2024's Red zone failures

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by -King-

Just heard that the Chiefs have settled for the most field goals in the red zone for any team through 12 weeks since 2018. They also have settled for the most field goals of any Patrick Mahomes team already.


They have to drastically improve that. Hopefully with DJ we can start running better plays down there. And Andy needs to stop settling. I would love to see us to for it more on 4th downs down there

Meh. I mean, part of it is that Andy tends to try out different plays or player packages during the regular season. Not having Pacheco for months probably also played a part. The OTs playing like ass likely contributed to the lack of success. Just saying, it's probably not just one or two things. Like most things, it was/is probably more of a domino effect of several/many issues that resulted in the current poor performance in the RZ.

Once Humphries get settled in, and Pacheco really gets back in the flow, DHop gets fully involved in the RZ packages, etc. I'm sure we'll see the RZ efficiency start to go back up.

Of course, the keystone of all of that is DJ has to be a significant upgrade in performance over Morris/Kingsley, but I feel like that won't be an issue. It might take a couple three weeks, but DJ will make a big difference, imo.

In the meantime, I wouldn't mind seeing Andy steal some running plays from either DET or TB vs. the gadget stuff he tends to run.