Chiefs' HC took advantage of a poor decision made by the Broncos all game
The Kansas City Chiefs barely beat the Denver Broncos when they should have absolutely demolished them. But, you know when a team plays a game after their head coach is fired, the team usually plays their best ball, for some odd reason. This win wasn't easy, but divisional battles almost never are, especially between these […]
The Kansas City Chiefs barely beat the Denver Broncos when they should have absolutely demolished them. But, you know when a team plays a game after their head coach is fired, the team usually plays their best ball, for some odd reason.
This win wasn't easy, but divisional battles almost never are, especially between these two teams. Yes, the Chiefs have now won 15 straight games against Denver, but look at the last game as proof that they have been a tough out this season.
On Sunday though, head coach Andy Reid noticed something the Broncos were doing that only helped them. And for some odd reason, Denver kept doing it, when they shouldn't have in the first place.
"They were playing a run defense," Reid said. "That gave us an opportunity to throw the ball a little bit, and that's how we were moving it up and down the field as quickly as we were."
If anyone knows the Chiefs or has watched them this season, they know that they are not really a running team. Sure, they can run it. Isiah Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon have done a great job this season in that area and stringing together big plays.
However, this team is built on the passing game. I mean, Patrick Mahomes is their quarterback, and he is the MVP this season, so why would they keep the ball out of his hands?
As for the Broncos, they have been one of the better defenses this season, and defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero will likely be a popular candidate for either a head coaching job or a defensive coordinator somewhere else. That's how well he has done this season with the bad situation he has been put in.
But, if what Reid said is true, I really hope he has an answer for why they played that way because the Chiefs are too good of a team to not play them the way they should be played. They are lucky it was an off day for Kansas City, or the score could have been a lot worse.
Evero may have done something that put their team in a position to lose.
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