Chiefs DT Chris Jones sets the record straight on viral ‘they ran the same play’ clip from Week 2 loss to Eagles
Chiefs DT Chris Jones wasn’t mad about the tush push in a now-viral clip, he was mad about his team’s inability to stop another play.
Kansas City Chiefs DT Chris Jones set the record straight on a clip that the NFL shared of a sideline outburst from the Week 2 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
In the now-viral clip, Jones is seen shouting on the bench, “They ran the same play seven [expletive] times.”
Of course, Jones is referring to the Eagles’ offense. Both the NFL and Bleacher Report seemingly framed this and interpreted it as frustration over the Eagles’ controversial “Tush Push” play. Jones says they’ve got it all wrong, though.
The Eagles killed the Chiefs with the same inside zone play multiple times
Jones was frustrated, alright, but it wasn’t with the “tush push.” It was with another play that seemed unstoppable for the Chiefs’ defense: Inside zone.
“Yeah, the clip that was going around wasn’t because of the tush push,” Jones told reporters on Thursday. “It was because of an inside zone that was ran like five to six times. I never once complained about the tush push on the sideline. We actually stopped the tush push. If you look back, we stopped it multiple times. So, the clip y’all seen was very like, portrayed as they were in the tush push that came out. No, that was because they were in the inside zone five times. And I’m like, as a defensive line, we gotta adjust to that. There’s no way a team is going to come out and run inside zone five times on us, and we don’t adjust to that. So those clips, the perspective of it was portrayed so wrong. But no, I didn’t complain about the tush push. We actually stopped the tush push multiple times, third-and-1, a couple of times, second-and-1.”
The Eagles ran the play multiple times throughout the game, with different variations under center, in shotgun, and with or without motion. In most instances, however, the plays resulted in long gains for Eagles RB Saquon Barkley, including nine-yard, 11-yard, and multiple five-yard gains.
“I was frustrated with my D-Line because ain’t no way in H-E double hockey sticks (hell) that a team would run the same run five times and we don’t adjust to it,” Jones said. “We’ve got to adjust. That’s my biggest thing as D-Line, once they give us one formation and run it at least twice as a D-Line. We gotta judge. We gotta have the knowledge to see that they can continue to run the same play, and we gotta adjust as a front, that’s my only that was my only frustration.”
The Chiefs’ failure to adjust to the inside zone plays is a way bigger problem than the tush push
We’ve heard both Chiefs’ offensive and defensive coaches discuss how making in-game adjustments is a crucial part of early-season success. Jones had a right to be frustrated by the continued success of this play because failing to make the proper adjustments to it didn’t do them any favors. It’s not rocket science to adjust and counter that play after the Eagles had found success with it. You can overload gaps, run blitz, and so on. The defensive secondary shut down Devonta Smith and A.J. Brown for the most part, but the defensive line didn’t do its part to stymie the run game in Week 2. His frustration on the sideline was simply a way to hold his guys accountable in that moment, but it’s being spun into something entirely different.
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