Panthers at Chiefs - Week 9 - Record: 8-1

This week I wrote a piece at Arrowhead Pride about teams using a sophisticated "Let the Chiefs score" strategy to take advantage of time of possession keeping Patrick Mahomes off the field. One of the problems with this newfangled strategy is that the other team may never think about it because they know the rest of the Chiefs team is not Patrick Mahomes.

The Chiefs shouldn't have any trouble seeing it if they keep fumbling after a decent drive like Demarcus Robinson did today. Or their kicker keeps missing field goals and more PATs (which almost really cost us this time!) like Harrison Butker did (and three years ago he was poached from Carolina, remember!) 

They may see it if you keep committing costly defensive penalties like we did today, allowing them to extend drives on 3rd down, especially since they have Christian McCaffrey who piled up 152 all-purpose yards on us today and doing his part to keep Mahomes off the field.

We do have Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill, who just torched the field today (were the Panthers kind of employing the strategy? Hmm...) 

What we don't have is a truly reliable offensive line, and I'm joining all those Chiefs fan who hope Brett does his magic and can pull out of his hat some O-linemen that can get our running backs untracked. CEH and Le'Veon had a combined 22 yards rushing total today. 

That especially stank when we needed one first down to run the clock out end the game but got a total of -3 yards. We lucked out after they got the ball back with a minute to go and got a good 40 yards with no timeouts only to fail on a 67-yard FG attempt. Whew!

Next week is a bye and then the revenge game in Vegas against the Raiders on Sunday Night Football!

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The photo is from Jim Berry at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.

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