Chiefs and Bucs Game Report: The Buc Stops Here
Laddie Morse
K.C. won this game, 41-to-31. By the time the half rolled around (28-to-17), you had a feeling the Kansas City Chiefs were going to win this one. Sure, they were leading at the half of last week’s game too, but it was hard to feel like they had that one under control. Let me just say this right now… the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a very, very good team. They played hard and tackled hard, on every single play. The Chiefs were the better team on this day, but if they meet again in the Super Bowl, I’m not so sure the outcome is the same. Like Patrick Mahomes said in the after game presser: “That’s a great football team.”
The Chiefs running game was in full force tonight. Clyde Edwards-Helaire (CEH) had 92 yards rushing and Isiah Pacheco had 63 rushing yards, CEH’s longest run was 20 yards and Pacheco’s longest was 9 yards. CEH was 4.8 YPC and Pacheco was at 5.7 YPC. The real story here is that the Chiefs came away with 189 yards rushing while the Buccaneers had three (3) total yards rushing. Part of that was due to the Chiefs taking an early lead of 21-to-3, which caused them to go to their passing game exclusively, but they got away from a strength early.
Superior Chiefs Coaching
Andy Reid pointed out in his post game presser that the team won in all three phases of the game. Indeed they did. The coaching was much better too. The play calling was so fantastic compared to last week, on both sides of the ball. Yes, the game began with the Bucs fumbling away the Kickoff, but it only took two plays and the Chiefs had scored their first of many TDs.
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Tight Ends on the Loose
All three of the Chiefs Tight Ends scored. First up was Mr. Kelce. Travis Kelce was dominant in this game and had 9 receptions for 92 receiving yards.
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Next up was Noah Gray who was in on Patrick Mahomes tricky play when Patty was pointing off to his left, Gray stopped behind Center and took it in for a QB (TE) Sneak.
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Then, TE Jody Fortson made the score 37-to-21 and pretty much locked up the victory.
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Goat of the Game
No, I’m not talking about one of the game’s GOATs, Brady or Mahomes, I’m talking about Orlando Brown Jr. who kept allowing the Bucs DEs to get around him like he was doing Tai Chi with his eyes closed.
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That Tweet was before the Bucs game. Aside from the occasional plays that Orlando Brown flubbed up on, he had some fairly good plays too and helped produce a TD. Besides his play… the Chiefs pretty much beat the whoopee out of the Bucs.
Injury Report
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Player of the Game
With the Score 21-to-10 Chiefs, L’Jarius Sneed blitzed off the edge and caused Tom Brady to fumble. A fumble which Chris Jones recovered. Sneed’s number was called again and again and all for positive reasons. He led the defense with 9 tackles and his sack of Brady came when he caused the fumble. While it’s hard not to pick Patrick Mahomes every single game, Sneed deserves recognition.
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Patrick Mahomes Stats
Mahomes had 3 TD passes and one INT in this game. That gives him 11 TDs for the year, after 4 games. To project that out, he’d have 46.75 TDs if he continues at this rate. Getting many scores ahead of Tom Brady helped to secure this win. Mahomes was 23 of 37 vs the Bucs for 249 yards. He finished with a 97.7 QB Rating. Mahomes is now etched in the History Books of the NFL:
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Mahomes Magic
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Tweet of the Game
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Quote of the Game
“Patrick Mahomes should be banned from
the NFL, it’s just not fair what he can do.”
-Emmanuel Acho
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Song of the Game
Important Note: I hope the use of this song doesn’t offend any of our readers. It comes from the movie “Song of the South.” I used to show this movie to the kids at my preschool many decades ago, but now I understand it is banned material and you can’t find it on the Disney Channel because although they made it, it has some Typification in it. That is a process of creating negative idiosyncrasies or social constructions based on standard assumptions about some groups of people. Please forgive me, I mean no injury, but the gleeful use of this song truly fulfills how I feel in retrospect of this game and it’s result:
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Future Shock
This is now…
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Go Chiefs!
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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