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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
Over the last 23 games it certainly appears to be with this unit.
It's literally the only thing they do really well, and the Chiefs have won a ton of games because of it.
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The Chiefs have won a ton of games because you can win a ton of games in a mediocre league if you don't beat yourself. You also can't beat elite teams playing at a high level that way.
You're actually making an argument for Alex Smith right now. He is the QB version of "bend-but-don't-break".
And it is not sustainable:
"The same is true for defenses, which appear to be even more random from year to year than offenses -- correlations across the board are lower. Just 30.8 percent of a team's points allowed rank can be explained by its rank in points allowed per red zone trip. And 7.4 percent of a team's points allowed rank is explained by its rank last year. The red zone year-on-year comparison accounts for just 2.4 percent of performance. It's almost entirely random."
http://cdn.espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/p...ns-2016-season
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