Originally Posted by Direckshun
(Post 16490776)
The Bucs are going to be a good challenge for this team. Beatable, but it's an uphill challenge with the problems the Chiefs have right now.
First off, the Bucs are going to do what every Tom Brady team does, and that's triple team Chris Jones. Can the Chiefs germinate a rush anywhere else? He's as close to unblitzable as it gets. This would be a good game to just get the snaps you need out of Dunlap and Karlaftis and rotate Clark in, assuming Danna isn't ready. You just need to punish them for throwing all their resources at Jones, which we simply haven't done enough.
This secondary is going to have their hands full with their receiving corps. This is the best WR corps the Chiefs have faced so far, and Evans and Godwin will absolutely punish the young CBs we have if we can't harass Brady. That's not a slight against our secondary, I don't think: the best WR we've faced so far is Mike Williams, who had a hell of a game making circus catches while being blanketed. Mike Evans can do the exact same thing. And Chris Godwin is going to demand bracket coverage, I think. He's the one I think can break this game open for the Bucs if he gets loose.
I like how the front seven played the run against the Colts, so I hope they're dialed up to clamp down Fournette. I just think a lot of what the Bucs do well gets undone if the Chiefs can apply pressure off the edge, supplementing a triple-teamed Chris Jones. If they can do that, and cover Fournette well out of the backfield, you can take a lot of their game away. But if Brady can breathe, it's going to be a long day.
I imagine the Chiefs will not be very successful running the ball. We haven't shown the ability this year to wash Vita Vea out of the way, and I don't think that will start this week. Can our tackles hold up against the speed of Shaquille Barrett? Everybody else can make plays and stunt our offense, but Barrett's the one who can break the game open. He's a bad matchup for our tackles.
I have to imagine Kelce still remember Lavonte David blanketing him in the Super Bowl, and is starving to roast him in coverage, so a 7-catch, 90-yard game with a TD or two wouldn't shock me. And this team is going to need that production bad, because our WRs are going to have a lot of trouble getting open against one of the best secondaries in the NFL. Sean Murphy-Bunting and Antoine Winfield smother the slot, and Davis and Dean on the outside can last on the island. And Devon White is still quarterbacking this machine at the Mike.
I expect the Chiefs to bounce back and play their hearts out against their Super Bowl foils and to rebound against a garbage performance in Indy. But I just think the Bucs have more answers than us right now. I see them putting us down by at least a TD.
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