A Level Headed Review Week 3 2024

[DenverChief]

McDuffie just got his feet tangled and it effected him more than Mooney.

The Drake London TD was a blown coverage by Johnson....just a young player mistake on a WR switch route. Didn't take the pass off from Tranquill.

Worthy with a nice pitch and catch for 10 yards and follow up with a nice catch and run for 6 yards. Worthy really does seem to play defense well when the pass has a chance to be intercepted. Gah just stopped running on that route...gotta keep running through that route.

Steele really showing his mettle with some nice hard runs and good chunk yards.

Perine also with some solid runs, he is no Pacheco but between him and Steele....I can only imagine what Hunt will bring as well.

Rice has some sick moves in the open field with some of his stop and go stuff.
Gotta make that catch in the 2nd quarter just before half - in his defense Mahomes threw it a bit behind him but it was catchable.

Wanya seems to be faring well so far and as the game has gone on.

Mahomes just got fooled by a good DB on the INT.

Jones stupid mistake on the RTP that led to a score to put the Falcons up by 7. Gotta play more disciplined.

The crushing hit and fumble by FAU on Cousins was a beautiful thing to watch. Too bad the penalty for kicking the ball out of bounds isn't more stiff. I would make it a 15 yarder and a loss of down.

That pick by Connor was a perfect result of Jones destroying the OL and pushing them back into Cousins face. The second half is going to be rough for them.

The goal line series of plays, I get that we have been stuffing it down their throat but it seems like we go back to the well too much. The 2nd down play was an obvious run...should have had another play action play called. Still got. a FG but we need more TD's. FG's are going to come back and bite us.

Defense starting to look better...make Cousins find someone open and let a 3 man rush flush him.

Juju finally on the board with a catch and Tuddy. Love this for him.

Then Butler does the next to impossible and actually hits the upright square on, on the XP.

Spags with the unique and timely blitzes forcing a long FG attempt by the Falcons.

Props to Ariza for being able to snag that wild snap and still get an amazing kick off to pin ATL.

Great goal line stand, Cook with two pass breakups - the first one could have been called DPI as he never got around to make a play on the ball but the refs just let them play it out.

Where was the illegal hands to the face on Connor and was it just me or was that a very questionable DPI. The WR just ran into McDuffie standing still, I guess that's a make up call for the Cook non-call.

Killing ourselves with penalties tonight. Gotta get the silly calls (that actually happen) cleaned up.

The DEFENSE saves the day again for us. Would love to see the offense get a little more in sync but I love seeing the Defense come up big to save the win.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Sounds logical until you look at the Chiefs through the years. The transitive property does not work with KC. They will play like crap against bad teams while giving the best teams a hard time. 2023 was a good example of it. They looked terrible as late as December 25 against a bad Raiders team. In the Playoffs, Baltimore/San Fran/Buffalo “should” have killed the Chiefs. Yet the Chiefs took them all out after looking like shit for most of the season.

It’s all a toss-up with this KC team, whether they play the worst teams in the league or the best teams in the league. The games will be close, and the Chiefs will probably squeak out a victory more often than not. That’s their history. They’ve won 87.5% of their Playoff games the last 5 years. Many of the wins were ugly in various ways. But you take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day of the week.

Well, and I don't have an issue with winning ugly at this point in the season, part of the issue with winning really tight games is that there's usually a bit of luck involved. Hell, look at DEN last season when they went on their little winning streak. It took a bunch of really 'lucky' bounces for that to happen.

For the Chiefs, one of those moments was the lucky bounce into a 49ers ankle on that punt coverage in the SB. That doesn't happen, the Chiefs don't win the SB. Or, if the SF kicker doesn't miss that XP . . . and/or whatever that last 'lucky' moment was.

So while we can say, "but we beat the odds in 2023!" and yeah, I was all for it as it happened, we also know that you can't beat the odds forever. Even with Andy, Mahomes, Travis and Spags doing all their dark magic stuff. Sooner or later, the bounces won't bounce in our favor, that's just life. Better if the offense gets themselves sorted out and start producing like a SB contending team, so they don't have to rely on 'luck' so much, imo.

But again, it's just Week 3. Lot of football left to play yet.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Well, and I don't have an issue with winning ugly at this point in the season, part of the issue with winning really tight games is that there's usually a bit of luck involved. Hell, look at DEN last season when they went on their little winning streak. It took a bunch of really 'lucky' bounces for that to happen.

For the Chiefs, one of those moments was the lucky bounce into a 49ers ankle on that punt coverage in the SB. That doesn't happen, the Chiefs don't win the SB. Or, if the SF kicker doesn't miss that XP . . . and/or whatever that last 'lucky' moment was.

So while we can say, "but we beat the odds in 2023!" and yeah, I was all for it as it happened, we also know that you can't beat the odds forever. Even with Andy, Mahomes, Travis and Spags doing all their dark magic stuff. Sooner or later, the bounces won't bounce in our favor, that's just life. Better if the offense gets themselves sorted out and start producing like a SB contending team, so they don't have to rely on 'luck' so much, imo.

But again, it's just Week 3. Lot of football left to play yet.

It ain’t the end of the world if their luck runs out. They’re basically playing with House Money right now after winning a couple rings the last 2 years when people thought the team was screwed without Tyreek Hill.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by DRM08

It ain’t the end of the world if their luck runs out. They’re basically playing with House Money right now after winning a couple rings the last 2 years when people thought the team was screwed without Tyreek Hill.

Oh, heck, I'm almost indifferent at this point. The chiefs have already won 2 more SBs than I needed in my lifetime. I'm just along for the ride at this point. And after 6 seasons with the Andy/Mahomes show, I just can't get that emotionally excited about the first 8 or so games of the season anymore.

I mean, we know that they're going to start a little slow, the running game, particularly the short yardage running game, is going to look clunky at first. That the offense is going to look a little out of sync. That Pat is going to look a little off. But they always trend upwards around mid-season. Last season was a bit of an anomaly with the losing streak in the mid-part of the season, but they got sorted by the playoffs.

I'd just rather not see that happen again. But I'm not going to get critical until they really screw it up and miss the playoffs or something equally stupid.

Until something like that happens, I'm just waiting and watching to see exactly how they adjust/adapt.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Oh, heck, I'm almost indifferent at this point. The chiefs have already won 2 more SBs than I needed in my lifetime. I'm just along for the ride at this point. And after 6 seasons with the Andy/Mahomes show, I just can't get that emotionally excited about the first 8 or so games of the season anymore.

I mean, we know that they're going to start a little slow, the running game, particularly the short yardage running game, is going to look clunky at first. That the offense is going to look a little out of sync. That Pat is going to look a little off. But they always trend upwards around mid-season. Last season was a bit of an anomaly with the losing streak in the mid-part of the season, but they got sorted by the playoffs.

I'd just rather not see that happen again. But I'm not going to get critical until they really screw it up and miss the playoffs or something equally stupid.

Until something like that happens, I'm just waiting and watching to see exactly how they adjust/adapt.

Left Tackle is the big thing to watch. They've missed Eric Fisher ever since he got injured in that AFC title game against Buffalo. Need Mahomes to get more comfortable with either Morris or Kingsley.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Our offensive struggles the last 2 weeks have NOTHING to do with "schemes " or the "league figured us out". Mahomes mechanics are very OFF and he's just flat missing wide open guys and not making the right reads. This ship will be easy to right.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Am i too spoiled to want a title AND dominating the regular season with blowout upon blowout i want the 18 offense and the 23 defense