We discuss how Buffalo can overcome their defensive injuries to finally beat Patrick Mahomes.
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The Rockpile reports the pettiest hardest drinking bills podcast wellcome everybody to another edition of The Rockpile Report podcast I’m your host Bill season ticket older Drew gear that’s my producer Chris krugar it’s Pirate Radio over here this weekend boys and girls I shouldn’t even be here shh don’t hell on Poland cars is
Going to [ __ ] you up he’ll never Take Me Alive all right what was great is we were discussing you coming over here I got held over at work this morning so I left work at 11:00 in bed at noon up at 4:30 to shovel the end of the driveway cuz
Jessica spent this morning snowblowing the main part of the driveway and then of of course you get here there’s a brand new snow bank created by a snowplow the town loader came through like a loader think about what a front like a high lift looks like and just you
Could see where they just came right down Chris’s Street and just created fresh snow Banks I get it you’re clearing the street I I don’t begrudge you but also that was the most inconvenient timing of all time right ah obviously you know if you’ve listened to our previous podcast our
Recap show you know all about the snow you know what we’re dealing with it’s uh it’s a Pirate Radio weekend here boys and girls and we are here but but what am I going to do it’s a thing where would you rather be than right here right now I’m here because we have
Business right like the bills I I think I heard uh being talked about by some of the members of the Bills players they’re talking about standing on business they’ve got business stand on well so do I it’s why I’m here we’re talking about the 2023 2024 divisional round preview
The Kansas City Chiefs against the Buffalo Bills got your time at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard we are the latest Sunday game to try to accommodate for the day of rest we lost the place Ralph Wilson Stadium Orchard Park New York the weather is going to be in the mid 20s
With a 10% percent chance of precipitation in mild winds the line is the bills are currently minus three and the official guess who we drew Chris I mean you tweeted about it yesterday Sean hocky Sean hoaky the guy that did the Eagles game you know I I sometimes wonder the NFL and NFL
Officiating if a bunch of idiots like me and the guys who run football zebras and the guys who run NFL penalties. comom like if we can aggregate data on who is and who isn’t a good ref or how certain refs favor certain teams and how like certain teams track records when a
Certain official calls that game if we can follow Aggregate and kind of Follow that data why can’t they which tells me they probably can they just choose not to and Ryan LEL from Rock Sports asked me the other day he goes he said it he goes I I’d love to know how these
Officials get decided it would be interesting I don’t think any journalist will ever be able to get a straight answer on that do you no no I think Ed hocky Le still involved in the NFL and it’s through nepotism that his [ __ ] kid gets to call these [ __ ]
Playoff games that’s what it is I think like this is what I hate in a season that’s felt like there was a lot of redemption story arcs a lot of slang of dragons going on you win in Miami after losing there in 2022 you winning Kansas City with your
Season on the line you find a consistent running game which was the thing that you always knew you needed literally by crushing Dallas with it at home in your building this just feels like one more poetic hurdle for our football team they have to jump jump over they now have to contend
With this guy who is just back and he’s a boob I mean he’s been a thorn in the bill side forever now he not only has been a thorn in the bill side but he’s also been incredibly Pro Kansas City Chiefs over the course of his career the
Chief’s record well what did I I think I saw eight- two in the 10 games that he’s officiated the bills are one and three what I hate is that in four games that he’s officiated for the bills 90 yards per game he’s averaging in penalty he against us and then some egregious non-
Calls that we just don’t get why because Sean hakul crew is calling the game it’s like of course that’s in there of course you couldn’t give me Alex Kemp or any of the other guys who are officiating games elsewhere this weekend obviously in a year where we just seem like we’re on this
Run we have to get Shan hoaky here’s a question Chris if the Bills win this game can we sacrifice him to the pit yeah let’s do it on Ni Call nans and Romo n as as usual n and Romo I think my favorite part of this is knowing that
There’s like like somebody there’s people this is how unplugged from internet culture I am there’s people out there who literally exist on like Tik top or Tik Tok or whatever Instagram whatever thing is they go go Instagram legal Chinese websites and they will like literally they just exist to
Read like emojis like they have reactions for emojis you send them and you pay to send them one and they have like a sound they make and idiots are pumping money into this but there was one that I loved where the guy was in a hot dog
Costume and every time someone sent him a hot dog he did this thing of like and someone made a hilar go check it out at Rockpile report they were like nans it’s this guy like pretending that he’s eating hot dogs as fast as he can and someone was like here’s Romo getting
Ready to prepare for momes vers Jos that makes perfect sense it was probably one of the best Tweets I’ve seen in two days here’s a fun fact the L well first of all let’s talk about the injury report before we really dig into the nuts and bolts of this
Thing um for the bills I I mean I don’t think it could get longer than that can it that might be one of the longest injury reports we’ve had all season I mean if you look at the the way the game happened on uh against the Steelers losing
Bernard and who else do we lose so this is where well so this is an interesting talking point at the top of this show the bills lot of injuries the Chiefs had pretty much everybody on their injury report like they’re practicing right is M full is Mahomes on the chief’s injury
Report list listed as uh can’t find another helmet that was really funny don’t don’t get me wrong that was a hilarious sequence in that game where he just jams a helmet on his head goes out and then like you can tell halfway through that play as he’s at the line
He’s like ah [ __ ] this doesn’t fit and he just throws an errant pass and then he’s on the sideline yelling at people to find him a new helmet that was pretty funny so everybody who was on the chief’s injury report was full participant limited participant except for Derek nauy Derek
Nauy their defensive tackle tricep injury did not participate but that doesn’t rule him out meanwhile the bills had one 2 3 four five six seven eight players who were listed as a DMP couple fulls Josh Allen’s on there for a neck injury hides on there for a neck
And then Dodson Douglas Johnson like all of these players filtering in there in some limited capacity we are very beat up right now and that sucks this is the worst time of the season to be dealing with these sorts of injuries I mean just ask the
Dolphins I do think that the health of each team is is going to play a factor and I I hate the fact right like I hate the fact that the Chiefs are probably the healthiest they’ve been in a month now they are missing one important Cog the Chiefs are and that’s running
Back uh Jerick McKinnon McKinnon has quietly been this running back for them like we all know about how good Isaiah Peko is we know that Clyde ewards hair can come in and do some nice things in a limited capacity for you Kinnon was one of the like more
Targeted players in the passing game on their team at certain points in the season if you look back through game logs McKinnon’s a player that they’ve often looked at as a hey we can put him in on passing downs but we see him as a legitimate threat like if I’m looking at
These statistics and I just want to look at the passing right receiving receiving yards so for receiving yards Jer McKinnon had 192 which you say to yourself that’s not a ton he has four receiving touchdowns he’s third on the team and when they’re in the Red Zone he was a
Real threat for that team and his injury really kind of fouled some of the things that they like to do in the Red Zone up because now outside of Travis Kelce and Rashid rice they don’t have which we’re going to get into they’re lacking reliable Target in the passing
Game that’s affected their creativity in the Red Zone it’s affected a lot of things about their offense I mean you’re talking about a Chiefs team that just kicked how many field goals against the Dolphins Chris if you want to give that a goog for me probably four or five
Right how do you get to 26 what’s 15 plus 18 + 7 is that 26 in fact I could just tell you how bet he kicked scoring Harrison bucker 1 2 3 four field goals and they and none of them and I think what’s damning is none of them were long field
Goals a 28 yarder a 26 y a 32 Y and a 21 y so your offense would get into the red like near the Red Zone and then just falter because now your safeties don’t have to worry about stretching stretching the field again we’re going to get to this but so that Jerick
McKinnon injury is big for the Chiefs just in terms of what they are what we think they are what they want to be structurally Clyde edbert hair gives you some of that Isaiah Peko can give you little bits and pieces of it but neither of them are the receiver that McKinnon
Was for the bills these injuries are concerning and at the same time there are certain like obviously we’ve signed Matt Hawk so he is going to come in he’s got familiarity with our kicker and our Snapper so I assume that helps right mhm Sam Martin’s not going to play and I
Don’t know if we’ll see him again I mean a hamstring injury for a guy who punts it’s pretty big so with that in mind Christian Benford and Balon Spectre like B inspector so I’m looking at banged up bills.com which is what you should be doing anytime that there’s an
Injury like this or injuries like this and you want to know more about them banged up bills.com sounds like being inspector probably going to have an opportunity right like he’s got a back injury and they said okay he took a knee I would be shocked to see if tomorrow on
Thursday he’s not a limited participant I would be genuinely surprised just based on the mechanism of injury the way Kyle breaks it down for you as far as what happened what he suspects happened I think that this is a big game where I need to see Taylor rap don’t you
Especially with the injuries at linebacker you think he’s going to come down playing the box I think well no but I think that the having him available would allow them to put Jordan puyer in the box right all right when they’ve needed guys to rotate up and play a high safety
That’s what you’ve seen you’ve seen R being one of the deep safeties when they put multiple on the field at the same time his availability is going to be big to how this game gets played I also think you know like you look at some of this they’re talking
About Tyrell Dodson we might get him back with his shoulder injury I’ve hated on that guy all season long it would be nice to have a guy in the Box I think Dorian Williams plays faster than Tyrell Dodson and at the same time this is a game where while we just got done
Singing AJ Klein’s Praises I don’t know that I want AJ Klein out there against an Andy Reed offense do you no that sounds like a recipe for disaster I I just I look at this and I say to myself if I can get Tyrell Dodson back the fact that Terrell Bernard
They’re talking about him maybe being able to play is crazy when you think about the fact that he got carded off the field the Christian Benford knee injury is also I think important here because we saw kyum have a have a day where he made some big plays he also
Gave up some plays he made some mistakes it’s kind of what he’s been through the course of his career going into this game without Benford I would be very concerned Benford thinks that he’s or Kyle Trimble at banked up bills thinks he’s dealing with the lateral meniscus
Tear said he was working it out on the bike but never came back into the game so you’re thinking about this he says that not only is spectre’s injury kind of a pain man management one but also depending on the type of meniscus tear for Benford it could just become a
Pain management issue and that’s why you have a coach who’s willing to call them dayto day and say look I’m ready to I’m not ready to rule anybody out we’re going to see what options we have available to us as the week goes on the health of these players if if
Everyone who’s a dnp right now I think the biggest one is teron Johnson concussions are weird you know he just got one it didn’t seem like a big deal he seemed pissed that they were taking him out of the game at all now he’s limited like he was at practice in
A limited capacity which tells you you’re not even allowed to be limited unless you’re at a certain stage of the concussion protocol so that right there is a huge Boon because I don’t I can’t picture this game with Cam Lewis I just can’t I mean without with without rap without
Lewis or Johnson I just does having all of these Corners out and us having to play our what four five six string corners does that somehow enhance the receivers that the Chiefs have or do they still suck we’re going to talk about that if anything what I
Think it does Gabe Davis still not participating with his knee injury will obviously have to see what Thursday and Friday bear this is a game where you okay all these defensive injuries fine then I have to go win it then I can’t let this be a defensive game like we saw last
Time I have to go out there and be the better offense you’re you’re going to have to approach this from a standpoint of I’m going to be the quarterback who’s going to lead an offense that’s going to score 29 Points can you beat me to 30 can you beat me to 30
I think it’s and that’s going to have to be the mentality that our quarterback and our offense brings into this game now what’s funny is that we’re going to see this inside of Ralph Wilson Stadium do you know or do you remember Chris the last time the Chiefs played a
Game inside Ralph Wilson Stadium with fans in the stand no I do not okay cuz you remember 2020 the 20 Co season yeah yeah they played in an empty building and for some reason even though they were outplaying us the game was still close at the end like it was a
Frustrating thing to watch and I think that was a game that got moved because there was so many people who had covid and things were getting shuffled around I don’t know I just remember making a pot of pulled pork in a crock pot and I still think
That that’s the reason we lost is because I didn’t smoke it CU I’m a schmuck the last time Kansas City played a game inside Buffalo with fans in the stands Kyle Orton was the Bill’s quarterback Jamal Charles was still a top running back in the NFL and Dwayne
Bo was the chief’s biggest passing weapon Dwayne B 2014 Chris how is it that we’ve played like it’s crazy to think that all of the like the recency that the bills Chiefs have like what’s cultivated bills Chiefs as must C TV and created this environment where the this is a game
That everybody who loves the game of football wants to see how has it never been in Buffalo until now like what do you know about the rotation of this I mean can you like I obviously they rotate they play based on schedule how has this not been here in
Buffalo until now well is it breaks down every year they’re playing a different division within the conference and every other time it switches at home so I would say every four years the Chiefs are coming here but then also two extra games on the schedule you’re playing the teams the other
Two division winners from the previous season so when it’s you know we have uh we’re playing the chief like that’s just how the schedule breaks because we we’ve won the division 40 years in a row so is Kansas City so that means we’re always going to play them The Following season
I don’t know how that breaks down to Road and and home games but you know we’ve always had to go to Kansas City and it sucks and it’s good to see their Punk asses come out here to to Orchard Park where we’re going to [ __ ] them
Up we hope Chris we can only oh I know we’re going to [ __ ] him up you’re very confident yeah yeah how come you’re not coming to this game I have a limited amount of time off to take I think it’s I have a week of vacation three sick days and a floating
Holiday and I have I’ve already used I already have three on the schedule that’s not football related so I have to pick and choose if it’s bills and Houston I will be at that AFC Championship game and no we won’t be leaving in the fourth quarter to beat traffic cuz it’s
Going to be a [ __ ] party all night long in Orchard Park as we [ __ ] wait wait so what you’re saying is you want to rock and roll all night and party I want to every day yeah that yeah that’s how I live my life every day that’s how I live my life
Every day yeah you stri St me as a real vibrant human being Chris a real high energy go-getter you know you’re really out there uh uh I love you but I hate you at the same time like it’s hilarious to me yeah let’s go get these
[ __ ] so in terms of how we go about orchestrating that I this isn’t your typical Chiefs postseason team it’s just not they’re they’re broken on offense and that’s kind of where one of the things I want to hit on because as I kind of go through the stats I watched
That Miami game and I kept questioning like okay when’s going to be the drive when where’s the drive going to come in here where Patrick Mahomes just really puts his foot on the gas and says hey I’m going to take this game over right here right now we’re going to run away
With this thing and it’s not going to be close and then we get to the third quarter and I’m looking at this going Miami’s offense is awful and at the same time they’re one lucky touchdown away from being like Striking Distance of winning the football game what the hell is what
The hell are the Pat or the the Chiefs doing what are you doing why isn’t this working you’ve got a you’ve got a Miami defense that’s just baguer they’re missing most of their star power and it doesn’t seem to matter because you they kept making plays and
Then the second that they got into the Red Zone they would just stall they would fall apart bad penalty dropped footballs and that that’s been my favorite thing about this is Patrick Mahomes just yelling at his teammates for half of most games about their miscues and just the things that aren’t
Going well and in very like like that Raiders game that they lost inexplicably that’s part of the reason that they’re in this position in the first place they lose that they came to the Raiders Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce spend half the game just screaming at their teammates on the
Sideline this isn’t territory they’re used to being in and and like I don’t understand right like they’re in the divisional round of the like I guess that’s a testament to them and their coaching and the quality of their quarterback that they’re in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs
Despite not having the typical fully functional offensive cast around them that they’re used to having so I guess golf clap for you okay Chris think fast how many bills players caught more than 30 yards worth of passes during our last game one four oh how many different players
Caught touchdown passes from Josh Allen against the Steelers uh three three three three now what if I told you that in beating the Miami Dolphins last week Rashid rice and Travis Kelce were the only Targets on the entire roster to catch more than one pass or to get more than four
Targets they each had 10 that number alone should be a little startling like wait a minute so you have two players on your team that got 20 targets and nobody else caught more than single pass that almost makes you think there there might be a problem right yeah your whole offense has to
Your whole passing game is funneled to two players that’s odd outside of rice and Kelce nobody caught more than a single pass that resulted in a first down again nine passes to rice and Kelce for first downs nobody else on the roster had more than one those two players rasid rice and
Travis Kelce combined for 201 of mahomes’s 262 receiving yards the rest of the roster produced nothing Des nothing of value despite how beat up the Miami defense was entering that game despite all of those injuries the decimation of the Miami pass rushers the cornerbacks being limited an injured
Duke Riley trying to gut the game out because they didn’t have any linebackers to throw in there momes managed just one touchdown pass and a hole in his helmet and a hole in his helmet if you throw in the fact that the Chiefs finished the season like the
Regular season with the League’s highest drop rate and then you go and you watch that game and you see Travis Kelsey dropped two Surefire balls that should have been big plays and then you also see Miko Hardman just kind of running half speed through the secondary being overthrown underthrown Mahomes is yelling and
Gesticulating at him because he’s like why didn’t you fight for that you could have drawn a pi flag you could have done something they’re getting nothing from these wide receivers and in fact if you’re cadarius Tony targeting cadarius Tony has actually resulted in just as many negative play for the offense is
Positive which is crazy like that guy sucks I hate him I hate his shitty attitude I hate the way he treated the Giants and Giants fans on his way out of town and so I think it’s fitting that he’s not only been injured but he’s also been a laughing stock this
Year like the Chiefs just don’t like something’s broken here and the question becomes why they’ve had time on tasks together they’ve got a great coordinator they’ve got a genius at quarterback a savant so what’s the problem well first of all the Kansas city wide receivers don’t get a lot of natural
Separation here’s a fun here’s a fun stat for you Chris Rashid rice and Travis Kelce are in the NFL’s top 15 for average separation over the course of the regular season the next closest Chiefs player Falls outside of the top 90 the top 90 for average separation that’s Justin
Watson he was an individual who caught I think a pass and I think he was second on the team or third on the team in touchdown passes for the year he’s out there with Jared McKinnon and just that idea that like well they have a guy that
They can throw to sometimes and Justin Watson and then everybody else on the Chiefs in the Chiefs pass catching group is below him somehow and what’s embarrassing about that is that Watson averaged six yards of cushion from opposing Defenders but average just 2 and a 12 yards of
Separation which tells you he actually loses yardage after the snap more than he wins extra leverage in space when you when you try to Target him on a on a given play these are all players who can be schemed open because they have a great coach and
Because Chris Andy Reed I’m never going to knock that guy he understands how to call a game and how to scheme an offense and how to game plan for an opponent if he can’t make this work with this group of wide receivers who can clearly not Patrick Mahomes on a
Consistent basis I mean if anything this sounds a lot like the wide receiver C that the bills had back when Ryan Fitzpatrick was our quarterback what uh D David Nelson Donald Jones who what Scott Chandler was our most effective receiver he had that excellent dance the shovel the Chiefs obviously are not that
Bad right they’re not drought era bills bad but it’s a similar Dynamic when you look around and go oh wait a minute there’s not a single wide receiver outside of these two guys with any natural speed with any high-end route running with any size advantages that they can use to
Make catches because they can’t separate with the route running it’s just a problem and it’s not something that you can fix at this point in an NFL season now the Chiefs have tried to make up for that by using more tight ends Noah gray is a name you guys should get to know
He’s bigger he’s taller but he’s still got a little fast you know he’s not quite a blocking tight end he’s not big enough for that but he’s a wide he it’s almost like a Miki type typ of thing he’s got going on where they trust him
To run some routes they don’t trust him to be a pure PL a pure blocker either for the run or the pass and the way I know that is something we’re about to talk about but either way they don’t have a true speed threat outside of rice
And his play is solid but inconsistent but solid they’re Des so desperate that the Jets couldn’t find a way to use mik Hardman and the Chiefs brought him back that should tell you everyone’s like oh look the Chiefs they’re just move they’ve got another guy who knows the
System no what that is is a sign of desperation they said listen this worked one time can we get the band back together and maybe make hay with this I just like you look at that game against Miami over the weekend mikole Hardman three targets for three yards on one
Catch he looks like he’s lost his step he’s not the receiver that they let go to free agency and he clearly doesn’t have his quarterback’s trust now the Noah grade Dynamic how I talk about how he’s more of a move tight end and he’s a guy that they’re going to
Use in the passing game it’s because the team also has protection issues they do the scoreboard would tell you that the Chiefs throttled the Dolphins and embarrassed them and that they should all be [ __ ] ashamed of themselves which is true don’t get me wrong they should be ashamed to themselves just the
Same if you look at the actual fine metrics Mahomes was 0 for three on passes of more than 20 air yards but Chris you have Patrick momes you have Patrick I’m smarter than you I’m more cerebral than you in terms of my vision and how I see the field and
How I diagnos plays pre snap I have a gun he’s got an arm that’s just as impressive as Josh Allen’s and yet they took three downfield attempts three very unlike the Chiefs it’s also well it’s not their quarterback’s fault and it sure as hell isn’t the fact at their
Quarter that their offensive coordinator doesn’t know how to scheme up a deep passing game the bills know that every time I bring up 13 seconds or I think about it it just makes me sad I’m getting a fresh beer so with that said not only does he not have deep
Targets he can regularly trust but he his offensive line hasn’t been up to the typical standard and that’s 100% their own damn fault they got cute in the offseason and decided they didn’t need to even though they traded for Orlando Brown from the Ravens and they they
Franchise tagged him and they knew what his seller demands were going to be I think the fact that they won a Super Bowl last year made them cocky and they said well we can we can retool if we’re not winners again no one will the fan base won’t Riot no one will really
Car and at the same time we can get out from under this contract and we can go out and sign a Donovan Smith who’s just as good and we can go trade for a Jaan Taylor and give him a big contract extension look at that we’ve got book and tackles
Again work is done baby Championship except I don’t know Taylor currently leads the NFL in penalties he is the most penalized player in the NFL and for people who go oh well it doesn’t really matter yeah well talk about the uh play against Miami where they had a touchdown run and for no
Reason at all Taylor just blocked a guy in the back and immediately got a takeen took seven points off the board on a drive that ended up in a field goal that’s not great and at the same time if you’re talking about just pure blocking Donovan
Smith was injured he had an okay day okay day coming back from his injury against I mean Chris who did the who did they have as pass rushers for Miami I have no idea Bruce Irvin Justin Houston I keep wanting to say Melvin Ingram but I think he’s the my brother
Could have made it down he’s not far he lives out that way does he have any any experience rushing the passer no he has no athletic ability I I have so many jokes I want to make at your expense so many like wait are you trying to tell me that you think you’re
A better athlete than your brother 100% what would he say if he was in the room right now and I said Daryl Chris thinks he’s a better athlete than you he would 100% agree with me he hasn’t played hockey in years real hockey or roller hockey either way it’s hockey we’ve always
Played roller is it though yeah play with a puck stick dangle snipe Sy I hate you so much so you look at that game and you’ve got Donovan Smith giving up two pressures and two hurries now they kept Mahomes clean because Mahomes is very good at getting away from sloppy pass
Rush but also Joan Taylor he gave up the only quarterback hit of the night and also penalties and it’s just that thing of like oh okay so you’re so you’re that guy awesome you’re just this dude who’s out here who doesn’t like he graded okay as a pass
Pass blocker terrible as a run blocker as did Donovan Smith as did Joe Toney and this is against a depleted Miami line so you just think about that and you say to yourself well how does that impact the passing game well I’ll tell you how you go back and watch some of
The tape right it’s affected their play calling I sat here and I watched a couple plays from the Raiders game that they lost because I was just watching that game going how are they not making hay against the Raiders the Raiders are terrible their coach got
Fired one of the things you see is that they don’t trust their tackles all the time in one-on-one situations anymore especially if they’re going against good pass rushers which the bills have some I think the bills have that thing where we don’t have a Max Crosby but what we have
Is a bunch of guys who I think Chris if you want to go to PO as I’m talking about this pro football reference and just bring up defensive statistics I just want to see how many sacks we have spread across the roster we have a Litany of pass rushers with different styles different
Approaches different tracks that they’ll take to get to the quarterback and so with that in mind the one thing you’ve seen is it’s never Noah gray coming in to block or chip or give some help it’s almost always Travis Kelsey like they’re running 11 personnel sometimes 12 but
They’re stuck leaving Kelsey and Gray in and a lot of times it’s Kelsey because I think momes trusts Kelsey more than he does anybody else in the roster so the reality is is that you watch all of these patterns developing where you’ve got a team that’s playing quarters
Coverage and they drop their Defenders back and say hey we’re going to sort of give you the middle but that’s because we see that you have Travis Kelce lined up in line and we think our linebacker can get over there and cover that a little bit
And we can drop a safety fast enough to take away his area of reception and every single time what you’re seeing is them have to kind of bring him into chip and then he’s slow getting out into a pattern and then by that point Mahomes is already
Either under duress or just sees the play going nowhere and aborts or takes a check down there’s a lot of things that we’re used to seeing that are really Dynamic from the chief’s offense that they’re not able to run like trademark motion and spacing and all these things that they they
They’ve beaten people to death with and a lot of that is gone and evaporated over the course of the last month of football and it’s because hommes doesn’t fully trust that offensive line now imagine that line coming in here with that cast of wide receivers I just talked about in hostile
Territory where maybe you’re now forced to use a silent count and you have to trust that your communication and just everything pre- snap and hand signals and that everybody’s going to be where they need to be how confident if you were Patrick Mahomes would you be in that
Materializing on the road in hostile territory the first time you as a quarterback I’ve ever had to do it I don’t know Mahomes is uh pretty [ __ ] good he’s good but I would think you specifically cuz you’ll be there will be able to make enough noise to irritate him because he is a
Curly-headed [ __ ] I have yelled that quite a bit in fact it made Mark Smith’s dad laugh really hard during the uh do you remember the power outage Sunday Night Football game where you had to leave early no you came to Mark’s house and then left at halftime when you saw that it
Was going to be extended to like 11:00 Chief Bill’s Chiefs inity I think so I think I remember that yeah I think I came late because somehow I shattered my key fob for my car yes I remember you saying that you’re like I broke my key
And I just started laughing cuz I was hoping it was like broken off in your door like that would be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard no what who has a key that sticks into a a keyhole now so Chris just pulled this up guys this is what makes the bills defensive line
Difficult to try to take on youve got Ed Oliver with n and a half sacks Leonard Floyd with 10 and a half AJ upano with six and a half Greg rouso with five then you go down to the D tackles okay so what what do we have here we’ve
Got Dodson who’s got two and A2 Phillips with two and A2 taquin Jones with two and A2 and then a bunch of guys who have a single one so lynville Joseph sha Lawson Tim settle these inciler players rul Douglas has a sack because sometimes they’ll Blitz from the
Secondary the bills when you look at that pressure like in what we were able to create we actually do very well in that regard the Chiefs do it better right the pressure percentage pressure percentage the sack numbers they’re SL slightly better in sacks I think they’ve got about 31 more
Pressures over the course of the Season than the bills do we play a lot alike our defensive lines are multifaceted there’s not one guy that you pay attention to because they’ve got a George kofus they’ve got a Charles om menu who has been a great free agency pickup for them they’ve got
Obviously a Chris Jones who I think him and Josh Allen have this weird LoveHate relationship because if you watch the NFL 100 where they talk about players voting on their you know fellow players for the top 100 in the league Chris Jones always has something nice to
Say about Josh Allen or he’ll just be like man that dude’s intense he’ll trash talk you and then he’ll Juke you and he’ll do this it’s like he you can tell he respects alen because he’s a guy who’s had a lot of success as a pass rusher on the defensive line and Allen’s
Just a guy who gets as good as he gives you gives as good as he gets from the Kansas City Chiefs every time they play I think that this offense for the Chiefs is going to have to contend with a lot of adversity in this game and that’s
Probably where this thing gets won and lost but we can’t forget about their defense Chris I mean they their defense like if you want to go back now now do this you’re on Pro Football Talk or pro football reference flip over to the Chiefs for me just scroll up it’s going
To be right there at the top you click that link I’ll get it yeah you get that up so this is a defense that has been very very good this year you we’ve I think we’ve gotten used to seeing a Chief’s team that’s kind of powered by its offense and its defense
Has always been mediocre but good enough to get the job done and a lot of that’s to Steve spag nill’s credit well this year I think knowing that they went cheap at wide receiver because you figure they’ve got cadarius tone who’s really not making much they’ve got
Skymore on a rookie contract they’ve got Rashid rice on a rookie contract they’ve got Justin Watson who’s not getting paid anything they’re they have a very cheap wide receiver group and a very cheap tight end room if you take Travis Kelce out of the equation so with that in
Mind what’s been the backbone of this team why are they in the division round it’s because their defense has actually been carrying them through a lot of these football games you take a look so I think he’s now a seconde player George caraus he’s got 10 and a half
Sacks Chris Jones has 10 and a half sacks Charles om menue has seven sacks Mike Dana has six and six 6.5 sacks you know Drew tranquil the linebacker has four and a half sacks they’ve got guys who pressure all the way down their roster like it they come from everywhere they’ve got
Cornerbacks they’ve got Trent McDuffy with three he’s your starting cornerback he is your best outside cornerback ex well lerus sne but he plays inside he Shadows your best receiver so he does a lot of different things for you your best or second best cornerback on the outside somehow has three sacks that
Tells you how creative that spagnolo’s gotten with his Blitz and his pressure packages and it’s a reason that they outpace the bills in terms of pressure they’re second in the NFL next to the Detroit Lions that’s pretty good their the quality of their front seven I think we
Saw that when the bills played them the first time and you go back to that first matchup and you watch that James Cook had a good day passing right like we opened up that game against them and we said okay cool we can do this thing
Where we throw the ball on a wheel route because we have their linebackers we know their system we know their defensive coordinator we’ve played enough games against them and we know what their rules are so we can put put their linebackers and safeties in Conflict but when you look at the like
The overall picture and you say to yourself okay we had 118 yards rushing but James Cook didn’t have a stellar day on the ground no one really did not our quarterback not our running backs everything was very pedestrian I mean so they had the same problem but that’s they were also missing Isaiah
Pacho their defensive front seven I think Chris you’re not going to see a lot of the big runs and the Miss tackles that you saw us get away with against Pittsburgh I think that was a huge part of why we won that game the way that we
Won it is because their front seven played with a real lack of discipline as did their secondary there’s a real lack of tackling which is surprising considering that they’re a Pittsburgh team that usually Prides itself on the toughness of their defense right yes the Chiefs have that and so for
Everything that their offense isn’t their defense is and they’ve got it in Spades right their coverage their coverage grades in the back end they don’t give up a ton they don’t have a lot of problems one of the best you know a wrinkle in this that I I think was funny
When we were talking about the offense and I probably should have brought it up then but like Chris the Taylor Swift drummer the defense is going to hold our offense in check to a certain degree everyone needs to temper their expectations but this is why I’m saying
At the top of the show this is a game that if I’m the Bills quarterback I’m going into it knowing I probably need to get close to 30 it’s going to be hard to do it’s going to be really hard to do against this team against this defense
When I look at the Chiefs and I look at the scores that they’ve allowed over the course of the Season nobody’s been able to hang that kind of points on them their opponents I don’t see a single 30 burger anywhere on here you know they gave up 24 in a weird you
Know the flu game for Patrick Mahomes they gave up 27 to the Green Bay Packers on the road that’s that is one of the interesting things on the road their defense is not nearly as good as it is at home and their offense is not nearly
As good you you look at just their away games this season at home they scored 41 against the Bears but it’s the bears but at home they also scored 31 against the Los Angeles Chargers at home right you go down the list they scored 25 against the Bengals and 26 against the
Dolphins you look at the road scoring they scored 27 against the Patriots but it took some chicanery and some late game stuff to make that happen it was like a last minute scoring to kind of press things up a little bit otherwise they lose to the Raiders and they score
14 right they go out there now mind you there was no Patrick Mahomes that last week but they win 132 at the Chargers 1721 I I just see a lot of I see a lot of them going on the road and their offense isn’t nearly as imposing as you
Would you would expect it to be they scored 17 points against the Jaguars when their whole roster was healthy when they had everybody that they needed at their disposal they scored 17 points so I look at that I say to myself okay we’ve got them on the road they’re not
Going to be the same offense can we press their defense right can we get the advantage here having them on the road I think defenses travel better than offenses don’t you yeah that makes sense I anticipate that this is going to be a game you’re going to have to do something no
One’s been able to do all season you know if you’re going to beat them you’re going to have to try to find a way to score 27 to 30 points and like your your defense is going to give up plays because you’re just undermanned at this
Point and if you’re Shawn mcder I hear the people who go this is it you know you got to have you got to have everybody out there you got to rush guys like Gabe Davis back to the field you have to rush a guy because we know their
Defense is going to be imposing we know Trent McDuffy is going to play very tough physical football against our team and then you start thinking about it okay lerus Sneed against uh against Stefan Diggs that’s probably the matchup right considering he traveled with Tyreek Hill for most of the night yeah
Okay you’re going to see a lot of that so then you say to yourself okay well where else can I make hay it’s going to be hard to find I mean there’s not they don’t give up a ton of yards after the catch the way they have in the past I’m
Looking at guys like khil Shakir going hey it’s like I said if they were ever going to find an extra gear for their offense they had to find a way to get Shakir involved look what’s happening he’s becoming a playmaker for you every time you put the ball in his hands
Dalton King Kade is going to have to show that his rare physical gifts he can get on top of these linebackers and he can get out there and make that happen it’s going to be hard but you’re going to have to do it because for everybody who wants to rush all these injured
Defensive players back to the field if you’re a coach you have to take the Long View of it and say hey I might have a game here against a Houston Texans offense that right now is playing like a house of fire I’m going to have to roll the dice
And say listen I think I’m a good enough defensive coordinator which is crazy to say out loud I’m a good enough defensive coordinator that I think I can Cobble together a game plan that can slow this Chief’s team down enough that I can slow this Chief’s team down
Enough that my quarterback my freak athlete quarterback can go out there and make the types of plays he needs to make and get us this win I don’t need Shawn mcder to win the game I need him to be a speed bump for the Kansas City Chiefs what I need is
Josh Allen to be the man you know he was talking this week about how cool it is to get this game here get this game here in Buffalo you know Patrick mahomes’s first road game and all these things and he was like these are the moments that get you
Excited as a quarterback like he’s excited for the opportunity to have this game against Patrick here rather than back at the arrowhead Invitational that’s the mentality he’s got to have him and Brady have to have a very aggressive mindset and even if and when things go wrong when he throws in
There pass and it gets picked off when a ball gets tipped at the line of scrimmage and the linebacker you know tranquil comes up with it or Willy gay comes away with a pick stay the course sling it what did Miami teach you you’re better you can overcome almost anything
Like if there was anybody who could back themselves into a corner and then shoot their way out of it it’s Josh Allen I believe that this is the game where you’re going to have to do it and you’re going to have to do it from Jump Street and
You’re going to have to do it with a cast of characters that they’re going to make their plans Stefon Diggs right that’s a huge part of the Kansas City game plan how can we cover Stefan Diggs well it’s going to be a healthy dose of lerus Sneed they’re probably going to
Have Justin Reed or another safety kind of patrolling deep they’re never going to give us the Deep shot because they know we’re going to try to take it and I’m sure by now they’ve seen the film over the last few weeks where we’ve gotten ConEd on linebackers and gotten some big catch and
Runs I wouldn’t be surprised if they give us more of the middle of the field and allow us to operate in that box knowing they can’t give up just like the bills they can’t give up the big play so they’re willing to give us small victories in
Between I think a lot of this is going to come down to us attacking that front seven it’s going to be taking the fact that Willie gay doesn’t cover all that well he just doesn’t like for for a linebacker he’s the one you want to pick
On if you can this is where Hey where’s James Cook okay what do how can we get James Cook to the linebacker level and get the ball in his hands in space where he can make a play these are the questions they’re going to be asking themselves over there at one Bills Drive
This week how can we use and win this game with James Cook Khalil Shakir dton King Kade Dawson Knox Red Zone weapon as long as he doesn’t drop the ball don’t don’t you he didn’t drop the one we threw to him this time it was nice nice touchdown against
Pittsburgh I think that you kind of have to attack these guys with your ancillary players but I’ve never felt more confident in the secondary cast of characters of a Bill’s team as I do right now am I crazy for thinking that not at all I mean this game on Sunday for Josh Allen
Dude what do you want your legacy to be you have the ability you’re he’s what 27 26 27 I think he’s 27 years old you got a solid 8 to 10 years left in in the league what do you want your legacy to be he did talk about that this week he
He talked about the fact that this is a legacy changing game Pat because he was talking about the idea that Patrick and those guys like they’ve been to Super Bowls they’ve won Super Bowls I’m trying to get there and in order to get there I
Got to go through them and now I get a chance to do it in my building I get a chance to do it in front of my fans I get I get that energy I get the crowd on my side I get all of these things and
Hearing that that’s the thing that gets me fired up about this it’s not the fact that he’s excited it’s about it’s it’s like as any quarterback like you you don’t play in the NFL if you don’t get up for games if this like this is what drives you it’s the reason that you
Punish yourself physically and mentally all year long trying to stay in shape trying to get in cramming in the film time and trying to figure out how to coordinate everything because you love you love to be in these moments and you love to win these
Games but to hear him talk about how I get to do this this is a privilege and I I’m I’m so happy that I get a chance to grab this thing with both hands that’s the energy that I want Josh Allen to harness when he comes comes
Into this game cuz this is it and it’s winter go home but we’ve been playing winter go home football now for a month and in the past you know you talk about last year when we ran out of gas ahead of Cincinnati this time in the season we
Have a very different energy around this football team like if this is the last preview podcast we do of the year like I don’t even want to do keys to Victory what I want to do is I want to leave it with this in the past I’ve watched a football team
That has been you know kind of riding a wave and then they have these moments where it’s like oh man what a way to go oh my God we did this thing and they you know they beat Baltimore and then you find out that everybody’s hurt and you go into Kansas
City and you just get mopped up right AFC Championship Game 2020 they just beat you up physically and then you find out like oh Cole Beasley’s playing with a broken leg so that didn’t help oh our Andy’s unvaccinated oh our offensive line is bad oh we that got exposed painfully on
The biggest stage they just beat up our shitty offensive line oh Stefan Diggs has a hernia and they got to get that fixed after the games over but he’s been fighting through it trying to be a stud for us because he wants to win that badly
You go into the the divisional round you know I divisional round against Cincinnati and you look at it and you say that was a team that had just emotionally exhausted they peaked the week before they peaked they they beat they beat uh who was it who do they
Beat uh they barely well first of all they beat New England in the last game big emotional home game two kick return touchdowns people are crying the players are just and then you go into a game against Miami and almost lose to their third string quarterback and it’s another just
Emotionally draining Victory and then you get to that Cincinnati game and you don’t have anything left and you’re just flat-footed this team right now for all of the adversity that they’ve gone through it’s almost like that did something for them because you look at the offensive
Side of the ball and you look at the way that they’re operating and you look at the things that they’re able to do that they’re able to come back from how many teams and how many quarterbacks can do what we did in that Miami game hey three
Turnovers all the all these yards but nothing but wasted opportunities to show for it we’re late in the game everything’s on the line high pressure situation and you come out and you just dominate when it matters I think that this is finally a team that’s peing at the right time
Emotionally I think that Josh Allen has the absolute right head space I think that anybody who ever doubted Stefan diggs’s commitment to this franchise can see that he’s committed they’re getting coaching from Shawn mcder and play calling on defense from Shawn mcder that they haven’t gotten in the
Past like that’s played an integral role of this wave of success we’ve had that’s that we rode to the number two seed it’s the reason we’re here everything whether it’s pretty or not came together you’re going to go in there and regardless of how short-handed you are
On defense you have the tools to give this Kansas City team the best shot that you’ve been able to give them in a long time and your quarterback is excited about it how could you not be how could you not be I can’t wait to be out there in the
Middle of it snowstorm or not consequences be damned I mean look at this Chris what’s the menu I don’t even know Kanas City Barbecue depend absolutely not you what you know what this guys this the q42 uh q42 casc style sweet rub will not be served at the tailgate on Sunday
Absolutely not it’s banned I don’t care it’s to my own detriment but I’m willing to make sacrifices if that’s what this requires does Iman know this well he does now all right mandate we’ll have to send him a a message and let him know that uh his his award-winning barbecue rub not allowed
At the tail game Persona nrata and also if I see you wearing anything red that doesn’t also have a charging buffalo on it you’re getting a snowball now I’m not going to Heckle I’m not going to talk [ __ ] I’m not going to hurt anybody’s feelings but you are
Getting a snowball just know that you know who needs to get a snowball Taylor Swift Guys somebody maybe the most important Dynamic of the entire game but also Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are entering the what a a a difficult part of their relationship in fact how is it
Worded TMZ TMZ sources say Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are entering a very challenging stage of their relationship please let this be the day is this where she finds out that he’s a [ __ ] tool no but here’s here’s here’s what I will say somebody was joking about how Travis how Taylor Swift
Skipped buffalo on her ays tour and how it’s fitting that she’s now forced to come to Ruff wson Stadium to watch her boyfriend lose a football game you know who has a say in that the AAS two are not coming to Buffalo Terry Pula can pull some strings
Here now here’s I’m no I’m expecting to watch that game I’m gonna be able to watch the most of the second half is when I get home from work I want to see CBS cut to shots of Taylor Swift and she’s in De Koo spikes is sweet that’s that’s
Where that’s where she belongs that the same site that can’t get her in frame Teo spikes was in they can’t get her in frame they’re like well Taylor’s up there we just we can’t see her because of the abutment yes that would be highly fitting and I think nothing would be
Funnier than they announced their breakup after they after the Chiefs lose this football game give me an emotionally turbulent Travis Kelce for this game please please do that guys there’s so much at stake and yet I don’t know I just feel like if there was ever a group who was going to
Take a shot at it I like my chances with this one so I’m going to be out there I’m going to be loud I’m going to be proud I urge everybody out there to join me if you can tailgate 4180 Abbott Road meet meet up with us ahead of time this might
Be the last har rockis hopefully it’s not right hopefully this is just a precursor to an even bigger game to come whatever happens I mean what a season man and what a fitting end right like if you’re going to do this it’s the Chiefs it’s the Chiefs and it’s at home
And to your point what do you want your legacy to be as a coach hey Sean what do you want your legacy to be that you could never get over the Andy Reed hump Josh alen what do you want this to be do you want this to be that you were always second
Fiddle you’re always second best I don’t know I just feel like this one lines up a lot better than some of the other ones we’ve had in the past I can’t wait to go out them out there and watch this team give it everything that they
Have guys again if this is the last preview that we do this season it’s been fun I’m Drew gear that’s Chris Krueger this has Ben your Rockpile report
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Goodell going to want that Taylor Swift $hit in the Super Bowl. He got Hocholi to make it happen at least for this game. I smell a rat