Chiefs Propaganda: EVERYTHING IS FINE, SITUATION NORMAL

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Perception can often be clouded in the interim by the emotions of the moment, and after the Kansas City Chiefs 43-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, head coach Andy Reid took a step back on Monday while speaking with the local media at the University of Kansas Hospital Training Complex.

“We’re 2-2,” Reid explained. “It’s not the end of the world, even though it feels that way. That’s how things are in the National Football League. We’ve got a week to step back, analyze and fix some of these issues.”

If there’s a team that knows a thing or two about putting things behind them and moving forward, it’s this Chiefs team, which overcame a 1-5 start a year ago to rattle off 10 straight regular season victories to make the playoffs, then winning their first playoff game in more than two decades.

But all-time win streaks shouldn’t have to be the plan every year to overcome a slow first quarter of the season. At 2-2, the Chiefs can use Sunday as a teachable moment and find something positive in it moving forward.

While it may seem obvious, one bad loss doesn’t mean the goals for this team are now unattainable.

Over the past six years, 31 of the 72 playoff teams had a game in their respective seasons that they lost by 25 or more points, and that also includes three of the last six Super Bowl winners.

Those 72 playoff teams had an average worst defeat that year of 20 points, so it’s not uncommon for successful teams to have a bad game. The Chiefs just need to make sure it’s an outlier.

“We have a bunch of fighters here, we just have to look into the mirror and realize we did not come to play (on Sunday),” veteran Tamba Hali said after the game. “When we play together, we do well. When we do not play well and make mistakes like we did (against the Steelers), that is the result. That’s a good team we played today. They win Super Bowls here.

“For us to take that step, we have to beat a few teams like [the Steelers].”

“You learn a lot about yourself when you get your butt kicked,” veteran Derrick Johnson added after the game. “The best thing about it is it counts as one game. It does not put a damper on the season, and it does not set us into panic mode.

“We’ll learn a lot about our team’s character after something like this. We were tested and we’ll have to see if we can rise up to the challenge.”

It’s a locker room that’s been tested before and come out on the right end of it, and while the sting of a nationally televised loss is still fresh in the minds of the players, coaches and fans, the truth is there are 12 regular-season games left and the next game is against their division rival in the Oakland Raiders.

Reid’s message to his team after the game was pretty simple.

“When you’re a good football team, or you’re perceived to be a good football team, you’ve got to learn how to control yourself, play better and not let emotions get the best of you,” Reid explained.”Our guys busted their tails and tried hard. We’ve got to learn how to control those emotions.

“It’s fully on my plate and my responsibility to make sure our guys understand that, and they will because that’s the type of locker room we have.”

We learned last year never to count out the Chiefs, so while the loss stings and shouldn’t be discarded or forgotten, the fact is it took them until Week 7 of last year to pick up their second win of the season. It’s a perspective that’s hard to see when the emotions of what could have been on Sunday night were quickly tossed to the side because of a slow start.

“If we’re all pulling in the same direction, we’ll be a pretty good football team,” Reid concluded.

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The Chiefs have an easy schedule and will finish with a winning record again.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by BeaverEater

So if we get our asses handed to us in Oakland we can freak out then?

I think it depends on how they lose, not if they lose.

Last night was a complete disaster in every phase. If they'd repeat that in Oakland, coming off a Bye, then yeah, it'd probably be time to panic.

If they're competitive throughout and lose by less than a score, then no, at least not for me.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

It's Reid, so the changes aren't going to be immediate. It's going to take him half the year to learn to just run the ball up the ****ing gut, and even then he'll load up the play sheet with ****ing gadget shit to societal cancer Tyreek Hill as well as 1000 bubble screens

Andy needs to take the bye week to study the Chiefs offense vs San Diego & figure out what was different.

Alex Smith was a totally different player.





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Originally Posted by Otter

He's not wrong but he is underplaying how bad they got their shit pushed in and how they have a knack for doing that when it counts most. No one would give a rats behind if they lost to Raiders in a divisional game that only the teams fans were watching.

You got put on kiss cam on national TV and shit your pants. Again. It's a joke and so are you at this point. Man the **** up already or sit down with ladies and stop embarrassing yourself and the rest of us.

Yes, I'm a little bitter at the moment.

If you think one loss is different than other losses because it makes you look bad and hurts your feelings then it is you that needs to man up.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

This team is going 12-4. You heard it here first.

That's what I predicted but I'm having doubts after watching that shitshow last night.




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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

There's no doubt in my mind that this game was a turning point in the Chiefs season. The real question is, which way will they turn?

In Game 1, they didn't wake up until the 2nd half. In Houston, the defense and special teams played well enough to win but the offense was bad. Against the Jets, the special teams weren't so hot and the offense was once again, weak (although the O did at least score a TD).

Last night came the inevitable: Breakdowns in all three phases of the game, all night long. If it wasn't the offense turning over the ball, the defense couldn't cover, couldn't apply any pressure and the kicker missed his first FG of the year. Once again, Tyreek Hill "scores" on a return, only for it to be called back.

So again, either they continue down this path of failing in all three phases each week or they make a 180, figure it out and go on a winning streak.

It's going to be one or the other, at least from my perspective.

Totally agree




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Who didn't see this underreaction coming?

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

If they're competitive throughout and lose by less than a score,

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Originally Posted by ASS11

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Yes, we all know that you have zero understanding of the NFL, Claynus

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Originally Posted by ASS11

Shamelessly stealing this for my Facebook profile pic.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Yes, we all know that you have zero understanding of the NFL, Claynus

You should pump the brakes because not only have I predicted every Chiefs game accurately this year, I certainly appear to be more and more right about Alex Smith and the Chiefs championship hopes under him as a whole.

Or you can go back to ****ing that chicken Mr. 14-2. That'll sit real well right next to "2012 Chiefs Playoff Win" on your mantle.

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Dane criticizes others for their football knowledge.

Believes Dee Ford won't be that big of a dropoff and predicts 14-2

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[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by ASS11

You should pump the brakes because not only have I predicted every Chiefs game accurately this year, I certainly appear to be more and more right about Alex Smith and the Chiefs championship hopes under him as a whole.

Or you can go back to ****ing that chicken Mr. 14-2. That'll sit real well right next to "2012 Chiefs Playoff Win" on your mantle.

First off, you banned Butt****ing moron, I said 14-2 "with some luck".

We're 4 games in a 16 game season.

Secondly, I'm sorry that the only insult you can muster is a prediction I made in August 2012.

That must have really chapped your fat ass.