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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Ten Things About Today's Game
8. First of all, why in the HELL are the Chiefs killing their own drives? There must have been five or six times where Charles and Jones were gashing the ball right up the field. Then Cassel would throw, mis-fire, put it into 2nd and long, then 3rd and 5 or 6, then incomplete on third down. WHY STOP RUNNING??? It's like Weis didn't figure that out until the overtime period. Charles ended up with 177 yards today -that's eight yards per carry friends-, Jones had 77 yards, and no turnovers. This game should have never, ever, EVER been this close. And the reason it was, was because the offense stalled its own drives by abandoning the run for no good reason, and for lapses on defense and in coaching.
2. I'm going to play Mr. Pessimistic Chiefs fan here for just a minute. I don't believe the Chiefs have beaten a team with a winning record. It was a goal line stand to survive San Diego, a first down made by the nose hair of the football to ice the game in Cleveland, and today we let a winless team take us to the final three seconds of OT before eeking out a home win. Well, better lucky than good, I suppose. But the win today does bode well for the long run, as now there's a bit of a cushion going on the road vs. Oakland and Denver. If KC can can gain a split, we'll still be in pretty decent shape in the AFC West. Makes me wish the defense could have held onto that ten point lead with seven minutes left in Houston. How huge would have been to be 6-1 right now? I'll take 5-2. Game pics from KC Star website are here:
http://tinyurl.com/2bol6cp
1. Today was Military Appreciation Day at Arrowhead. Everybody got a little American Flag upon entering the stadium. At halftime they swore a bunch of kids into the Marine Corps, and showed the cameo pictures of dozens of service men and women from Kansas and Missouri who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. I always get a lump in my throat when we have a military fly over, today it was a big tanker jet. Nothing better than the Arrowhead crowd chanting U-S-A for all the guys in uniform on the field today. It always makes me thankful to have those guy protecting our freedom so we can enjoy our way of life, including our Chiefs games. |
8 I agree with this wholeheartedly. Someone in the chat (I think it was Milkman or Dane) said they need to go PA on first down so they'd have options if it doesn't work (It seems like it rarely worked) and After the first few times Cassel sucked ass, they should have got the picture and they didn't. The only time Cassel was worth a shit was the drive in overtime, which I give him full credit for. He did a nice job of making plays when it counted. But ****. he killed so goddamn many drives it is unreal. Balls.
2 I agree with this. I've told about everybody I talk Chiefs with that they're not there yet. They're winning, but they aren't good enough to make noise in the playoffs. This game affirmed that. The shit of it is that coaching used to be a strength. Today they (sans Romeo) took the reerun pill. Goddamn it. We should have took the deathhammer to these mother****ers and we laid an egg.
1 Thanks for sharing. This type of thing they don't show on TV. They think Favre and TO are more important. Big thank you to all men and women serving their country.
My Take Son of a bitch. We should have lost that game 3 times over. Defensively I don't think we had a bad game. Still hate the soft zone, but it worked. Special Teams seems stagnant. Arenas took one today and then got blown the **** up. He should have called for a fair catch. Hopefully we can get that aspect of the game back to above average. Arenas is a good returner and hard to tackle but blocking is not there.
Offense...
we gash the shit out of them on the run and quit it. We give up points by going for it inside their 20. We continue to have Cassel **** our drives in the face. Biff fieldgoals in OT. Jesus it was frustrating as a fan.
Someone in the chat said, "These teams refuse to win," That was very accurate. Very accurate. We should have lost at the end of regulation. Got a good stop in OT. Sucked complete ass in OT. Gave them the ball back, managed to make them miss a FG. Sucked more ass in OT. Gave them the ball back and they stupided themselves into a sack for a huge loss. Cassel comes in and finally gets his head out of his ass and is very very sharp on the last drive. Where the **** is this asshat the rest of the game?
A win is a win and I will take it. But damn it was frustrating to watch.