ChiefsPlanet - Chiefs Does the D deserve the least amount of blame?

ChiefsPlanet (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/index.php)

- Nzoner's Game Room (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/forumdisplay.php?f=1)

- -

Does the D deserve the least amount of blame? (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=326649)

Quote:

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 14590964)

Defense gave up 28... just sayin'

Yea you score 32 on offense you should win 90% of the time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 14590983)

29 ... they missed the EP on the scoop/score. But who's counting?

The larger point is this; there is no damn way a decent defense gives up 30ish to the freaking Tacks.

And the way the Tacks did it was derisory. They pissed in our Magic Crunch, dude.

FAX

Troof… 29, but that fumble cost more than 6. It was at least a 10 point swing...

I do believe that the Chiefs went into this game over-confident (or something like that).

You got the sense that they fully expected to blow the Tacks out of the water ... until the torpedo reversed course and locked on to their exposed buttocks.

FAX

32 against Ryan Tannehill and the Titans is plenty of enough points. Unless you have a bad defense which we do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 14590967)

****, stop this already. I am not a Jones apologist, you can see other post on here from earlier in the year and last year where I have been very critical of him. However, on the long play he was playing DE on that play, he has to check the boot leg. That's his gap and job. Rags way over pursued his cut back gap and was almost hip to hip with Hitchens over the top. This is what happened. Don't assume if you don't know football.

Go watch the play. You're making excuse for him completely abandoning his gap then going oh shit, trying to get back, and whiffing. Checking the bootleg doesn't involve being that far out of position. It's not just the one play either. He sells out for the pass rush, doesn't maintain his gap, and we end up getting gashed.

Agree with OP. D got the big stop chiefs fans have been begging for. Only surrendered 21 points to that point. Shouldve been over right there, and thats a solid defensive effort. **** TOP, garbage stat.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jerryaldini (Post 14591129)

So getting a stop on the second to last drive lets them off the hook for allowing Ryan Tannehill to go 60 yards in four plays for the game winning TD on the following drive?

Yeah ... the logic of holding them to 21 until they got to 35 is sort of difficult to latch on to, right there.

Frankly, I was impressed with the Tacks defense. In particular, their d-backs were relentless. Our receivers needed to be sharper and "very much on-point" and they weren't.

And has anybody heard an explanation for where Kelce went in the 2nd half of the game?

FAX

Quote:

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14590807)

... we have team built around offense, and that offense choked the game away.

I don't think the offense is to blame for this loss. I believe defense and special teams played a bigger role in the loss.

But the 3rd & 2 play in this game, and the decision to punt the ball back to the Packers in the previous game, makes me want put Reid in a time out, and take away his BBQ.

The offensive genius couldn't come up with a play to get 3 yards in back to back games. Players make plays, but there are times when the play call has to be the star of the play.

Reid has all sorts of gadget plays, misdirection plays, etc. designed to fool the defense, but two weeks in a row he blows it. If we pull out one of those special plays against Green Bay on 4th down, instead of kicking the ball to an offense that we clearly couldn't stop at that point in the game, we win. Needing 3 yards against the Titans, Reid calls a play that is neither a misdirection play, nor a play designed with multiple targets for Mahomes, or even a play with enough variation to allow Mahomes to improvise.

The non-call and subsequent decision to punt to Aaron Rodgers, and the weak-ass TE screen against the Titans, are just absolute garbage calls on Reid's part.

Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 14590872)

Does the defense deserve the blame?

Well ... when you give up 35 points to the freaking Tacks ...

John Wick Voice: "Kinda. Yeah."

FAX

The Chiefs defense didn't give up 35 points. They gave up 28 points. Try again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lcarus (Post 14590968)

The only credit I'll give them is they were solid for 3 quarters and they made the stop that should've won the game. If our offense could get a first down or execute a field goal snap we win the game.

Our offense isn't ever on the field for a field goal. Not Sunday, not ever.