Ten Things About Today's Game Week 2: KC 42 PIT 37

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 2 KC 42 PIT 37

10. Last time KC won in Pittsburgh, it was 1986 in a stadium that doesn’t exist any more. Honestly, today I didn’t think we’d win, but hoped Showtime would play well and make it an interesting battle. It was an interesting battle, all right. Pittsburgh was 4.5 point faves at home, but were down by three TDs early on. Chiefs came out and got the critically important fast start, which we’ve been saying all the way back to pre-season is key to a winning formula. The first quarter start was a thing of beauty. Pittsburgh’s fans were booing their team, on opening day, at home. Cry into those towels you Fat Pierogie Eating Black and Gold Bastards!

9. Refs decided 28-0 would be too much of a lead for National TV, so they waived off a defensive TD on a Houston strip sack and Chris Jones fumble recovery. They called a mystery holding call on Scandrick which was never shown on TV -our Douchebag Friend Dan Fouts just glossed over it. Second quarter was time to get Steelers back into the game, as Rapistburger was allowed to throw a ball a yard past the line of scrimmage ala Horse Face, That wasn’t seriously reviewed by the zebras either. On every Steelers drive in the second quarter; Pittsburgh’s line would blantantly hold, Rapistburger would have all frickin' day to throw to a finally open receiver, or KC would be called for DPI or defensive holding to sustain a drive. Steelers were awarded six first downs on penalties. Second half was called a little more even once the TV audience was secured. Both teams were penalized a dozen times. The biggest one was the next to last play when the Steelers roughed Colquitt. It was so obvious they had to call it, and that iced the game. That play was very Raiders-like in terms of game killing stupidity. Bravo Pittsburgh.

8. Showtime tied Len Dawson’s all time team record with six TDs in one game. To accomplish that on the road in Pittsburgh is remarkable. Showtime had one more TD than incomplete passes. Think about that for a minute. Rapistburger threw the ball 32 more times in this game than Patrick. Again, think about that for a minute - 60 passing attempts in one game. Chiefs ran as a team for over 100 yards, and the defense gave up less than 35 yards rushing. Part of that is due to no Bell in the house. When we came into the season, the defensive mantra was, for this year, we were going to stop the run especially after what Tennessee did to us in the second half of last year’s playoff loss. We’ve done that. Bad news is, this defensive group gave up over 450 yards passing, and still we managed to win. D-Backs had trouble with Ju-Ju Boo Foo (targeted 19 times) and The Outlaw Jesse James, but shut down Antonio Brown (targeted 17 times). Last week we said KC would probably have to score in the high 30’s to win any game this year. Today they hung on to win by five after scoring more than 40. We had the better gun with a little more ammo in the shootout today.

7. Both teams had one sack. If you watch throughout the game, you can see Pittsburgh’s line blatantly holding, literally pulling the jersey off of KPass and Houston. Watch the Houston strip sack that got waived off. You can see Houston’s jersey being pulled almost clean off his back. Terrible. I think the marquee QBs in the league like Brady, Rodgers, Rapistburger, Breese, their lines are going to be allowed to hold and never be called. That's just the way it is.

6. Another thing that occurred to me: In the fourth quarter, Kareem Hunt was steamrolling Pittsburgh. We were able to run clock to bleed the game away. Even if Pittsburgh doesn’t rough the punter, they would have only had about 12 seconds with no time outs from their own 30 yard line to try to score a TD. Last year it was teams doing that to us. Running the ball right down our defense’s throat to grind us into the ground in the fourth quarter. I don’t see that happening this year. I do see a lot more track meets like today.

5. On the defense, Fuller played very well and Scandrick played better in the second half. We obviously miss Eric Berry back there. Houston played better, Ford played better, Speaks was still totally lost. He’s going to be like K-Pass was last year, in over his head till he grows up a bit. Hitchens and Ragland missed a few tackles; Murray got totally punked by Rapistburger on a blitz, shed like a long haired cat in the summertime.

4. One thing Alex used to do was spread the ball around. I think Patrick is also very good at that. Today it was seven guys with catches. This week it was the Kelce show: 109 yards and 2 TDs. Watkins got 100 yards. Hill had 90 yards and a TD. Conley had a TD -and a painful turnover inside of five minutes in the fourth quarter that can get your ass cut- and Robinson had a beautiful TD with his feet millimeters in bounds. I was very surprised the ref’s didn’t screw us on that call. I think that was a make good for Ben’s TD pass a yard past the line earlier in the game.

3. Special teams came into play twice that had a significant bearing on the outcome. One was Pittsburgh trying the only field goal of the game, and missing. And second was the roughing penalty on Pittsburgh to ice the game. Why Tomlin didn’t try an on-side kick at the end with just under two minutes left is beyond me. You’d think that would be the best shot at a win, and even if you don’t recover, you still can stop the clock three times with the timeouts. Weird to question the other team’s time management as that’s usually one of Andy’s weaknesses. That played in our favor. Good thing too, because our defense was gassed by the end of the game.

2. Steve Nelson came up lame and then went back in later in the game; not sure what his status is. Didn’t notice any other bad injuries, -Colquitt got whacked at the end, but didn’t seem to be seriously injured. That’s a relief, because usually the Steelers are really dirty and like to hurt people. Thought the Ware option pass on third down was a cool call. Andy continues to draw up Wile E. Coyote plays, and as long as they’re not used at critical times to lose games, it’s interesting to wonder what he’s going to come up with next.

1. 2-0, with both wins on the road, one win over a division opponent, one win over a long time nemesis. That’s an Andy Reid season start, flying out of the gate. There’s still great worry about the defense, but I don’t see any reason not to just enjoy this big win today and not worry about tomorrow until tomorrow. It will be fun to see Showtime start his first game at Arrowhead next week. Doubt if he throws six TDs again, but who knows? We’ve got a guy now. A QB gunslinger, a fearless leader, a bad ass home grown MoFo. And the best thing is, it looks like his year under Alex taught him enough about ball security and making good decisions that he’s way farther along in his learning curve than anybody could have expected. The future looks bright. How bout three an oh? Who's with me?

[gblowfish]

Crown is usually about $23 at Hy-Vee. I like to put Crown in the freezer, but drink the Reigers at room temp as a straight shot, or mix it with some Ginger Ale. I like Vernor's or Boylan's Ginger Ale. Makes a tasty cocktail.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Well, I usually like Boulevard beers, but the Buds were free. Left at my house by a friend of mine. I usually keep Bud or Busch on my back porch beer fridge after mowing the lawn. I'm not a hard core beer snob. I can drink a Busch or Hamm's occasionally on a very hot sweaty day if it's ice cold.

one of my favorite beers to have when it's super hot out / after mowing /chores outside is an ice cold Miller High Life. . no joke.

it really hits the spot when it's ice cold.

problem is, once it moves on from ice cold and starts to come up in temp............so you have to drink it fast. which isn't a problem.

[cooper barrett]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Well, I usually like Boulevard beers, but the Buds were free. Left at my house by a friend of mine. I usually keep Bud or Busch on my back porch beer fridge after mowing the lawn. I'm not a hard core beer snob. I can drink a Busch or Hamm's occasionally on a very hot sweaty day if it's ice cold.

Free beer is always good.

Paying someone to cut the grass is the best thing I ever did.... I can watch them all day long. Plus my mower never needs service.

I usually keep Bud or Busch on my back porch beer fridge after mowing the lawn

LAWN MOWER BEER



What about the whisky?

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by Spott

That was the rule when he played, but it changed a few years ago. Fouts has to be the dumbest announcer ever. I'm glad that tool never made it to the Super Bowl. When they showed the replay of the play, they were focusing on the 14 yard line, which his back shoe may have barely been when he let go of the ball. However, the ball was snapped from the 14 1/2 yard line which would have put his back foot well past the line of scrimmage assuming.

I had assumed that that had always been the rule.

Why in the hell would you change it? Seems like it would be really hard to ref. When the ball is released you have to look down and see where the back foot is? Even in traffic, you can usually see the ball. How can you see the QB's back foot if there is traffic.