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Originally Posted by Megatron96
That kicker wasn't very good. But he also was some JAG we signed off the street, so I can't fault the entire ST unit over one JAG Veach signed in an emergency situation. Not like he had much choice at the time.
But then the offense should've been more focused so that we didn't have to rely on that JAG, whatever his name was.
But none of that absolves an offense that only scored three times out of a possible 9 scoring drives. That's not just way below KC's season average (also well below any Mahomes-led season), but far below the NFL average.
ST definitely hurt the cause, but they didn't decide the game. The offense scoring just 3 points in the entire second half with four possible scoring drives sealed their fate. Never mind scoring just twice out of five scoring drives in the first half.
Bottom line, it was an ugly game all around, but the offense's job is to score points. On at least 50% of their drives to be merely NFL average. Not even Chiefs average, which is more like 65% of the time.
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That comment about the 2nd half scoring is kind of misleading in my view. They drove the field 50+ yards both times on two drives and the Special Teams group screwed up, cost them 6 points combined on those two drives. It's a team game. The Colts have a good defense.
You cannot afford to make the type of mistakes they were making on Special Teams in that game. Punt fumble to give the other team 7 points, two missed FG chances from easy range, another screwed up punt return that killed your Offense by sticking them at the 1 yard line. These type of mistakes blew up in their face against the Colts. They are lucky it didn't blow up in their face against the likes of the Rams & Niners. They cannot do that type of crap in the playoffs.