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if they sign him, it will mean they think he is good to go.

I think the most vulnerable position group due to depth and experience concerns is O tackle. Especially on the left. Those guys need to stay healthy. Somebody who could at least hold down the position if Morris or Suamataia are not ready or get hurt. Maybe Bakhtiari

The schedule is absolutely brutal, basically designed by the league to knock the Chiefs off their pedestal. I wouldn't predict anything, but I like our depth and coaching enough to not argue with 11.5. I like this team a lot more than I liked last year's at this time, especially with Wentz backing up Mahomes and more talent at WR, not to mention speed. And for speed, we know Rashee Rice can go 120 on a freeway.

Guilty, your Honor. During the thread about whether we should let Sneed or Jones go to rebuild things, I favored letting Jones go. It was a horrible choice to make. I was thinking about how we never could have won the last SB without Sneed shutting down completely the best receiver on every team we faced. It will become obvious how much we miss Sneed. But it would likely be even worse to even imagine a defense without Jones. I'm happy about the decision. Jones is the heart and soul of the defense. Also, I had forgotten how young Jones still is. Five more years is totally realistic.

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I caught it. I disagree. I think we should continue .

On the contrary, arguing is the essence of the entire human experience. Nothing is close. Notice that I am arguing with you.

The return game is going to be a whole new ball of wax this coming season. The changes will make this one of the most exciting plays in football. Toub will be ready to do things with it that other teams will not at all be ready for.

Yeah. I'll take Rees-Zammit as a return guy.

That shows again that the QB is the most important position. A total mental, physical, emotional, and leadership phenomenon like Mahomes makes the difference over 17 regular season games and playoffs and championship games. A team can win an occasional superbowl with amazing roster strength and a great QB, but to win like the Chiefs have requires a QB who is almost a mutant human being. The top coaching staff is also part of the equation obviously, but watching Mahomes is like watching Nureyev dance. It is incomprehensible. Mahomes is even a nice guy, fun, and humble. Anyone else othewise like Mahomes is likely to be an egotist and obnoxious, causing dissention and friction with some players and causing his own eventual demise. Teams search for decades to find a QB like Mahomes. Most of the time, they end up with something merely good or even very good, sometimes a total bust like Blackledge. There may never be another QB like Mahomes, especially landing on a team with Andy Reid as HC. We are privileged. We can only enjoy it while we can, because nothing lasts forever.

It really does seem like the league uses refs to enforce parity. But seeming, if you look at it objectively, is not really possible. Nothing gets past public discovery anymore. A meeting of NFL execs and referees would involve so many people, it would be immediately discovered and reported. If subconscious, it would still be unlikely, because these refs know thir reputation and jobs would be threatened by a lack of averaged correlation with replay evidence. I think the bias is in us, the fans, because what we want influences how we interpret what we "seem" to see. My own suspicion is pretty limited to that one guy, Cheffers (I think), who seems to really hate the Chiefs overtly. I think the expanded use of replay and chip methods will help. Though it decreases the human element, that doesn't seem to have hurt tennis. Those technology-based calls on those expanded views of the lines and where the ball hits have only helped tennis, and the views are unequivocal to the fans watching on TV. So, complaints have virtually stopped, and the reputation of the officials has only increased.

He has a cloaking device. He turns sideways.

He looks almost emaciated 🙈

I need it.

But he's not among us.

Spags is right. He reads offenses and directs it. Extremely smart. Being a great tackler and player is not what makes him special. Spags needs him beyond what he is as a player.

I used to live three houses west of State Line Rd on 70th St. I could have walked a couple of hundred feet east, crossed the middle of State Line Rd. and been able to stand on the sidewalk and smoke up. If I had been a pregnant woman who was raped and became pregnant, I could have just stayed in Kansas and had it taken care of. The rules are certainly flexible in the KC area. It's all a matter of political posturing. At least the BBQ is good anywhere in town. Sorry, Xen. This is one of those things that involves the Chiefs players, so it is OK here in CTO, too.

Great suggestion. I say Creed. I still remember the setback when we lost Mitch Morse. Crucial.

Since the schedule came out, I am extremely worried about that stretch where we play 3 games in only 10 days in December, all of them against playoff teams from 2023. Who on earth made this schedule? How can any team not have at least one certain defeat in those 3 games and not be left exhausted and depleted as the final stretch comes up? It is the key to all of our chances. At the very least, it makes a #1 seed very unlikely. This is why depth is so crucial at all positions. At least two of those games will need to be played predominantly by depth guys. Only Mahomes and incredible coaching will allow us to win two of those three games in that 10 day stretch.

Agree. With 12.5 million, I have to think that the Chiefs will make some kind of splash that will help the team, probably raising the floor of some questionable position group. The WR room is probably the top candidate for that, right or wrong. No way to predict injuries (except in the case of Toney LOL). Since the strength of the team is Mahomes, a couple of major WR injuries, a suspension or release of a WR, and an aging Kelce, we could put Mahomes in a position very discouraging to him and to the fan base, and a deep hole for the season unless we pick up a veteran WR. On the other hand, if this Jared Wiley allows Reid to bring back some 13 alignment plays, we could possibly use that money just as well on some other need. In particular, I would like to see more credible depth at RB.

I think I'll use Xen's. It has more actual games, though this one is cleaner and has just as many weeks.

I agree with your assessment of weaknesses. But even wthout any weaknesses, dynasties cannot maintain what the Chiefs have done year after year. There is a reason that there has never been a three-peat...because it is almost impossible, just due to the law of averages. We post nonchalant assumptions of another Lombardy this coming season, but seriously, that kind of thing is extremely unlikely. It never happened with Brady-Belichick-Gronkowski. Our dynasty has probably more Super Bowl victories in its future, but it would be highly doubtful for this year. Every good team has designed its drafts and strategies around stopping the Chiefs and have a greater and greater motivation among the players and fanbases to do just that. The odds alone are with me in predicting no three-peat this year. Save this post so that you can throw it back in my face next winter. I hope I am wrong. The odds are with me.

If having Patrick Mahomes throwing him the football couldn't help him with his drops, how is Josh Allen? Maybe he will do better with a change of scenery or with a different QB throwing a different kind of pass and trajectory to him, but I wouldn't gamble on that. He will be one more receiver who secondaries will not be able to ignore and who has speed, but I think Allen will tire of him missing catches that he should have caught. It all depends on how he does early to maintain Allen's confidence in him.

I am too dense to figure out that you figured it already.

That was a joke, Boone. You know..."money laundering."