Chiefs Ten Things About Today’s Game – Guest Edition - Page 3

scho63 · 10-26-2014, 04:41 PM

Ten Things About Today's Game

I was nervous all week and took a notepad while watching the game today to jot down everything I could. This is like trying to follow the Beatles after they arrived in America and played Shea Stadium. It will never be as good…..

1. CHIEFS PLAYED A VERY COMPLETE GAME-EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES
What a great way to win a football game by having everyone step up and help the team win. Rams have NEVER beaten us since they moved to St Louis and today we continued that streak. We scored 34 straight points, quickly fixed what was wrong at the start and once again beat a team that was weaker. We were supposed to beat them and we did. It is never easy when your opponent is feeling confident after the big win they had beating Seattle but we torpedoed their hopes shortly after the start of the second quarter and never looked back.

Most everyone had a good-to-great game with a big edge in time of possession, even on turnovers, killed them in sacks, a few too many penalties, and overall stepped on their necks when we had them down. That’s how a good team becomes great. Even little Cairo Santos started booming kickoffs into the stands by the end of the game.

2. SLOW START-THE CHIEFS WAY
Why is it that after watching the Chiefs for 44 years they never seem to get going until another team scores? Once again we came out and played like a bunch of 40 year old guys playing flag football on the weekend. We gave up too much space on coverage, stumbled around on defense with huge holes, made numerous mistakes on offense, had stupid penalties, let the other team score and then finally said, “HEY WE ARE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING PRO FOOTBALL AT OUR HOME STADIUM, LET’S KICK ASS!” Then things finally began to shift to our favor.

We really sucked in the first quarter and Rams dominated. Special teams opened the game with allowing a big 41 yd return to the 35 yard line to start for the Rams and they scored in 3 minutes. Felt like a repeat of the Titans game and made me initially very nervous.

Abdullah played like shit almost the entire game and was burnt like toast against Britt for a big gain in the 1st QTR. He was at least 7-8 YARDS behind. Looked like he was running in quicksand.

3. MOMENTUM SHIFT – MISS A FIELD GOAL AFTER A VERY NICE DRIVE AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE 2ND QTR
How demoralizing is it for a team to take a quick lead, dominate their opponent on the road, play good defense and offense, and then just when you are going to kick a field goal after a good drive to pad your lead, your kicker shits the bed and the momentum swings 180 degrees. Well it is easy to see what happens because the Chiefs took major advantage of the shift and woke up out of their coma to kick the Rams ass up and down the field for the rest of the game.

Kelce is so damn good and should be targeted no less than 7-8 times a game. Guy is a faster Jason Whitten and he may become one of the greatest TE’s ever to play. That is bold statement but I’m going on record! Write it down!!! You heard it here!!!

Rams were getting injured all over the place-they had guys getting hurt all day and in the second quarter, suffered a few tough ones and I know how it feels as we suffered a lot early in the season. This also helped us.

4. JAMAAL CHARLES = PRIEST HOLMES = MARCUS ALLEN
We are very lucky to have three of the greatest Red Zone touchdown scoring machines in NFL history playing at some time for the Chiefs.

When Joe Montana gave the ball to Marcus Allen, he didn’t score some of the time, he didn’t score most of the time, he scored ALL of the time. Priest Holmes did the same and now we have Jamaal Charles who smells the end zone and finds a way to get to the end zone. Andy Reid blew the Denver game by not giving JC any carries at the end of the game and probably lost the 49’ers game by NOT feeding the ball to Jamaal to wind down the clock when we had a lead.
Why oh why Fat Andy? You have an incredibly talented workhorse at your disposal, use him more please!!!

5. OUR DEFENSIVE REPLACEMENTS PLAYING GREAT-WHERE IS ERIC BERRY AND WHO CARES THAT HE IS NOT PLAYING?
If someone told me at the beginning of the year that Derrick Johnson, Mike Devito, Erik Berry, Jeff Allen, Joe Mays, Joe McKnight, Sanders Commings (again) and Mike Catapano, would not be playing then add in Dwayne Bowe's and Donald Stephenson’s suspensions while looking at our schedule, I would say we would be lucky to win 4 or 5 games. Yet somehow Dorsey brought in a bunch of no-names that are performing GREAT! I have been a big Dorsey critic so I must finally say I AM WRONG. Dorsey is awesome and our defense is playing fantastic!

7 SACKS, 7 SACKS, 7 SACKS. Say that three times fast!

We got good pressure and contained most of the game after the rough first quarter

No Ram player caught more than 2 passes-that is pretty damn special.

We continue to DOMINATE other teams on their third down and today we allowed a paltry 3-11 conversion for the Rams. If we can do this all year, we will win most games. This is a greatly underappreciated statistic. Way to go Chiefs “D”!

6. OUR OFFENSE VS THEIR DEFENSE
At the start of the game, the Rams were FLYING all over the field making great tackles and pursuing all over the place. They are an underrated defense who sadly have NO pass rush, ranked at the bottom with little to no sacks. We looked like shit and had no rhythm for the entire first quarter but made great adjustments as well as waking up to turn the tide after their missed FG. Once we gained control, we never looked back.

Our offense had a great mix but once in a while we threw in a real stinker that lost yards. We seem to have a lot of negative plays today with some crappy play calling once again. Need to clean this up.

Dwayne Bowe played better today than prior games with a total of six catches and made some really nice grabs in tight coverage. He still suffers from lack of separation but he overcomes that with his strength.

Travis Kelce does nothing but catch the ball, get great yardage, and impress.

DAT was played much more this game but didn’t have too many opportunities expect one nice 17 yard gain. He is super fast.

Once again-ZERO TOUCHDOWNS FROM OUR WIDE RECEIVERS! That is pathetic.

7. HERO’S VS ZEROS
-HEROS: Jamaal Charles, Allen Bailey, Justin Houston, Knile Davis, Josh Mauga, Travis Kelce, Ron Parker and yes, Alex Smith. All these guys played great and Ron Parker is making me forget that guy named EB very quickly!

Justin Houston turned it up a notch and those three sacks were great.

Allen Bailey is a great surprise and playing above expections.

Knile Davis is a bruising bull of a running back yet he someone manages to BLAST by everyone and return a KO 99 yds at high speed. That is special talent my friends.

Ron Parker was amazing today. Had an INT, numerous tackles, great coverage, and playing well beyond expectations. KUDOS!

Alex Smith haters can go pound salt and his finished 24 of 28 for 226 with no turnovers! I’ll take that any day of the week.

-ZEROS: Eric Fisher and Husain Abdullah
Fisher got burnt bad and allowed one sack, had a penalty, and played average for the most part, certainly not like a #1 draft pick.

Abdullah was the weak man in coverage today and he was burnt a few times, didn’t have good stats and looked slow as hell.

8. LUCK FOR US WITH THE ZEBRAS
This was a game that somehow we got a lot of luck from the zebras. In the third quarter the Rams had two penalties against us for spearing and personal foul that were complete bullshit but you know what, I’ll take ‘em. We had a few other penalties that we received that were questionable and not sure why we got so lucky but after what we suffered all these years on bad calls AGAINST us, good for the Chiefs.

We had too many penalties once more and probably all of them deserved from everything I saw. Got to stop the stupid few but thankfully we only had one on special teams as opposed to 5 each week. Slight improvement.

9. ANNOUNCERS- FANTASTIC ANALYZATION AND FAIRNESS
Dick Stockton and Donovan McNabb called a great and very fair game in my opinion. They showed no bias, called in like it was, and when the Rams got a few awful calls in the second quarter they pointed them out.

They also made sure to note that Ron Parker has been playing great in Eric Berry’s absence, Travis Kelce is a rapidly rising star, and Jamaal Charles better get the ball in the Red Zone as often as possible. They think the Chiefs have something special!

10. THE ABSENCE OF GBLOWFISH-SECRET MISSION
I am honored and deeply appreciative to be able to be a guest writer for one of the best threads ever on Chiefs Planet, Ten Things. I met George Blowfish, his wife, Mr Doggity, and another fan from New Jersey last year when I came to Arrowhead for the Giants game after 43 years to see my first game as a Chiefs fan. It was an incredible experience and he showed my around the stadium and took a photo of me next to the Super Bowl trophy, which was the reason I became a Chiefs fan in the first place.

He then sent me 3 BBQ sauces via UPS from Gates, LC and Arthur Bryant’s to try along with a few Cherry Mash candies. How can you not like the guy?

Anyway he is on a secret mission with his gang so I can only show you their cover photo.

KC Star Photos
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...le3387861.html

Thanks so much and welcome back next week GBlowfish!

GO ROYALS!!!

58-4ever · 10-26-2014, 05:43 PM

Good work by George picking a sub.

JohnnyHammersticks · 10-26-2014, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

**Obligatory nice job Shoe63**

I wanted to mention the play Knile Davis could have walked into the endzone. Looked like Moses parting the red sea on rams defense. They didn't want anything to do with tackling him.

Can you blame them? Did you see him out there? He almost tore that one guy's arm out of its socket, he hit him so hard. I'm honestly worried that Knile is going to kill a DB at some point in his career. I've seen guys run hard before, but I in no way would want any part of trying to tackle Knile. I'd be diving at his shoelaces and hoping he didn't kick my head off my neck. In fact, I'd just fake a hamstring tear and have nothing to do with it.

Knile is an extremely rare combination of mass and velocity. What a one-two combination we have, my friends.

Deberg_1990 · 10-26-2014, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by scho63

Ten Things About Today's Game

I was nervous all week and took a notepad while watching the game today to jot down everything I could. This is like trying to follow the Beatles after they arrived in America and played Shea Stadium. It will never be as good…..

1. CHIEFS PLAYED A VERY COMPLETE GAME-EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES
What a great way to win a football game by having everyone step up and help the team win. Rams have NEVER beaten us since they moved to St Louis and today we continued that streak. We scored 34 straight points, quickly fixed what was wrong at the start and once again beat a team that was weaker. We were supposed to beat them and we did. It is never easy when your opponent is feeling confident after the big win they had beating Seattle but we torpedoed their hopes shortly after the start of the second quarter and never looked back.

Most everyone had a good-to-great game with a big edge in time of possession, even on turnovers, killed them in sacks, a few too many penalties, and overall stepped on their necks when we had them down. That’s how a good team becomes great. Even little Cairo Santos started booming kickoffs into the stands by the end of the game.

2. SLOW START-THE CHIEFS WAY
Why is it that after watching the Chiefs for 44 years they never seem to get going until another team scores? Once again we came out and played like a bunch of 40 year old guys playing flag football on the weekend. We gave up too much space on coverage, stumbled around on defense with huge holes, made numerous mistakes on offense, had stupid penalties, let the other team score and then finally said, “HEY WE ARE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING PRO FOOTBALL AT OUR HOME STADIUM, LET’S KICK ASS!” Then things finally began to shift to our favor.

We really sucked in the first quarter and Rams dominated. Special teams opened the game with allowing a big 41 yd return to the 35 yard line to start for the Rams and they scored in 3 minutes. Felt like a repeat of the Titans game and made me initially very nervous.

Abdullah played like shit almost the entire game and was burnt like toast against Britt for a big gain in the 1st QTR. He was at least 7-8 YARDS behind. Looked like he was running in quicksand.

3. MOMENTUM SHIFT – MISS A FIELD GOAL AFTER A VERY NICE DRIVE AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE 2ND QTR
How demoralizing is it for a team to take a quick lead, dominate their opponent on the road, play good defense and offense, and then just when you are going to kick a field goal after a good drive to pad your lead, your kicker shits the bed and the momentum swings 180 degrees. Well it is easy to see what happens because the Chiefs took major advantage of the shift and woke up out of their coma to kick the Rams ass up and down the field for the rest of the game.

Kelce is so damn good and should be targeted no less than 7-8 times a game. Guy is a faster Jason Whitten and he may become one of the greatest TE’s ever to play. That is bold statement but I’m going on record! Write it down!!! You heard it here!!!

Rams were getting injured all over the place-they had guys getting hurt all day and in the second quarter, suffered a few tough ones and I know how it feels as we suffered a lot early in the season. This also helped us.

4. JAMAAL CHARLES = PRIEST HOLMES = MARCUS ALLEN
We are very lucky to have three of the greatest Red Zone touchdown scoring machines in NFL history playing at some time for the Chiefs.

When Joe Montana gave the ball to Marcus Allen, he didn’t score some of the time, he didn’t score most of the time, he scored ALL of the time. Priest Holmes did the same and now we have Jamaal Charles who smells the end zone and finds a way to get to the end zone. Andy Reid blew the Denver game by not giving JC any carries at the end of the game and probably lost the 49’ers game by NOT feeding the ball to Jamaal to wind down the clock when we had a lead.
Why oh why Fat Andy? You have an incredibly talented workhorse at your disposal, use him more please!!!

5. OUR DEFENSIVE REPLACEMENTS PLAYING GREAT-WHERE IS ERIC BERRY AND WHO CARES THAT HE IS NOT PLAYING?
If someone told me at the beginning of the year that Derrick Johnson, Mike Devito, Erik Berry, Jeff Allen, Joe Mays, Joe McKnight, Sanders Commings (again) and Mike Catapano, would not be playing then add in Dwayne Bowe's and Donald Stephenson’s suspensions while looking at our schedule, I would say we would be lucky to win 4 or 5 games. Yet somehow Dorsey brought in a bunch of no-names that are performing GREAT! I have been a big Dorsey critic so I must finally say I AM WRONG. Dorsey is awesome and our defense is playing fantastic!

7 SACKS, 7 SACKS, 7 SACKS. Say that three times fast!

We got good pressure and contained most of the game after the rough first quarter

No Ram player caught more than 2 passes-that is pretty damn special.

We continue to DOMINATE other teams on their third down and today we allowed a paltry 3-11 conversion for the Rams. If we can do this all year, we will win most games. This is a greatly underappreciated statistic. Way to go Chiefs “D”!

6. OUR OFFENSE VS THEIR DEFENSE
At the start of the game, the Rams were FLYING all over the field making great tackles and pursuing all over the place. They are an underrated defense who sadly have NO pass rush, ranked at the bottom with little to no sacks. We looked like shit and had no rhythm for the entire first quarter but made great adjustments as well as waking up to turn the tide after their missed FG. Once we gained control, we never looked back.

Our offense had a great mix but once in a while we threw in a real stinker that lost yards. We seem to have a lot of negative plays today with some crappy play calling once again. Need to clean this up.

Dwayne Bowe played better today than prior games with a total of six catches and made some really nice grabs in tight coverage. He still suffers from lack of separation but he overcomes that with his strength.

Travis Kelce does nothing but catch the ball, get great yardage, and impress.

DAT was played much more this game but didn’t have too many opportunities expect one nice 17 yard gain. He is super fast.

Once again-ZERO TOUCHDOWNS FROM OUR WIDE RECEIVERS! That is pathetic.

7. HERO’S VS ZEROS
-HEROS: Jamaal Charles, Allen Bailey, Justin Houston, Knile Davis, Josh Mauga, Travis Kelce, Ron Parker and yes, Alex Smith. All these guys played great and Ron Parker is making me forget that guy named EB very quickly!

Justin Houston turned it up a notch and those three sacks were great.

Allen Bailey is a great surprise and playing above expections.

Knile Davis is a bruising bull of a running back yet he someone manages to BLAST by everyone and return a KO 99 yds at high speed. That is special talent my friends.

Ron Parker was amazing today. Had an INT, numerous tackles, great coverage, and playing well beyond expectations. KUDOS!

Alex Smith haters can go pound salt and his finished 24 of 28 for 226 with no turnovers! I’ll take that any day of the week.

-ZEROS: Eric Fisher and Husain Abdullah
Fisher got burnt bad and allowed one sack, had a penalty, and played average for the most part, certainly not like a #1 draft pick.

Abdullah was the weak man in coverage today and he was burnt a few times, didn’t have good stats and looked slow as hell.

8. LUCK FOR US WITH THE ZEBRAS
This was a game that somehow we got a lot of luck from the zebras. In the third quarter the Rams had two penalties against us for spearing and personal foul that were complete bullshit but you know what, I’ll take ‘em. We had a few other penalties that we received that were questionable and not sure why we got so lucky but after what we suffered all these years on bad calls AGAINST us, good for the Chiefs.

We had too many penalties once more and probably all of them deserved from everything I saw. Got to stop the stupid few but thankfully we only had one on special teams as opposed to 5 each week. Slight improvement.

9. ANNOUNCERS- FANTASTIC ANALYZATION AND FAIRNESS
Dick Stockton and Donovan McNabb called a great and very fair game in my opinion. They showed no bias, called in like it was, and when the Rams got a few awful calls in the second quarter they pointed them out.

They also made sure to note that Ron Parker has been playing great in Eric Berry’s absence, Travis Kelce is a rapidly rising star, and Jamaal Charles better get the ball in the Red Zone as often as possible. They think the Chiefs have something special!

10. THE ABSENCE OF GBLOWFISH-SECRET MISSION
I am honored and deeply appreciative to be able to be a guest writer for one of the best threads ever on Chiefs Planet, Ten Things. I met George Blowfish, his wife, Mr Doggity, and another fan from New Jersey last year when I came to Arrowhead for the Giants game after 43 years to see my first game as a Chiefs fan. It was an incredible experience and he showed my around the stadium and took a photo of me next to the Super Bowl trophy, which was the reason I became a Chiefs fan in the first place.

He then sent me 3 BBQ sauces via UPS from Gates, LC and Arthur Bryant’s to try along with a few Cherry Mash candies. How can you not like the guy?

Anyway he is on a secret mission with his gang so I can only show you their cover photo.

KC Star Photos
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...le3387861.html

Thanks so much and welcome back next week GBlowfish!

GO ROYALS!!!

No Santos mention?

xztop123 · 10-26-2014, 05:50 PM

The way Parker plays the single high is amazing. He takes the slant, crossing route WR with the most separation, inside route and just runs with him until he's out of the QB's read and then takes off and jumps over to another WR or chases the QB.

It's like he's a Madden player usering the safety. Monster.

**bevischief** · 10-26-2014, 06:14 PM

It's just Wong

**Rausch** · 10-26-2014, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by xztop123

The way Parker plays the single high is amazing. He takes the slant, crossing route WR with the most separation, inside route and just runs with him until he's out of the QB's read and then takes off and jumps over to another WR or chases the QB.

It's like he's a Madden player usering the safety. Monster.

He's 100% different facing the play instead of trailing in coverage.

chiefzilla1501 · 10-26-2014, 06:25 PM

Alex Smith went 6-11 on 3rd down conversions. That included several times when penalties or plays for a loss put the Chiefs on a 3rd and 10+ hole.

I still believe this is maybe the biggest difference between this year and last year. Once again, we won the TOP game by over 10 minutes.

CallMeSquidwad · 10-26-2014, 06:36 PM

Anyone who thinks Fisher has been a bust first off needs to **** off and get a grip on reality; Quinn wasn't relevant other than a handful of plays. Another part about that argument that makes no sense is who would you have taken #1 instead of him? He was the best guy for the spot and he has been having a hell of a year.

milkman · 10-26-2014, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CallMeSquidwad

Anyone who thinks Fisher has been a bust first off needs to **** off and get a grip on reality; Quinn wasn't relevant other than a handful of plays. Another part about that argument that makes no sense is who would you have taken #1 instead of him? He was the best guy for the spot and he has been having a hell of a year.

We've had this discussion before, but first, Robert Quinn hasn't been a factor in any game this season, until today.

Sheldon Richardson.

So, go fist yourself.

BWillie · 10-26-2014, 06:43 PM

Im still amazed how so many of you are negative about this team. I didnt expect them to be any better than 8-8 and didnt expect all these injuries...and look at that. They are in the thick of things. If they can continue to develop the secondary and OL, along w Kelce we could have a very good team on our hands in the end.

This is a team that was punched in the mouth early by Tenn and has came back strong. Took it to the wire @ Denver. Beat the living shit outta NE, beat a very good divisional rival on the rd. A team mind you thatvcould be the 3rd best in the AFC. Then today looked the part vs STL who was fresh off of beating the Super Bowl champions.

otherstar · 10-26-2014, 07:49 PM

Great post, thanks!

bsp4444 · 10-26-2014, 08:28 PM

I can't believe how reluctant Alex smith is to throw the ball. I don't know how play action ever works for them...the same players bighting on the run are still in position to make a play on where Alex will throw it to.

Hydrae · 10-26-2014, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Past the previous losses it's already cost us, I mean.

The entire first half was just a bunch of Saunders-esque pass happy bullshit that looked like a giant shitload of ****, aborted 2 drives, and very nearly turned it over on the third.

Then having to burn a timeout with first and goal at the 1 foot line because we cant handle the concept of just snapping the ball, turning the **** around and giving the football to Jamaal without having a ****ing conference about it first.

He just doesn't get, or accept that this team is not built to execute his preferred philosophy.

The mark of a great coach is getting the most out of your players' talents. Not trying to make a group of guys excel at something they just aren't good at.

We're a smashmouth team. Period. We run the football to get yardage, we throw when we need a first down, not a touchdown. We play solid defense a few series per game because the offense kills the rest of the time when they have it.

Andy is still trying to put the square peg in the round hole. Instead of just leaning on our backs and play-actioning the defense to death, he wants to come out, spread these guys out and watch his O-Line led by his R1P1 LT get beaten like a ****ing drum and see his conservative QB running for his life on a down that becomes a disaster waiting to happen.

Just line these guys up, and cram the ****ing thing down their throats. Sherman is playing amazing as lead blocker. **** that cute shit, and pound the rock and play defense.

Wallcrawler · 10-26-2014, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by CallMeSquidwad

Anyone who thinks Fisher has been a bust first off needs to **** off and get a grip on reality; Quinn wasn't relevant other than a handful of plays. Another part about that argument that makes no sense is who would you have taken #1 instead of him? He was the best guy for the spot and he has been having a hell of a year.

If you think that Eric Fisher has lived up to the spot he was taken, YOU need to **** off because you've clearly lost your fingertip grip on anything resembling sanity, and have descended into an abyss of irreversible lunacy.

You ever wonder why Alex is so quick to get rid of the football? So quick to take off and run? Why he throws so many checkdowns?

Could it possibly be that the guy protecting (and I use that word very, VERY ****ing loosely here) HIS ****ING BLIND SIDE gets beaten so badly, SO ****ING REGULARLY, that he has simply come to expect it and has set his mental clock on getting rid of the football accordingly?

Eric Fisher is an inconsistent pile of **** at the LT position. He's been beaten so badly at times this year you wonder how he even stays on the field. Ive seen him get uprooted in the run game, carried three steps laterally, and firmly planted into the turf by a defender. And this is supposed to be his area of strength, the run blocking game.

He's tried to block defenders with his ass this year, for ****'s sake. So don't come in here and tell people they shouldn't be calling out Fisher for not living up to R1P1, because he ****ing hasn't. Not even close. Not even a little bit.

Dude was so shit in this game he's false starting AT HOME because he knows he needs every edge he can get. And then gets beaten on the very next play like he's not even there. Commentators (if you call those two talking bags of smashed assholes fox put in there commentators) bust the balls of Jamaal Charles and Travis Kelce for "not helping out their tackle." Hilarious.

Robert Quinn had ONE sack coming into this game. He was a non-factor, and Fisher made him look like the second coming of Reggie White.

Someone better check under that helmet and make sure Jordan Black isn't out there rocking Fisher's jersey.

Jmart · 10-26-2014, 09:42 PM

Great job!

10-26-2014, 04:41 PM
scho63 Politically Incorrect Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Casino cash: $-950000	Ten Things About Today’s Game – Guest Edition Ten Things About Today's Game I was nervous all week and took a notepad while watching the game today to jot down everything I could. This is like trying to follow the Beatles after they arrived in America and played Shea Stadium. It will never be as good….. 1. CHIEFS PLAYED A VERY COMPLETE GAME-EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES What a great way to win a football game by having everyone step up and help the team win. Rams have NEVER beaten us since they moved to St Louis and today we continued that streak. We scored 34 straight points, quickly fixed what was wrong at the start and once again beat a team that was weaker. We were supposed to beat them and we did. It is never easy when your opponent is feeling confident after the big win they had beating Seattle but we torpedoed their hopes shortly after the start of the second quarter and never looked back. Most everyone had a good-to-great game with a big edge in time of possession, even on turnovers, killed them in sacks, a few too many penalties, and overall stepped on their necks when we had them down. That’s how a good team becomes great. Even little Cairo Santos started booming kickoffs into the stands by the end of the game. 2. SLOW START-THE CHIEFS WAY Why is it that after watching the Chiefs for 44 years they never seem to get going until another team scores? Once again we came out and played like a bunch of 40 year old guys playing flag football on the weekend. We gave up too much space on coverage, stumbled around on defense with huge holes, made numerous mistakes on offense, had stupid penalties, let the other team score and then finally said, “HEY WE ARE SUPPOSEDLY PLAYING PRO FOOTBALL AT OUR HOME STADIUM, LET’S KICK ASS!” Then things finally began to shift to our favor. We really sucked in the first quarter and Rams dominated. Special teams opened the game with allowing a big 41 yd return to the 35 yard line to start for the Rams and they scored in 3 minutes. Felt like a repeat of the Titans game and made me initially very nervous. Abdullah played like shit almost the entire game and was burnt like toast against Britt for a big gain in the 1st QTR. He was at least 7-8 YARDS behind. Looked like he was running in quicksand. 3. MOMENTUM SHIFT – MISS A FIELD GOAL AFTER A VERY NICE DRIVE AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE 2ND QTR How demoralizing is it for a team to take a quick lead, dominate their opponent on the road, play good defense and offense, and then just when you are going to kick a field goal after a good drive to pad your lead, your kicker shits the bed and the momentum swings 180 degrees. Well it is easy to see what happens because the Chiefs took major advantage of the shift and woke up out of their coma to kick the Rams ass up and down the field for the rest of the game. Kelce is so damn good and should be targeted no less than 7-8 times a game. Guy is a faster Jason Whitten and he may become one of the greatest TE’s ever to play. That is bold statement but I’m going on record! Write it down!!! You heard it here!!! Rams were getting injured all over the place-they had guys getting hurt all day and in the second quarter, suffered a few tough ones and I know how it feels as we suffered a lot early in the season. This also helped us. 4. JAMAAL CHARLES = PRIEST HOLMES = MARCUS ALLEN We are very lucky to have three of the greatest Red Zone touchdown scoring machines in NFL history playing at some time for the Chiefs. When Joe Montana gave the ball to Marcus Allen, he didn’t score some of the time, he didn’t score most of the time, he scored ALL of the time. Priest Holmes did the same and now we have Jamaal Charles who smells the end zone and finds a way to get to the end zone. Andy Reid blew the Denver game by not giving JC any carries at the end of the game and probably lost the 49’ers game by NOT feeding the ball to Jamaal to wind down the clock when we had a lead. Why oh why Fat Andy? You have an incredibly talented workhorse at your disposal, use him more please!!! 5. OUR DEFENSIVE REPLACEMENTS PLAYING GREAT-WHERE IS ERIC BERRY AND WHO CARES THAT HE IS NOT PLAYING? If someone told me at the beginning of the year that Derrick Johnson, Mike Devito, Erik Berry, Jeff Allen, Joe Mays, Joe McKnight, Sanders Commings (again) and Mike Catapano, would not be playing then add in Dwayne Bowe's and Donald Stephenson’s suspensions while looking at our schedule, I would say we would be lucky to win 4 or 5 games. Yet somehow Dorsey brought in a bunch of no-names that are performing GREAT! I have been a big Dorsey critic so I must finally say I AM WRONG. Dorsey is awesome and our defense is playing fantastic! 7 SACKS, 7 SACKS, 7 SACKS. Say that three times fast! We got good pressure and contained most of the game after the rough first quarter No Ram player caught more than 2 passes-that is pretty damn special. We continue to DOMINATE other teams on their third down and today we allowed a paltry 3-11 conversion for the Rams. If we can do this all year, we will win most games. This is a greatly underappreciated statistic. Way to go Chiefs “D”! 6. OUR OFFENSE VS THEIR DEFENSE At the start of the game, the Rams were FLYING all over the field making great tackles and pursuing all over the place. They are an underrated defense who sadly have NO pass rush, ranked at the bottom with little to no sacks. We looked like shit and had no rhythm for the entire first quarter but made great adjustments as well as waking up to turn the tide after their missed FG. Once we gained control, we never looked back. Our offense had a great mix but once in a while we threw in a real stinker that lost yards. We seem to have a lot of negative plays today with some crappy play calling once again. Need to clean this up. Dwayne Bowe played better today than prior games with a total of six catches and made some really nice grabs in tight coverage. He still suffers from lack of separation but he overcomes that with his strength. Travis Kelce does nothing but catch the ball, get great yardage, and impress. DAT was played much more this game but didn’t have too many opportunities expect one nice 17 yard gain. He is super fast. Once again-ZERO TOUCHDOWNS FROM OUR WIDE RECEIVERS! That is pathetic. 7. HERO’S VS ZEROS -HEROS: Jamaal Charles, Allen Bailey, Justin Houston, Knile Davis, Josh Mauga, Travis Kelce, Ron Parker and yes, Alex Smith. All these guys played great and Ron Parker is making me forget that guy named EB very quickly! Justin Houston turned it up a notch and those three sacks were great. Allen Bailey is a great surprise and playing above expections. Knile Davis is a bruising bull of a running back yet he someone manages to BLAST by everyone and return a KO 99 yds at high speed. That is special talent my friends. Ron Parker was amazing today. Had an INT, numerous tackles, great coverage, and playing well beyond expectations. KUDOS! Alex Smith haters can go pound salt and his finished 24 of 28 for 226 with no turnovers! I’ll take that any day of the week. -ZEROS: Eric Fisher and Husain Abdullah Fisher got burnt bad and allowed one sack, had a penalty, and played average for the most part, certainly not like a #1 draft pick. Abdullah was the weak man in coverage today and he was burnt a few times, didn’t have good stats and looked slow as hell. 8. LUCK FOR US WITH THE ZEBRAS This was a game that somehow we got a lot of luck from the zebras. In the third quarter the Rams had two penalties against us for spearing and personal foul that were complete bullshit but you know what, I’ll take ‘em. We had a few other penalties that we received that were questionable and not sure why we got so lucky but after what we suffered all these years on bad calls AGAINST us, good for the Chiefs. We had too many penalties once more and probably all of them deserved from everything I saw. Got to stop the stupid few but thankfully we only had one on special teams as opposed to 5 each week. Slight improvement. 9. ANNOUNCERS- FANTASTIC ANALYZATION AND FAIRNESS Dick Stockton and Donovan McNabb called a great and very fair game in my opinion. They showed no bias, called in like it was, and when the Rams got a few awful calls in the second quarter they pointed them out. They also made sure to note that Ron Parker has been playing great in Eric Berry’s absence, Travis Kelce is a rapidly rising star, and Jamaal Charles better get the ball in the Red Zone as often as possible. They think the Chiefs have something special! 10. THE ABSENCE OF GBLOWFISH-SECRET MISSION I am honored and deeply appreciative to be able to be a guest writer for one of the best threads ever on Chiefs Planet, Ten Things. I met George Blowfish, his wife, Mr Doggity, and another fan from New Jersey last year when I came to Arrowhead for the Giants game after 43 years to see my first game as a Chiefs fan. It was an incredible experience and he showed my around the stadium and took a photo of me next to the Super Bowl trophy, which was the reason I became a Chiefs fan in the first place. He then sent me 3 BBQ sauces via UPS from Gates, LC and Arthur Bryant’s to try along with a few Cherry Mash candies. How can you not like the guy? Anyway he is on a secret mission with his gang so I can only show you their cover photo. KC Star Photos http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...le3387861.html Thanks so much and welcome back next week GBlowfish! GO ROYALS!!!
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10-26-2014, 05:43 PM	#31
58-4ever The Collective Unconscious Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The OP Casino cash: $9450422	Good work by George picking a sub.
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10-26-2014, 05:50 PM	#34
xztop123 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2013 Casino cash: $1150609	The way Parker plays the single high is amazing. He takes the slant, crossing route WR with the most separation, inside route and just runs with him until he's out of the QB's read and then takes off and jumps over to another WR or chases the QB. It's like he's a Madden player usering the safety. Monster.
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10-26-2014, 06:14 PM	#35
bevischief .... Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Somewhere Kansas Casino cash: $7729352 VARSITY	It's just Wong
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10-26-2014, 06:25 PM	#37
chiefzilla1501 In Search of a Life Join Date: Aug 2008 Casino cash: $-1775503	Alex Smith went 6-11 on 3rd down conversions. That included several times when penalties or plays for a loss put the Chiefs on a 3rd and 10+ hole. I still believe this is maybe the biggest difference between this year and last year. Once again, we won the TOP game by over 10 minutes.
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10-26-2014, 06:36 PM	#38
CallMeSquidwad Starter Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Peruvian Valley Casino cash: $10005995	Anyone who thinks Fisher has been a bust first off needs to **** off and get a grip on reality; Quinn wasn't relevant other than a handful of plays. Another part about that argument that makes no sense is who would you have taken #1 instead of him? He was the best guy for the spot and he has been having a hell of a year.
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10-26-2014, 06:43 PM	#40
BWillie Are you ready to Rumble? Join Date: Apr 2006 Casino cash: $-1478759	Im still amazed how so many of you are negative about this team. I didnt expect them to be any better than 8-8 and didnt expect all these injuries...and look at that. They are in the thick of things. If they can continue to develop the secondary and OL, along w Kelce we could have a very good team on our hands in the end. This is a team that was punched in the mouth early by Tenn and has came back strong. Took it to the wire @ Denver. Beat the living shit outta NE, beat a very good divisional rival on the rd. A team mind you thatvcould be the 3rd best in the AFC. Then today looked the part vs STL who was fresh off of beating the Super Bowl champions.
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10-26-2014, 07:49 PM	#41
otherstar Veteran Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX area Casino cash: $6932083	Great post, thanks!
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10-26-2014, 08:28 PM	#42
bsp4444 Veteran Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Blue Springs, MO Casino cash: $-1954695	I can't believe how reluctant Alex smith is to throw the ball. I don't know how play action ever works for them...the same players bighting on the run are still in position to make a play on where Alex will throw it to.
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10-26-2014, 09:42 PM	#45
Jmart Starter Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Diego Casino cash: $10004965	Great job! __________________ Bratton, who often calls the city the car chase capital of the world, was asked why there are so many pursuits in Los Angeles: "There are a lot of nuts here," he said.
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