Inside Kansas City Chiefs’ Behind-Closed-Doors Meeting Amidst Confusion: “Offense Is a Piece of the Larger Puzzle”

Have the Chiefs finally cracked the code to winning? It’s been hidden from no one that the Chiefs’ offense has done abysmally this season. If they managed to secure a #2 seed, it’s because of their defense. But how long can they just rely on the defensive squad? Behind closed-door meetings, it seems change is in the air. Maybe. Just maybe, they have found how to make the offense work again.

However, implementing the scheme will be a task in itself. It’s something that worked for them during the Cincinnati Bengals outing. Will they be able to replicate it during their first playoff game?

The Kansas City Chiefs’ silver bullet?

The Dolphins‘ offense has stunned everyone this year. And everyone agrees they play on another level. They are masters of complicated offense. Or is it just the illusion of complexity? Andy Reid is a cerebral coach and likes to think of innovative schemes. It’s almost like he wants to be where the Dolphins are right now. But in the Bengals game, they discovered something remarkable.

The answer to the offense’s woes is not a more complicated strategy, but a simpler one. Agreed, the “simpler offense is a piece of the larger puzzle”. It’s not the panacea. But it’s a proven strategy. The Dolphins try to confuse the opposing team and put them on their heels. They are also masters of deception. And their pre-snap deception is well-known by now.

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They fool the opponent into thinking the play will be headed in direction A. And then spontaneously, they switch to direction B. That’s why they lead the league in pre-snap motion. So, what should the Chiefs do differently?

Sometimes less is more

When they played against Cincinnati, they recorded their second best yards per offensive snap output of 2023. How did that happen? They shortened the play-calls. As simple as that. Additionally, the squad made Patrick Mahomes more mobile. Till the Bengals game, Mahomes had an average of just 2.1 rollouts per game. In the Bengals game, it went up more than double that at 5!

The Chiefs also need to be allowed more time to survey the defense. When the 40-second timer starts counting down, they should be at the line of scrimmage. Why? In a game of football, a few seconds can make or break the game. The additional seconds will afford them more time to study the defense. And that’s exactly what happened in that game. They reached the line of scrimmage within 30 seconds every single time.

The players were all in position. The ball was about to be snapped. Just then, Rashee Rice surveyed the defense and quickly changed his position to one that was not pre-designed. And that ended in a winning drive. However, can the Chiefs implement these changes in their strategies going forward and win the Wild Card Round?

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