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Time to panic about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs? Separating fact from fiction
Time to panic about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs? Separating fact from fiction, who's to blame and what's next
Bill Barnwell - ESPN https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/sto...ion-blame-next A wildly frustrating start to the Kansas City Chiefs' 2021 season turned ugly on Sunday. The defending AFC champs were outscored 27-0 in the first half by the Tennessee Titans. Mike Vrabel's team took its foot off the gas and didn't score in the second half, but the Chiefs could muster only a lone field goal in what was the worst offensive performance of the Patrick Mahomes era. If that wasn't bad enough, Mahomes was injured in the fourth quarter and had to leave the game. The only good news from the defeat is that Mahomes passed the concussion protocol. At 3-4, the Chiefs have as many losses through seven weeks as they've had through any full season since Mahomes took over as their starter in 2018. With losses to the Bills, Chargers, Ravens and Titans, they have lost tiebreakers to many of the teams they would expect to compete against in the postseason. They're a tiebreaker away from last place in the AFC West, a division they were overwhelmingly expected to win for the sixth consecutive season. If this were a video game, the Chiefs would frantically be pressing the reset button. Let's take a closer look at the Chiefs, and I'll do my best to break down what is factual and fictional about this start to the season. I'll begin with one of the biggest reasons they were manhandled in Week 7: Fact: The Chiefs are turning the ball over way too often
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Fiction: The offense is a problem
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Fact: Teams are playing two-high coverages against the Chiefs far more frequently
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Fact: The Chiefs haven't been as explosive as in years past
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Fiction: The Chiefs fixed their offensive line over the offseason
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Fact: The defense has been a major, major problem
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Fiction: The defense is not one player or one change away
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Fact: Years of questionable drafts have left the Chiefs without great depth
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Fiction: The Chiefs' Super Bowl hopes are out the window
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Of maybe all the stars aligned in the wrong direction and we are having an off year. I get that Reid isn't a perfect coach. But cmon, we all know this is very very uncharacteristic of an Andy Reid team. Just because he's a nice guy doesn't mean his team is unprepared. He has a stellar record in September, after bye weeks, in the final weeks of the season. That's a testament to how damn good Reid is at preparing his team. We haven't seen this over and over again. This is very unusual for Reid.
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The best hope is that spags pulls his head out of his ass or he gets replaced. Because the other piece is the defense looks like they have no faith in the scheme. I just feel like those locker room issues above are tough to overcome. |
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It's either one of those magical turnaround seasons where we climb from adversity. We've seen it before. Bradys done it twice after the Chiefs humiliated him in NE and Tampa. It just feels like the Murphys law season we just need to get over. Maybe just get all this bad juju out of our system. |
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We won a superbowl 2 years ago if we suck this year WGAF! This team not even close to being the most sorry Chiefs i have seen.
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Fact: If the Chiefs can develop a credible run game, things will open back up.
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of the list of problems...Patrick is the least of my worries. Not concerned at all because he probably wouldn't be pressing as much if literally every other phase/group on the team would pull their weight at an average performance level.
media just stirring up shit like they always do. I'd be more concerned (if I were a media slob writing a piece) about Hughes and Reed standing by watching Henry run by them; and Jones for that matter. That doesn't speak to lack of talent....that speaks to lack of effort and 'want to'. that shit spreads like a disease on a team.
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Everyone thinking there's this one-thing the Chiefs have to do to fix everything is just...not accurate. They're failing in all phases of the game at different times of the game. Right now, they have nothing that works consistently every single week.
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Fact: We wouldn’t have Patrick Mahomes without Brett Veach Fact: You’re talking out of the side of your ass |
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If we lose to NYG...Yes
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