Ten Things About Tonight's Game Week 6: NE 43 KC 40

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Tonight’s Game Week 6: NE 43 KC 40

10. Looks like the 1972 Dolphins can concentrate on putting the voodoo hex on the Rams now. All of us agree that 5-1 is a great start. I’m very happy about many things and hopping mad about other things.

So let’s talk about good, bad and ugly:

9. The Good: After being down 24-9 at halftime, the team could have mailed it in. KC scores 31 points in the second half and loses. Where last week’s win over the Jags was credited to the defense for forcing four Bortles picks and a fumble, this week the defense was the goat. Offense and Special Teams showed tremendous heart to claw back into the lead in the fourth quarter. Hunt had 185 all purpose yards and a TD. Hill had 142 yards and three TDs…and could have had four if Mahomes would have hit him on our second drive. Kelce and Watkins were somewhat quiet, but did have catches. Mahomes set a Chiefs record for throwing for 300 yards in his last five games. Last person to do that in the NFL was Aaron Rodgers.

8. Special Teams were all good. Toub gets a 96 yard kickoff return. Buttkicker is perfect on all field goal and PAT attempts. On defense, Lucas played best of all the D-Backs. He had four tackles and six assists. Zombo played OK filling in for Houston. He didn’t embarrass himself. Devey did an OK job filling in for Morse who was concussed on a borderline dirty hit by Hightower. KC had 446 yards of total offense, which will win a game for you 9 out of 10 times.

7. The Bad: Jesus, where to I begin with this defense? Sorry, but I despise Grandpa Bob Sutton. Defense gives up 43 points. That’s gutter awful. Defense gives up an even 500 yards of offense to New England. They gave up a 100 yard rusher - They made Michel look like the second coming of Curtis Martin. Brady only had one TD pass, but he’s the one who ran for a TD this week, not Mahomes. And on his TD, Speaks had a major fail not to pull his ass down. That pretty much negated the one good play he had earlier to force a Brady fumble. Speaks looks doughey and slow. He either needs to bulk up and become a DT, or get his ass in better condition like Dee Ford did, and get better core strength. Dee Ford did absolutely NOTHING tonight against New England’s second string tackle. Chris Jones disappeared in the second half. For the most part, the inside pass rush was pathetic. On the fumble they forced on Brady he had over five seconds to throw the ball. You simply can’t give him that much time. He will beat you, yes he will beat you. Hey Bob, he beat you.

6. Somebody asked me yesterday what I thought would happen in tonight's game. I said “Pats will run for five or six yards on first down. Our linebackers will look terrible in pass coverage on backs out of the backfield, and if things get tight for Tommy, the refs will bail him out with DPI calls." All three of those things happened to make me look like frickin’ Nostradamus. Hey Veach, WTF??? I though our draft and free agency was all about STOPPING THE RUN? Pats had 173 yards rushing. That’s flatly pathetic. Hitchens and Ragland are both awful in pass coverage on backs. They’re always getting beat on little swing passes. Fuller is showing he’s not a true starting corner. He’s average to less than average at corner. Nelson and Scandrick were both terrible. Both had DPIs. Pats were 7 for 13 on third down. That’s on Grandpa Bob. And the final kill shot to Gronk, Gramps rushes three guys and puts a guy they brought in off the street a couple days ago (Shaw) to cover Gronk one on one, when everybody in the damn stadium knew Gronk was the main target. How can you allow that kind of a coverage scheme at a critical point in the game like that? Should be grounds for dismissal on that play alone.

5. The Ugly: I can see why Ron Parker was available after Atlanta cut him. Gronk trucked him. You can’t tackle a guy like that high. You have to cut his knees out from under him. Kelce lept a guy. Gronk stiff armed Parker and ran for another 10 yards. Gronk was by far the better of the two TE’s in this game.

4. Pats were penalized for zero yards. Let me say that again. Pats…no DPI, no holding. Only thing they got called for was an illegal shift, and it was declined by KC. They had one OPI called, but it was offset by a Bullshit penalty on Fuller for defensive holding. There was one punt in the game. So this was not as ugly as the “No Punt Game” in the playoffs back in the day against the Colts and Five Head, but I kept thinking in the fourth quarter the last team with the ball would win. Yep. That's exactly what happened. I could smell it coming.

3. Hightower is a dirty player. His hit on Morse was unnecessary and away from the play. I hope the O-Line remembers that hit and can pay his ass back if we meet these guys in the playoffs down the road. He should be on the bounty list. I guess the last part of the "ugly" was we had to play this game without our two highest paid defensive players, Houston and Berry. They both played in the New England game last year that we won. This year, we get nothing from either of them. Enjoy cashing those game checks this week fellas.

2. Ultimately the difference in the game was Mahomes slow start. He missed two guys for TDs early -Hunt and Hill-, and his second pick right before the half was really the game difference. If we get seven or three on that possession, we may have won this game. Not blaming this loss on Mahomes, he got the team the lead back in the fourth quarter. But if he comes out a little sharper, we may have won this game by 14 points.

1. So, live and learn. I think Mahomes and Hill both shined in front of a National TV audience, and losing to the Pats -when you have to beat Brady and the Zebras- is a tall order. He put the fear of Jesus in them, and it’ll make it so much sweeter when we beat them in a game that counts -the AFC Playoffs. But please God, can we put Sutton into John Knox Village where he belongs? Just give him a gold watch and a big case of pudding and get him the HELL out of Arrowhead? I won’t be able to handle another 20 point playoff collapse this year. We must, MUST draft or find actual defensive help next year. A couple linebackers who can cover backs and slants would be a start; a safety that can cover and come up in run support would be like, oh, having Eric Berry, and get a corner who can figure out how to turn his head in pass coverage. At least the Bengals got demoralized by AB and Rapistburger, and our guys will be pissed off now that they lost a game. I expect they may have more urgency and fire this week in taking it out on the Bengals. Like Lou Brown said in Major League when Wild Thing gave up the Grand Salami, “Let’s see how the kid reacts.”

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by UK_Chief

Is Derrick Johnson still able to stand up? If yes, please sign him

I think he is shitting himself as an Oakland Raider

[UK_Chief]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

I think he is shitting himself as an Oakland Raider

Oh shit, yeah. I thought he’d retired. Damn now I can’t pretend he’d help this D

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Randallflagg

Couldn’t disagree with anything. Great post as usual!!

yip

[Danguardace]

Will be interesting to see how this game will be viewed down the road, Pats have a tough looking schedule playing the rest of the NFC north Chiefs are banged up but the schedule sets up for a possible streak before they play the rams.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Danguardace

Will be interesting to see how this game will be viewed down the road, Pats have a tough looking schedule playing the rest of the NFC north Chiefs are banged up but the schedule sets up for a possible streak before they play the rams.

You're right our immediate schedule looks favorable at least 3 out of our next four games are at home before we go to Meyhico City to take on the Rams. That first 6 games were brutal schedule like some evil mind was behind it.

[Bwana]

Good stuff George, thank you!

[Couch-Potato]

We had nothing out there on defense. Watched the game with a friend and was embarrassed when they rattled off our defensive starters and the most notable guy on the list was Dee Ford!?!? Hitchens and Ragland are the same guy, neither does anything particularly well accept look the part of a stereotypical ILB. Our entire secondary is subpar. Our Dline, whether is be scheme or not, is just a group of place holders out there. Not one difference maker among them.

We need to go 100% defense again next draft, but man, we absolutely wasted last year's draft on a heaping pile of mediocracy. If we can do it, pull the trigger on a trade or two. If we need to, move on from our expensive defensive stars that do not perform. Bringing in healthy, proven, players might be the ticket for us.

[Easy 6]

No offensive or defensive holding calls against NE, that says so much

No one is perfect, not even the shitass patriots

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

No offensive or defensive holding calls against NE, that says so much

No one is perfect, not even the shitass patriots

Especially when you can ostensibly call holding on every play...and make no mistake, their Oline held our Dline early and often...yet not one single call.

[rabblerouser]

Oh, spot on, as usual, G-money. Hope you and Mrs. blowfish are well.

No shame in losing by 3 to NE in Foxboro when the refs are in the bag.

We just gotta get the 1 seed to make them come to Arrowhead in January.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Especially when you can ostensibly call holding on every play...and make no mistake, their Oline held our Dline early and often...yet not one single call.

Such transparent ****ery by the league

[RedRaider56]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

No offensive or defensive holding calls against NE, that says so much

No one is perfect, not even the shitass patriots

yeah, it was pretty obvious the officials were letting NE get away with stuff.
On that one TD pass to Hill, NE tackled Hunt as he was going for the ball. Official was staring right at the players...no call.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Really came down to we scored too quick on our last touchdown to Tyreek Hill but how do you not go ahead and score because you don't know if you get the opportunity to score a touchdown on the same drive. WTF do you do if your Tyreek slide at the 15 have the offense take time off the clock getting a first down then punch it in that would still have left a minute on the clock for the Pats to do something with to end the game on a field goal.

Our offense scores too fast and the defense can’t slow anyone down.

Deadly combination in games like this one.

[InChiefsHeaven]

I too am not that mad about this loss. Mahomes showed that he's human, who knew? But in spite of all that shitty-ness in the first half, he outplayed Brady in the second half. Scoring too quickly at the end was a killer, but who can blame him for throwing that beautiful pass? That's what he's supposed to do!

Defense. Just...whatever. It's going to be a very trying post season if we think we're going anywhere with this group. But at the same time, this defense will not see many challenges like last night this season. On the road, beat up, playing the Pats on 10 days rest. We know the defense is bad, but I submit that this must mean the Pats defense is equally shitty...else Mahomes doesn't come back from 15 down to take the lead in their house.

This was a learning experience for Pat and I'm glad we got the loss out of the way. I'll be there for the Donkey slap fest, and I can't wait to see the Chiefs at home. Shit, it feels like we've not had a home game all season...

And as always, George is the man!

[Danguardace]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

No offensive or defensive holding calls against NE, that says so much

No one is perfect, not even the shitass patriots

It seemed to get shrugged off but one of Gronks big catches in the 4th their Tackle basically drove the man covering Gronk 5 yards down field that is surely illegal in at least 2 ways: ineligible downfield and OPI.