Chiefs Film Room: What happened to Bob Sutton?

What’s wrong with the Kansas City Chiefs? We take a deep look.

Recency bias is a hard thing to avoid when a season is only 16 games long. It’s even harder to avoid when your team gets absolutely obliterated on prime time. So when I say that the Chiefs pass rush is probably this team’s biggest weakest, I am fully aware this statement is heavily influenced by the four pressure performance last Sunday.

That’s right, the Chiefs managed to only get pressure on Roethlisberger a measly four times… it was like watching the 2012 Chiefs all over again (yeah, the Crennel Chiefs).

There are some things that immediately jumped to mind when watching this pass rush:

• Justin Houston is building a strong case for defensive player of the year.
• The edge rush combo of Frank Zombo and Dee Ford couldn’t even fluster Joey Harrington.
• Where’s the vaunted d-line which we (myself included) spent the offseason hyping up?

While these three issues are all troubling in their own right, my biggest takeaway from the game is what happened to mad scientist Bob Sutton? I mean, sure he didn’t have his best pieces at his disposal, but that hardly justifies the unimaginative, blasé play calls we saw on a repeated basis. And it makes it all the more infuriating because Sutton has shown he’s fully capable of manufacturing pressure when he’s down a man or two!