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DJ's left nut · 11-12-2018, 12:15 PM

I kinda feel like the Chiefs come up for air in this one and lose. And if they do, it could get ugly.

This game is just not terribly meaningful if the Chiefs do what they need to do for the rest of the season. They also have the Bye coming up and this is just a weird game. It would be so easy for them to just come out a bit flat and end up losing.

One curveball is the loss of Cooper Kupp - that could be ENORMOUS.

These offenses that are so dynamic are doing so because they can so routinely put one more guy out in the pattern than you can account for. It's why the Chiefs look far more mortal when Watkins is out. There's a tipping point and with the Rams, I think Kupp could easily have been that tipping point.

In losing him, the Rams may have to be more conventional. And they've been such a predictable formation team this year - 11 personnel and 3 WRs 95% of the time or so. Well now they either scrap that plan or they're throwing a decoy out there as their WR3.

When you just lost the formation you use 95% of the time - or at least a key component to that formation - there's an adjustment period. And when that player may have been the 'puke point' weapon that put your offense over the top anyway, it's doubly damaging.

But in the end, even a 'conventional' Rams team is really good and I just get the feeling that this game means more to the fans than it does to the Chiefs. They want that bye and a nice little 5 game winning streak to end the year. That gives them everything they wanted and it's eminently doable.

11-12-2018, 12:15 PM	#12
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $2629099	I kinda feel like the Chiefs come up for air in this one and lose. And if they do, it could get ugly. This game is just not terribly meaningful if the Chiefs do what they need to do for the rest of the season. They also have the Bye coming up and this is just a weird game. It would be so easy for them to just come out a bit flat and end up losing. One curveball is the loss of Cooper Kupp - that could be ENORMOUS. These offenses that are so dynamic are doing so because they can so routinely put one more guy out in the pattern than you can account for. It's why the Chiefs look far more mortal when Watkins is out. There's a tipping point and with the Rams, I think Kupp could easily have been that tipping point. In losing him, the Rams may have to be more conventional. And they've been such a predictable formation team this year - 11 personnel and 3 WRs 95% of the time or so. Well now they either scrap that plan or they're throwing a decoy out there as their WR3. When you just lost the formation you use 95% of the time - or at least a key component to that formation - there's an adjustment period. And when that player may have been the 'puke point' weapon that put your offense over the top anyway, it's doubly damaging. But in the end, even a 'conventional' Rams team is really good and I just get the feeling that this game means more to the fans than it does to the Chiefs. They want that bye and a nice little 5 game winning streak to end the year. That gives them everything they wanted and it's eminently doable. __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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