{"id":418244,"date":"2025-12-01T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:47:14","slug":"five-quick-facts-following-the-chiefs-week-13-loss-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418244\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Quick Facts Following the Chiefs Week 13 Loss to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

2. The Cowboys’ performance on third down was the story of the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Defensively, the clear difference on Thursday was the Cowboys’ performance on third down which, excluding a kneel-down at the end of the game, saw Dallas convert on nine of 15 opportunities.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Dallas converted numerous long third-down chances, moving the chains five times on 3rd-and-7 or longer. The Cowboys achieved that feat three times on their opening series, which ended in a touchdown, converting a 3rd-and-7, a 3rd-and-9 and a 3rd-and-10.<\/p>\n

Dallas then moved the chains again, this time despite a 3rd-and-8, early in the fourth quarter when Dak Prescott found wide receiver George Pickens for a 39-yard gain. The play, which set up a go-ahead touchdown just four snaps later, represented a clear swing moment in the game. Kansas City had the lead at that point, meaning a punt would have provided the Chiefs’ offense with an opportunity to extend the lead, and at worst, drain some clock. Instead, Kansas City was once again playing from behind.<\/p>\n

Overall, if any of those long third downs went the other way, there’s a good chance the Chiefs would have found a way to win the game. It just goes to show how thin the margin for error is when you let a good team hang around, and it needs to be an area in which Kansas City improves down the stretch.<\/p>\n

3. A major positive from Thursday’s game was the Chiefs’ efficiency in the red zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It certainly wasn’t all bad on Thursday despite the result, and if there’s one major positive takeaway from the game, it was the Chiefs’ red zone touchdown efficiency.<\/p>\n

Kansas City was 3-for-3 in terms of scoring touchdowns in the red zone, which marked a major improvement after the Chiefs were just 2-for-9 in that area over the course of their prior two games.<\/p>\n

If Kansas City is to turn things around and make a run over the next several weeks, that improvement in the red zone will need to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. The Cowboys’ performance on third down was the story of the game. Defensively, the clear difference on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,45042,3001,1596,1318,57802,18818,3570,1232,9341,34238,21686,57804,57803,57805,358,3572,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-418244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andy-reid","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-football","18":"tag-patrick-mahomes","19":"tag-super-bowl","20":"tag-super-bowl-iv","21":"tag-super-bowl-liv","22":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-travis-kelce","25":"tag-tx","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}