Ten Things About Today's Game: Week 10

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Week 10

10.There is no such thing as a bad win. There are bad performances. There are bad plays. But I would rather win ugly than not win at all. This game was simply a mixed bag of money and manure, and our second gifted win in one season. San Diego gift wrapped a win for us opening day, and Cam Newton and the Carolina offense gifted this game to us today, despite all of Alice Smiff’s efforts to the contrary. If not for Dontari Poe, Dee Ford, Chris Jones, Eric Berry, Marcus Peters, Tyreek Hill and the Brazilian Midget (or “Pocket Jesus” as Tiny Evel likes to call him), we lose. And we lose a game in the AFC West race to the only team luckier than we were today, the Donks. Despite Carolina’s losing record, they’re still the defending NFC Champs. When you checked the schedule before the season began, you probably mark this game down as an “L.” The first three quarters were certainly that. Luckily, football is a four quarter affair.

9. The last time KC went to Carolina in 2008, we lost 34-0. Up until the very end of the first half, it looked like that could very well happen again this year. Cam Newton is the current NFL QB who closest resembles how Horse Face used to play us. He’s big, hard to bring down, always a danger to run, likes to rub your nose in it too. The difference between Newton and Elway is, Elway knew how to win in crunch time. Newton, still working on that. This game was won by defense and special teams, the offense was a detriment to the effort in every way, shape and form. Houdini would be proud of the Chiefs fourth quarter effort. Let’s look at the abysmal performance of the offense as a whole and then give ourselves a courtesy flush:

8. In the first half….oh sorry, Schwartz just jumped offside. As I was saying, in the first half…oh sorry, Harris just dropped a pass that hit him between the 8 and the 4. In the first half…excuse me, Fisher just jumped offside. OK…in the first half, oh man, Wilson just dropped a ball right in his hands. You get the point. Every tight end had a catchable ball drop. Wilson shows alligator arms. Conley was non-existent. Chiefs have nine penalties including four offside penalties by offensive linemen. The stadium wasn’t even close to sold out, so noise could not have been that big of a deal. KC continues to be flat out awful on third down, 2 for 12 today. KC ran 61 offensive plays and only had 256 yards of total offense, averaging FOUR DAMN YARDS PER PASS. Which leads us to Alice Smiff…

7. If Alice still had a headache, he should have taken another week off. His first long pass attempt should have been a TD, except he under-threw Hill by about five yards, snuffing a drive and turning the play into an arm punt. Watch it here:
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OK, so since he under threw his first pass attempt that was more than five yards, so the rest of the day, he decided to either over throw everyone, or just flat out ignore wide open receivers. In the 4th Quarter before Berry’s pick six, it’s 17-3, KC has the ball in the red zone for the first time all day. Alex flat out misses two guys, Kelce and Conley WIDE OPEN in the left corner of the end zone, on BACK TO BACK PLAYS. Unbelievable. Andy settles for a field goal:
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Then with four minutes left in the game, Alice has a chance to win it outright, and over throws Kelce on a 15 yard pass to the end zone:
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Andy settles for a field goal to tie the game, and gives Newton four minutes to try for the Carolina win. Alice even attempted to throw the ball twice on one play. He completed a pass to himself, then tried to throw the ball downfield again in a fit of “OH SHIT!” Unfortunately, that’s illegal. You would think a starting NFL QB would know that’s a rule. During that series, our next to last offensive series before the Peters' strip, we went from 1st and 10 on the 20 with 1:47 and three time outs, and end up 4th and 15, punting with 43 seconds left. Alice ends up with 178 yard passing on 38 attempts, throws a pick, no TDs and is sacked three times. Enough on Alice. Suffice to say, we won despite his best efforts.

6. The first time KC crossed mid field was with less than 90 seconds left in the first half. The defense was gassed at halftime. Carolina ran the hurry up. Gaines went out, and Acker came in -who was picked on immediately. You can tell its a bad day when your D-Backs lead the team in tackles. Our top three tacklers were Berry, Peters and Nelson. This game turned on back to back sacks right at the end of the third quarter. Ford got one, then Jones got a big one on the next play, on third down to take Carolina out of field goal range. If they get three at that juncture, the game is probably over. Next series, Newton gets frustrated; panics in the face of a safety blitz by Parker and Sorensen, and lays up a duck right to Eric Berry, who makes a gutsy pick six return. This is why Berry is a Pro Bowler:
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5. The Peters giveth, and the Peters taketh away. or in the case of today, vice versa. Peters may be the AFC Defensive Player of the Year. He is also an immature, selfish, undisciplined dumb ass. Carolina pushed their luck by not just taking the game into overtime. Peters makes a Pro-Bowl play to strip the ball with 30 seconds left in the game. Great play. Fantastic. But then, for whatever reason, he decides for the second week in a row he wants to audition for Dustin Colquitt’s job and punts the ball into the stands; turning a 43 yard field goal attempt on a damp field into a potential 47 yard field goal. And we’re lucky all he was flagged for was delay of game. He could have easily been hit with a 15-yarder for taunting. Just like last week, it took a great run to get the ball back into better range:
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4. I’m a little concerned about the aftermath of this game. On defense, Gaines seems to be made of china. Can’t rely on him to be there week after week. Poe got nicked up. DJ has a bad hammy. Hali was in and out on a gimpy knee. Peters got a stinger on his arm. Jones has been playing on a bad ankle. Jaye Howard and Justin Houston were both out. Ware got dinged up again. Of course, this time of year, all players have bumps and bruises. Just hope these guys can hold it together and not suffer anything too serious.

3. Tyreek Hill is our number two guy now, and he deserves it. With no Maclin, he’s the only speed threat we have (since DAT never sees the field). He catches the ball. He did fumble one that could have been a disaster, but it rolled out of bounds. He’s been consistently good on punt returns, providing critical field position when needed. Specials did their part. Colquitt was mixed, he had one punt that should have been down on the one foot line, but Acker couldn’t keep his foot off the end zone line. The Brazilian Midget was money today. Four for four on a damp field, and clutch in the fourth quarter. Ware did a nice job, rushing for 61 yards and picking up blitzing linebackers. Chiefs had 91 yards rushing as a team, which isn’t great, but Ware’s final rush for 12 yards helped the final field goal kill shot tremendously.

2. Andy’s play calling is still making me crazy. Please do away with any pass play behind the line of scrimmage. Please do away with any pass play on third down that is not past the line to make first. I can’t tell you how many times this year Alice has thrown a five yard pass on third and eight. If not for two take aways in the fourth quarter, we lose this game 17-9. If you hold Carolina to 17 points -including a shut out in the second half- that should be plenty of defense to win. Today defense was also the offense. And that’s why they call it a three phase game.

1. So what happens now? Denver continues to be the luckiest team in football, and gets a gift win on the road in New Orleans. Next up we get the Bucs and Jameis Penis in Arrowhead, who destroyed Chicago today. Then we get the Donks in Denver. Then a road game in Atlanta against the NFC South leading Falcons. So the next three weeks won’t be easy. But you know what? Look at the AFC West Standings... Guess who’s at the top, baby? There are no bad wins. Let’s send Newton a nice thank you note, and get ready to spank those Bucs. Bring it, and bring it loud my friends.

[EPodolak]

We're so historically bad against slant routes, like today. Need an answer for it.

[Red Dawg]

Basically we have a solid team that can win but Alex is shit just like every year. Wide open guy and he misses them.

[RINGLEADER]

We're averaging 6.0 second half points given up on defense each week.

We've given up 6 second half TDs all season.

We've given up 3 or fewer second half points in 5 games.

We've given up zero second half points in 3 games.

[Kman34]

Nice job... yeah I still don't think this offense is as bad as the Steve Bono running offense.....

[Rasputin]

I was kinda pissed we didn't go for a touchdown in the fourth quarter and settled for a field goal. I thought with all that time and effort it took just to get down there they should have been in four down territory we needed two touchdowns yet so I wanted the enchilada right then.

Thank God Berry came up with that pic 6 because my son and I were just talking about where has Eric Berry been moments before it happened. Then it happened and we was like oh hellz yeah that's the Berry we know.

This defense also makes offenses work for what they get until they can snag one out of the air and make them pay, or force a fumble as Peters did.


Peters is no punter we have MVP for that job. Also MVP had a butte of a punt that was going be in the corner but one of the guys step on the line making it a touchback. I think it would have gone out of bounds at the one on it's own.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Kman34

Nice job... yeah I still don't think this offense is as bad as the Steve Bono running offense.....

Steve Bono bootleg



Cam Newton started off the game with a bootleg I was like whoop there it is and expected it several more times in the game but he didn't do it. I still have nightmares of the bootleg in Greg Robinson era.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

We're averaging 6.0 second half points given up on defense each week.

We've given up 6 second half TDs all season.

We've given up 3 or fewer second half points in 5 games.

We've given up zero second half points in 3 games.

Wow. However one might feel about Bob Sutton, those are some impressive stats, and they reflect a coach who's making some good adjustments at halftime.

[Easy 6]

Sooo much to agree with today, you've really nailed it again... starting to fear I'm just too sauced up at this point to address it all

Yes, this was a defensive win 110%... Berry, Ford, Jones, Peters, Poe... all of them share the game ball with an honorable mention for Hill

Offense was putrid, stinking landfill material outside of a few plays by Hill and Ware, didnt even wanna watch the clips of Smiff missing wildly again... but thanks for the effort of posting them

Crossed midfield for the first time with 1:30 left in the half *facepalm*

The Peters strip was just un****ing real, took me a few seconds to even process it... "wait wait wait, WHAAAT?!1"

Just an insane game, like you say I'd rather win ugly than not win at all... but Alex Smith can suck my ass, that guy was a bad joke today and I hope someone gave him a Conor McGregor-style lefthanded knockout punch in the lockerroom

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks

Wow. However one might feel about Bob Sutton, those are some impressive stats, and they reflect a coach who's making some good adjustments at halftime.

What happens I think is that an offense starts a long drive and they seem to move the ball on the Chiefs at least in the first quarter but they put the clamp down and make it harder on offenses as games progress ever tightening the vice so that offenses are prone to make mistakes and the ball pops out of the ball carrier or its an opportunistic interception. The defense gives what they want and I think they give offenses false since of empowerment like they did Cam Newton today but they got to him and they got in his head. The pressure they were putting on him forced him make throws he didn't want too.

I'm pretty impressed with this defense and should only get better with when Justin Houston returns.

Unfortunately our offense is offensively challenged & needs something to work.

Any way we can call Al Saunders for up in the booth to do our play calling?

[CoMoChief]

If we would have lost today, I wouldn't have blamed the defense.

They played their guts out, they were on the field for what seemed like an eternity in the first half.

Alex Smith sucks...that's about as all I can say. His passes are WAY off, can't throw a deep ball for shit, and the guy's playing scared in the pocket. Confidence level: ZERO

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

We're averaging 6.0 second half points given up on defense each week.

We've given up 6 second half TDs all season.

We've given up 3 or fewer second half points in 5 games.

We've given up zero second half points in 3 games.

Without looking it up because I am being lazy, I think the 95 Chiefs went about 10 games in a row without allowing a TD in the second half, could have been the 97 team.

This current defense is getting scary good, a lot of fun to watch.

Thanks George


Oh and bring Foles back.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

If we would have lost today, I wouldn't have blamed the defense.

They played their guts out, they were on the field for what seemed like an eternity in the first half.

Alex Smith sucks...that's about as all I can say. His passes are WAY off, can't throw a deep ball for shit, and the guy's playing scared in the pocket. Confidence level: ZERO

This is a hair brain idea not to be taken seriously because it's hair brain. However out of shits and giggles I thought to myself because I wouldn't really suggest this but I remember some football teams try a two quarterback system if one was good at something and other not. Well I laughed and thought what would it hurt to put Foles in when they are going throw deep? I know it would pretty much give the play away so you would just do it on obvious passing plays 3&10+ yards?

It's stupid but it just might work because what we do now isn't. Foles plays better coming off the bench anyways than starting.

[Mosbonian]

The games for the next 3 weeks don't concern me as much as they did earlier in the year....I pretty confident about the Tamp Bay game, especially since it is at home. Atlanta isn't as scary as they were at first......if you make Matt Ryan uncomfortable in the pocket he tends to make mistakes...that is what Philly did today......and after watching Denver the last couple of weeks they are just as unpredictable as we are.

[Deberg_1990]

I'm willing to give Smith another week or two to get his shit together. Maybe he was rusty today because of being off and the brain issues?

But he can't continue to have games like today. He's been bad more than he's been good this year.

And I'm not even an Alex hater.

[Mr. Laz]

I'm worried about Ware.