with the big play, Bangles in the Kansas City Chiefs. So you
dug deeper into this one. Took at the took a look at the two
offenses here. Let's start with the Cincinnati Bengals offense.
First here Chris, and we'll start with
what I like to call to stats in a lie. Because as you often,
tell me stats lie. Yeah, you can't just take them for what
they are. Can always do it. You can't do it. No, so I've got,
I've got three stats here.
One of them is a lie. Yeah. And I want you to tell me which
one. Okay? Is Elias is always pressure right here. First one,
Joe borough has been sacked at the highest rate in the NFL
s 1. Jo burrow is top three in passing yards. Third one,
Joe burrow is top three
in touchdown passes,
which two are the truth?
Which one is the LIE? Wow. Okay. All right,
all right, so let me just figure this out. The third one was,
he's top three, four touchdown passes, I believe that's true.
The second one is
what was the second one,
top three in passing yards,
Yd s***. And the other one is has been sacked at the highest
rate in the NFL, mmm,
I think the first one is a lie.
You are absolutely correct. Their Joe burrowing getting
sacked. He's too good. That's her. It's he's, he's took it
into his own hands. And
this is where he's amazing Amin. He literally, like four
weeks with no protection was like getting it out quick dish
in here and there and then, after the game going protection
was great. My offensive lines the best in football
either. There's not a better offense.
In line and football.
And he's, they, he just weathered the storm
and here they are. And that's why he's an awesome. So you're
right. He has been sacked though. As he has been section
34 times that his fifth most in the NFL, but they also throw
the ball quite a bit. They do. And so his rate is actually
17th
in the NFL right now, Justin Fields rate is like, 13% of
Dropbox. He is sacked. Daniel Jones is s, then he got Ross,
Carson, Wentz, Stafford. Tannehill Mariota. Mac Jones
Baker, Davis Mills.
You got a lot of quarterbacks. A lot of quarterbacks. Are you
get the jobber? Oh, well, Yeah. And then the to me, this is one
where the credit goes to the quarterback, here
it really does, you know, they fixed a lot of these issues and
the old Lines been really good, the last two three weeks. But
man before that
yes like I was saying it was him,
you know, avoiding pressure getting the ball out of such
a quick rate that the pressure couldn't get there. Even when
guys were getting beat, but
that's why this is this is a special special player are
talking about. So we'll get to Joe Borough, but let's just
start there. You mentioned at the offensive. Right, they have
been better noticeably you took a look at the film. They are
noticeably better noticeably better.
I mean and we're seeing here,
you know, a little semblance of a run game once again,
you know that's the positive thing,
the passport, I mean
and legit move Kansas City off the ball and some runs
it's not just like tricks or
you know sometimes we get
end to end of the game and you go well, the team rushed for
some good stats and I'm like, well, it was a scramble in
a reverse and that led to the rushing stats, right? No
traditional Run game was real and a you could see it.
They're firing off the ball pass, protection is mind-blowing
and off of that. The transformation Lyle Collins is
made from earlier in the year because I'm at one point on
the earlier is going, it's over like he can't play anymore,
I don't know. Indeed, it's like he doesn't even know what to do
now. He's a force, you know, and across the board has gotten
much better and the guy we're going to single out, I want to
single out why
we're in this conversation is why you're leading me down this
road, here is the Right Guard, the Right Guard first off at
calyx Kappa. The free agent signing from Tampa Bay.
He was Noticeable in this game because
he's one of the only people I've seen
that was not overwhelmed or totally outmatched by Chris
Jones. Man, to man, this is at least, I've talked about
a written about Chris Jones, and a game playing
where we watch the Chiefs on film, the whole year.
So credit to the whole interior part of the offensive line.
But Kappa is specially
has a rare combination of being big and power and
powerful enough to handle Chris Jones
and Chris Jones. Usually when
Eyes are big and powerful enough to handle him.
Then they don't have enough quickness to handle his speed.
That's where he's a special player, but Kappa just enough
athleticism to hang in that department too. And, yeah, he
deserves a shout out in this one. Chris Jones only had five
tackles in the game. No, sax. No, quarterback hits.
No. But yeah, if you go over there at Pro Football, Focus,
right? They did give him the second-highest grade, mainly
because of his run defense, I guess.
Yeah. I mean yeah him, you know, he's never liked bad, you
know, this is this is when we're talking to Chris Jones
were kind of just Talking about, wait, did he totally
the game up or did he just have a good game and this was just
a good game and then that's where he is amazing. We're used to
seeing him and especially Kansas sitting in the defense,
make those four or five plays every game. Where yeah, they
let up some points and some yards but you can just count on
him making a place somewhere, whether that's a bad pass in
the air and it gets intercepted,
or a strip Sack or him stripping somebody a runner
going through the hole and none of that happened in this
football game. So let's go to Burro. Now, the quarterback
leading the charge here and it was on football night in
America. I heard you for the first time, you
said, Joe Burrows, got to be in the MVP talk. Yes. And then you
said it and guess what? Now I'm starting to read every seeing
everywhere little bit. Alright. Yo, bro, you should be there.
Well, I just mentioned the two steps that were truthful. He's
second in passing touchdowns to Mahomes. Yes, he is second
passing yards and you wrote in your notes. After taking
a closer look at the film. Yeah, that he is officially on
the level of Mahomes and Ali. Yes.
Yeah. And you know, I don't take that lightly but it's official.
After the last, three, four weeks of football meet again,
he was playing good before that, but we've gotten to
another level of,
for lack of a cheat code. It's cheat code,
it's almost nothing you can do to really stop him anymore,
you might contain them, you win a few battles here and there,
but it's just the, he has an answer for everything, his
physical gifts, have an answer for everything, he's a little
different from a homes and Allen where he doesn't do it
may be as much with the natural ability.
At times, but his natural feel for the game. And his instincts
are every bit up there with it, and then he plays it more from
a traditional standpoint,
but there's just no weakness to his game
and then it's just no defense can really confuse them. You
can't foster them with the pass rush. You know, he can escape
the pass rush and run, he can move in the pocket and run he
can make. Wow, level throws.
He can make great touch Precision accuracy throws
it. It's everything there. And yes, for me that he is
officially on their level.
So did the Kansas City Chiefs do enough to try to confuse
jobber? Oh, that's the big question, right? And I think
that's the thing where, you know, going forward, if they
play again, they gotta, they gotta change their approach
a little bit. I think that's official. The Chiefs
to the Chiefs. Do on the defensive side of the ball.
A Kansas City matches up. Well with them, we always talk about
that every team has their Kryptonite. This might be
Kansas City's Kryptonite this football team right here for
a lot of different reasons.
And you know, Kansas City traditionally they like to be
aggressive and play man-to-man and maybe Blitz a guy or not
Blitz, but played an extra guy in the
middle for crossers, but in your face, and we're going to
make you separate or throw the ball into a tight window.
Right? Joe Borough as we talk about every week, loves that
right? He's, we're always like, he's all he does is
your one-on-one.
Okay, here comes Joe March, a sortie Hagen's, right? He's
always looking for that. So, that's bad for Kansas City. He
has no problem throwing the ball in the Titan Windows to
Offered receivers that way, right? Then you get into
Kansas. City is an amazing
disguise team and but for the most part, they have all these
crazy ways to disguise. You know, you think of who might be
man, I might
be blind. So might be Mentos. Boom, they get out. It's
covered too, it's Tampa to. Oh, well, that's a cool way to get
to cover two,
but at the end of the day, it always ends up in some sort of
cover to. And to me, that is where it's just not enough for
a guy, like burrow. It's like, if you did that, to Alla Norma
homes, this
Same thing, it's just not enough. You can't just think,
Oh, wait, we're not sure what we are at the snap, but as soon
as you snap it, okay, we got to it and gosh, it's one of those
two or three things we call every play, right? That's what
I'm trying to say.
So they got comfortable with it and so it became a game of wait
is it? But it's,
you know it's a man Blitz are just regular man and then
also it's some crazy disguise and it goes to Tampa to most of
the times or some version of to, and my point would that At
to is
one yet is not enough to trick joh Borough
to. For the most part with cover two defenses,
you know, anything with a too deep safety.
Right.
There's a
even the variations one's a Tampa to one's a two-man one's
a cover to where the middle linebacker doesn't drop down
the middle like Tampa to.
There's still about 15 plays 20 plays that work for all those
coverages even though there's a little Nuance in the difference
of covered too. You're not going to be wrong if you call
this list of players that I'd love to tell everybody about
one day, right? And
that's where they got to. So,
wait, if it's Blitzer, man, I'll find my one-on-one
matchup, but we'll call something for one of their
versions of cover two and just about all versions of cover. To
one of these guys is going to be open over here
and that to me was definitely something that jumped out about
the football game a little bit. This is yeah, they're going to
mean a little more variation of things the next time around.
Can they do that? I think they can. Yes, they can and I've
seen
spags Ring out coverages
that like we've talked about with McDermott or you know,
even we'll talk about aluminum room on the bang goes here,
buried. You know when he was with the Giants back in
the day, where I'd go,
I don't know what
coverages is but they're all over people and it's just right
now. I think they have a younger team,
you know. There are talented. I don't think they wanted or had
to take some of those chances. Maybe not in that part of
the Playbook with some of these young corners and guys like
that,
but I think if they want to
beat my homes or Josh I mean burrow or Josh Hamilton.
Playoffs. I think it's something. They're going to
have to slowly Infuse in their defense here. One more point
about the Bengals offense, here you've been critical in
the past about
the the simple route tree, right? Some of the receivers
that are maybe in the movement not as much of it pre-snap.
Yeah
you've said you've seen a little bit more of it more past
few weeks and you did see a little bit more in the red zone
and on third Downs. Correct. Yeah. In this game. Yeah
definitely. I you know, I mean, third down Red Zone, both sides
of the ball there, special that way, right? And
yeah, they get down there and they find little
Creative ways to,
you know, find ways to get their guys, the balls and big
in big moments and they definitely compared to
the first three or four weeks have a more variety of
formations. There is priest that moment I still would love
to see more, right? But it's still,
it's still point. Now, we're at least. It's
it's a it's a piecing me. Is that what I want to say,
appease, our have been at peace. I've been at ease,
right? Were angry. Yeah, yelling the way I know. I don't
go. Oh, this
is so annoying. This is so all there in that formation. Oh,
they're in that form.
Daniel literally has improved, right? Little annoyed. Now,
the Chiefs for that matter, they had some moments in this game
where they didn't play in that formula.
You know, early on,
they played on defense, when the Bangles went down
the score, the first two drives they kind of tried to play the
disguise. Cover to We Won't Give Up the big play, do money
of that and he just picks you apart. You know their offense
is good. Like I've said it's got all the good. Good base
core plays,
I wish there was more, wow.
But between that then being able to run the ball, Kansas
City was dying a slow death and then we got into late in
the second or after those two touchdown drives and I think
Spagnola was like art.
We're going to just he's just gonna pick us apart.
We gotta take some calculator. Risk play some man here, do
some of that. Take a chance on third down to what you're
saying, where, you know,
they stopped The Bangles on one of the field goal drives. They
play man-to-man no safety in the middle of the field and
they doubled Kelsey
and I'm Going the other way around here. We what was it?
Yeah, they did. They did some of that they did.
I'm I got them flipped here because there's a tricky things,
they spagnolo in the Chiefs. Did some things where? Hey,
let's double
Chase or Higgins? Here on a third down from the 18, but
I think there's got to be more of that infused not against all
teams, but just if they play The Bangles again,
they gotta they got a flirt with that stuff on them.
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