A slow start is certainly possible and also the worry coming off the bye… but this is an experienced offense with a lot of maturity. I’d be mildly surprised if the O is sluggish due to the layoff.

Since the Houston game, the first playoff game of the year (Browns; Steelers) has been one where the team came out firing and the offense has been crisp to start the game.

Yeah, I feel like 2018 & 2019 were nerves, especially the Texans game with all of the unforced errors.

I believe the Steelers game started with a few punts and maybe was just sluggish, but as they do so very often, once the Steelers scored, they promptly got it together.

Gosh, I lost track of it with the complete blowout it turned into, but that game did start with a scoreless first quarter and a fumble return for a TD by T.J. Watt (trick play - Hardman-Williams botched handoff).

I’m kind of scared of Doug Pederson.

you should be scared of Trevor Lawrence, he can throw 4 picks and still come back and win the game. he is a leader and can move the ball when he is in his zone he is unstoppable the same can be said about mahomes.

which ever QB shows up and starts faster wins the game.

DUUVVAALL

LOL. If Lawrence throws 4 picks this game, the Jags lose by 20 plus. Welcome to the deep end of the pool.

Sure. He's gonna go for it all the time on 4th down. Trick plays, unconventional stuff, etc. He knows that line 'em up and play his team vs the Chiefs, he has no shot. He's playing with house money and he's not afraid. The Jags will either convert a bunch and we'll have a game on our hands or the Chiefs are going to end up with several short fields and if we convert, it could be blowout city.

well he isn't going to throw 4 picks he might throw 5 TD in a shootout with Mahomes. i expect a clean game from Trevor which outside of the Chargers game he had only thrown 1 pick in 6 games.

Mahomes is the best comeback QB ever.

Sunshine has had half of a good season.

I can tell you were a Derek Bortles fan.

our defense has changed alot since our last game it has almost been a full 180 change for the better since.

Don't you have a sister to go **** or some meth to smoke?

who the hell is Derek Bortles lol if your gonna make fun at least get the name right.

i am a fan of any QB on my team from 2001 to 2021 we have had some terrible QBs. as well as coaches. Bortles was not the worst but he was not a great thrower of the football and was upgraded needed.

He is definitely getting better. If Alex was our QB I would be a little concerned. We have Mahomes who is better than any QB in the league.

nope don't have a sister and don't do drugs, but my brother is a Chiefs Fan and it is already a smack talking week in our household. so why not bring it here and get in on some of this action. pretty crazy so many pages in a game alot of you believe is a Bye week.

Dal just beat the brakes off TB and we beat Dal in OT. so to think we can't play with the big boys is understandable as we have been bad for so long. but we are here to stay and we will be for as long as trevor stays healthy.

oh i agree, mahomes is the best and to be the best you need to beat the best. Mahomes you can't ignore he does have off games too just far and few from others. You guys almost lost to Tenn with malik willis and Houston with Mills. so to think your unbeatable is not true. you haven't been able to Beat Cin since Burrow got their either.

well it's time to go to work, so have a good day Enemies of the week. i'll check in later

GO JAGs

DUUVVAALL

The bucs are a sub .500 team and had no business being in the playoffs let alone hosting the game. Your princess is in for a rude awakening on Saturday

They did almost lose to Houston and Tennessee. But they also beat your Jags, the LAC twice, smashed a TB that was better earlier in the season, handed SF their last loss in a blowout. While they have struggled against bottom feeders they excel against the bigger fish.

You are correct that they have not found a way to beat Cincinnati yet, and they will have to at some point. I truly think they will because they are too good to continue to lose to them every game.

Ah, the transitive property of wins... they're so cute when they're just pups. Reminds me of Bills fans just a couple years ago *pats on head*

What are these changes?

Because when I look at the schedule, I see this:

Gave up 40 to the Lions, 34 to the Cowboys, 27 to the Ravens. (101 points, or almost 34/game).

Gave up 22 to Titans (hobbled Tannehill), 3 to Jets (bottom 5 QB situation), 3 to the Texans (bottom 5 QB situation), and 16 to the Titans (bottom 1 situtation without Tannehill).

That's 11 PPG against that murderers row (sarcasm). Is that what is leading you to call your defense a 180?

Scared? I mean, the guy isn't Josh Allen or Joe Burrow, yet. Who are the only QBs in the AFC that have earned "scared" status.

He's got ability and I respect it as a fan. I'm sure the team respects what he can do. He's got a huge arm.

But we haven't seen him make off-script plays the same way Mahomes and the other elite tear guys have been able to do.

Scuttlebug down here is pretty much the same. Jags got a shot if the Chiefs stumble out of the gate.

We were the same way. I remember and a quick search will show the majority of us thought this was the year we are going into Indy and beat them. Several times. We lost there and here. Same is going to happen to the Jags because we have Mahomes.

Didn't you see that sidearm throw and the commentators labeled it just like Mahomes? Our Mahomes era is over. This is the new Mahomes. :)

Next week whichever QB has a good game, label them Mahomes-like. :rolleyes:

There is only one Mahomes and he signed a lifetime contract with our team. Suck it DUUUUUVVVAAALLLLL

the last thing in the world the Jags want is a shootout with a Mahomes led offense lol

Also the "tHiS dEfEnSe iS dIfFeReNt FRoM lAsT TiMe" is like playoff season Groundhog Day from opposing fans around here.

Yeah, history suggests that strategy is a poor one for any opposing team. Actually, I take that back.

Dear DUUUUUVVVVVAAAAALLLLLLians, please play fast AF and plan to blitz Mahomes frequently. What could possibly go wrong.....

Guess we should introduce new playoff fans to Narratives That Need to Die.

I had one to add, but not coming to mind. Paper Champions would be a good one, which you'd think people around here would understand given the meme status of the Chargers, yet this year it's the Bills and 49ers.

To be honest, a shootout is the only chance they have.

I mean they're not gonna hold this offense to 17 points. I don't care if they 'take the air out of the football' or whatever other nonsense the talking heads will call for this week.

If they're going to win, they need to put up 34. Because if they have 27 and the Chiefs need to get to 30, they will.

It's gonna take 34 plus points to win the game and they're not gonna do that buy giving Etienne the ball 24 times.

The only thing that can keep this game close is rookie mistakes.

And at this point, our rookies have played so many snaps, that's not gonna happen.

We used to have some pretty quality Jags fans come through. How did we end up with this simpleton jagoff?

They will try to shorten the game with long drives (short passes and runs) that end in TDs. I'm sure they are prepared to go for any reasonable 4th and short. That overall strategy didn't work too well in the first half against LA and they were forced to abandon it. But that's what they will try.

We are not the most welcoming fan board?:)

In the last meeting KC lost the turnover battle 3-0 and still won by 10. Lawrence played a solid game last time. Bottom line, Jacksonville’s secondary is not good enough to hang in this game. If Jax upgrades their secondary and finds a number 1 WR this off-season, I could see them running with the big boys in the AFC.

I guess the good ones finally died in an AIDS fire.

We don’t worry about slow starts. Our quarterback can erase a deficit quickly. 4 TDs in a quarter is possible if necessary.

Exactly right! Early on in that game, you could just tell. I said to my wife, "the Chiefs are dialed in. They are already in playoff mode".

**** im ready for Saturday already!

I think the Jags are a few pieces away and continued Trevor Lawrence development away from being a mean, tough team to beat. I really, really like their foundation. This game will be great for them; get that experience under their belt and when they come back next year, hopefully take their progress another step further and challenge the Chiefs/Bengals for AFC supremacy (I believe the Bills are going to regress under their coming cap crunch).

If I'm a realistic Jags fan, I want to see Lawrence play without fear, uncork a few gorgeous, bold throws. I want to see the defensive line apply some good pressure. I want to see Etienne spring one for a long TD. Get some highlights to build off of.

There is just no way in Hades that Mahomes, who carved up the Jags earlier in the season, is going to be slowed down very much in this game. Andy Reid was a step ahead of Mike Caldwell last time they played. The Chiefs got a couple touchdowns and a lot of yards eating off bad scheme mistakes the Jags defenders made.

The Jags defense has gotten a lot better schematically. There's not blown coverage the way there was when we last played.

But I honestly think Andy's still going to find chinks in the armor. Mahomes is still going to bob and weave a good Jags passrush, and he's going to score in 12 play drives instead of 8 play drives. The Chiefs may not punt in the first half.

I bet Trevor Lawrence and Pederson put up some numbers in this game, especially as the Chiefs get ahead and call off the dogs. But if the Chiefs are dialed in, I don't think there's any way they aren't ahead by 14-20 points at the start of the 4th quarter and walk themselves to victory.

:spock:

Does this guy even watch NFL football? That is a great day running the ball at nearly 6 ypc. Of course, the Chiefs don't run as often as most other teams but that's just Andy Reid's way. And who can blame him when he has a future HOFer at QB?

Chiefs have a really tough path to the Super Bowl if they don’t win this game imo

The Jags are legitimately better now, particularly on defense, than they were when we last played.

But the Chiefs are way better.

The Chiefs were basically pussyfooting around with Prince Tega Wenogho at RT when Wylie when down with injury for over half the game. Their WR room was bare bones. They were still giving snaps to CEH. Karlaftis hadn't hit the Furious George mode he's in right now. They've added Williams at DT. And of course the rookie secondary's had half a season's of additional seasoning since then. And the Jags did drop a huge pass early in that game against us, but they also had some flukey turnovers go their way in the first quarter. And the Chiefs still dogwalked them.

The Jags are going to be better this week than they were earlier in the year, but it's not going to matter because the Chiefs were way better than them then, and they're going to be way, way better than them now.

It wouldn't be a GDT without a bunch of people freaking out about things. LMAO

SPOT ON ANALYSIS FROM THE BEST FOOTBALL MIND ON CHIEFSPLANET!

one thing i saw this week was jags fans oohing and aahing over lawrence's touchdown bomb last week

they were calling it his "best touchdown of the year"

really? a 40 yard lob to a college-wide open receiver is the best one of the year?

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i suppose beggars can't be choosers when your QB has only 25 TDs on the year

don't think lawrence is going to pick us apart

We may need to punt first down so Tommy's hair distracts the other team & fans

In their defense....it's what got Lawrence drafted.

True, but let's not forget how absolutely terrible Kendrick Lewis was in helping Indy get quick, deep pass completions. I think the injuries and the terrible defense contributed quite a bit to that.

As usual the Chiefs toughest opponent Saturday will be... the Chiefs.

No self-inflicted mistakes, convert the high % plays (i.e. 3rd and 1 and stopping Jacksonville on 3rd and long), make extra points, etc.

Oh absolutely the injuries. If jc doesn't go down, Andy feeds him repeatedly.

LMAO Trevor is not throwing 5 TDs.

So, since none of you Jags fans would answer, I looked up the meaning.

I'm sorry but that just sounds dumb to me. It would be like Chiefs fans shouting Jaackkssoonn!

The Bucs are a good example of the problem with having so many divisions and division winners being automatic qualifiers.

Could be referring to Patrick's brother. :shrug:

They had the benefit of a comeback at home to feed of the energy of their fans.. They get behind at Arrowhead with a playoff frenzy crowd.. It’s over…

;)

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We can lose this game if Andy starts running the ball on 1st downs with a small lead and lets off the throttle...which he loves to do with small leads.

Should we beat them yes, does that mean we will? No.

Any given Saturday or Sunday.

Really? I've been begging him to run the ball on 1st down this season when our RB's are getting 4-7 ypc.

Any NFL QB who failed to complete that pass would want to off himself.

What are they saying over at the Jaguars fan forum?

They’re all looking for the closest methadone clinic to their hotel in KC.

https://www.duvalpride.com/showthread.php?tid=38054

They seem nice

Chiefs move out to the racetrack so we can shout Dotte!!!!!

And can't spell

Much better fan base than those shit stain dildo suckers.

Andy Reid is generally the biggest threat to the Kansas City Chiefs on any given playoff game. He's the best run defender on their team, outright taking the ball away from our backs, and that old school sportsman in him guarantees he will put the other guy's feels ahead of stomping on their necks and "scoring an unsportsmanlike amount of points."

He's a win my way or no way guy, and he always has been, and always will be. So if any of you are looking for Andy Reid to suddenly coach football games any differently than he has for 20 years, you're in for some frustration.

We simply need to hope that Patrick Mahomes remains the superbeast that he's been at his best, and influence the game in such a way that Andy Reid being required to pass a pop quiz on situational football is not even a scenario that takes place.

For example, when we last played the Bengals, Andy failed the pop quiz.

Defense has not stopped the Bengals all game, you're down 3 with 3 and change to play. Its 4th and 7 and you either put the game in 15's hands and let him go get you the go ahead td, or you trot out the most untrustworthy kicker since #2 for a shot at a 56 yard field goal just to tie, and give the ball back to Joe Burrow, saying that you believe your defense that hasn't done shit all day, will be able to stop Burrow from draining the clock and kicking a gane winning field goal..

He elected to kick.

If this is the Andy that appears on the sidelines, Patrick Mahomes is going to have to be flawless.

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Couple of notes from my recent rewatch:

1. The OL didn't have much of a problem blocking the Jags up front on passing downs. Josh Allen was a handful for OBJ, but not game breaking sorta handful. However, we weren't able to do a whole lot in the run game. There were a couple of decent runs here and there that made the stats look good, but for the most part they did a good job of containing the edges and kept our interior run game mostly in check. They were all over our jet sweeps etc. IIRC, this was also Pacheco's 1st game starting, or one of his first at least. Mahomes had several scrambles in this game, so i do wonder how/if that will be addressed in the 2nd meeting.

2. Chiefs also did a good job of containing JVille's run game. For the most part, defensivly the Chiefs controlled the LoS. They were able to generate 5 sacks and more or less keep their run game from exploding.

3. The Chiefs, chief'd. A fumble by Pacheco in/near the red zone....an INT by Mahomes on our own side of the field. Made the game feel closer than what it needed to be. As always, if the Chiefs can avoid shooting themselves in the foot we should control the game. If not, it's going to be a one score game towards the end.

they are slow you might be waiting a while. the old message Board we had was much much better.

i might talk some smack, it's what makes it fun. but underneath KC has been a well oiled machine for along time since Reid took over and he just makes them that much more consistent every year.

no one who is a True fan of this Team believes this was the Best TD from Trevor. the first touchdown last weekend to Engram in triple coverage was a much harder throw and catch than a broken coverage Strike.

Well the good news for you is the Doug Pederson is one of the best Reid assistants to transition to head coach. You're in really good hands going forward.

You have sure amassed a following in 26 posts

work is slow during this time of the year, nothing else to do while i kill time :-)

appreciate that. when we fired Meyers i wanted Pederson, then they took forever to even interview him. so i thought they were gonna go all in on a newer OC like Leftwich or Hackett who had previously been in Jax and he sucked here too.

i'm glad we got him. we have been so bad for so long need someone who can turn us around and keep it up.

Patrick’s brother is an embarrassment to him. He deserves a more grown up acting brother.

But, talking smack about the Chiefs and the only thing they got is an immature brother of the QB? That’s lame, really lame.

Last game 7.8 yards per play vs. 5.2.

Bahahaha this is hilarious. Duval is the county and it was a chant that started well beyond the jaguars inception in 93. but got elevated in the early jaguar days when we had the Big Dawgs in our early success.

now we use alot of Duval til we die, for support of the team from all across the world. show our team spirit.

You should see social media. Apparently Mahomes is a shit QB AND a shit human being solely because of his wife and brother.