[California Injun]

Marty's philosophy was quite simple. If the game was close, his offensive game plan sucked. Hence, the Chiefs were never going to jump on teams early UNLESS the opposing teams turned the ball over.

If the Chiefs got a 7-10 point lead then he folded the playbook and relied on his defense.

If the Chiefs got behind by 7-10 then (gasp!!) you'd actually see a downfield pass longer than 12 yards.

Where Marty screwed himself in the post-season was by banking on those turnovers for good field position. What he still fails to grasp is that the other play-off teams know this and hang onto the ball better.

No freebies = no quick/easy scores on a short field. So he plays the field position game with his punter and special teams.

If you think about it, the Chiefs were a blocked punt (by Cash) away from losing to Pittsburgh in the 1993 play-offs. A quick check of the Chiefs offensive numbers under Marty.

1990 - 16 = (L)
1991 - 10 = (W)
1991 - 14 = (L)
1992 - 0 = (L)
1993 - 27 = (W)
1993 - 28 = (W)
1993 - 13 = (L)
1994 - 17 = (L)
1995 - 7 = (L)
1997 - 10 = (L)

Hmm.... outside of that 10-6 win over the sorry-arsed Raiders in 1991, it seems the only victories by KC were when they scored 27 and 28 points

Average Marty-led teams points in those 7 losses?

11.1 a game!!!!

Yep! It was just plain bad luck that the Chiefs lost those games. (Oh, and we had horrible talent right?)