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.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by All In

You jerks think this stuff is funny. Get a life. You dont know how bad this probably made him feel. I know the kid personally. He has worked really hard. Grow up.

Phyllis Gaines' level of play hurts me here:



So next time you text him, or have bad-breath pillow talk, tell him he needs to ****ing learn how to play the ****ing game!

[bigjosh]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Phyllis Gaines' level of play hurts me here:



So next time you text him, or have bad-breath pillow talk, tell him he needs to ****ing learn how to play the ****ing game!

An nfl cb and his poor "feelings"

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[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

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

Catch the ball, pussy.

[Buehler445]

Right, so, AllIn: Welcome to CP. Stick around. Talk ball. But if you're going to blast Chief fans for criticizing the team, second generation season ticket holders probably aren't the guys to blast.

As far as me, I'm probably the guy here that wants him cut the least. I regularly catch hell for sticking up for the guy. He's caught some bad bounces and had injuries, but the guy has value IMO. Especially on his rookie contract. But man, you have to catch the ball. You just have to.

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Jerks? You think we found Gaines level of play amusing? I have a great life, and I help make Phil a millionaire. I don’t give a shit how he “feels.” This ain’t Pop Warner, it’s the NFL. He just cost his teammates an undefeated season by his poor level of play. If you know him personally, my advice would be to slap him upside the head, telto make a play on the football and quit getting burned like a campfire marshmallow. I don’t care if he works hard. Hell, I work hard to fork up $3000 a year to watch him play. He’s the one who needs to grow up and he better wake up, or he’s going to be back in Houston selling Flood Insurance.

This guy is the weak link in our pass defense, and has been for the last two years. Did you watch Phil’s performance in last year’s Denver “doink” game? He came out of that game with third degree burns and we won DESPITE his best efforts at the contrary.

This is the NFL son. Did Phil cash his paycheck this week? I’m sure he did. So why don’t you tell him to go out and buy himself a nice big participation trophy. I’m sure that’ll make him feel way mo betta.

Not the response I expected from you but mad respect for standing by your position.

[All In]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Jerks? You think we found Gaines level of play amusing? I have a great life, and I help make Phil a millionaire. I don’t give a shit how he “feels.” This ain’t Pop Warner, it’s the NFL. He just cost his teammates an undefeated season by his poor level of play. If you know him personally, my advice would be to slap him upside the head, tell him to make a play on the football and quit getting burned like a campfire marshmallow. I don’t care if he works hard. Hell, I work hard to fork up $3000 a year to watch him play. He’s the one who needs to grow up and he better wake up, or he’s going to be back in Houston selling Flood Insurance.

This guy is the weak link in our pass defense, and has been for the last two years. Did you watch Phil’s performance in last year’s Denver “doink” game? He came out of that game with third degree burns and we won DESPITE his best efforts at the contrary.

This is the NFL son. Did Phil cash his paycheck this week? I’m sure he did. So why don’t you tell him to go out and buy himself a nice big participation trophy. I’m sure that’ll make him feel way mo betta.

I respect your opinion. It is ok to say that you think he sucks and needs to step up his game but when you put stupud ass post like a screen saver and think its funny it tells a lot about your character. It makes you a jerk.

[All In]

Ok i'll be the first to tell you that he needs to get it together. What really bothers me is that you all will never let anyone forget about Denver last year. He was HURT. He wasn't healthy and could not cut. There plan and simple. Give it a rest. He should have caught the ball. He knows it. Yall are suppose to help build up your players. Not knock them down with goofy pictures, rude gestures and childish crap.

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by All In

I respect your opinion. It is ok to say that you think he sucks and needs to step up his game but when you put stupud ass post like a screen saver and think its funny it tells a lot about your character. It makes you a jerk.

A picture tells a thousand words. Gaines has either a) Been too hurt to play; or b) Sucked like a Hoover when he's been depended upon. His poor play was a major factor in this loss. That's a fact. No moral victories in the NFL. In 33 NFL games, he has one...ONE pick. He's probably dropped ten.

He's had plenty of other bad to terrible games besides last year's Denver game. And guess who Denver will go after this year on MNF? Here's a hint: He wears #23 and gives up 200 yards receiving to the opponent on a regular basis.

Here's another thing: After the loss Sunday, the Chiefs PR wanks would not let the press have access to Gaines -to ask him how come he let a ball go RIGHT BETWEEN HIS HANDS and DOINK OFF HIS HEAD to allow the game losing TD to Antonio Brown. Apparently, Gaines needed to retreat to his safe place to be reassured, hugged and comforted. He needed to go to his happy place without having to answer pesky questions by the working sports media, who wanted to ask cruel, jerkish and embarrassing questions about the CRITICAL PLAY THAT LOST THE GAME.

So, besides being the worst DB on the team, he's also too big of a vag to face the media after screwing up. Stand up, answer the questions and take some responsibility for your suckage.

Hell, JJ Watt apologized to the City of Houston for BREAKING HIS LEG for Chrissakes. He was upset that he couldn't help his team win. That guy is a stand up guy. Gaines is a shrinking violet and it shows in his play. There's a reason he gets picked on. If he doesn't like it, he needs to play better or find another line of work.

Don't like me posting a picture of something that actually happened? Here's one for you that'll make it all better. Now, let's go home and have ice cream and forget Sunday ever happened.

[O.city]

I'm not for sure but I'm fairly confident that if Gaines just gets that ball on the ground, the chiefs end up winning. If he knocks it down, the steelers punt and the chiefs have the ball down 2. If he picks it they have it at midfield down 2.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by All In

Ok i'll be the first to tell you that he needs to get it together. What really bothers me is that you all will never let anyone forget about Denver last year. He was HURT. He wasn't healthy and could not cut. There plan and simple. Give it a rest. He should have caught the ball. He knows it. Yall are suppose to help build up your players. Not knock them down with goofy pictures, rude gestures and childish crap.

You sir, need to lighten up. Around here we tell EACH OTHER to kill themselves. Asking us to back off criticism of a player that deserves it is a tough ask.

Look up the Krystie Tynes thread. We here are generally a supportive good group of men and women, however cynical and sarcastic we may be. I've learned a lot from people here. Whether it be about cooking, software, product reviews, whatever. Hell one guy here came out and helped with harvest one year. And 2 others have offered to help. Back in the Balckberry days, one guy called me and walked me through some jankety software problem that I was having. But the group doesn't take ****tardery very well. And telling grown men that we should be nice will probably not go particularly well for you.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by All In

Ok i'll be the first to tell you that he needs to get it together. What really bothers me is that you all will never let anyone forget about Denver last year. He was HURT. He wasn't healthy and could not cut. There plan and simple. Give it a rest. He should have caught the ball. He knows it. Yall are suppose to help build up your players. Not knock them down with goofy pictures, rude gestures and childish crap.

Hey guy, Phillip is a grown man playing a high stakes game, and being paid well to do so... if he is seeing/paying attention to what the fans are saying about him, he needs to be able to deal with the heat

I dont hate the guy, and hope he turns it around... but you'll never succeed in browbeating people out of criticizing him when he ****s up

[All In]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Hey guy, Phillip is a grown man playing a high stakes game, and being paid well to do so... if he is seeing/paying attention to what the fans are saying about him, he needs to be able to deal with the heat

I dont hate the guy, and hope he turns it around... but you'll never succeed in browbeating people out of criticizing him when he ****s up

You are right...

[crayzkirk]

It was amazing that the Chiefs were in the game at this point. When I saw the pass and the coverage, my first reaction was: OH YEAH! PICK 6 FOR GAINES! and then my reactions was: WTF JUST HAPPENED? How did he miss that? What is Sorensen doing missing the tackle? How is Brown running down the sidelines?

In a game that was horrible to watch and I wasn't at the game having to endure watching Bell run over, through and around our defense all day. This play was the icing on the cake.

I'm sure he feels bad. Boo Hoo. Make a play, work harder on those ball skills or he will be out of work.

[cooper barrett]

Originally Posted by All In

I respect your opinion. It is ok to say that you think he sucks and needs to step up his game but when you put stupud ass post like a screen saver and think its funny it tells a lot about your character. It makes you a jerk.

Feel the burn!!!!



Yet can't spell "STUPID"

[All In]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

A picture tells a thousand words. Gaines has either a) Been too hurt to play; or b) Sucked like a Hoover when he's been depended upon. His poor play was a major factor in this loss. That's a fact. No moral victories in the NFL. In 33 NFL games, he has one...ONE pick. He's probably dropped ten.

He's had plenty of other bad to terrible games besides last year's Denver game. And guess who Denver will go after this year on MNF? Here's a hint: He wears #23 and gives up 200 yards receiving to the opponent on a regular basis.

Here's another thing: After the loss Sunday, the Chiefs PR wanks would not let the press have access to Gaines -to ask him how come he let a ball go RIGHT BETWEEN HIS HANDS and DOINK OFF HIS HEAD to allow the game losing TD to Antonio Brown. Apparently, Gaines needed to retreat to his safe place to be reassured, hugged and comforted. He needed to go to his happy place without having to answer pesky questions by the working sports media, who wanted to ask cruel, jerkish and embarrassing questions about the CRITICAL PLAY THAT LOST THE GAME.

So, besides being the worst DB on the team, he's also too big of a vag to face the media after screwing up. Stand up, answer the questions and take some responsibility for your suckage.

Hell, JJ Watt apologized to the City of Houston for BREAKING HIS LEG for Chrissakes. He was upset that he couldn't help his team win. That guy is a stand up guy. Gaines is a shrinking violet and it shows in his play. There's a reason he gets picked on. If he doesn't like it, he needs to play better or find another line of work.

Don't like me posting a picture of something that actually happened? Here's one for you that'll make it all better. Now, let's go home and have ice cream and forget Sunday ever happened.

Gblowfish....I've been reading your posts for a few years now and have always valued your insight and knowledge. I was surprised that you of all people would think it was ok to kick a player when he was down. That is all I'm saying. I'm done. You can go on hating Phillip if it makes you feel better. That is your right. I've had my say. GO CHIEFS!!

[All In]

And you have no idea what happened with the media. I do. Take care.