Football Did anybody see the Week 2 Stats segment on NFL Total Access just now? - Page 2

It ain't just Patrick Mahomes lighting up the league.

Through two weeks, this is an all-time historic season for points, TDs by QBs, and all kinds of other stuff.

To me, it's just further evidence of how much they've neutered defenses in recent years.
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Originally Posted by -King-:
I saw a stat a couple days ago about how week 2 had I think 30 more touchdowns than week 2 of just last year. That kind of tempered my Mahomes hype a bit.
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Smith led 3 FG drives. Just sayin'
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Originally Posted by htismaqe:
It ain't just Patrick Mahomes lighting up the league.

Through two weeks, this is an all-time historic season for points, TDs by QBs, and all kinds of other stuff.

To me, it's just further evidence of how much they've neutered defenses in recent years.

You basically can’t touch the QB’s anymore. Now that we have Mahomes, I’m ok with it. It’s not football anymore though.

Just put flags on the QB & call it a day.
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Originally Posted by Coogs:
Smith led 3 FG drives. Just sayin'

Some things never change.
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Originally Posted by milkman:
The old adage that says defense wins championships just isn't true anymore.

Just look at the Super Bowls over the last couple of years.
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Originally Posted by DRM08:
You'd like to have balance. Rams look pretty strong because the defense is good and so is the offense. Chiefs don't need a great defense, but they need a much better one than we have seen so far.

They have one?
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Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Right but the point was that the whole league is breaking records.

Who cares?

If the whole league is breaking records, then you better be breaking records yourself.

We are.

That doesn't take anything away from Mahomes at all.
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Is anybody really surprised that offense is up this year? The defense isn't allowed to tackle anymore. If you sack the QB perfectly, don't hit him high, don't hit him low, you still draw a 15 yard penalty because you tackled him too hard. The old days of hard hitting defenses dictating games are long gone. Remember the phrase "defense wins championships"? Not even remotely true today.
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Alex Smith scored 9 points last week.
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Originally Posted by kysirsoze:
I don't love the trends, but boy did we get a world class, cut throat passer at the right time.

Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Yeah, on the one hand, it's a shame what football is becoming. Like the Arena League wasn't ADD enough.

On the other hand, if this is what the NFL is today, it's one heck of time to have Patrick Mahomes.

Yup, I hate what this league is becoming

But if it HAS to be that way... we sure got the right QB for it
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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Alex Smith scored 9 points last week.

That doesn't account for Smith hidden touchdowns
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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo:
That doesn't account for Smith hidden touchdowns

Nor does it account for punter ... er ... up setting.

The stats don't tell the punter setting-up story very well ... at all, really, when you think about it.

PFF puts that in the DGAD column on their spreadsheet (which is included in the Super Pro Nerd Insider Subscription).

FAX
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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Alex Smith scored 9 points last week.

Yeah but I bet he setup the punter like a champ!
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I feel like the league has slowly been saying fuck defense we wanna sell passing and fantasy points. And for years the way to fall into favor is through the passing game, and KC finally got on board this train.
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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
Yea.

I’ll bet If I went back and watched an old Chiefs game from the early 90s it would feel very antiquated.

The NFL is Damn near becoming Arena League.

Originally Posted by milkman:
This is why I am not overly concerned with the Chiefs defense.

The old adage that says defense wins championships just isn't true anymore.

THIS! That era is over. I'm sure the defensive players are just as good as the ones 20 years ago. It's the rule changes. They did this on purpose to get more offense in the game.

The great thing for us is that we finally have our own young franchise QB. And it seems like the NFL loves it some Mahomes. Maybe we are going to be getting those Pitt and NE ref calls soon too.
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