The Washington Redskins travel to the glamorous Kansas City Chiefs at the end of Week 4.However, Washington is bringing a great sense of achievement – what conclusions can the Redskins draw from this?In the Coin Toss argues this week, mySPOX user Chris_93 argues for his Chiefs, SPOX editor Adrian Franke explains how Washington wins.The game will be shown live on DAZN during the night from Monday to Tuesday from 2.30 am!
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Kansas City Chiefs (3-0) – Washington Redskins (2-1) (Tue, 2:30 a. m. live on DAZN)
mySPOX-User Chris_93: One of the main topics of the young season is the achievements of the Chiefs.Especially the run game around Kareem Hunt and a superb blocking O-Line catch the eye.Hunt’s ability to continue the run after contact and gain additional yards is truly impressive.The Redskins Defense, which is one of the top 3 against the run, is a real touchstone – for the Chiefs it is crucial to continue the strong run game to relieve Alex Smith.
Meanwhile, in the shadow of Hunt, he conjures up his best start into a season on the field.So far, he has made the right decision in almost every situation.Against the lightning, he is currently, according to Pro Football Focus, the best quarterback of the league, generally against pressure and in the low passes he is in third place.The first two numbers are all the more important because the O-Line leaves him in the pass-protection more often in the lurch (Adjusted Sack Rate of 12.7 percent, penultimate place).
This is no different against Washington, whose front seven had a strong performance against the raiders and Carr was able to put a lot of pressure behind one of the best lines in the league.Center Morse is down again and the use of Left Tackle Fisher is more than questionable, which doesn’t make things any easier.That is why it will be a key point that Smith is once again acting well against pressure.
In this context, you can expect shorter passports, as this is one of the few weak points of an otherwise good passing defense in many areas and Smith doesn’t hold the ball long.Another weakness is defending TEs, which Kelce specifically attacks, who should play a bigger role in the game plan than last week (1 yard of space).
With all the hype surrounding the offense, the defensive performance has been somewhat pushed into the background.However, thanks to this, weaker phases of the offense can be compensated against the chargers, as in the second and third quarters.If she stumbles again, what could happen, the Defense will keep the game open.This season, too, many yards are allowed again, but only a few points (currently 19 points per game).
Kirk Cousins will move his offense well across the field, but actually converting this into points is the big challenge for him.Because the Chiefs still represent a good redzone defense (42.86 percent of the opponent’s TD scoring), whereas cousins have problems here (33.33 percent TD scoring).
My X-factor at the bottom line: This team is able to deliver a big play at practically any time – no matter if the Defense, Offense or the Special Team is on the pitch.In meanwhile nine games at a time, the Chiefs have scored a touchdown of at least 50 yards (Regular Season).
Nevertheless, not everything is perfect, of course, and absurd 33 penalties for 303 yards were caused in just three games – this must be reduced urgently.Nevertheless, I am confident that even after this game the zero is still on the right side of the record.
Adrian Franke (SPOX): No question: The Sunday Night Game from the previous week makes my argumentation much easier.Washington played a tough game against the Raiders on both sides of the ball, defensively snatching the defensive line while the Secondary focused on Oakland’s fast-moving short pass and aggressively attacked the respective routes.
The combination of these two results resulted in an unexpectedly bad performance of the otherwise so strong raiders line – and from Washington’s point of view this was not a one-hit wonder.Redskins can create individual pressure, but defensive coordinator Greg Manusky is not a coach who is afraid of aggressive use of his lightning packages.Washington only allowed 128 total yards on Sunday – franchise record for the last 25 years.
On this side of the ball an exciting schematic duel awaits us in any case.Is Washington putting Josh Norman on Tyreek Hill, a gambler who could get Norman into trouble?Or do we see more zone lightning and a full box to defend the short passes, run game and college option plays?The latter, at any rate, would be my tip.
The Skins Defensive Line has also played a major role in the fact that Washington has so far allowed only 3.2 yards per opponent’s run.Kareem Hunt and the so far incredibly efficient run game of the Chiefs (6.8 yards per run) will put the line to the test, that’s for sure.But if Washington can control Hunt to some extent here, we might see the most difficult test so far for the chief’s offense.
Meanwhile, Washington impressed with the big strength of the Raiders Defense – the pass rush.Kirk Cousins was under pressure with only six of his 32 dropbacks, and he shone from a clean pocket.This was also possible through the screen-passing game, you can expect a big part of Running Back Chris Thompson against the Chiefs.
That might be necessary if Jordan Reed were to fail again.The tight end could only train to a limited extent last week and did not play against the raiders in the end.This week, his rib problems prevented him from jumping too much in practice.
When Reed gets fit, however, we might finally see the new version of the Redskins West Coast Offense, as it can look like: Terrelle Pryor and Josh Doctson as physical field stretchers (Pryor is likely to have to deal with Marcus Peters – a bad matchup for Washington), while Thompson, Reed and Jamison Crowder work the middle of the field.That should also help the Redskins in case Rob Kelley (ribs) breaks down.
Kansas City expects an unpleasant test if Washington’s often underestimated offensive line then holds up against the raiders.