We ran the ball more because we were leading games and our offense was firing on all cylinders. None of this is happening anymore.

I think I mentioned the short passing game along with more running. Ball control. That's what the short passing game is.

Whatever it takes to get defenses to respect the short game.

QBR grades tonight

Dan Jones = 32/100
Mahomes = 19/100

Patrick is playing terrible football these days. Who knows when he will get out of the slump, but it's ugly right now. I'm in favor of a stronger run game if they can pull it off.

Your stats are wrong.

They're on pace for 312 non-QB runs. More if you count the 17th game.

And they've been way behind half the time.

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Why does he need to scramble to be a good QB? Especially if it's causing him to run into sacks and miss open receivers?

The offense is in a slump. It isn't more than 30% on Mahomes. Again, if the scheme that teams were running against the Chiefs were magical, all defenses would shut down all passing games. Andy needs to put on his thinking cap. There have to be whole in the secondary we are not exploiting.

Interesting

How much of that running game was Andy shutting the offense down whenever we got a 14+ lead?

No more running. More short passes, yes.

Darrel and Gore are one trick ponies. You cannot give them the ball 30 times.

ummm he is missing a shit ton of throws. He looks like a QB with zero confidence and isn't trusting his eyes and is worried about getting sacked.

Nobody is saying to permanently go in that direction…but this team….with OTs that struggle to block the edges…hell yes.

We have 700 pounds of tackles and the best interior OL in the NFL.

Let them eat.

I don't think we ought to give up on the pass for the run, but the Giants were giving us the middle of the field 8-10 yard routes all night long and we were too stubborn to take them. Take what the opposing D gives you until they die a death of a 1000 cuts and then bombs away when have to bring those safeties up. Good grief, we can't be so in love with the bomb that we lose games "because Mahomes". Face it, something is off with him this year. Even Kelce was un-Kelce tonight. Sometimes you have to use your head and not your balls. If running the ball and getting 5-6 YPC and winning just isn't sexy enough for you, go make yourself a wine spritzer and chill out. Winning is everything.

Every run is a win for the opposing defense, that’s why they are playing the coverages they are. Reid and Mahomes just need to do better.

EXACTLY.

Andy needs to adjust the scheme to help him in exactly those areas.

You were on here a few weeks ago saying he was a JAG...

I said I liked his vision in the preseason...

This OL excels at run blocking....Chiefs need to revamp their offensive strategy until the the 2 deep has to come up...Gore is better than Williams.

The NFL has solved the Mahomes "scramble until someone breaks open" routine...and it's only "solved" because they dont have to worry about the run.

It’s strange that the Chiefs did make considerable efforts to improve their personnel for the short yardage plays… by signing McKinnon who is good on screens and improving their TE depth to utilize multi-TE sets.

But we’ve barely seen any of that implemented to-date.

Noah Gray was the talk of training camp and nothing 8 weeks into the season.