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My gusss based solely on this would be a lot of that 2-4-5 or 3-3-5 nickel formation junk, especially with Burns and Houston having DE experience and Chinn being the big nickel. Basically still running a 4-3.

My point was that the Chiefs are not 'loaded' at receiver, they have guys that are good enough and some guys they feel have enough potential to keep him off the roster. Unless he doesn't play special teams and someone like Justin Watson does, not making the bottom of the Chiefs roster doesn't mean a whole lot. This is a flyer-type move, which is perfectly fine.

Yeah, the Chiefs have a decent WR room but are far from 'loaded'. However, Kelce and the Mahomes factor compensate for that.

Clearly a time traveler.

It was good, but Collins had to slow down. If he gets that further out front it's complete.

You are misremembering. Hardy consistently flashed as a rookie and 2nd yr player in ways that YGM never has. Hell, so did Kony Early for that matter. CJ wasn't a starter until his 4th season and Rucker his 3rd, with them getting 9.5 and 11.5 sacks respectively in those seasons and showing strong potential seasons prior. YGM started all last year and did nothing. Would be awesome if it happened, but at this point it seems unlikely.

Yup, and I'd add Amini Silatolu and Sione Fua to that list.

You must've just joined the board in 2021 then.

Good Jake, when he showed up on game day, was quite good at this as well. Unfortunately, memories of Bad Jake are what stnad out the most.

The game was on locally here in KC so I turned it on. Even my wife commented that the color looked different and, in her words, "is much less glowy and more serious and awesome looking".

What? No one was within 5 years when he caught that.

Great footwork on that juke, smoothly settled back into a running position.

But not only were they not successful, the effort and general execution have looked poor too. I was already in the patient camp so my expectations are already flexible but are they really that short of ideas that giving a taste or two of 'planning' and schematic success will hamstring the season? Again, I'm just talking here. Not concerned about the preseason results/scores but would like to see some crispness in whatever they do this final game.

A guy that has never been an NFL coordinator/called plays before, a guy that coordinated Vic Fangio's defense for a year, and a guy that has been slightly better than average as an HC is not a proven 'all star staff'. Not saying it's bad but any means, but assuming top-tier performance in year one is unrealistic. Been down this road before though. Y'all can have whatever expectations you want but that doesn't change the reality.

Chark, Thielen, and a bunch of unproven guys and/or rookies in that WR room... they absolutely are depending on Chark.

Wholly disagree that depth is better this year, particularly since Chark has struggled with injuries the past 2 years. Naanee and even Ajirotutu had shown as much as TMJ and Smith, Mingo is a rookie... they are all unproven. Shenault perhaps boosts it but he's not really a traditional WR.

Can't look at that in a vacuum though, as Olsen and Shockey had 150 targets between them that year. I don't see this year's TE group getting anywhere near that.

But I was told McCall was already better than other established D lineman on other teams, such as Denver... In all seriousness good luck to him. Hope he can get it turned around.

Seems pretty clear he thought he had help or that the ball was getting out immediately. A mistake either way, but nothing that isn't correctable.

Is reality setting in for some folks yet? Not that the team is guaranteed to suck, though I think that's a possible season outcome, but that things are likely to take some time to come together?

But it's vanilla

I can agree with the first 4 in general but putting Chinn on a tier with those other guys is a massive stretch. He's a strong safety that gets asked to cover some guys near the line of scrimmage and gets the job done, but he's nowhere near those other true CBs with respect to that position. That said, if only Carolina had a guy like, I dunno, maybe Bradberry to pair with Horn. That would be sweet.

My student discount last year only asked for my college email, which they accepted once I confirmed it via that email, nad my brother did it for years via his college email. If there was more behind the scenes it wasn't obvious.

That's how it was done with DirecTV, yes. Wouldn't put it past Google to see some third-party enrollment verification service come to light for this purpose, similar to how cell phone companies now confirm employment for employer discounts.