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Originally Posted by StalkRavenMad
I appreciate your honesty. That's all we are saying. You guys have played 2 defense thays been decimated by injuries and think your back. This weeks will tell the true story. Truth be told beating the Bills on a missed fg with all those injuries isn't anything to right home about. Not for the big bad Chiefs who has the best coach, HOF QB, and best playoff DC this league has ever seen. Surely you should have boat raced a team that was missing WR 2, LB1, 2, 3, CB1, amongst other guys
Come in and put up similar numbers againat a relatively healthy Ravens team and you may be on to something.
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Something to consider that really doesn’t even get talked about around here, but the drops and the penalties that have plagued this offense this year are abnormally high. Last season MVS was certainly inconsistent, but this season he has been very consistent - consistently bad. Toney’s drops through out the season were not consistent with his play last year, shit, he took time to adjust his gloves while high pointing a ball and then making the catch last season. Kelce hasn’t had this many drops since like maybe his 1st or 2nd season, we know this year has been an anomaly for him.
A good portion of our penalty problems stem from asswipe Collinsworth painting a target on our RT in game 1 and Taylor’s struggle to adjust in season out of the way he’s always played. Outside of that, it’s been just a lot of mental errors that are uncharacteristic of Reid coached teams.
I have been waiting all season for all of this to return to average - well, not Taylor, his situation is what it is for this season.
What does any of this have to do with your post? The fact that the Miami and Buffalo defenses were depleted doesn’t matter this week - at least not in the way you think - what matters is that it provided an opportunity, especially for pass catchers, to get some confidence back. MVS’s two big catches this past week were not just important for that game, but for confidence in the passing game as a whole going forward. Ditto Kelce being more reliable the past two weeks. That Baltimore’s defense is healthy might not be that big of a difference if the confidence and focus are back and working hand in hand with the incredible amount of post season experience on this team. We’ll know for sure come Sunday.