Ravens were way over-confident and rusty from sitting for weeks on end.

It is your team that is over-confident this week. You think 1 good player is going to run this entire game and the Chiefs will be powerless to stop it. 5, ten minute Henry scoring drives and the Chiefs are just going to let it happen. Delusional. Keep ignoring the fact the Chiefs scored a TD on 7 straight drives last week.

We are ready for you bitch asses- count on it.

They have the most one-dimensional offense we have faced this year. I think Spags will be ready for them.

Exactly, we ain't losing to no ****ing one-dimensional ass team....NOT NOW!!!!

Didn’t the Ravens run 90+ plays? How exactly did Henry shorten the game?

Sounds like the Ravens still had plenty of opportunities, but that RB playing make-believe as a QB couldn’t take advantage of the Titans trash secondary.

Mahomes will torch that secondary again, but this time he won’t be playing behind a makeshift OL. He’ll be playing behind a top 5 pass protection OL, with 2 healthy legs, and his full compliment of weapons.

The Titans struggle with defending speed on the perimeter. There’s no QB who is better at taking advantage of that than Patrick Mahomes. There’s no group of WRs better at exploiting that than a group with Tyreek Hill.

Overcommit to defending the perimeter? Travis Kelce will shred the middle of the field.

I don’t give a shit about your run defense, because that doesn’t matter against KC. We don’t even try to do it, which negates the strength of Tennessee’s defense.

Your weakness on defense plays into the strength of the best QB on the planet.

Arrowhead better call Pyro Joes this week and get stocked up on fireworks- this offense is going to dominate!

First game the Chiefs offense played 77 snaps while the Chiefs defense played 50.

Our O line is really good which surprises me. I’d re sign Wiz and stick with the current group heading into next year

I still wonder what happened. I think he blew the whistle when he saw Mariota hit the ground. But then he realized how badly he had flubbed the play as the ball came out - and for some reason panicked.

So instead of ruling Mariotta down - which was obviously a terrible call (and he knew he was either already on thin ice or ready to retire and didn't want to go out like that) he panicked in the moment - and made a much much worse call - saying he blew the whistle for forward progress (a judgement call) hoping it would make him look better. Of course the opposite happened.

It's the only thing that makes any sense.

Here's another big reason they lost that game. A BS hit on Kelce. After Kelce went out, they couldn't get anything going offensively. I doubt Kelce has forgotten about this game.


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Such bullshit. (Not the hit on that one, just the bad luck.)

But in the Colts comeback game - I swear they seemed to be deliberately trying to ram our heads into the turf.

Also this is the stuff Mahomes almost never does. He leads his receivers away from traffic. Well actually Kelce had plenty of space I guess. Just bad bad luck.

Are you kidding me? They can't run block worth a ****. That's a recipe for disaster.

Putting my faith in Spags. Can't wait to see what he comes up with for Sunday.:thumb:

You don’t need to run in this offense

Obvious, headhunter cheap shot. POS should have been ejected. **** the Titans!

Thanks. I think a lot of people probably got the wrong impression of me b/c I jumped into a discussion of andy reid's coaching at a time when our team is flying high and nobody wants to hear anything negative about him despite the fact that i stated that i'm not an andy-hater and was just pointing out some flaws.

I must have missed where you got the wrong impression of me - i would have thought that the guy who started the andy reid is a terrible head coach thread would agree with me that he certainly has a flaw or two. Then again, I tried to bring some nuance to the discussion by stating i think he's still a good coach but has flaws whereas everyone else was just yelling extremes back and forth either that he sucks or he's great so i can see neither side of the extremists agreeing with me. extremist Mega-reerun still thinks reid is perfect and has refused to concede any flaw whatsoever.

Is it though? He lowered his shoulder and didn't lead with the helmet.

If you truly believe that...

Whether due to injury, age, free agency, game script, etc. this offense won't always be the same time tuned passing machine. If you truly believe that then we may as well ignore runningbacks in the off-season altogether next year.

Actually, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but we don't need our OL to run block. At all. You look at that comeback when we scored 4 times in the 2nd Q. We ran once, I think. For a yard. as in ONE yard.

Yes, we have to at least pretend to try and run, through fake hand-offs, play-action, RPOs, but we don't really have to run at all.

This offense doesn't require a good running game. Screens, short pass plays replace the traditional run completely.

Again, I'm a traditional kind of football fan, so I've always believed in the "use the run to set up the pass" philosophy, but after watching that game on Sunday I came to the harsh realization that actually running the ball is completely unnecessary if you have Andy Reid, Pat Mahomes, Hill, Kelce and Watkins. The other team doesn't even really care about us running. They've already bought into the fact that we're going to beat them through the air.

And they can't stop it anyway.

Our offense is the passing version of the Ravens running attack. Or the Titans running attack, if you prefer. For them they have to run. They're passing attacks are primitive and weak. And don't really add anything significant to their offense.

For us, we thrive through the air. Our run game is an afterthought. It actually reduces our efficiency most of the time.

We should throw on nearly every down.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

How did he not lead with his head when they literally hit helmets? He targeted Kelce's head and knocked him out of the game.

The jet sweeps, Mahomes running ability and the quick-strike passes make teams have to respect our running even though it is not traditional in any way. Sleep on our RBs- they will burn you for a TD.

I agree 100% with this. On average we should have no more than 10 designed run plays each game

I think Nate is just taking a position here for the sake of the show/producers. The day before he was jimping for Mahomes and the Chiefs.

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I think its funny when people say the titans are one dimensional just because henry steamrolls everyone and they are content to let him keep doing it. Look at the titans red zone stats. They havent kicked a field goal in over a month. Only touchdowns. One dimensional teams cant do that

So they aren't one-dimensional because they don't kick? Huh?

He definitely led with his helmet.

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One dimensional offenses kick alot of field goals. I should know

Nate Burleson is an idiot Chief hater.

Yeah sure, Nate- Titans can match us in the passing game. Dumbass.

Again, you don't know what you're talking about.

"Inefficient" offenses kick a lot of FGs. And punt the ball a lot. Like the Titans punting 6 times a game. Only scoring on 35% of your possessions. That's called inefficiency. Look it up.

Same here. Biggest thing for Chiefs RB during the Mahomes era is going to be if they can catch the ball. Damien Williams fits that.

I’m down with trying to find a RB on day 2/3 that fits that, but not to change the run/pass balance as much as to keep the position stocked and cheap.

Has the new Tennessee place kicker actually kicked a FG yet in a game?

I recall he hadn't as of the New England game.:hmmm:

Guess you'll be extra disappointed losing to such an inept titans team then

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Really? I think the Chiefs offense was so much more potent with Hunt in the backfield because defenses had to then defend the run. I don't think they need to worry much about it right now.

Nope. He's kicked a whole lot of extra points though. Titans only score touchdowns

A whole lot, he says. Six is it?

About five whole days until Jeff Fisher logs off CP for good.

We had your present team back in the 90's plus an amazing defense much better than yours. We thought nobody could stop us with Word and Okoya. But the Bills always had a much better QB and passing attack.

You guys will be destined to be also-rans with that retread Miami QB.

:thumb: Truth!

Hunt was a very good runner, no question. But teams really defended his RAC. Once he caught the ball in space against a LB, he could go all the way. That's what scared DCs. They had to not only defend Hill and Kelce, but also Hunt as a receiving threat out of the backfield, which meant trying to cover him with a LB. If Hunt were on this team still, DCs would be pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to cover everyone. And if we changed it up and ran Hunt, once he got past the LoS, who's there to tackle him? If they miss, he's running downhill with only a S/CB in front of him, and he loved to straight run over those guys.

Right now we flat lack a RB that runs with that kind of violence. But it still works with a RB that can out-run people and one that can juke the pants off people. It's just not quite the same thing,because DCs can cover our backs with a CB/S and expect them to make a tackle.

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Seems like a lot of ex-Chiefs are Chiefs fans after retirement, even those who bounced around the league a bit.

Guys, go and check out the play-by-play of the HOU vs TEN game this year. Texans won 24-21, btw.

Check out how that game unfolded.

Henry ran 21 times for 88 yards, but as a team TEN ran for 166 yards, so they established their run game.

Watson had a respectable game, but screwed the team over by throwing two INTs.

But they scored 2 TDs in the first half and led 14-0 coming out of the half.

It took TEN 9 minutes and 16 plays to score their first TD. Run, run, pass. Run, run, pass . . .

But it eats up the entire 3rd quarter.

Then HOU goes on a long drive and scores another TD eating up 3 minutes.

And then TEN goes on another long drive for a TD.

And then HOU goes on another long drive TD.

And so on.

My point is, at the end of the game, when TEN needed to score fast to have a chance to even tie, they couldn't do it. That grind it out heavy run game is also their anchor. They can't score fast. They literally ran out of time because they took so much time to score on each drive. They ate up their own chance to get the ball back and tie.

Even against the worst scoring defense in the playoffs TEN couldn't score quickly.

Think about that.

Andy and Pat know this. They're going to score fast out of the gate; they aren't going to try to eat up clock in the first half. They're going to drop bombs on TEN and force them to try and score fast. Which they can't do.

We got this.

I was here last time too. I wasnt very confident that game. Then mary threw that pass to himself..

Seriously though, i'm not trying to troll. You guys have a good team. Mahomes is out of this world. Seems like a good kid too. I'll be pulling for the chiefs if they get past the Titans. I just dont think they do. With all the crazy ways the titans beat the chiefs, there must be some voodoo stuff between adams and hunt. Chiefs will never beat the titans until...

this Sunday...

for you, SNR

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My favorite National Football League football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, will defeat the Tennessee Titans football team this Sunday in the American Football Conference Championship Game!!!!

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This sums it up pretty well, imo. Just do our thing and we're in the dance.

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It’s gonna be us and the 49ers. We have a balance team and they have a elite defense with a very good run game. The game will be tough. They have 5 first rounders on there D line. If our O line can somehow do what they did last week to the 49ers, we win the super bowl

Is this to start a career, or just consecutive attempts during any stretch during the playoffs?

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Well.... til their team loses. Then they all Houdini

I would love to see Reid demoralize them with the screen game and some misdirection

I just rewatched highlights of the AFC title game from last year. Does not give me very much confidence about the OL going against a strong pass rush.

Let's deal with Tennessee first. It did not seem like their pass rush was very strong in Nashville, but guess we'll see what they bring in the rematch. Hopefully the entire Chiefs team is ready to play from the very beginning of this game.

Good omen...this will be the first AFC Championship game since 2002 to not feature Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Ben Roethlisberger as a starting quarterback.

Tennessee got routed in that 2002 AFCCG

dude.

How many times did we have a balanced team with an elite defense and a very good run game?

It's elite QB time.

Green Bay will win.

Hope this sarcastic.
If not, you are bigger dumbass than already thought.

It's total, not to begin or any stretch. Rodgers isn't there cuz he threw a pick on his first ever playoff pass.

The tweet was made by Barry McCockiner.

Yep which means Titans will lose if the chiefs don't get in their own way.

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32/38-522-6

In case you hadn’t noticed, Mahomes has made a habit of doing things that the Chiefs rarely or never do.

It will take a lot of mistakes for the Chiefs to lose this. It’s hilarious how confident Titans fans are after seeing them erase a 24-0 deficit in a few minutes on their way to seven straight TD drives. Ol’ Tenny’s going to waltz in with a secondary almost as weak as Houston’s and you feel GOOD about this?

I rewatched a good portion of the week 10 game and, outside of last week’s game, it may be the worst that anyone has defended the Chiefs in well over a year. Someone was wide open on every damn play. Receivers were consistently getting big chunks of yardage after the catch. If the Chiefs had really been on that day, they’d have dropped well over 40 points.

And they did that to a team that the Tits LOST to...

I have been on the other side of a lot of these playoff games in my life, where the Chiefs had a good defense and a powerful running game. Those teams always lost in the postseason to a team that had a better offense and a better quarterback. No disrespect to Tannehill, he's been playing well, but... really.

It's true that if your defense contains our offense for 60 minutes - something nobody has a lot of luck doing when we're healthy - and if you can play mistake-free football on the ground, you'd have a good chance to win. I've just seen so many times in our team's history that in the postseason when you play games so close to the vest like that, you're only one mistake or one great play away from losing. And teams in the final four generally are good at making great plays and forcing mistakes.

This is going to be a whale of a game I think, but I like our chances because I'm always going to like the passing game over the running game in today's NFL, I like the matchup between our passing game and the Titans' secondary, I like the matchup between Reid and Vrabel. It will be a fascinating test of opposite styles though.

That's exactly right. In my view, we went to a short passing attack that game to try to limit the hits Mahomes took, and the Titans made it easy -- just hitting wide open guys all over the place. The last thing the Titans want is a replay of that game -- won't be a fluke for the ages ending this time.

Well considering we upgraded majorly at the QB position and DC since that game, I'd say we have a pretty good chance of avoiding that again.

The titans remind me very much of the '90 chiefs.

Deberg was playing his best football of his life, and taking care of the ball.

We pounded the running game, with a few long passes via play-action.

The difference here is: the titans defense is nowhere near as good as the 90 chiefs.

If mahomes has time to throw (like he did Sunday), we'll be just fine.

Gonna be a big game for Wiz, Reiter and LDT.

Casey is the wild-card. I'm not worried about Brantley blowing things up and Wake' injury leaves them without a complementary pass-rusher. So if they're going to wreak havoc, it will have to come from the inside.

Jurrell Casey is a good player and a solid interior rusher. But he's not Aaron Donald or even Chris Jones. He's not Dontari Poe. He can be dealt with.

But if we DON'T deal with him, he can make for a long day for Patrick just as he did for Jackson. So it will be critically important for the IOL to step up and neutralize him.

If they do, this game probably goes pretty smoothly. He's the only guy on that team I can see really messing things up for us because if he's making trouble, that's when someone like Byard can go make a play. Byard's not gonna fool Mahomes if he has time. But if Mahomes is under pressure, that's when Byard can make some things happen.

Neutralize Casey and you do a lot to neuter the Titans defensive playmakers. From that point, the Chiefs can cruise to 30+

The Chiefs didn't have much of a problem with Tennessee's defensive line in the first match-up considering Mahomes was still gimpy with his knee/ankle and the Chiefs were down multiple starters on their offensive line.

If the Chiefs don’t **** up the beginning of that Texans game....then I probably have no thoughts about this being a tough game for us. But going down 24-0 that quick puts a lot of thoughts in your head. I hope to God they saw that happen and then wanted to make sure it never happened again.

Only sacked him twice.

I don't know that I agree with you there.

I mean, yes - the line was in tatters. But they DID have plenty of trouble with the Titans DL. Mahomes played one of the best games I've ever seen him play and it was due in large part to Mahomes ability to survive in the maelstrom. He flat willed some of those yards into being.

Now the reinforcements on the line since then should make a big difference. But SHOULD is different that DOES. We just have to wait and see.

That's really the only place I can see Tennessee really creating problems, though.

That is exactly what they are, and those teams always lost to the teams with the great QBs.

If the Titans and 49ers win....then you’re going to hear nothing but “it’s all about the run game” and “win in the trenches” tropes all SB and offseason.

That's the outcome I can't stomach -- the ironic one:

The Chiefs finally get a QB like the ones that used to beat them, only to lose to a team playing the way that used to get them beat.

Interesting thing here.

The Chiefs lost to the Titans.....and then haven’t lost since.

The Packers lost to the 49ers....and then haven’t lost since.

I wasn't even 10 years old yet, but I remember the losses more than the wins of that season :

Stephone Paige going nuts at Denver on MNF, losing by a point.

The DT sack record game at Seattle, losing by a point.

The Dave Szott hold in the playoffs at Miami...losing by a point.

Yeah.