Nobody's talking about the piss-poor run game vs The Bengals last week?
 

Of course there was so much greatness to talk about after beating the pussycats in the AFCCG, did we overlook the shockingly terrible ground game?

What gives?

Total team rushing yds = 42

Pacheco = 10 runs for 26.
Jerrick = 4 runs for 1 yard
RoJo = 1 run for zero

RBs accounted for 27 yards.

Patrick 3 for 8 yards
Mecole 2 for 7

20 rush attempts (vs 43 pass attempts as far as I can tell)

Did CIN just stack the box the whole time figuring Pat couldn't scramble? We didn't make any adjustments? Our O-line is THAT bad run blocking?

Discuss.

If this was already drudged over in another megathread, please blame megathreads. George didn't even make it a "thing" in his ten things, just a couples sentences buried in the Mahomes "thing"

GIVE ME HOPE! How can we balance out the game to beat PHI.

They were playing the run and forcing a gimpy Mahomes to beat them.

And he did.

Finally a valid topic of concern to discuss.

I have no idea what happened, we ran for 4.6ypc first match up I believe.

chief fan wants to establish the run to set up the pass LMAO

We’re not running against the Eagles either.. Whatever.. Passing is how we make our bones…

Martyball for the win /Sarc ;)

This plan very nearly worked due to our wrs getting annihilated. Chris Jones is the second biggest reason it didn't.

This. And they did it even more as the WRs kept dropping like flies.

Bengals run defense is good. They allowed the 7th fewest yards per carry in the league, despite playing the Ravens (3rd) and Browns (11th) twice each.

Eagles allow 4.6 yards per carry, which is 24th in the league.

The Chiefs worst rushing games were all against the top run defenses in yards per carry: Colts (6th), Broncos (12th), Bills (11th before injuries), Rams (13th), Titans, (1st). Seahawks were the only poor runs defense that the Chiefs struggled to run against.

We ran pretty well against the Raiders (21st) twice and they allowed fewer yards per carry than the Eagles. Same with the Buccaneers (20th). We even ran pretty well on the 49ers, who were 2nd.

DJ Reader happened.

He's really ****ing good.

Credit where it's due, Reader drew a ton of attention and BJ Hill played an outstanding game in support of him. We just weren't able to get much push with those guys clogging the middle like they were. And when we tried to switch to more outside zone, Hubbard stayed sound allowing Pratt and the DBs to really move around without much threat of the OL getting into the second level.

The Bengals just played really good run defense.

Neither team rushed very well.

Good run defenses and COLD.

15 attempts says they didn't want to run.

Win or lose, I suspect people are going to be angry at Andy for not running the ball enough in the Super Bowl.

I swear I saw a few people after the Tampa SB loss whining about how we could have had a shot in the game if we had run the ball more.

Chris Jones was reason #1. It's ok to admit. It's not a slight on Mahomes.

I'll say it again - Trey Smith really is the lynchpin for our rungame. It goes as he goes. And he had his hands full with Reader and Hill. He is used for so many of those wham blocks, etc... that really pop open runs that when those big ol boys in the middle of the Bengals DL were able to hold him up, the whole thing collapsed on itself.

There's not much to take away from it, IMO.