Ten Things About Todays Game Week 12: KC 27 - Bucs 24

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Today’s Game Week 12: KC 27- TB 24

10. Does anybody have any fingernails left? During the game broadcast they kept showing those old New England highlights of Tommy Boy ripping our heart out, showing it to us and then laughing at us. We won’t have the satisfaction of kicking his ass in an AFC Championship game to get even for 2018, and I don’t think he’s going to the Super Bowl this year. He just lost the third game in November for the first time ever in his career. He lost this one at home, and got his ass kicked at home by New Orleans a couple weeks ago. He’s still the master of the six yard crossing pattern or hitting short to intermediate fades. Bucs drop to 7-5 but will probably make the playoffs. They’ve got a pretty easy schedule left; Atlanta twice (although the ATL embarrassed the Faid today), Minnesota, and Detroit, who fired their head coach after Thanksgiving. They should win two or three of those games for sure. But somebody's going to stomp on him if they do make the playoffs. He's showing his age, and if you beat on him, his stamina is affected.

9. This game was the first time we’ve played in Tampa in eight years, and was a lot closer than it should have been. On KC’s first drive, Andy tries a cutesy double lateral play to try to hit Mahomes for a TD, but the pass from Kelce got knocked away. On 4th and 1 they kick the 19 yard field goal, the shortest field goal you can kick. In the 2nd quarter you have a 14 point swing. Patrick gets strip sacked on the Bucs 14 yard line; then Tommy goes on a 86 yard drive, capped by a gimme score to Jones, 37 yard TD when Sorensen couldn’t take the right angle to knock the guy out of bounds. Just terrible safety play. That made it 17-7. At least KC came back with a field goal to get three of those points back and into halftime 20-7. Hopefully we'll be playing back on this field again in February for the Super Bowl.

8. Tyreek Hill had the game that may put him into Canton. On National TV, he dominates the first quarter of the game, 203 yards and two TDs in the first quarter, ended up with 13 catches for 269 and three TDs. I don’t play fantasy football, but he racked up 44 points, and I believe that’s an amazing total for one game. His biggest play in the game may have been his final catch, to secure a first down and allow for a victory formation and keep Tommy Boy on the bench. That guy Carlton Davis who had to cover Tyreek today is probably going to need therapy. He’s got to be having serious self esteem issues for awhile.

7. Mahomes showing should get him the MVP. He had 359 yards passing in the first half alone. It’s usually not good if your QB has to throw almost 50 times in a single game, but the Bucs are the number one defense against the run. They suck against the pass. Mahomes ended up with 462 yards passing, three passing TDs, and no picks. He actually threw a couple picks but they were thrown when a defensive flag was tossed, and Patrick knew he had a free play. Both were waived off. Kelce quietly had another great game. He was targeted eight times, caught all eight balls for 82 yards. Gronk had six catches for 106, but 48 of those was on one play when our defense blew coverage and let him run free down the seam. Neither guy had a TD.

6. This was a big win but there’s still a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed. Again this week, neither Chris Jones or Frank Clark did as much as they should be doing for what they’re paid. They had a few hurries, and had zero sacks against a patchwork Bucs Offensive Line. Jones roughed Brady and almost drew another personal foul when jawing with Brady when they held the Bucs to a field goal in the 3rd quarter. Clark sustained the last Bucs scoring drive by giving Brady 30 yards worth of roughing the passer penalties. Okafor and Danna shared the only sack. That’s just not getting it done. Luckily Tampa got off to a terrible start. They had only one first down in their first four drives. In the second half the Bucs last five drives were a Field Goal, Pick, Pick, TD and TD.

5. Hardman was hit and miss. He dropped a sure TD with about five minutes left in the third quarter. He turned the wrong way for the ball and should have caught it. He did have a nice catch in the fourth quarter to convert a third down; but our offensive line decided to draw three straight holding penalties to snuff the drive. It was nice to have Watkins back. He didn’t do a whole lot -4 catches for 38 yards- but our offense just seems to hum when he’s in the lineup.

4. KC’s special teams were mixed again. Did you know KC is worst in the NFL in drawing penalties on special teams? Buttkicker did his job, hit both field goal attempts and all this XPAs. Townsend was really mixed. Four punts, one for 54 yards, but he shanked a couple for around 30 yards each trying to kick away from Antonio Brown. Team wise ten penalties for 82 yards is way too many. If you get penalized ten times on the road and win, you’re playing with fire. Sometime that's gonna burn you.

3. CEH did a nice job in the fourth quarter running for decent yards and staying in bounds. Weird to say Andy’s clock management help salt this one away, but it did. The two biggest plays were the first down runs by Mahomes. KC got the ball with four minutes left, and was able to burn all four minutes. Bucs used their last time out with 3:10 left. Just a great job getting positive yards and burning that clock. Well done.

2. I know O’Daniel went out with an ankle sprain. Patrick took a cheap hit on the knees that wasn’t called, but luckily it didn’t affect him. When you drop back to pass 49 times you’re going to get some bumps and bruises. The Bucs front seven is maybe the best in the NFL. Fisher did decent playing on a bad ankle, and Remmers did OK against Suh. We need to draft or pick up a free agent center next year. Chiefs got shut out in the fourth quarter, which doesn’t happen very often. Team only scored seven in the second half, which is a testament to the Bucs defense. We just had enough to hold them off.

1. So, when we looked at the schedule on road games, you figure the tough games would be Baltimore, Vegas, Buffalo and Tampa Bay. We won all four of those road games. Patrick is 19-4 career in road games. That’s amazing. The whole rest of the AFC West lost today. Faiders got their ass kicked in Atlanta. Bolts lost to the Bills, but almost won on a final play Hail Mary. Donks Fourth String QB Hinton threw for 13 yards, and gets to come to Arrowhead next week. Chiefs have a four game lead with five left to play in the AFC West, and the Faiders are the only other team with a winning record; and they’re 6 and 5. We may be the only team from the West in the AFC playoffs. Pittsburgh is going to get off easy on Tuesday with the Covid Bowl. About the only team that might be able to hang a loss on them would be the Colts or the Browns. They might run the table. December should be an interesting month.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I'm guessing (purely guessing) Hardman ran the wrong route.

I find it unlikely an unpressured, mechanically sound Mahomes would miss the spot by that much. I mean, see that TD to Reek where the window was non-existent.

Again, pure speculation, but I don't see Mahomes missing that.

We've seen Patrick miss a few of those out of, I don't know, trying to be cute sometimes (that 'no-look' last season that he sailed way over Kelce's head), or they sometimes just get away from him (several short tosses to RBs since he's become the starter), I think.

When he does miss those, I have to remind myself that although he hits a ridiculously high percentage of those "let me show off how amazing my arm talent is" throws, sometimes he'll throw one that's just off, and that's just the price we pay for having a demi-god at QB. It's not like he misses a lot of those, and he hardly ever turns the ball over doing that stuff, so he gets a pass whenever he misses one here or there.

That one he kind of flicked out there for Hardman, and you're right in that most of the time that's a strike and a TD, but he wasn't under much pressure there and he could've simply set his feet and thrown a precise textbook overhand pass, but he didn't.

Water under the bridge.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I'm guessing (purely guessing) Hardman ran the wrong route.

I find it unlikely an unpressured, mechanically sound Mahomes would miss the spot by that much. I mean, see that TD to Reek where the window was non-existent.

Again, pure speculation, but I don't see Mahomes missing that.

Mahomes was laser-focused today- It looked like Hardman was supposed to curl left- but then saw wide-open field and ran straight.

That catch would have put Mahomes over 500.

[Halfcan]

Mahomes hard count was so good today- I jumped out of my easy chair twice!

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

We had the Titans/Colts game here and still missed the first drive.

We had the Raiders game switched to Colts/Titans. And we missed the first drive of the Chiefs game just so we could watch the Titans kneel it out. So stupid.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Can anyone tell me why Mathieu didn’t lower the boom on Brady during that INT return?

[oldman]

Good stuff as usual, George.
I don't know what was going on with both Clark and Jones with stupid penalties today. Like Megatron mentioned, I think Clark's 1st roughing the passer was a bit of a payback for the hit on Patrick and maybe that's OK, much like throwing at someone after your star gets plunked in baseball. But the 2nd was just stupid.
I was a little disappointed in that 1st drive. The trick play wasn't necessary, we have PMII. I understand the need to come away with points, but we could have had 7 instead of 3 by playing our game.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

Can anyone tell me why Mathieu didn’t lower the boom on Brady during that INT return?

I wondered about that also. I came up with a few possibilities, but I think it was mostly just out of respect. Mathieu didn't feel like rubbing Brady's nose in it by running through him. he doesn't really have that mean streak in him anymore. Or rather, he saves it for a very few that really piss him off, and Brady just isn't one of those very few.

But I'm pretty sure he could've just run around Brady if he really wanted to.

[OKchiefs]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

I wondered about that also. I came up with a few possibilities, but I think it was mostly just out of respect. Mathieu didn't feel like rubbing Brady's nose in it by running through him. he doesn't really have that mean streak in him anymore. Or rather, he saves it for a very few that really piss him off, and Brady just isn't one of those very few.

But I'm pretty sure he could've just run around Brady if he really wanted to.

Mathieu saved the mean streak for fans on Twitter after the game.

[Ron Swanson]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

Can anyone tell me why Mathieu didn’t lower the boom on Brady during that INT return?

That was weird, there was no reason to give up on the return.

[Monkey God]

Nailed it on #9. With Andy and his player drawn up plays. He tries to get too cute. Sure use one once in a while, but on an opening drive when you marched the ball down the field, and it led to going for a 19-yard field goal is not the time. Take care of business get the big lead and then get cute...drives me crazy.

[chiefzilla1501]

I actually like the lateral gadget play. Let's face it, our short yardage offense is rough right now especially where we're brutally outmatched by the DL. And Andy's brilliant gadget plays have gotten us lots of TDs this year. Kelce actually had two things wide open. The run was an easy TD or the pass. That was all execution (the glove).

CEH looked ok today but this type of game is exactly why we got Leveon. He was excellent today. CEH is a better back in most games but today was meant for Leveon. Especially with as much as they ask of him in the passing game.

In terms of schedule... This was a huge win. Our magic number for the division is now 1. I'm also looking at Cleveland and Buffalo's schedules and they have a few potential losses in there. The magic number is 3 for a bye week but it's probably more like 1 or 2. We probably own the tiebreaker with Cleveland. Buffalo on the other hand is more even so we'll need to root for them to lose.

[ChiefsFanatic]

The Browns are 8-3 and they may be the least talked about 8-3 ever. I think they looked like a Clusterfuck to start the season, and everyone just assumes that the Browns kept doing Browns things. And their defense is pretty good. I think they have a chance to beat the Steelers.

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[big nasty kcnut]

Great read george.

[alanm]

Thanks George. Nice write up as always.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I actually like the lateral gadget play. Let's face it, our short yardage offense is rough right now especially where we're brutally outmatched by the DL. And Andy's brilliant gadget plays have gotten us lots of TDs this year. Kelce actually had two things wide open. The run was an easy TD or the pass. That was all execution (the glove).

CEH looked ok today but this type of game is exactly why we got Leveon. He was excellent today. CEH is a better back in most games but today was meant for Leveon. Especially with as much as they ask of him in the passing game.

In terms of schedule... This was a huge win. Our magic number for the division is now 1. I'm also looking at Cleveland and Buffalo's schedules and they have a few potential losses in there. The magic number is 3 for a bye week but it's probably more like 1 or 2. We probably own the tiebreaker with Cleveland. Buffalo on the other hand is more even so we'll need to root for them to lose.

2nd seed doesn't get the bye anymore with 7 playoff teams. They need the Steelers to lose.