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Originally Posted by Eleazar
It's just an illustration that an epidemic of homerism has taken hold.
Never before did you ever hear CP nattering about how great Rivers is. Never has anyone been afraid of him. No one posted about how we can't expect a defense to be able to contain Rivers because of how great he is.
Rivers is now 13-13 against the Chiefs all time, and barely has more TD than INT against us. He has not terrorized the Chiefs throughout his career.
But now that a good portion of the board is in "I want to believe" for 2018 mode, we're making excuses for the defense to give ourselves hope that maybe the team can contend this year. That maybe the sad state of the defensive personnel won't mean Mahomes' great start will all be for naught.
Those are the bare facts. The defense has been in steady decline for several years and there's a dearth of talent now, which can't be hidden any longer.
When your first opponent comes out and throws the ball 50 times, and then the next opponent watches the film and decides to throw it 60 times, it's safe to say the book has been written on your defense.
We don't have 1st team NFL quality talent on defense. It's going to take a couple of strong offseasons in the draft and free agency to begin a rebuild on defense. Thus far we haven't had one.
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It wasn't in the gameplan for either of those teams to throw it 50 or 60 times, it was what was demanded by circumstance. When you go down by a lot of points very quickly its natural that teams will favor the pass to catch up.