Just haven't been playing very well recently

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

I'm not very good at making detailed assessments of the teams flaws. Others are better at that, and I'm sure they'll be doing so over the next few days here.

My concern is we just look very flat going into the playoffs, which isn't really the norm for the Chiefs in recent years. Reid and the coaching staff seem to "figure it out" midway or late into the season, and our team starts looking solid and cohesive going into the playoffs. This year just doesn't have that feeling. Very bad football teams are making us look bad and work for these wins, and we look very flawed and average.

We're 13-3, but we really don't feel like it. And we've seen this kind of team before around the league. The one with the impressive looking W-L record, but gets it's teeth knocked out in the first round by a team that has a better gameplan and just wants it more. I don't want that to be us, but it's hard to think otherwise when we come out and play like we have. Dunno what else to say.

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

We’ll be fine

Yip

[FloridaMan88]

Everything is correctable and except maybe Butker’s psyche.

[Graystoke]

I thought Defense played well today. Seems like the consensus is they sucked.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

Everything is correctable and except maybe Butker’s psyche.

Which is kind of a big deal.

[RINGLEADER]

Turnovers and special teams.

That's all it is.

Stop turning the ball over and we'll have games that are blowouts again.

All of our losses are due primarily to turnovers.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by JustDiqLix

Doesn’t matter. You won and you have Mahomes. The real Chiefs will show up when it matters (the playoffs).

I dunno. Special Teams have been a problem all season. FG kicking problems and a punt return fumble delivered a pretty big 11 point swing to Denver today. 13 point swing to the Colts earlier in the year. I don’t see them magically fixing those issues in the playoffs.

[scho63]

We could easily be 9-7 at this point. We have squeezed by shit teams at the last moment.

Overall we have played better than average but not our best under Mahomes.

[JoeyChuckles]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

We’ll be fine

PHM

[JustDíqLix]

Originally Posted by DRM08

I dunno. Special Teams have been a problem all season. FG kicking problems and a punt return fumble delivered a pretty big 11 point swing to Denver today. 13 point swing to the Colts earlier in the year. I don’t see them magically fixing those issues in the playoffs.

Mahomes turns those FG’s into TD’s in the playoffs.

[Rainbarrel]

Townsend needs to stop picking his nose with his holding hand

[old_geezer]

Originally Posted by DaFace

We've lost 3 games this year by a grand total of 10 points...in a year in which our entire division sold their futures to beat us and we were supposed to be rebuilding.

I'm not sure what more you can really ask for.

Needs to be said more often.

[irafreak]

But still winning. Get to the playoffs. Then who knows.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

If you want to feel better, take a look back at the second half of the 2020 season.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/schedu...kc/season/2020

Before we rested starters in week 17, we won 7 games by a total of 27pts. And we were playing some bad teams and allowing everyone to stay in the game.

It’s definitely disappointing but I wouldn’t pretend that we’ve never quite been here before.

I was going to bring this up. It seemed like we played like absolute shit at the end of that season, and squeaked past multiple shitty teams by the skin of our teeth. Much like the game today. Eerily similar actually.

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by DaFace

We've lost 3 games this year by a grand total of 10 points...in a year in which our entire division sold their futures to beat us and we were supposed to be rebuilding.

I'm not sure what more you can really ask for.

I guess my expectations are a bit high.

I really did predict a blood bath in the AFCW this year, and for it to be a "rebuild" considering how young we got.

But here we are at 13-3, which leads me to have Super Bowl aspirations again. But then we play like shit, which gets me depressed that we're gonna have an early exit from the playoffs.

[Raiderhater]

I was saying this in the game chat towards the end of the game -

It’s just not really possible to maintain a high level of execution and intensity over the course of a long season. And when you are one of the best teams in the in the league you are constantly going to get the the team’s best shot. And in the case of Denver in particular, today makes 15 straight times they have lost to the Chiefs, and in the midst of a season that they actually high expectations for and we’re falling short of from the start of the season. At some point that wounded and cornered animal is going to become very dangerous.

Are there issues we need to address? Obviously (special teams especially). But I’m just not that worried about looking a little flat and sloppy at times. They’ll likely be amped up and executing at a higher level when the games actually mean something.