Chiefs Propaganda: EVERYTHING IS FINE, SITUATION NORMAL

[Hammock Parties]

http://www.chiefs.com/news/article-2...c-8910d9dd7f3a

Perception can often be clouded in the interim by the emotions of the moment, and after the Kansas City Chiefs 43-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, head coach Andy Reid took a step back on Monday while speaking with the local media at the University of Kansas Hospital Training Complex.

“We’re 2-2,” Reid explained. “It’s not the end of the world, even though it feels that way. That’s how things are in the National Football League. We’ve got a week to step back, analyze and fix some of these issues.”

If there’s a team that knows a thing or two about putting things behind them and moving forward, it’s this Chiefs team, which overcame a 1-5 start a year ago to rattle off 10 straight regular season victories to make the playoffs, then winning their first playoff game in more than two decades.

But all-time win streaks shouldn’t have to be the plan every year to overcome a slow first quarter of the season. At 2-2, the Chiefs can use Sunday as a teachable moment and find something positive in it moving forward.

While it may seem obvious, one bad loss doesn’t mean the goals for this team are now unattainable.

Over the past six years, 31 of the 72 playoff teams had a game in their respective seasons that they lost by 25 or more points, and that also includes three of the last six Super Bowl winners.

Those 72 playoff teams had an average worst defeat that year of 20 points, so it’s not uncommon for successful teams to have a bad game. The Chiefs just need to make sure it’s an outlier.

“We have a bunch of fighters here, we just have to look into the mirror and realize we did not come to play (on Sunday),” veteran Tamba Hali said after the game. “When we play together, we do well. When we do not play well and make mistakes like we did (against the Steelers), that is the result. That’s a good team we played today. They win Super Bowls here.

“For us to take that step, we have to beat a few teams like [the Steelers].”

“You learn a lot about yourself when you get your butt kicked,” veteran Derrick Johnson added after the game. “The best thing about it is it counts as one game. It does not put a damper on the season, and it does not set us into panic mode.

“We’ll learn a lot about our team’s character after something like this. We were tested and we’ll have to see if we can rise up to the challenge.”

It’s a locker room that’s been tested before and come out on the right end of it, and while the sting of a nationally televised loss is still fresh in the minds of the players, coaches and fans, the truth is there are 12 regular-season games left and the next game is against their division rival in the Oakland Raiders.

Reid’s message to his team after the game was pretty simple.

“When you’re a good football team, or you’re perceived to be a good football team, you’ve got to learn how to control yourself, play better and not let emotions get the best of you,” Reid explained.”Our guys busted their tails and tried hard. We’ve got to learn how to control those emotions.

“It’s fully on my plate and my responsibility to make sure our guys understand that, and they will because that’s the type of locker room we have.”

We learned last year never to count out the Chiefs, so while the loss stings and shouldn’t be discarded or forgotten, the fact is it took them until Week 7 of last year to pick up their second win of the season. It’s a perspective that’s hard to see when the emotions of what could have been on Sunday night were quickly tossed to the side because of a slow start.

“If we’re all pulling in the same direction, we’ll be a pretty good football team,” Reid concluded.

[notorious]

This team has speed, yet the play schemes continue to corral them.


Let the thoroughbreds run FFS.

[lewdog]

Technically "everything is normal" is correct.


Consistently play well enough to produce decent season. But never play well enough to produce great seasons.


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[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

After watching the first 4 games....you can't honestly believe that.

Seeing what I've seen from the Chiefs under Reid the last 3 years, I do. They did this in years 2 and 3. This looks as bad as those did. It's time for them to wake up, and do what they did in those years. The difference is I think the team made strides in year 3 that will have them progress from year 2 and finish stronger. For whatever reason Reid and his staff are completely unprepared to start the season. Once the 1st quarter is over, they wake up and make the adjustments necessary for the team to start beating everyone they play. It might be 6-10, but history doesn't show that. It's more likely 11-5 again, but I think they'll grow and finish 12-4.

[MahiMike]

The Raiders are 3-1. It won't last. These things even themselves out.

[George Liquor]

Well, i feel like this season is going to be disappointing and we aren't winning the Superbowl.. so yeah, everything is normal.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

It's Reid, so the changes aren't going to be immediate. It's going to take him half the year to learn to just run the ball up the ****ing gut, and even then he'll load up the play sheet with ****ing gadget shit to societal cancer Tyreek Hill as well as 1000 bubble screens

Alex Smith best success with Jim Harbaugh and 9ers came from handing off to Frank Gore and now and then playaction pass to wide open Vernon Davis. Even Alex Smith couldn't **** that up too much. It took 9 seasons for Alex Smith to win a playoff game for the 9ers and have a coach get any kind of success out of him.

Alex Smith is not an every down passer that Andy Reid thinks he is.

[eDave]

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Alex Smith best success with Jim Harbaugh and 9ers came from handing off to Frank Gore and now and then playaction pass to wide open Vernon Davis. Even Alex Smith couldn't **** that up too much. It took 9 seasons for Alex Smith to win a playoff game for the 9ers and have a coach get any kind of success out of him.

Alex Smith is not an every down passer that Andy Reid thinks he is.

That bottom line really IS the bottom line

Smith does best when supporting a strong and consistent running game, not the other way around

[suzzer99]

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Seeing what I've seen from the Chiefs under Reid the last 3 years, I do. They did this in years 2 and 3. This looks as bad as those did. It's time for them to wake up, and do what they did in those years. The difference is I think the team made strides in year 3 that will have them progress from year 2 and finish stronger. For whatever reason Reid and his staff are completely unprepared to start the season. Once the 1st quarter is over, they wake up and make the adjustments necessary for the team to start beating everyone they play. It might be 6-10, but history doesn't show that. It's more likely 11-5 again, but I think they'll grow and finish 12-4.

Good on you. Not one of the MANY crybaby bitches screaming the sky is falling.

I'd say 10-6, but if the OL can get above bottom tier, and Houston returns to be effective? yeah, maybe more than 10.

[Red Dawg]

This team will win nothing with Smith under center. It's that simple.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks

Good on you. Not one of the MANY crybaby bitches screaming the sky is falling.

I'd say 10-6, but if the OL can get above bottom tier, and Houston returns to be effective? yeah, maybe more than 10.

Zip it, ****.

[OctoberFart]

Reid has to do a better job.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Seeing what I've seen from the Chiefs under Reid the last 3 years, I do. They did this in years 2 and 3. This looks as bad as those did. It's time for them to wake up, and do what they did in those years. The difference is I think the team made strides in year 3 that will have them progress from year 2 and finish stronger. For whatever reason Reid and his staff are completely unprepared to start the season. Once the 1st quarter is over, they wake up and make the adjustments necessary for the team to start beating everyone they play. It might be 6-10, but history doesn't show that. It's more likely 11-5 again, but I think they'll grow and finish 12-4.

The problem is Mr. Flopnuts is that we just can't get Justin Houston back quick enough and have focus on offense to keep the defense off the field. Ware never had a fumble problem but the focus isn't there and it shows on the players.

God bless you Mr. Flopnuts for having this kind of optimism God bless you but wait for reality.

[RunKC]

I see 10-6. We don't play that many good teams after the midpoint and a lot of the last stretch is at home