Originally Posted by scho63:
Yes but it's not just a TD, it makes the game that much tighter and a momentum shift.
It's not even a for sure TD if he catches it and it's definitely not a ball that is caught every time. Hell I bet that catch is made <50% of the time. Also momentum has so little effect on a game and shouldn't they have had momentum since they were able to kick a FG before half and kept it at a 1 possession game? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
Man that reminds me of how our transcendental quarterback got his leg put into a meat grinder and wasn't 100% the rest of the game. Seems like that not happening would have changed the game, too, but what do I know?
No doubt but that has nothing to do with Chris Jones and his sackless playoffs. [Reply]
Guys, Chris played 82% of all defensive snaps for the season. We were using him up kinda quick. Add to that the obvious fact that Pederson made sure that Chris was at least double-teamed on every passing snap, and on a few rushing snaps as well.
But the silver lining to CJ getting so much attention was that Derrick "Mack Truck" Nnadi got a free run at Trevor for what I think was his first playoff sack. If it wasn't , it had to be his fastest one; I'm pretty sure he broke double-digit MPH. And Saunders got a free run as well. And you know those two didn't have to beat a block to get back there so fast. Credit Chris for putting blinders on that OL a few times. Worked nicely.
CJ is going to be fine in this playoffs. He's going to get at least 5 sacks this time. He's just warming up. [Reply]
He'd get a sack if we had an edge rusher that would take extra attention away from Jones. Edge rusher should be our top draft pick unless we don't resign Brown.
Others like the Greek need to step it up so Jones isn't double teamed every play.
Fucking Naing got a sack. That fat boy could run fast if he's not blocked. [Reply]
Actually, he had several pressures, and nearly had a couple sacks; one he almost had Trevor in his grasp, but Lawrence pulled away (he's a big kid), and the other he was right there, but Trevor got the ball off just a step before CJ got there.
He didn't have a big day statistically, but he was productive. They all were, tbh. But CJ drew most of the attention. [Reply]
Chris was doubled-teamed for a good portion of the game and still generated quite a bit of pressure, which set up his teammates for sacks. It's really not rocket surgery here. Hell, there were plays he was triple-teamed. The Jags were clear about forcing KC's other rushers to make plays. I actually thought Chris played well, sans a few runs where he completely rushed himself out of the lane.
I'm most upset that we don't have a LB capable of coverage underneath and our safeties are way too slow to react coming up to tackle on short dumps. [Reply]
