Unlike some of those out there who are abashed by the Chiefs’ competitiveness, I’m not. I don’t anticipate the Chiefs denticulate any affectionate of moral achievement Sunday. I don’t anticipate annihilation was gained, except for conceivably accord of apperception for the throngs of media associates and bleak admirers who didn’t see abundant achievement for the 2009 season.
I’m not abashed the Chiefs pushed a aggregation that appeared in endure year’s AFC Championship bold to the wire. As I’ve common abounding times over, this is the NFL. It’s a alliance that strives on parity. The aberration amid the best and affliction aggregation in the alliance is not as abundant as it is in added sports. The NFL is advised to accredit teams like the Chiefs to attempt every week.
Just like I won’t sit actuality and complete trumpets of advance and acceptance, I won’t say the Chiefs are in for a echo of 2008. No, the Chiefs aren’t worse than they were endure year, not even close. Let me be the articulation of temperament, if I may.
The Chiefs’ Anniversary 1 accident is just one game. It does not beggarly the Chiefs will abandonment 500 yards a game. It does not beggarly they’ll aftermath a appropriate teams touchdown every week. It doesn’t beggarly Larry Johnson will be a fantasy football chargeless abettor all season. However, some abstracts can be drawn.
It’s bright KC’s abhorrent band has plan to do. That became credible when, beneath than two weeks ago, they absolutely scrapped every appropriate accouterment applicant from training camp. Anyone who anticipation Ike Ndukwe and Ryan O’Callaghan were accepted administrator Scott Pioli’s prime targets all along, and that he knew they’d be accessible backward in the game, was badinage themselves.
The Chiefs still charge a appropriate tackle. Is it accessible O’Callaghan is a bigger advantage than Ndukwe and that he artlessly didn’t play this anniversary because he hadn’t grasped the breach just yet? Sure, but he’s apparently not the long-term, or best concise answer. The Chiefs could’ve aswell acclimated some apparent advance at centermost and appropriate bouncer this offseason. As above Chief Will Shields and ballast of some absolutely adequate abhorrent curve has said abundant times, the success of the active bold starts with the autogenous abhorrent line.
Taking all that into consideration, the Chiefs played adjoin what is about advised the best aegis in the league. Rudy Niswanger was answerable with the unenviable assignment of blocking Haloti Ngata, one of, if not the nastiest adenoids accouterment in the league. While Branden Albert is advised an advancing brilliant on KC’s line, it’s neither abominable nor awkward that the Ravens’ canyon blitz got the bigger of him on assorted occasions.
It appeared to me that arch drillmaster Todd Haley accepted the blazon of bold a lot of did - a alarm control, grind-it-out, run-heavy game. To me, that explains his bourgeois play calling in the aboriginal half. The Chiefs were clumsy to get their active bold going, with their alone success advancing out of a two-fullback accumulation if bound end Sean Ryan came off the band and into the backfield. Without a solid abhorrent line, Kansas City cannot use the canyon to set up the run, use the run to set up the pass, or accumulate their aegis off the acreage for an adequate bulk of time.
The Ravens took advantage of their acceptability for accepting a able run game. They anesthetized on accessible active downs. They activated KC’s adolescent corners aboriginal and often. They set up the run with the pass. Their able abhorrent band accustomed them to do so. Then, KC’s aegis began to abrasion down.
Sunday aswell able my acceptance in Brodie Croyle. He managed the bold well, abnormally accustomed the aegis he didn’t receive. He created if accustomed the opportunity. He stood able in the face of pressure. He showed that if he is healthy, he is an NFL-caliber quarterback, period.
The Chiefs are still a adolescent team. They are starting seven players on aegis with beneath than four years of acquaintance and 5 on offense. They are alive beneath cast new coordinators in cast new schemes, and Todd Haley is still implementing his adaptation of the offense. Reserve acumen until added notice.
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