[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Smith played well. He didn't play great. The drops hurt. They were not fatal, nor was the performance of the WR's as bad as this ridiculously hyperbolic thread claimed, and the "what about his drops yardage" excuse is straight from the Cassel playbook.

You want to lay blame at the feet of a single entity because it's easier to get your head around. Here's the truth: like most things, it's complicated. The defense is not very good at all. It's just not. People saw the pass rush get hot for a few weeks and thought that we had the best rush since the '90 Eagles. The truth is that the corners are subpar, the FS is terrible and the pass rush is extremely limited. Couple that with a QB who is good, but not great, a subpar OL, a coach who can't manage the game, and deficient WR's and you have what you have: a team that was the beneficiary of an incredibly weak schedule who is starting to get exposed. And it's not getting exposed by great teams, either.

The Chiefs were a 2-14 team last year that would have been a 6-10 team with mediocre coaching. This year they're an 11-5 team whose real talent is closer to .500. In 2011 they were a 7-9 team whose Pythagorean record was 4-12. They were lucky early. They aren't playing backup QBs anymore, and the offense still has a lot of warts.

Couldn't agree more. Perfect.