NFL Network just broke it down...

run the ball more
eat clock
Reid has to be patient with the run
Mahomes needs to quit trying to erase the bad record with one play

The Chiefs had no big plays tonight. Tyreek was open for a big one but Patrick underthrew it. Still should've had 30 on the scoreboard by just taking what the defense gave. If not for the interception on the first drive and the Kelce fumble. Those turnovers likely took 10 points away.

That's fine. They can keep not respecting it while we feed it to Gore all the way down the field for another TD.

We have a SPECIAL run blocking OL.

Orlandis Gary could run for 1400 behind this OL.

It's not 1990. There is no set them up for the kill shot, because the Chiefs have PATRICK f'n MAHOMES. It's not like if we have Ryan Tannehill that teams can cheat against. Teams will not expose themselves to that. If the Chiefs want to run, there is no better outcome. Whatever the Chiefs gain on the ground? Fine. Still gonna stay in my two deep. If we switch to run emphasis, we self contain the best player in the league. We must use Mahomes and the passing game to pressure defenses.

It has it's place. 20 carries a game is good enough.

Any more and you are doing two things:

1. Vastly reducing the effectiveness of those runs, because the players executing them aren't good enough. You can only hand the ball up the middle so many times before the defense sees it coming and pounces on it. That is the easiest play in football to stop.

2. Taking the ball away from your best players. The ones making the most money. If Andy drew up a gameplan where Derrick and Darrel got 3x as many touches as Kelce, Hill and Hardman, he should be fired. Period.

This is extremely logical but some of you refuse to use your brains.

This is the equivalent of the 2003 Chiefs taking the ball out of Priest's hands to feed Kennison and Morton.

The Chiefs WILL get this figured out. They just have to keep chopping at it.

Throwing their hands up and going back to the stone age on offense is admitting defeat. That doesn't do this team any good now or in the future.

If cdcox and I agree on a subject, it should be inked in blood and stamped in gold. It is football gospel. Because we disagree on almost everything else in life.

Yep but I bolded the biggest impediment to this strategy. He has never committed to the run long term and everyone knows that.

We don't have the defense to play martyball offense.

It doesn't matter how good your OL is if the defense knows 30 plays a game are going right up the gut.

These backs don't have the explosion to run off tackle, let alone a pitch.

And the OL is not good enough to do that either. Our RT is still learning. Our LT isn't the most mobile player in the world.

Defenses know 98% of our running plays are butt-center specials. Easiest play in football to stop.

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And that is the cherry on top.

There is far too much risk involved here on both sides of the ball.

Most plays if the pass isn't there Patrick has the check down or scramble option anyway.

Way better than a yard up Creed's sphincter.

No, we don't. Which is why a ball control offense is more important. We don't have a defense at all. The longer our offense is on the field the better.

Where is this nonsense coming from that we would be running every play up the a gaps because of limitations of these backs?

These guys have similar speed as Priest did.

He didn’t break big runs, either.

if you get a 1st down, it doesn't really matter how you got it.

Gore can absolutely break runs for longer than 10 yards. Didn't he have a 10+ yard negated by a penalty against the Giants?

The only real problem is that i doubt we can trust Andy to manage a game involving a running game. When we were dominating the game on offense is was easy for Andy to "play" at running the ball. Will he stick with the run in a close game? Will he keep running the ball even when we get stuffed everyone so often?

I don't trust Andy at all, so maybe someone else can judge better.

Should be running the ball with 12 personnel more like we did tonight, and play action off of that...

We don’t have the defense to keep turning it over every 4 possessions.

That’s what’s killed us.

FFS we would be 6-2 if it weren’t for preventable turnovers.