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Message: [QUOTE="beakumhawks, post: 2325346, member: 1689"] I don't buy the excuse that Brady and his receivers simply weren't on the "same page." Brady was missing wide open receivers all night and in the end he looked like a 40 year old quarterback. Alex Smith had the game of his life. The thing that most impressed me about Smith was his ability to throw the deep ball. That is something we haven't seen out of him before. Usually if the Chiefs have a wide open receiver streaking down the sideline Smith will overthrow him by a couple of yards, but not this game. He was hitting them in stride. I"m not holding my breath for this to continue the entire season but if it does KC has the speed weapons to make opposing defenses respect the deep threat. That will make the underneath game for which Smith excels that much better. The Pats game plan seemed to be to rush three men and drop the rest back in coverage. That obviously didn't work and I was surprised that they didn't change things up, especially after getting burned for long passes when Smith had all day to throw. Losing Barry will hurt. KC still has a difficult time stopping the run, and the pass rush is poor. Yeah, they stopped you guys on a couple of short fourth downs but they had to sell out to do so. The Pats looked very average Thursday night and KC looked like Super Bowl contenders. I don't expect both those things to continue. [/QUOTE]