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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
Heard commentators today talking about how the Chiefs abandoned the run and should have at least tried to stick it out. My thinking was, "Why?" If they want to play that nonsense 6-man front, we need to throw the ball every damn down. Running the ball at that point was a wasted down.
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You have to at least show that you're willing to run. Now, with KC (and say BUF) you can get away with running a bare-ass minimum number of times because Mahomes/Allen, but you can't just not run the ball ever. Teams that try that get beat, more often than not.
But part of what happened last night is all the errors and turnovers forced Andy's hand at a certain point. About when that INT happened with Kelce late in the third or whenever.
That was about the 6-minute mark in the third, iirc, and i remember checking the clock and realizing the Chiefs really only had about three drives left to score 8 points just to tie, and at least two score (min. 9 pts) to win the game in regulation. At that point, you abandon whatever is extraneous and roll with your best players and your best plays, which for KC are all in the passing game.
If we had a Saquon/McCaffrey/Henry maybe you still do some ground and pound, but the Chiefs don't any such thing. We have a Travis. And an Andy. And a Mahomes. Not one of those guys is an elite RB, obviously, but they comprise the core of one of the greatest air attacks in NFL history.
Sorry, I meant kore.