Creed Humphrey is a much better pass blocker than run blocker, Thuney is also..OBJ and Trey Smith are the better run blockers.

Not the same as last year. Reddick is a huge upgrade obviously (tied second in the league in sacks). Three other guys in double digits. Sweat wasn't a starter last year and has proven himself this year. They added Davis, Suh and Joseph to the middle of the line. The biggest difference from last year though is that they are now so deep on the line that they are able to rotate players more often with little to no loss in talent. This has kept them all fresher so that even in the 4th quarter they're still going strong and able to take advantage of a tired lineman more often. For example, last I saw Brandon Graham only plays about 38% of the total defensive snaps but has 11 sacks this year. And staying fresh is even bigger this late in the season.

And agreed that Hurts is still vulnerable to the blitz. He still has some growing there.

And when the run game struggles...it's usually tied to Trey Smith and how well he's playing.

It's almost impossible to understand how the Chiefs are so bad on 3rd and 1.

It makes no sense.

National media is all on the Eagles dicks right now. Got to love that we get Petty Pat

Rain Man made a joke in the AFC Championship GDT about taking a delay of game on 3rd and 1 to make it 3rd and 6.

I'm starting to wonder if it's ****ing genius at this point.

Man, we got two weeks.

Week 1: Basking in the glory of being AFC Champs

Week 2: Think about the Eagles.

Im still in week 1, but everyone keeps asking me how i feel about playing the Eagles.

I don't ****ing know. I'm still busy laughing at the Bengals. But what little thought i have given it, i feel pretty good about it.

Other than Keyshawn Johnson, so far from what I've seen.

What a surprise, a bunch of coastal talking heads picking the team close to them?! I am shocked, shocked I say!

You should be happy! Good teams like the two here typically do better when they are underdogs with a chip on their shoulder. Last thing I want is for the young Eagles players to start thinking this thing is in the bag because for two weeks the media is telling them how special they are. That's a good way to get your butt handed to you in a game. Thankfully there are a number of veteran guys like Kelce, Cox and Lane Johnson, who already won a SB, who can ideally keep those young guys' heads from swelling too much.

Exactly this. :thumb:

The thing we don't know about the Eagles defense is can they confuse Mahomes.

That's kinda the key to beating Mahomes at this point, you have to get him off balance. Of course, if everyone is injured, they can just man us up and no one will get open so it wont matter.

A huge part of that is because Reid refuses to QB sneak Mahomes. As such they don’t have the opportunity to pick up some of those easy 1st downs. Also teams don’t have to worry about them QB sneaking either so they can focus more on stopping whoever is our RB back there. We have to manufacture trick plays to pick up a yard.

Not doing a QB sneak because of a fluke injury 3 years ago is some old woman superstition from our coaching staff. A QB is more likely to get injured doing anything else besides a QB sneak. They need to get over this mental hurdle, especially if it's affecting performance.

No time like the Super Bowl to bust it out if necessary.

Could likely take the edge off from using it in the future too.