The Kansas City Chiefs proved they could keep up with the Denver Broncos on Sunday night. Beating them will have to be a challenge for another day. Mercury Morris is free to rejoice (again). Source: NFL.com ICECOLD's Take: Moral victories don't show up in the 'wins column.' They need to shore up their issues, especially with the pass rush, if they want to win when they play them again in a couple weeks. If they don't, Broncos will take the division.
The Bronco O line did a much better job than I thought they could. KC didn't help their cause by dropping passes,and falling behind early cost them big time. Looking forward to the re match.
Moral victory? How do you take anything positive out of a game where on a couple of occasions you're first and goal and settle for a field goal and the defense that was supposed to be pressuring Manning never laid a finger on him?
everyone keeps saying there is something wrong with the chiefs pass rush because they didn't sack manning. 1) the chiefs had a very conservative pass rush plan last night. they were only rushing 4 most of the time. they knew with mannings quick release, their best chance was to drop 7 and not give him much to work with in the secondary. 2) the broncos, at the same time, ran an offensive game plan with lots of short drop-backs and quick pass patterns, enabling manning to release the ball even quicker than he normally does. there is nothing 'wrong' with the chiefs pass rushers and the chiefs scheme and defense was good enough to win that game. the chiefs inept offense just gave manning too many possessions because of their inability to do keep drives going. the chiefs defense could play that same way in 2 weeks and if the chiefs offense could just generate some lengthy drives (as san diego did) and limit manning to 10 possessions instead of 13, that would eliminate one of their scoring drives and keep their point total in the lower 20's. Then, coupling the chiefs offense generating something more, it is a very winnable game..... with zero sacks.
