Chiefs Ten Things About Today's Game Week 5: KC 30 Jax 14 - Page 5

**gblowfish** · 05:17 PM

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 5: KC 30 Jax 14

10. I’m sorry to say I must apologize in advance, because you’re not going to get my best this week. I’ve been really seriously down because I lost one of my best pals Friday Night. I know a lot of you will think this is stupid, but I’ve had a buddy named Neighbor Cat for 18 years, who is a little Gray Tabby, and he has been my sports watching pal for all those years. He’s watched a lot of Royals and Chiefs games in my La-Z-Boy'ed lap. Neighbor passed away in his sleep Friday night, and I’ve been really a mess for a couple days. I didn’t think I would be, but it really hit me hard Friday. Yesterday I basically did nothing but wander around the house doing little chores, and hiding reminders of Neighbor from Mrs. B, who had been nursing him the last couple weeks trying to get him to eat something. It was just his time to check out, but its hard to admit he’s gone now. With the rain this morning I thought about not going to the game today, but Mrs. B. said “Look, you need to get out of the house and do something today.” So we packed up the ponchos and headed out for Arrowhead around 9am. God Bless Mrs. B. She’s sat with me in all kinds of weather since we got married in 1994. She’s a great Chiefs fan, and is always the offset to my pessimistic nature. So I dedicate this week’s Top Ten to Neighbor and Mrs. B, two of the great loves of my life.

9. Today’s word was MOIST. Word to the wise: On a noon kick, best be getting to Arrowhead by around 9:15. If you wait much later, you won’t be able to tailgate at all. Because of the rain and the early start, I got a great parking spot in Lot G. It rained and rained during tailgate time, and it was raining hard at kickoff. The Jags first series was in driving rain. Then when the Chiefs Offense got the ball, the rain just stopped. It was great. I thought at that point it was going to be our day.

8. In the pregame, the Jacksonville pundits were saying the way to beat the Chiefs was to run the ball 30 times, and run right at our outside linebackers. That may be true, but nobody’s been able to stick to that script this year so far, because everybody (except Denver) has been playing catch the Mahomes train out of the station. Chiefs were the first team this year to score a TD on the Jax defense on an opening drive. Mahomes went all Elway on them with a beautiful roll out to score.
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Mahomes is going to routinely throw for at least 300 yards a week. This week he had no TD passes and two picks, but we knew he was going to have picks eventually. Throwing two against the Jags secondary is no crime, as on both picks he was under an intense rush. The first he chucked into triple coverage, and the second one was simply a good play by the D-back breaking on the ball.

7. Bortles, on the other hand, threw the ball 61 freaking times! Sure he had over 400 yards passing, but he also had four picks -including a pick six which really changed the game momentum- and he lost a fumble on a strip sack. Jax only ran the ball 17 total times. You can say it was because Fournette was out hurt, and they lost a couple other backs during the game to injury. But the truth is, once KC gets an opponent into catch up mode, they are forced to throw the ball all over the lot to try to get back into the game. That’s what happened today, and Bortles doesn’t have the skill position players to win in a shoot out. And as John Madden once said, "I love it when a fat guy scores!" Note: Chris Jones isn't fat, but you know what I mean...

6. Mahomes continues to spread the ball around, nine different guys caught a ball. That’s the key to our offense. Who are you going to stop? Jags focused on stopping Tyreek. OK, fine. Watkins has six catches for 78 yards and Kelce had five for a Benjamin. Just too many options for Mahomes out there. Hunt continues to kill teams in the second half. He hasn’t had a breakout game where he goes crazy, but his yards have been all tough running yards - 87 today- and he had an important TD that put the game out of reach.
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The balance between run and pass has been excellent all year, and that makes this offense hard to handle.

5. Today was the defense’s day. They were the first defense to shut out the Jags in the first half so far this season. Chris Jones got his pick six before getting booted from the game for dropping an elbow on a dude during a PAT (major stupid and bad sportsmanship). And the defense had injuries galore: Houston, Watts, Murray, all out with no return. Ford and K-Pass got dinged up. Defense had five sacks on Bortles and chased him relentlessly all day long.

4. Shout out to Buttkicker for being money again this season. We take him for granted. He’s been excellent. Three for three on both field goals and PATs today. Colquitt averaged 52 yards per punt, and took a soccer style flop inside of two minutes to ice the game. Jags did the same stupid shit that the Steelers did a few weeks back - running into the punter to give KC a first down and certain victory formation. It bothered me a lot that Dave Toub gave up an onside kick in the fourth quarter, but it turned out that it didn’t matter, as the Jags came up a yard short on a fourth down pass near the goal line.
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3. Things got exceptionally chippy in this one. These teams don’t like each other. It started when Jax D-Line roughed Mahomes in the first quarter. Then Jones got kicked out after the PAT after the first Jags TD.
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Then Ford got kicked out after chasing Bortles out of bounds in the fourth quarter.
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After the game -don’t think they had this on TV- but #91 for the Jags -Yannick Nzakoue, had to be restrained by their coaches. Looked like he was going after Chiefs #26 Damien Williams. Dude looked like he wanted to go at it in the parking lot. Not sure what that was all about, but it was right in front of the Chiefs bench right at the end of the game. Very seldom do you see stuff like that after the game is over. Once the game ends, these guys are usually all buddy-buddy; trading jerseys and praying at midfield. This was not that... AT ALL. As far as Jones and Ford go, they need to keep their emotions in check. Getting kicked out when the team is already short handed on defensive players is not smart. And we certainly don’t want to be a team with dirty players. That’s reserved for the Donks and Faiders.

2. The Canadian Doc had a bad injury in the last couple minutes of the game. Andy said in the post game presser he may have a fractured leg. That really sucks, because the Doc has been playing at a Pro Bowl Level. I hope it’s not a season ender, we need him for the long haul. He's our best O Lineman.

1. So 5-0 is an amazing start, and way beyond what any of us had reasonably hoped for. I had predicted a 8-8 or 9-7 year. Donks lost, Faiders lost, and we’ve already beat the Bolts in their yard. So we’re sitting pretty in the AFC West. Next Sunday Night it’ll be another National TV game against Tommy Boy and the Hoodie. You know they’re going to be wanting some payback for us spoiling their Super Bowl Ring Night last year. I’m dreading what Brady will do to our secondary, especially since Watts and Murray both got hurt this week. This is the week we really need Eric Berry to come back to cover Gronk. Of course, that was the last real game he played in when he blew out his tendon last season. Even if we go in and lose there, if we were told that after six games we’d be five and one, with the only loss at Foxboro, we’d all take that gladly. I’m not saying that’s going to happen. If we can manage to win that game, it could have major playoff implications, to make the road to the Super Bowl run through Arrowhead in January instead of Gillette Stadium. And Brady’s never played well in Arrowhead. We’ve always had his number here. Let’s enjoy this five an zero start, thanks for reading the Ten Things, and I hope next week is a great week for all of us on the CP.

MMXcalibur · 10-08-2018, 12:25 AM

Good write up, George.
Sorry to hear about your friend.

Rasputin · 10-08-2018, 02:15 AM

Chiefs are the new bullies of the NFL they just got tired of being Mr Nice guy.

**New World Order** · 10-08-2018, 02:30 AM

RIP Neighbor

Jax did get chippy, unfortunately for them it was when the play/game was over.

**btlook1** · 10-08-2018, 05:42 AM

Once again great write up!! Sorry about the cat, sucks to lose a pet that you really care about!!

**Bwana** · 10-08-2018, 06:01 AM

Uhh, sorry about your buddy George. It always sucks losing a pet.

As far as the top 10 write up, outstanding work as always.

PhillyChiefFan · 10-08-2018, 06:05 AM

Sorry about the loss of your game time buddy. My dog is mine and when I lose him it won’t be the same for a long long time. Great write up as always, thanks!

Marcellus · 10-08-2018, 06:25 AM

Great stuff George, sorry about Neighbor.

Go chiefs 5-0!!

manu sharma · 10-08-2018, 06:35 AM

dont good for me

chiefzilla1501 · 10-08-2018, 06:35 AM

I'm already infuriated with stat geeks and fantasy football experts who claim to know what happened because of the box score.

NFL network primetime chirped about the defense giving up 400+ yards. News flash. They were all garbage yards.

Discrediting mahomes stat line because he had no passing TDs and 2 INTs. Nevermind that 1 INT was garbage time and as if he should be punished because his rb was in the end zone.

Pff tweeted that he and rivers have identical stats. Yeah, because mahomes is constantly protecting leads while rivers is always clawing from behind.

Ugh.

scho63 · 10-08-2018, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Molitoth

3 things bothered me today... which is actually a good thing that it was only 3. I'll take it.

1) Kelce dropped an easy catch that he could of walked into the End zone. This cost the team 4 points as they kicked a field goal.

2) The amount of unnecessary penalties was stupid. WTF was Chris Jones giving the peoples elbow to some dudes leg? WTF was Hunt thinking when he ran up and headbutted a guy right in front of a ref? The Jags shit talking was too much for some of players and they need to be more disciplined. This was the kind of stupid shit that changes momentum and loses games when you aren't playing shit QB's like Bortles.
Note: Big props to Tyreek Hill for just turning around and heading right back to the huddle after he had the ball.

3) Special Teams looked completely unprepared for the on-side kick. I think everyone in the stadium knew an on-side kick was coming...

Great points here!

1. Kelce seems to have some bonehead drops in every game when in years past he seemed to catch everything. Hopefully Demetrius Harris dropsies aren't rubbing off on Kelce. His RAC is the best in the league by a wide margin. He does a lot of damage then on those 10 yarders he turns into big games.

2. We had 11 penalties to their 5 and I already discussed the penalties in my previous post in here.

3. They sure looked flat footed and going backwards on that onside's kick.

BlackHelicopters · 10-08-2018, 08:15 AM

Great read! Many thanks, GB!

**BigRedChief** · 10-08-2018, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Chiefs are the new bullies of the NFL they just got tired of being Mr Nice guy.

thry tried to be tough and taunt all the time but no flags for them.

Dee Ford got a personal foul for talking to Blake Bortles after a play. It's a very good thing the refs were there to keep any sort of taunting from occurring. pic.twitter.com/R8m8vpMHET
— Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) October 8, 2018

Halfcan · 10-08-2018, 08:44 AM

Great write up. Sorry to hear about your cat. Ours is 15 years old now and I worry about losing her.

This game pretty much went how I expected it to. I posted that we would give them a beating and we did. The Chiefs were more physical and pounded them on both sides of the ball. I was tired of hearing about the Jagoffs defense and said we would double every stat they own. Not only did we pretty much do that- we broke several of their streaks as well.

First team in years to score a TD on the Opening drive. This really set the tone of the game that we not going to lay down as the Jag defense hoped.

First team to shut them out in the first half in many years. The Chiefs Defense stepped up today.

Mahomes played against the best Defense he has ever faced and it was business as usual. This team is legit.

I said after the Jags got a beat down they would be thinking about having to come back here for another beating in the Playoffs and judging by the comments out of their locker room- they don't want any part of that. They KNOW who is the better team and all their trash talking won't ever change that.

Halfcan · 10-08-2018, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

thry tried to be tough and taunt all the time but no flags for them.

Dee Ford got a personal foul for talking to Blake Bortles after a play. It's a very good thing the refs were there to keep any sort of taunting from occurring. pic.twitter.com/R8m8vpMHET
— Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) October 8, 2018

Exactly- they are the new Trash Talking Kings of the NFL. They never shut up.

What an embarrassment that team is. Not only did they get dominated in every way, but they were also poor sports. No Class Jagoffs!

Hydrae · 10-08-2018, 08:50 AM

Sorry to hear about your loss. 18 years is a great run for a cat but never long enough.

Just for a quick comment, it was not only the first time the Jags gave up a first drive TD. It was the first first HALF touchdown they have given up this year!

One more observation: we have won the toss all 5 games this year and started on defense. The Broncos are the only team that we have not held to a 3 and out on that first drive. That is also the only game we did not scored a touchdown on our first drive.

10-07-2018, 05:36 PM
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $17606178 VARSITY	Ten Things About Today's Game Week 5: KC 30 Jax 14 Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 5: KC 30 Jax 14 10. I’m sorry to say I must apologize in advance, because you’re not going to get my best this week. I’ve been really seriously down because I lost one of my best pals Friday Night. I know a lot of you will think this is stupid, but I’ve had a buddy named Neighbor Cat for 18 years, who is a little Gray Tabby, and he has been my sports watching pal for all those years. He’s watched a lot of Royals and Chiefs games in my La-Z-Boy'ed lap. Neighbor passed away in his sleep Friday night, and I’ve been really a mess for a couple days. I didn’t think I would be, but it really hit me hard Friday. Yesterday I basically did nothing but wander around the house doing little chores, and hiding reminders of Neighbor from Mrs. B, who had been nursing him the last couple weeks trying to get him to eat something. It was just his time to check out, but its hard to admit he’s gone now. With the rain this morning I thought about not going to the game today, but Mrs. B. said “Look, you need to get out of the house and do something today.” So we packed up the ponchos and headed out for Arrowhead around 9am. God Bless Mrs. B. She’s sat with me in all kinds of weather since we got married in 1994. She’s a great Chiefs fan, and is always the offset to my pessimistic nature. So I dedicate this week’s Top Ten to Neighbor and Mrs. B, two of the great loves of my life. 9. Today’s word was MOIST. Word to the wise: On a noon kick, best be getting to Arrowhead by around 9:15. If you wait much later, you won’t be able to tailgate at all. Because of the rain and the early start, I got a great parking spot in Lot G. It rained and rained during tailgate time, and it was raining hard at kickoff. The Jags first series was in driving rain. Then when the Chiefs Offense got the ball, the rain just stopped. It was great. I thought at that point it was going to be our day. 8. In the pregame, the Jacksonville pundits were saying the way to beat the Chiefs was to run the ball 30 times, and run right at our outside linebackers. That may be true, but nobody’s been able to stick to that script this year so far, because everybody (except Denver) has been playing catch the Mahomes train out of the station. Chiefs were the first team this year to score a TD on the Jax defense on an opening drive. Mahomes went all Elway on them with a beautiful roll out to score. View My Video Mahomes is going to routinely throw for at least 300 yards a week. This week he had no TD passes and two picks, but we knew he was going to have picks eventually. Throwing two against the Jags secondary is no crime, as on both picks he was under an intense rush. The first he chucked into triple coverage, and the second one was simply a good play by the D-back breaking on the ball. 7. Bortles, on the other hand, threw the ball 61 freaking times! Sure he had over 400 yards passing, but he also had four picks -including a pick six which really changed the game momentum- and he lost a fumble on a strip sack. Jax only ran the ball 17 total times. You can say it was because Fournette was out hurt, and they lost a couple other backs during the game to injury. But the truth is, once KC gets an opponent into catch up mode, they are forced to throw the ball all over the lot to try to get back into the game. That’s what happened today, and Bortles doesn’t have the skill position players to win in a shoot out. And as John Madden once said, "I love it when a fat guy scores!" Note: Chris Jones isn't fat, but you know what I mean... 6. Mahomes continues to spread the ball around, nine different guys caught a ball. That’s the key to our offense. Who are you going to stop? Jags focused on stopping Tyreek. OK, fine. Watkins has six catches for 78 yards and Kelce had five for a Benjamin. Just too many options for Mahomes out there. Hunt continues to kill teams in the second half. He hasn’t had a breakout game where he goes crazy, but his yards have been all tough running yards - 87 today- and he had an important TD that put the game out of reach. View My Video The balance between run and pass has been excellent all year, and that makes this offense hard to handle. 5. Today was the defense’s day. They were the first defense to shut out the Jags in the first half so far this season. Chris Jones got his pick six before getting booted from the game for dropping an elbow on a dude during a PAT (major stupid and bad sportsmanship). And the defense had injuries galore: Houston, Watts, Murray, all out with no return. Ford and K-Pass got dinged up. Defense had five sacks on Bortles and chased him relentlessly all day long. 4. Shout out to Buttkicker for being money again this season. We take him for granted. He’s been excellent. Three for three on both field goals and PATs today. Colquitt averaged 52 yards per punt, and took a soccer style flop inside of two minutes to ice the game. Jags did the same stupid shit that the Steelers did a few weeks back - running into the punter to give KC a first down and certain victory formation. It bothered me a lot that Dave Toub gave up an onside kick in the fourth quarter, but it turned out that it didn’t matter, as the Jags came up a yard short on a fourth down pass near the goal line. View My Video 3. Things got exceptionally chippy in this one. These teams don’t like each other. It started when Jax D-Line roughed Mahomes in the first quarter. Then Jones got kicked out after the PAT after the first Jags TD. View My Video Then Ford got kicked out after chasing Bortles out of bounds in the fourth quarter. View My Video After the game -don’t think they had this on TV- but #91 for the Jags -Yannick Nzakoue, had to be restrained by their coaches. Looked like he was going after Chiefs #26 Damien Williams. Dude looked like he wanted to go at it in the parking lot. Not sure what that was all about, but it was right in front of the Chiefs bench right at the end of the game. Very seldom do you see stuff like that after the game is over. Once the game ends, these guys are usually all buddy-buddy; trading jerseys and praying at midfield. This was not that... AT ALL. As far as Jones and Ford go, they need to keep their emotions in check. Getting kicked out when the team is already short handed on defensive players is not smart. And we certainly don’t want to be a team with dirty players. That’s reserved for the Donks and Faiders. 2. The Canadian Doc had a bad injury in the last couple minutes of the game. Andy said in the post game presser he may have a fractured leg. That really sucks, because the Doc has been playing at a Pro Bowl Level. I hope it’s not a season ender, we need him for the long haul. He's our best O Lineman. 1. So 5-0 is an amazing start, and way beyond what any of us had reasonably hoped for. I had predicted a 8-8 or 9-7 year. Donks lost, Faiders lost, and we’ve already beat the Bolts in their yard. So we’re sitting pretty in the AFC West. Next Sunday Night it’ll be another National TV game against Tommy Boy and the Hoodie. You know they’re going to be wanting some payback for us spoiling their Super Bowl Ring Night last year. I’m dreading what Brady will do to our secondary, especially since Watts and Murray both got hurt this week. This is the week we really need Eric Berry to come back to cover Gronk. Of course, that was the last real game he played in when he blew out his tendon last season. Even if we go in and lose there, if we were told that after six games we’d be five and one, with the only loss at Foxboro, we’d all take that gladly. I’m not saying that’s going to happen. If we can manage to win that game, it could have major playoff implications, to make the road to the Super Bowl run through Arrowhead in January instead of Gillette Stadium. And Brady’s never played well in Arrowhead. We’ve always had his number here. Let’s enjoy this five an zero start, thanks for reading the Ten Things, and I hope next week is a great week for all of us on the CP. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by gblowfish; 10-08-2018 at 05:17 PM..
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10-08-2018, 12:25 AM	#61
MMXcalibur Pessimistically optimistic. Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Denver, CO Casino cash: $2195086	Good write up, George. Sorry to hear about your friend.
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10-08-2018, 02:15 AM	#62
Rasputin Tip of the hat LIV Champs Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ks Casino cash: $3225421	Chiefs are the new bullies of the NFL they just got tired of being Mr Nice guy.
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10-08-2018, 02:30 AM	#63
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10-08-2018, 05:42 AM	#64
btlook1 umm...what do I say here? Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: S.E. Kansas Casino cash: $9495227	Once again great write up!! Sorry about the cat, sucks to lose a pet that you really care about!! __________________ BTW, your draft input is reminiscent of a porn stars cock sucking gone wild video. Sure it's great when they open their mouths but the funk that drips out afterward nobody wants a part of[/quote]
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10-08-2018, 06:01 AM	#65
Bwana It's Five O'Clock Somewhere Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Billings, Montana Casino cash: $2139253647	Uhh, sorry about your buddy George. It always sucks losing a pet. As far as the top 10 write up, outstanding work as always. __________________ Adventure is dangerous....but monotony can kill you. Last edited by Bwana; 10-08-2018 at 06:33 AM..
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10-08-2018, 06:05 AM	#66
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10-08-2018, 06:25 AM	#67
Marcellus Diablo Negro Join Date: Sep 2003 Casino cash: $2812662	Great stuff George, sorry about Neighbor. Go chiefs 5-0!!
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10-08-2018, 06:35 AM	#68
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chiefzilla1501 In Search of a Life Join Date: Aug 2008 Casino cash: $1804497	I'm already infuriated with stat geeks and fantasy football experts who claim to know what happened because of the box score. NFL network primetime chirped about the defense giving up 400+ yards. News flash. They were all garbage yards. Discrediting mahomes stat line because he had no passing TDs and 2 INTs. Nevermind that 1 INT was garbage time and as if he should be punished because his rb was in the end zone. Pff tweeted that he and rivers have identical stats. Yeah, because mahomes is constantly protecting leads while rivers is always clawing from behind. Ugh.
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10-08-2018, 08:44 AM	#73
Halfcan In Search of a Life Join Date: Aug 2005 Casino cash: $7327995	Great write up. Sorry to hear about your cat. Ours is 15 years old now and I worry about losing her. This game pretty much went how I expected it to. I posted that we would give them a beating and we did. The Chiefs were more physical and pounded them on both sides of the ball. I was tired of hearing about the Jagoffs defense and said we would double every stat they own. Not only did we pretty much do that- we broke several of their streaks as well. First team in years to score a TD on the Opening drive. This really set the tone of the game that we not going to lay down as the Jag defense hoped. First team to shut them out in the first half in many years. The Chiefs Defense stepped up today. Mahomes played against the best Defense he has ever faced and it was business as usual. This team is legit. I said after the Jags got a beat down they would be thinking about having to come back here for another beating in the Playoffs and judging by the comments out of their locker room- they don't want any part of that. They KNOW who is the better team and all their trash talking won't ever change that.
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10-08-2018, 08:50 AM	#75
Hydrae Sandbox: Leander Lasercats Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Austin, Tx Casino cash: $2027000	Sorry to hear about your loss. 18 years is a great run for a cat but never long enough. Just for a quick comment, it was not only the first time the Jags gave up a first drive TD. It was the first first HALF touchdown they have given up this year! One more observation: we have won the toss all 5 games this year and started on defense. The Broncos are the only team that we have not held to a 3 and out on that first drive. That is also the only game we did not scored a touchdown on our first drive.
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