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galaxy27
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i did not steal this incomprehensible nugget, i calculated it myself
against the Bills, the Chiefs scored 3 points in 13 seconds
against the Bengals, the Chiefs scored 3 points in 2,442 seconds
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
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These are the things we do when football is about to end
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Yea, what now?? ^^^^^^^^^^^DANG!!
Actually, I don't have to worry about it.........The Lovely Mrs. Hydrant has recorded the entire season. Every team!! Every game. It's 11:33 at night here right now......we spent all day at the game.....and.....she is now watching the Bengals Chiefs game! At midnight the Rams Niners game comes on......she's going to watch that one!!!!!! She's nuts! But.... I'm set. ...NFL ....24/7/365 around here!
why i was in numbers-crunching mode at such a late hour last night is almost as big a mystery as that game yesterday. i guess i was taking a stab at trying to process what i witnessed.
think back to Bills/Chiefs first. think about what Patrick Mahomes did against a defense that was #1 in the league in both points and yards allowed. carved them up. scored at will. impossible to stop. need 3 in 13 to keep from dying? no problemo.
now fast forward a week. this time, going up against a middle-of-the-road defense. carving them up. scoring at will. impossible to stop. 3 touchdowns in a quarter & a half. it felt like the Chiefs could name the score. then, something happened. it's as if the football gods stepped in and said, "remember how dueces felt last week? yeah, well that was all sorts of wrong. so darin is about to get a taste now."
next thing you know, from the 5:04 mark of the 2nd quarter to the end of the game, an offense firing on all cylinders.........one of the most prolific in the league............endless weaponry............at home............with a chance to get back to the super bowl..............scored 3 points. Patrick Mahomes' play fell off the cliff so fast that it honestly feels like i'm missing something here. his QBR in the second half + OT was 1.4. it bears repeating.................his total quarterback rating for the second half and overtime of an AFC Championship game was one point four. this is the supposed heir apparent to Tom Brady we're talking about here.
now that i think about it, maybe it was the TB gods who intervened instead. "Tom is leaving now, but here's a stark reminder that no one is ever going to be him."
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Nah, just good coaching. Cincy defense adjusted as the game went on and KC did not adjust to compensate, so Mahomes struggled because his team struggled, and it all fed on itself. Same thing he did in the Super Bowl last year when the TB defensive scheme was on him and KC never found a way to adjust around it. So to me that seems the offensive decision makers in KC are not good at adapting as a game goes on. Probably need a new offensive coordinator or coaches up in the booth that are supposed to be seeing these things and adjusting the schemes during the games.
i think there's some merit to this, but i also think the worst thing that could have happened to the Chiefs was doing what they did to the league's best defense the week before and moving on in the fashion they did. if we can do that to them, then we can basically do what we want, at any time, to anyone. they played that game yesterday like they were impenetrable and invincible, especially when they got up 21-3. they played cocky, arrogant football and it all started with the signal caller.
think about all of the plays yesterday when Mahomes ran around for 10 seconds or more like a lunatic waiting for someone to get open, not for one second contemplating that a Cincinnati Bengal defender, of all people, could make a play on him. next thing you know he was eating a sack. he eschewed sound and prudent judgment on multiple occasions. think about those two drives inside the 5 and the decisions he made. that throw in the flat to Hill at the end of the first half was laced with hubris. you could practically read his mind: "the Bills' defense was my bitch last week and the Bengals' defense is my bitch today, so if i feel like taking on added risk and potentially squandering sure points away in an AFC Championship game i will do it because i'm Patrick Mahomes and we're the Kansas City Chiefs, period."
i do give the Bengals' D their fair share of credit because from the mid-2nd quarter on they played like they were being disrespected. and they were.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Just interrupting this program for a public service announcement…
I wonder where Tennessee or KC would be had they decided against analytics and kicked FG’s that they should have 🤷♂️
In the Super Bowl..?
The Rams did the same thing all season long......passing up chip shot field goals only to end up stopped on downs inside the 5 and then having to kick a game winning field goal from 40+ yards out with seconds left on the clock. I don't understand it. The Rams got lucky.... The Chiefs and Titans didn't. Serves them right.
Many times you hear the announcers say Field Goals won't cut it, they need touchdowns. Sometimes they are wrong.
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Ralph
Anymore, these coaches treat kicking the field goal as the sorry consolation prize. When you get to the playoffs, points are gold!!!! Take them when or wherever you find them. KC kicks the FG at the end of the first half, who know what would happen. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of kicking the field goal, but I'd rather have 3 points on the board for my team than second guessing the entire off season.
I agree....100%.