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Originally Posted by Megatron96

I didn't say last season was great. I said there were fewer problems to overcome. The defense was elite last season; we rode their performances all season while the offense struggled. This season the defense isn't as good. We allowed a beat-up hamstrung TB to come into Arrowhead and score 17 2nd half points to tie it up. thank God they were sporting the 29th ranked defense at the time so Pat could just drive it down for a TD so we could escape with that W.

When a team loses five out of eight games, and get embarrassed multiple times, I simply cannot agree that there were less problems to overcome. Last season's defense let ZACH WILSON look good. Got lit up by Russell Wilson's Denver who had one of the worst offenses that season. Let Jordan Love march up and down the field and even Bailey Zappe had a respectable day against us for a terrible Patriots team. But apparently you think that defense were the 85 Bears every week....

And we won vs. DEN because of STs, basically a DEN blocker was shitty at his job that Toub saw on film. Otherwise, we lose that game, because when we needed it, the defense couldn't stop Bo Pix and the DEN offense from moving the ball all the way down inside our 20-yd line or whatever.

Lol Denver scored a massive FOURTEEN POINTS, were given a short field on their last drive and were shut out in three of the four quarters but you want to blame the defense?

Then we let CAR score 27 on us. The 31st ranked offense at the time, scoring less than 20 points/gm, until we showed up.

See Zach Wilson and Bailey Zappe comment above. Last year's defense let bad QB's get points too. And btw Car were held to field goals for the majority of the game.

Then we stumble bass-ackwards into a W vs. LVR because their rookie C snapped the ball early but the refs decide the flag was for illegal motion. So we win on a technicality, because again they were in FG range. Against a 2-9 team with AOC leading them at QB.

Last season WE LOST AT HOME TO THEM in embarrassing fashion. But apparently winning this time is worse right?

So, again, while the record suggests we're dominant, the actual performances do not agree. Our defense isn't as dominant as it was last season, period. They aren't bad/terrible, but they aren't as solid. Shocking, since we lost Sneed and Gay, and then Watson got hurt early in the season.

As stated by Bearcat above. This defense has faced tougher opposition than it did last year. And still the points difference is only 2 points worse. Defenses very rarely stay great two years in a row. The Browns, Ravens and Niners are showing you that in HD.

And while Pat has been better since DHop arrived, let's not pretend he's been great. His PR since DHop showed up has only risen to around 90. So slightly better than average. And even with DHop, Pat has shown some poor judgement, not even including that throw into triple coverage. HE's just gotten away with it more recently than he did early in the season.

You said "he's struggled" and the facts disprove that claim. Now all I see is you making excuses tbh.

But whatever. Believe whatever you want to believe. Fr the record, I hope I'm wrong about this team this season. I hated being right about them last season.

Right how? Did you predict we'd win the superbowl?