Originally Posted by Best22:
They have gained the fewest offensive yards and allowed the most points. I don’t expect a close game. The Raiders have an actual defense, Carolina’s was historically bad at the beginning of the year. They are basically the Lions, but in reverse
I don't think I said it would be close. I expect we'll dominate throughout, but facts are facts.
ATL has been getting spanked left and right recently, but KC eked out just 22 pts a couple months ago.
TB annihilated NOR with 51, but the Chiefs managed just 26.
TB was (and still is) sporting a bottom-5 defense, and we scored just 24 pts in regulation just a couple weeks ago. At home.
We are getting Pacheco back, but that doesn't help our OTs all that much. Some, but it's not going to be a banner day in terms of protection, most likely anyway.
And looking at the weaker teams we've played, the Chiefs score about a FG more than their average of 24 points in those cases, so I feel like 27-28 points is a fairly good prediction.
Now, maybe CAR just doesn't score more than 10 pts against us, whatever. But I won't be super surprised if they managed to score 17 or so either. Especially in garbage time if that ends up being most of the 3rd and all of the 4th quarter.
Regardless, I think there's little question KC wins, I just wouldn't bet the farm that we'll suddenly run roughshod over any team, not even CAR.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I don't think I said it would be close. I expect we'll dominate throughout, but facts are facts.
ATL has been getting spanked left and right recently, but KC eked out just 22 pts a couple months ago.
TB annihilated NOR with 51, but the Chiefs managed just 26.
TB was (and still is) sporting a bottom-5 defense, and we scored just 24 pts in regulation just a couple weeks ago. At home.
We are getting Pacheco back, but that doesn't help our OTs all that much. Some, but it's not going to be a banner day in terms of protection, most likely anyway.
And looking at the weaker teams we've played, the Chiefs score about a FG more than their average of 24 points in those cases, so I feel like 27-28 points is a fairly good prediction.
Now, maybe CAR just doesn't score more than 10 pts against us, whatever. But I won't be super surprised if they managed to score 17 or so either. Especially in garbage time if that ends up being most of the 3rd and all of the 4th quarter.
Regardless, I think there's little question KC wins, I just wouldn't bet the farm that we'll suddenly run roughshod over any team, not even CAR.
In order for there to be ANY optimism we HAVE to blow out the Panthers like 35-10.
If it's some of this 24-14 bullshit it's a sign that we're gonna have problems trying to beat Pitt and Denver again.
We really can't have some close game here. In any way. It's gotta be a 2018 type Mahomes game.
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Originally Posted by TheGuardian:
In order for there to be ANY optimism we HAVE to blow out the Panthers like 35-10.
If it's some of this 24-14 bullshit it's a sign that we're gonna have problems trying to beat Pitt and Denver again.
We really can't have some close game here. In any way. It's gotta be a 2018 type Mahomes game.
Meh, I don't think we have to blow out CAR. We have to dominate them, but if we don't drop 35+ on them I don't think it's that big a deal.
If we're brutally honest about it, Pat is a little broken right now. And it's not just about his deep passes. He almost missed several short/intermediate passes recently as well. Imo, most if not all of it is directly related to his protection, which just hasn't been very good this year. Or last year. Or the year before that. And it's gradually become the problem it is now.
But he's always managed to deal with it by the end of the season, so I'm just not going to freak out about it right now. He's been good enough for the most part this season, and I expect that sooner or later he'll rise to another level in time for the playoffs.
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