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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
That's laughably ironic.
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Why exactly?
I didn't say theoffense was shitty, you did. I've said repeatedly that the moniker "top offense/defense in the NFL" needs to be taken with some context.
Example: in 2019 the KC defense began the season as the worst run-defense in the league. But after Week 11, they began to get better. By the end of the regular season, they were a top-10 unit vs. the run over the last half of the season. But the talking heads and rival fans like Jeff.Fisher kept telling us we had the worst run defense in the league. Some on CP believed it right up to the AFCCG vs. TEN. And all those people told us that we were going to get steamrolled by TEN's run game. Well, that didn't happen. Our defense stuffed Henry in the second half.
But that didnt stop the same talking heads/SF fans from repeating the same dumb season total stat to us for the SB, did it? And then we stopped their run game.
So, as I've been saying, have always said, season total stats don't tell you very much because there's virtually no context. Yeah, KC had the 'top offense in the league in 2022.' Doesn't mean that they were flawless, at all. And doesn't take into account any context either. Like how KC was the league's worst 3rd-and-short offense for most of the season. It doesn't examine or in any way describe just how incredible Andy/Pat and Travis had to be just to get those points either. Go back and watch any 2022 highlight reel, and pay particular attention to those amazing plays by Pat when he had to scramble for his life and make some ridiculous throw across his body. Or how many times a defender was literally draped around his shoulders/neck/waist as he's making a throw.
Now go back and watch those plays, but watch the receivers side that he's looking at post-snap, and how many times he has to pull the ball down and wait for someone to get open, or he has to make that scramble.
And then ask yourself: do the Chiefs win that game if Pat gets sacked or just misses the throw there instead of pulling off a miracle play? Over and over and over again? How many of those games do we lose if he only pulls rabbits out of his ass half of those times?
And finally, why should he have to put up with that? Why not have a serious WR out there so Pat doesn't have to make a pinpoint pass while some guy is wrapped around his neck, time and time again?
Or we can just sit on our comfy 'we have the number 1 offense in the NFL' throne, and pretend none of those close games happened, that Pat was never put in the position of Jesus-walking-on-water too many times.
I'd just rather be a little more realistic about that 'title' is all.