Penalties are killing the Chiefs
 

In addition to Smith reverting back to himself and all the other obvious problems, penalties are killing the team this year on both sides of the ball.

Offense
Holding, KC is tied for 2nd most with 19 penalties for 174 yards against.
False Starts, tied for 5th most with 13 penalties for 65 yards against.

Defense
Pass Interference, has given up the most yards in penalties - 191.
Holding, tied for 2nd most.

Penalties have been a major issue this year for sure.

Doing our best imitation of the Raiders and it's not good.

Not surprised at the Def. penalties considering our D-backs.

Reid's teams never have any discipline. This isn't a surprise.

For whatever reason, the league got it in their heads that there isn't enough offense. This is the worst I've seen in terms of calling dpi and refusing to call opi. And that really hurts a team like kc which is so dependent on pass coverage.

I’d be interested to see where the teams that run a lot of man like we do are at with penalties.

Yeah they are. We need to get that cleaned up quickly. It's an often overlooked factor in football but it can be a huge factor in winning or losing a football game when there is a big difference during a game.

Here is the total penalties for each game (do not have a breakdown on offense vs defense, etc):

@NE - 15 for 139
Philly - 4 for 40
@LAC - 13 for 122
Washington - 3 for 15
@Houston - 6 for 64
Pitt - 7 for 48
@Oak - 8 for 108
Denver - 7 for 69
@Dallas - 8 for 52
@NYG - 9 for 87

So we had the most penalties in the games that we won.

The outlier is the Raiders game where all of our penalties were ****ing costly.

Those numbers are like taking a big drink of curdled milk.

He's definitely good at something other than scripting the first 10 plays and stumbling into regular season wins though

True, and it's total BS. I'm surprised we've only given up 191 in DPI. Seems like we give up half of that per game.

Slightly off topic, but why the **** is holding a 10-yard penalty and not 5 or just a loss of downs with no yardage penalty? And can it please just be a spot foul on kick returns. 5 yards from wherever it occurred at worst. PI should become a 10-yard penalty, auto first down. No more spot foul for that shit.