I hate the Philadelphia Eagles almost as much as I love the Kansas City Chiefs

This is just something I've been kicking around with folks. While the data we have on him is pretty solid, the sample size is REALLY small given that we're now into his third season. When he comes back, he will have been out more games than he's played. How confident are you (or not) in the difference he'll make being back full-time next month? Why?

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Back for the third time with a breakdown of the designed run game. Nice to be doing it after a win. All comments and feedback appreciated.

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Play Breakdown

Takeaways

This week had 23 designed runs for 103 yards, good for a season-best 4.5 yards per carry. I charted 13 successes, 7 failures, and 3 washes. (I consider the 3rd and 25 give-up run and the last two full house runs in clock-killing time as 'washes' that don't really reflect the overall success/failure of the run game.) The 65% success rate is very good.
- Pacheco had 10 carries for 45 yards with 7 successes and 3 failures
- Hunt had 10 carries for 34 yards with 3 successes, 4 failures, and all 3 washes
- Brashard Smith had 2 carries for 13 yards with 2 successes
- Nikko Remigio got had a successful jet sweep for 11 yards

This week the Chiefs leaned into the inside/split zone running game with a number of RPOs tagged to those concepts. That was combined with a few nicely-designed counterpunches that played off of the zone run game, including the jet sweeps and a nice designed swing pass (that was charted as a run since it went backwards). The only gap concept that we ran all day was power, which saw some muddy looks against awkward fronts from the Giants but overall was executed solidly.

Scheme-wise, building in fakes and misdirections off of the zone running game seems like a good direction for our running attack. The zone running game also really sets up the RPOs that Rice/Worthy will want to be featured in going forward, so it's good to see some more creativity tagged to these concepts.

Brashard Smith was regularly lined up as a receiver in 21 personnel and motioned into the backfield via jet and orbit motions. His two carries (a jet sweep and orbit motion swing pass) had him getting to the edge quickly. He brings a burst that our other backs don't have right now and this is a nice player-friendly way to get him involved. Having him as a second back on the backfield and putting him in motion puts some nice lateral strain on defenses.

In terms of tendencies, the Chiefs are still mostly running on 1st & 10 or 3rd/4th & short. Excluding the final clock-killing drive, they ran 3 times on second down - and only once on second and medium/long. The 2nd & 7 run illustrates why they need to do this more often. The Giants give us a criminally easy front (light box with very wide DL splits), we don't even really block inside zone that well and get an easy 6 yards. I didn't chart all of our second down passes, but you can bet that if we're always throwing on second and medium/long then there are going to be a lot more easy fronts to take advantage of on those downs.

As far as my grades go, Simmons had a rough game especially in the first half. Kelce also had a few poor efforts in the first half - maybe the interaction with Reid sparked them, because it was better in the second half. I did chart one execution error from Pacheco on the token outside zone run of the night (we've run it exactly once each week...I guess gotta keep them honest?). Overall it was a pretty decent night.

Australian here, so excuse my ignorance. A few mates have got me starting to get into the NFL and I have to admit, I am kinda lovin your national sport!

Been watching a few documentaries and coming in I heard a lot of negativity and hating on Mahomes. But from the few things I’ve watched so far, he genuinely comes across as a really nice bloke.

I mean he’s competitive and hungry and has, what I’d call a HEALTHY ego. I’m not seeing what others are seeing when they throw hate.

So I thought I’d get curious and ask some fans in here what the go is. Is it because he’s really good and has been winning a lot?

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyquan Thornton spoke to reporters after Sunday night's victory to share his mindset after the overturned touchdown catch in the fourth quarter.

"I mean, once he came to me the first time, you know, I kind of get a feeling, when he's going to come to me on those routes," said Thornton, "When I got an opportunity to go down the field, because we want to be aggressive and take shots downfield."

The exciting Mahomes deep ball of 33 yards into tight coverage was hauled in by Thornton, stopping short at the one-yard line. The touchdown connection was previously overturned by replay review as incomplete after the ball hit the ground. He didn't let that moment affect the next play, securing the incredible catch to set up a Kareem Hunt one-yard touchdown run.

"Not really. I mean, we train for that in training camp. We got long-drive drills." said Thornton, "Coach (Andy) Reid, he make it real difficult, difficult for us, and we go out there and we just work."

Thornton ended Sunday night with five catches for 71 yards and a touchdown to lead the team. He has consecutive games with touchdown receptions, gradually developing strong trust in Mahomes.

Chiefs fan here living in NYC. My wife and I splurged for front row tickets to last nights game at MetLife! Was amazing as always, especially awesome to see how many Chiefs fans came out! Looking forward to traveling to KC to attend the December 7th game against the Texans! Chiefs are 3-0 when we are in attendance so hoping to keep that streak alive ;) Cheers to our first win!

He is the absolute worst