Chiefs Bot
As a recipient of another team that completely crapped itself when it should have won this week, my heart went out to Chiefs fans on Thursday night. That sucked. I was rooting heavily for KC (because I like KC, and because I picked them in my weekly picks for Uproxx). It was one of those games where you see something happen and you have to sit there struggling to process it for about 5 minutes before you realize it actually, genuinely happened. I actually could not believe that final fumble happened until the Chiefs got the ball back for another drive. It just…wow. I’m so sorry KC.
I think I might have underestimated Denver’s defense this year. They look really solid. I know they’ve gone against Marc Trestman’s Ravens and Alex Smith so far but still, that is a stout D. Peyton Manning not so much. Dude has no velocity left and it’s sad. It feels like we are watching the end of his career this season. He had a few good throws but he mostly looked terrible and the Chiefs dropped at least 3 intercept-able balls. He doesn’t look like Peyton Manning anymore. He’s a pale imitation.
However if the Chiefs can find a QB who can and wants to throw the ball beyond 10 yards they’d be a stellar team.
I put this one on Andy Reid’s game management personally. You have 40 seconds, a timeout, and all you need to win is a field goal, which means you just have to go 40-50 yards in those 40 seconds. How you call a draw play in that spot is beyond me.
Denver’s defense might be scary this year. Need to see it against better offenses than Alex Smith’s TD-less receivers and Joe Flacco with nobody to go deep to, but it looks damn fine two weeks in.
On the subject of Peyton: His feet are dead. Good throwing motions start in the legs, and it appears that a 40-year old man cannot recover from a torn quad muscle to an NFL capacity. He’s lost the balance and quick response a good QB needs from his back leg, and it shows. His line and running game sucking doesn’t help matters, but the fact is he doesn’t even look like himself from this time last year. Last year there was life and energy in his footwork, he kept light and nimble to make sure he could have a quick weight transfer as soon as he found an open target. This year his feet are as flat as a backyard turkey bowl QB’s feet, and he visibly hops up a half-inch or so before throwing sometimes to try and help the weight transfer. Watching old highlights from Indy is like watching a completely different quarterback.
It’s like watching Marino in 1999. You can still see flashes of the great quarterback he once was, but it’s clear that he’s dazed and confused, and father time is winding up for the knockout punch. I’d almost want to see Peyton get a ring just to see him go out on top.
“How you call a draw play in that spot is beyond me.”
Yeah. The draw play is, and always has bee, a complete failure. *coughcough*
And like Marino in ’99 I can’t wait for when they play the second year qb that finished his first season with a 3-13 record and a lot of promise. 99 Marino was also carried to the playoffs by his defense and a good start despite finishing 1-4 and throwing more picks than TDs for the first and only time in his career.
If Robobrains are Chiefs fans, I guess Mr. Gutsy likes the Broncos.
Broncos fans are super mutants; big, ugly, and everywhere.
A QB who wants to throw the ball more than 10 yards? There might be one out there, ready to be unleashed.
There is nothing wrong with Alex Smith. He is a safe quarterback who will go for the safest option. That does not mean that he is unable or unwilling to go deep. He has thrown deep passes (against the Texans he attempted a few shots downfield, he connected with Maclin this game, and most importantly, on that playoff game against the Colts where half the Chiefs team injured themselves in the second half and Andy Reid remembered he is Andy Reid, he was tearing up that Colts secondary all game long). Sure, he will leave plays that are there, but he will also keep mistakes at a minimum. When you have a defence as good as KC’s, that’s really what you want.
Personally, what I’d like is a QB that will do more than not lose us the game. Smith will almost never lose the game single-handedly, but he’ll never win one by himself either. The Chiefs deserve better than someone who simply won’t shit the bed.
He’s a game manager
So?
Also Eric Berry played.
>At least he didn’t drop his helmet.
I can’t put any of this on Alex Smith. He had the game-winning go-ahead drive against the “vaunted” Broncos defense and left less than 1:30 left on the clock. All the defense had to do was hold.