Some Quick Things

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

They play old school trenches football better than maybe any team in the league right now. i didn't really believe it until last night, seeing it on the big screen in the living room by myself. They're playing 80's/90's run-centric football, very similar to the kind the Chiefs played back then.

And KC can't play that kind of football against TEN, period. We don't have the horses.

I think Andy tried to a bit, but quickly realized that was a mistake. We were never going to beat TEN at their own game. Andy needed to play the Chiefs game which is more sophisticated and less about beating the tar out of the opponent and more about outsmarting them.

Heard commentators today talking about how the Chiefs abandoned the run and should have at least tried to stick it out. My thinking was, "Why?" If they want to play that nonsense 6-man front, we need to throw the ball every damn down. Running the ball at that point was a wasted down.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Heard commentators today talking about how the Chiefs abandoned the run and should have at least tried to stick it out. My thinking was, "Why?" If they want to play that nonsense 6-man front, we need to throw the ball every damn down. Running the ball at that point was a wasted down.

"Vrabel is sending the Chiefs a thank you card for every time they run the ball" - One of Collinsworth's better ones

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

"Vrabel is sending the Chiefs a thank you card for every time they run the ball" - One of Collinsworth's better ones

thats was funny


and when mahomes did that shot-put pass, i laughed at how giddy collinsworth got over how good it was.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Heard commentators today talking about how the Chiefs abandoned the run and should have at least tried to stick it out. My thinking was, "Why?" If they want to play that nonsense 6-man front, we need to throw the ball every damn down. Running the ball at that point was a wasted down.

You have to at least show that you're willing to run. Now, with KC (and say BUF) you can get away with running a bare-ass minimum number of times because Mahomes/Allen, but you can't just not run the ball ever. Teams that try that get beat, more often than not.

But part of what happened last night is all the errors and turnovers forced Andy's hand at a certain point. About when that INT happened with Kelce late in the third or whenever.

That was about the 6-minute mark in the third, iirc, and i remember checking the clock and realizing the Chiefs really only had about three drives left to score 8 points just to tie, and at least two score (min. 9 pts) to win the game in regulation. At that point, you abandon whatever is extraneous and roll with your best players and your best plays, which for KC are all in the passing game.

If we had a Saquon/McCaffrey/Henry maybe you still do some ground and pound, but the Chiefs don't any such thing. We have a Travis. And an Andy. And a Mahomes. Not one of those guys is an elite RB, obviously, but they comprise the core of one of the greatest air attacks in NFL history.

Sorry, I meant kore.