The Chiefs WON That Game!

On Thursday evening, the Kansas City Chiefs traveled to Foxborough, Mass. and played the defending Super Bowl Champions… and beat them. Sure the Patriots lost… but the point of any game is to win it. When you win it… you should be known as the winner and people who talk about the game should say, “Hey, nice win.” Instead, what we’re hearing and seeing across the country is, “The Patriots Lost to the Chiefs.” The reality is… and the true story is… the Chiefs WON that game!

I, like many of you, was forced to watch the Chiefs battle with the Patriots on television on NBC. Unfortunately, the men calling this game were Chris Collinsworth and Al Micheals. While Al Micheals attempts some semblance of fairness, to be an unbiased forecaster, he is not that. However, the real perpetrator is Collinsworth. One of the things he kept saying after the Chiefs were successful on offense was, “This is not New England’s defense.” What he may have meant was that this defense has different players on it from previous years and it’s not playing up to those previous standards. However, by doing so, he was essentially making excuses for their failures and more importantly… discounting the Chiefs play-calling, game planning and execution. 

To him, and many others, the big story is… the Patriots lost… when we K.C. Chiefs faithful know, the Chiefs WON that game! Now, there have been games in recent memory in which the Chiefs didn’t play very well but somehow came away with a win. As Chiefs fans, we are well aware of when this happens and in those cases we’d understand someone saying that the other team lost more than the Chiefs won. Thursday night, it was clear, the Chiefs beat up on Tom Brady and his New England Patriots. So, let’s examine some of the ways the Chiefs WON that game.

• Never Give Up Attitude– the Chiefs got down by 10 points at 17-to-7 but still continued to play hard and believe they would win.
• Pressing Onward Offensively– with about 9:00 minutes to go in the game, the Chiefs were still down by a score of 27-21. Their star WR Tyreek Hill was going in the club house for cramps and never returned but… the offense still score three more times. Accuracy by Alex Smith and adept running by both rookie Kareem Hunt and back-up Charcandrick West made that happen..
• Increasing Their Defensive Effort– the later the game got, the more the Chiefs pursued the N.E. QB. Eventually OLB Justin Houston got two sacks. He didn’t get those sacks because their LT was bad… he just made him look bad… and it wasn’t a good look.
• Continued Special Teams Excellence– at one point Collinsworth stated that the Patriots Special Teams was “winning the ST battle” but that wasn’t accurate. At one point punter Dustin Colquitt was asked to punt three times in a row because of two penalties on N.E. (and frankly the NFL has that rules messed up because Colquitt had both of his legs knocked out from under him on the second penalty) and both Hill and DAT had nice returns during the game.
• Head Coach Andy Reid Out-coached his Opponent– Andy Reid is one of the 15 best NFL coaches… ever. In this game he showed why he deserves that kind of praise by calling an excellent game that repeatedly exposed the weaknesses of his opponent.

When a team has 15 penalties called on them in an away game, no matter why you think those penalties were called (poor execution or bad refs) and you come away with a 15 point victory, it doesn’t matter who the opposing team was… it makes clear that you WON that game instead of the other team just blowing it. Why? Because those penalties can be seen as a team’s own effort to… Blow It!… but that didn’t happen at all.

Some of us may have forgotten, for a brief moment in time, just how frustrated we can get with Andy Reid’s clock management too:

Well, Reid’s solid clock management in the 2:00 minutes before the half, had nothing to do with another team’s failure and everything to do with the Chiefs, from top to bottom, doing whatever needed to be done to stay in the game, and ultimately, win it.

Sometimes… spending so much time thinking about another team… can cause a fixation that fans have with… “This Team Lost” instead of “That Team Won.” Here’s an example:

Now, why would I want a shirt with another cities’ name on it? Funny and cute? Yes, but the focus is in the wrong place. Maybe we just need a shirt that says… this…

Also, there are some facts about this WIN that reveal a K.C. team intent on doing more than just playing well… but creating a “statement-win”…

• The Chiefs offense created three 90-yards-or-more TD drives even though N.E. had not allowed one since 2012.
• The infamous BUBBLE-SCREEN was no where in sight..
• OLB Justin Houston had a 2-sack-4QB-hit performance while wreaking havoc on the N.E. offense and signalling to the rest of the league, “I’m Baa-aack!”
• With his 75-yard catch and run, Tyreek Hill has scored a TD of 65 yards or more in 5 consecutive regular-season games. BTW… Hill took a total of 0:9 seconds off the clock on his TD-run, even though he was coasting the last 20 yards. Must be getting old (at the ripe age of 23).
• The infamous BUBBLE-SCREEN was no where in sight.
• The offense had two 75-yards or more pass plays, but only had one 75-yard+ play in all of 2016.
• Eric Berry held Rob Gronkowski to a total of 2 receptions (to emphasize that stat… if Gronkowski keeps that pace up all season, he’ll end up with only 32 receptions).
• ILB Derrick Johnson had 8 tackles and 2 tackles-for-loss and looked like his 2015 self.
• Alex Smith was blitzed 10 times, and on those plays… he went 8-10 and threw 3 TDs.
• The infamous BUBBLE-SCREEN was nowhere in sight.
• This was the Chiefs 7th road-WIN in a row.

It’s like Charlie Sheen once said, (well, more than once)… W-I-N-N-I-N-G-!

Here are some featured article titles from around the league:

• “Pats’ loss offers a harsh dose of reality”
• “Brady questioned Pats mental toughness after loss”
• “With Danny Amendola sidelined, do Patriots need another WR?”
• “Tom Brady describes first game at 40”
• “Super Bowl Odds: Pats Still Front Runners For Now”
• “The Chiefs Showed What Running the Ball Can Do to the Patriots: Atlanta Must Be Kicking Themselves”
• “Pats Loss vs. the Chiefs Was as Shocking as Anything I’ve Ever Seen”
• “Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Sell Your Tom Brady or Patriots Stock After Week One”

It’s a travesty, as much as sports could ever be a travesty, because NBC Sports NFL web page doesn’t even have a title that the Chiefs won or that the Pats lost. It just says, “Berry Tears Achilles” and that’s it. They are so biased in favor of the Pats, that they can’t bring themselves to say that the right team lost… or that the wrong team won. You know who’s wrong? THEM!

Well, I won’t hold back at all. THE CHIEFS FLAT OUT WON THAT GAME! Period… without an infamous BUBBLE-SCREEN in sight.

And the loser? I think we all know who they are.

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