Toub is gonna carry us to victory again LMAO

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Lighten up Francis

I refuse to believe our d is worse, but whatever

How the feck does that bs have the Bills defense ranked higher? Smh

They literally got destroyed by the Ravens twice, Lions, Rams and Zona. Whilst we gave up 30 & 27 and that's as bad as it got points wise. That stat is utterly bizarre.

We were 3rd in defensive ypg before our backups played the Broncos, we’re 8th or 9th now.

Maybe that game dropped us a few points

I'm oddly calm about this game. I have no idea why. I had a crazy amount of nervous energy going into the Texans game, maybe just from waiting so long for meaningful Chiefs football. But I'm completely calm and steady about the Bills, the far more superior opponent compared to the Texans. Just kinda feel like we got this one.

I'm also taking a step back this week to realize what a blessing this has all been. We have our own version of the Patriots vs Colts rivalry going with the Bills, we get to play in a game where the world is watching. I guess this week is me taking a moment to be grateful, these last 6-7 years have truly been a blessing.

Turnovers.

Play a clean game and tie/win the turnover battle and they lose a lot of games they’ve been winning. The Bills lose by two scores vs the Ravend last week if they’re not gifted three turnovers.

Like every game the Chiefs win if they bring their A game and it will be a battle if they don’t.

The Bills beat one team all season when they didn’t win the turnover battle. Don’t turn the ball over and they become a 1-3 team.

Chiefs haven’t turned the ball over in what is it now, 8 games?

Turnovers. Bills defense generates a ton of turnovers even if they aren't good at much else.

Did the Week 18 Broncos game fully impact the Chiefs DVOA? or does the system have modifiers that account for a team benching starters with the No. 1 seed secured?

Threepeat is landing on the moon with little chance of lives lost. Seen as an unnecessary limb too far. Play it safe and roll with history mindset

The more and more I hear people accusing the refs of favoring the Chiefs, the more and more I think Mahomes is seething deep down inside and is going to have the game of his life on Sunday. Last year, it was "Mahomes can't win on the road! The only way the CHiefZ win is because they play at Arrowhead!" Then Mahomes went on to beat Buffalo and Baltimore on the road in the playoffs and shut that narrative down. The year before that it was "Burrow owns Mahomes!" This year it's the refs...

Uhh, first reaction is they play in the East. If your betting DVOA good luck with that.

The Bills played four road games against teams that eventually made the playoffs (Ravens, Texans, Lions, Rams) and they went 1-3 in those games.

Buffalo's D only gave up 35 points or more in three games this season, and all of them came on the road. The Bills only gave up 425 yards or more in four games this season, they all came on the road.

One thing I just heard mentioned on Locked on Chiefs is Bolton and Trey both are playing for contracts next year. Big marquee matchup, time to show they are worth the contracts they’re hoping to get.

Their secondary has injuries and besides a DT, they can be beat. Spags doesnt allow more than 24 points in the playoffs. Attack through the air. Forget the run, take it to that banged up secondary.

If he gets protection, he can do many things. That's the biggest key to the game for the Chiefs to win... Buffalo gives Allen all time to throw. Only been sacked like 14 times, or some crazy shit like that. KC needs to protect Mahomes. Do that, and the Chiefs will win. If he's running for his life, its gonna be very hard to score enough points.

I know that the realization of how great we have it and the recognition of how "spoiled" we are as fans comes at different times for everyone

It really set in for me last night when NFL Network was replaying the 2020-21 AFCCG where we smoked Buffalo. I'd mostly purged that entire season from my memory because it didn't result in a SB win and the game didn't even look all that familiar to me

That was a bad ass team and a fun season that I intentionally forgotten about because we lost in a SB

Anyway that was my reality check and it and got me more fired up for Sunday

We're all taking Allenhead at the GBS Sunday Night!

LMAO

The Buffalo defense is 8th and the Chiefs are 12th?

WTF?

Exactly. If it's simply the turnovers, their system is broken.

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An injured slot corner is going to lock Kelce down now?

LMAO

Where do they get these clowns?

Remember playing the All-Time DVOA Champs in Baltimore last year? I mean, how could any team beat the Baltimore DVOA’s? They were the best EVAR!!!

Please put tiny Taron Johnson on Kelce. Please do that.

The WRs will go for 250+ and that's before Kelce still does Kelce things.

Nobody neutralizes playoff kelce.

Borrowed from Twitter:

Bills have faced four playoff teams on the road this year. They went 1-3 and gave up 36 PPG.

I don't think there's any scenario where they are posting 30 on us in our house with the defense fully loaded.

The key to slowing down Trav is mugging the **** out of him. PLEASE put Johnson and his bum shoulder on Kelce. Let's see just how physical Johnson can be.

Better not take any chances. Put 2 CBs on Kelce all game. Better safe than sorry.

Yeah.

I mean my position was essentially "Well a CB with a shoulder issue can still be effective covering WRs..."

Fellas, a guy with a bum shoulder AIN'T gonna cover Travis Kelce. He's going to just beat you to death.

It's like people forget that Kelce is 6'5" and 270 lbs. Guy's a ****ing defensive end out there catching passes. He is MASSIVE.

No, Tarron Johnson isn't going to neutralize Travis Kelce. He won't make it through the 3rd quarter of the game if he even tries.

My daughter has NO idea of what we went through. She has no concept of pain & suffering as a Chiefs fan - she only knows winning & Super Bowls. She just thinks that this is how it is.

Travis isn’t 270. 250 for sure, but your point still stands.

Pretty interesting that Hicks only had 12% of the snaps in Buffalo while Nazeeh had 100%. Hicks had 74% of the snaps vs Houston.

It’s really simple on defense. The gameplan last time worked well until the last drive. They just need to tackle better.

If the Bills go big up or jumbo, I’d go disguised single high with Hicks crashing down in the middle and McDuffie/Watson taking away the outside of the field with Spags saying good ****ing luck.

I think you’ll see a ton of disguised spy coverage on Allen. They’ll have Leo at DE on some of those downs faking a rush and quickly dropping inside.

They are going to clog the run game and force Allen to hit those low percentage outside throws again vs pressure. This time will be a lot harder with Omenihu and Watson.

Yes everybody doesn’t like Nazeeh and Conner, but their value is in the middle of the field. They both are the best blitzers not named McDuffie and both are good tacklers despite Conner’s outlier performance last time.

I think he was 250 several years ago. I don't think that's where he's sitting these days.

But in either event, he's a big ****ing guy.

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What, was Little Texas already booked?

They are facing a team that has set the NFL record in consecutive games without a turnover vs a team that isn't any good on defense if they don't get turnovers.

Advantage Chiefs.

From year to year forcing turnovers is fluky compared to being an offensive that limits them.

I feel like you missed an opportunity for a Diamond Rio reference.

I swear those guys lived at Guitars and Cadillacs in the 90s.

This should really fire up the country part of the crowd that typically has to watch rap concerts.

For all the rumors about Mahomes and Hill and Bieniemy at halftime vs. the Bengals, I will FOREVER blame Walker Hayes for that 2nd half...

Holy shit. Dip and bitch? Jesus... Rap would be preferred over these two clowns.

My god. Are we really going to take "ride a cowboy" into the Superbowl?

On offense it’s funny because it’s the complete opposite. The Chiefs have the mismatch outside. I do not see these guys being able to contain Hollywood/Worthy.

The Bills aren’t putting anyone alone on Kelce. They are going to do anything and everything take him away. I expect that to be bracket coverage with switching assignment of one of Milano/Bernard + a DB, probably one of Johnson/Hamlin.

The clues were there last time. I fully expect a big Worthy game as well as Hollywood. The speed they represent is extremely difficult for zone coverage, which means a lot of the same thing we saw in the regular season game plan vs Texans and Steelers. And if they want to bracket Kelce, they will open those vulnerable DB’s up to be exploited.

Crossers, out routes, corner routes, post routes and RPO’s. I think that’s the gameplan. And I would expect quite a bit of Worthy in the backfield too like they did with Hardman. Jet sweeps have been killing them, screens have killed them.

Worthy and Hollywood. Big games coming for them IMO

It would have an affect. I'm sure this dynamic duo will provide the same. :facepalm:

😂

Had to look up Big & Rich

They make Travis Tritt sound like Beethoven

We already know they can't cover Worthy. Andy showed just enough to prove that.

Eh pretty hard to call big and rich country. Kind of a mixed bag there for everyone.

I want Arrowhead to do like M&T Bank a put a decibel meter on the scoreboard.

They had the best of intentions.

I'll continue to bang the drum of 'mahomes has (now 3) very young kids.' Even IF he has a nanny to help with them (don't know), he was a guy that grew up with a dad that wasn't always there. He'd want to be, he seems to be the type to be the dad he didn't have.

Does this mean that here in a few years after they're done with the being little stage we get insanely focused pat? let's hope.

and bingo was his name-o

Bag of shit...

You don’t think people with much more important and/or dangerous jobs who have little kids have been making focused decisions and taking focused actions since literally the beginning of time?

No offense but I find these “sports psychology” adjacent takes about someone you don’t personally know to be very odd.

Baseball on the road is a bit different

Yeah the Bills simply had no answer for this. 15.3 YPC avg. I think this is gonna be the gameplan with Hollywood.

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This is exactly how my daughters are. Being the best and winning everything is what they are accustomed to. We are the best and the Broncos are like the Jets to them. Shitty teams that never win. They thought it was cute that they finally made the playoffs after never seeing them win.

I hope they don't ever go through what we did.

It’s all a conspiracy to show how the NFL wants KC to win. Think about the band name.

Big: Andy is known as Big Red
Rich: Mahomes signed the biggest contract ever in sports and makes a lot of money on endorsements.

Plus the SB colors have red which is very similar to KCs colors.

Lastly the SB will be in New Orleans, which has so many former Chiefs players on their roster.

It’s all shaping up just how Big NFL wanted it to be.

Partially related: I watched the latest AFC North Hard Knocks and they had a scene where Zac Taylor’s young daughters came to the facility and were hanging out. I want to say it was a Friday night. Been a while since I watched so I could be fudging the memory a bit, but he basically said after seeing them on Sunday, he won’t see them again until Friday night.

I know coaches are expected to put in significantly more time at the facility than the players, but it did make me wonder what the grind of the season looks like for players.

Seems it helped kill Brady’s marriage..

There was also that shit Pat used to wear on his arm that tracked his sleep and what not. He posted his averages over the previous few years and there was one season I swear he was sleeping like 12 hours per day lol not much time for family if you’re sleeping that much and at the facility for 10, 11, 12 hours per day.

I have no idea. I don't know anything about country music. I just found out who Luke Combs is.

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So there was this deep dive refs analyst that got into a bunch of minutia about the ref crew being assigned.

And he flat out said, that this crew is most def being assigned to slow the "rigged for the Chiefs" mantra.

Two guys that do more analytical stuff for game breakdowns went over some of it, I'll see if I can find it.

Their source: Trust me bro!

Some people saying something doesn't necessarily make it true, and I actually share your concerns a little.

Is this big news or just whatever?

What does that 2nd paragraph mean though?

Are they going to over-penalize the Chiefs to make it more "fair"?

They'll be starting Hamlin and a rookie who's struggled. Might be the worst safety duo we've played all year.

Rapp is solid, not a hero. But he's a starting safety so I think it matters.

Clay just got hard

Bombs away....

If we can't punish these guys over top with the speed we have or at least threaten so much that it makes the middle swiss cheese, we probably don't deserve to win.

He's Buffalo's most reliable safety and best coverage safety.

Damar Hamlin can be "got" in coverage and rookie Cole Bishop has had problems in coverage.

I think it's a fairly big deal. If the Bills commit to flooding the short area of the field to try and give their pass rush time to get home, and limit YAC, you're putting those S in much more precarious spots, especially against a team like the Chiefs that can put two real speed merchants out there with Brown and Worthy.

I think it will make 11 sets really tough for them to defend. If they play zone, Mahomes-Kelce-Hopkins are pretty tough to consistently defend. If they play man and leave single high or even split safeties deep, you've got a pair of S back there who don't excel in coverage AND who haven't played together a lot.

It's possible they use backup NB Cam Lewis as the second safety, too. But Taron Johnson, the primary NB, is also pretty dinged up and has an injury it wouldn't be take much to re-injure...

Replacement will be dragged while trying to punch out the ball

Who has the better head coach??? Andy Reid
Who has the better Defensive Coordinator??? Spaggs
Who has the better kicker?? Butker
Who has the better STs coach??? Toub..
Who has the better QB?? Mahomes
Who has the better receiver??? Kelce
Who has the best defensive player?? Jones
Who has second best defensive player?? McDuffy
Who is more healthy??? Chiefs

Chiefs are the answer to these questions… Guess who I pick to win the game…

Yahoo Sports podcast with Nate Tice looked at the snaps when Rapp was out and the Bills had to play Bishop and they graded as basically the worst defense in football by EPA/play. It was somethin like 250 snaps of sample size

Ummm that's a really big ****ing deal then LMAO

It's not apples to apples but the feeling I am getting is very similar to last year when you look at the Chiefs O and Bills D, and it's just hard to see how they're going to be able to contain the passing game.

Only, and I mean the only way, is if their DL just absolutely wrecks shit. I don't think they can on the road here. I believe the Bills will need at least 30 to win, and that's not happening.

They've never been able to handle our offense in the postseason even when they had the duo of Poyer and Hyde.

Bishop and Hamlin will be ugly.

Had the same exact thought. They struggled against us when they had a great duo.

When you combine the possiblity of Benford being out with Johnson and Milano being banged up, this offense should be able to outscore the Bills with our defense.

If our Oline holds up there should be no reason we don't win.

and there's absolutely no reason this Dline should push our Olines shit in either.

The Bills are a completely different defense on the road this year.

35 against the Ravens
44 against the Rams
42 against the Lions
23 against a struggling Texans offense with a recovering Dell and no Mixon

This may have been the most important year to get the 1 seed. It feels really nice getting to play this game at home.

Im confused. I thought he died

He died a bad football player and came back below average.