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Originally Posted by gblowfish
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Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 9: KC 37 CLE 21
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Great job as always. Here are my thoughts on on your thoughts.
#10 - Dirty Gregg Williams probably received a few more Head Coaching offers during the game. Not only is he dirty, but in every interview that I saw this week he seemed smug and full of himself. I hope that whoever Dorsey hires isn't named Gregg Williams, and fires Gregg Williams immediately after accepting the job.
#9 - I think that even if we lose the coin toss, teams are going to have to choose to possess the ball first instead of deferring. The only team that may choose to let us have it first is probably the Rams.
#8 - The personal fouls and unsportsmanlike misconduct have got to stop. Ultimately, Reid is responsible for getting the penalty situation under control, but most of these types of penalties are on the defensive side of the ball, and to me is just another knock on Sutton. He often stands on the sidelines looking clueless, but I have seen DCs rip their squad for making senseless mental/emotional mistakes like Hitchens did today.
#7 - At one point I thought that Cleveland had figured out what Denver couldn't in two games, and that's to just run the ball down our throats. I hate hearing Reid after the game say that Sutton made good adjustments as a way of explaining why the other team just stopped running the football.
#6 - Speaks did not blow a pass coverage. Saying he blew the pass coverage suggests that he was capable of pass coverage in the first place. I have said it many times this year: There isn't a single offensive skill player in the entire NFL that Speaks can cover in pass coverage. I will forever condemn any defensive play call that has Speaks responsible for a TE or RB in pass coverage.
#5 - After seeing it a couple of times, it kinda looks like Hill could have made a play on the ball, but was surprised when he the ball went over his head. Maybe he thought that Mahomes was throwing it away and was then caught off guard when the ball was in play.
#4 - It's just semantics again, like #6, but saying there was a turning point in the game suggests that at some point in the game the outcome was in doubt. I hate to keep saying this name, but if Alex Smith was under center, I would have felt that a loss was a real possibility, but Mahomes has finally cured my constant apprehension and doubt in games against lesser opponents.
#3 - Mahomes definitely spread the ball around today. Having an offense, in which every eligible receiver is a threat to catch the ball, is fun to watch. But, speaking of eligible receivers, there were a couple of things that really irritated me today. Harris needs to spend an extra hour or two every day after practice catching balls from the jugs machine. He should drill starting right at the machine and work backwards away from the machine in five yard increments. And I know that Hill and Watkins are explosive, but I am really tired of watching our receivers catch the ball and run backwards. Today, on multiple occasions, we caught the ball and lost yards running backwards towards the sideline. Sometimes you have to accept that there are no more yards to be gained, and just protect yourself and go down. It's the receivers equivalent of a QB learning when to throw the ball away to avoid loss of yardage.
#2 - I always knew that Alex Smith put extra pressure on the offensive line to block longer, but it must have been much more pressure than even a Smith hater like myself could have imagined. I think the play of our offensive line, especially with all the injuries, has been one of the most impressive things I have seen this season in the NFL.
#1 - I think that Mahomes is finally the QB that can solve Reid's playoff coaching deficiencies. Now, when Reid, and the Chiefs, have a double digit lead in the 4th quarter of a playoff game, and Reid has abandoned the running game, our QB has enough swagger, and is dynamic enough to force the issue when needed, instead of throwing a 4 yard pass on 3rd & 8.
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