For what it's worth, the Ravens hit him 8 times (10 including two personal fouls) and had decent pressure and he still shredded the Ravens.
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The Good, the Ugly and the Crazy @ Chiefs
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Weddle also had the luxury of generally playing closer to the LoS where communication is vastly easier.
RavensPunkXVX
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I think communication was the biggest loss in the offseason. The middle of the field has been atrocious. The back end not any better. You lose two of the best at doing that in Mosley/Weddle. I guess it can at least get better on that front. Sometimes they just seem lost. Is Kenny the mic linebacker?
Tank
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I think the false narrative is using cap allocation as a measure of resources and talent level of a squad. There's a ton of factors that skew cap allocation, dead money, rookie contracts , bad contracts, injuries, etc., etc., etc..
I have a good friend in KC who is a Chiefs season ticket holder that I talk football with occasionally . Since they drafted Pat and up until this last off season he constantly mentioned how they were loading up and putting all their eggs in the O basket to support him. He worried that they were ignoring their D and that it would come back to bite them. This spring he did say that last off season they made some moves to help and it seems that has reflected in an improved defensive performance so far this year.
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RL52TheGreatest
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Our defense or the Chiefs?
Yeah, Mosley might have been much maligned, same for Weddle, but they really knew how to set the other players up for success.
The Chiefs
RL52TheGreatest
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Yeah, they lost a couple of their pass rushers, but Chris Jones is still a beast and the Mathieu addition seems to be helping their secondary. The big question for them is whether it will be enough to beat the Pats this time should they meet in the playoffs again.
Dead money won't factor into offensive or defensive cap spending.
I have zero idea why your friend would think that because the year after drafting Mahomes, the entire draft was literally defensive players and the most notable move the Chiefs made in 2018 was trading for Kendall Fuller. Of course, they were super active in free agency defensively and active with trades this year, but the offense has been largely cheap, inexpensive cast offs and players the Chiefs have developed as later round picks.
Consider that the Chiefs have Hill (fifth round pick), Demarcus Robinson (fourth round pick), Austin Wylie (former UDFA and PS player), Austin Reiter (7th round pick, started 1 game before tearing his ACL and never starting again prior to the Chiefs), RG (I'm not going to try to spell his name, sixth round pick), Kelce (third round pick). Yes, the Chiefs do have some high picked players/pricey free agents in the form of Watkins, Hardman, Fisher, Schwartz, and obviously Mahomes himself, but this is largely the Chiefs being really good at developing no names and players other teams didn't want. If the Ravens were starting the Chiefs offensive supporting cast, Ravens fans would lose their mind at Ozzie for not spending high enough draft picks on the offense and neglecting the offense.
The Ogbah trade is also looking like a huge one for them (at least, it appeared that way Sunday) and Clark is really helping them not miss a beat without Ford.
I was actually reading something about how the Chiefs defense last year was actually really good at home, but for whatever reason, significantly worse (like, allow double the points worse) on the road. So, they were a defense that had its moment for half the season. Take that core and just add some pieces to it and you have a recipe for a really good defense.
Will it be enough for the Patriots? I'd like to hope so with how that pass rush is shaping up. If Ogbah can keep this up, Ogbah and Clark on the outside and Jones not allowing Brady to step up on the inside could be huge.
allblackraven
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To be fair, this is a year 1 for Thomas and he's doing it without the luxury of having CJ and Suggs in there or have a full strength secondary around him. Took a while for Weddle to settle in on that front, too.
absolutely - was not a criticism of thomas, more of an appreciation of weddle
and honestly thomas has played mostly pretty well - teams are avoiding throwing in his direction a lot
RL52TheGreatest
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Totally forgot about Ogbah; he was balling on Sunday and disrupting a lot of plays.
I just hope we get another shot at them. Their defense might be improved from last year, but we left too many plays out there and killed ourselves with mistakes and penalties (some of them were bad calls, but still).
I think I read that he had 9 pressures on top of however many sacks/quarterback hits he had. NINE. The Chiefs were dominating the LoS.
RL52TheGreatest
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Thankfully, Jackson makes our OL look better than it actually is. Flacco would have gotten killed out there...
yep, I've heard of teams having issues with this with the Chiefs in the past.
no, Peanut is the Mic
BloodRaven
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Playing the Dolphins made everyone look better too.
i would say scheme too,but he is looking just how he looked in college.. its not like pats system where literally the wr is open 90% of time.. pat is out there making plays and really throwing these guys open. Id trust pat in another system before i trust a patriot qb
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