Wylie and Osemele BOTH struggled run blocking last night due to the Pats' quickness. Fish struggled blocking Winovich throughout. The Pats were outstanding up front.

If the Chiefs are going to pull, they might choose Reiter honestly.

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Exactly.

Our running game between the tackles was AWFUL. Let's not go back to that strategy. Jet sweeps, options, screens passes please.

You almost need to have a spy on Mahomes. Him picking up first downs with his legs is something defenses have to account for at this point.

Outside zone stretch runs, bud.

It's not that easy to run to the edge on 7 or 8 DB's if they're expecting it.

You HAVE to run up the middle to keep them off balance.

It's so hard to pull with a C though because the downshot is pretty catastrophic.

A NT's job is just rarely all that complicated - impact the C at the snap. There's not much read/react. The reason a trap works is that there's a little misdirection from the G that gets the 5T to delay juuuuust long enough for him to get blindsided by the pulling G.

The NT just doesn't do that really. And the C has the added responsibility of ensuring a quality snap and moving slowly enough out of his stance to ensure that he doesn't step on the QB. You throw a pull in there and there's a LOT that can go wrong.

I don't think I'd have a pulling C in my playbook at all. Maybe in a short of shotgun or speed option play, but never on an interior run play. I just can't see a way it doesn't fall apart almost immediately.

Spoken like someone who has feasted on those plays in Madden :p

I wish Wiley would not start.

Meanwhile Chiefs defense is top 2 in points this year and since mid-season last year

Yes to this. They showed a play, at halftime I think, where the Pats had six in the box and CEH got stuffed for no gain. That can't happen routinely.

The defense was setup for up the middle draw plays to be successful. They weren't though, because the interior oline sucks at run blocking. That's why they tried to run up the butt 500 times. The outside runs should not have worked so well, but did because our tackles are decent. Andy should have said "**** the percentages " earlier and stopped wasting plays running inside. He is stubborn, and it almost cost them. Play to our strengths, and **** the percentage plays.

I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but there were quite a few times that CEH just ran directly into a group of offensive linemen and defenders. I mean, like he was trying to hit a target.

His strength is supposed to be quick cuts, lateral cuts, and fast decision making when it comes to deciding which lane to run through, but last night he barely did that at all, and ran directly into the pile.

It was frustrating to watch.

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He's young. He missed some reads last night, he'll learn.