Sorry...which game has KC been up by 2 TDs in this year?
I was talking about KC's defense. When your opponent is up by 2 TD's they don't have to gain a ton of yardage at that point all they have to do is run the ball, take time off the clock and keep it away from your offense. I am of course speaking hypothetically, I really don't know how often KC has been down by 2 TD's this year, but I think you should understand the point, it's scoring that means a heck of a lot more than yardage when it comes to judging both an offense and a defense.
This is the same reason that I have been critical of Miami's defense the last couple of years. To me it's easier to hold the opposition to fewer points when YOUR offense isn't scoring many. The objective of the game is score more points than your opponent, how many more doesn't really matter. Therefore if your offense sucks, then your defense isn't really being pressed that hard by your opponent to score points. KC's defense, if they really were playing decently, should have been able to keep opponents from scoring 25 points a game, because their opponents didn't really NEED to score 25 a game when KC's offense is only scoring 13. To me that says that KC's defense wasn't really doing their part to keep the games close so that KC's offense might have a chance to win the game either.
As far as who I would replace, I haven't really thought about it and it's not really the point. The point is that I don't believe that 3 players on a defense that has played as poorly as KC's has played this year should be playing in the pro-bowl. I'm sure that if I used a reputable source for ranking how players have performed this year I could find some more worthy than these 3, they probably just wouldn't have the name recognition. That's just a guess though.
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