Patriots' defense last night

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Dante84

It was the classic BB approach of "take away your opponent's best weapon."

In this game, that was our passing game.

They wanted us to run, because it slows the game down, eats clock, and removed "splash plays" by taking away Patrick's ability to create new windows to throw through.

On Offense, they wanted to run and eat clock as well, to keep him on the sideline.

It almost worked, and we still won by 16, because we are a complete team. Huge punts from Townsend, big plays when we needed them on offense, and ball-hawk secondary combined with timely sacks on throwing downs from the defense.

It can't all be on the offense every game.

We'll take these learnings and apply them to future games.

And they still stopped the run with their stunts and speed up front. It was really impressive. Sure, the line could block better, but those stunts were lethal and their players didn't miss.

You want to know why the Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to start FOUR consecutive seasons with a 4-0 start? It's really ****ing hard to win in the NFL. Period. I'll take a 16-point win over the Patriots any day, even if it wasn't pretty enough for Chief Fan.