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Slants are designed so that they're thrown on the assumption that your WR knows what's coming and wins the battle. Maclin didn't win the battle. Smith had the right read; got the 1 on 1 coverage wide. But Maclin let the DB get inside him. It's a timing play and every time that ball is going to come out before the outcome of that individual matchup is known. Slants get picked sometimes; it happens. They also lead to a lot of scores and first downs. But it's rarely the QB that makes that play work, it's the WR. Either he makes the play and wins the battle to get underneath/inside the DB or the DB wins, beats him to the spot and picks it. I'm open to a different view as I haven't seen it replayed, I just saw it from the stands. Perhaps a safety sunk and I didn't see it quite right. From my chair it just looked like Maclin lost the battle. This was very similar to the interception last week where Maclin let the defensive back get under him and beat him to the spot. Smith didn't play a good game but that pick wasn't on him. Maclin simply didn't win the battle. It's just another play to throw on the pile of mind-****s that happened in that game. So many guys just didn't give the effort they needed in that game and that play again demonstrated it. It looked to me like the skill position guys didn't want to get hit, Smith couldn't grip the ball worth a damn and wouldn't wear a glove (stupid) and the OL...**** man, that OL is just soft. I don't know what else to say there. They'll be able to pass protect by being technicians but you're seeing their lack of aggression in the repeated failures in the run game. God dammit that loss sucked. |
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Defense wins rings. |
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Lube up, next year is our year... Andy will double-down on his Focus Factor, Alex will take throwing lessons, DJ will have a bungee cord installed, JC will claim he's 100%, Houston and Hali will be 100% (until camp opens), and Dorsey will bring in another skinny O-linemen. We shall see... |
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Yes, we know our defense is good. Our offense is garbage and needs fixed. |
Smith is on pace to be sacked the least amount of times since he's been in KC.
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If this team is going to win a Super Bowl, everyone has to play better. It starts with the coaches doing a better job (quit calling slants into the middle of the end zone). Managing the game with the use of timeouts and the such has to get better. It has to. The defense has to realize that it's the face of this team. When faced with 1:00 to go in the game, up by 1, they have to put the clamps down. They will have to do this more than once en route to a SB. So, watching them give up about 40 yards in 40 seconds was disappointing. The offense is really the biggest work-around on this team. The QB has to play better. He can't be tossing interceptions in the end zone. Their margin for error is so much smaller than other teams. So, they have to be more accurate in those positions. Maybe play-calling needs to improve. This team seems to have the ability go out and just take 7 points when they deem it necessary. Then, for 2/3rd's of the game they run plays east/west and punt. Is it fear of injury? Is it Reid trying to get too cute? Is it receivers not getting open, the line not blocking, the RBs missing their reads? Is it Smith missing receivers running wide open because he's focused on one thing? Really, this Titans game is good foreshadowing for how this team will lose in the playoffs if there is one key breakdown at the most inopportune time. The Smith INT. The timeout by Reid at 4th and 5 when the Titans looked completely lost. The timeout by Reid on the FG attempt. The breakdown in defense on 4th and 5. If just one of those areas tightens up, we win this game. So, that's encouraging I suppose. Personally, I think this team has to get better offensively in the 2nd half of games. They simply cannot continue to put up goose eggs in the 2nd half of games and expect to win. |
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The offense had MULTIPLE times to build the lead yesterday and force the Titans to abandon their running game. The offense blew that game yesterday....nobody else. |
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Chiefs have been shit in short yardage situations all year, not just yesterday. It's causing our inability to pick up key 3rd downs. It's shortening our drives. It's what causes Reid to get all cutesy on 3rd and short with screens and horizontal passes, which ends with fans bitching about not running it. Yesterday Reid decided that he wanted to give the OL a chance to assert itself and they failed. Two straight run plays inside the 1? The OL has to win that. |
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Reid's Chiefs have NEVER been a power running team. I've always argued that when people complain that we don't run it enough in short yardage situations. |
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