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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The Chiefs shut down the most productive RB in football. They got 6 stops and a defensive score. The dared Goff to beat them and he did; it was the only choice they had and Goff played a damn fine game.

Bottom line was that their pass rush was more consistently disruptive than ours. Our rush got to Goff more but there were also a lot of plays where Goff had a TON of time to survey the field. By the 4th quarter, the 4-man rushes were simply not accomplishing anything and the Rams were putting too many in the pattern to send 5.

The Rams, OTOH, didn't bring Mahomes down quite as often but they were CONSTANT. They were pushing that pocket in 4 of 5 times it felt like.

I'm damn disappointing in Speaks. Unless it turns out that he just didn't get many snaps, I cannot for the life of me think of a single thing he did yesterday. I'm also frustrated with Bob for not getting K-Pass in there more. The front 4 needed a blow in the worst way and when Speaks was invisible and K-Pass benched, they had nothing left to offer in the 4th and that was the major difference.

But really, I think Sutton did a good job yesterday outside of the pass rush rotation. I can't throw away credit for a good, aggressive gameplan that was showing multiple looks (some really interesting stunts, especially later) because he didn't get K-Pass a dozen more snaps.

Yesterday was encouraging and the defense, as they have done many times this season, showed some things. They took some steps forward. They faced an incredibly difficult task and after some early jitters, really stood tall for significant portions of that game. They weren't perfect because this defense isn't good, but it's not a disaster either. It's fine and that's how it played yesterday.

But on the road against a SB contender, it's just ****ing hard to win when the other QB is feeling it. And Goff was; I can only think of 2 simple misses from him yesterday and he was smart with the ball. The Chiefs had the more exciting playmaker and the Rams had the more accurate, polished passer yesterday and that's not the end of the world.

Kpass doesn't play. I don't know why, he just doesn't get on the field. Maybe that ankle injury from earlier in the year is still bothering him, I don't know.