HavePityPlease

Today's Dax Hill is the Dax Hill we need.

I kind of agree this might happen but Simmons is less of this type of coach than others have been/are - Robbins is the example, they could have just tried to make Crisman better. And everyone needs to remember as they feverishly build their "punter wishlist" for the draft that just booting the ball far is not (nearly) enough - they have to be able to hold, and hold consistently (and *immediately*). If nothing else Robbins has been great in this regard, but as far as he's concerned I want and expect a competition because he clearly wasn't good enough in his primary job. If these monster leg guys can held, get 'em in here.

Yeah I thought it was a mistake to not take the 3 after the one long drive - it was "that type of game" and boy was it in the end, and the defense could have used some help after finally getting a three-and-out - but tbh nobody should ever be surprised or expect different from Taylor, he's always said he will go for those.

This is the truth of it. The defense was bending if not breaking in every game, Joe was a statue for like the first 4, and most of us wrote the season off when he went down. If they fix the defense they should be fine.

Nah people have it right, at lot of it falls on Browning. The replays told the story even when Romo wasn't telling you - Browning was cheating and both waiting for and "expecting" big play chances. He had outlets on two sacks and the last one I think was meant to be a screen that was just botched by everybody. The last two weeks Browning was playing for his career, and he failed. That's why he won't throw it OB so often, he did again in this game - had an easy throw away but instead ran and sllid behind the LOS. Why would he do such a meaningless and stupid thing? The stat sheet.

He has to throw it. He can't keep waiting for the big play. That's not how you run a two minute.

He was both outside the tackle box AND there was a fucking receiver. Just INSANE

LMFAOOOOOO RIGGGGGGGGEDDDDD

Fucking IDIOT Pratt doing what he does - GO FOR THE BALL AND LETH THE BALL CARRIER RUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

He didn't even stick the ball out in bounds, the ball was out of bounds, this was an EASY call that the line judge got exactly correct and the main ref (who had the same non-perspective as the replay they keep showing) overruled him. Just clownish shit.

Lol head ref overrules the line judge fuck me LOL

lol didn't Hudson just get pushed on his face (earlier in the play)? Like 5x worse that the bullshit they called on Hilton?

lol what is this "Community America" commercial.. "Kansas City took me in, they didn't know what they were getting, they gave me a CHANCE!" says Mahomes the 10th overall pick and son of a pro athlete, making it sound like he was a street urchin who they pitied.

Unfortunately CTB looks like a guy who hasn't played in a while

lmao if "slamming the QB to the ground" is a penalty, that was it.

This game is set up for us to get an ass-kicking... the narrative is all "the Chiefs suck now", "they're done", "what a disappointment" blah blah blah. Bookies are licking their chops regardless of the outcome.

Wasn't it admitted by... someone... somewhere... that this is an attempt to get more women/girls into the sport? I still remember Marvin and his "Football 101" classes that were I guess meant to teach women about football (which IIRC was a league initiative, not something Marvin came up with). It's hard for me to picture Marvin sitting through such a thing when he pretty clearly hated the fans - but I would have loved to see Marvin's reaction if some sideline reporter asked him about Swift. 😆

Yup, he's so dead focused on getting the ball out it is typically either an actual turnover or he is a liability in trying to tackle the ball carrier. The first TD yesterday it looked like he kind of hesitated, waiting for Turner to start tackling Pickens so he could make a grab for the ball instead of just hammering the guy. As for Wilson, I said it during the game in here that he's looked a step or two slower this year and his usual solid pass coverage skills appear to have suffered.

I would argue actually rooting for a loss isn't really what a fan should be about - not for the sake of the football team but for your own mental health. Everyone can admit a higher draft pick is preferable if you end up not winning the actual Super Bowl but there's always a hierarchy and arguably you end up where you should in the draft order in comparison to the rest of the league. Think of it this way - some team is shittier than us, and their fans want a better draft pick too. Let them enjoy that little bit of solace. How many years (and years) of us getting high draft picks and it having zero impact on our winning - let alone playoff chances - should it take for people to realize that draft picks almost never have that type of impact? Joe is our recent exception and you can throw Chase in there too (but the level of his impact required Joe as a prerequisite). Marvin actually said it once himself, something like outside of the top 5 or so picks you're just not going to get a guy that has a "force of nature" effect on your team. If it happens with any pick below that it's usually a lot of dumb luck or some super talented but secondarily "suspect" player sliding, but ending up fine. The evidence of what we actually need should be obvious (IMO) because we've already seen it with the exact same coaches and almost the same personnel on the field. Losing our two safeties has made our defensive positioning ragged at best and the defense is not playing as a unit. Nearly everyone wants to point to single players not being there or individual on-field play meaning the entire defense collapses but that is frankly nonsense. We've seen this exact same result, from Lou, in the recent past. What fixed it, almost immediately? Bringing in HIS OWN free agents, hand-picked, to not just play in, but run his scheme. Does nobody remember Lou going from completely hated to "definite HC material" after just one offseason + season? This past offseason they admitted that they really thought they'd get Vonn back and thus getting Scott was clearly a scramble, and look at the result - the guy is completely lost out there and is a terrible fit. Stopping the run is much more than just one guy holding his ground in the middle of the line, it takes the unit acting as one. Reader sets the tone often with his sheer will, but that didn't have Scott getting into proper position. So what do we need? We need a QB in the secondary, simple as that. Is that going to come from the next draft? Almost zero chance. Can Battle become that? Maybe, but you probably shouldn't bet on it. I will agree we need a tone-setter (or two) on the DL but that does NOT need to come from a high draft pick, at all. Just get a couple wood-choppers who love to grind and let it show - you know, football players. Free agents are probably best for both - like the last time Lou solved these problems. And just to show some solidarity with Amish, he's one of the few fans that actually DOES make a direct difference, however slight, to the team's success because he actually attends games and makes noise. If everybody wanted to tank the stadium would be empty - except for opposing fans - and I'd imagine that's been frustrating over the years. At the same time I don't think it's incumbent on fans to root-for-a-win-no-matter-what but you'll probably be happier if you root for a win and simply accept whatever positive result comes from losing. With that said, just like you can't control what the team does, you can't control what fans say, do or feel, either. Just accept it - all of it - and find what's enjoyable about the team yourself.

True, maybe we should try him there.

Burrow can't play defense

lol they showed their whole "end of quarter" commercial package and it's 3 seconds left 🤣

lol I can't believe they overturned that

Well what you'd hope is that it's a coach playing mind games... for those that didn't hear the whole quote mentioned by the announcers, it was something along the lines of "you think teams can just run on the Stealers? No, nobody does, we want to pass on these guys". Too bad that's EXACTLY WHAT HE TRIED TO DO lol....

Seems pretty clear that that from at least Browning there was some (very stupid) effort to make sure Boyd was heavily involved "because Pittsburgh". He tried to force it to him on the first two INTs and it kinda seems like every few plays it's all about isolating him. I sure as hell hope what wasn't an actual part of the game plan because it killed the offensive effort (defense being its own problem).