The 33-22 loss to the Green Bay Farve's had me tossing and turning Sunday night/Monday morning. It was a wild surreal 60 minutes of good news and bad news.
GOOD NEWS: The Chiefs offense finally had an epiphany of sorts with two consecutive drives of 74 and 82 yards to regain the lead TWICE against the Packers. The Chiefs offensive coaches had told me that they had a sense that the offense could start clicking after the bye week. They had put in some new wrinkles and some of those new formations and plays worked.
BAD NEWS: This offense CANNOT wait 45 minutes to get cranked up. If the Chiefs are going to win the AFC West, the offense needs to take their epiphany and do it in the first half. This team has struggled in the first half of every game sans Cincinnati. The Chiefs didn't cross the 50 yard line on offense until the 13:15 mark of the FOURTH QUARTER. That puts too much pressure on the defense early in games.
GOOD NEWS: The Chiefs defense stood toe-to-toe with arguably the toughest quarterback to play in the NFL and held their ground.....for three quarters. The Packers use a lot of three and four and five wide sets (TD to Jennings). The Pack reduces your defense to the lowest common denominator, your nickleback and dimeback. They can also "formation" to big plays (TD to Jennings). The Chiefs D did their part and defended Farve for 56 plays, unfortunately the Packers ran 62. The Chiefs entered the week 7th in the NFL in disallowing pass plays of 20 plus yards.
BAD NEWS: The Chiefs won't be 7th in that category this week. They allowed a 44 yard pass to Donald Driver, a 48 yard pass to a tight end and the 60 yard (TD to Jennings). The defense is a main reason that the Chiefs have won 4 games this year. However, the offense had given the Chiefs a 6 point lead with 5:18 to go at home and the Packers had to go 82 yards (TD to Jennings).
GOOD NEWS: The crowd was electric Sunday, it was like a playoff game.
BAD NEWS: How did all of those Packer fans get tickets? The game at times seemed as if it was played in a neutral stadium. I could not believe the noise I heard in my head phones during big Packer plays (TD to Jennings).
GOOD NEWS: The Chiefs can win the AFC West. It is up for grabs and the Donkeys are coming this week and hopefully we can get our stadium back.
BAD NEWS: There is no bad news here. Don't apologize for the AFC West, or I'll send you a DVD of the 1997 Chiefs playoff loss to the Donks. Remember? The Chiefs were 13-3 and the Donks were 12-4. ITS TIME TO WIN THE DIVISION. The Chiefs have only one division title since that 1997 playoff loss, so don't get picky, just do it.
ILL SEE YOU AT ARROWHEAD... ITS DONKEY WEEK!
