Ten Things About Today's Embarrassment: Week 10: NYG 12 KC 9

[gblowfish]

Ten Things about Today’s Game: Week 11: NYG 12 - KC 9

10. I’m on vacation. I’m off till a week from Monday. I worked on the inside of my house all day yesterday, and today was leaf blower and mower morning, working to clean up the Stately Blowfish Manor grounds. Worked from about 8:30 till just before Noon. I thought I’d have a nice cold pop, kick back, enjoy a satisfying trashing against a crappy one win team. Especially anticipated this with Wile E. Reid coming off the bye week, playing his old division the NFC East. By halftime I wanted to go back out and start mowing and mulching again. This game was a total drag to watch. It was like watching a kitten mauled by a Rottweiler slowly die. If this game didn’t make you just plain pissed off, then there’s something wrong with you. After the game I went out and mowed and mulched for a another hour, trying to calm down. Then I came back in and looked through the video a second time. I’m even more pissed off. So if you're expecting optimistic Blowfish, stop reading now, because this effort was nothing but a gutless abortion by your Kansas City Chiefs. I can’t even call this an abortion. At least abortions are over quickly and don’t force you to suffer into overtime.

9. Before I begin, I’d quickly like to say I hope the Verizon guy and the Sprint guy and Dan Fouts all die horrible, lingering painful deaths. That being said, I might as well start with pissing off the Alexsexuals and say this: What you saw today is what Alex Smith is. He cannot put the team on his back and will it to win. He’s just not good enough. If you look at the stats, Alex and Eli were basically the same, sucking lousy QB. Smith 27 for 40 for 230 yards, no TDs, two picks and one sack. He averaged less than six yards per pass completion. Eli was 19 for 35 for 205 yards, no TDs, one pick, no sacks and averaged less than six yards per pass completion. And Eli had probably ten balls dropped on him. Both teams were awful on third down. KC was 3 for 11, New York 3 for 13. If ANY of the Giants usual starting receivers play in this game, we probably lose this game by three TDs. I'm not calling for Mahomes, because unless Alex gets whacked and knocked out, it ain't happening. We're stuck with Alex for the duration of this year, and you all better resign yourself to accepting that. Because Chiefs.

8. Alex comes out in the first quarter, starts his day by one hopping a pass to Kelce. So since he can't hit the broad side of a barn, Alex checks down and checks down and checks down. Kareem Hunt catches three passes for four yards. Three passes…for four yards. In the second quarter, Smith takes a sack at the 7:45 mark, doesn’t even look at a streaking wide open DAT who roasted his guy in single coverage. At the four minute mark, KC down 6-0 has third and seven at the Giants 13 yard line. Alex throws a four yard pass at Kelce, who drops it. We kick a field goal. Smith didn’t even try for the end zone or throw the ball past the sticks. Chiefs get the ball back again before the half; on their own 35 and a 3rd and 2 Alex actually tries to stretch the field on a 25 yard throw to Travis - not Kelce, the other Travis, our third string Tight End. Travis has his man beat by two steps, and Alex overshoots him. We actually get the ball back with a minute left and one time out on our 20 yard line. Wile E.runs West up the middle twice, as goes to the locker room with a time out in his pocket. Don’t worry, we’ll get them in the second half. This is a one win team we're playing, remember?

7. Third quarter, at the seven minute mark, Chiefs on the Giants 37 yard line, on a third and 10, Smith one hops a pass to Travis. It misses Travis by a good five to six yards. At least Travis was past the first down marker, and he was open. Wile E. decides to punt, Giants then make a long methodical drive down field. They beat Gaines on coverage; then they beat Nelson on coverage, then they trample DJ. Giants go for it on 4th and 9 at the KC 33 yard line and the pass is dropped. But the Giants are able to eat up most of the rest of the third quarter. So Alex gets the ball back, throws long at Hill, who has his guy beat by three steps, but Hill has to wait for the pass because it’s woefully under thrown. Hill adjusts and comes down with the ball at the Giants 15 yard line. What happens next? Next, the Fourth Quarter starts.

6. So start of the fourth quarter, KC in the red zone, first down on the Giants 15 yard line. Wile E. runs Kareem up the middle for two yards. Then a shuffle pass to Hunt for one yard. Then on third and seven, Alex one hops one to Harris four yards short of the first down marker. Not only did they not throw past the sticks, they didn’t throw a single pass into the end zone. Nor did they go to their two biggest play makers, Hill and Kelce. Buttkicker hits the second field goal. This offensive series was inexcusable. Just dreadful. At the seven minute mark, on a first down play from the KC 40, Alex rolls out to his right. Kelce has his guy beat twenty yards down field. Alex throw the ball wide and high You know Mahomes makes that throw easy. Why is this important? Because on the next play, Wile E. lets Kelce throw the bomb and it gets picked off at the Giants 15 yard line, out to the 30 for a targeting penalty by Robinson at the end of the play. So instead of the Chiefs having first down and driving at the Giants 40, we cough up a turnover, New York has the ball at their own 34 with six minutes left. The Kelce gadget play was called because Smith could not hit an open receiver all freaking day long. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

5. So we get the ball back with about four minutes left in the game tied up 6-6 on our own five yard line. Hunt runs a couple times for a first down to the 18. Hunt runs again for no gain. 2:47 left in the game. 2nd and 10, Alex over throws Robinson in the middle of triple coverage and throws the pick. He had all day to throw. On top of that, he throws at the wrong guy. Five yards further down field, he has Hill streaking open down the seam. Terrible pass, terrible turnover, thrown at the wrong guy. Luckily the defense forces a NY field goal, and there’s about 90 seconds left to win -notice I'm saying WIN the game. Smith runs for a first down to the Giants 23 yard line with 37 seconds left. Next a pass in bounds to DAT down to the 12, then a pass to West to get a first down at the 10, and he gets out of bounds with 16 seconds left. Then a pass way out of the end zone at a double covered Kelce. Then with 11 seconds Alex runs for the end zone, only makes it to the five, burns the final time out and Wile E. is forced to kick the tying field goal with five seconds left. In all that, only one attempt is made at the end zone, and that was at a double covered receiver. So here comes overtime. Chiefs get the ball first, drive is squashed by a bullshit holding call on the Canadian Doc. On third and 10 from our 35, Captain Checkdown throws a three yard pass to West. A Three Yard Pass. In overtime. Why? Chiefs punt, Eli starts from his own 18 with six minutes left, marches the team right down the field, and on a third and six, throws a prayer up at his tight end Engram, who out jumps Murray but can’t pull it in. Instead of trying the field goal, on 4th and 6 they go for it. How do you beat the Chiefs? Well, if you can’t beat Murray, you beat Gaines. Same jump ball, Gaines falls down, Lewis catches the ball, chip shot field goal, game over. And that’s all she wrote. And a one and eight team is now a two and eight team, with their only home win thus far. Great.

4. The defense held Manning to 205 passing and gave up only 112 rushing. Darkwa and Kareem Hunt had an identical game. Darkwa rushed for a TD. Hunt did not. Hunt has now gone seven straight games without scoring. The Giants TD was set up by a DPI against Peters. The winning field goal in OT set up by a DPI on Gaines. Every team in the league knows if you want to beat KC you just throw up a jump ball, and either your guy catches it, or he’ll draw a DPI. Wile E. Reid however, refuses to throw the ball into the end zone inside the red zone. The defense went another week without a sack. Not being able to sack a geriatric Eli Manning is embarrassing. Sorensen had the only pick. He played a decent game and was about the only one to play decent on the defense. Where is Justin Houston? Where is Chris Jones? Just an anemic, pathetic effort in overtime by the defense to allow an 82 yard scoring drive.

3. Special teams were terrible too. There’s been too many damn penalties on punt returns. We can’t stop a fake punt on 4th and two. Everybody in the stadium knew it was coming. A one win team has nothing to lose. Acker gets a penalty to snuff a decent punt return by DAT. DAT fumbles a punt. Terrence Smith knocks himself out of the game with a dirty hit right before the half. Colquitt punts OK, Buttkicker is perfect again, but the overall quality of special teams is way below what we usually get from Dave Toub. This part of our game has got to improve. It's bringing the whole team down.

2. I couldn’t bring myself to listen to Wile E’s post game presser, but I’ll be willing to bet there was the standard “This is my fault, and I’ve got to coach better and fix it” BS. I’m so sick of hearing that. Philly fans tried to warn us about Wile E. That pick throw by Kelce was inexcusable. The game momentum turned on it. If nobody is standing at least ten yards wide open, you either have Kelce run with the ball or throw it into the cheap seats. Especially on a second and ten. And the entire game, Alex is changing the play at the line of scrimmage. They were constantly changing into runs for Hunt or little dink check down passes. It was Matt Casshole all over again. At least Casshole could hit a guy wide open occasionally. I’m just really disgusted by this entire effort by everyone. Reid is supposed to be a genius coming off the bye week. And he loses to a 1-8 team from a division he knows intimately. This loss likely puts us on the road again in the playoffs, if we manage to get to the playoffs. Oh, and yeah, the Chiefs are already asking for playoff ticket money. Talk about presumptuous.

1. So, we’ve lost four of the last five. That’s not a trend, that’s what this team is. We laughed at Denver for losing to these bums, and now the joke is on us. I think the truth is, the AFC West is a weak division. One team will come out of it; it might be us, and whoever wins will get smoked in the first round of the playoffs. Alex Smith is not winning any playoff games this year. This will be last year all over again, only we get beat worse. Smith as a Chiefs playoff QB has beaten Brian Hoyer. Brian Freaking Hoyer. Can we beat New England? Not now - Hoodie has the book on us now. Can we beat Pittsburgh? No. Haley loves sticking it up Chunt’s pooper. How bout Tennessee? They beat us in Arrowhead last December. Jacksonville? Who’s going to stop Fournette? He’s back off an injury and ready to roll. I just don’t see it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Buffalo rolled in here and beat us next week, starting God Knows Who at QB. I’m just going to need to be pissed off for a few days. Wish I had something sunnier for you, but I just don’t. All I can say is, Happy Thanksgiving to all of us abused long suffering Chiefs fans; burn the game tape on this one, and let’s hope for better with some home cooking next week. And a touchdown on offense would be swell.

[suzzer99]

Thanks George - thankfully I missed the game until the last drive of the 4th Q. At least I know how it all went down now, pretty much how I assumed.

[dannybcaitlyn]

Totally agree George! Thanks

[GloryDayz]

Too soon?

[alpha_omega]

Glad to hear you got the yard work done....were the neighbors pissed when you started the mower at 830?

[MahiMike]

TDDR

Too depressing, didn't read.

But thanks anyway George.

[Flying High D]

Thanks for the write up.

[siberian khatru]

One of the worst losses in recent memory.

Still trying to decide who was worse, Smith or Reid. Still flabbergasted that given two weeks to prepare that was the best Andy could come up with. Just a dreadful, DREADFUL, offensive performance.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by notorious

Take in the fresh air known as freedom, and I'm not talking about getting away from your recycled farts in the tractor.

I'm thinking about stepping away for the rest of the season, maybe going to see some movies on Sundays. I know how this is going to end, so I don't know why I should commit to it.

[stevieray]

Thanks for the write ups, George.


....small blessings in a futile situation.

[Meatloaf]

Thanks for the fine write-up, George. Kado’s to you for being able to pull this together despite being crapped on by the entire Chiefs organization.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I'm thinking about stepping away for the rest of the season, maybe going to see some movies on Sundays. I know how this is going to end, so I don't know why I should commit to it.

Me too, friend.

[petegz28]

0 passes into the end zone....

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by petegz28

0 passes into the end zone....

That as much as anything is what is infuriating. It's a fundamental flaw.

[Bearcat]

Waste 3.5 hours watching that crap.

Get pissed off.

Watch it again.... on purpose.

[Katie]

I'm wondering, is why in over time we're running the ball up the middle like we're trying to run up the clock. Why were we not going for the score?