Chiefs’ Coach Optimistic About Struggling Offense Moving Forward

To say that the Kansas City Chiefs‘ offense has been struggling this season would be an understatement.

The Chiefs are coming off of a brutal 20-14 Christmas Day loss to the Las Vegas Raiders (at Arrowhead Stadium, mind you), marking the seventh time this season the normally high-powered offense scored under 20 points. They are averaging just 22.2 points per game overall, which is a ways off from the 29.2 points per game they logged last year.

Superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes is mired in the worst season of his professional career, the receiving corps is rather barren and Kansas City has gone just 3-5 since starting the season 6-1.

But in spite of all of that, offensive coordinator Matt Nagy is remaining optimistic moving forward.

“I do believe that things can get much better and be more productive,” Nagy said, via Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. “When I say that, [it comes from] not having 21 third and fourth downs in a game. Being better on first and second down. So how do you get to that point? Well, we know what we think we can do, between the players, the coaches, everyone gets together, and there is no pointing fingers at anybody but ourselves. That’s where it starts.”

Nagy’s comments come after tight end Travis Kelce ripped everyone on the team for not doing their jobs.

“Bad teams, they do that, they point fingers at everybody but themselves, we actually do the opposite,” Nagy continued. “It starts with coach [Andy] Reid, and it goes to the leaders on the team. When you do that, you get another opportunity, it makes it that much sweeter when you do win and you get to that point that you saw and you stuck together.”

Well, the Chiefs are running out of time to get to that point.

Kansas City is currently 9-6 and has lost three of its last four games. The team is just 4-4 at home, where it has historically been dominant. Not only that, but the Chiefs missed a chance to clinch the AFC West division title this past week, and now, they have no chance of securing home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

While there are still two games left, it’s looking more and more like Kansas City is not the same ballclub that has won two Super Bowls and made it to three of them over the last four years.

In a conference that includes the Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins and even the surging Buffalo Bills (who beat the Chiefs several weeks ago), it’s going to be difficult for this present iteration of the Chiefs to replicate its success of the last few years.

Kansas City will battle the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday.