I have a hard time believing DJ and Smith are "roughly equal". Smith was not good for long stretches last year. He's now a year older and he hasn't played. Humphries HAS to be better than that

They may be worried he’ll have some growing pains getting back up to game speed.

But at this point we’re in “**** it, it’s worth the risk” territory.

Definitely agree. I think from their perspective though they might argue they know what Smith would be like, and though not great, it’s at least something they can plan around with certain expectations both in ability and for Mahomes being familiar with him.

Williams seems to be playing better at corner than nazeeh was too

Like pants said, the biggest thing Smith can do is prevent his guy from crushing Pat. Ideally it would be nice to have somebody that could do more than that, like execute a block without committing a penalty.

This guy is the last piece of the puzzle.

In DJ Humphries we trust.

Use your eyes, too.

Thuney got beat too but he didn't WHIFF. He got forced back but at least slowed the guy down from murdering Mahomes. Thuney is NOT the answer but just using an example. The amount of times Morris just completely whiffs resulting in an absolute unusable play is unfathomable.

It is just a matter of time until Mahomes goes on IR if you keep going to Morris or Kingsley.

Luckily we have Humphries in the wings.

A lt who loses slow is probably good enough.

The issue is that there never are any true quality vets available and whenever there are there is an insane bidding war that will be tough to win.

What we're probably looking at next season is potentially Cam Robinson, Alaric Jackson or Dan Moore Jr. If that screams mediocre/replacement-level to you, then that's because they are. Do they generally give you a floor? Yes, but then again they sometimes put up a 3 sack turd like Moore did against Garrett a couple weeks ago.

Humphries was better than those guys but there are question marks right now until we see him in action again.

Gawd I hope he plays this Sunday night.

He’s the last/only option, other than rolling Donovan Smith in off of his couch.

PM IIs health insurance rates dropped substantially after this signing. Could be related. LFG!

I hope Humphreys works out. But if he doesn’t, I think we’re going to have to run 2 tight end sets, and assign one of them to just blocking. Maybe one of them could beKingsley or Morris and if both playedtogether they could do what you expect a LT to do

Man, looking back, how important was Thuney’s signing for cementing our dynasty?

This offense explodes if pass protection is just a little bit better.

And goddamnit am I still pissed that Watson dropped this perfect pass. Hollywood catches it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mahomes had a couple great plays wasted against the Raiders<br><br>Nearly perfect throw to Watson -- then hangs in vs. a blitz to give Kelce a shot in the end zone, but Kelce improvs just as 15 looks to him <a href="https://t.co/AfJwc0zQ1K">pic.twitter.com/AfJwc0zQ1K</a></p>&mdash; Ron Kopp Jr. (@Ron_Kopp) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ron_Kopp/status/1863791081793417618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>