Chiefs: Remember the Titans

Chiefs: Remember the Titans? – with each season comes different results. Players switch teams, fresh recruits arrive, retirements take place, injuries claim careers, etc… but one thing that has always remained the same in this particular matchup is that the Tennessee Titans have seemed to own the Kansas City Chiefs!

Even when the Chiefs have been the clear favorite, the Titans have found a way to feed the Chiefs a big fat L sandwich. Our boys have lost the last 3 consecutive matchups between these 2 teams

Since the Titans inception in 2000, they have matched up with the Chiefs 9 times and the Titans have walked away the victor 6 of those 9 outings. Yep that’s right folks, the Chiefs have a measly 33% win rate against the Tennessee Titans. Ouch!

The last matchup was a heartbreaking Wildcard loss at Arrowhead (just last year) where it was all Chiefs in the first half, only to see the wheels fall completely off in the second half. We lost TE Travis Kelce to a concussion and Titans QB Marcus Mariota threw a TD pass to himself! Yep, a Mariota pass batted down by Darrelle Revis, only to be deflected back to Mariota, for the Touchdown. So much went wrong in that God forsaken second half that ultimately found the Chiefs on the losing end of a 21-22 soul crushing loss.

Here’s the odd thing, (and in this case good news) of those 6 losses only one of them were at Tennessee… you see, the Chiefs have a winning record vs the Titans, as long as it is on their turf. Seems the Chiefs prefer to play the Titans at Nissan Stadium.

You know, growing up a fan of baseball, the old joke was the “curse of the Bambino” in regards to the Boston Red Sox always falling short of winning the Pennant. That went on for 86 years… but… in 2004, the Boston Red Sox simply put so much talent on the field that a curse couldn’t even slow them down. Nobody could beat them, not a fictitious curse, and not even their nemesis, the New York Yankees, who gave it one yell of a try and who quite frankly, up to that point, had totally owned the Red Sox, as their ghost of postseason’s past.

I’m sure I am quite biased in my views where the Chiefs are concerned, but that is how I see these current Chiefs: a team that has way too much talent to be bothered with statistics from the past.

The Chiefs have simply taken a page right out of the 2004 Red Sox playbook. Even injured and missing players they will simply out-talent the Titans by too much and too big a margin to allow any past dominance by the Titans to play a factor in this Sunday’s matchup.

• • The Chiefs are averaging 77 more total yards per game than the Titans
  • The Chiefs are averaging 9.7 more points per game than the Titans
  • The Chiefs OL have allowed 16 Sacks this season, the Titans OL, 38. Wait… What??

Our new found pass rush should have a field day with the Titans permeable Offensive Line. Their OL makes ours look like the Impassable Dream!

The Titans are still leaning hard on Derrick Henry who chewed the Chiefs defense up in the second half of that January, 2018 Wildcard loss. Last week against Carolina Henry had a sweet little one handed catch on a screen pass from Tannehill that ultimately went the distance for the TD.

Henry is still a force to be reckoned with and the Chiefs defensive coach Steve Spagnuolo will need to have a plan in place to try and keep him at bay like, he did last week with Dalvin Cook.

A month ago, the Titans made a change at the Quarterback position, moving on from Marcus Mariota to Ryan Tannehill and instantly the Titans went on a 2 game win streak, beating 2 pretty decent teams in the Chargers and Buccaneers but, then only to struggle on the road in Carolina.

The Titans are a hit and miss team, and hit and miss teams make me nervous, especially ones that have lost their last game and are heading home and have a tendency to come out on top when playing the Kansa City Chiefs!

Still, I’m going with my 2004 Red Sox theory in this one… past statistics aside, the Chiefs just have too much talent on the field to drop this one.

Chiefs 34, Titans 17 – GO CHIEFS!

Phillip Maxwell — ArrowheadOne

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