My takes

[DieHard 2,061]

Yep. Denver needed every one of those turnovers. Green Bay was simply the better team.

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When you play against Peyton Manning or Aaron Rodgers, you have to continue playing if you jump off sides. If the guy who jumped off sides continued to the quarterback, the refs would have called off the play, and marked the penalty. Instead, the offending players looked as if they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and stopped. The rest of the defense stopped. No! Go. You already have a penalty, take a free shot. Get something! Do something, don't exasperate the situation by giving a very good quarterback a free shot at a big play. 

 

Aaron Rodgers is what Alex Smith should be, but just can't. Smith has a good enough arm. The problem is his feet. Watch the game from that perspective, and it should become apparent what is wrong with Alex Smith. Alex Smith is 2 dimensional, whereas Aaron Rodgers plays in space. Rodgers sets up defenders to take a position, knowing he can make a move to negate their advance. He plays like a point guard. He is always in position to throw the ball. Alex Smith sets up, and that's it. He will move when under duress, but he does not move his feet to get in a better throwing position. 

 

There is NO EXCUSE for the Chiefs to come out like they did. They looked like a beaten team when the walked on the field. A lot of that is on the coach. Aaron Rodgers got the Chiefs on a 12 men on the field call how many times? Rodgers orchestrated it perfectly by using the hurry up offense when the ball was on the side of the field closest to his sideline. That meant 335 lb Jay Howard had to lumber clear across the field. He couldn't make it that far, that fast. True, we would all like to see Howard sprint to avoid the penalty. However, that isn't going to happen... he's dead tired, and 335 pounds. Rodgers knew what he was doing. It is shocking the Chiefs defensive coaches did not, especially after getting penalized once. There are options. One, keep Howard on the field in that situation. Two, call a time out. Three, make sure the ball does not get to the ref right away. Four, have a player get a leg cramp. Do something!

 

Obviously, giving the Chiefs eleven days to rest after their devastating loss to Denver was not a good thing. The moment I heard Reid had given the players off until Wednesday, I thought it was a disaster. There was too much time removed. You have to get back on that horse. Too much time to think. 

[BroncoStud 3,253]

The Bungels do not scare me...  The Chiefs could win this game. 

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Or unabated to the QB. Tamba and Ford should have continued until a whistle. Rookie, rookie, rookie mistake. Offsides does not stop the play. I couldn't believe that happened twice.

It wasn't just the player who jumped off sides that stopped, but the entire team. Someone else could have made contact, and had the play stopped. Instead, the players just stopped. Supposedly, this was something the Chiefs' coaches worked on with the team. 

 

Well, when you start on Wednesday to prepare the team for a Monday night game, after playing on Thursday... you wasted four days. 

[KC Warpaint 3,234]

That was bizarre. Rodgers knew he caught 12 men on the field. Refs didn't see it. No flag. Went and told the refs and one of them meekly pulled out his flag and dropped it on the ground.

 ironic twist of all of that situation was then ESPN ran an commercial where rodgers has a conversation with a ref after the game about a blown call

 

ref says something like, lets just make something up and say no foul. a fan screams "your mike is on"

 

Ref says: First Down!!!!!

 

not really funny at the time

[KCSLC2008 606]

It wasn't just the player who jumped off sides that stopped, but the entire team. Someone else could have made contact, and had the play stopped. Instead, the players just stopped. Supposedly, this was something the Chiefs' coaches worked on with the team.

 

Well, when you start on Wednesday to prepare the team for a Monday night game, after playing on Thursday... you wasted four days.

Really? I knew they had time off and I know some players still work in off time on film study and regular workouts, but damn, four days. We deserved to lose early, not just lose, but early. They looked like they had no prep.

 

Why not Monday? Give them Friday off, late start on Saturday. Film on TNF on Sunday morning and make them watch the games on Sunday (Packers game) for in-game impressions. Post-game film study of Packers on Monday morning and indoor afternoon practice. Tuesday on, full go outdoors. Walk-through on Sunday or Saturday.

 

It's not fucking bye week, it two games in four days, but a regular TNF and two games, not midsession (though it sure felt like it).

[azchief21 5,278]

Really? I knew they had time off and I know some players still work in off time on film study and regular workouts, but damn, four days. We deserved to lose early, not just lose, but early. They looked like they had no prep.

 

Why not Monday? Give them Friday off, late start on Saturday. Film on TNF on Sunday morning and make them watch the games on Sunday (Packers game) for in-game impressions. Post-game film study of Packers on Monday morning and indoor afternoon practice. Tuesday on, full go outdoors. Walk-through on Sunday or Saturday.

 

It's not fucking bye week, it two games in four days, but a regular TNF and two games, not midsession (though it sure felt like it).

Time off ought to earned. After that Denver debacle, get to work. Last night looked like an early preseason game