Agree, but we needed to give Hunt the rest. Hunt looked fresh today.

He's all around solid no question about it, but we need more speed and youth back there IMO

Maybe Steele develops?

Pacheco back to back games averaging under 3 yards per carry.

He is better used outside the tackles. I don’t know why we don’t run more pitches and sweeps with him and then straight hand off to Hunt

Random thought about Mahomes and his pass effectiveness - I can't take credit for this as it came up in conversation and some film review might be warranted....but maybe Mahomes isn't "looking off" defensive backs as much as he used to? We haven't seen the "no look" passes recently? Or maybe we just don't notice....thoughts?

Mahomes was clearly better in this game and it was obviously partly a result of Holywood's impact, and partly OL play. But I think he was also both a) generally getting the ball out a little quicker and b) not bailing as early or as often with phantom pressure. Some of it was trusting the OL and some was having guys like Holtwood get open early, imo. Still work to get back to his best, and no doubt the long ball isn't there yet either, but a massive improvement.

Holywood looked excellent and about as impactful as we could have hoped. The quick separation, the ability to threaten in multiple ways, the pressure it puts on teams alongside Worthy, it's great. Also, talking of trust, the back shoulder throw to Hopkins was perfect usage and it was great to see Mahomes execute that.

Definitely feels like there's some tweaking to be done on RB usage, because Hunt was excellent, Perine brilliant in the passing game, but Pacheco not so much.

D held in very well. I'm beginning to blame the secondary less and less for 3rd down completions, because the 4 man pass rush is still useless. If it gets pressure, it is interminably slow. Yes, Williams gave up some completions, as I think did Cook, but man they need to cover forever.

Great game overall.

Only other thing was, as someone said elsewhere, the Dell injury felt like a massive deal. We couldn't cover him and as soon as he was out our D improved. I'm certain it would've been closer with him in.

Great review as usual.

Remigio is a good returner.

Our DEs are not great. Felix is a bust so far. I can’t remember Charles and Mike doing anything either. Karl is decent.

I was elated that we had 17 points at half. I hope this is the breakout game for the offense. Morris seemed to do really good at RT. Everything is looking better.

One more win baby! Let’s wrap this shit up next week! Or…. Go New England!!

What a time to be a chiefs fan!

Arm sore from hoisting the kids. :)

Man Hollywood just looks like the missing piece. He brings something to the table we just haven’t seen in a while. Speed with consistency to play everywhere on the field. Anyone else feel like we were watching a more athletic Sammy Watkins out there?

He still has shown the fastball when he has needed it, and can get the ball as far downfield as he needs. When healthy.

He was throwing off a compromised plant leg today. When his right ankle has been an issue, he usually loses a little bit of throwing power.

I also feel like defenses aren’t afraid to defend the run against us anymore. Felt like that was the approach early on because the top priority was containing mahomes and the pass. Felt like with Mahomes’ ankle they weren’t shadowing him as much either. It’s not just Pacheco, Kareem hasn’t been effective either.

Those dudes have the lightening quickness of Tyreek. Run really precise routes too.

I've been saying it for weeks. Teams have started creeping up and up to shut down the short passes. They know that by default, they can shut down the run just by having guys close to the line. The running game was better yesterday but it hasn't been good at all for most of the season.