Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare:
Don't laugh that may happen considering they still talk to each other
Smith was the small-ball king! Very weird Mahomes is lacking in that aspect of his game. It's like we need to rewire how he reads the field when teams take away Hill, Kelce, and the deep ball. Andy needs to rethink his game plans as well. This team hasn't adjusted at all after the Super Bowl and it's pitiful. [Reply]
The #chiefs are 5th in scoring, 4th in total offense, 7th in rushing, 5th in passing, 1st on third down, 4th in sacks allowed, 6th in redzone, 5th in yards per play.
Started a thread with this cuz I wanted these numbers to get more views, but it belongs here.
Originally Posted by JakeF:
That's what Defenses are banking on. Stop Hill from catching 40 touchdown passes, let the Chiefs dink,dunk, and run the ball all they want. They will make a mistake eventually and it will cost them. The chiefs crappy defense means our offense will be even more anxious about scoring, and that will lead to more mistakes.
Fluke turnovers or turnovers caused by the scheme of the opposing teams?
15 play drive = turnover, 6 play drive = touchdown.
Consistently taking double the number of plays to score means more mistakes.
This year the Chiefs are averaging 7.24 plays a drive and last year we averaged 6.65 plays a drive. This year so far we've had 46 drives, so this year we've had 27 more plays than we would have had through 46 drives last year. That's only 5 extra plays an entire game. It's not like we are even having that many more plays than last year.
Now your logic is sound, but the numbers actually tell a completely different story. So we've had 11 TO. This is how many plays we had in the drive for a TO.
Ravens
3 plays int
4 plays fumble
Chargers
10 plays interception
5 plays fumble
6 plays fumble
3 plays int
Eagles
6 plays int
Bills
5 plays int
9 plays int
10 plays fumble
That comes out to 5.5 plays per turnover.
Now this is our scoring drives and number of plays
Browns
10 fg
12 td
14 td
10 fg
1 td
3 TD
Ravens
8 td
7 td
5 td
6 TD
Chargers
11 Fg
12 td
10 td
12 td
Eagles
8 td
12 td
8 td
11 td
11 td
6 td
Bills
17 fg
12 td
8 fg
7 td
That comes out to 9.2 plays per score
Or 8.7 plays per TD, 11.2 plays per FG
5 out of 11 of the turnovers came on drives with 6 or more plays.
Very few of our turnovers have been because of a long drives and so what this tells me is that no, teams are not forcing us to turn it over by forcing long drives. If that were the case then I'd probably be concerned about this working. [Reply]
2 of Pats 5 INTs hit the WR in the hands. 2 were Pat trying to throw while being tackled, pretty sure he knows what the defense was trying to do to him. [Reply]
Patrick doesn't need Alex's fucking help. Alex could NEVER beat Cover 2.
At least Patrick can do that when the protection is there.
He had one bad game where the worst, game-ending mistakes were made by others. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up and watch him rape the WFT. He doesn't make mistakes twice. [Reply]
Bombs away football is fun and we've grown to rely on PMII to win every game for us. So far this season, that hasn't worked well. We have some young bucks on the O-line, so turn them loose. A 5-6 yard rush on 1st down is better than a 40 yard incompletion. A 7 yard out route for a 1st down is better than a 30 yard INT. The key here is to keep our D off the field and win games, not to pad any player's stats. Dink and dunk the opposing team to death if need be. Winning is everything. [Reply]
We've been making this scheme look much more effective than it really should be against this team. There's no silver bullet to stopping this offense - and this article doesn't claim that. Get the turnover differential to a normal level, play just "bad" defense instead of "all-time worst" defense, and execute the offense (drops, taking check-downs). Do those things and this scheme won't look very smart at all. [Reply]
Originally Posted by comochiefsfan:
I was under the impression that that was kind of the whole point of drafting Clyde.
But they've never used him that way so apparently not.
It turns out that CEH doesn't break long run they way we need. I imagine Mahomes would check the ball down more frequently if CEH made the first tackler miss and got 20-30 yard runs from it. [Reply]
