Who do you MOST blame for the team's issues?

[Marcellus]

Read this before you vote, its pretty jaw dropping.

Kansas City has now lost four of its past six games with Patrick Mahomes in the lineup, after winning 12 in a row and 25 of its previous 26. How is that possible? Here is how: As a general rule, the Chiefs lose when their defense is not just bad, but off-the-charts bad. Bad, as in Allen completing 15 passes for 315 yards on the night.

By the way, Joe Namath holds the record for yardage in a game on 15 or fewer passes, because of course he does. Broadway Joe completed 15 for 496 yards and six touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts in 1972. Johnny Unitas passed for 376 yards, leading the New York Daily News to report that “Joe and old master John Unitas put on an aerial display that hasn’t been matched in this city since Francis Scott Key blew his mind over the rockets’ red glare.”

Are the Chiefs history, too?

If we stack all 59 Mahomes starts according to the Chiefs’ defensive EPA in those games, we see that Kansas City is 22-0 when its defense is average or better, according to TruMedia. The rest of the league is 586-262-5 (.690) in those games. Advantage, Chiefs.

We see that Kansas City is 15-2 in games when its defense is below average, but not off-the-charts bad. The rest of the league is 202-346-2 (.371) in those games. Advantage, Chiefs.

Finally, we see that Kansas City is 9-11 in the games when its defense is at its worst. The rest of the league is 70-281-1 (.200) in those games. Big, huge, Tier 1 quarterback advantage, Chiefs, except that 9-11 is not a good record in isolation. Unfortunately for Kansas City, all five Chiefs games this season fall into the “worst defensive games” category. That is reflected in the team’s record, which might not improve unless the defense does.