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Originally Posted by mililo4cpa
I made this point in another thread: The Chiefs have been killing teams with clock eating time of possession drives and holding the ball themselves, effectively keeping Pat ON the field.
I didn't go look at all their games, but if you look at what was billed as the "biggest" games: Ravens they were +6 in TOP....they DESTROYED the Bills in TOP by like 14 mins, 2nd Raiders Game +6, Bucs game +13 mins. Any time a big game has come up, it is the Chiefs that dominated the TOP and limited their opponents, giving their competition less drives to score, because they know the Chiefs offense is going to score on 5-7 drives every game regardless. Less drives for the opponents only increases the odds that they cannot keep up, it doesn't make it better.....it's also a function of trying to eliminate the long ball (except for TB of course), which means that Pat is shredding them on the underneath stuff when he needs to....pick your poison!
While there is no sound recipe for beating the Chiefs, if you look at their history since Pat took over, it's actually the opposite: with exception to the Colts, each team that won against the Chiefs did so by outscoring them and forcing a ton of mistakes. Exactly once in two years was a team able to win by "slowing" it down (Indy last year)....The only team to beat him that didn't have to score 30 (other than the Colts) was the Chargers in 2018, who had to score 29 to do it
So, the implication here is that you have to put up 30 points and force a boatload of mistakes to beat the Chiefs, and the "slow the game down" has (a) proven not to work; (b) is just some media rhetoric that everyone for some reason seems to believe; and (c) fat chance that the Dolphins are going to be able to replicate it (not impossible by any means, but very unlikely)
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I don't disagree exactly; but the problem with just trying to outshoot the Chiefs is that you've got to have the horses to do so.
I mean, The Dolphins for example do not have the skill position talent to try to air it out and win a shootout. They just don't, and if they try, they're going to lose by 50.
I know the tendency is to look at the '18 Patriots and Rams games, but those were also stellar offenses.
And our defense was laughably bad at that.
I don't see any offense at the moment that can try to win a shootout with KC. Maybe GB on a good day?
No, your best bet right now is to run the ball, play keep away, and be able to rush 4 and get to Patrick. And offensively you need to pretty much be perfect.