Something else that's worth considering.
 

Don't hate on me here, I'm just theorizing. Instead of doing what some of you always do and call me an idiot, dispute the point I'm making, please.

One thing that was absolutely nuts, watching this game, was something I'm not sure I've ever seen before, on both sides of the ball.

The Chiefs, on a down-to-down basis, completely changed up their DL and their weapons on offense. Again, on nearly a down-to-down basis.

They'd have Karlaftis-Nnadi-Dickerson-Herring on one down (which, oh my god) and then the next down they'd have Danna and Wharton subbing in, before bringing in FAU and sometimes even Chenal at DE as a rushbacker.

On offense, there was all kinds of bizarre weapons packages. One down they go three TEs with Justyn Ross off to the side. They have MVS/Toney/Moore on a down only to yank 2/3 of them off so Watson/Rice can come in.

I'm just kind of used to a team that plays a true 1st string and a true 2nd string when the 1st stringers need a blow. Instead, it was a personnel free-for-all.

I get it, the Chiefs are down a few guys. So, logically, you put in your best remaining players and occasionally spell then, rather than just keep a lazy susan of your entire depth chart going. I haven't been able to find the snapcounts, but if Matt Dickerson lead our DTs in snaps, I wouldn't be surprised. There's no way he's our best, or even second best DT.

The defense played well, and the offense had enough in them to win the game yesterday. They just couldn't hold onto the ball.

But it did have a feeling of throwing-shit-against-the-wall in the gameplanning.

I was actually quite impressed with Dickerson last night. He seemed to be a nuisance at times. It will be interesting to see how he graded.

I’ve considered things and, despite last night’s performance, the Chiefs are still my favorite team.

I think this is the beginning of the season and we have a lot of young players. They are still trying to find the rotations that work and see who will stand out. Rotating pass rushers/d-line can help blitzes as they are fresh longer.

I'm not worried about a true first string with as deep as we are. I am for getting more game reps for the younger guys.

uup

Trent Green said, last preseason game, this is the best top to bottom roster we've had , so MOAR players are getting in to play. Reid likes to experiment a little in week 1 so we'll now have a fire lit and an execution plan moving forward. 16-1 we will be

Toney = coming off an injury
Pacheco = coming off an injury
Kelce = out
Rice = rookie
Skyy = second year player and wasn’t a major factor in the offense last year
CEH = got more touches than he should, likely due to Pacheco coming off an injury
Gray = has never really needed to be our TE1

That explains a lot of discombobulation on offense.

The OL was great in pass pro. I won’t judge the run game when CEH has that many carries.

A lot to feel good about, because drops lost us the game. Simple as. That can be corrected.

Nicky and his 20-0 No Doubt About It campaign crashed.

The biggest change I saw is we lost

It felt like a fifth preseason game for the offense.

That's a big YIP from me!

The further out from the game we get, the more confident I'm feeling that things will be just fine.

The stars had to align so the shadow of Jupiter shined on the ass of a goat in a remote apartment rooftop in Somalia for the Lions to win.

I'm over it.

Beat the Jaguars.

Well 4th, but your point is taken.

We also need to consider not just that Kelce was hurt, but WHEN Kelce was hurt.

2 days before the game? He (like always) was a huge part of the game plan.

What happens to that game plan when Kelce is out? Does it become worthless? No one on the planet can do the things that Kelce does.

I think especially later, Reid was trying to **** with Detroit. Their coaching staff is all young and comparatively inexperienced. Some of it was certainly exploitative of Xs and Os, some of it was stressing their communication and decision making systems, which is smart.

Too early for this shit. My head is still ringing from last night. ROFL

I didn't really have a problem with Reid's gameplan outside the absolute failure of the Blake Bell formation.

He got guys open.

We appear to have a lot of explosion back in the offense that was missing last year. They just need to catch the ball.

The running game is going to need some work, and I wonder if we miss EB there.

I'm glad you brought this up - I didn't notice it on Defense but definitely saw it on Offense - was rather strange - the only exception was McKinnon not really getting a chance to do anything - I think he only had a handful of snaps.

Agree.

I think the short FG on 4th and short should have been a go for it, the Blake Bell play sucked shit. And someone should have gotten Toney out of there. Dude was shell shocked. Other than that, I thought Reid called a good game.

But hot take: Reid outcoached Campbell.

And Rice seemed like the best WR last night - super strange.

Mahomes looked extremely frustrated for most the game. Dropped back to pass, immediately said "F it, I've gotta get the the 1st down with my legs." He did this several times. Not much faith in the WR's.

Even he had a couple drops I believe.

Something else that's worth considering.
 

What’s to dispute? It was especially noticeable on offense with the receivers. Just complete randomness. And it showed with Mahomes’ play. I’m quite certain there were guys open at times he just missed, largely because they had no rhythm and barely knew who was out there.

That game to me was about body language. No fire on the offense at all. Every time they showed Andy, he just had a dead look in his eyes. I dunno, it just didn't FEEL like a Chiefs regular season game.

Mahomes was visibly frustrated all night. When he had to make plays with his feet, I get the feeling he was seeing guys not getting open and was like "Goddamit, I guess I'll have to do this shit myself."

He actually had a great night, he was off a couple of times, but I think that owes to the fact that he didn't trust any of those ****ers to get the job done.

Oh and Direkshun is an idiot.:D

I’m sure Detroit fans are excited, and rightfully so.

However if any Detroit fans watched that and believes the Lions are on the same level as the Chiefs, then they’re delusional.

There is a sizable gap between the two. Chiefs win by 10+ by just making the easy catches.

Chiefs win by 20 when they make the easy catches and add 2 top 10 NFL players.

Ummm, according to XZTop (aka slack jaw) we didn't sub anyone out on the dline.

he did - he just led all WR's in catches and TD's 3/5 25 yds and a TD

YES! I agree Andy did not look like he was "present" and Pat was super irritated. This is why I think things get smoothed out this week - no way in hell is a pissed Pat going to let things slide during the week

Who am I gonna believe? You or the dude with the worst game in the KC metro?

The biggest concern is simply that we dropped a game that should have been a win.

The race for the 1 seed is always tight. Just makes the margin for error a bit smaller the rest of the way.

It sucks because it was self inflicted. They just made their road to repeat that much harder

Yep, any loss hurts.

BUT I will say that you probably couldn’t have handpicked a better loss for us. It was week 1, against a good NFC opponent. Prior to the start of the season, I think the only game on our schedule I’d have been 100% if you told me it’d be a loss was the Eagles for similar reasons.

Now we will just need to steal an extra W somewhere against an AFC opponent like the Bills, Bengals, Jets, Chargers x2, etc.

I completely agree.

The Chiefs played with 2/3 of their All Pros out. They played by constantly churning their depth chart rather than playing their best players. And the Chiefs were in position to win the game several times, and just couldn't hold on to the ball.

We do it once a year. It just happened to be the first game.

The defense was fine so I don't give a shit

Again...worst football poster by far on this site

Yeah, they were screwing around a lot. With that said drops and turnovers can get any team beat. You have to at least play clean.

Not getting the 1 seed and still winning it all will make it even better.

The rotaion they used worked. They gave up 14 points. Why would that be a concern after everything we saw on the offensive side?

It went well for the defense. IDK what's up with Patrick and the WR's. Scheme, chemistry, IDK. Patrick had all day to find them. I'm watching the all-22 tonight. I need answers.

Jeez, you guys are slipping. Direckshun, your and idiot!