Belichick: Surging Chiefs hard to plan against

Looking towards the 2016 season, the Texans ought to be searching for answers at the QB position. He’s an excellent runner with speed and elusiveness and he has good playing strength, so he’s challenging to cover and he’s challenging to tackle, whether it’s kind of conventional run after catch plays or whether it’s some element of a protective play – slip screens and things like that – speed sweeps or reverses or other ways they get the ball to him.

Washington (9-8) had won four games in a row, but its season ends without a single victory over a team that finished with a winning record. “A lot of guys have put a lot of work in and for me to cop out I think would just show lack of being a man and lack of leadership”.

“Was it 1994? I didn’t feel it, but I know how important it is, too”, Kansas City coach Andy Reid said.

DE J.J. Watt had battled lingering groin discomfort for weeks and with 7:28 left in the third quarter, he finally succumbed. Quarterback Alex Smith was very efficient on the day, going 17-22 for 190 yards and one TD.

“You don’t want to sound overconfident, but we understand what’s at stake”, Hali said. “I have been trying to do whatever I possibly can to be out there with them and I tried to do today whatever I could to be out there with them, but there comes a time when you are doing more harm than good and when you can’t go, you can’t go”.

His quarterback, Kirk Cousins, made his first playoff start after a breakthrough season and was 29 for 46 for 329 yards.

The Chiefs defence held Houston to 226 total yards and forced quarterback Brian Hoyer to throw four interceptions and lose a fumble. If the Chiefs can get the linebackers to suck in on run plays, the Chiefs can start rolling with play-action and get Travis Kelce open.

Watt missed most of the second half after injuring his groin in the third quarter.

O’Brien said he never considered benching Hoyer, but backup Brandon Weeden said he was warming up late in the game. “But the injury was before that moment”. “He’s just ready to play”. Kansas City receiver Jeremy Maclin strained his right knee on the same play and didn’t return. Belichick won’t find much to pick on in the Kansas City Chief defense.

J.J. Watt is going to be spending his offseason recovering now that the Houston Texans are knocked out of the NFL Playoffs. After rushing for only 17 yards in the first half, the Packers finished with 141. Hoyer was intercepted on the next play by Josh Mauga.

And in their season-opening 26-10 loss to what turned out to be a two-win Tennessee Titans in 2014, the Chiefs seemed to go into the tank after Johnson and defensive end Mike DeVito were each lost for the season with Achilles injuries in the second quarter.