Chiefs Lose Their Most Disappointing Game of Season to Packers
Who woulda thunk? The Chiefs, for all practical purposes, lost Dwayne Bowe early in the game with an injury. They then lost Larry Johnson in the middle of the fourth quarter with what looked like a pretty severe ankle injury. Even with LJ, the running game could not get anything going.
Yet the Chiefs were able to score almost at will in the fourth quarter.
Yet the Chiefs were able to get a lead (a couple of them, actually) for a defense that had not given up more than 20 points all season.
And yet, the Chiefs still lost.
In what I think I can describe as a “bizarro” game, the Chiefs lost a heartbreaker at home. And as much credit as the Packers deserve, make no mistake about it, the Chiefs lost this game.
Three plays stand out. The first, and most egregious mistake, was Greg Jennings inexplicably slipping past Donnie Edwards and Jarrad Page for a 60-yard gain. There is no reason Edwards should be solely responsible for covering a speedy WR 40 yards downfield, but Page let him do just that. The second was Damien McIntosh almost completely whiffing (let’s call it a foul tip caught by the catcher) on Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila on the next series, resulting in a sack and a nearly impossible third down situation.
Finally, you had a play which may not have been the most egregious, but was certainly the most inexcusable. After the Chiefs scored to take a 14-13 lead, Dave Rayner somehow placed the ensuing kickoff out of bounds, which led to a Favre bomb to Donald Driver to put Green Bay in field goal range. After a solid start to his Chiefs career, Rayner is quickly proving why Green Bay let him go, missing short field goals in recent games, and then badly botching an important kickoff.
The Chiefs have a lot of positive thoughts to take out of this game, and they are extremely fortunate that San Diego also lost a game there was no excuse for them to lose. Nonetheless, I get the sense that the Chiefs will look back at this game as the one they should never have let get by them.
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2 Responses to “Chiefs Lose Their Most Disappointing Game of Season to Packers”
November 5th, 2007 at 9:54 am
“And as much credit as the Packers deserve, make no mistake about it, the Chiefs lost this game.”
You’re kidding right? The Packers dominated the entire first half, but still found themselves trailing. The Chiefs were lucky to even be in the game. The Chiefs had two offensive drives worth mentioning, were held to 240-some yards total offense while giving up over 400, yet they still should have won? The fact is the Chiefs were lucky to be in the position they were, and the better team pulled it out in the end.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
No, I’m not kidding. All of what you say is true. That still doesn’t mean that the Chiefs didn’t lose this game. In fact, it’s precisely for the reasons you mention that the Chiefs have to be kicking themselves. Despite having few sustained drives, despite the Packers dominating the first half (I think “dominating” is a bit excessive, but the Packers did play the better first half), despite the Chiefs gaining fewer than 250 yards total offense, they had the lead in the fourth quarter. When you are handed that kind of gift, you simply can’t give it back, and that’s precisely what the Chiefs did.
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