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Kansas City ChiefsScheme DNAScreen rate17.9%100th percentile · league 9.0%
RPO rate9.9%90th percentile · league 5.1%
Play action30.5%90th percentile · league 23.1%
No-huddle rate0.6%0th percentile · league 6.5%
↳Bottom lineTheir loudest habits: screen rate (17.9%, 100th percentile), rpo rate (9.9%, 90th percentile), play action (30.5%, 90th percentile).
?How to read this chart
- The flower:
- each petal is one play-calling habit, labeled around the edge. Petal length is the team's rank among the 32 (long = does it more than most; for tempo, long = fast). The dashed ring is the league middle.
- The bars:
- the same habits as a list: the bar is the rank (the tick in the middle is the league middle), then the real value and the percentile (90 = more than 90% of teams). Jargon: pass rate over expected = how much more or less they throw than the situation predicts; RPO = run-pass option; men in the box = defenders near the line against the run.
Offense
The playbook
Pass rate over expected+4.2%90
Early-down pass rate57.1%90
Shotgun rate60.1%39
No-huddle rate0.6%0
Pre-snap motion58.3%52
Play action30.5%90
Screen rate17.9%100
RPO rate9.9%90
Deep shots9.3%19
Middle of the field22.6%68
Outside runs24.0%65
Tempo37.6s74
Defense
The defense
Twins
Offenses most like theirs
Solid shape: Chiefs · outline: the twin
↳Bottom lineChiefs and Bears, 53% alike. Both use more play action and throw more screens than most of the league; Chiefs and Bears differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 11.3%) and RPO rate (9.9% vs 4.4%).
?How to read this chart
- Each card is one twin:
- an offense that calls games like Chiefs. The colored shape is Chiefs's fingerprint, the white outline the twin's. Where the two match, the habits match.
- The %
- is how alike the two are across all offensive habits: 100% would be identical, 0% the most different pair in the league.
#1 twin
Bears53%Both use more play action and throw more screens than most of the league; Chiefs and Bears differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 11.3%) and RPO rate (9.9% vs 4.4%).
Bears53%Both use more play action and throw more screens than most of the league; Chiefs and Bears differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 11.3%) and RPO rate (9.9% vs 4.4%).#2 twin
Colts51%Both throw more than the situation predicts and pass more on early downs than most of the league; Chiefs and Colts differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 7.6%) and RPO rate (9.9% vs 4.3%).
Colts51%Both throw more than the situation predicts and pass more on early downs than most of the league; Chiefs and Colts differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 7.6%) and RPO rate (9.9% vs 4.3%).#3 twin
Vikings50%Both use more play action and throw more screens than most of the league; Chiefs and Vikings differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 11.6%) and pass rate over expected (+4.2% vs −5.4%).
Vikings50%Both use more play action and throw more screens than most of the league; Chiefs and Vikings differ most in screen rate (17.9% vs 11.6%) and pass rate over expected (+4.2% vs −5.4%).Run game
Where they run
Arrow size = share of carries · color = EPA per carry
↳Bottom lineTheir favorite lane: middle, 41% of runs, +0.00 EPA per carry.
?How to read this chart
- Seen from behind the offense:
- the line at the bottom is the line of scrimmage, with seven running lanes from the left end to the right end.
- Arrow size
- and the % above it = share of the team's runs that go there.
- Arrow color
- = how well those runs work, in EPA per carry (expected points added: above zero helps the offense). Green works, grey is average, red hurts.
Pass game
Where they throw
Share of targets · EPA per throw
↳Bottom lineMost targeted zone: short right, 42% of throws, +0.18 EPA per throw.
?How to read this chart
- The field from the quarterback's eyes:
- left, middle and right; the bottom row is short throws, the top row deep throws.
- Each box
- shows the share of throws that go there (more solid = more throws) and its color the EPA per throw: green helps the offense, grey is average, red hurts.
Formation Tell
What the formation gives away
?How to read this chart
- Two dots on one line from 0% to 100%:
- how often they throw when the quarterback is under center, and how often from shotgun, on neutral downs.
- The gap between them
- is what a defense learns from the formation alone: a wide gap means the alignment tips run or pass.
Under center43%pass rate, neutral downs
Shotgun71%pass rate, neutral downs
A 28-point gap: one of the hardest to read offenses in the league (31 of 32). See all 32 →