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Originally Posted by VanDolPhan
While I don't expect Miami to win. I feel the need to clear up some issues with your post. Early on in the season Howard was still working toward being 100% from his knee injury. He was on limited snaps the first week in NE. Jones went down the first few plays of the Buffalo game. Miami inserted 20 year old corner Noah who got his butt whooped bad. Kid just wasn't ready. Suffice to say Miami would have won that game if Jones hadn't gone down. Noah also gave up several critical plays against Seattle in what had been a tight game. Against the Cardinals they just couldn't stop Murray from escaping all the time (He literally ran for over 100 yards).
So basically you all haven't seen zero blitzing the way Miami does it combined with having 3 solid corners and 2 solid safeties (former corners). At the same time Miami is crap at handling mobile QB's. Get Mahomes on the move and he will run all day long.
It should be an interesting matchup as CB Nik Needham has been playing well lately. Giving them 3 good corners combined with a solid set of corners/safeties. Where K.C. should hit them is our LB's. They've been pretty terrible in coverage and in stopping the run. Also sticking with the run is the way to go as besides our LB's sucking in run support. So do our safeties beyond Brandon Jones as he's the only real safety out there. McCain and Rowe are former CB's who aren't that good at playing the run.
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I appreciate the context on the Jones injury.
What makes Kelce such a difficult cover is that there really isn’t a way to cover him with one person. If you match him up with a LB, he’s going to use his movement skills and route running to creat huge separation. If you match him up with a DB, he’ll run more traditional TE routes and then YAC that DB.
Unless you have a S that covers like a corner and tackles like a LB, Kelce requires two men to actually slow him down and force the ball elsewhere. The often-broken Derwin James is kind of the template you need. It doesn’t sound like Rowe has that.
Zero blitzing and leaving Kelce, Hill, Hardman, Watkins singled up one CB is a recipe for disaster, no matter how good those guys are.
Go look at what Hill did to Carlton Davis against Tampa. That’s a good, emerging CB and he made him look pathetic.