Late-night bullshit: Run defense
 

The Chiefs are allowing 3.9 YPC, and only 89 yards rushing/game in two games. They gave up 3.1 YPC last night.

This is a NOTICEABLE improvement from years past.

Run defense (Y/YPC) under Andy the last six years:

21/31
21/17
26/29
27/31
25/23
26/24

We need more data, but we shut down a top 10 rushing attack in the Cardinals, and a team that ran for 192 yards on us the last time we played them.

Last 10 Super Bowl Champions rank in run defense

10th
1st
26th
11th
1st
3rd
3rd
9th
7th
20th

It's early, but if Andy and Spags have restored the Derrick-Johnson led run defense of his early regime, we are in for a special season with Mahomes on the other side.

This may well easily be the best run defense he's ever had.

the defense is off to a good start for sure. Last year it took them 6 or 7 games and those first 6 or 7 games were really really ****ing bad. But then after that it was pretty damn good for the most part.

It's good if they can get off to a good start early.

Good enough considering we gotta face Adams twice and god knows who else in the playoffs. Not like there's a healthy back that can truly gash us bad when mahomes is at the helm.

Old defense- Chargers offense could do no wrong.
New defense- Herbert is harrassed all night. He throws a crucial pick six and can barely scrape himself off the field at the end of the night.

This was nearly the best case scenario. Not to mention this defense has several new faces that are still learning how to play along side eachother. They're only going to get better. Very impressive!

Wins a win.
Defense still allowed this game to come down to recovering a onside kick..

I rate tonight performance.

5 lines of cocaine and 3 (almost hot) trailer park whores.

i would like to continue this discussion of our run defense

Gay and Bolton are real NFL linebackers. These two are incredible.

Don't they play the Colts next? They have a pretty good RB and O-Line. No mystery what their game plan will be.

Yup. That’ll be a great test to see how far we’ve come.

This will be Chiefs Titans lite in Indy.

Mahomes and the offense will score enough points that the Colts won't have the time to run the ball as much as they'd like, and the corpse of Matt Ryan will be buried.

Amen sweetheart

What would you like to know?

do you think this combination of a potentially elite run defense and patrick mahomes will result in a super bowl championship for our favorite team, the chiefs of kansas city, middle america, united states?

Hard to tell because Teams are going to throw on us more than they run.

It's not sexy, and nobody likes it when money/high draft picks are spent on the position, but having some real actual LBs playing makes a huge difference.

The problem with Hitchens was we depended on him and he wasn't used to being the guy in Dallas where he was part of a great team of LBs. Now we've got two studs who play well off each other, they're young, and they're a lot better than old man Hitchens.

Glad we finally made the investment in the position.