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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
Well, yeah. Obviously. But given our personnel, Bob Sutton knew going in we were going to lose the battle in the running game.
His scheme focuses on winning the war. Which they did. They gave up 10 whole points. TEN.
Until the worst CB in the NFL turned an INT into a game-deciding TD, which decided the game because our QB missed three giant opportunities for TDs.
The D wasn't good. But it was absolutely good enough to win that game, and the playoff game last January.
But the offense can't get out of it's own way.
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The Chiefs defense is lucky it didn't give up 31 points in January. Stopping teams in the red zone is not a sustainable skill. If it was, you could stop them before a three yard gain scores a TD. You don't decide to start stopping teams once they get inside the 20. Sure, you can scheme to prevent big plays, but aside from that, you're just hoping the offense doesn't execute near the goal line, and if Todd Haley wasn't a terrible OC down by the goal line, Pittsburgh would have put both games away much sooner.
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