Ten Things About Today's Game: Week 14 KC 26 OAK 15

[gblowfish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAt...feature=onebox

Ten Things About Today’s Game
Week 14: KC 26 OAK 15

10. Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the entire year. The lovely Mrs. Blowfish has directed a free Children’s Christmas Play In Lexington for 26 straight years now. The little kids get to see Santa, we give all the kids a nice big bag of candy and have multiple drawings for toys and children’s books. I’ve had mothers tell me that some of these kids are so poor, the candy and toys they get from us may be all they get for Christmas, period. When you see something like that, it makes football seem totally irrelevant. So this morning I had some Joe in my lucky Chiefs mug, put out the Chiefs Flag on the front porch, checked the weather -which was fabulous for December- and headed out for Arrowhead. Seemed like the Faid fans had all the good parking places, because when you worship Satan, you’re not slowed down by attending church before leaving for the game. I had a very calm, matter of fact feeling about this game. I knew if we played like crap and lost, the playoffs were a pipe dream. If we played like crap and lost, we didn’t deserve to go to the playoffs anyway. What we got was what I’ve been looking for the last six weeks; a game where both sides of the ball actually showed up and played good enough to win on the same day. It was great to build a 26-0 lead going into the fourth quarter, and have enough points where the Faid could only see our tail lights. Many might say this was a bad team losing to a worse team, and that may be true. Not allowing an Oakland season sweep was the key, and Andy has never lost to the Faid in Arrowhead. Great job keeping that streak intact.

9. I also noticed from my sideline perch that all the players seemed much more engaged and motivated. Maybe the whole Peters fiasco got their attention, with the feeling being its up to the rest of the team to step up and will the team to victory. Alex Smith was much more involved with his team mates. He actually interacted with both offensive and defensive players. Albert Wilson was into it the whole game. Everyone just seemed to be wide awake and ready to play today. The thing that kept running through my mind was, “how could this team have possibly played so flat and uninspired against Buffalo?” It's just hard to understand.

8. Chris Jones came to play, especially early on. He had the first sack on Carr to set the tone, and tipped Carr’s arm to cause Mitchell’s pick that snuffed the Faid’s only real drive in the first half. The defensive secondary played well enough to keep Gaines on the sidelines and hold the Faid scoreless until the fourth quarter. Terrence Williams looked more like Peters than Peters with his pick and tight coverage. Cooper did not have a catch. Crabtree was held without a touchdown. Nelson ripped a ball loose from Holton -just like Peters is known to do- that Zombo recovered. The Faid didn’t start looking to Cook their Tight End until much too late in the contest to do any good. Cook made Sorensen look terrible on the Oakland’s final TD, but by that point in the game, it was too late for the Faid to do much to catch up.

7. Justin Houston and DJ played much better this week. Houston had a sack, and was involved in enough plays to hurry throws or help stop runs. Ragland was tough on Beast Mode, who only broke two decent runs -one in the first half and one in the second half for a TD. He was held to 61 total yards, and Oakland had less than 100 rushing yards for the game. DJ’s been held out for more and more plays as the season has gone along. He did come up and make a couple of very nice stops, but Sutton is starting to use him a lot like Hali, only on a limited number of snaps. Revis held down his side well, and didn’t have any giant olé tackles like he had last week. Jenkins had three tackles including a sack, which was his best performance of the season. The D held the Raiders to only 5 for 13 on third down, and forced Oakland to punt seven times. Chiefs didn’t punt until late in the third quarter.

6. If you have Kelce in your fantasy league, you got screwed as he had two TDs called back. One for a knee down at the one on the first, another called back on penalty. Kelce did have seven catches for 75 yards, which was equal to Cook’s production for the Raiders. Harris had a nice catch and run in the first half, and should have had a TD in the second half, but his stone hands cost him six. Albert Wilson came up big with a nice sideline catch for 36 yards and a clutch third down catch in the fourth quarter to allow the offense to burn valuable clock down the stretch. Ty Hill caught a 46 yard under thrown bomb. He’s learned that on a lot of Alex throws, you have to wait for the ball. He pulled it out of the sunshine glare and made the play.

5. Alex had one bad pick -turning over Zombo’s fumble recovery literally on the next play with a bad throw down the middle of the field somewhat aimed at Kelce. He had no TDs today, which is a little concerning as we look towards playoff time. Chiefs settled for four field goals or we could have blown Oakland completely off the field. A 26-zip lead seems pretty safe, unless you remember what Andy’s defense did in the Playoffs against Andrew Luck a few years ago. Today, it was good enough. Alex ran five times for 24 yards, but was also sacked four times. A couple of those sacks were his own fault for not getting rid of the football.

4. O-Line did a much better job of opening holes for K-Hunt, who tied Joe Delaney for most 100 yard games as a Chief’s rookie running back -five so far. If he has another 100 yard game this year he’ll own the record. He also went over 1000 yards for the season, which is absolutely great. He had a TD -Kelce’s TD from the knee hitting on the one- but it was his first rushing TD in ten games. West had a tough run to score his TD in the third quarter. The Canadian Doc was bulldozing out there today. We didn’t miss Mitch Morse at all, which was surprising. Fisher got beat a couple times, but all in all he played OK. Chiefs and Raiders both had seven penalties, so that was about even as far as the Zebras contribution.

3. I am still worried about the slippage in play by our special teams this season. Dave Toub is supposed to be this big guru. There’s been too many times we’ve run kickoffs out to inside our own 15 yard line. That didn’t happen today, but we did give up a partially blocked punt, had a holding penalty on our first punt return and gave up an onside kick recovery. On the flip side, Buttkicker was money again this week going four for four including a 53 yarder on a windy day. It was nice to give Oakland the Sea-Bass Treatment to see how they like it. Buttkicker has been putting his kickoffs into the cheap seats, preventing returns. That’s been big too. If K-Hunt doesn’t win the Mack Lee Hill Award, Buttkicker surely will.

2. So Andy gets the team back on the beam, with a short week to get ready for Phyllis, who destroyed Washington today. He threw for 319 and two TDs against the Redskins, who we had trouble with back early in the season. Chargers have KC, the Jets and Oakland left on their schedule. Hopefully Peters will return with his mind back on football, and be ready to defense Phyllis.

1. Every team in the division won today except Oakland. Even Denver won by shutting out the Jets, which made me throw up in my mouth a little after last week. Going into Saturday night, it’s basically today all over again. Win, and we’ve got a good shot at taking the AFC West. Lose, and we’re probably out of the playoff hunt. If we can’t beat Phyllis at home, we don’t deserve the playoffs anyway. It’s liberating to know it’s put up or shut up time. I put up our Christmas Wreath tonight when I got home from the game.

Hopefully next Saturday Night if Santa Claus comes right down Santa Claus lane, Sorenson will track him and deck him. The middle has been wide open too often on fourth down.

You can see game highlights here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAt...feature=onebox

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Well, one of Kelce's TDs was converted into a TD by K Hunt's one yard run. Kelce also dropped a TD with the sun in his eyes. But Alex had at least three drives stall because of poor passes or miscommunication with receivers where we settled for Buttkicker.


All I'm saying is, if this team is going to go anywhere but home, Alex needs to find a way to complete drives for TDs. Settling for Buttkicker will get you beat against a good team.

Shwartz being 10 yards down field on the TD pass to Kelce not only cost them the TD but tacked on penalty yards.

That was just dumb.

[O.city]

That was actually on Alex.

It looked like a run pass option play so for he ol doesn’t know if it’s run or pass. You can’t hold on to it and scramble

[gblowfish]

Here's Mr. Doggity's Report:

The Doggity Chiefs Report
Week 14 – 2017
Convicts at
The Head - Kansas City, MO

Overview: Not perfect, but far more like it. The real difference I saw was from the fat boys on both sides of the ball. Both the offensive and defensive lines played with a sense of purpose that has been missing throughout the losing streak. More importantly, The weak Oakland defense's strength is the front 7, and the potent Oakland offense has the most expensive offensive line in the NFL. Still too many penalties and other than the two kickers, the specials have really lost their edge. But there are no ugly wins in the NFL, especially in the division, against a rival, in a must-win game near the end of the season. We need another performance like that against a much-improved Charger team next week. Then the Chiefs can dine on cupcakes and get ready for a home playoff game. Go back into a shell next week, and they're likely watching the playoffs at The Peanut with the rest of us.

Offense: Smith overall did some good things, but also a few maddening things. The intercept he threw over Kelce's head, while running around like Daffy Duck looked like a rookie play. He should have thrown it away. It was freaking first down! And worse, it negated a great play by the defense, forcing a turnover. Smith made a throws that were less than perfect, but somehow, Kelce, Hill, Wilson and even Harris were able to reel in. Smith did stretch the field and make a couple of plays with his legs. Too many drives ended in 3 not 7, but overall, certainly good enough to win. Nice job milking the clock at the end, as well. Kelce had a couple of TD's taken off the board - one overturned and one on penalty, but had another good day. Anyone old like me who remembers the last time the Chiefs were great, remembers a TE named Morris Stroud. D. Harris is the second-coming of Stroud. Big body, solid blocker, hands of stone. Harris dropped a sure TD that hit him in a bad place - his hands. Albert Wilson is quietly becoming a significant part of this offense. He made some great catches and he is a lot harder to bring down than you'd think. He's a nice complement to Hill. Hunt finally had some room to run and made the most of it, putting up his best performance in 7 weeks. Charcandrick West went all "beast mode" on his TD, with the Canuck Doctor leading like a fullback. West is a nice piece, especially for his ability to pick up the blitz on throwing downs. The line play was better, but anytime you give up 4 sacks to a team ranked near the bottom of the league in sacks, there's room for improvement.

Defense: The fat boys came up huge, especially Chris Jones, who was blowing up that vaunted O-line. The secondary played a solid game, even without their best player, Marcus Peters, who was not available due to a bone in his head. Terrance Mitchell came up with another pick when Jones hit Carr's throwing arm, forcing him to launch a moonshot. He looked like he was fielding a punt. Should have called for a fair catch. Revis looked better today than he did against his old mates last week. Again Ragland played well, as did Jenkins. The hit of the day came from DJ on a screen pass to Lynch. Johnson had a running start and just blew him up. It looked like something from a Madden game. For all the grief this unit has rightly earned this season, this was their most complete performance in weeks, and accomplished short-handed against a very potent offense.

Specials: Colquitt and Buttkicker continue to just be among the best in the NFL at what they do. The rest of the special teams effort has slipped. They are not getting the good runbacks, they get way too many penalties, and that on-side kick was a debacle. Three different Chiefs had a shot at it. I thought that was supposed to be the "hands" team. Not getting the big plays out of the specials other than the kickers, is one of the biggest differences from last year.

Doggity Dog – The "hands" team for their horribly botched on-side kick that allowed Oakland its second TD.

Give Him a Bone – Gotta go with Chris Jones. He made a statement against one of the best O-lines in the league.

The Rest of the West -
The Las Vegas Criminals – See above

The 420 Donkeys - Manhandled the same Jets who beat the Chiefs last week. Go figure.

The Lost Angel Jolts – Riding high, and headed for Arrowhead, the Chargers have put it together the last half of the season and dismantled Washington.

Next up – The Jolts at The Head - on Saturday night!

Your faithful Scribe,
Mr. Doggity.

[hitchief]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Well, one of Kelce's TDs was converted into a TD by K Hunt's one yard run. Kelce also dropped a TD with the sun in his eyes. But Alex had at least three drives stall because of poor passes or miscommunication with receivers where we settled for Buttkicker.


All I'm saying is, if this team is going to go anywhere but home, Alex needs to find a way to complete drives for TDs. Settling for Buttkicker will get you beat against a good team.

I get what you are saying (missed a deep TD throw early which he actually didn't throw) but he did find a way a couple of times and others didn't convert. Alex did his job on at least 3 occasions and his wr's and or oline failed him. Perfect pass to Kelce on a scramble for a td (taken away by oline downfield). Perfect pass to Kelce which he walks into the endzone (Kelce drops the ball). Then Harris drops another ball that should have been caught ( I couldn't tell what the hell he was doing but that ball has to be caught) maybe not a td but sets us up for one.

Every week someone on the O makes a critical mistake and no doubt Alex has his fare share. But we cannot continue to have stupid penalties that put us behind the chains. Cannot drop easy balls. Cannot not throw to guys breaking open deep.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Win, and we’ve got a good shot at taking the AFC West. Lose, and we’re probably out of the playoff hunt. If we can’t beat Phyllis at home, we don’t deserve the playoffs anyway. It’s liberating to know it’s put up or shut up time.

WOLVERINES!1!

[KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Lighten up, Francis.

You're the one who seems to think it's alright to insult someone because their beliefs are different than yours, but I'm the one who should lighten up. Typical hypocrite.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Best22

The Redskins are the biggest joke in the league this year

Hot take here.

A team that's something like 5-8 is the biggest joke in the league. Definitely not the team that's now 0-13 and staring down the barrel of only the second winless season in NFL history.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Hot take here.

A team that's something like 5-8 is the biggest joke in the league. Definitely not the team that's now 0-13 and staring down the barrel of only the second winless season in NFL history.

[Best22]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Hot take here.

A team that's something like 5-8 is the biggest joke in the league. Definitely not the team that's now 0-13 and staring down the barrel of only the second winless season in NFL history.

I literally felt that Cleveland had a better chance vs LAC than Washington did.

Afterall, the Browns played LAC closer. 19-10 vs 30-13

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Best22

I literally felt that Cleveland had a better chance vs LAC than Washington did.

[BlackHelicopters]

Very unpretty. But a win is a win. SB before I die? I pray everyday.

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN

You're the one who seems to think it's alright to insult someone because their beliefs are different than yours, but I'm the one who should lighten up. Typical hypocrite.

Shocking....shocking I tell you...

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Shocking....shocking I tell you...

[scho63]

Great GBlowfish as I only watched bits and pieces while over long time friends in New Jersey. They are all Dallas fans and the Two TVs in the kitchen and den had Dallas and the large one in the living room had the Chiefs on so I was back and forth most of the game from the kitchen. Hope to see it on NFL replay.

[KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Shocking....shocking I tell you...

I don't know what you're trying to prove by posting this information. I joined this website to get information about the Chiefs, not to make friends or to see how many useless posts I could acquire. I like your ten things opinions and I read them every week, I was just taken aback by the comment you made about people who don't attend church and wanted to point out how wrong it was. I thought you were a pretty sensible and knowledgeable person but I guess I misjudged you.