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Originally Posted by Detoxing
Lol no they won't.
Taking on the only two offenses in the league as potent as our is what you consider a good barometer?
Jesus dude...no defense in the league has been able to keep pace with those O's and our won't either.
The Chiefs will have to score 35+ at least to beat those teams. The Rams and Chargers throwing the ball over the yard on you isn't an indictment.
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I'm not asking for a shutdown performance. I'm just asking that it's not a "no-punt game" that we saw in the 03' playoffs and against the Pats this year.
If we can at least "disrupt" their offense on three or so drives, that should be enough to win. We absolutely could not meet that standard against the Patriots. Not even close.
Is that fair?
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Depends on your expectations vs. the Rams. Those guys have been strafing everyone just as badly as we have on offense. To use them as a barometer is kinda like saying "I'll believe a defense is good if they can shut down KC..."
The only way that happens is if KC just has a bad day. No defense is shutting down the Chiefs so they're just a bad metric to use.
The Chargers, OTOH, I'll give you. If the Chiefs go out there and give up 30+ to the Chargers that will be a definite step back. I'd like to see them keep the Chargers in that 21-24 range and that would be a success. 27 is acceptable but not ideal. Beyond that means that the Chiefs defense isn't coming together as I thought they were.
But the Rams...even if they play well I'll probably chalk that up to Mexico City and just an off-day from STL. I guess it would depend on how it went. I'm just going to have a difficult time gleaning development from that game.
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All totally fair, I just have a difficult time gleaning development from the last two games for opposite reasons. If elite offenses are going to be able to operate like the Patriots did (a no-punt special), that's going to make things very tough to win 3 in a row in January.