Browns/Chiefs might as well play soccer

[Jangler]

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Whenever there’s a ball in the air during Sunday’s game between the Chiefs and Cleveland Browns, the odds are good it will wind up on the Arrowhead Stadium turf.

The Chiefs and Browns lead the league in dropped passes. The Chiefs have 39 drops, the Browns 36.

In last week’s six-point loss to Buffalo, Chris Chambers dropped a pass inside the Bills’ 5 late in the fourth quarter. In the previous week’s game against Denver, Lance Long dropped a pass in the end zone.

“I count drops and always have, and have been a pretty critical judge in that area,” said Chiefs coach Todd Haley, a former wide-receivers coach. “I do feel like if a receiver gets his hands on it, he should come up with it. That’s what they get paid for. We’ve had way too many.

“There is no trick to it. You’ve got to (work on catching the ball) before practice and after practice. You can’t catch enough balls and practice your craft, whoever it is, tight ends, receivers or backs, because everybody has a hand in it. We need to do a better job. Those are things this young team can’t overcome. We’ve shown that. We can’t overcome dropped balls. The games that we’ve done a good job of catching the ball, we’ve been pretty competitive. When we haven’t, it’s been an additional thing that’s been too hard for us to overcome.”