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Originally Posted by Megatron96
The one bright point: as bad as the Chiefs have played through the first 8 games, they are the only .500 team of the teams with 13+ turn-overs this season. And all of those teams are 3+ losses below .500.
But this is a bad team. Patrick might've credited the defense with winning that game, but against one of the worst (if not the worst) OLs in the NFL they only managed to sack Jones 3 times and had only a single TFL. There were other flashes and bright spots, but not nearly enough of them. The fact is that most of the game Jones had a pretty clean pocket. Clean enough that he managed to throw TWO TOUCHDOWNS on us.
The turn-overs are the worst though. 19 T/Os in the first 8 games. That has to be some kind of record. Nobody can seem to hang onto the gaddang ball. And Patrick is the worst of them. Responsible for 11 of them. 11. Jesus wept. Do you guys realize that Daniel "I can't feel pressure" Jones finished that game with a higher PASSER RATING than Mahomes? And not by just a couple points, but like 22 points. Patrick looks hesitant, he bails out of the right side of the pocket way too much, and now he can't aim.
But somehow we're still a .500 team.
I'll be honest, I don't think this team makes the playoffs. It looks a lot like a 7-10 season at this point. There's just too much to fix with the OL and the DL. And the secondary. And the ball security thing. And the drops.
But I won't be shocked if they do turn it around somehow either. Mahomes and the Chiefs could pull a miracle out of their asses and rattle off 12 straight wins. It's not like we haven't seen them do similar fantastical things before.
But I'm not holding my breath.
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Won't happen. IMO, they'll soon be 4-7 and the struggle will be to finish above .500. They'll miss the playoffs this year. The Ravens and Charger games were killer losses, and they're gonna pay for them during the next stretch of the season.