Defense was a lot like how it was preseason. Good run defense, bad pass defense for the most part. I'll reserve further judgement until Claiborne gets going.

This, if you want to win a ring...

Claiborne needs to play ahead of Ward when he returns.

They have a long ways to go to jell into a top 15 defense.

I must say, regardless of the Chiefs D, that Jags QB was playing damn well.

Foles wouldnt have been any better. Maybe worse.

Number 35 needs cut tomorrow. Other than that, things look promising. Not good, but promising.

D+. Cashew shredded us. 22/25? Embarrassing.

Even after the overhaul our best defensive player is still Patrick Mahomes.

Just have to get to 20...especially in points allowed.

They were 24th in points allowed last year.

Being too cute.

Didn't see the fourth quarter, obviously, so I can't really evaluate what happened with the garbage time scores, and that's half the points allowed in the game...

As I mentioned in the gameday thread, however, the scheme today looked a lot like preseason game number 5 to me. While there were some blitzes, I really didn't see a whole lot of creativity or much of an aggressive philosophy. And I do expect this to be an attacking defense.

So my guess is that they saw the offensive line injuries that Jacksonville had, decided they could win the game without having to be very exotic, and just played a relatively vanilla defense from the outset. And once we got ahead very quickly, there wasn't really a need to change that approach. Jacksonville was done before halftime.

So while it wasn't all that exciting to watch, I think they effectively kept the scheme off of film for another week, which may be beneficial moving forward. And it wouldn't surprise me to see it happen again in Oakland.

That said, I think they do look to be much improved against the run, I thought that both the linebacker play and the play of Thornhill was encouraging, but it does look like we're going to have to get creative to generate a pass rush, which I don't think surprises anyone. Although Jacksonville's approach did seem to be 'get the ball out as quickly as possible,' and maybe some slower-developing playcalls from the Jaguars would have resulted in more pressure.

All in all, not great, but it's a start. As the players themselves said, they need to tighten some things up, and they know they don't need to be giving up 26 points.

Pretty shitty, going against backups on the oline we got garbage for pressure. We let a no name scrub carve up the secondary. Smells like it always has.

I think the Fuller TD was just a damn good play. That’s just gonna happen sometimes.

Was definitely the best throw from the QB’s.

Ward is transitioning to a coverage defense after playing man n Dallas and under Sutton.

We definitely need Claiborne.

Side note: Thornhill was really good today

Oh and we still suck on 3rd down. Unbelievable that we gave up 3rd and 18 today. That is completely unacceptable

****ing Chark and Conley both had damn good games.

Chark 4 rec 146yds 1 TD

Conley 6 rec 97 yds 1 TD

I'm not sure what some of you saw from the run D that makes you think they're improved, because Fournette (who may be the most overrated RB in football) had 13 rushes for 66 yards and averaged 5.1 ypc. The only reason he didn't have alot more is because they had to play catch up and their rookie QB did his best Alex Smith impression and completed 22 of 25 for 2 TDs. From what I was able to watch our pass rush looked like it wanted to replicate last year's AFCCG. Luckily one of the only times the D got to the QB they knocked the starter out of the game or else they would have allowed a lot more points.