From: klbartle@david.wheaton.edu (Kevin Bartlett)
Subject: Re: Hats off to the Chiefs...
Organization: Wheaton College
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:33:14 GMT

In article <spork.718914047@camelot> spork@camelot.bradley.edu (Richard Izzo) writes:
>In <1ba14uINNi8f@shirley.cs.widener.edu> austin@cs.widener.edu (Jeff Austin) writes:
>
>>Well,
>>	Since I'm usually the first to say "In your Face" when the Eagles 
>>	kick ass, I guess it's only fair to give credit where credit is
>>	due.  Great Job, KC!  Marty really put together a great game plan.
>>	I think he really caught Philly by surprise.  The Chief's excellent
>>	usage of the passing game proved to exploit some real holes in the
>>	Eagle's defense - they caught the birds sleeping a few times.  Even
>>	though the Eagles were playing some good "catch up" late in the game,
>>	KC had it won all the way.  So, you won't hear any excuses from me,
>>	the birds just got outplayed.  
>
>	It was a fantastic game.  Although it was obvious that the Eagles
>were the better team, Dave Krieg was able to keep the Eagles defense off-
>guard throughout the game, leading the way for two of the touchdowns.  As 
>for the D, the Chiefs just wiped things up.  They stuffed Herchel Walker
>TWICE on third down situations inside the Chief's 30-yard line, and their 
>special teams blocked and tipped two field goals.
>
>	I'm saying this as a die-hard Chiefs fan too...I know the Eagles 
>were better, but the Chiefs' offensive strategy was completely different
>from their previous games, and by the time the Eagles were able to learn
>it and stifle it, it was too late.
>
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>[]  rich.				     Bradley University   []
>[]  spork@camelot.bradley.edu		     Peoria, IL	 	  []
>[]  CHIEFS ARE THE TEAM OF THE 90'S!!!				  []
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Intelligent post.

The Chiefs simply did their homework.  The Eagles are such a big play team
that they jump at fakes (_good_ fakes, like Krieg was doing) and make some big
mistakes, as we saw on Sunday.  Shottenheimer and Krieg and staff took
advantage of this weakness to win the game.  But once the Eagles D adjusted
(granted, it took them 3+ quarters), this happened much less often, and the KC
offense sputtered.  The Birds just couldn't climb out of their hole.  The
Eagles offense was pitiful, but this can be credited mostly to excellent play
by the KC defense.  This was what really won the game for them.  The Eagles
offense is easily good enough to score 24 points, but the KC defense, for the
most part, shut them down.  They're much better than I ever remembered them. 
Perhaps that's my fault.  

Anyway, an excellent/frustrating game.  Well played by KC and (relatively)
poorly played by the Egales.

					. . . the Mantis

PS  If I were a Chiefs fan, I wouldn't put my faith in Krieg.  Every once in a
while, he has a big game, like Sunday, and can't do anything wrong.  But the
majority of the time, he is blowing games, losing fumbles, throwing ints.  Ask
Chuck Knox.  Or Dan Dierdork (who outwardly slandered him this MNF).  Not that
Dierdork is the authority.


Randall Cunningham for president.
Go EAGLES!

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