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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
Below is a nice statistical article that really defines the Chiefs run defense and why it seems that even when it is playing poorly, the world doesn't fall apart. Pretty great stuff, and it somewhat kills the narrative that the Chiefs are a 'bad' run defense.
http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2017/1...e-inconsistent
Essentially, the summary of the OP's study is that even though the Chiefs don't get a lot of stuffs, they also are among the best in the league at preventing long running plays. They bend with the 5 yard runs, but do not break with 10+ yarders hardly ever. Good read and if you get the chance, take a look. |
Not even trying to be an ass, but I think we both know what 2 consecutive 5 yard runs yields.
Statistics in this article show that the Chiefs defense is bad, but they don't give up long runs? That just proves the team has pretty solid back-end run support.
This team only gave up less than 100 yards on the ground 4 times and two of those were in the 90s at 97 and 99 yards.
In any event, the article should have also looked at yards given up per game versus team average and yards per carry versus average to help gauge how much more teams could run against KC. They held opponents at or under their average yards per game 5 times and at or under their average yards per attempt 6 times. Those 6 times were generally less than a half yard per carry (1.2, 0.6, 0.6, 0.3, 0.3, and 0.2), while in the other 10 games the Chiefs let opponents average nearly a yard per carry better than average 7 times (1.0, 1.0, 1.4, 0.4, 1.0, 2.2, 0.0, 0.5, 0.9, and 1.2).
What I see is a team that pretty consistently gives up alot of rushing yards and they tend to give up more than a team's average per game and a healthy average per carry. You see this in about 2/3 of the games this season.
To me there are no excuses for this team. We know this team has good safeties. We know this team has pretty solid corners in run support. The problems arise in the front seven, and we've seen some pretty poor ILB play this year against the run overall.
Here's images of the stats/graphs:
