Before we get started, let’s get one thing out of the way: There’s no blueprint for stopping — or even slowing down — this Chiefs offense. When I first started planning this piece out, I was intending on writing about how the Buccaneers defense could possibly go about doing the impossible.
Then I re-watched the film of the Week 12 game between these teams — a 27-24 win by the Chiefs that wasn’t as close as the score might indicate. Kansas City gained 543 yards, Mahomes had thrown for 359 of them by halftime and the Chiefs led 27-10 heading into the 4th quarter.
Re-living that game made me immediately abandon any thought that I could find solutions for the NFL’s most unsolvable problem. I’ll leave that job to Todd Bowles. Instead, I’ll focus on the things that the Bucs did in that first game that they should definitely NOT do this time around. Let’s start with a lesson that Tyreek Hill single-handedly taught Bowles in the first matchup …
