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Originally Posted by Detoxing
The Titans are Sooooo overhyped (looking at you too Chris Meck /cheap jab). They backed into the playoffs because the Steelers sucked enough dick to close the season.
Then they landed two highly favorable match-ups for their playoff run. The Chiefs and Texans were the only two teams in this year's AFC's playoffs that could exploit the Titan's weaknesses and KC eliminated the Texans for them.
Any other year this Titans team gets one and done'd.
Seriously, the Patriots? They couldn't have asked for a better match-up there.
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I don't think they are necessarily over-hyped. They do have the best running game in the league. They do have a solid run-stopping DL and some good DBs. They did win four games in a row on the road to get to Arrowhead. Tannehill has thrown a high percentage of TDs recently. You can't argue any of that.
But I think they're ultimately over-matched defensively. Their defense can't stop the Chiefs offense, period. They're only real option is to try and keep the ball away from Mahomes. And they haven't proven that they can do that. They are going to give us about 10 possessions. So we're going to score 5-6 TDs. Especially when you consider that since Tannehill became their QB, their RZ defense gives up a TD about 68% of the time, only better than HOU RZ defense. And we saw what Pat and Andy did to HOU inside the 25.
Meanwhile, regardless of who the Titans play, they only score TDs about 35% of the time. Period.
The only way they win this game is to suddenly and substantially increase their offensive efficiency. Get up to about 60%, or nearly twice what they've done all season, and in the playoffs. This never happens.
So, the only other possibility is that the Chiefs turn the ball over on their side of the 50 at least 5-6 times. We average less than 2 T/Os a game.
The odds are stacked against them. But I think it'll be a very interesting game in the beginning.