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Originally Posted by KCTitus
And in that vain, I think one of the things that was different between last year and this year were a couple of big plays in the philly game -- Im thinking of the 3rd and 10+ conversions that were made to Avery to extend key drives late in the game. The 3rd and 15/17 to Avery set up the FG to extend the lead to two scores late. That *is* something that is different about this team from last year or many years past. Making key conversions at key times.
I think that's a good sign. Sure, one can call it luck and Philly's defense being so poor, but when it comes down to it the team had to execute and they did. I think those plays won the game for KC. There is no evidence that Matt Fudgestain would have been able to pull that off.
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What I'd like to hope is that Avery's game gives Smith some confidence in him, and we start seeing those throws earlier in the game.
The big difference about this team is that they appear to know how to
win. And I don't think you can overestimate the value of that. For the better part of a decade the Chiefs have managed to lose games in about every way humanly possible. But this team has a blowout, a close win, and a near blowout that was much closer than it appeared (or should have been). Past Chiefs teams don't beat Dallas, in particular. They would lose that game late. Ditto for Philly. But not this team.
And that's
with the offense performing poorly. And without I think all that much of a boost from the special teams aside from Colquitt's punting. I try not to think about what this team will look like if they put a game together where they're solid in all three phases. I can easily see a game this season where they have a ST score, a defensive score, and 3 offensive scores.
And I don't think we've seen the best of the defense yet, either. Interesting comment from Bob Glauber earlier when he was on with Soren Petro (Glauber is an NFL Insider from the NY Newsday for those who don't know): He believes this Chiefs defense is more talented (personnel wise) than any of Rex Ryan's units with the Jets.