got big wins, right? Or they got wind, some of them weren't
that big. They were just by the hair on their what chinny
chinny chin chin. Right. So our game last night Sunday night
football, we've had some below out.
Yeah, not a blowout last night, you know, good competitive
game. It was not on that, not a high-scoring game but really
good competitive game, the Tennessee Titans always give
the Chiefs
a battle Chiefs. Pull it out, Patrick Mahomes, had to throw
the ball 68 times. For 400 what 46 yards. Yeah. Right. It was
the craziest thing because if you watch that game you're like
that seemed like such a struggle, it was right. The
Chiefs out there right to throw for 400 and some yards and 400
total yards of offense but they won in overtime.
I'm impressed with the Titans
just keeping it that close and basically doing nothing
offensively the whole second half. What was your biggest
takeaway? Well that can well I there's a few things here,
you know, one this is a tough matchup for the Kansas City
Chiefs, you know?
I always talk about this right. You've heard me say this in
years past every team has to their kind of their Kryptonite
team they play where, it's just like ma'am totality, we might
be better but the way they play and how their team built it
gives
us issues. It's hey, I've been crappy on Best Bets all year,
but that's why I picked this game. As one of my Best Bets on
Thursday.
I was like, I think Tannehill is going to play,
but even with Malik Willis,
I'm gonna go with Tennessee,
just because they have a feel for that, Kansas City offense,
they really do you. And I, right, we had so many great.
It looks last night, especially in the second half. You, and
I really paid attention to the game and then we can look over
to the other screen and see the skycam shot, which was like, 5
seconds behind. So we got to see, like, oh wait, there's
the play and now,
let me see exactly what the coverage was
Tennessee.
Let's just start there, so I can share them some props
because I love Tennessee Titans. I love Mike variable,
he'd be like one of those guys where I go. If you built
a coach in a lab, he'd be kind of the guy,
the attitude, the Mantra I'd want coaching my football.
Team here. What the haircut to write? Love it, right? That was
old sexy, Dad, Chris Simms, look. Now, I'm
what was it last week? Somebody said I'm no, I'm I'm
an accountant Dad. Yeah, I was sexy, dad. And now I'm
accountant. Dad smarter, right? Let's mark, I believe we
agreed. I'm smarter. No doubt about it. But but yeah, I mean
his way of coaching team
managing the game, the way they play
their defense. I mean again, last night, I don't know Pete.
Maybe you can look this up on the Fly. I would lie. Don't
think. They Blitz more than one or two times, the whole night
their defensive lines, real, their game plan specific
in the back end. Like we talked about. So they do some
different stuff and whatever specific to that matchup little
on their young and talented back there. And then,
you know, offensively
the offensive line just continues to get better. I just
thought I didn't know if this offensive line was going to be
capable of what they're doing here as of late. But,
you know again yesterday, just hang in that game
was special, let alone hang in that game. I shouldn't even say
that to really be controlling the game. It seemed like for
a Part of it. I give them a lot of credit. They're scary. Don't
anybody count them out? They can code to the Super Bowl
the Tennessee Titans,
I'm worried about them, lack of Receiver, right? They need that
one thing. There's no doubt that has to there, has to be
an emergence of Robert Woods or Trail on Burke when he gets
back or one of the tight ends,
they got to have some
go to element, right? They completed five past, I know
game, I mean none to a wide receiver and then you compare
you could talk about last week, right? And they did it to
the Texans kind of the same way and down.
Nate and didn't dominate them but won the game, you know,
somewhat easily. It's cool that a team can be good. Doing that
right. I think that's one of the guys that's what I think.
It's cool exactly right there. Kind of like it's old school
where it's a little bit like, Hey, we're gonna run right
here.
You know, we're going to run right here and you you can't
stop it and I love that attitude. I do that's
Pittsburgh Steelers of the 70s, you know, the Giants of
the 80s, the Cowboys of the early 90s. There's a little bit of
that element. So that's where I
respect it. But
let's pay respect to The team that is just King,
unbelievable. You know, we always we talk about the glitz
and the glamour of Kansas City in there a finesse team and
I don't like saying finesse with Kansas City. I don't
I don't think it's fair to them. Are they a passing team? Yes.
Are they a finesse team? No,
I don't see a lot of teams
and, you know, we, we talk about this through the years.
I don't see a lot of teams that ever out, hit the Kansas City
Chiefs, I give them respect for some reason. We just talked
about because they're in the shotgun, they're not tough,
they're plenty tough,
they were fine mix.
It up with Kansas City. I mean, Tennessee getting in their face,
but you said it was the ugliest 440 yard performance.
It was guts and grit and a guy hanging in there with nobody
open and wait until the last second and
never really throwing a perfect spiral or feel uncomfortable
all night, but just getting it done because he is one of
the greatest football players we have ever seen in football.
That's just my take on it. It's like backyard football. It was
right backyard. We were watching the end of the game
going again we had that cable cam so we can see it but
I mean we were going to look nobody I mean nobody open and
you're right but he just he just going to make it happen.
He doesn't care. It's the opposite of like the West Coast
offense, where it's like, boom, boom! Boom! Get it out, right?
And boom, get a nose, right? Boom, boom, boom.
All right. Run around back there for a while, right? But
yeah, exactly. Nobody's helping nobody opens. Ah, still,
nobody's open.
Okay, I'm gonna have to run or
still nobody's open. I'm about to get killed, but I'll throw
a crazy ball. And oh my God, we completed it as the first down.
I mean it's it's the damnedest thing you we've ever seen
it really is. And
I think that brings me to the point, like, what you do,
you know, the other thing that we talked about while we were
watching the game together. Last night, that was the first
time where I watch the game and there was a different approach
by a defense to Kansas City. That I had seen
where it wasn't about necessarily take away the big
plays. It wasn't about, let's just sit back and say, patient
underneath. I think they've come to this point of the year
and seen eight games or seven games a film before this and
went you know what
They're pretty patient and surgical underneath
and the short and intermediate pass game. We're going to
can lose if we play,
let's take away the big play
thing because he's gonna pick us apart. Like, he's done to
everybody in football year and they played a game plan where
how many times did in the second half that I go look at
the safety Zaman. This is Kansas City.
They got safeties at 89 yards because they were looking for
the short stuff. They were going to stop the five-yard.
Kelsey throw in the 10-yard. Juju smash through Schuster
throw.
Over the Middle where then he runs 48 yards more after
the catch in Kelsey's, same thing. And that's where I found it.
Fascinating. It might have been the first time I went to they
kind of missed, I re-kill
might have been the first time
and they got to have you know, an answer for that type of
Defense because now you know teams are going to dabble in
that in certain situations
and their counter to that is going to be
okay. Maybe we got to have a few ways to maybe, take some
shots down the field and back the people off again to your
point. The Titans they blitzed 50k 78 pass plays, right? So
joke, a handful of times, okay?
And the Chiefs really had no running game
to make them worry about their Patrick Mahomes was the leading
rusher 63 yards. His most ever in regular season game, he is
the first player in the Super Bowl ERA
with 400 or more passing yards of past TD and 60 or more
rushing yards and a rushing TD in a single game. So file that
away. That's special. Another thing that Mahomes did there.
But yeah, no real running game from the Chiefs, is that
a concern for you? Moving forward. It's not a concern
because
I don't think people are quite realizing this yet,
and I'll even take it to Thursday night with the Eagles
Texans game,
you know,
Al Michaels Kirk Herbstreit, they're doing a great job,
right? I'm really enjoying listen to them, but they were
talking about like hell, I'm surprised you know
the Texans are running the ball on the Eagles are not. Listen,
I was surprised too
but what I don't think people have really realized and if you
haven't studied Tennessee, yet
their defensive line is epically good. Right now, it's
it is is dominant as there is, I mean,
they were pressuring Mahomes all night with four people.
They said we don't give a f*** if you want to run it. Jeffrey
Simmons Denis koha tree
and Company. We're going to stop it. It doesn't matter.
They would be scary. Good of Harold Landry was healthy but
I really like their team and I think they're going to get
better in the Stevens of side of the ball. You know.
One Christian Fulton, just got back. He's a special Corner in
my opinion. The rookie they got out of Auburn Roger McCreary.
He was one of my six or
Seven Corners in the
and the the dry process.
He's damn good, they got good, safety play,
their linebackers are good,
and we saw some of the coaching and the things they do. As far
as the defensive side of the ball, Ryan Tannehill back. And
then
an emergence of a receiver is going to make them dangerous,
but damn Kansas City. I give them respect for their
toughness and let's keep it real. I mean, they
dumped the Tennessee Run game in the second half, right?
It was non-existent,
and they got torn up on
The first half and the second half, they went in, they
readjusted they manned up, they played a little bit more big
people at the line of scrimmage. They played a lot of
eight and nine man fronts. And finally just said, I think
fine,
you know, if you want to throw go route or fade route and
one-on-one so be it but we're not going to let you run it up
the Middle with Derrick Henry all game long. And they really
did a great job. They really did
0 combined yards in the final seven, dries for the Titans
that factors in sacks and all that stuff. Derrick Henry had
92 rushing yards in the first half couple touchdowns second
half just 23.
We mentioned a couple times, the wide receivers they don't
have that guy that can separate. They can get. They
did they used to? Yeah, AJ brown right
now with the Philadelphia Eagles, you just want he was
tweeting last night. He was, he was having a ball so he was
watching. NBC that was good. Was he probably enjoyed our
halftime and pregame show?
Ain't nobody open and just a shot of a guy laughs and
looking at his phone there, he's like this is this is me
right here. He did delete those tweets, he deleted him, he did
delete, that's what Pete notes Here. What is so that that he's
sort, then he sent another tweet that said,
Repeat, nobody is old. No one's open.
He might have felt bad. You know. There. He might have some
friends on that team. Who are receivers? I don't know. Yeah,
that's that's probably really. It probably felt. Hey, you
know, even though they're going to understand, they're going to
be like they get it. Like, I can't get open. It was all
right
there, that media. It's,
he's I'm sure a little bitter. He wanted to be there.
I mean, he did, he wasn't looking to break the record and
money as we saw the contract he signed, but obviously Tennessee
wasn't willing to do that. And
what's crazy? Is, you know, I just go back to that, you know,
gift. I don't know if we got it Pete and you could pull it
up just when they traded him away. And then Mike, Vrabel had
to get up in the draft room and shake his head and like, like,
Whoa, We just
traded that can guy like yeah,
you know what, we had the perfect formula in the world
run it up the middle. You got to put everybody in the middle
of the stop it. Oh now there's nobody down the field. Look at
AJ Brown. Nobody can stop him.
And honestly
that to me is the only thing that maybe stops Tennessee from
Going where they go. Is that move right there,
he has 718 receiving yards, the
Tennessee wide receivers combined have 658. Yeah, and
I don't know what they can do at this point. I mean, Odell
Beckham's out there, maybe he could help you really think.
He's gonna want to go there though?
You think he's gonna want to go there and go? Well, maybe I'll
get three balls on a Sunday night playoffs after they've
run it for the 74th time.
I mean, I don't know, it could be good because you could be
the go-to guy, but I don't think he's gonna be ready to be
the go-to guy right away to which could lead to unnecessary
pressure.
But yeah, they got a little problem here with this
and I don't know what they're going to do
for those watching
Pete and Kristen and everyone have worked their magic.
Do they have that shot of Mike? Vrabel? Okay barking. All
right, we can get back to it. It's a cool to me. It's just
such a cool gift because it right below and GM there. John
Robinson who I have a ton of respect for
their they got a
great working relationship and
they're on the same page. But if you're watching here, you
guys, look, here's right after the trade. Look at this, he's
like watch the crick in the neck right here. Look at that,
I love that crook of the neck.
But he let him play. One more time of weekend is so good.
Watch as he just as he's turning around. I'm in
the crick in the neck. Like,
damn, we just try to that guy. Look, he's shaking his head,
shaking his head and then what's this Creek,
right?
Woo.
All right, we're gonna have games where we throw it, five
times. All right, all right, suit yourself.
So yeah, there's still competitive, despite not having
that big play guy
will see moving forward if one of those wide receivers emerges
but Both these teams are going to be in it late, which is
cool. Yeah, I like well, these teams I like the way they plan
to see is a team that definitely could upset, our
buffalo, Kansas City matchup in the AFC Championship game.
I know there's other
teams there too, but
you know, Tennessee is definitely one of those
culprits that would be a tough matchup for, for Kansas
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