Some thoughts:
1. Brady was not good. Blame it on his receivers not getting open, blame it on not having Dola, Edelman and Mitchell. Blame it on age. I don't know. He was bad. But I don't expect this to continue and the talk of Brady being done is premature. The talk about Brady being afraid of getting hit can get right the hell of here. He's been doing that for years.
2. Short yardage play calling on offense. BRUTAL. KC stuffs 10 guys in the box, plugs the A gaps and we run right at them. Every fucking time. McDaniels was awful last night. How about a quick pass to Gronk or Dola one time? Spread em out!
3. Cassius Marsh, our pass rushing, special teams guy consistently being asked to drop into coverage against RB's was never going to work. Another brutal decision by the coaching staff. Just a complete misuse of his skills.
4. The D was a mess all night. They had no answer for the Kelce/Hunt/Smith trio when they were running the option/shovel pass play. It felt like Kelce was getting 8 yards and a first down every time they ran it. The D line was not good. No pass rush at all, which allowed Alex Smith to turn into A-A-ron Rodgers. The wheel route to Hunt for a TD where he burned Marsh was a great example of not getting any pressure on Smith, which allowed Hunt all day to get passed the slower LB. I don't know what we're going to get out of the front 7, but last night wasn't very inspiring.
5. Gronk's hurt. Has to be. He was not running very well at the end of the game, and was basically a blocker for the second half. Eric Berry did well in coverage, but something just looked off to me.
6.. Special teams was pretty good. Outside of those infuriating running into the kicker penalties, I thought ST played well. Kicking game was strong, coverage was solid with some really nice tackles on kick returns.
7. I expect this team to be much better next week. Too much talent on this team to keep playing like that. I think this will be a nice wake-up call to everyone in that locker room. We're on to New Orleans.