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Originally Posted by Why Not?
Can't stop them, can only hope to contain them. The Bengals will get around 7 possessions. Can we force a couple of punts and or a turnover? As I've said before, 27 seems to be their number against us or in the playoffs. Can we get that to 24? Then the offense will need to score on 5 of their possessions but make one of those scores a TD vs a Bengals FG. 31-27 or 27-24. That's our shot. We're not gonna blow em out nor are we gonna get blown out. It will be the same as usual but can we flip the score for once?
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Odds are each team will get 8+ possessions. If our defense can just hold them to their average in terms of scoring per drive, they'll score at least 4-5 times. Just have to make them trade a couple of those for FGs. Which is how things work out most of the time for our defense, so it's doable.
The Chiefs' problem in the three games vs. CIN is that the offense hasn't ever done their part of scoring to their average, or even very close to it. The offense can't stall out in the 2nd half; they have to score at least a TD and a FG, if not more. But the bare-ass minimum is a TD. No more of this get a FG in the 3rd and then give the ball away or sit around and pick their noses for 20 minutes. Keep firing, as Andy likes to say. There aren't but a handful of teams that KC needs to run the score up on, but CIN is definitely one of the few.