Kansas City Chiefs: No reason to worry about Colts
By Mike Norris
We’ll get into Mahomes more, but first let’s check out why a column like this even needs to be written.
Kansas City Chiefs twitter entered meltdown mode as soon as the Colts jump ahead of the Houston Texans 14-0 last weekend and cruised to a 21-7 victory.
ESPN Kansas City personality Josh Brisco is nervous for the matchup:
I don’t wanna play the Colts, guys.
— Joshua Brisco (@jbbrisco) January 5, 2019
Geoff Schwartz, an offensive lineman on the Chiefs 2013 team and brother to current offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, almost seems like he’s ready to throw in the towel.
I have no clue why Chiefs fan feel so confident about the game next weekend on twitter so far. The Colts offense will score at will, barring turnovers, and their defense has been money for two months now. Have they played a Chiefs like offense, no. I’d rather have seen Chargers
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) January 5, 2019
Chiefs’ fan Brett Rasdall was one who didn’t even wait to see if the Colts would beat the Texans to get scared:
Wooo boy. Already having second thoughts about wanting the Colts. They look GOOD so far. #Chiefs
— Brett Rasdall (@BrettRasdall) January 5, 2019
And then, the national media started getting in on the act:
Chiefs want no part of this Colts team.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 5, 2019
Think the Colts knock off the Chiefs next week
— Damien Woody (@damienwoody) January 6, 2019
Matt Lane of Arrowhead Pride, and seemingly sane Chiefs fan, summed it up well:
Chiefs Twitter: Colts (And EVERY OTHER AFC PLAYOFF TEAM) is a nightmare matchup for KC.
— Matt Lane (@Matty_KCSN) January 5, 2019
The should just quit and go home.
Evan Silva of Rotoworld provided some actual stats for the matchup. (P.S. they allowed 38 points to the Patriots):
#Colts have allowed just 14 PPG over their last 8.
— Evan Silva (@evansilva) January 8, 2019
However, based on @fboutsiders DVOA, the highest-rated offense they faced in that span was #Giants (13th).
Indy faced one top-12 DVOA offense all year: #Patriots in Week 5.#Chiefs are No. 1 in DVOA offense by a huge margin.
Yes, the Colts are hot, winning ten of their past 11 games. But the Chiefs won their final ten games of the 2015 regular season and crushed the Texans in the Wild Card Round. I doubt the New England Patriots were scared of them coming into Foxborough on their way to a win and eventual Super Bowl appearance.