Originally Posted by TEX:
Denver has played a soft schedule. Their defense is not as good as the numbers suggest. But I don't see KC scoring 30 points regardless.
Agreed. When I look at their schedule and who they lost to, one thing (among several) stands out to me. DEN lost every game vs. an opponent that could run the ball and had a decent run defense. SEA, PIT, LAC, and BAL. Well, KC is near the top of the league on both counts.
As to whether we can score 30, that's I think a coin flip. I'm very curious as to how they're going to try and slow/stop both Travis and DHop. They do have a great CB duo, but you can't put a CB on Travis and call it good, we all know that. And you can't single cover DHop in short to intermediate routes. Will they try that to start the game, I wonder. Or will they try to double/box both and take their chances that Worthy/Watson/Hardman won't make them pay?
Anyway, I'm very curious to see how a good defense will try and deal with them. But I think the offense will ultimately be led by Kareem and the OL run-blocking. So yeah, it'll probably be a low-scoring affair. [Reply]
The burnt orange Gremlins with Levis seat covers & massive butt print on the hatchback glass. Will be head east on 1-70 tossing out half full half warm Coors cans at roadkill [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rainbarrel:
The burnt orange Gremlins with Levis seat covers & massive butt print on the hatchback glass. Will be head east on 1-70 tossing out half full half warm Coors cans at roadkill
Denver is getting the Chiefs when they are about to crank it up, especially against a division rival. I fully expect the Donks to play well at first, but they will fizzle by the 3rd quarter. They have not seen anything like this team, and most of their victories were flukey or against teams that suck. Good for them for winning more, it keeps the fans hopeful. But they just got murderalized by the Ravens, a team the Chiefs were able to beat, albeit barely.
I think they'll put up a good fight early, but they won't be able to hang 4 quarters. I mean, anything is possible in the NFL when division rivals play each other (Browns vs. Ravens anyone?) but the Chiefs are just different. [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
Denver is getting the Chiefs when they are about to crank it up, especially against a division rival. I fully expect the Donks to play well at first, but they will fizzle by the 3rd quarter. They have not seen anything like this team, and most of their victories were flukey or against teams that suck. Good for them for winning more, it keeps the fans hopeful. But they just got murderalized by the Ravens, a team the Chiefs were able to beat, albeit barely.
I think they'll put up a good fight early, but they won't be able to hang 4 quarters. I mean, anything is possible in the NFL when division rivals play each other (Browns vs. Ravens anyone?) but the Chiefs are just different.
I think the Chiefs play this one very close-to-the-vest. They'll put up 20 points and dare Bo Nix to put up more than that against Spags.
He will not succeed.
But the Chiefs want to unload their entire clip next week against the Bills. They're going to keep this one easy.
I do think that Sean Payton's done as much as he can with this offense, and he'll engineer a great first 15 that allow them to get something like 10 points up on the Chiefs, because that's happened a lot this year -- although not recently.
After that, though, Spags will squeeze like a python. Reid will play it close to the vest, and then we'll see what this team really looks like against Buffalo. [Reply]
I am hoping this will be a breakout game for worthy. Patrick Surtain will probably be assigned to Hopkins and shut him down. If he can still contribute meaningful even with Surtain assigned it to him then he really is back to his old form of one of the leagues best receivers and we will be awesome. But I am more counting on worthy to have a break out game.
Also, I think we will just run the ball down their throat like we did in the overtime win last week. And they won’t be able to do anything about it.
I doubt their offence will be able to score more than 10 on us. And if we keep Nix contained, I doubt they’ll even score that. Our biggest weakness is against tight ends and they don’t have anybody exceptional here.
As several have said the Broncos D has only been great against subpar teams. That’s not us now that we have Hopkins and hunt to take care of our injury situation. [Reply]