If Todd Haley and his coaching staff had one wish for Christmas, it may have been for Santa to have brought the Chiefs defense the willpower and ability to stop the run.After three straight weeks of giving up over 200 yards rushing to an opponent, the Chiefs will take on a Cincinnati club that not only loves to run the football, but has a backup running back by the name of Larry Johnson who is just dying for the opportunity to strut his stuff against his former team.
After last week’s embarrassing defensive performance against the Browns where they made Jerome Harrison the second coming of Jim Brown, and gave up a club record 351 yards rushing, it’s hard to imagine things getting worse defensively, but I’ve learned never to say never with this team.
It’ll be interesting to see if this team throws in the towel for the final two games of the season on the road. So far, it appears more of a lack of talent and not lack of effort on the Chiefs part in their four game losing skid, but you have to wonder if Haley and his staff can get hit team motivated for these final two road games.
Offensively, they started to click on most cylinders last week, but TE Brad Cottam, who was really showing promise went on IR and it was the Browns defense we’re talking about. I’m not expecting victories down the stretch but it would be nice to see continued progress with the offense and a defense that looks like it know what it’s doing this Sunday. That may be too much to ask.
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