Chiefs Ten Things About Today's Game: Week 8 - Page 4

**gblowfish** · 06:47 PM

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 8

10. I was born a Chiefs fan, and I’ve been going to Chiefs games 49 years. In all those years, no loss was as crushing as January 5th, 2014; when Andy Reid’s Chiefs blew a 28 point second half lead to puke up a playoff game to Andrew Goddamn Luck 45-44. No loss was as painful as January 7, 1996, in ZERO DEGREE WEATHER, when the Kicker Who Will Remain Nameless choked on three field goal attempts to blow home field advantage for Marty, and sent that douchebag Jim Harbaugh to the eventual AFC Championship Game. No loss was as frustrating as the game at Arrowhead on January 11th, 2004 -the “No Punt” game. The Five Head put 38 points on a G-Rob defense that couldn’t stop anything, any way, all freaking day long. And that’s only three of the horrific playoff losses to these sorry sacks of suckage who snuck out of Baltimore in the middle of the night with an armada of hastily loaded moving vans. We could beat these dips another five hundred times in the regular season, and we’d still owe them a lifetime of anguish to get even. The Colts are my most reviled opponent next to the Donks. There’s a lot to talk about on this one, as this was a particularly expensive victory in terms of manpower.

9. The Chiefs are almost halfway through the season now, and have gone 2-2 on the road. Today’s win was impressive for a couple of reasons: One, KC won even after losing three offensive starters to injury; and two, the defense only gave up 14 point to Andrew Luck in Lucas Oil. Luck is about the only thing the Colts have going for them. Gore had some decent runs, but disappeared in the second half. The Chiefs secondary held T.Y. Hilton -who has historically torched us- to one catch for twenty yards. Chiefs generated a consistent pass rush all day long. Dee Ford had 3.5 sacks, team had six total sacks and forced some expensive holding penalties on the Colts offensive line, including one that negated a TD bomb late in the game. Hali seems to play better on artificial turf. His rush was strong all day, and he was held many more times than what was called. Chris Jones continues to grow as a player, pushing the pocket and wreaking havoc on the line. We didn’t cheap shot Luck -because we're not that kind of team- and kept him on his back legit for most of the second half. The pass rush is going to do nothing but improve once Justin Houston returns. That’ll be a thing of beauty. Can't wait.

8. I wanted to give a special shout out to Derrick Johnson. He has played great this season after coming back from his injury. He had ten tackles today, most on the defense and only had one bad play where he missed a tackle on Gore to let him score in the first half. For a player of his age, to be playing with his intensity, and his production, is remarkable. If DJ played in New York, he’d be getting HOF consideration. Never playing in a Super Bowl, sadly he’ll be overlooked unless we can get him there.

7. Alex needs to learn how to duck. He’s not getting down quick enough. Both hits today were borderline dirty, but legal. If those hits are delivered to Brady or Rodgers, they're flagged. Indy was definitely head hunting. Alex looked like Mike Tyson chewed on his ear after the the first one, and on the second one, the tackler put his hand up on Alex’s helmet and drove his head into the turf on purpose. Foles is close enough to Alex in skill level that the offense really didn’t drop off that much. Alex is more mobile in the pocket, but Foles seems to be more comfortable throwing the long ball. Kudos to Foles for not turning the ball over and keeping the offense moving downfield. His first TD drive was 80 yards. Seemed like it took him awhile to get his sea legs back, and he missed a couple passes, including one to West in the fourth quarter that could have been a TD with a better touch. Foles has experience as a starter with this style of offense, so for a number two guy, he was a great addition by Dorsey. Hey, if you can win a road game with your number two guy taking the majority of the snaps, that’s a good day.

6. Losing Ware really hurt. Apparently, Charles is going back to see Dr. Andrews about his knee tomorrow as it’s not healing properly. West can’t take the pounding, so hopefully Ware will be back soon. KC went to more bubble screens and passes that are basically like running plays; but that’s essentially our offense with Smith anyway. It will be interesting to see who makes it back for the Jax game; if they turn DAT into a tailback, or if they pick up somebody off a practice squad somewhere. Ahinger’s knee injury looked like a sprain, hopefully nothing is torn. He’ll probably miss a week or two. Line gave up three sacks today, two of those on Schwartz playing on a gimpy ankle. Chiefs had less than 100 yards rushing, no points scored on defense, and still ended up putting up thirty points on Indy. Impressive job by the offense, for sure.

5. Nice to see Kelce re-appear with seven catches for 101 yards and a sweet TD. The catch he made that got overturned on the boundary was a sweet adjustment; shame he couldn’t have held onto the ball to the ground. Hill was a game changer; catching a wide open pass for a TD on a blown coverage, and turning in another 50 yard punt return to flip the field. Harris continues to be an enigma. He almost fumbles away a ball; luckily his knee hit first; the drops one across the middle wide open; then makes a circus catch at the goal line on a ball four feet over his head, bringing it down like a power forward snatching an offensive rebound. You can see why the Chiefs love this guy, he just needs to focus and as a Fat Chiefs Coach one said “Eliminate Bad Football.”

4. Special Teams were a mixed bag with some very good and very bad all jumbled together. On the TD to Kelce, the D-Back laid a dirty target hit on him, lost his helmet, and KC gets 15 yards added to the ensuing kickoff placement. Instead of having the Midget kick the ball to Kokomo, Toub tries an onside kick, fails miserably, give Luck the ball near the forty, which ended up in the Gore TD Drive. The Midget has been scaring me with his yips on short field goals and extra point misses. But he did hit a big one in the fourth quarter from 44-yards to make the deficit two TD’s and two 2-point conversions. The Chiefs did a better job with downing punts, and Hill’s big punt return was very timely. The inconsistency is worrisome, but didn’t end up killing us today.

3. Nice to see Gaines get a big pick on a nice play. That turn over lead to Maclin’s TD right before the half, and flipped the game momentum. Peters was quiet, but that’s because Indy was avoiding him. Sorenson has been improving and did well in run support. He seems to be growing into the position.

2. I was worried that Andy was going to go full reerun 2nd Half Indy again this time, by throwing throwing throwing. The difference today was, we actually ran West to keep the clock rolling, and many of the throws were basically like running play throws, as the clock was ground down, forcing Indy to burn all their time outs. I think he learned his lesson in 2014. Luck was not given enough time to mount a comeback, and at the end, he was tasting the turf over and over. Both offense and defense did a fine job today, and the coaching staff should get some credit for game planning both sides of the ball.

1. Now the big question is, who’s going to be hurt for how long? Do we get Alex back next week, or does Foles start? If Foles starts, do you activate Bray? What are we going to do for running backs next week? If you watched Jax play against the Titans this week, they suck out loud. Hopefully they’ll mail it in at Arrowhead, and we can put another AFC South team win in the bank. Man, the loss to the Texans really hurts looking back, as they look extremely beatable now. Of course we had a real bad day with lots of turnovers against them, and played them before Watt was out for the year. Since the Raiders were able to pull out another road win in OT, it was good that we got this game to keep them at arm’s length. Now if Phyllis could just give us a little help…. just a little....

Wanted to say Happy Halloween to everyone. Let’s really enjoy this win. Road wins are always good wins. Hey, we still owe this miserable bunch of bastards four painful playoff losses, but for today, at least, helps lessen that lingering sting. See you at the yard next week!

Mosbonian · 10-30-2016, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, they look like 2012 Chiefs. There is talent there, but the players have thrown in the towel on the organization and leadership

There is talk about mumbling in the clubhouse with people losing faith in Gus and his ability to control the team.

And quite frankly the explanation by Malik Jackson and Jalen Ramsey on their ejections from the Raiders game shows that they have no ability to be mature and own up to losing their cool.

Most of the Jags fans I work with or go to church with say that they've never been so embarassed about their team. I've even read something about the team bringing back Coughlin of all guys.

big nasty kcnut · 10-30-2016, 06:14 PM

Great read George. Also 2011 doesn't count because they were sucking for luck! This game washed away some bad juju!

**Lzen** · 10-30-2016, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by scho63

I don't think we will have any trouble at home next week against the Jags but we can't come out sleep walking and let the Jags get any early confidence. Hopefully we will have an injury free week.

Thanks GB and have a great week!

I don't know if anyone addressed this yet but ware got the concussion on the screen pass late in the first half. Colts player hit him helmet to helmet. Colts player lost his helmet but it looked like Ware's head smacked the turf pretty hard.

**HemiEd** · 10-30-2016, 06:18 PM

I saw a Chiefs QB today that lead his receivers and stayed in the pocket. I am ****ing stoked about that. It has been a very long time.

ping2000 · 10-30-2016, 06:34 PM

#1 top ten thing was Fole's headset malfunctioning. He couldn't hear Andy calling for screens every play.

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**gblowfish** · 10-30-2016, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Kman34

Great job.... a little confused about the DJ take.. he is two years away from his Achilles injury... didn't know he hurt his knee... he is playing great regardless...

Yeah, I meant Achilles. I failed Anatomy....

**SAUTO** · 10-30-2016, 06:52 PM

Best thing going

WilliamTheIrish · 10-30-2016, 07:11 PM

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Don't forget Christmas Day 1973 in the longest game in NFL history when the FIRST "kicker who shall remain nameless" missed three FG's that cost us going to the Super Bowl. The first time I ever cried over a pro game.

Christmas Day 1971.

Divisional game not AFCCG.

Had the Chiefs won, they would have played?

The Colts.

scho63 · 10-30-2016, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Lzen

I don't know if anyone addressed this yet but ware got the concussion on the screen pass late in the first half. Colts player hit him helmet to helmet. Colts player lost his helmet but it looked like Ware's head smacked the turf pretty hard.

Thanks for finally answering that question. I remember that play for sure as the guy on Indy had a white headband on after his helmet came off. Didn't see Spencer come off woozy or shaken up.

scho63 · 10-30-2016, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Christmas Day 1971.

Divisional game not AFCCG.

Had the Chiefs won, they would have played?

The Colts.

Thanks for correcting me. For some reason I always say 1973.....

My father made fun of me during the entire Christmas dinner because I had tears after the loss.

Al Czervik · 10-30-2016, 08:17 PM

Great read GB!!!
Sorry to hear about your friend.....

Pointer19 · 10-30-2016, 08:22 PM

Thanks, George!

**Buehler445** · 10-30-2016, 08:39 PM

Great read as always George. Especially #10. That level of despair is hard to articulate, and you did an excellent job. JFC they are maddening.

However, it bears noting that while the sting of them raping us in the Playoffs is still fresh, this team is bad. Real bad. And it shows by them being 3rd in the worst conference in the NFL. I'd bet CP could roll CBs out there that are as effective. Their OL is really bad also. It's hard to get wound up about Dee Ford who looked good, but he looked good against garbage.

Luck, Gore and WRs. That's what's on the team. Nothing else.

And may they get fisted by elephants for the ****ing cheap shots.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

****ing Phyllis....

He has the Romo gene far worse than Romo does. As a sidenote, Dak looks like balls. Once Romo is healthy, it needs to be him. The OL is good. Skill positions are good. Dak, meh.

As far as Jax, do you remember when they pulled this douchebag off a tractor, waltzed into Arrowhead and embarrassed us? Yeah. We aren't good enough to overlook anybody.

mnchiefsguy · 10-30-2016, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DenverChief

The only thing I wanted to mention was that on Santos missed FG the laces were in towards the kicker. The announcers talked about it before his 44 yd FG, I didn't actually see it. But if that is the case thats on Colquitt to fix that problem not on Santos. Otherwise good read as always!

Sorry, it was a 28 yard field goal. Santos should be able to hit that no matter where the laces are.

Santos cannot hit a kick unless everything works perfectly. If even the slightest thing is off (lite sprinkle, gentle breeze, etc.), then he is not good.

FloridaMan88 · 10-30-2016, 10:31 PM

Jacksonville has all but quit on Gus Bradley, so the Chiefs can be conservative with not playing Alex Smith and/or Spencer Ware if there is any doubt about their health IMO.

I'd imagine the Chiefs would like to have that Knile Davis trade back now though.

10-30-2016, 04:05 PM
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $16896178 VARSITY	Ten Things About Today's Game: Week 8 Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 8 10. I was born a Chiefs fan, and I’ve been going to Chiefs games 49 years. In all those years, no loss was as crushing as January 5th, 2014; when Andy Reid’s Chiefs blew a 28 point second half lead to puke up a playoff game to Andrew Goddamn Luck 45-44. No loss was as painful as January 7, 1996, in ZERO DEGREE WEATHER, when the Kicker Who Will Remain Nameless choked on three field goal attempts to blow home field advantage for Marty, and sent that douchebag Jim Harbaugh to the eventual AFC Championship Game. No loss was as frustrating as the game at Arrowhead on January 11th, 2004 -the “No Punt” game. The Five Head put 38 points on a G-Rob defense that couldn’t stop anything, any way, all freaking day long. And that’s only three of the horrific playoff losses to these sorry sacks of suckage who snuck out of Baltimore in the middle of the night with an armada of hastily loaded moving vans. We could beat these dips another five hundred times in the regular season, and we’d still owe them a lifetime of anguish to get even. The Colts are my most reviled opponent next to the Donks. There’s a lot to talk about on this one, as this was a particularly expensive victory in terms of manpower. 9. The Chiefs are almost halfway through the season now, and have gone 2-2 on the road. Today’s win was impressive for a couple of reasons: One, KC won even after losing three offensive starters to injury; and two, the defense only gave up 14 point to Andrew Luck in Lucas Oil. Luck is about the only thing the Colts have going for them. Gore had some decent runs, but disappeared in the second half. The Chiefs secondary held T.Y. Hilton -who has historically torched us- to one catch for twenty yards. Chiefs generated a consistent pass rush all day long. Dee Ford had 3.5 sacks, team had six total sacks and forced some expensive holding penalties on the Colts offensive line, including one that negated a TD bomb late in the game. Hali seems to play better on artificial turf. His rush was strong all day, and he was held many more times than what was called. Chris Jones continues to grow as a player, pushing the pocket and wreaking havoc on the line. We didn’t cheap shot Luck -because we're not that kind of team- and kept him on his back legit for most of the second half. The pass rush is going to do nothing but improve once Justin Houston returns. That’ll be a thing of beauty. Can't wait. 8. I wanted to give a special shout out to Derrick Johnson. He has played great this season after coming back from his injury. He had ten tackles today, most on the defense and only had one bad play where he missed a tackle on Gore to let him score in the first half. For a player of his age, to be playing with his intensity, and his production, is remarkable. If DJ played in New York, he’d be getting HOF consideration. Never playing in a Super Bowl, sadly he’ll be overlooked unless we can get him there. 7. Alex needs to learn how to duck. He’s not getting down quick enough. Both hits today were borderline dirty, but legal. If those hits are delivered to Brady or Rodgers, they're flagged. Indy was definitely head hunting. Alex looked like Mike Tyson chewed on his ear after the the first one, and on the second one, the tackler put his hand up on Alex’s helmet and drove his head into the turf on purpose. Foles is close enough to Alex in skill level that the offense really didn’t drop off that much. Alex is more mobile in the pocket, but Foles seems to be more comfortable throwing the long ball. Kudos to Foles for not turning the ball over and keeping the offense moving downfield. His first TD drive was 80 yards. Seemed like it took him awhile to get his sea legs back, and he missed a couple passes, including one to West in the fourth quarter that could have been a TD with a better touch. Foles has experience as a starter with this style of offense, so for a number two guy, he was a great addition by Dorsey. Hey, if you can win a road game with your number two guy taking the majority of the snaps, that’s a good day. 6. Losing Ware really hurt. Apparently, Charles is going back to see Dr. Andrews about his knee tomorrow as it’s not healing properly. West can’t take the pounding, so hopefully Ware will be back soon. KC went to more bubble screens and passes that are basically like running plays; but that’s essentially our offense with Smith anyway. It will be interesting to see who makes it back for the Jax game; if they turn DAT into a tailback, or if they pick up somebody off a practice squad somewhere. Ahinger’s knee injury looked like a sprain, hopefully nothing is torn. He’ll probably miss a week or two. Line gave up three sacks today, two of those on Schwartz playing on a gimpy ankle. Chiefs had less than 100 yards rushing, no points scored on defense, and still ended up putting up thirty points on Indy. Impressive job by the offense, for sure. 5. Nice to see Kelce re-appear with seven catches for 101 yards and a sweet TD. The catch he made that got overturned on the boundary was a sweet adjustment; shame he couldn’t have held onto the ball to the ground. Hill was a game changer; catching a wide open pass for a TD on a blown coverage, and turning in another 50 yard punt return to flip the field. Harris continues to be an enigma. He almost fumbles away a ball; luckily his knee hit first; the drops one across the middle wide open; then makes a circus catch at the goal line on a ball four feet over his head, bringing it down like a power forward snatching an offensive rebound. You can see why the Chiefs love this guy, he just needs to focus and as a Fat Chiefs Coach one said “Eliminate Bad Football.” 4. Special Teams were a mixed bag with some very good and very bad all jumbled together. On the TD to Kelce, the D-Back laid a dirty target hit on him, lost his helmet, and KC gets 15 yards added to the ensuing kickoff placement. Instead of having the Midget kick the ball to Kokomo, Toub tries an onside kick, fails miserably, give Luck the ball near the forty, which ended up in the Gore TD Drive. The Midget has been scaring me with his yips on short field goals and extra point misses. But he did hit a big one in the fourth quarter from 44-yards to make the deficit two TD’s and two 2-point conversions. The Chiefs did a better job with downing punts, and Hill’s big punt return was very timely. The inconsistency is worrisome, but didn’t end up killing us today. 3. Nice to see Gaines get a big pick on a nice play. That turn over lead to Maclin’s TD right before the half, and flipped the game momentum. Peters was quiet, but that’s because Indy was avoiding him. Sorenson has been improving and did well in run support. He seems to be growing into the position. 2. I was worried that Andy was going to go full reerun 2nd Half Indy again this time, by throwing throwing throwing. The difference today was, we actually ran West to keep the clock rolling, and many of the throws were basically like running play throws, as the clock was ground down, forcing Indy to burn all their time outs. I think he learned his lesson in 2014. Luck was not given enough time to mount a comeback, and at the end, he was tasting the turf over and over. Both offense and defense did a fine job today, and the coaching staff should get some credit for game planning both sides of the ball. 1. Now the big question is, who’s going to be hurt for how long? Do we get Alex back next week, or does Foles start? If Foles starts, do you activate Bray? What are we going to do for running backs next week? If you watched Jax play against the Titans this week, they suck out loud. Hopefully they’ll mail it in at Arrowhead, and we can put another AFC South team win in the bank. Man, the loss to the Texans really hurts looking back, as they look extremely beatable now. Of course we had a real bad day with lots of turnovers against them, and played them before Watt was out for the year. Since the Raiders were able to pull out another road win in OT, it was good that we got this game to keep them at arm’s length. Now if Phyllis could just give us a little help…. just a little.... Wanted to say Happy Halloween to everyone. Let’s really enjoy this win. Road wins are always good wins. Hey, we still owe this miserable bunch of bastards four painful playoff losses, but for today, at least, helps lessen that lingering sting. See you at the yard next week! Last edited by gblowfish; 10-30-2016 at 06:47 PM..
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big nasty kcnut The pizza king of kansas Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Somewhere in the u.s.a. Casino cash: $-2019100	Great read George. Also 2011 doesn't count because they were sucking for luck! This game washed away some bad juju! __________________ When it's grim, be the grim reaper and go get it. Adopt a chiefs Travis Kelce. You woke up the wrong mother****er!
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