Chiefs, Broncos Need QBs to Thrive If They’re Going to Catch Raiders

November 28, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

There are moments when the offense of the Kansas City Chiefs runs with the fluidity and sexiness of a woolly mammoth stuck knee deep in a tarpit. Baseball bats to the crotch provide more sensory enjoyment.
Plodding, boring, unimaginative, check-down-happy, stuffed-screen-pass, matriculating down the field between naps...this at times is that offense. That was the first half of the game against Denver.
Then Andy Reid takes the cuffs off of his quarterback, Alex Smith, sometimes for just a moment, and that boring, awful offense comes alive. That was the second half against the Broncos. That's what happened on the final drive in regulation as Smith's Chiefs drove the field and tied the score at 24 with seconds left.
That's also what happened in the final seconds of overtime. If Reid had opened up the offense earlier in the game, there would have been no overtime.
The Broncos clearly trust their quarterback, Trevor Siemian, and it showed, as he threw for 368 yards and t...

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