Yes. Load the box and run blitz early (but selectively) to build the lead...then shift

And isn’t it wonderful knowing that Spags has the knowledge and skill to adjust accordingly? It is comforting knowing he can.

You have no idea, but in reality I do know that you really do based on your comment here.:thumb:

If we win, we're essentially playing the same team two weeks in a row if the 49ers make it past the Packers, only the 9ers use more of a RBBC approach instead of one workhorse. If there's one thing we need more than anything (and besides healthy players) is our Defense to have the best 2 weeks of their collective season right now. It's alot to expect to cover the run game of these two teams, but I have faith. If we get Green Bay, I'm less worried, because I know we can beat them in a track meet, and their defense doesn't scare me nearly as much as the Titans or 49ers.

He's mobile and can run when needed (he had some key runs in the Baltimore game).

I think Tennessee will roll him out of the pocket a lot off of playaction fakes.

I am hoping for a Chiefs vs Packers Superbowl

BINGO !!

I would love to see a rematch with the Packers with Mahomes letting Rogers know who is truly the best QB in the NFL.:thumb:

Me as well and the Networks would have their best ratings with a Mahomes vs Rogers duel for the first time !!;)

I mean this in jest I’m not attacking you. But do some of you watch football?
Tannehill ran all over the chiefs this year in Tennessee. Yes he’s mobile and hard to bring down as well. I don’t quite understand the over confidence in chiefs fans. Yes we have the single best player in the universe right now but the chiefs also have the terrible playoff history anchor that they still need to prove they’ve ditched. And again I disagree with most on this site. The titans will have the second best player on their side on Sunday. Henry is statistically playing as (please understand this means just right now at this moment) the best RB of all time.

I see this gameplan being very similar to the Patriots game. We knew they were going to try to run on us and Spags blitzed Ragland and Wilson in the A gap to disrupt the OL.

Those blitzes make it hard as hell for OL to pull or even get their stance right. A perfectly timed blitz has the LB right in the face of the OL with momentum as the ball is snapped.

You’re basically taking away an OL by doing so. I’d do this every early down.

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we just shut down a team's running game after they dropped 200 on us in week 6

this run defense is fixed

the fact that tannehill, rodgers and jimmy G are not even close to watson this year (maybe rodgers, but he isn't himself lately) helps even more

those teams aren't going to be running a lot of options or presenting the same running threat at the QB position

the thing that worries me most is san francisco's defense

they could legit shut down our offense if things go poorly in pass protection

1. Overcoming a 24 point deficit in last week's playoff game was a significant step towards overcoming their playoff anchor
2. I think having the best player in the universe sort of makes any prior playoff game outcomes obsolete

We did get run over by Tannehill. I especially remember him trucking a couple of our players at the goal line to cap a late TD drive they had. Henry is playing like a man possessed, that's a given and can't be argued. The flip side to that is you know exactly what the Titans are going to do and you hopefully game plan for that. The first meeting, I believe Spags even said they anticipated Tannehill to sling it all over the field, so they got caught with their pants down when Henry was shoved down our throats. I can't imagine he makes that same mistake. Granted, stopping him is altogether another story, but the game plan alone should be miles better.

I'm by no means booking my ticket to Miami, but I certainly believe this team can and SHOULD win this game. Mahomes will have another "over my dead body" game where he refuses to lose another home AFCCG.

Claiborne?

I’m on board with 100% of this. If the chiefs have one big advantage it’s that they all ready know the titans game plan. Same game plan that’s been run by 100 teams 1000 times. It works a lot though. Hopefully spags is watching a lot of games from the 80s and early 90s. Wish the chiefs had one or two more LBs like ragland right now.

Uhhh......... :spock:

LMAO

Mystery

He throws like one too.

Sorry if this was discussed, but that game really wasnt that close until a series of crazy things happening right at the end.

https://i.imgur.com/kDYFdZn_d.jpg?ma...idelity=medium

Not lately. He threw some bombs last week that were beautiful.

Hes not in Mahomes league, but hes much better than people give him credit for.

The Damien Williams fumble for the TD was the real killer IMO.

We were driving at will all game. That took what could’ve been a TD drive for us and turned it into an automatic TD for them. 14 point swing.

This game would be like if Marty Schottenheimer and Steve Bono were going to play Jim Kelly and the Bills offense and we sat there saying shit like "oh man Bono has made some good throws" while Kelly is beating his entire post season state line in basically a quarter.

He threw one long pass which accounted for most of his entire passing yardage for the game.

We've lost a few fluke games to Tennessee. That luck is going to run out and the superior team will prevail.

LMAO 5 of Tannehills 7 completed passes were within 5 yards of the LOS last week.

Icing Succop
Mariota to Mariota and the Forward Progress Strip Sack
****ing up 2 Field Goal Attempts and the Blake Bell screen

Reid needs this one. Zero chance we take our foot off the gas.

Replace Bono with Steve Deberg and your analogy fits the timeline. Was Bono really that good of a scrambler or do we just remember him that way because of Buddy Ryan's dumb ass?

Let's hope BUT those were not fluke games that was Reid and crew getting caught off guard on how physical Tennessee was and had no answers especially the first 2 games with Sutton as DC.:rolleyes:

That's fine too, just saying anyone who is blowing up Tannehill needs to remember who he is and how the Titans are literally trying to ask him to do nothing.

The losses to the Titans in 2016, 2018 playoffs, and this year were all absolutely flukes.

We iced Succop in 2016 when his kick fell far short. Then he ****ing drilled it.

2018 Playoffs-Forward Progress, Mariota to Mariota...those are fluke plays that changed the game.

This year...take your pick. Probably 10 flukes minimum.

I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again. If we lose to the Titans....it’s because their defense stopped our offense.

Our defense is better than it was and I don’t see the same crazy shit happening again.

Chiefs - 34
Titans - 24

One thing that cant be discounted is the NFL is a business....they stand to lose an ungodly amount if Mahomes isn't in the SB.

Sorry, but Tannehill isn't going to inspire non-football people to tune in...or foreign markets. The Titans, as a whole, are kind of like a pair of tan Dockers....just bland and nondescript. The NFL marketing team would be working overtime to create some interesting story-lines.

How would you sell the Titans to the non-football audience?

People want offense...

We saw this happen when Bortles was about to beat Brady...the refs gifted them 60 yards of penalties right before half....then whistled a fumble/TD dead. They didn't call a single penalty on NE that game.

Is what it is...but there is a ton on money at stake. NFL is trying to build it's brand post Brady/Brees/Roethlisberger/Manning/Luck.

I expect the officiating...for the first time in KC history, to be slanted their way. It's just business.

Damien Williams fumble returned for a 53 yard touchdown.

The amount of weird shit that has had to happened to lose those games has just been staggering. And with teams that aren't as good as this one.

I'm strangely confident.

I’ll agree, but I think Reid will run it up more than that. After losing 3 straight games to the Titans that ALL should’ve been wins, I don’t think Reid will let this one get close if we have a lead.

What Super Bowl matchup sounds like a bigger ratings generator?

Rodgers vs Mahomes
Rodgers vs Tannehill
Garrapolo vs Mahomes
Garrapolo vs Tannehill

A botched field goal, and a Marriotta throwing a touchdown pass to himself isn't a fluke way to win? Ried icing Succop to give him an extra chance at kicking a field goal on a 0° day? :hmmm:

K den

I do believe some of that......it's why no matter what I keep seeing I have this strange feeling it's a KC/GB bowl, that one has the most storyline and best sells to casuals to make money.

Rodgers v. Mahomes could break some records.

So here's my problem - a good friend of ours is a lifelong Packers fan. His girlfriend is a packers fan because she's spent 18 months taking dick from a Packers fan. She's otherwise an annoying pain in the ass.

Do we have to invite these ****ing people to a SB party if it's GB/KC?

Really surprised the NFL let Brady and Brees lose in the Wildcard round. The ratings they lost :(

That could end very poorly...

Changing of the guard, you notice the old dog that everyone seems to have forgotten about is the one still playing.

Depends on how well you can handle the shit talk if the Chiefs lose or how well they can handle it if the Chiefs win.

If the Chiefs make the SB.....I’m not going to a ****ing party because I’ll be unbearable to be around.

I'm gonna invite that one packer fan Instagram chick I posted the other day to my party.

I'm going to watch it on the couch by myself....my wife will probably not say a word the entire game and if they were to lose she'd probably avoid me for the week.

That one play was like 20% of Bono's career rushing yards.

No.

Maybe regular season

You need to be able to enjoy the victory UNABASHED.

I think KCs offense caught fire like last years offense, in the 2nd quarter Sunday..

Tennessee has no clue what's about to come their way.

If the NFL truly wants the outcome Blackop is pushing, it has to be Rodgers/Mahomes after that abortion last year.

We haven’t really had a truly great QB Super Bowl matchup in a almost a decade.
NFL was spoiled with Big Ben/Warner, Big Ben/Rodgers and Brees/Manning 3 consecutive years.

This. They’ve been able to crowd the line of scrimmage and dare QBs to beat them the last two weeks.

This is different. Mahomes will annihilate that secondary like neither Jackson or Brady have the ABILITY to.

Just look at some of the ducks that Jackson was throwing when attempting to attack the perimeter. He doesn’t have the throwing mechanics and muscle memory to do it, because that isn’t his game (and may never be).

Rodgers vs Mahomes

State Farm would rejoice!

Lets point out a few things, Baltimore had 12 possessions in the game against Tennessee, that is 1 less than the Chiefs had against Houston.

Tennessee did not get a bye, and now just had a game where their defense played 97 snaps...97!

That team may be gassed for the game.

Oh God, the "State Farm Bowl". I can see the commercials being cranked out already. :cuss:

And I know Henry is literally a God but that dude is getting run into the ground lately. History shows that it takes a toll on anyone’s body.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When the Titans took their 14-0 lead on Saturday, Derrick Henry had 27 yards on 8 touches while Ryan Tannehill had 66 yards and 2 touchdowns on 7 plays, including an 8 yard sack.<br><br>The Ravens never made it to 14 points.<br><br>Derrick Henry wasn’t even a top 2 reason the Titans won.</p>&mdash; Sam (@WichitaChiefSam) <a href="https://twitter.com/WichitaChiefSam/status/1217139588998815745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The Ravens shitting their pants is reason #1, the "top offense" in the league gets 12 possessions and scores 12 points.

Trust me...they have had these in the works for months. State Farm is an NFL sponsor...just like Papa Johns/Manning.

That said, Garappolo is the prettiest QB in the NFL. They would love to plaster his face all over the foreign markets...females will tune in just to stare at him.

That’s really good context.

If KC gets to 12 possessions, I would expect something like 4 TDs/3 FGs/5 punts

37-38 points? Sounds about right.

I saw on Twitter somewhere (I’ll have to go find it) that Henry has played in 67 games so far and has gone over 100 yards in 10 of them.

Mr. Jinx is all that stands in the way.
Avoid him like the plague..

Yep. Give the Chiefs 12 posessions and they may put up 70 on the Titans.

Don't give the Titans short field or free scores (looking at you special teams) and the Chiefs have a great chance to blow them out of Arrowhead.

If the Chiefs jump out to a 3 score lead.....have fun with your rushing stats Titans....because it won’t ****ing matter.

Tired of hearing how PHYSICAL the Titans are. We have a team full of Chuck Norris's coming into Arrowhead.

They are so BIG, and TOUGH and PHYSICAL!!!!!

**** them.

I could put an end to Henry's production by signing him to my fantasy team. I carried that guy for two full seasons waiting for him to do something and got nothing. I swore him off after that.

Holy shit Mahomes Is going to drop 50 again isn’t he? LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The 2019 Houston Texans red zone defense is DEAD LAST in the NFL at a 71.4% TD rate, so the Titans is better.<br><br>It&#39;s 31st in the league at a 68.1% TD rate. <a href="https://t.co/CIzu0lLWeD">https://t.co/CIzu0lLWeD</a></p>&mdash; Craig Stout (@barleyhop) <a href="https://twitter.com/barleyhop/status/1217149197226586112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Correct answer. Bang the **** out of her at halftime.

What people are also forgetting is when a dude runs like Henry does, jamming up his holes is going to be a huge issue.

Anything that makes him move laterally or change direction, he does that shit slowly. Sure his size is great when he's going straight forward but he has no elusiveness to him at that size. Get him moving side to side and he's done.

LMAO

In contrast, the Chiefs scored nearly 2 points for every minute they possessed the ball.

Let's talk about the Titans (AFC Championship edition) thread
 

Holy Shit!

Matt Cassel now works for ESPN.

Edit: Sorry I posted this in here but was watching NFL Live & he showed up.

He needs to, I want to massacre the Titans and the 49ers/Packers. Show them what Mahomes can really do.

Before last weeks game I said if we win the coin toss we need to take the ball and score.
Obviously we got down by 24.
I know we can boat race anyone when needing to, bit WILL we do that when we dont have to.
We have a QB that I think will at some point go against being conservative and take over a game on his own.
At 48-31 Mahomes looked at Reid with a smile because he wanted to go for 4th and 2.... Reid called off the dogs.
Mahomes will change that part of Reid.

STs lost us that Titans game. Then they almost cost us the Texans game. I expect them to be ****ing locked in for this game. They know they can’t do that shit again.

I hope EB calls the plays again this week. Those jet sweeps were a perfect compliment against a defense that was already perplexed.

Yep, the Titans D-line is big, but how is their cardio? We are going to run them ragged. They will look like JJ Watt gasping for air by the 3rd quarter.

We had 12 series against them in November with 1 punt and they had 3 punts and we had 15 more minutes TOP. We need to run just enough to keep them honest but other than that let Mahomes ball out.

The RB fumble return for 50+ yard TD was a massive play. Chiefs were driving and in control of the game. That play was at least a 10 point swing. The special teams stuff at the end was horrible, but would have been a non-issue without the fumble TD.

One of my big concerns with the Titans is how relentless they are at trying to strip the ball from opposing players. Andy and staff better be preaching ball security all week. I don't think they beat us straight up, so as long as we don't turn the ball over we should be good.

Tennessee was 12th in rushing defense this season and 24th in passing defense.

The Faketriots/Ravens played into their strength on defense by not being able to consistently attack downfield in the passing game.

As long as Andy doesn’t stupidly try to “establish a running game” and attacks them early/often with the passing game, the Chiefs will be fine.

An interesting stat there. We need one of those games where Tyreek runs the equivalent of 10 miles doing pre-snap motion. Wear those DBs out!