Did the Chiefs create a similar "woe is me" video three years ago?

God, I hope not.

When you look at the Bills yard per play differential, it was one of the best in the last 10 years. Good luck improving on that. Dominate team that just didn't show up against weaker teams. They played a hell of a game against us though.

I watched 13 seconds of it and thought of starving Ethiopians.

I forget that Kelce is in his early 30’s. He has just always seemed younger to me, which is probably because of his personality. If Reid were to leave in few seasons, I’m guessing we’d be able to attract a pretty good hire to replace him. Heck, maybe Payton will be ready to coach again by then.

The only thing missing from it was some sad violin music.

Are you convinced Zac Taylor is actually good?

I'm not sure I am. I haven't seen anything special out of that offense other than 'throw the ball to Chase really fast and get my quarterback killed'.

I mean Martz did that to Bulger and he lasted about 3 years. Taylor keeps sending Burrow out there with empty sets to get blasted and mostly in the name of odd little WR screens and shot plays.

Do you REALLY need 5 guys in the pattern for those?

Maybe the replacement won't be Reid, no. Probably, in fact. But there's no reason to believe Reid's replacement can't be as good as Zac Taylor.

Be kind of like the KC Fans who went to Indy under Alex Smith for the epic meltdown loss to Luck. And they got stuck in a blizzard trying to drive home the next day. I think IIRC Stevie Ray got caught up in that shit. I'd rather win. It's so much better than losing. And if we take anything from this, we better remember on Sunday how fortunate we were to move on, and not blow it against the Bengals. Keep the focus, keep crushing opponent's souls.

Reid's not leaving.

I think he's a guy that dies at his desk someday. He barely has a life outside of football right now and hasn't for 20 years. This is what he loves doing - what's he going to do, retire to go fishing?

IMO, he sees this less as being a head coach and more as being a teacher. And he'll be happy to teach for as long as someone's asking him to do it.

Unless he has some catastrophic health issue or something like that knee/hip issue he's had becomes so degenerative that he ends up largely immobile, I don't think he's going anywhere for Mahomes career.

The Chiefs would have young offensive minds lining up for a chance to coach Mahomes.

Assuming Veach is part of that decision making process, I have all the faith in the world that we will replace Reid with an adequate HC whenever that day comes.

Now I will say this - being the guy that replaces Reid is going to be thankless as hell.

I mean would you REALLY want to follow that up? Not just with the fans, but with PM.

It's gonna be awfully tough.

No doubt those are some huge shoes to fill, but by then, Mahomes will be like a coach on the field.

We’ll absolutely miss Reid to some degree no matter what though.

Mike ****ing McCarthy won a Super Bowl with Aaron ****ing Rodgers at QB.

With Mahomes, we'll be fine. All they need to do is find a coach that doesn't get in his way. There's plenty of those out there.

Ask Jim Caldwell how much fun it is coaching an established legend when his coach moves on.

Caldwell never got credit for a thing out there. Then he went to Detroit, proved he might actually BE a decent coach, still got shit-canned.

Hey, there's only 32 of those jobs so if offered, I'd take it. And yeah, the Chiefs will have plenty of options to choose from. But in a TON of ways an internal promotion makes sense. Man I hope we can hold onto Kafka. He just seems like a turnkey solution.

What would be awesome is if somehow McVay or Shanahan were available at the time.

Ideally we have that guy in the building already when the time comes, no doubt.