The Kansas City Chiefs losing strategy

We could probably spend hours debating who is most at fault for not getting the Chiefs best players involved. Alex Smith’s biggest detractors will say that he doesn’t do a good enough job getting them the ball. Andy Reid’s biggest critics will say that he overthinks his play calls too much and doesn’t do a good enough job of calling plays to get these players the ball.

I probably lean more towards blaming Reid myself, but I think if we are being fair we can all agree that both men are at least partially to blame regardless of which deserves a bigger percentage.

If the Chiefs want a chance to compete for a Super Bowl they can’t do it without Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill being major contributors on offense. Period. The Chiefs offense should be centered around distributing the ball to those two and Jeremy Maclin with enough carries for Spencer Ware to keep the defense on their toes.

While Ware wasn’t impressive on Sunday, I would argue that his 18 carries for 70 yards is perfectly fine if Kelce and Hill get a combined 15 touches like they had in KC’s previous three wins. When those two only get four touches suddenly that 18 carry, 70 yard stat line becomes problematic.

I’ll go as far as to say that I was no less confident that the Chiefs would win the game when KC got that stop on the two point conversion than I would have been had Tennessee made it. While that sounds crazy, the fact is that when KC made that stop we all knew they would be conservative with the football and that means little to no Maclin, Kelce, or Hill.