I don't think I said it would be close. I expect we'll dominate throughout, but facts are facts.

ATL has been getting spanked left and right recently, but KC eked out just 22 pts a couple months ago.

TB annihilated NOR with 51, but the Chiefs managed just 26.

TB was (and still is) sporting a bottom-5 defense, and we scored just 24 pts in regulation just a couple weeks ago. At home.

We are getting Pacheco back, but that doesn't help our OTs all that much. Some, but it's not going to be a banner day in terms of protection, most likely anyway.

And looking at the weaker teams we've played, the Chiefs score about a FG more than their average of 24 points in those cases, so I feel like 27-28 points is a fairly good prediction.

Now, maybe CAR just doesn't score more than 10 pts against us, whatever. But I won't be super surprised if they managed to score 17 or so either. Especially in garbage time if that ends up being most of the 3rd and all of the 4th quarter.

Regardless, I think there's little question KC wins, I just wouldn't bet the farm that we'll suddenly run roughshod over any team, not even CAR.
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In order for there to be ANY optimism we HAVE to blow out the Panthers like 35-10.

If it's some of this 24-14 bullshit it's a sign that we're gonna have problems trying to beat Pitt and Denver again.

We really can't have some close game here. In any way. It's gotta be a 2018 type Mahomes game.
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Meh, I don't think we have to blow out CAR. We have to dominate them, but if we don't drop 35+ on them I don't think it's that big a deal.

If we're brutally honest about it, Pat is a little broken right now. And it's not just about his deep passes. He almost missed several short/intermediate passes recently as well. Imo, most if not all of it is directly related to his protection, which just hasn't been very good this year. Or last year. Or the year before that. And it's gradually become the problem it is now.

But he's always managed to deal with it by the end of the season, so I'm just not going to freak out about it right now. He's been good enough for the most part this season, and I expect that sooner or later he'll rise to another level in time for the playoffs.
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This doesn't FEEL like last season when Pat was actually playing quite well but everyone was dropping passes.

HE IS PLAYING LIKE SHIT. So I agree, he seems to have regressed and why, I don't know.

I'm gonna stick by my point - this needs to be a blowout. For team morale too. They haven't really dominated ANYONE all year and if they can't dominate the Panthers then it's gonna have a ripple effect throughout the team.

It's the worst team in the league. The WORST. If we can't blow them out how the hell are we going to get HFA???? We won't.
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It would be great if we could blow them out. But the way the games have been going this year that is unlikely. We will probably just continue to keep plodding through. But it should still be enough to get home-field advantage and the number one seed.

My biggest worry is that we are all expecting Mahomes to be able to just flip a switch and go back to his elite level come the playoffs. I hope that will be the case. But it’s something I am starting to worry about. he was not the problem last year. His receivers were. This year he is the problem way too often. I understand we have a real problem at LT. But there are very few teams that don’t have a problem in the OL somewhere. And it clearly looks like we are going to just stick with Kingsley and Morris and not bring anybody else in. I don’t understand that but it’s clearly the path that we are on it would seem.

Not too worried about the loss to Buffalo. We had to lose to someone and they are an elite team. We had to have our a game to beat them and we didn’t. Hopefully in the playoffs we will.
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You keep making the same bitch ass points in every thread , you hate this team soo much just fuck off already , you are obviously a miserable old cunt I am sure another team would appreciate your support, ewe don’t need you.
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And you can power bottom the whole team like the cuck you are, bitch.

I'm pointing out the fucking obvious that everyone else seems to get outside of Chiefsplanet cuck world in which you're a member of.
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