I fully expect the offense will operate better next week. As mentioned, we do match up better against KC, at least in our current form. Our IOL needs to step it up big time, but without Chris Jones I think they'll look better. Buckner is just a dominant DT and without Jones, they don't have that. Hell we would have won the playoff game last year if they were without Jones and I don't think they're a better roster this year.

I expect Kirk will be more involved, we force fed Ridley a lot which I feel was by design. If we can create pressure like we did yesterday (and last year for that matter against KC) I think we can slow them down. I feel pretty good knowing we knocked off some rust in a road divisional win and get to fine tune that coming home this week. Mahomes can run, but there isn't the threat of a designed run every play like with AR so Allen/Walker can focus a LITTLE bit more on pure rushing.

Let's not get it twisted though, KC is going to fix a lot of their problems as well and I could see some early focus to get Toney involved if he shows them in practice he just had an off day. My biggest concern (besides Mahomes) is Kelce and how we handle that.

Despite our issues yesterday, we still scored 31 offensive points and when we needed to our guys offensively and defensively stepped up.

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(09-11-2023, 04:30 AM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(09-10-2023, 08:23 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Had this chalked up as a loss weeks ago

Probably will be

Jags execution on offense and defense would have to change radically from week one to stay in this game IMO
way too much slop vs colts

Not confident that all gets fixed in a week.

If Jones is back its game over. Our IOL was putrid in indy.

I think they got caught looking ahead a bit. They woke up enough to get the W which is what counts. Now, coming home to a crowd that should be fired up, they should be firing on all cylinders.

I don’t know if it’ll make a difference. KC will be desperate to avoid going 0-2 and our OL is still a weak point but you never know.

It appeared that way. I think they expected more early struggle from AR and a little more ease of the rushing game. I noticed we had a couple series of 3-4 rushes in a row which I found odd. Looked to me that were trying to hammer out that run blocking in-game to correct it. I think Trevor pressed a bit in the late second/third quarters trying to get that "never won in Indy" monkey off his back. He was still fantastic and made some ridiculous throws, but they just seemed a little off there in the middle of the game. Should have won this by more than 10 points.

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