Notice the lack of turnovers

[Joelist]

Penalties are either an irritant or a killer - it IS situational. The Chiefs with the back to back bonehead fouls (both of which were not only legit but blatant) effectively committed suicide in football terms. Now they can't be said to have lost the game in that there was no guarantee that Mahomes drives down the field in 58 seconds with no timeouts for a game tying TD. By contrast, a False Start is aggravating on first down but the drive is still salvageable.

TURNOVERS on the other hand are killers a LOT more often - for one thing they are ending a drive without points and frequently they give the opponent better field position than a punt. And we can point directly to turnovers as why we lost pretty much every loss this season. That is the weird part - we beat ourselves in every loss.

That was the why for this thread - Burrow said he would work on the INTs and has done so and the team likewise has really cut down on the turnovers.