Mixon. He had a solid game against the bills on Sunday,
one of the things that needed to happen for the Bengals. Go
in there and do what they did to the Buffalo Bills. So when
they have the ball. Yeah, let's focus on the week. 13 game
between the two teams. When the
Bengals got their third win of calendar year 2022. Over Kansas
City. What stood out to you from the Kansas City defense
trying in vain
to bottle up the Cincinnati offense? Yeah I mean they got
it's a tough task. We know that
I think the first thing we start off with Mike is like,
you know, again, the offense of line,
right? I mean, you know, you heard me
on on previous week's on football night in America,
I made comments. Like I think the Bangles are the most complete
team in the AFC, and all that.
But I mean, we saw the last game of the regular season. We
saw the Wild Card round against Baltimore where the offensive
line look like crap.
They couldn't open up in a hole, and they couldn't protect
Joe Borough at all, you know, then last week, you know, they
Were really damn good.
And again, I think some of that's Buffalo lacks. You know,
the Blue Chip players that we discussed so much on Monday and
Tuesday and I'll, but
I guess that's the first thing then. I even asked you with
your pasta and meatballs. What do you think? Do you think
we're going to see another offensive line performance like
that, where they're going to open up? Five foot holes for
Joe Mixon and he's gonna be ripping up
the middle for 10 yards. Every time he touches the ball,
Well like you said,
it's a different D line here.
Different two different defensive line they got Chris
Jones, exactly, they got Chris Jones in Kansas City
and they got Frank Clark in Kansas City and,
you know, the bills.
The bills weren't as suited as the Chiefs are to take
advantage of the fact that 60% of the starting offensive line
is gone. Yeah, you're right, right. I think, I think that's
two. That's kind of how I feel to. I don't think it's going to
be,
you know, as easy at least. I don't expect it to be.
Be there's more size on the, the Chiefs d-line and they got
from you guys that can go above and beyond like we talked about
and I think Chris Jones and Frank Clark there. You know,
Chris Jones is the best defensive tackle in football.
Frank Clark can make plays car laughs. This makes plays. So,
that that's the interesting part. But here's one of my
things. Mike. And, and the interesting part,
well, we know burrow, and the weapons are awesome too.
We do. And one of the things that has jumped out to me when
I go back and watch the Bangles Chiefs last few matchups.
Little is just that I think the formula has been too simple for
Joe,
Joe Borough. That would be the first thing that makes sense to
me. And guys, I know we have the tape. So let's play that
here, that
and and don't start it yet. If you can pause, it just for
a second and Rewind it, and let's restart it one more time. But
Mike, here's one thing. I just want to explain it before we
let the tape roll. The Chiefs,
especially early, in the year, even in week 13, they were
still in this where it was like, Hey, we're either going
to Blitz or we're going to disguise and make it look like
a blitz. And then we're going to end up in some form a cover
to
and hey it was working and they're good and they're
talented and they're good at their disguises that's all
good. But I don't it's not going to work against the elite
kind of like you were talking about like in the most
important time of the year.
You know, with the good defenses it's not going to do
it against Joe burrow, or Josh out of the top quarterbacks in
football because they can get to the go, okay, wait, I have
enough clues or this is the blitz. Oh wait, this is not
the Blitz
and they're going to drop out and play their cover two
and that's all you had to worry.
That was like, hey, Zach, Taylor jobber. Oh, we just got
to have our Blitz plays and are covered to plays. And it should
really kind of work about all their versions of cover two.
And here's a play to explain that here, guys. So here you
guys Mike. See the safeties down,
right? And you can play the tape when you guys are ready,
he's gonna dummy, snap count. He sees the safety kind of
creep back, he gets to the play he wants to and you know really
with all covered to plays whether it's for deep or
cover. To all the plays kind of work over. I want to see them
do more of this Mike And again, can we remind this just to
the start of this play? If you don't mind, look at this as to
me, they're down 14 to 3
and they had it. They finally realize. Wait, we can't just
play cover two boroughs. Going to pick us apart, and we're
going to die a slow death. So now they're down 14 to 3 and
they started to go, we gotta force the issue and complicate
things a little bit. So
here you see this look right, Mike people, the line of
scrimmage, I don't know who's Blitzen. Who's going? They're
going to end up doubling chase at the end of the top of
the screen and then they're going to leave some people.
And a man, but you gotta take a few calculated risk. Just like
when you play Mahomes, I think the same thing happens here
with a burrow. And you see here, they don't Blitz anybody
right, but they confuse the offense of line a little bit.
Now we got a guy coming around the edge and
Burrows like oh wait, I don't know what coverage this is and
of course, it adds to, you know, some pause and some
reluctance of what's going on and stops the machine from
Rolling. That is a big aspect to me that the Chiefs have to
do more of that
than just that simple formula explained on that first play.
That means your March. Chase is the key. You have to find a way
to contain him. Definitely
and not have t Higgins and Tyler board kill you and also
Hayden, Hirsch exactly tight. End had a big game on Sunday
against the bills. You account for the three receivers
Hayden, hers can still make things happen. I remember last
year, when they let CJ, who's AMA go, like, he's pretty big
weapon for that team. Then in comes Hayden Hurst and man,
he had a very important Significant game. I said
against the bills and he could be a big party but passing game
as well. Yeah, the Chiefs going to have their hands full right
now. We really are you're right. We know that we're not
surprised by that. This Bengals team is going to put anyone in
a position where they're gonna have their hands full defensive
death, even with those injuries to the offensive line. That's
right, that's gonna take a special game plan. Now
the thing that's encouraging
as the Chiefs have started,
really almost from that point of the season on started to do
more and more on the defensive side of the ball. I think they
started to trust their young guys a little More to where
they started to get into a little bit more
exotic, different coverages.
I think you gotta do some of that. Listen, you're going to
do some of that burrows going to they're going to make a few
plays to
the and you know don't get it messed up. But but so what it
also got them off the field of few times in that last football
game
because as we saw last week burrow is the best Zone
quarterback in football. If you play zone, you're screwed. If
he has protection,
he's going to As soon as one guy's just a hair out of their
Zone, it's boom. So it's boom. And then it's boom. Oh wait,
I'm looking at that guy. Oh, boom. And now I got a 30
yard game down the middle. He's amazing that way.
So they got the guys that can
play man-to-man from time to time. You don't want to live in
that but they like, like, you talked about Lou in a room. Oh,
they got to change the looks up on burrow.
He can't be so comfortable where he just goes,
oh, it's a cover to game, okay? Hey Zack, let's get to all
the cover to plays and we'll start. Dissecting them that way. You
got to change the recipe, you know, on a consistent basis to
mess with burrow in this offense.
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