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What Matters (and What Doesn't) from the Chiefs' Brutal Loss in Seattle

SI Feed·Joshua Brisco·about 19 hours ago
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The Kansas City Chiefs' Sunday Night Football loss to the Seattle Seahawks was a drubbing in all three phases, leaving plenty of questions unanswered about how the Chiefs can recalibrate for the next act of their season.

However, not all of the Chiefs' issues that were exposed in Seattle are worth worrying about. Following a loss that thorough, let's take a look at some issues that do matter and some that don't—at least until further notice.

Matters: The pass rush fizzles out again

For the fourth time in six games, the Chiefs' defense failed to record a sack of the opposing quarterback. Even though some of the underlying metrics have supported the KC pass rush due to better performances in statistics like pressure rate , they've allowed opposing quarterbacks to be too comfortable, too often. With Sam Darnold as the target on Sunday night, the Chiefs just needed enough pressure to rattle Darnold, forcing him to start making characteristic mistakes.…

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