The defense was gassed AF last week in the 4th but that was from chasing Lamar's ass all over the field. I feel like they should have a little more stamina this game.

Not much to talk about.

Cincy going to lose . . . . Bigly.

This is very accurate. The Buffalo weapons this year are awful bar a decent Tight End room.

No receiver in the top 50 in the league, best running back well outside the top 10 and while both Tight Ends are good neither of them is top 5 in the league. Allen is going to have to cook with even worse ingredients than Pat had last year.

Well my eyes could have mislead me but as one of many on here that watches every game, I have always felt the scrambling QB gives us more problems than anybody since Spags came to KC.

I believe it's a philosophical thing where his style of defense for whatever reason puts a lot of pressure on the back seven because they try so damn hard to just keep the QB in the pocket and do not really rush them in a way that gets the ball out of their hands fast.

On the flip side, I feel like his defense is really ****ing hard on pocket QBs (see his success vs. Brady).

I think they’re downplaying how much Patrick wants this game. Of course he wants to win every game. But I promise he’s tired of hearing how he’s got a losing record vs Joey Glass.

It’s also one of the reasons I hope we play the Lions in the SB. Patrick will hear for two weeks how he’s never beaten Goff. And he will take that shit PERSONALLY!

I hope Danna and or FAU burns the artist formerly known as Orlando Brown over and over

He’s on the tag. I doubt he’s gonna be willing to risk further injury, if he’s still not 100%.

The only thing I fear is Jumpball Joe completes like 90% of those garbage 50 50 hero balls against us. It's so lame.

Burrow isn't himself after that injury and his OL is still trash. This will be a statement game.

Also a win here basically knocks Cincy out of the running to get the one seed. Time to cook the kitties early.

That's what he's done every time he's won, so I think it's reasonable to say he'll need the 50/50 balls regardless of what else they have going on.

Bit concerned about Suamataia going against Hendrickson. Hopefully if he's struggling Reid gets some help over there quick. Or just give him constant chip help off the rip from Kelce and Gray.

The Pats had 170 yards on the ground against them. Establishing the ability to run will do a lot for pass protection.

This. Run, screen, and quick slant them and that pass rush won’t matter.

Bengals put pressure on Jacoby Brissett on 44.8% of his dropbacks, and nearly half of those came solely from Hendrickson. The rest of their DL ****ing sucks now, so chip and double team that dude into irrelevance.

They never learn LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Speed … He can run straight.”<br><br>— Bengals CB Cam Taylor-Britt, on what Xavier Worthy adds to the KC Chiefs offense<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bengals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bengals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a><a href="https://twitter.com/WCPO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WCPO</a> <a href="https://t.co/E6BDEE7ZZj">pic.twitter.com/E6BDEE7ZZj</a></p>&mdash; Caleb Noe (@CalebNoeTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebNoeTV/status/1834007655142359051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

'Establishing the run' is bullshit.

It's always been bullshit.

Do what we do. And what we do is NOT running the football.

The Bengals pass rush ain't the '86 Bears. Hendrickson isn't even Maxx Crosby. Run a couple screens out Hendrickson's way and we'll be fine.

Run our offense.

Thankfully we never need worry about this with Andy. ROFL

The Ravens might have the best corner group 1-5 in the league.

Bengos have no idea what is coming.

This is why you get "coach speak" from the Chiefs. They've won more than any team in the league the past decade and you just don't hear that kinda stuff from them.

It's just dumb.

They had that much on the ground because they can't pass the ball. They have no WR's.

Their DC is no bum. They'll know what is coming for the most part. Knowing but being able to stop it are two different things though.

Known shut-down corner Cam Taylor-Britt out there running his mouth.

Can you imagine Jaylon Watson doing that shit?

Dude, I know you're not used to folks putting microphones in your face on account of being irrelevant, but you don't HAVE to say stupid things when they do.

I actually think the Chiefs should run the ball a few times right at Hendrickson. He was really really bad (like Dee Ford bad) over pursuing his rush leaving his run lane wide open and the Patriots just kept running his way and exploiting him.

Just takes 2-3 carries his way to force him to stay disciplined. Then you do play action or RPO to freeze his rush bc he’s thinking about the run

As was the case last year.

That D was so bad Andy simplified the playbook and we thrashed them on pure talent. Still couldn't score in the RZ but Mahomes was cooking.

Hendrickson's probably just stat chasing for his new team and contract.

I think you can give him some of the treatment they give Nick Bosa.

Hendrickson no longer seems interested in doing his job, just in rushing the passer.

No no, let him cook

He's in full "get sacks so I can get paid" mode.

I don't know that I would agree with that.

Oh sure.

Again, you need maybe a dozen carries between the 20s to 'establish the run' in a given game.

Aight. One run per drive. Works for me. That's all you get, Pop.

Running the football is dumb.

Oh I would.

Shakir/Kincaid ain't Kelce/Rice

Hell, Keon Coleman may not be Justin Watson.

Seems like Chiefs reporters have nothing to do but report on the status of Hollywood Brown a half dozen times per day. We know he's not playing. I'm really not concerned. It isn't "grim news", or "not looking good". We're fine, stop trying to make it more than it is.

The chiefs should take this opportunity to bury the Bengals. Andy needs to keep his foot on the gas this game. Don't go into our vanilla offense like he did against the Ravens. This is a team that needs to be shut up and humiliated for the future psychological edge. Show them exactly how unprepared they are to complete this year.

Well...yeah. Actually, now that I think about it, you're probably right. I forgot Rice. I just couldn't help but remember all the drops from guys like MVS and Toney. :shake:

Looking forward to this matchup.Kingsley was really good in the opening game and let’s hope he can keep it up here. Then we will know for sure our LT problem is solved.

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Just saw the espn alert for that and damn, does anyone on that team know when to shut the **** up?

It's like they're being told to make sure they talk some shit to the media... what a bunch of clowns.

If you had that available to you and it worked most of the time, would you not keep going to it? I would, hell yeah.

I have a freak WR out there to where I can throw up a 50/50 and have faith that they'll likely make a play? Keep chucking it baby!

We'll see though.. Burrow has been checking down and "taking what the defense gives him" (his words after the game last Sunday). If the wrist issue is real and/or he continues to check it down we might not see 50/50 balls.

Gotta agree. Bengals drafted Mims for RT spot I was hoping he would be starting even though he's a Rookie, but he's hurt of course. Not a Trent Brown fan he does not look good. Obviously I'm hoping he turns it around but it's not likely.

Volson has been looking much better his past few games but can still be a liability. Actually, Cappa has been one of the worst for the interior OL (getting bad scores) most recently.

Bengals interior O-Line vs Chris Jones is a real big problem (big problem for.most teams actually).

Speed rushers should go against OBJ. He has been doing pretty well against strength and bull rushes,,, speed rushers to his sides can give him real issues.

Well now they HAVE MVS. That's a 1 for 1.

And the Chiefs, while their parts didn't execute terribly well, were at least complementary. The Bills, OTOH, are redundant as all hell.

It's a bad room. Poorly conceived and poorly executed.

Higgins and Chase are spectacularly complementary.

Higgins is a boss at those 50/50 balls, Chase is spectacular out of his cuts and into space for YAC, etc...

I said in the other Bengals thread, but Cincy really screwed the pooch here. They had those 2, Burrow and Hendrickson on steal contracts and managed very little. Those are MASSIVE assets on a cap sheet that have essentially amortized out.

Now they'll never be in a situation like that again.

Maybe they'll find their way through it. But the only real way to do that is to pay a LOT of cash and keep kicking the can for 5-6 years the way Jerrah does in Dallas. And then you hope you draft a Parsons and get some breakout performances from someone like Bland.

And so while your QB and WRs cost real money, you've supplemented them and you can survive it.

But Mike Brown isn't gonna do that. He's not Jerry. He's going to try to do it on the cheap and things are just going to spiral on them.

The '21 loss in the SB and '22 loss in the AFCCG are likely gonna haunt these fellas for a real long time. '22 would be the worst for me because they seemed ready to take the next step after the '21 loss to LA. The injury to Burrow in '23 (probably because of the hammy) was also pretty brutal and is likely to still be impacting them this season.

That's a 4 year wide-open championship window and it's extremely unlikely that they'll end up with much in the trophy case to show for it.

Joe’s new hairdo really highlights his handsome features. And now we learn that he has a limp wrist?! Be still my beating heart. :drool:

Awww this just warms my soul. How sweet.

That's been floating around for about a week.

I wanted to send it to my Chiefs family text thread. I couldn't. It was just so very very bad.

**** them.

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Now that's actually not something I'll give him shit for.

That's 100% the right message to say.

Get in that lockerroom and say "Boys, we're ****ing good at football - let's prove it..."

Wow. Perception here about their DC does not match their fanbase. At all. General consensus is they're pretty tired of him. And looking into the numbers they kind of have a point. Only once has he fielded a top 5 scoring defense. The rest are mediocre to outright bad.

Although it's a lot more to do with their cheap ass owner refusing to give out second contracts than the DC. Jessie Bates is a top 3 Safety in football and they refused to even negotiate a second contract with him.

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It's official, they're ****ed

And yet they have been the best Playoff defense in recent years. 80% of their Playoff wins (4 of 5) featured the Cincy defense giving up less than 20 points. Even in their 2 losses, the defense only gave up 23 to explosive offenses led by Stafford & Mahomes.

Meanwhile you have the opposite situation in Buffalo. Fancy regular season statistics for the Buffalo defense, but they get absolutely torched in the Playoffs every year. They even gave up over 30 points at home to a 3rd string QB for Miami.

Almost feels like a trap game. I refuse to believe that CIN is going to come out and play the Chiefs as bad as they did vs. NE a few days ago. Guess we'll see.

Trap game? lol wut?

The Bengals had a smidgen of success and now can’t shut the **** up.

I dunno. I'm mentally blown up right now. You're getting stream of consciousness type posts from me right now.

You're a great poster, my friend.

Lol, I'm so out of it, I can't tell if you're messing with me. But I thank you for the compliment, or for ****ing with me in a smart way, whichever it is, bud.:thumb:

Haha....nah, no sarcasm. You add a lot to the board.

Thank you, sir. Rep inbnd

LMAO :clap:

You're pretty solid, bud

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6-9-1

Macaulay Culkin career record in Sept. Spooky stuff. Be afraid! :)

It’s unreliable. Hence the zero TD passes in the fourth quarter of playoff games.

Been telling y’all for years that their fan base is cringe. And jamar chase as good as he is, is part of the attitude problem where their locker room has this weird smack talk. I don’t even know how to describe it because it’s not ray Lewis confidently arrogant. These guys are laid back arrogant and just say things to provoke without even getting fired about it. It’s the weirdest thing and I don’t know why Taylor doesn’t dial it in knowing that good teams feed off this shit

While I agree with the sentiment, I hope they never learn. Petty Mahomes lives for that shit, and will make them pay for it.

Why??

Also, Buttkicker’s pleated pants look like ass.

Disagree on the pants. Brother needs to put on a belt, though.

Also, he needs to stop hanging with Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson.

Who the hell doesn't wear a goddamn belt with dress slacks?

What kind of ****ed up monster do you have to be to pose for a picture that will go on social media looking like that?

Christ, Harry. Get your shit together.

The fire extinguisher has the most impressive shadow

Lol it looks like they don't even have belt loops.

Harrison Butker looked disgusting--no belt--in his blue shirt before T-Mobile. Very very disrespectful.

This is political. Take it to DC.

LMAO I actually really love the shirt but, yeah, the pants can die in a fire and going belt-less was a bad choice.

Belt came off earlier to tan a childs hide

Then those are weird woman pants.

He looks like Paula Poundstone in those.

I MEAN BECAUSE IT WILL DISTRACT FROM FOCUSING ON THE BENGALS

Agreed.

The weirdest to me was when Chase thought he was so hilarious calling the Browns a bunch of elves. This is after they got their ass completely kicked in the ground. Like, what are you doing man. Act a little disappointed about losing

More important than pants and belts, MAHOMO needs to learn to stop posting irrelevant shit in the wrong places.