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Old 11-07-2022, 05:06 PM   #2299
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Originally Posted by DRM08 View Post
Non-existent run game. Rest of the league is happy to drop 8 guys into coverage and dare KC to run it, knowing that KC will probably gain 0-2 yards the vast majority of the time.
They'll drop 8 guys into coverage anyway if KC will only gain 4-5 yards and the alternative is 25.

The answer wasn't to try to force safeties upfield - that just wasn't going to happen with Hill on the field. It was to force them laterally. And still deeper. To force them to cover MORE ground behind and around them.

The idea that teams were EVER going to choose death by 1,000 papercuts over letting Mahomes carve them apart is simply a non-starter, IMO. Bend but don't break is the very foundation of modern NFL defenses. It's what they'll take every time because ultimately it takes one bad run or one holding call to blow it all apart.

It's just not something I see as being a realistic choice - they won't EVER pick getting beat deep over getting beat by a RB.
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