Green Bay is going to have a rough time I think, seems to me that their one path to victory is to jump out on SF and make Garoppolo actually throw them back into a game... if it’s close at the end I’ll take GB.

The Hardman TD was a great example.

It's also worth noting that Mahomes had maybe his best 'feel' in the pocket Sunday of any game I've ever seen from him.

After those quirks coming off his injury that sort of apexed in the NE game (the backpedaling and bailouts from phantom pressure), he got a lot better against Denver and then just continued from there.

On Sunday he was a maestro. He seemed to be playing with a Madden birds-eye view because he ALWAYS seemed to know where the pressure was coming from and exactly how far he needed to move to avoid it. And more critically, to help his OL out.

****ing hell he was good on Sunday.

Y'know what? Scrap every single bit of analysis in this entire thread. If Patrick Mahomes plays with the complete command of everything happening on that field that he played with on Sunday, you can take the NFL All-Time 100 team in their primes and he'd !@#$ing beat 'em.

He was simply stunning last weekend and if he plays like that again this Sunday, woe be the Titans, no matter how well they play. This will be that kind of peak Federer/Woods shit where you can play the best game of your life and if he brings his A game to the party, you're just getting blown off the map either way.

I honestly don't think the NFL lets the Chiefs lose, the Superbowl is big business and the Chiefs have the marketable star QB the Titans...don't have jack shit. The only way I could remotely see them pushing this angle is if they think Nashville is some untapped market but I don't think it's gotten big enough for that yet either.

Reid vs Bellichek II - Titans physicality is already off the charts but Vrabel will make sure it is in "beast mode" every step of the way of this game especially for our WRs. Remember Kelce getting his concussion right before the half? And that was before Vrabel was the coach. I think Vrabel goes after Mahomes to put him out of the game IMHO.

I’m ****ing hoping so, man. I think I’m more nervous this year than I was this time last year.

I know DJ's last post said no real analysis was needed... but here's some analysis.

The Titans are really efficient in the red zone. Awesome is a fair descriptor. But what does that mean for KC's game with them on Sunday?

I thought it would be interesting to compare the Chiefs' red zone success since the bye - when Mahomes' ankle finally was mostly healed and he started becoming a threat with his legs again, which coincided with an uptick in red zone efficiency - with the Titans since Tannehill became the QB1. Here's what I've got:


Red Zone TD percentage: 71 percent (would rank second in league over whole season)

Red Zone possessions/game: 4.8

Points/Red Zone possession: 6.5

4/6 teams the Chiefs played had a better red zone D than the Titans. (Texans and Raiders). KC scored TDs on 11/13 of those plays with its only empty red zone possession since the bye being a failed run on 4th and 1 against Oakland.

The Titans are dynamite in the red zone with Tannehill - they converted 83 percent of red zone possessions into TDs, which is excellent. They also turn it over in the red zone more than KC - 4 RZ turnovers in this stretch to 1 for KC.

That means their points/red zone possession is actually lower than KC’s (it’s 6.0 in this stretch).

And they also don’t GET THERE as often as KC. 2.8 red zone touches/game with Tannehill as QB. 2 fewer per game.

We can talk about their efficiency in the red zone all we want. But at the end of the day, recent trends show KC getting 31 PPG from red zone possessions versus 17 for the Titans.

And have we even talked about Tannehill’s higher likelihood for turnovers and sacks?

Tannehill has been sacked 2.5 times a game and turned the ball over 1.2 times a game. He’s sacked on 10 percent of his pass attempts, throws an INT on 2 percent, and fumbles on 2 percent.

Compare that to Mahomes, who was sacked just 3.4 percent of the time (hobbled from weeks 1-12 and playing behind a makeshift OL), throws an INT on 1 percent of drop backs and fumbles 0.4 percent of the time.

So Tannehill is sacked 3x as much and turns it over 3x as much as Mahomes.

This! Mahomes played the best game at QB I have ever seen- period.

I think he is feeling good and is very motivated. What he did on the sideline was even more impressive. He got those guys pumped up and turned the game around.

Yep. Add to that he torched the Titans early in the year. What will their D game-plan be? If our line holds up, good luck Titans. If Mahomes isn't hit early and often, it's going to be really hard for them to win.

Yes. If Chiefs bring their A game, they will win.

But I wouldn’t get too excited about that Texans game. Houston defense is horrible. They allowed Drew Lock to absolutely torch them in a game the Texans needed to win.

Really astonishing that Crennel never seemed to adjust anything. Just left that poor overmatched bastard on Kelce and we nailed him over and over and over.

Titans fans sure are cocky.

Good luck with that strategy. The Chiefs have a top 3 pass protection OL and Mahomes is one of the best ever against the blitz.

Overreacting and attempting to injure this QB will backfire horrendously. This QB is too good.

When your personnel is that overmatched across the board, I’m not sure any tweaks are going to change the outcome.

He should’ve made more adjustments, but it wouldn’t have mattered.

I’m watching Vrabel’s presser right now. He’s an easy guy to like.

Hill was targeted 19 times and caught 11 of them the first game. Have a feeling he'll be the main weapon this go around.

Yeah after this last weekend....I have a feeling the Titans are going to try and shutdown Kelce hardcore.

Just remember, he's Patriot trash that was part of the Cassel deal, then you'll hate him.

Would assume they double team Reek on every play. I say bring it on. Opens up things for the other receivers.

And Mecca snaps me back into reality. LMAO

I’ll predict a big game from DRob. He’s auditioning for a contract and was trash last game.

He’s better than that. We’ve seen great games out of him before.

Has he cut his dick off yet?

You can't underestimate Tannehill. Dude has been balling lately.

On a per snap basis Vrabel was easily the "best" part of the Cassel trade.

Tannehill is not capable of overcoming the cosmic forces afoot. It’s our destiny. Saint Patrick’s will be done.

You must not remember his time in KC as a token 'linebacker' who was mostly just here to be a locker-room snitch.

**** Mike Vrabel.

Balling?

I mean I'll give him props, he's got spirit and grit but he's been completely pedestrian his last 3 games. What have his numbers been, under 100 yards every game or something?

Vrabel got shit faced and tried to steal like hundreds of dollars of chips at one of the casinos. NEVAR FORGIT

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This has probably been mentioned already, but our offensive line was in rough shape that game. Fisher and LDT were out. Rankin blew out his knee in that game. Schwartz was injured at one point but returned.

Mahomes still had one of his better games of the year against that Titans secondary.

Mecca snapped me out of it.

Was that the game where we had a different RT on three consecutive plays?

Yes. And he still threw for 446 that game.

Yeah, but that's more reflective of Tennessee's commitment to the game plan isn't it?

His play was fine, only having 15 attempts in each game will limit your stats.

Oh **** this Titans team. If we’re healthy....we’re beating them. Come on Chris Jones....you big dick mother****er.

Yeah I think Schwartz got hurt, then Rankin moved over and got hurt on the very next play.

Not against real physical DLs we don't. ;) Jurrell Casey and crew will attempt to apply interior pressure up the middle and contain Pat from getting outside at the same time forcing him into 'check down Sally' for most of the game. Will it work ? Depends IF if our OL sacks up or not.

Will be interesting to see how often Andy has Pat operating from the shotgun to avoid this.

Does anyone else kind of get a "everyone is talking about this being such a good game and it ends up being a blowout kind of feeling"? Like the Titans are kinda swimming way above their head and had some really good matchups where shit just went their way and they won kinda thing?

Maybe i'm way off.

Listening to 810 and I had forgotten about the Tits punching the ball out of Williams hands and scoring... They like to try to cause turnovers that way.. Ball security will be key Sunday..

Locker room snitch ? What was there to snitch on about that Chiefs team ?:p

Yeah but I'd hardly call that "balling"

I subscribe to the belief that forcing Tannehill to do more than he's been asked of is our best chance to win this one.

That's my point about the Titans physicality and what they will do. That whole game we were losing the ball because we couldn't hold on to it getting it punched out. Sent a message to the rest of the league that we were soft in protecting the ball and the next few games that is all you saw is defenses attempting to punch the ball out as they were tackling us.

And Schwartz getting hurt was because Erving ran into him.

Football Outsiders ranks us as the 4th best and best remaining pass protection OL.

The Titans only hit Pat 4 times and managed 2 sacks against our patchwork OL. That was even without Schwartz for part of the game. Pat was also just coming back from injury and still a step slow.

Their pass rush didn’t disrupt us much before when our OL was in MUCH worse shape.

This irrational fear of Tannehill is akin to the fear of Fuller in the last game. I understand being scared of Henry. Tannehill? Not so much. I hope and pray that their fate rests in his hands on Sunday.

They are much better against the run game than as pass rushers.

He's been playing well as a function of their offense performing well. Certainly not a world beater or anything.

People blame the FG mistakes at the end. But the 50+ yard fumble TD was the real difference maker in that game. Chiefs were in control on the scoreboard and easily driving for more points. One silly play and the game was very tough the rest of the way. That play was at least a 10 point swing IMHO.

So yes, ball security is extremely important. I sure hope the Texans game was a wakeup call in that regard.

I don't think anyone is afraid of him, but rather more aware of him.

He CAN make some good downfield passes. And frankly, he's gonna have to. The Titans aren't going to win this game on 200 yards from Henry unless it's 200 yards via 40 yard chunks that go for scores.

The Titans team we've seen of late and their 'winning formula' of incredibly inefficient offense just won't do it against this team. They're going to have to get Tannehill involved and he's gonna have to play as well as he's ever played.

If we lose this game, we'll call it the "Tannehill game" or the "AJ Brown Game". We aren't going to lose this game because of Derrick Henry.

Watkins concerns me.

Stealing a thought from the "In the Trenches" podcast and Breaking Bad.

We are not in danger. We are the danger.

Yup. And that’s pretty much a useless strength to have against this Chiefs team.

Well let's hope you are correct because I don't have much confidence in our OL's pass blocking when going against very physical DLs. Run Blocking ? We struggle against mediocre DLs. We can't run the ball when needed.

Our OL needs to take their game to the next level BIG TIME if we are to win it all IMHO.

Kinda feels like the Colts game last year to me.

I think people might be underrating that the Titans are traveling for their 4th straight must win game against a Division Champ. Their defense just played like 90 plays against Baltimore.

It’s one game and anything can happen, but the Chiefs should feel much more fresh in this one. Just will just be our third home game in 4 weeks. We also had a really late bye week.

Terez Paylor is as good of a source as any reporting Chiefs news. His reporting a year ago about Mahomes being pissed off after the AFCCG loss and immediately getting back to work was amazing.

Pat has been thinking about this moment for a year and he’s determined to carry this team if he has to, just like Sunday.

The kid is locked in and this time he’s got Spags, Honey Badger and Clark on the other side to lead the defense and support him.

This team just capped off its worst quarter of the season with 3 quarters of by far their absolute best football of the season. I have not seen this team play together in as complete of a game in any time I can remember in the Andy Reid era.

There is no way in hell we are losing this weekend. I don’t give a shit if the Titans are on a win streak. The last 3 quarters last Sunday was the best and most complete game I have ever seen a Chiefs team play.

It just feels like the Titans are walking into a gigantic buzzsaw against a stadium full of fans and players that are ready to take out so much frustration on them.

I will be shocked if this is not a double-digit win for the Chiefs.

Agreed, fourth road game in a row has to be a factor.

WTH? :spock:

The Titans first half drives in the first game.

1. Ended in a sack fumble by Jones.
2. 6 plays, punt
3. 4 plays, TD. First play was a 56 yard deep pass that got them in the red zone.
Then the KC fumble for a TD happened.
4. 5 plays, punt.

Second half.

1. 4 plays, punt.
2. 2 plays, TD. The Henry long TD run.
3. 6 plays, punt.
4. 10 plays, TD.
5. 5 plays, turnover on downs.
6. 4 plays, TD. Game winning drive.

I really hope that game last weekend will get them focused. There have been quite a few games this season where it felt like the team just kept shooting themselves in the foot. Texans game is the most obvious example, but the Titans loss is another example. Need to eliminate the silly mistakes. If they can do that, they run the table in convincing fashion.

I think it has more to do with the fact that defenses have to put so much attention on Henry that when they run play action, Tannehill tends to have a lot more time to survey the field than most other QBs. You give an NFL QB, just about any NFL QB time to throw and he will find someone open.

Jones (calf), McCoy (illness) and Moore (illness) will not practice today.

Is McCoy’s illness from not being able to touch the ball?

Vrabel said he would cut his dick off if it meant that they would win or be in the SB.

Andy's keeping him fresh for after the season is over.
His spring bowling league is counting on him this year.

Tanny throws a pretty accurate deep ball as well. Chiefs got to see that in the previous loss and of course the Ravens got to see it last weekend.

You don't think the OL took it to the next level against the Texans?

The only thing I know is that if Tennessee goes into Gillette, M&T, and Arrowhead and wins all 3 of those games, they deserve to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl because that's a pretty amazing accomplishment.

That said, I think their end has come because KC will torch them Sunday.

Can we all agree to not be a bunch of pussies if the Chiefs aren’t up 35-0 at the end of the first quarter?

Jones or no Jones, I feel like they’ve gotta outscore KC to beat them. As long as we execute from the kick, KC puts up 31+...

oline did play better overall. Credit bieniemy for running a ton of RPO and letting Pat make the decision. Also the backs chipped before releasing a TON on play action this game.

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Our extensive posting history suggests that no, we can't agree to that.

-Booger McFarland, probably

By Sunday evening, nobody will - Remember the Titans.

They will forever be relegated as the players in the background on our highlight videos.

Ha, You cut out an important part of the context there...

Mo Claiborne is back from his sabbatical apparently?

That was from Andy’s presser.

Good news...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Andy Reid said Travis Kelce &quot;feel better this week than he did last week .&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2meinIVLB8">pic.twitter.com/2meinIVLB8</a></p>&mdash; Adam Teicher (@adamteicher) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamteicher/status/1217506717463957506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

But in proper context, Booger wouldn't have said it.

Logan Ryan wasn’t at practice today for the Titans.

Injury related?