FOXBORO -- If the Patriots are going to lean on the no-huddle offense Monday night against the Chiefs as much as they have over the course of the first nine games of the season, they’ll meet a Kansas City defense that has almost no experience when it comes to facing a no-huddle this season.

The Patriots have run 603 plays from scrimmage over nine games, and according to NFL gamebooks, they’ve run 133 plays in the no-huddle, or 22 percent of the time. Here’s a breakdown by game:

•27 of 71 plays against the Dolphins.
•15 of 67 plays against the Chargers.
•12 of 71 plays against the Bills.
•5 of 61 plays against the Raiders
•15 of 72 plays against the Jets.
•36 of 69 plays against the Cowboys (a season-high 52 percent).
•7 of 50 plays against the Steelers.
•4 of 75 plays against the Giants (none in the first half and all on New England’s final drive -- a season-low).
•12 of 67 plays against the Jets (again, none in the first half -- all 12 came on two second-half drives).

The Chiefs defense, meanwhile, has been on the field for 566 plays from scrimmage this season and faced a no-huddle offense on just 11 snaps. That includes five against the Lions, four against the Raiders and one each against the Colts and Chargers. (The Chiefs haven’t faced the no-huddle at all the last two weeks.)

New England has enjoyed success with the no-huddle offense this season, having utilized it not to try and score quickly, but to primarily keep opposing defenses from changing up personnel. The latest example came in the third quarter of Sunday’s win over the Jets when New York was shuffling players on and off the field during a New England drive. The Jets didn’t have the bodies in the right places, and quarterback Tom Brady found a wide-open Deion Branch for a laughably easy 14-yard gain.

As a team against the Jets overall, the Patriots averaged 5.8 yards per play. When they were in the no huddle, they averaged 6.25 yards per play. In the no-huddle offense against New York, Brady was 3-for-3 for 39 yards.

“Honestly, we didn’t go into the game saying, 'Man, we’re going to do a whole lot of this no-huddle,' " Brady told WEEI the day after the win over the Jets. “It just happened that we got into the game, in the second half we changed the tempo a little bit and it seemed to help us.”

In the wake of what the Patriots were able to do when they utilized it frequently, some wonder why the Patriots don’t use it more often. Brady acknowledges that it’s a fun part of the offense, but frankly, it doesn’t always have a place in the context of what the Patriots are trying to do.

“Well, we tried to run it in Dallas and didn’t score a lot of points (20) and we tried to run it in Pittsburgh and didn’t score a lot of points,” Brady said. “To me, it’s more about the execution and the tempo of the game. I think if we execute well, whether we huddle or whether we don’t huddle, we’re going to be able to score points.

“Sometimes when you go out there and you try no-huddle and it doesn’t work, you go ‘We’re not doing that anymore, let’s go back to huddling.’ Then you guys [in the media] say, ‘You guys didn’t do much no-huddle this game.’ And [we’re] saying, ‘Well there’s a reason, because it wasn’t working. If it works, you stay with it. If it doesn’t work, you move on.”

It does appear that when the Patriots do run the no-huddle they sense they have an opponent on the ropes and want to finish them off. The majority of their no-huddle snaps have come in the second half in key moments -- against the Jets, all 12 snaps came in the third and fourth quarter.

“It all depends. It depends on what we think that we’re going to get,” said Brady. “It depends what we think of the other defense – how they’ll be able to handle it. It depends on a lot of factors.

“I don’t think we go in there and say ‘We’re not going to run no-huddle this week.’ I think there’s times we may say ‘We may run it, we may not, we’ll see how the game goes.’ When you get into two-minute situations, you’re definitely in no-huddle. Its just part of a carryover from that group for us. Really it’s no-huddle, but you have a little bit more time when you’re not really in a two-minute situation.”

According to Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien, the Patriots aren’t necessarily running more no-huddle now than they have in the past.

“Even the first year that I was here in '07, we used it quite a bit that year,” O’Brien said. “It’s just something that our players have executed well to this point, for the most part, I wouldn’t say it’s been great all year. But at times, it’s been good for us and it’s basically because the players have done a good job with it.”

Of course, stamina remains a question. The fitness of the skill position players is one thing, but the big guys up front aren’t always crazy about going no huddle. Offensive lineman Logan Mankins says the opposing defensive line isn’t the only ones who get tired.

“It gets pretty tiring, but they’re getting tired too, so that’s the main thing,” said Mankins. “It’s nice to do it occasionally when it’s working good. We like it. The D-line, I think they get more tired than we actually do because they have to chase the ball. But it does get pretty tiring in there -- you don’t have the rest between plays like in the huddle.

“I don’t know about the skill guys outside, but inside, yeah. Anyone that is 300 pounds and has to run play after play and doesn’t get a break is going to get tired.”