Sunday, November 17, 2024

Chiefs at Bills - Week 11 - Record: 9-1

As much as we own the Bills in the postseason, they own us in the regular season. We lost to them yet again, this loss ending our perfect season record and 15-game winning streak.

Not going to get much into this one, except to note that we still really should have won this game. My own concern was with the defense, especially in the 2nd half when we've traditionally activated the halftime adjustment plan and put the hammer down.

Today we did the patented Spags blitzing way too much, because their fine QB Josh Allen was killing us when we did it. Halfway through that half I was screaming at Spags to stop blitzing. But he kept doing it. And we kept getting beat. Hey, I'd've been great with them rushing three for that matter with a shadow just to force him into some of those errant throws he'll always make at some critical time.

And that run he made for the dagger TD late in the game. What was with Nick Bolton totally whiffing on that? Sure it'd've been nice for us to stop them on that 4th-&-2 play, but wow, Allen had no business doing that. 

I know many will say Patrick had an off day, and he did, really, but mention must be made of the amazing Mahomes TD throw to Noah Gray for his 2nd TD. If you watch the replay he threw a bullet whizzing past three Bills defenders to the back corner of the end zone while running full-speed to his right with a pass rusher a millisecond from pulverizing him. Look at how he threw the ball. Just more of the kind of QB we've got there.

No worries. Let's just see what happens when it really counts in January.

Good thing about this one is simply we got that loss out of the way, we did lose to a very good team, and it is again an opportunity to regroup and address the things that went poorly for us today. At 9-1? We are still so much in the driver's seat.

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