Originally Posted by Chris Meck:
Well, Sunday's Chiefs would murder Vegas. Like 42-10.
but we don't seem to do that, like ever. We maddeningly seem to play down to the opponent a lot.
So I'll say Chiefs 28-20.
Huh? Do you even watched the games? They absolutely OBLITERATED Vegas twice last year. Literally doing what you're crying about the Chiefs supposedly never doing :-) [Reply]
Not overly concerned about what Evans and Brady did last weekend. The Chiefs were up three scores and appeared to want to keep everything in front of them. The PF on Thornhill was a bad call, the DPI was a clear instance of grabbing and turning the player. If the Chiefs had put two on Evans, it might have opened up the defense to some big plays and the way the offense was moving the ball, there was no reason to take chances.
Carr isn't Brady; the only concern I have is the Raiders front 7. It's a decent group and the Chiefs will need to be balanced and protect Mahomes. [Reply]
The only thing that might keep this game closer than t should be is Andy deciding to call a much more vanilla game, to save the big plays for BUF and then SF.
Which the more I think about it, seems like exactly what will happen. Raiders are very middle of the pack in every major stat line, but they are a division opponent, which cuts both ways. Andy can call a pretty textbook offense and Spags just needs to not allow LVR to score more than their season average, 24.0 pts.
So it seems like all Andy needs to do is keep Crosby in check and Spags needs to keep Adams from making any game-changing plays. Of course, I pretty much thought the same thing about IND and that didn't go well at all.
Still, the Raiders have perennially allowed the Chiefs to score 30+ in every meeting but one over the last 8, so I like our chances here so long as our defense continues to play as well as they have. [Reply]
