Chris Simms: How can Mahomes, Henry be stopped?

[Tribal Warfare]

[T-post Tom]

The front seven on defense need to have better pre-snap alignment and pre-snap reads than they had in the first matchup. I suspect that they will and that Henry will not have nearly as good a game as he did in the first matchup.

[oldman]

The key is for our front 7 to stay in their lanes. Don't let Henry get a full head of steam because very few CB/S are going to even slow him down. Take them out of their running game and play action by scoring on the 1st couple of drives. Tannehill can't keep up with Mahomes.

[threebag]

35 is going to take one to the house for 6

[Dunerdr]

he sounds like the whitest person ever pronouncing our big sexy defensive linemens names at the end.

[Shaid]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

That is exactly what we don't want to do. That's the exact thing TEN is waiting for. They run and run and run, draw the defense into committing 8 guys into the box, then go play-action over the top. It's the only way they get chunk plays, the only way their passing attack works at all. That's what they did to us the first game, and what they did to the Ravens. Drew them into committing 8 guys into the box and then threw over them for that TD and that 50 yard completion.

Our front-7 has to get into alignment correctly, try to get penetration, and be very disciplined in their rush lanes. Henry gets those big runs off of defenses over-committing to one side and then he cuts back and attacks the weak side backer/DE. Makes that guy miss and then he's off to the races with just a safety and/or a corner in front of him.

Our D has to be patient. Set the edge. Force the run back into the teeth of our DL. Yeah, he going to get a lot of 4 and 5 yard runs. We have to live with that. Sooner or later if we stay patient, we'll stop him for 1-3 yards and then we can get them into a 3rd-and-long. Then we have them at a disadvantage every time. Rush Tannehill and make him throw under pressure and off-time/off-platform. He's really average under those circumstances.

And we don't have to do it for the whole game. If we can generate some stops early, and score TDs on our ensuing drives, we can get a 17 point lead or so and force them into having to pass on every down. And then we win easily, because they can't do that.

And guys, I think we can do all of that. In our first meeting, our defense, as screwed up as they played at times, only allowed TEN four scoring drives. They punted 5 times. On the other possession, we got a strip sack.

And through these playoffs it's been the same story. They only score on about 3-4 possessions. Against the Pats they only scored offensively twice. And couldn't do anything offensively in the second half. In that game, in spite of Henry running for 180 yards, he only scored one TD. ONE. Not 2 or 3 or 4, as you might expect after running for 182 yards. One.

And they turn the ball over a coupe times a game. Usually a INT and a fumble (strip sack). They're almost as regular as Old Faithful in that department.

Dollars to donuts says that Spags has already looked at that Pats game film and figured out how Bill kept them from scoring at all in the second half, and he's using whatever he can from that tape to do the same thing.

The Titans score twice. Maybe even three times. But Andy turns Pat loose and we score 4 or 5 or 6 TDs. Game over.

I agree with all of this.