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Going beyond the box score to review, analyze, and discuss Kansas City Chiefs' game film. Occasional thoughts on parenting, lawyering, frozen pizzas, and the NFL as a whole.
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The deep ball and intermediate game are back for Mahomes and the Chiefs (opens the original)
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There are a lot of reasons the Chiefs have seen such an uptick in success on offense this season. And make no mistake, the offense has indeed been highly successful. They’re currently ranked 6th in the league in Expected Points Added per play (again, just a measure of how well you’re moving the ball in a way that actually makes scoring more likely). Perhaps just as importantly, they’re top 10 in the league in EPA in both passing the ball (9th) and running the ball (7th), demonstrating a sort of
Mansoor Delane gives the Chiefs another closer (opens the original)
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The Chiefs’ defensive performance yesterday was something of a good news, bad news situation. On one hand, the Chiefs held the Dolphins, an NFL team, to 10 points. That’s a great number, and one that’s generally going to lead to a win. They also performed pretty well via advanced stats, keeping Miami’s offense in the negative numbers in Expected Points Added at -2.47 (again, EPA just measures yardage in a “did it make you more likely to score” manner, thus taking into account down and distance).
Patrick Mahomes Week 2 film review; Close to perfection (opens the original)
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You know the drill. Every week (well, most weeks) I’ll be charting every dropback by Patrick Mahomes this year, just like I’ve done for… well, his whole career. As I laid out in the Week 1 film review when discussing how we go about this, statistical analysis of quarterbacks, especially in small sample sizes, doesn’t really tell us the whole story or even most of it. So I chart things that the QB can control, such as accuracy, pocket presence, franchise throws, going through reads, and more.It w
The Chiefs should consider getting Emmett Johnson more snaps/touches (opens the original)
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It’s been pretty obvious through two weeks that Kenneth Walker has been even more impactful in Kansas City than anyone (perhaps outside of Andy Reid, Eric Bieniemy, and Brett Veach) could have possibly hoped. Walker has been wildly impressive in both games, carrying the offense on his back in Week 1 and then adding another 117 yards rushing and (perhaps even more importantly) 61 yards receiving in Week 2 against the Colts. He’s been almost impossible to bring down at the line and in space, and h
Easy buttons; Andy Reid and the Chiefs are adapting the offense (opens the original)
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It was a pretty rough offseason for Andy Reid in terms of the court of public opinion. Not that such things matter that much to the Chiefs’ head coach. He’s famously steady and doesn’t allow outside influences to dictate too much of what he does. But following a disastrous 2025, the 3rd straight year in which the offense failed to perform at a standard that should be expected with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, the voices had grown ever louder that perhaps Reid’s best days were behind him. The
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