Not to mention if we actually get a defense that can stop someone, and Baker can form any chemistry with OBJ next year. Baker will join the elite qbs of the league . His jump back to his rookie year form this year the second half of the season has been phenomenal to watch.

This. Andy Reid's record off a bye, and i hadnt even thought of the rivalry between Baker and Mahomes. I cant in anyway imaginable think that Mahomes sees anything but lighting up the score board and beating the browns by 21+

This 100%. Pro sports teams (at least ones with halfway decent coaches) do not take other pro teams lightly. That’s as silly as when people say the Chiefs are “playing down” to their competition. That’s not a real thing in professional sports.

I think it is to a point. Take a look at how KC plays against lesser teams versus better teams. The play calling is more vanilla or they experiment more. Look at the Watkins pass to Mahomes against the Falcons. I highly doubt they make that kind of play in the playoffs.

Yeah, I think it gets blown out of proportion and turned into a black and white extremes (shocking for CP, I know)... playing down to competition doesn't have to mean "don't try".

Reid and Mahomes have already talked about putting in some new plays and what not... and yeah, they do a little bit of that in the regular season, but a more vanilla playbook is literally playing down to the competition or the situation. The Colts were doing all kinds of stupid shit this past weekend because it's the playoffs.

In last year's SB, Mahomes was diving head first into defenders on multiple occasions.... that doesn't mean he "doesn't try" in the regular season, but he definitely threw caution to the wind against the 49ers.

And when they look like complete shit against the Dolphins and then score 4 touchdowns in 8 minutes, or when they need that one drive to beat the Falcons, score a million times against the Texans in the playoffs.... call it whatever you want, lack of focus, playing down to competition, flipping a switch, beast mode... :shrug:

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I agree with you that they are more likely to try some different things but I wouldn’t call that “playing down”. If anything that would be “coaching down”. “Playing down” infers that players don’t play as hard, aren’t as sharp/focused, and or think they can win the game by going through the motions. I just don’t think NFL players actually think that way.

Maybe it’s just a semantics thing. I get being emotionally charged to play in a post season game vs a game week 6 vs the Jets, I just don’t think the term “playing down” is very accurate.

Wait. What? Why the hell have I been screaming at the TV for 40 years? Someone should have shared this well before now.

What's shakin' Chief's Planet?

Browns fan here... made my way through the forum... Can't find the sale on air fryers, took notes on "Clever Ways To Salvage Ruined Brownies" (thanks in advance!), drank a half gallon of antifreeze and walked barefoot through the AIDS infested fires as suggested. Hope I'm worthy of a post or two.

First, I hate you. The biggest reason I hate you is because I wanted to draft Mahommes -- and scratched my head while all the bozo-beat-writers around the league kept saying he was "too raw" and "a project".

I guess more accurate term is "hated", I've come to terms now that the Brownies finally managed to navigate this decade's-old rift in the space-time continuum and draft a franchise QB. I'll roll with Baker. That said, I have some family in KC and joined them last winter in your beautiful city... just long enough to appreciate and admire your love for your Chiefs. Congrats to all you die-hard fans, I hope the journey to "champions", and returning to the top of the league (with possible dynasty on the horizon) was worth the wait. Savor it, waiting is hard, no one knows better than a Browns fan.

Sunday was one of my happiest days as a Browns fan. It's not just because we won a playoff game. We've changed a culture, we've overcome incredible odds, we've finally found our franchise QB... and we finally exercise a demon that has haunted us for decades. Top-notch talent from the top of the organization, down. Future so bright, regardless of what happens this Sunday afternoon.

I sat in the stands, ass frozen to the seat, in the '86 double overtime victory over the Jets... only to experience "the drive" eight days later. I was at the last playoff win over the Patriots in early '95... six days later we lost to the Steelers. The future was bright though -- Belichick and Saban on the sideline? C'mon man. THEN a pissy Art Model, jealous of our new baseball stadium, becomes a thief in the night. WE fought to keep our team, but since the return, nothing but heart-ache. BBS (Battered Browns Syndrome) is REAL.

Just wanted to check in and wish you chumps luck on Sunday. Don't expect that you'll need it, your team is on a different level. I'll cling to any hope and keep my vision clouded with the idea of "Any Given Sunday". More than this -- I look forward to some epic battles over the next few years. Nice to get our feet wet this year and feel like we "belong". Hope my Brownies are blessed with enough good fortune to keep the line rising up the graph so that we can compete on the same level. Couldn't pick two cities and fan-bases that are more deserving!

Part of it is that this is a bulletin board. It's somewhat old technology in 2021.

sorry downvoted by mistake. Well done first post. Welcome my good man.

Welcome, and great first post. I have a few family members and a friend who are Browns fans. You all deserve all the success coming to you, which hopefully ends Sunday. Maybe next year we can dash your hopes again in the AFCCG this time.

You need to move on from OBJ and never look back, he jacks up the chemistry of that squad... Baker and Stefanski feel too obligated to force feed him

How does that happen anyway? I see it often, but I've never accidently clicked on the wrong up/down vote button.

Haha. Saw the downvote and thought "damn, tough crowd!". Thanks and no worries.

If you slowly mouse over between thumbs up and down, there's a fair amount of white space that will highlight the thumbs down.... so, if you're closer to the middle, it'll probably wind up being a thumbs down.

DaFace separated them some a while back and I did some more as well... it probably happens a fair amount on phones.