There’s a real absence of an elite pass rusher, a guy who offers sudden pressure. If they had a Dwight Freeney, KC wouldn’t have scored 10 points.

He is proving to be way too fucking stick to your guns vs adjust guy. Both teams clearly had a plan to cause DJ to throw way ahead of schedule- and it worked tremendously. At some point you have to design shit to counter that approach. Shit, you have AP, fucking 3 step and throw that shit on a flyer down the sidelines and see what the fuck happens- 80% of the time you are going to get a PI on that shit.

He is a genius at times and then there are times where he looks like he would be challenged to scheme up an effective 5th grade game plan to counter the oppositions tactics.

Yeah, Buckner is really the only guy who just beats guys immediately several times per game. Latu gets consistent pressure, but he's been more of a worker than a clean-beat guy so far.

To me Steichen's biggest issue is in game changes. He has a plan and if it doesn't work he seems incapable of altering it. Maybe he has to much on his plate but as the head coach he needs to figure out how to adjust to what the defense is doing better as the game progresses.

It reminds me of a Colts playoff game when, I think, the Chiefs under Herm Edwards came into Indy with the leagues top rushing attack while we were at the bottom of the rush defense category.

For whatever reason, we ended up not giving up a first down to them until it was the 4th quarter.

After the game, the coach was asked what happened and his response was along the lines of "Plan A did not work and we did not have a Plan B."

That is what SS reminds me of a bit.

Great analogy. SS clearly determined that they would sell out to stop the run, which they did, and once they proved his theory right, well then he decided that his game plan to pass underneath on them all day which was drawn up during the week was on target and he his theory had been validated. So that's just what he rode all the way into the L too firm in his conviction that his planning was a better option that the games best RB. Fucking stupid.

He better have some new shit lined up for Sunday, that D-line looked about as great as any D I have seen in the last decade and if he doesn't have some fluidity in that play sheet to help on the edges, we are going to be looking down into the playoff abyss seeing Jax and Houston emerging from it with our playoff life in danger.

I wonder how many of those 4th quarter pass plays were RPOs.