I’m sure they’re going to turn on the film and say this worked, that didn’t work, these things did, so maybe we need to try to attack that, or try it again or get to it in a different way.
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New England is trying to reach its fifth straight conference title game, but the Chiefs have a streak of their own.
Kansas City needed this win, not only to end that stupid streak, but because they needed to show the rest of the nation that they’re a good football team.
“All their guys seem to catch the ball very well, ” McDaniels said.
“They’re doing a phenomenal job”.
Brady said that the Chiefs defense forced the Texans into making a lot of mistakes during their win and called it the “mark of a good team”.
They also returned a couple of them for touchdowns. “Every week that’s our plan, that’s our goal: Dominate every snap”.
Kansas City pushed the Texans into an even bigger hole when Smith marched the Chiefs 94 yards on their opening possession of the second half, hitting Chris Conley with a nine-yard touchdown strike to cap the drive.
They did that to perfection last Saturday. While Texans quarterback Brian Hoyer was woefully inaccurate and ineffective, the Chiefs deserve credit for effectively limiting Hopkins, rookie cornerback Marcus Peters in particular. In fact, it’s not too hard to think that Kansas City could be the AFC favorite right now to reach the Super Bowl.
Then there were the interceptions, which put it out of reach.
Safety Eric Berry has been one of the best stories of this National Football League season.
Smith started off slow in this one but controlled the tempo throughout and boosted the Chiefs to victory. That groin injury got worse in Houston’s playoff game and he missed most of the second half; he will have surgery Tuesday. “Right now we are locked in and ready for next week”.
“We had talked about me going in there with Brian”.
Clowney has only been able to play 17 games in his first two seasons because of various injuries. As for Escobar, he rounded the bases (360 feet or 120 yards) in 15 seconds. It’s easy to do that when the defense forces a turnover on four of the first six opponent possessions.
Defensive coordinator Bob Sutton insists that nothing has changed schematically. Other than one 49-yard run by a Houston back, the Chiefs were flawless on defense.
Watt didn’t have a lot of details about his injury. “You get to the playoffs, and first round, if things don’t go well, that rips your heart out”.
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“I think, exactly what I just described is how we played them previous year”, Brady said Monday.
