Ten Things About Today's Game: Week 6 KC 13 PIT 19

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 6: KC 13 PIT 19

10. Well, that wasn’t so good, was it? I’ll start with the obvious that nobody except maybe that drooling tool Bob Fescoe thought this team would seriously go 16-0. I felt a bitter disappointment that the Chiefs have not shown an ability to play AFC North football. When they play an AFC North team like the Steelers, Bengals or Ravens, all those teams seem to line up and just smack the Chiefs in the mouth. They just come out and bitch slap the Chiefs. I said during the week that if I were Haley, I’d run Bell until the Chiefs proved they could stop him. Guess what? Not much has changed from last January. We still can’t stop Bell. Biggest change from last January was this time, we gave up a couple TDs instead of six field goals. Pittsburgh only scored four times -and one of those was a gift safety- but the score was not a true indication of what this game really was. Pittsburgh kicked our ass. They played four quarters. KC played a quarter and a half. Only a few guys showed up to play today. We’ll talk about the no-shows on both sides of the ball.

9. Let’s start with the defense this week. They only gave up three scores: One three yard TD to Bell, one bomb on a totally botched pass defense to Brown, and a 24 yard field goal. The offense gave up a safety. If I were to tell you the defense would give up less than 20 points to Pittsburgh at home, you’d think with this years offensive production that would be a win. Problem was, KC was catatonic for literally the entire first half and for a good portion of the third quarter. The first half was arguably the worst half of football at Arrowhead during the Andy Reid era. It was Herm pathetic. It was Romeo pathetic. It was —dare I say- Frank Gansz pathetic. At the half KC had 6 yards of total offense. We could have QB sneaked every Goddamn play in the first half and beat that output. Steelers had 232 yards of offense. Bell had already run for more than 100 yards. KC had one first down….One. At home. Erving had twice that many offsides penalties in the first half alone. He must still think he’s playing for Cleveland. You simply can’t disappear for an entire freaking HALF against a smash mouth team and expect to win. It was truly an act of God that we were only down 12-3 at halftime. We actually had the lead at the end of the first quarter 3-2, which was even stranger.

8. Alex has some responsibility for today, but he wasn’t the worst guy on the field. O-Line gave him little or no time to pass, and when Alex did have time, he either missed guys streaking wide open, AGAIN, like the playoff game, or he was off-target. Pittsburgh is a cheap shot team, and I’m just relieved he got through the game relatively unscathed. He got whacked in his passing arm once in the first half, but shook that off. Look at how Green Bay and Tampa Bay’s season has been drastically altered with QB injuries today. I kind of had a feeling Alex was going to have a rough day when the snap for the safety went like six feet over his head. Alex was sacked three times and completed 56% of his passes for 246 yards, one TD and no picks. That’s passable if you have a ground game. Problem is, Andy only ran the ball 15 times the whole freakin’ game and the Steelers were all over Hunt. Their Defensive Line pushed our line around all day and that made Andy abandon the run in the second half. Can’t win without balance, can't win without a ground game.

7. Another thing I say for Alex is that he went into the game without his number two and number three wide outs. Conley out for the year, Wilson out for the week. Kemp didn’t see much action, and Robinson didn’t seem to be on the same page for several routes. Then West got concussed and Kelce was not a factor. He had one decent catch and that was it. Tyreek Hill did little to help. He’s playing on a tweaked ankle, and he got smacked in the head on his last punt return, so we may lose him Thursday vs. the Raiders in the Concussion protocol. With all that going on, Alex was down to Kareem Hunt shovel passes, DAT, Harris and Robinson as his receiving corps.

6. Peters forced the only turnover with a pick on a poorly thrown ball by Rapistburger. He only had three tackles, and he got steamrolled by Bell on several runs. I’m seeing a disturbing trend with our defensive backs. All the corners suck at tackling or just arm tackle and pull at the ball instead of bringing the ball carrier down. Sorensen and Parker still tackle reliably. But none of our corners can come up and put down a runner. Philip Gaines is awful. He totally mis-played that TD to Brown. Ball bounced off his hands. Ball bounced off his head. At worst it should have been picked, at best it may have been a pick six. Instead it’s a how do you do TD for Brown. That was his biggest catch in a 155 yard receiving game. He leads the league in targets. If you had that guy, why wouldn’t you throw him the ball twice an much as any other receiver?

5. Defense did not play well at all. Dee Ford gets one sack early, then the entire pass rush disappears. Chris Jones did nothing. Alan Bailey did nothing. Bennie Logan, nothing. Houston, nothing. DJ, nothing. Sorenson nothing. Ben had a clean pocket most of the day and passed Pittsburgh out of third and long situations multiple times. It was frustrating that when the Chiefs actually did slow down the run, they couldn’t get a pass rush to get Ben off the field. TOP was 37 to 23 Pittsburgh, and that’s because they had the ball for most of the first half.

4. I know you guys probably had a lot of discussion about Andy going for the TD instead of the field goal. Well, that’s the hard thing about that call. It was 4th and 2, and the offense has been excellent in the red zone thus far. So, no guts, no glory. The offense had shown so little up to that point, that I think being at home, he just decided to roll the dice, and he lost. Then, the defense let Ben bomb his way out of the hole, so you lose the advantage of having the Steelers on their own two yard line. It was just one of those days where the ball didn’t bounce our way. Steelers had all the luck, and had a running game we couldn’t stop. Still, KC had the ball with two minutes at mid field and had their chance. Alex just didn’t have a fifth gear this week. Tyreek being out after being concussed on the punt return took away our biggest deep threat. If he would have been healthy and able to line up, we might have been able to hit him deep for the winning TD. Not to be. He didn’t even see the field in the final series. We had Robinson instead. Again, bad luck at a critical time.

3. Pittsburgh is a team we just don’t match up well against. Rapistburger is now 7-1 career against KC. That stat really hurts. I was really hoping we’d get some payback on his ass, like the way we kicked Five Heaad down the stairs his last game against us in Denver. Only getting to him once is on Bob Sutton. Every team in the league is going to run right at Dee Ford or Zombo the rest of the year. Until the Chiefs can show any ability to stop it, that’s the simple formula to win. That’s what Fournette and the Jags did to the Steelers last week; ran them to death, and put Ben in a position to have to throw the ball. They got pressure on him, and we did not.

2. If we have to find silver linings, our kicking game is solid. Buttkicker hit both his FG attempts and had great kickoffs, and Colquitt had his best day of the season. Penalties were fairly even, KC with 7, Pittsburgh with 6. Akeem Hunt played OK. Terrance Mitchell led the defense with six tackles. Just about everybody else had a bad to terrible day. That’s just the truth of it.

1. If in August you would have been told KC would start the year 5-1, you’d probably figure the only loss would be against the Pats to open the season. The Fade got beat by Phyllis today (thanks Phyllis) and at the time of this writing Donks are down 17-3 to the Giants at the half. So losing today may not be so bad. Worried about the short week going into Oakland and worried about our injuries although it could have been worse (again, see Green Bay, see Tampa Bay). Hopefully the entire state of California will not be on fire when we arrive on Thursday, KC will be able to breathe without a painter's mask, and can get back on the winning track. I just hope Andy and Sutton can figure out a way to stop a sweep, or we may be in for deja vu all over again come playoff time in January.

[lcarus]

Tyreek needs more opportunities and better opportunities on offense. 5 touches or whatever just isn't enough. He's probably THE best weapon in the league and there's really no excuse for him to have 30 yards in a game. I get that defenses are watching him like a hawk, but they can't just key in on one guy because we have Kelce and Hunt too. Just my opinion but we have too many awesome weapons to be that lame on offense. Even WITH a patchwork offensive line. It's just 1 game so far this season, but we've all seen this before. Hopefully Cinderella doesn't turn back into a pumpkin...

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by lcarus

Tyreek needs more opportunities and better opportunities on offense. 5 touches or whatever just isn't enough. He's probably THE best weapon in the league and there's really no excuse for him to have 30 yards in a game. I get that defenses are watching him like a hawk, but they can't just key in on one guy because we have Kelce and Hunt too. Just my opinion but we have too many awesome weapons to be that lame on offense.

Even WITH a patchwork offensive line. It's just 1 game so far this season, but we've all seen this before. Hopefully Cinderella doesn't turn back into a pumpkin...

Everything you said is spot on.. but I disagree with the patchwork OL sentiment. It was bad... and not just the pass pro. Hunt is TOO special a RB to be shut down like that, and that points to terrible blocking there too.

I'd also suggest that Andy did not put enough time into the gameplan. It really looked like they were going bare minimum due to the short week with a division rival on deck.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Sandy Vagina

Everything you said is spot on.. but I disagree with the patchwork OL sentiment. It was bad... and not just the pass pro. Hunt is TOO special a RB to be shut down like that, and that points to terrible blocking there too.

I'd also suggest that Andy did not put enough time into the gameplan. It really looked like they were going bare minimum due to the short week with a division rival on deck.

I definitely agree it was horrid. Morse and Tard cant get healthy soon enough. We got demolished in the trenches on both sides

[Lzen]

Good stuff, George.

I would like to add that Steelers fans are the worst. I mean, it's like frazod said the other day, most of them can't even find Pittsburgh on a map. We had a couple of annoying Steelers fans sitting behind us and I asked them just that. They didn't like that question and were quiet for the rest of the game. There was another guy, though, that was standing the entire game, waving his stupid yellow towel, and giving grief to Chiefs fans around him. At one point, I couldn't take it anymore and I got into it with him. My hatred for that fan base is getting to be just as bad, if not worse than my hatred for Broncos scum.

[gblowfish]

I went back and looked at the game broadcast tonight. The Steelers were: Dirty and Lucky; the Chiefs couldn't tackle and Fisher can't block James Harrison.

That Mitchell guy is as dirty as Rodney Harrison. If you look at West getting knocked out, three Steelers hold him up, then Mitchell comes in helmet to helmet to deliver the knockout shot. This is before the shit with Alex. Picture of him coming in for the tackle is attached:

You can watch the video here (oooh....Mitchell can't do that...)
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[stevieray]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I went back and looked at the game broadcast tonight. The Steelers were: Dirty and Lucky; the Chiefs couldn't tackle and Fisher can't block James Harrison.

That Mitchell guy is as dirty as Rodney Harrison. If you look at West getting knocked out, three Steelers hold him up, then Mitchell comes in helmet to helmet to deliver the knockout shot. This is before the shit with Alex. Picture of him coming in for the tackle is attached:

You can watch the video here (oooh....Mitchell can't do that...)
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Cheffer's crews let them get away with murder in both games..remember Kelce completely being interfered with....defender's back to the ball?

[gblowfish]

Then the hit on Alex. Clear attempt by Mitchell to injure Alex. Massive Cheap Shot, his second of the game. He should have been thrown out of the game. Still picture of when Alex shovels the ball forward. Look where he is, and look where Mitchell #23 is. He purposely dove at the back of Alex's knees to try to put him out.

Video from the broadcast:
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[gblowfish]

On the punt return where Hill got hurt: Instead of pushing him out of bounds, two Steelers launch themselves directly at Hill's helmet, looking to knock him out of the game. They succeeded. Just a dirty, headhunting sideline play:

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[gblowfish]

Chiefs tackling was pathetic. Watch DJ on this play. Bell literally runs right through him. And Bell had a long run that was brought back on a hold where the Chiefs missed probably four tackles. We lucked out on the holding call bringing it back, or he would have had a 200 yard rushing day.

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[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I went back and looked at the game broadcast tonight. The Steelers were: Dirty and Lucky; the Chiefs couldn't tackle and Fisher can't block James Harrison.

That Mitchell guy is as dirty as Rodney Harrison. If you look at West getting knocked out, three Steelers hold him up, then Mitchell comes in helmet to helmet to deliver the knockout shot. This is before the shit with Alex. Picture of him coming in for the tackle is attached:

You can watch the video here (oooh....Mitchell can't do that...)
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It makes you wonder how much of a bitch Clark is when he's in closed door meeting with the other owners and Goodell. Does he even stand up for his team and players? After the clear issues with last year's officiating in the Chiefs/Steelers game, you'd expect Clark demand it as a topic.

[gblowfish]

Fisher on the final drive getting his lunch ate by a geriatric James Harrison. What a pathetic effort with the game on the line. What a pisser. Oh, and what the HELL is Peters laughing about at this point in the game on the sidelines? WTF???

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[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Fisher on the final drive getting his lunch ate by a geriatric James Harrison. What a pathetic effort with the game on the line. What a pisser.

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The Chiefs do themselves no favors by not getting into the faces of the officials on national TV. It won't work if it's only once, but make a scene enough and the broadcasters will have to start going back and explaining why "Justin Houston was so furious with the official." Even if they get a flag, the officials aren't going to change until they're errors become a topic and their misses replayed for what they are, missed calls.

Right now the Chiefs, all of them (from Clark to Andy, to Alex, to DJ, to the water boy) are too nice to the officials. They won't change until they're forced to, and making a scene will start to change the course.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

The Chiefs do themselves no favors by not getting into the faces of the officials on national TV. It won't work if it's only once, but make a scene enough and the broadcasters will have to start going back and explaining why "Justin Houston was so furious with the official." Even if they get a flag, the officials aren't going to change until they're errors become a topic and their misses replayed for what they are, missed calls.

Right now the Chiefs, all of them (from Clark to Andy, to Alex, to DJ, to the water boy) are too nice to the officials. They won't change until they're forced to, and making a scene will start to change the course.

Doesn't work for Kelce.

You just need to be a big market bitch. Ala Tommy Boy.

[gblowfish]

Oh, finally, here's a picture of Phil Gaines sucking mightily you can have for a screen saver...

[scho63]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I went back and looked at the game broadcast tonight. The Steelers were: Dirty and Lucky; the Chiefs couldn't tackle and Fisher can't block James Harrison.

That Mitchell guy is as dirty as Rodney Harrison.

I remember no less than 3-4 times that Mitchell led with his helmet and he got called for ZERO penalties......