Penalties are killing the Chiefs

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Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy

Yeah they are. We need to get that cleaned up quickly. It's an often overlooked factor in football but it can be a huge factor in winning or losing a football game when there is a big difference during a game.

Originally Posted by Hydrae

Here is the total penalties for each game (do not have a breakdown on offense vs defense, etc):

@NE - 15 for 139
Philly - 4 for 40
@LAC - 13 for 122
Washington - 3 for 15
@Houston - 6 for 64
Pitt - 7 for 48
@Oak - 8 for 108
Denver - 7 for 69
@Dallas - 8 for 52
@NYG - 9 for 87

I definitely agree that the Chiefs have a problem with penalties and its frustrating as a fan.

Have Reid teams always been this way?

Maybe he thinks that they can be overcome with big plays?

I would like to see some statistics that support that highly penalized teams = a losing team?

Maybe we fans read into penalties more than we should?

Do Super Bowl winning teams = less penalized teams?