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Aside from the fact that we won, there were some other good things about the game. Worthy is playing a bigger role and doing it well. He not only always gets open and has good hands, but I think it’s clear He runs good roots. And Hopkins is getting more integrated into the offense.

Our replacement replacement kicker played well. We really haven’t missed a beat since Butker was injured, although it would be great to have him back.

And it’s always better to be lucky than to be good. And we certainly have been lucky this year. Maybe it’s because we’re Destiny‘s child this year. And that will stand us in good state for our 3 peat.

I thought Karlaftis played a great game, and Jones finally contributed, although he has not been the dominant force we have been used to in past years. I thought Bolton played well.

Then there was the not so good.

Mahomes didn’t have an A game —-again. But we have to live with that. We certainly aren’t going to find a better QB and we will all keep hoping/expecting him to recover the magic when he needs to. He did that at the end of the Panthers game.

For the second game in a row, and maybe even the third game because I think you could include Buffalo here, the defence played well below expectations. they weren’t able to close the game down and stop the other team from moving down the field at the end and putting themselves in a position to win. Today luck saved us, last week Mahomes saved us, but no one saved us against Buffalo. But hopefully Omenihu will make a difference, although he didn’t today, and shouldn’t have been expected to on his first game back. I always thought we would miss Snead and we have not been able to make up for what he contributed. But I’m optimistic that The defence will get out of a slump and return to the elite form. It was at the beginning of the year.

The ugly:
Morris wasn’t even being destroyed by Max Cosby, but by a no name, DE who he made look like Reggie White. Hopefully Humphreys will be the answer and sooner than later. And I guess until then they will have to see if Thuney can replace Morris as he did at the end of the game. Obviously that was not ideal, but it wasn’t the disaster that Morris was. Taylor wasn’t much better at RT, but he was facing one of the best in Max Crosby so at least that was understandable. I wonder if they need to play more 2 TE SETS WITH ONE OF THE TIGHT ENDS, MAINLY BEING ASSIGNED TO HELP BLOCK. I THINK WE WOULD STILL HAVE RECEIVERS OPEN GIVEN THE SKILLS OF HOPKINS, KELSEY, AND WORTHY , and even juju.

I also think the play calling was bad and we should not have abandoned the run so completely in the second half.

But, a win is a win. And trying to work through these problems from a 11 and 1 record is a good position to be in. We seem to be able to play it well enough to just win our games (with the Buffalo exception – but we had to lose one) and close to almost losing our games. Given the way we’re playing now the remaining games are going to be struggles, but if lady luck stays with us and we can solve some of these problems, I still think we can get the first seed.