Tyreek: At what point do we point blame for the game and season

[comochiefsfan]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Still think the defense deserves more blame in this game. How do you allow a 3rd and 27 conversion? Seems like that should never happen in the NFL. You can only hope they will be able to perform a lot better in the playoffs. They need to use this loss as motivation.

I still can't believe that call.

One of the worst play calls offense or defense I've ever seen.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

I still can't believe that call.

One of the worst play calls offense or defense I've ever seen.

I think I understand why he did it.

So a FG puts us in a bit of a bind. Now if you'd have left it up to me, I go ahead and play back and play for the FG. But I didn't think for a single second that the Bengals would even TRY to get it downfield. And I don't think many did.

So Spags tried to stuff the middle, prevent a completion of any sort and keep that FG at a 57 yardish attempt. At that point the Bengals have a tough kick and if they miss it, the Chiefs are about 20 yards away from FG range of their own.

It was a very 'on-brand' call for Spags. It was aggressive and it bit him in the ass. I just don't think Spags or most anyone else figured the Bengals would even dial up a vertical route there. That had all the look in the world of a 15 yard dump over the middle to set up an easier FG.

The Bengals out-aggressived us and it paid off for them. And it STILL took a hellacious throw/catch for the play to succeed.

I think I'll just acknowledge what Spags was probably thinking, tip my cap to the Bengals there and move along. The other guys get paid to play, too...

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I think I understand why he did it.

So a FG puts us in a bit of a bind. Now if you'd have left it up to me, I go ahead and play back and play for the FG. But I didn't think for a single second that the Bengals would even TRY to get it downfield. And I don't think many did.

So Spags tried to stuff the middle, prevent a completion of any sort and keep that FG at a 57 yardish attempt. At that point the Bengals have a tough kick and if they miss it, the Chiefs are about 20 yards away from FG range of their own.

It was a very 'on-brand' call for Spags. It was aggressive and it bit him in the ass. I just don't think Spags or most anyone else figured the Bengals would even dial up a vertical route there. That had all the look in the world of a 15 yard dump over the middle to set up an easier FG.

The Bengals out-aggressived us and it paid off for them. And it STILL took a hellacious throw/catch for the play to succeed.

I think I'll just acknowledge what Spags was probably thinking, tip my cap to the Bengals there and move along. The other guys get paid to play, too...

He dialed up a very similar blitz on a 3rd and 15 late against the Chargers. The only difference was that Herbert felt the heat and overthrew his man by about 10 yards. That worked to perfection, though, kept the Chargers out of FG range and they never saw the ball again.

I still hate the call in that moment, we had timeouts and plenty of time for Patrick to take the lead with 6 or tie it up with a field goal, but that aggression paid off very recently. Unfortunately, it seemed like Burrow and Chase could be made of different mettle than Herbert/Allen. I was super impressed watching Burrow throughout that game.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

He dialed up a very similar blitz on a 3rd and 15 late against the Chargers. The only difference was that Herbert felt the heat and overthrew his man by about 10 yards. That worked to perfection, though, kept the Chargers out of FG range and they never saw the ball again.

I still hate the call in that moment, we had timeouts and plenty of time for Patrick to take the lead with 6 or tie it up with a field goal, but that aggression paid off very recently. Unfortunately, it seemed like Burrow and Chase could be made of different mettle than Herbert/Allen. I was super impressed watching Burrow throughout that game.

I don't disagree with you - it's not what I'd have done. I'd give up the FG and play the boundaries to take even the risk of a TD off the board.

As you noted - we have PM. And in a 4 down situation w/ 3 timeouts I still think he's damn near unstoppable in a gotta have it drive.

But I do think that was the logic behind it and it wasn't entirely unreasonable.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I don't disagree with you - it's not what I'd have done. I'd give up the FG and play the boundaries to take even the risk of a TD off the board.

As you noted - we have PM. And in a 4 down situation w/ 3 timeouts I still think he's damn near unstoppable in a gotta have it drive.

But I do think that was the logic behind it and it wasn't entirely unreasonable.

Chase had 10 catches for 236 and 3 td to the point of 3rd n 27.

Take a moment. Let it sink in.

TEN CATCHES.

236 YARDS

3 TOUCHDOWNS .


It is absolutely, ONE THOUSAND PERCENT UNREASONABLE to call ANY single coverage on Chase at this point.

He has skull****ed both of your eye sockets and your mouth to this point.

Situational football? Sounds hard?

Let's take a look.

It's 3rd n 27, tie game, they're looking at 60 yard fg if they don't gain another yard. My defensive scheme has been assraped so hard that we've got a pink sock prolapse going on here.

Who would Joe Burrow look to here? Gotta have it, 3rd down.

Chase? Nah. Single coverage. Matter of fact, zero blitz.

This is Pete Carrol Superbowl goal line pass level stupidity.

Everyone watching the game knew this down, the ball was going to Chase. Why would it not?

Unfathomable stupidity and a very concerning lack of awareness as to what has taken place in the game to this point to call any single coverage on Chase, let alone a zero blitz.

If that had been a playoff loss, dude would be run out of KC as fast as Dee Ford.