So was the Titans starting out 2-4 under Mariota before going 9-3 under Tannehill.

If we want to win it will come down to in the trenches. Our OL and DL need to win

They kind of have to; it’s how their offense is constructed. They don’t have the weapons to get into a high efficiency shootout with the Chiefs. If they abandon the run, they won’t get into those 3rd and short situations, spags blitzes Tannehill and it’s game over even faster than if they just keep running.

The Titans didn't look like much the last time we played them. Was similar to yesterday's game in 1st qtr. Made stupid mistakes to keep them in the game. I think yesterday we were rusty in the 1st qtr. Next Sunday we will start faster and make them pass.

Ya think!!

They will try to keep Mahomes in the pocket and push our manure back in up through the interior line like other teams have done. If they are fairly successful at this then Pat will not have time to throw deep and turn him into "check down Sally".

Max Kellerman says Mahomes is the best player who has ever lived and Shannon Sharpe says he will bring out his Chiefs helmet this weekend. Said him and DT swapped helmets one year

LMAO

I feel sorry for this dipshit. He's in for a rude awakening.

Tannehill can get hot. Don’t sleep on him. He wasn’t a top pick for nothing

It wasn't that long ago (Week 15, I believe?) that you were losing to the Texans at home with Henry being held under a 100 yards.

And as others have pointed out, his first half of the season was pretty 'meh' playing with both Marcus and Ryan at QB.

Clearly, he's beasting now and has been lately, but let's not all act like he can't be stopped. He's been slowed down MANY times this year, just not a lot LATELY.

There's only so much gas in that tank . . . . .

Poor lil guy...

I get your point BUT if our offense is not hitting on all cylinders and is sputtering to some degree, don't kid yourself here, they have enough in AJ Brown, Jonnu Smith, Cory Davis and Sharpe against our mediocre LBs and 2ndary.

Vrable will have them attacking physically like no other team at every position. Our QB, o-line, RBs and especially our WRs will get physically assaulted on every play.

Texans are a weird team.

They are 8-18 kicking FGs this year. Thats right, and NFL team who has made 8 FGs over 18 games between 4 freaking kickers.


Lucky for them they havent really had to over the past 5 games over which 17 consecutive red zone possessions have resulted in TD’s. Incredible. I've never even heard of such a thing.

Even after Sharpe got him to lose his **it huh?

I liked the idea that someone suggested in this thread about running a 46D or similar type front and hopefully force the Titans to throw the ball. Of course as you said it is easier said than done but I have faith in Spags to come up with something creative this week.

We should probably just forfeit then, huh?

Fixing to be 9-4 under Tannehill. Just trying to prepare ya, a digital lubing of your anus, so Mahomes doesn't unleash Excalibur and go in dry on you like he did the Texans. They actually thought they were going to win, simply because they barely pulled out a regular season victory over a gimpy Mahomes, a depleted offensive line and a defensive line without Pennel.

Sound familiar to you?

ROFL
LMAO

Here's a fun thought:
If we didn't lose to the Titans earlier in the season, they don't even make the playoffs, we don't have Suggs, we likely get the Patriots instead of the Texans, and we likely are traveling to Baltimore this weekend for the AFCCG.

Putting that alternate reality to the side, I understand that the Titans are a physical team that's on a hot streak. Having said that, we're playing just as well as they are, have the game at home, and match up well with them as their secondary can't contain Mahomes. And you'd always take the best QB on the planet ahead of the best RB on the planet in a game like this. Henry will run and run, but aside from one long pass, Tannehill threw for nothing in the first game. And he's combined for 160yds over the last two weeks. Some ball-control offense interspersed with play action isn't going to be enough to beat the league's most dangerous quick-score offense.

Chiefs 38
Titans 17

Thank you for feeling sorry me.

He is the highest rated passer in the league with the highest yards per attempt. Takes a ton of sacks though.

Half of his passing yards in the Ravens game came on one play. Over half.

I’m not trying to be cocky, but I’m not nervous. I was slightly nervous last week bc Watson is good and he had weapons to keep up with us. Let me get this straight:

-home game
-best player and QB on Earth
-team confidence
-team experience
-momentum from breakout game

The last 3 quarters was the most complete performance from our team all season. They finally put that together.

It feels like the Titans are going to have to play damn near perfect for 4 quarters to have a legit shot.

Again not cocky, but it feels like we win this game by double-digits

You feel this way because Sutton is not here.:p

It's called the Spags effect!!:thumb:

Would've gladly done that with Thornhill back there.

But I'm not sure we can run a 46 with Sorensen/Watts/Fuller as S2.

I’m worried about San Frans defense tho

Which has what to do with the Titans?

1 game at a time

Once we curb stomp Tennessee that’s who we will be playing in the super bowl

Why stop making up predictions there? You ready know the AFC and NFC champ winners. Did God not tell you the super bowl winner too?

The Rams just put up 30+ against that 49ers defense a few weeks ago.

Not the 2018 Rams. The 2019 Rams.

Everyone keeps talking about how physical the Titans are and ignoring the fact we have won 7 in a row. We have been hitting hard and playing hard. That was an amazing performance by the O-line- their finest this year.

The Titans won't be coming into Arrowhead and bullying us this time around.

True. But they now have Kwon Alexander and Dee Ford back.

I'm pumped that Ford is back. He can line up offside and give Pat free plays all day long.

Y'all will win something like 42-27 or around there. Henry will get his yards but the Tits can keep up offensively and your D has just enough to make a couple of stops or force a TO.

Pass rushers, though.

The way to disrupt this offense is the way offenses have been disrupted for years. You've gotta pressure Mahomes and force him to break schedule or go off script. Now that's not a silver bullet, but it'll help in a big way.

Bosa and Armstead are damn good players who can create some serious trouble w/ the line. Smith and Smith in GB are good as well.

That's why I'm ultimately not too worried about the TN defense - no real pass rush threat. Landry's a good player who's ascending but he's not someone who's going to wreck a gameplan. He may get a sack here and there, but he's not consistently blowing plays apart.

Without Cameron Wake to act as a complementary rusher, they're just gonna struggle to get to the QB. And they can't go sending blitzes because Mahomes sees that stuff coming damn near every time now.

Unless Casey just has the game of his life and turns into peak Dontari Poe for 60 minutes, I just don't see them doing much to harass Mahomes. And if that's the case and he has time to work, Kevin Byard won't be enough to save them.

I just don't see how they hold the Chiefs under 31, even if KC only gets 8 possessions.

Guess that's why they play the games...

Yeah that’s true. Falcons dropped 29 and Seahawks were a yard away from 28.

I keep hearing "the hottest team in football" as though they didn't lose 2 of the to end the regular season.

Just annoying.

And if I’m looking to face anyone in the SB.....it’s the Packers. That team plays down to opponents all the time. Shit....they barely beat us when we started Matt Moore.

Fun fact about Tennessee, their kicker Greg Joseph has not attempted a FG since he joined the team in week 15. He was unsigned all year prior to that.

I don't think this game will be close enough to come down to it, but the Titans better not need a big FG late in the game.

Yes I agree. I hope Rodgers takes care of the 49ers and then the Revenge Tour will be complete.

We aren’t losing another game with Kelce on our team

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This is why I want a bear front. Put 5 DL up front. Force their OL to win 1v1

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Belichick tried a loaded LOS front similar to what you’re talking about, but it was light in the pants. Bunch of LBs. But the alignments were similar to what they did to the Rams.

I think we’re likely to see stuff like that. Can’t let that OL move the LOS with consistency, and it’d also make climbing up to the 2nd level much more difficult.

Clark - Jones - Pennel - Nnadi - Suggs

That’s a monster ****ing line.

I’d expect Sorenson to be at the LOS almost every play

Williams being incredibly slow off the ball made that whole play happen.

Look at how easily #98 gets kicked out of that play and how cleanly the LG can get to the second level to take out #57. If Williams gets off the ball at all there, he can at least force the LG to sift through and clog that up a bit.

Again - just cannot give Henry a head of steam. He's made one cut and driven straight upfield without any traffic at all to the 30 yard line. If you're gonna play with splits that wide, your DT had better be a LOT faster out of his stance than that.

If he rushes for 250 yards, there's not gonna be enough time left on the clock for the Chiefs to put up 38 points.

Yep, NE used 6 man front against the Rams or what Romo calls their SB defense. They went to this fairly late in the game IIRC against the Titans.

This upcoming game feels dejavu to the 99 season. Coincidentally the high potent (fully well rounded, not one dimensional) offense of the Jaguars comes off a I believe 62-14 drubbing of the Marino lead dolphins to host the AFC championship game. The media praised them beyond praise and deemed them unbeatable, the fans expected another 62 point high flying offensive performance replicating their week prior divisional game. Their opponent they were hosting shouldn’t even have been there. They needed a miracle to make it out of the wild card round, needed a dominant defensive performance to make it out of the divisional, and didn’t stand a snow balls chance in hell beating the jaguars in the afc championship game despite beating them already that year. Their opponent, the Tennessee Titans!

Or you could look at it this way about the last two Titans wins.

The Pats- just lost to the Dolphins at home- which killed the Bye they needed so badly to watch "scouting" videos. They were old, tired and ripe for an upset. All Titans had to do is pressure Brady a little and run the ball.

The Ravens had been sitting on their over-confident asses for two weeks hearing about how great they are. Jackson was bathed in endless MVP talk and figured he could just go out there and run around again like he has all year. Their defense was overrated and had trouble stopping the run verse the Jets and other teams- so it was a bad matchup from the get go. The bullies got bullied. All they had to do is run the ball and let the Ravens implode.

Now they face a team on a 7 game win streak that is battle-tested by one of the toughest schedules in the NFL. Even with tons of injuries only lost 4 games. A Chiefs team coming off a historic, multi-record breaking game, with a QB that played one of the best games in NFL history as well.

Titans are going to have to do more than run the ball, run a few gimmick plays and hope we step on our dicks like the last two teams.

Except the Jags were 14-2 and you guys were 13-3 (4 seed) and already beat them twice, the second time 41-14 just a month earlier.

And Marino was 38 and retired after that season.

So really nothing like 99.

:LOL: Sample size of one from two decades ago! Very statistically significant and very relevant to the conversation!

Your posts earlier were appreciated and level-headed, but this was stupid.

Paragraphs and common sense are your friends

The only team that can beat KC is KC.

This is proven fact.

This is the way.

Like I said in my original post, both of these teams deserve to be where they are. Moral of the story tho is stay humble. Any fan from either team thinking one team or the other is just going to dominate and blow away the other is ignorant. If this game goes finesse style the chiefs will win but the titans will try to battle it out by grinding. If this game gets physical the titans will win and the chiefs will be trying to air it out to soften the game.

We are on a 7 game win streak- and if you think we have won by finesse, you haven't been watching. This Chiefs team is not soft. We had one of the hardest schedules in the NFL. We will be hitting your QB hard and often.

I read every last word of that post. The simple truth is if you are going to keep Kelce from running free you are going to have to dedicate extra man power to him. Some one else is able to get free or find a nice hole in a zone. Pick your poison.

I’m fairly certain Vrabel will be consulting with his daddy Belichick about this game.

The game plan will be similar to last years AFC championship.

Should be an interesting game.

Let’s be real, you ended your season playing the chargers twice(21st), Raiders(24th), Broncos(28th), bears(29th), and the “not very good” patriots. That’s a real hard stretch to battle test your team leading into the playoffs.

Basically gave up 17 yesterday to the Texans without Jones (and Thornhill for that matter)...

I don’t think anyone is going to call this defense an elite unit, but you’re fooling yourself if you think they aren’t good. They dominated those teams that you listed.

Doubt at your own risk.

oh, it's gonna get real.

....real fun.

Brags about beating the Patriots then tells Chiefs fans our win against them wasn’t impressive because they aren’t very good. Mmkay.

um, we just scored 21 points in three and a half minutes.

If we keep Tennessee out of the end zone we'll win big.

100% truth and agree! Jackson with Hill(speed with speed)with Vaccaro over the top help, Brock man up with Watkins, Ryan/Byard with Kelce. Force them to throw to Robinson(who dropped a significant amount of passes) or Hardman. No matter what happens it’s going to be a fun game to watch and the winner will he who I’m rooting for in Miami.

Wrong

Oh snap!!!!!

You double up on Hill and Kelce and you will watch Watkins or Hardman absolutely smoke your secondary.

Thanks for proving my point. Our division teams play us twice as hard as anyone else, those were not free games by any stretch. Plus we played on a shitty Mexican field, in a tornado, a rainy field in Foxboro and a snowstorm. We dominated them. This Chiefs team are the ****ing Marines of the NFL- you guys are the CoastGaurd.

You are delusional if you think the Titans are going to keep this team out of the Superbowl.

Whatever I say has no impact on the game. Stay humble? **** off. I think we will beat you because we're a better football team and you only beat us earlier in the year as a result of a comedic series of errors on our part. I won't be lining up trying to tackle Derrick Henry, but I will be row 1 behind the Chiefs bench yelling at the top of my lungs every time the Titans have the ball. That's all.

Did Sammy Watkins and Damien Williams die?...

The Broncos shut out the Tits 16-0 at the Tits.....but you know...we only beat Denver cause they suck and stuff

Dude, Kecle smoked double coverage yesterday like it was nothing. When he wasn't burning it he was drawing penalties. If they put a S on both Hill and Kelce then I am sending Hardman right down the field.

TEN doesn't have the horses NE does on defense.

They can't execute that gameplan.

If Vrabel had a ****ing clue he'd have shown us in TEN.

Right on! Enjoy the game either way. The better team will be the team going to the super bowl. As for the week 10 game of who the better team was, no doubt about it, the titans. They added the W to the win column and that’s all that matters. I think we’ll beat you because we’re going to run it down your throats and there’s not a damn thing you guys are going to do to stop it.

After watching Baldys breakdown yesterday I am convinced Kelce may go down as one of the best TE of all time. He was constantly beating double coverage. He only played 43 snaps and had 10 catches. That’s basically every 4 plays Kelce was catching a ball. He was abusing Lonnie Johnson all day long. Also props to Damien Williams, he had two crucial blocks on Mercillus and Watt that led to both TDs to Kelce

You're funny. You thought you outplayed us in week 10?

Who won the game? Answer your question yourself.

Lenny Dawson on the drum Sunday?

LMAO