I agree that we would have signed up for the defensive stats and the record of 9-1 before the season.

But, as far as elite defenses, while there are no historically elite defenses, compared to the rest of the league, there are several that are pretty damn good.

The Rams, Colts, Bucs, and Saints are all very good defenses.

And the Steelers are currently the number one scoring defense, giving up a little over 17 points per game. However, they really haven't played a lot of really good offenses.

Remove the two games against the Raiders, and the Chiefs are giving up about 17.5 points per game to everyone else.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Saunders played in week 7 against Denver and has been a healthy scratch since.

It's understandable that Thornhill is struggling, but if he was supposedly healthy enough to suit up week 1 and still hasn't made any progress then I'm not sure he ever is this season. Either way, I'm not sure the answer is to have Sorensen ever playing deep safety. Is Tedric Thompson not capable of providing better coverage? All of a sudden safety looks like a bit of a weakness with Mathieu not playing well as of late and Thornhill falling off a cliff.
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They can't get into a Rhythm Mr. Riding the bench
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You're right it did seem like they converted every single one of them. Any idea what their actual 3rd down conversion rate was?%
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We dont need no stinkin' defense. :-)
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I've heard a lot of people saying "If the Raiders didn't have 3 or 4 big drops they win that game easy". I recall one 3rd down "drop" that was pretty big. Not the easiest catch but it should've been caught. Aside from that one, Ingold dropped 2 but didn't they score on that drive anyway?
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To my surprise, the defense is top 6 in points allowed.

Other than the two Raider games, they've been pretty good.
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A lot of times when I'm finished reading a post I immediately think of this:


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Aahhhhh, don't forget


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Gruden just has Spags' number this season. As said, we are giving up 17.5 to everyone else, and against the raiders, were surrendering 35.5.

Everything we threw at them defensively, Carr read it easily and executed extremely well.

When they did come off the field, it was pretty similar to how a KC drive ends, self inflicted. Couple big drops, especially the one that hit Agholor in his hands on third down really were the difference.

Their personnell groups, combined with a badass O line really match up to us well. They can cause problems.

When we look back on 2020, Raiders will be one of the better teams to miss the playoffs.
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They'll be in the playoffs. I'll be surprised if they don't win 10.

It's time to give the Raiders their due. They've been as competitive with the Chiefs as any team in the last two years.
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That’s the fact based, non-Pete’s hair on fire way to analyze things.
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Pretty easy to have someone's number when you can trust your Oline to handle the Dline without any help. Our coverage wasn't very good against the raiders either. But when the QB has tons of time the coverage unit usually looks bad.
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People sure love to talk about the 2nd place Faders on here. They are like the leaves on the trees- soon as it gets cold, they fall and blow away in the wind.
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Our CBs are nothing special. We simply don't have a lot of talent on D and i think offenses are adjusting. Hopefully our dline can step it up because that is where our talent at least money wise lies.
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