first. When they set the tone with physicality FIRST then everything else opens up. For much of the season it relied on finesse and it simply wasn't working.

Now the Chiefs know what they must to. You punch these guys in the mouth FIRST and then you blow past them with Rice and Kelce. It's style they truly haven't been able to play since Kareem Hunt left but they have it now and it took a FULL SEASON to figure it out (plus the emergence of Rice.)

This is the Super Bowl formula the Chiefs have been saving back all year. You can't play this style for 17 games, it takes too much out of the team.

With extra rest coming now and a bye before the Super Bowl there no holding back.

Welcome to Playoff football, boys!! This is the REAL Chiefs!

That Browns defense apparently gave up 30 ppg in road games. They got torched by the likes of Gardner Minshew. But they were extremely dominant in their home stadium. It seems like a lot of teams around the league are radically different in their home stadium compared to road games.

Interestingly enough, I think the Chiefs might be a slightly better team on the road than they are at Arrowhead. Some of their ugliest performances through the years have been in the home stadium, including that dumpster fire game against the Raiders on Christmas Day. A lot of the time it feels like KC is more focused in road games.

I was worried after the Tyreek TD, but when we went up 16-7 and the Dolphins immediately punted, the game started to feel like one of those old Patriots playoff games.

They wouldn't be particularly dominant on offense, but they wouldn't make mistakes, and their defense just allowed them to glacially move towards victory as slowly as possible, just leaning on the opponent play after play until the weight eventually became too much to bear....and sometime early in the 4th, the opponent usually cracked.

That's the team we are now. If we get out to an early lead, you're fighting an uphill battle the whole way. A 10-point deficit will feel like 21 with the way the defense makes you earn every yard.

It's always been hard to beat the Patrick Mahomes Chiefs. And when we don't beat ourselves this year, it's maybe even harder.

If this team doesn't turn the ball over, the defense is good enough to win it all.

**** yeah I want this matchup.

Means another game at Arrowhead.

I'm seeing people who "want the Bills."

Those people are ****ing crazy.

We definitely could.

I still think a lot of luck will be involved, but if they can continue to avoid massive mistakes/turnovers and just get some points on the board so the Defense can carry them to victory, anything is possible.

Just watched the highlights. Browns defense looked ****ing horrendous. Doesn't tell the story of the whole game but most of the scores I saw were just outright blown coverages.

Nah man. Sneed shuts down Diggs. Gabe Davis likely out if he plays his knee is ****ed anyway. A ton of pressure on Josh Allen to make plays. You see them putting up 20+ on our defense right now?

Yep, they were very bad on defense. Stroud and his OC both had A+ quality performances. On top of that, Flacco had back to back Pick 6's to send the scoreboard from a 24-14 game to a 38-14 game in the blink of an eye. Game over, lol

I'll watch the replay and get my answer but...

Pat seemed to be under a TON of pressure against a team with literally off the street pass rushers.

What was going on?

Vic brought 5+ early and often because he KNEW they couldnt get home rushing 4. It is why Rice was running free all night.

Between the Bills, Texans, and Ravens I'd take the Bills. They got a BS win against in the regular season and the Chiefs are going to into that game laser focused and look for a dawg fight.

Oh, Josh Allen is soft too. He's going to get crushed behind that shaky OL.

The problem is anything you say about the Bills, the Texans are just a weaker version, and playing on the road.

I'd much rather see Sneed attempt to shut down the one receiver the Texans have than Diggs and Allen.

IN ARROWHEAD.

They were blitzing alot

I would be more confident if they finished drives tonight which they didn't. If they score 21 they have a chance against any with this defense. I think the lack of a #2 WR really showed again tonight

The only pressure I saw was from blitzes.

Their 4 man wasn't getting there.

Against the blitzes Pat hung in there and found the open man or it was incomplete.

I think it was deep into the 3rd maybe early 4th they showed a graphic he only had like 6 hurries. The question is probably unanswered until we played a team that doesn't have a bunch of street free agents playing DE. With that said Smith looked like a clear upgrade over Morris

I’m not sure Houston is weaker. Stroud protects the ball much better than Josh Allen. Demeco Ryans probably won’t choke as badly as we have seen with McDermott’s poor game management for years.

That's because they ask him to do less.

You want to compare total TDs and make the argument they're weaker?

I think the Stroud hype is nuts. He's excellent and can drop dimes, BUT, I've seen Houston's offense take it in the shitter.

He's hot and cold. So is Josh but...we're talking about the NFL TD leader.

Give me the rookie at Arrowhead with Spags. We'll play better on offense, too.

Vibes. Immaculate. This team's head is in a very good place and they will be aiming to make everyone in Buffalo miserable. Zero intimidation going to that place with this attitude. BELIEVE!

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The win against the Fishies was one of our more complete games of the season. The entire team was playing well. Had some Red Zone issues again, gotta score a TD when it's 1st and Goal from the 2 but nonetheless, we looked better.

The wind certainly hurt some of the deep passing but Hardman appeared to be getting open downfield which we haven't had all season. In better weather I think the pass from Patrick to him is there.

Defense looked about as tough as they have all season as well. George with a multi-sack game looking good. LB's were flying around and our Secondary continues to stonewall.

I hadn’t worn my “lucky shirt” in over a month. Put it on last night, will be wearing it the rest of the postseason. Especially next week when I’m going to a Bills bar to watch us send them home.

Some people been saying this for a while now.

HOF HC, QB, and best defense left in the playoffs.

That combo has a pretty good history of winning SB's...

Agreed but against the Bills or Ravens we cannot go 2-6 in the Red Zone. That's the only real knock on the offense from the game.

Or, you could say the Bills can't turn the ball over 2 times vs Pat Mahomes and his defense. The Bills can't get turnovers and not score TD's like they did vs. a putrid Miami defense.

Are the Bills playing like a team that's ready to knock off the defending SB champs?

Are the Ravens ready to show up in the playoffs instead of choking away another great opportunity like they always do? Is Lamar ever going to grow up and play big-boy football in the playoffs? Can he win playoff games with his arm?

The Ravens right now look to be the most complete team. Buffalo is playing some scrappy football at the the right time.

Can either cross the finish line? Who knows. I don't think going 2-6 in the RZ though is a recipe for success against those teams. We need to make that more like 4-6 get over 30+.

I’ve worn the same hoodie the last 3 games too.

We have found the formula!!

It's funny how that's the feeling in today's NFL, because every year the best defenses in the league get the tag "elite" when they're really just very good against non-SB contenders and garbage quarterbacks, but routinely get clowned by the best offenses... see: Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles.

It's pretty much an afterthought to have an elite defense, because who doesn't give up 30+ against the best offenses in the league.

Yet, this defense IS the way.


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Exactly.... I think the Bills got to the red zone 4 times against Miami and two of those resulted in turnovers. They have their own shit to clean up.

If we don't turn the ball over, are successful in red zone, and are locked in mentally we are going to be a very difficult team for someone to knock out.

Stroud and Collins are a much better combo than Allen and Diggs the second half of the season. I’m definitely conflicted who I want but ultimately the Bills getting knocked out this week is probably for the best.

That Miami defense was missing most of the guys it was missing yesterday, last week as well. Van Ginkel got knocked out early. Goode got knocked out on the kickoff return TD, and it’s debatable if he’s actually any better than street FA guys they added.

The Bills threw the ball better than KC did, in pristine Miami conditions, though. They also found ways to turn it over 3 times against that D and had to rely entirely on Allen in the running game.

The Bills are on a win streak, but haven’t exactly been playing great or perfect during that streak, either.

I’m confident against the Bills in Orchard Park. I’m also not confident the game even gets played (and not because of weather in Buffalo next Saturday).

KC played much better but not perfect yesterday. They have a better level than that available.

Outside of Hardman tracking the ball like Stevie Wonder this was one of the smartest games we've played this season

Even when we made mistakes, like the low snap, Mahomes didn't try to force it and lived to play another down

Felt there was a nice balance in play calling given both the conditions and trying to exploit Miami's injuries

And the defense balled the **** out

Feels good this morning

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

I think the Steelers and Rudolph go the route of Flacco and the Browns and suddenly don't look that great on the road in the playoffs, but also don't want to underestimate how the Bills have the knack for doing whatever is needed to keep other teams in games.

It would be ****ing hilarious if the Steelers managed to win that game, but glorious beyond words if the Chiefs ended their season again.

It feels like they learned something from the Cincy game by just taking the points when they are there and not trying to force anything. With this defense, settling for 3, especially with a kicker like Butker, isn’t such a bad thing. In both of these games, we ended up with WR’s getting open on deep routes which we hadn’t seen much of this year. Although we didn’t capitalize on a couple of them last night, the opportunities were still there when they haven’t been for most of the season.

I want Buffalo with 2 days less rest than the Chiefs get.

I assume that would be the Sunday game but I’d love to see it next Saturday too.

Analytics getting ass ****ed this year by Andy Reid and Harrison Butker

The offense seems to understand now-

If they can just score more than 20, they've got a real good chance at winning the game.

Like that's it. They don't have to put up 30 points. Just 20.

Punting and giving the other offense the long field is just fine. Field position is important.

Running the ball, not forcing things, playing BORING ****ing football probably wins.

Mahomes just threw it away several times last night when he would've forced things before; but he knows he's got a great defense, and just don't turn the ball over and we're good.

Yeah, they CAN win the SB this way. The Patriots won several in this fashion.

The analytics are based on averages, no?

This defense ain't average.

If KC scores over 20, they win.

4:30 In the vid.

"Is is possible that they could ride the D?"

MJD gives a WTF look and raises an eyebrow.

"I mean, the defense...."

MJD: "Okay...."

:LOL:

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His maturation process has been fun to witness despite the failures of his surrounding cast throughout the season.

I also think the afc is pretty ripe for the picking. We can absolutely make a run at it.

Yeah, it's largely what many expected (present company included)... except that we'd see it earlier than this week while not seeing bullshit like the Raiders game so late in the season.

Give Moore, Toney, CEH chances to prove themselves while keeping guys like Rice and Pacheco healthy for the real season... and then narrow down the receiver rotation, Playoff Mahomes enters the chat and is both dialed in and taking more chances running the ball, defense does what it does.

The biggest surprise was Kelce's three drops... thought he'd be another 'flip the switch' guy, but still had 70 yards though.

if we win it, and I think we absolutely can, do you know how ****ing HATED we're going to be? lol

this is a down year with a "broken" Mahomes. If we win it all, hoooo boy. How much did you hate the prime patriots, or the broncos? that's gonna be us lol. you go to a different town and you wear your chiefs shit and people hope the plane you're on crashes or you step on an aids needle at the beach.

it's going to be glorious

I noticed some of kelces catches were kinda body catches. I’m gonna chalk a lot of this one up to brutal conditions for catching the ball with your hands.

Keep it simple on offense, let the D and ST keep destroying.

To me the main quality has always seemed to be having balance on both sides of the ball, and finding a lot of different ways to win. And of course you have to have good QB play these days.

We certainly have not had those things this year, but yeah. If we play like we did yesterday we can make a run. If we clean up the drops and penalties we’ll look like SB winners.

Miami did not look like a great team last night, so hopefully we are still having this talk after next weekend

Bring.



It.



On.

ROFL ROFL MJD’s face was priceless

I see a team having FUN for the first time in a very long time. It started last week.

When it comes to the Bills, the teams are so evenly matched that turnovers, penalties and some luck decide it. The luck can be one or two key calls the refs get wrong. Need a clean game like last night.

If Gabbert could have a good connection with Hardman last week. I'll blame it on the weather/wind last night

Not this year. We stomp them again this year...

The funny thing is this was absolutely the case last season, too... Mahomes loses Tyreek and they have the youngest defense in the league, then on top of that Mahomes has to do it on one leg in the playoffs.... and then does.

Cue the Jonny Gomes speech if they even make the Super Bowl this year, much less win it all.

The weather was horrible in Pittsburgh’s win against Baltimore last week. It was raining hard. Rudolph completed 18 of 20 passes with no turnovers. If he plays like that again, they have a decent shot to take down Buffalo.

Everybody seems to think BUF beats PIT. I'm calling the Chiefs postseason staying in Arrowhead.

PIT>BUF

KC>HOU
PIT>BAL

KC>PIT

Not only that, but man the pressure on Buffalo is gonna be immense. Facing their nemesis, this time on their field. That’s a ton of pressure, and we know how Josh handles pressure. Lowe this game and it might be curtains for their coach. We’re defending SB champs going into Buffalo, yet all the pressure is on them.

And then beat Dallas in the Super Bowl. Or the Bucs. **** the Bucs.

There will be a nuclear meltdown from other fans around the NFL if the #3 seeded Chiefs somehow end up with another conference title game in their home stadium. Lol