Some quick thoughts heading into Sunday’s game:<\/p>\n
I am going to concentrate on the Chiefs defense this week.\u00a0 We all know how prolific Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs offense is.\u00a0 They have speed everywhere and their entire O Line is back.\u00a0 Travis Kelce is used in new and inventive measures as the number one TE weapon in the league.<\/p>\n
According to Warren Sharp, the Chiefs turnaround on defense in the 2nd<\/sup> half of last season led the Chiefs to their Super Bowl appearance. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They are led by stud DT Chris Jones.\u00a0 He is a one man wrecking crew and will be matched up against Shaq Mason.\u00a0\u00a0 He can overpower Mason on the pass rush.\u00a0 Frank Clark at RDE is the pass rusher.\u00a0 Tanoh Kpassgon is a big bodied LDE but not much on the pass rush.<\/p>\n The secondary played Dime 33% of the time last season.\u00a0 That is related to the fact they were ahead a lot and the opposition abandoned the run game.\u00a0 S Tyrann Mathieu is the strength of the secondary.\u00a0 \u00a0Bashaud Breeland is serving his final game of his substance abuse suspension.\u00a0 They are hurting at CB with rookie L\u2019Jarius Snead put on IR this week.\u00a0 That puts the pressure on Antonio Hamiliton and Damien Wilson.\u00a0 Daniel Sorenson and Juan Thornhill play a lot because of the dime.\u00a0 I see KC playing a lot of zone defense to protect their CBs and because of the threat of Newton to run.<\/p>\n At LB they play Anthony Hitchens, a big FA signee in 2019 and rookie Willie Gay.\u00a0 \u00a0Gay lasted until the 2nd<\/sup> round because of some off field issues.<\/p>\n The key to beating the Chiefs is not to settle for FG\u2019s.\u00a0 Expect the Patriots to go on 4th<\/sup> down a lot.\u00a0 KC gave up 5.3 YPA in the run game last year.\u00a0 That goes right into the strength of the Patriots who average 5.1 per rush.\u00a0 Surprisingly, KC doesn\u2019t pass on 1st<\/sup> down much.<\/p>\n Control the ball, limit the number of possessions KC has to score.\u00a0 Keep the game close with an opportunity to win at the end.\u00a0 Mahomes is a very good QB, but it took a perfect game from Russel Wilson, and that wasn\u2019t nearly enough, for Seattle to beat the Patriots.\u00a0 I can\u2019t see how the Patriots are 7 point underdogs.\u00a0 I believe the Patriots have a very good chance to beat KC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some quick thoughts heading into Sunday’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-patriots-season"],"yoast_head":"\n