Watching it as well. Love how Romo says "this is what Josh is gonna do" and what the bills will do.

F U

Now we get mongoloid and buck

F YES

Fox and Brady are doing the SB game

The Bills coaching staff is full of ****ing idiots. The last two postseasons against Spags, they are determined to take the ball out of Allen's hands, and give him a shit ton of Alex-Smith type plays.

You have a ****ing BADASS OL that consistently owns KC. You could be dialing up a lot more shot plays.

Some of this is probably by design to limit turnovers. But even when Josh was turnover prone, he would still **** up the KC D left and right.

You're going to lose anyway, unleash the stallion.

Some of that strategy from McDermott is about protecting his vulnerable defense from Mahomes. Keep the Chiefs offense on the sideline as much as possible, which helps McDermott avoid giving up 40-50 points like he would if Buffalo was going for the quick strike deep ball offense on their side of it.

Juju pulled a Fisher

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Now you got a story to tell.

Good morning.


I am ****ing exhausted

WORTH IT

That’s the big “BUT THE REFS!” take I’m seeing on YouTube this morning.

Woof.

Work is going to be rough today, lol

Spags=class

Not to jerk myself off too much here, but I nearly called it to perfection...

Buffalo has a better oline than the Eagles.

Tell me I’m wrong.

you’re wrong lol

Buying this for Romo...

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****OFFICIAL Chiefs vs Bills AFC Championship Gameday Thread****
 

Kyle Brandt was right!

Mahomes is Drago. Unfortunately for the Bills, Allen = Apollo, not Balboa.

If he dies, he dies…

Link for full game?

Not with two players injured.

i mean id imagine they’ll be pretty good to to go in two weeks.

Can we go back to the Worthy catch.

Yes, it looked like a tie catch.

BUT, there was a penalty on the defense. At the very least, we would have had the ball somewhere around the 30. possible 15 or 20

Correct?

They also could have called DPI.

I will probably watch it tonight.

Correct. And with the way the offense was working, there's no reason to believe we wouldn't have scored a TD and in the process taken enough time off the clock to prevent the Bills answering back with a score of their own.

It probably helped Buffalo. It certainly didn't hurt them. Even if we get stopped, we kick a FG and they DONT score a TD.

Juju just took $32 of someone's beer lol

I do kinda wonder what the RG was doing. He didn't so much as slow down Reid or McDuffie. I'd have understood if the numbers overwhelmed him but he didn't get EITHER guy. It was really odd.

Really does seem like they set protections poorly.

Allen already admitted as such. Misdiagnosed who was coming.

Bottom line is Allen is a really good QB and he needed his defense to get some stops and they couldn't. End of story. Mahomes ran in 2 tds from 10 yards out. That's crap defense and great play calls that they definitely didn't expect.

In a weird way, I think Buffalo actually benefited from this sequence. It forced the Chiefs to score quickly. Buffalo had a ton of time left and sure enough they scored a TD to end the half. If that Xavier play was ruled an incomplete pass, the Chiefs have a first down at the 20 yard line. This would allow them to run a bunch of clock and prevent Buffalo from scoring any points at the end of the half.

Chiefs had god awful clock management this game...Worthy running out of bounds, incomplete passes at the end.

I was saying KC needs to take their time before half...even a FG is better than allowing them time for a TD.

It almost cost them...had Kincaid made that catch.

As a blatant Nick Bolton hater last night was a clear reason as to why they are going to probably keep him and let Trey walk.

He was really good last night. The PD was something we rarely see from him.he was really good as the spy and in run defense. The drive they ran all over us was aimed at Omenihu who got taken to the cleaners during that stretch.

Don’t get me started on Trey Smith. He was good on some of the run pulls but he was struggling all night against Oliver. Creed more than helped him out there

i really really hope we’re not gonna be the team to overpay Trey

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There were 5 fumbles in the AFCCG. <br><br>The Bills recovered all of them. <br><br>The Chiefs won the game. <br><br>What a legendary performance by a legendary team.</p>&mdash; nick wright (@getnickwright) <a href="https://twitter.com/getnickwright/status/1883715120964260339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

and time to block out the haters

We will see when their run game is struggling and they have to pass block.

Buffalo did both well.

Guess who was key against the Eagles 2 years ago and will be key again?

Badass Nick Bolton.

Social media does not disappoint ROFL

Look who was wide open on that 4th and 5 play.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">no IDEA why Josh did not throw the orbit to Shakir. They&#39;ve called that exact route against the Chiefs on fourth down before! Gotta go to 10 here. <a href="https://t.co/2UyVIhMVSG">pic.twitter.com/2UyVIhMVSG</a></p>&mdash; Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminSolak/status/1883708096708739290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kincaid? He was so wide open a duck thrown in the middle of the field was uncontested by a Chiefs player. He didn't catch the ball. Sucks to suck.

They keep saying Shakir was wide open, but he's never looking that way with what defense they thought they were getting.

Chiefs just won the snap cause they're smart.

Solak is getting dragged pretty hard for this take. The read based on Allen sliding protection left wasn't to look at Shakir at all. Even then, Allen would have had to pivot in the face of free rushers and lob it to Shakir, giving defenders time to catch up.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The play before the 4th down drop was equally as huge. <br><br>George Karlaftis makes insane tackle.<br><br>Could Amari Cooper done more here? <a href="https://t.co/SUyQ5qbHn7">https://t.co/SUyQ5qbHn7</a> <a href="https://t.co/nT2mNzdmPc">pic.twitter.com/nT2mNzdmPc</a></p>&mdash; Carter B ���� (@CarterthePower) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarterthePower/status/1883768414076047461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Insane play by Karlaftis to almost tip the ball, then still recover and make a possible TD-saving tackle.

Exactly. Josh had 1/10 of a second to get rid off the ball because we fooled him and won the rep. That blitz was a thing of beauty too.

I think Romo even have it a "wow"

Credit to Reid for feeling the other blitzer off his right shoulder.

He he gone straight at Allen, Allen might've come left and seen Shakir. But it looked like Reid knew he had McDuffie looping with him so he attacked the left shoulder of Allen and in so doing, cut off any escape back 'inside' for Allen which is why he had to go straight back and couldn't ever come back to the backside of the play.

Allen had no chance of actually looking left there.

It's a stupid take from Solak. Spreadsheet warrior shit that deserves to be called as such.

I didn't know who made that play in real time but I was going to circle back and mention it.

THAT'S a play that will be lost to history and was probably as critical as any play in that game short of the two 4th down failed conversions.

That play worked. A lot of credit to Conner for bodying his man there and forcing the receiver to cut back to the sideline. That little bit of lost forward momentum was enough for GK and McDuffie to recover and make a MASSIVE stop.

If he even gets that to 4th and 3, everything is different. Stopping him 5 yards short of the sticks changed what Buffalo could do there and likely made that CB blitz possible.

Yeah, the more you see that play, the dumber Solak's take gets.

The ENTIRE point to that blitz was to blow up that orbit motion without actually covering it. You can see McDuffie react to it -- the Chiefs didn't miss it, they simply knew they had the play-call made that would force Allen to make a decision before he could get back to it.

If the blitz doesn't get home, we're boned. But that's the nature of a blitz there.

We never covered Shakir because we never intended to. The entire plan was to leave him uncovered and simply get Allen's eyes off him with the pressure.

The only mistake anyone made there was Cook not getting his depth because he followed Hollins too long underneath (I think that was Hollins anyway) even while Hollins had a route that was taking him right to Bolton and Hicks. (EDIT: That was Cooper)

If that ball gets caught, it's ENTIRELY on Cook for cheating up for no real reason.

REDEMPTION ARC COMPLETE

TOTAL ****ING LEGEND

Shit, Allen has Johnson coming clear on the short crosser right in front of him. With only Danna to beat in space.

THAT'S the throw Allen should've made. If there's any complaint about what he did there, it's that he didn't just float one out to the far hash, let Johnson run to it and then put Danna in a blender for a possible massive gain.

Man, that was a REALLY good play design by Buffalo. And any amount of blitz pickup at all probably buys Allen enough time.

That comes down ENTIRELY too protection calls. Allen didn't get it right and that's why they lost. If he identifies that blitz correctly, they have a couple of options available for massive gains and the throw to Johnson would've been as easy as breathing.

It’s been said that PFF is bullshit, which is true.

I still like to look out of morbid curiosity.

Thuney got an 89.3 pass blocking grade. Seems right. He was great.

Creed got an 84 pass blocking grade. Agree.

Jawaan Taylor got 57 pass blocking grade? They just hate him.

Mahomes got a 69.6 overall. I don’t get that either. Unless they just hammered him for the sack and blamed him for the fumble?

Yeah, PFF is such bullshit.

Until August, old girl.

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Brady had a terrible playcall there. He should have done exactly what he did on the previous TD. Crossers confusing the LB’s. No idea why he called a slow developing play there.

Or perhaps the orbit motion was the call and Josh just looked elsewhere?

Just goes to show that the RB mesh play to Perine was such a brilliant playcall.

Hitting Shakir in the left flat sounds good in theory but the pressure was instantaneous and they flushed Allen back and to the right. No way he was making that throw in that situation.

Geoff Schwartz is dragging him hard for it actually..

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Allen sees the free runners right now and people (one person) is saying he should throw it to 10 now. Lol. <a href="https://t.co/OHFjcGyzXF">pic.twitter.com/OHFjcGyzXF</a></p>&mdash; Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1883905251776073780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This implies that Allen saw 10 and just didn’t throw it. He was fooled. He thought the Chiefs were going to have that covered and they didn’t. 10 motioned back and it was a clear zone indication. That’s not his first read vs zone. He looked right. Pressure immediately</p>&mdash; Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1883726765060939899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

There’s no f’ing way Josh gets that ball to Shakir. He had about half a second to throw the ball before getting blown up and Shakir was probably the third read on the play.

This play call was really bizarre and a lot of us in the GDT said it at the time. It’s third and 10 with Josh Allen and you make a lateral throw on a WR screen? Very strange play call in that situation and good on Karlaftis to break it up.

On edit: Finally bothered to watch the breakdown and saw the point of the post — it actually came pretty close to working.

That 4 an out on bills last drive made me pretty proud of the defense . I was high them before but that was badass

Championship defense.

Just like the Niners SBs. You're probably gonna give up some yards and points, which makes Wallcrawler crazy.

But even Belichick's defenses did. Something totally lost on dooming jerks.

Championship defense means closing the game out.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I actually really like your passion and knowledge for the game but sitting in your comfortable swivel chair with the heater on in the house and a clicker in hand makes the game very easy <br><br>Having two unblocked, unimpeded defenders believe it or not is pretty difficult to… <a href="https://t.co/AC7I9P4zMO">https://t.co/AC7I9P4zMO</a></p>&mdash; Ryan Fitzpatrick (@FitzMagic_14) <a href="https://twitter.com/FitzMagic_14/status/1883909143381336222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Fitz lets him know..

****ing Spags man. He is a ****ing master of this shit

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chatted with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> guard O&#39;Cyrus Torrence about the decisive fourth and 5 play. All game, DC Steve Spagnuolo showed this particular pressure... and backed off. Typically sent heat where the Chiefs *weren&#39;t* showing it pre-snap. That&#39;s why the Bills slid their protection left.…</p>&mdash; Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) <a href="https://twitter.com/TyDunne/status/1883957631770853683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Cook was roasted ass in game that. I agree....we need to draft a true free safety with speed and range. A ballhawk type.

I cannot wait to see what he does against Philly.

Spagnuolo seems to only get better the 2nd and 3rd time around against teams.

Clutch, clutch, clutch.

It trumps literally everything else.

Like you said, the other team is going to make plays. It's about when you make them.

Spags is clutch. Mahomes is clutch. This whole team is just ****ing clutch.

I can't believe that clown is criticizing Allen for that play. He's one of the only QBs in the league who could have even made the throw he did make under that kind of pressure. Kincaid was also open, it was there and the guy just dropped it.

Torrence is a huge reason they kept trying to QB sneak left, he was to slow to block Jones.

the man is literally the definition of playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers

I just woke up at 115pm today. Usually I get up at 830 lol

Yep. I thought Spags was bad the 2nd half……until literally the most important possession of the game and then he just unleashed. Like a movie when the hero is getting their ass kicked and then they land a crushing kill shot at the final moment.

it wasn't a terribly playcall.

Allen slides protection and it's not at all a 'slow developing' play. He has Shakir on the orbit and Johnson on an underneath drag -- both plays open and would've been easy 1st downs.

Play call was fine - his QB didn't read the defense right.

It's really that simple, IMO.

A screen is a good play there.

Because you can always assume that Spags is sending extra pressure in a 'gotta have it' play.

And it SHOULD'VE worked.

GK just made a really good play.

Shut up Ryan.

DoNt hUrT AlLeNs FEeLiNgS!!!!!!

I would like to amend this post bc Bolton’s weakness of being slow still showed through last night as seen here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LET. JAMES. COOK.<br><br>📺: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BUFvsKC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BUFvsKC</a> on CBS<br>📱: Stream on <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLPlus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFLPlus</a> and Paramount+ <a href="https://t.co/N1aynyUlOY">pic.twitter.com/N1aynyUlOY</a></p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1883673004670111772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

But Trey’s run blocking on move/pull plays doesn’t seem terribly difficult for Kingsley to replicate since moving is his best feature.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kareem Hunt&#39;s opening drive TD and Patrick Mahomes final TD came on the same run concept out of the same formation.<br><br>G-T Counter Read out of a Diamond backfield. DE stays home on the 1st play, Mahomes hands it off. DE crashes the 2nd time, Mahomes keeps it with blockers in front. <a href="https://t.co/k4NmNFYXFr">pic.twitter.com/k4NmNFYXFr</a></p>&mdash; Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nate_Tice/status/1883975394296246311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LAMENTATIONS!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is my view of Kincaid’s 4th down drop. He is much more open than shown on the telecast and the worst part is he didn’t adjust literally at all. I am sick. <a href="https://t.co/KuNapo9iPm">pic.twitter.com/KuNapo9iPm</a></p>&mdash; LETS GO BUFFALO!! (@bills_opinions) <a href="https://twitter.com/bills_opinions/status/1883881547281138168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That play might go for 40 if not for George. There are 8-10 plays I'm really looking forward to seeing again when I watch the broadcast tonight, and that's high on the list.

Go to the comments he just wont take the L LMAO

Allen is not even close to Mahomes at processing the field before and after the snap.


What makes Allen games so close is he is Unicorn of a QB in short yardage and is usually automatic in the red zone and short yardage when Buffalo needs a first down or touchdown.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have never ever seen the <a href="https://twitter.com/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chiefs</a> run these plays<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nfllive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nfllive</a> <a href="https://t.co/iHygKh6gfI">pic.twitter.com/iHygKh6gfI</a></p>&mdash; Dan Orlovsky (@danorlovsky7) <a href="https://twitter.com/danorlovsky7/status/1883978466955255819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

George has quietly become one of our most important defensemen this season. He's been outstanding.

Defensemen? What is this, hockey?