he’s young, and we all know what young, inexperienced QB’s will do under pressure: Make Mistakes. If we can turn them over, while not doing so ourselves, we’ll win this game.

And I do believe this is the week (finally) when the running game gets back on track. I find it hard to imagine us getting less than a 125 on the ground this week. Between the weather, and the need for our team to get more physical for the playoff push, we’ll see alot of runs. Whether they’re straight up power runs, Wildcat plays, or other creative running plays (see: Cobbs inside counter, Ronnie’s fake dive quick pitch), we should see a team devoted to PTR. Unless the coaches decide the quick passing game will be more effective against KC’s D, in which case, go Chad lol.

  are able to score quick and keep their offense off the field in the first part of the game, I think the fans will be pretty quiet. I’ve heard that it won’t be a packed house like Chiefs usually have. That being said, they still might show up. If we take away their hearts early, It’ll keep them from disturbing us. Sitting in the cold is ok, but it takes true diehards to sit there when your team is down and there is no hope for you team.

  Controlling Thigpen and Gonzalez are going to be the key to shutting them down, I personally think they are going to go into attack mode with them. Trying to put up scores quickly so they can take advantage of the crowd and weather.

  And I hope like hell we pound the rock so much, that it takes away their will by the 4th quarter. The cold isn’t so bad for the offense when you’re on the field moving in a steady, ball controlling way. It’ll suck for the KC defense to keep taking hit after hit from the R&R express. Plus, it’ll help keep our defense warm and ready, so we can shut them down on offense.

  The weather is a concern, but I think these guys are Pro’s and Sparano will have them “fired” up they’ll be ready for the challenge.

You make it hard to catch up. There’s always so much traffic during the night because of the time difference, and I finally start to catch up and you throw up the 4 Burning Questions post. Time to go read that.

Now having read it, another great post Matty. I especially think the third and fourth questions are important for us this week. We have to PTR! We have to know we can PTR! We have to use this cold weather experience to figure out what we are going to do with the Jets next week too. Get used to playing in the cold, even if it is only one game. PTR!!!!!

I think if we can get pressure onto Thigpen, I think we take care of Gonzalez as well. They will either need to leave him in to block, or we will get to Thigpen before he has a chance to deliver the ball. I think you will see Roth and Porter in the backfield all day, helping Thigpen pick out paint colors and wall paper (since the Phins helped Hill with drapery last week…get it????).

don’t have a pass rush which explains why he wasn’t getting pressured. I’m not worried about Miami generating pressure on Thigpen. In fact, Porter is going to have a great day retaking his sack leader title back.

matty, i love the stats you work into these

That’s one of my favorite commercials of all time!

This one shows what will happen to Thigpen when J-Peezey gets his hands on him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoX-HkOcEuE

just had to weigh in a little bit.

Not positive about this, but I don’t think crowd noise will be a huge factor this weekend. Although it usually is, Chiefs fans have been pretty frustrated of late and with the extremely cold weather we’ve been having, many don’t want to sit and freeze their asses off to watch a horrible team. That being said, with the changes made this week, I’m hoping a good crowd joins me there this weekend and shows the usual Chiefs pride. The extremely cold weather, however, will be a factor for the game.

wind 20mph PTR!!!
21 degrees PTR!!!
2171 yds 155 yds/g PTR!!!
the frekin chiefs PTR!!!

Did you know:
- 6 out of their 12 losses came by 7 points or less (reminds me of the Fins team last year). They play close games.
- In their last 26 games at home in December, they’re 21-5
- They’ve created 27 turnovers this season, which is 5 more than the Dolphins have caused. With the inclement weather, holding onto the football will be the priority.
- Thigpen and the Chiefs offense run a very good wide-open, empty backfield, offense, that allows Thigpen (young QB) to make quick decisions. They run this offense almost as well as the Patriots, and we all know the Pats killed us with that formation all day long. We need to be able to get our defense off the field, but this game will be tough to win.

Run the ball.

Little Nicky – just like the spread offense may be impacted by the bad weather, so will our pass rush. Speed rushers like Porter are usually neutralized in bad weather with muddy, slippery weather. If we get a pass rush, we must apply it up the middle with the interior linemen.

“As for the Dolphins’ 2-headed running back monster – Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams – they could be in store for a heavy workload on Sunday”

Couldn’t we and haven’t we said this for the majority of games this season? I and WE wish this was the case almost every week and that they would be IN STORE for a HEAVY WORKLOAD…let’s hope that is true and will actually be done..because we’ve said this a ton of times this year.. and they should be Pounding The Rock like crazy this and every week here on out!

I fully agree that K.C. is a tough place to play, especially late in the year and this is regardless of how the team is playing. It’s very loud and hostile…and can get very cold, snowy and windy. All factors that are rather important to visitors such as the Dolphins…. BUT…after what happened last week against San Diego.. I think things are diminished a bit and I sure hope that if we’re in similar circumstances that we’ll get an easy ride like San Diego got.

What I’m referring to and you should have read this in most recap articles about last weeks game is that during the fourth quarter when K.C. was up and it appeared the victory was in hand, nearly 75% of the stadium has left! That’s correct, a TWO WIN team that should enjoy ANY WIN it can muster and the crowd leaves early! and when the tides changed all of a sudden and San Diego got right back into it…the crowd needed to be there to get loud to help disrupt San Diego..and there was NO ONE LEFT! go figured.. many aritcles stated how that likely helped San Diego a lot…and from my perspective, I’m shocked that they would leave…even if they thought the victory was locked… stay till the end! be sure it’s done! you never know what could happen! and nothing is a sure bet with K.C. I can only pray that the same thing could happen with us..i’ll take any bonus advantages I can get!