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KChiefs1 · 10-21-2021, 03:42 PM

Chiefs have lost to the 1, 2 & 4 seeds in the AFC.

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comochiefsfan · 10-21-2021, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KChiefs1

Chiefs have lost to the 1, 2 & 4 seeds in the AFC.

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It's hard to beat a team twice in a season.

Rainbarrel · 10-21-2021, 04:20 PM

Maybe, I know it's crAzy. The Bills are just not that good. The only team they beat was a sorry Chiefs team(at the time

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Sevenfeet · 10-21-2021, 08:31 PM

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Maybe, I know it's crAzy. The Bills are just not that good. The only team they beat was a sorry Chiefs team(at the time

).

The Bills can beat anyone in this league. As can the Cards, Bucs, and yes, the Chiefs. We can never take the Chiefs lightly, especially with a team led by Patrick. It's like Jackson with the Ravens....anything can happen when they play.

The Chiefs may be 3-3 but only an idiot considers them a true .500 ball club.

Chris Meck · 10-21-2021, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sevenfeet

The Bills can beat anyone in this league. As can the Cards, Bucs, and yes, the Chiefs. We can never take the Chiefs lightly, especially with a team led by Patrick. It's like Jackson with the Ravens....anything can happen when they play.

The Chiefs may be 3-3 but only an idiot considers them a true .500 ball club.

A reasonable fan has come to our board. Welcome!

Henry is scary. He's always a problem, and while we've been better against the run the last few weeks, we haven't been playing...Derrick Henry. We'll see. The problem for the Titans I think is just that their defense isn't very good, is down a couple corners, and Mahomes is...well, Mahomes. IF we don't turn the ball over, (which is a BIG IF this season) I don't see how Tennessee can score enough to hang. But if we get a couple of keystone cops moments, we could easily lose.

I don't understand Tennessee's defensive problems. Your head coach is Vrabel. You've had a couple of seasons now to fix it. What the hell?

Sevenfeet · 10-22-2021, 05:36 AM

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A reasonable fan has come to our board. Welcome!

Henry is scary. He's always a problem, and while we've been better against the run the last few weeks, we haven't been playing...Derrick Henry. We'll see. The problem for the Titans I think is just that their defense isn't very good, is down a couple corners, and Mahomes is...well, Mahomes. IF we don't turn the ball over, (which is a BIG IF this season) I don't see how Tennessee can score enough to hang. But if we get a couple of keystone cops moments, we could easily lose.

I don't understand Tennessee's defensive problems. Your head coach is Vrabel. You've had a couple of seasons now to fix it. What the hell?

The Titans have learned to be very very patient with the run game. Most teams that fall behind early tend to abandon it quickly. If that happens to us, conventional wisdom is that pounding the rock is still better that having Tannehill throw the ball 40 times. Not that Tannehill is bad at it, but as time goes on, Henry doesn't lose much strength or speed where the defenses always run down, allowing more yards per carry and the big chunk plays or home run.

The Titans defense has actually been playing better this year, but that's not hard considering that last year we were league leading bad in so many places. This season the front D-line is playing a LOT better. Harold Landry has been getting to the QB a lot more....it's taken three years for him to come into his own but it looks like its happening. Jeffery Simmons in the middle is really good, especially against the run and was the immovable force that Josh Allen faced when he tried to sneak it at the end of the Bills game last week. And free agent acquisition Bud Dupree is still not 100%, trying to come back from injury but he's a lot closer than he has been.

The secondary has been a bigger problem, mainly due to injury. Last week we literally ran out of spare corners as the game progressed at the end. But Janoris "Jackrabbit" Jenkins was a hopeful free agent signing and has not lived up to the hype. Our first round pick Chris Farley tore his ACL last week after spending much of this season nursing shoulder injuries. The bright spot in the secondary is as usual, Kevin Byard, who after a lackluster season seems to be back to his Pro Bowl ways. If there's an interception to be made, he's the one usually near the ball.

As for why we've been struggling on defense in the recent Vrabel era, it's hard to say for certain. Our defensive coordinator Shawn Bowen only got the official job this year and last year he was in a weird no man's land sharing it with Vrabel himself. Whatever they were doing, it wasn't working. Things were a lot better when we had defensive legend Dean Pees leading the charge. He retired two years ago, then un-retired when former Titans OC Arthur Smith took the HC job at Atlanta this season.

**BossChief** · 10-22-2021, 01:12 AM

I’m a little concerned about how Tennessee will come out.

Have they been waiting almost 2 years to get revenge for shutting Henry down in the AFCCG and embarrassing them

Or

Do they KNOW we will beat them and will come out half flat while we run up a big lead and take them out of their element

It’s also interesting to see how Frank Clark and that front 7 do early in the game against the rush. If we come out flat, Tennessee could never make it to third down in the first series and DH arrows 3 Chiefs into the end zone

But….if we could force them into back to back 3 n outs to start it by playing physical smart football and out some big hits on Henry, we could crush them early.

Sevenfeet · 10-22-2021, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BossChief

I’m a little concerned about how Tennessee will come out.

Have they been waiting almost 2 years to get revenge for shutting Henry down in the AFCCG and embarrassing them

Or

Do they KNOW we will beat them and will come out half flat while we run up a big lead and take them out of their element

It’s also interesting to see how Frank Clark and that front 7 do early in the game against the rush. If we come out flat, Tennessee could never make it to third down in the first series and DH arrows 3 Chiefs into the end zone

But….if we could force them into back to back 3 n outs to start it by playing physical smart football and out some big hits on Henry, we could crush them early.

KC has historically carved us up because we've never had anyone who could keep up with Hill and Kelce, but then again, that problem has been league wide, not just us. I still think we'll try to play a lot of zone to compensate. Our problem in the secondary has been broken assignments than end up leaving people super wide open. It's getting a little better but it still happened in the Bills game where Jenkins didn't follow the WR to the end zone for....reasons and Allen probably had the easiest TD pass he'll have this season.

Even with the Bills victory last week, it wasn't pretty watching the early Titans drives which were just awful. The defense actually kept them in the game, keeping the Bills out of the end zone on the first two deep drives for only 6 points. Then Henry ran past everyone for 76 yards in the second quarter and then it was a real game.

Chris Meck · 10-22-2021, 05:49 AM

Oh, The Titans won't come out flat.

Nobody comes out flat against KC. Nobody.

Jeff.Fisher · 10-22-2021, 08:59 AM