Chiefs 2024's Red zone failures - Page 5

Boy, we sure have sucked balls in the redzone this year.

Thought Kareem and Dhop would help but last game we were 1 of 5 and this year we are at the bottom of the bottom third.

Can blame some on tackles but down inside the 20 you aren't holding the ball for very long.

I think the play calling has been poor and it seems our formations are so recognizable.

The inside shuffle pass has lost its luster.

We seem to have forgotten the jet sweep or quick slants.

I don't think we have had too many penalties inside the 20 but don't have the stats.

Who gets the blame here? :-)
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I’d like to see some stats on our red zone success YOY if anyone has a source?

Like others here, I get sick of Andy’s trickery in the red zone and would prefer to just run it up the middle. But I feel like we were worse in the red zone last season, I had hoped that Steele and/or Perine would allow us to punch it over the line with more efficiency but Kareem’s getting that done for us now so all is well.
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Originally Posted by -King-:
Just heard that the Chiefs have settled for the most field goals in the red zone for any team through 12 weeks since 2018. They also have settled for the most field goals of any Patrick Mahomes team already.

They have to drastically improve that. Hopefully with DJ we can start running better plays down there. And Andy needs to stop settling. I would love to see us to for it more on 4th downs down there

Meh. I mean, part of it is that Andy tends to try out different plays or player packages during the regular season. Not having Pacheco for months probably also played a part. The OTs playing like ass likely contributed to the lack of success. Just saying, it's probably not just one or two things. Like most things, it was/is probably more of a domino effect of several/many issues that resulted in the current poor performance in the RZ.

Once Humphries get settled in, and Pacheco really gets back in the flow, DHop gets fully involved in the RZ packages, etc. I'm sure we'll see the RZ efficiency start to go back up.

Of course, the keystone of all of that is DJ has to be a significant upgrade in performance over Morris/Kingsley, but I feel like that won't be an issue. It might take a couple three weeks, but DJ will make a big difference, imo.

In the meantime, I wouldn't mind seeing Andy steal some running plays from either DET or TB vs. the gadget stuff he tends to run.
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I like to believe we get too cute in the reg. season to see what works, then turn it on in the playoffs.

However the eye test is just shitty calls in the red zone. That shovel pass hasn't worked in like 2 seasons. Kareem is like a 97% chance of positive yards, so I dunno.

Last season makes me think we're fucking around, but we fuck around with a worse o-line and I dunno if that unit can "flip a switch"

Weird season to judge.
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