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NFC will have nobody left, especially if Rodgers and Wilson go to the AFC. It's nuts! Most of these guys don't seem to think strategically. "I want to win more super Bowls, so I'll leave a conference with 3 good teams and join the AFC, which has Allen, Mahomes, Herbet, Jackson, Burrow, NE lurking around, and Indy and Tennesee which are solid squads with awful QBs but still win games. Brady could come back to Tampa and just play December on and basically have a bye to the NFC Title Game vs the Rams.

QB1 is a prize fighter.... he doesn't play football for free

Both QB and HC are very good. We're going to win eventually. Remember a few years ago Rams/Chiefs was the sexy SB pick? Well, here we are possibly.

McD saying it was "execution" says a lot, I think. If he wanted a touchback then execution was perfect.

Yup! I mean zero resistance at all. Poyer or Hyde could have manned up on Kelce and at least made it a contested play. I think they panicked after the kickoff didn't go as planned. They had this D drawn up (and it WOULD have been perfect with 7-8 seconds left) and just stuck with it anyway.

That pre-snap photo says it all. Chiefs were guaranteed the 40. But if our DL just backpedaled 5-10 yards at the snap there's people all over the place in that currently empty space. Chiefs would have just discussed this in detail: quick hitter, get some yards, go down. Don't run and burn all the clock when you catch it! Suddenly Mahomes takes the snap and sees the middle clogged and there's no easy throw. He probably tries to zing it in there but maybe someone gets in the way of the route or knocks the ball down. It would be a "WTF?" moment for him and you never know how he reacts. Maybe an OL takes off downfield after the DL or just loses his sense of the line of scrimmage in the confusion and the heat of the moment, making a pass impossible. Illegal man downfield, 5 yard penalty, plus burned time.

Dungy was a great coach who ran into Belichick and Brady in their primes. Brady's done, and Bill is 70. There's nobody like that now. Chiefs are great but those Patriot teams got into peoples' heads. If McD and Allen go to 4 Super Bowls and win 2 I think we'd be pretty happy.

AND now you're playing 11 D vs 6 O (5 O really). All 5 OL are just standing there confused trying not to run too far downfield and end up drawing a flag. Mahomes had a plan but now he has to decide in a blink if he just runs or starts to tell his WR to go deeper, all while that precious clock is ticking.... Point is you put pressure on the offense to figure something out AND not screw up (OL). And you play 11 vs 5. Instead, we took 6 of our players (4DL and Poyer and Hyde) out of the picture. Of course this would only work in a scenario like we saw. Normally you'd get eaten up by it, as the QB would just take off. But that's perfect when the clock is a factor and plays need to happen lightning quick. True but the element of surprise needs to be there, or KC will have a call for it. I wouldn't have my big DT in there. 3-4 fastest DL or just line up with 3 DL.

I'd rather say they kick it to the 5 and he returns it to the 30 with 7 seconds remaining. Plus you make them choose. If it hits the ground the clock starts plus there are Bills around, so I need to get this ball and do something with it.

Ironically, that's the same thing his players probably say about the experience as well

It does make sense. As I said, if the return gets 15-20 yards it takes on average 6-7 seconds. Obviously a 5 yard return takes less, but it is also a 5 yard return. So they take a couple seconds and get it at the 10 or 15 now with 11 seconds or even 10. You know what you'd do then? What McD did. That's the defense for that situation.

And their division is a joke. Dallas is talented but a mess at times. Then Philly's coach is a goofball who had Eagles fans throwing flowers at him because he talks about the roots taking hold and crops flowering and everyone needing to water and fertilize. Then you have the WTF team, who is a perennial mediocrity at best, although I do like Ron Rivera. That organization is just gross. So it's a great chance, with 2 picks in the top 10 this year, to really do something there.

I think McD figured that it was the perfect defense to follow a squib/pooch, but it would also work with 13 seconds, albeit not as ideal. It was the perfect defense to stop 1 play, but not 2.

Exactly! You have to at LEAST put pressure on the other team to make a decision in a split second, emotional moment! Instead we just let them take an easy touchback and play catch with their WR and TE.

These guys dream of being a head coach and running a program. When you're a superstar QB you're a superstar QB. Allen is a top 2-3 QB in the NFL. Yes, you want a good OC who can put together great schemes and coach up the offense, but Allen is going to continue to be great and whoever is our next OC will get HC interview after we win the SB next year.

But Hill was never going to go deep, that's the part people don't seem to get. Their plan was to get into FG range in those 13 seconds. Hill's route was to get yards and GET DOWN! Same with Kelce. They were never going up top, because if they did it's game over with an incomplete.

Plus, you would expect, and you saw, that KC told their players to GET DOWN and not waste clock. A TD was never in the cards. Coaches were beating it in their heads: GO DOWN when you catch the ball and call timeout. I believe something went wrong on the kickoff, because the D we played was PERFECT for KC having 6-7 seconds of game clock to go 40 yards. Once the touchback happened we just stayed with the same D were were going to use anyway.

The average kickoff return (that gets 15-20 yards) burns 6-7 seconds of clock. Squib or pooch inside the 20 and KC likely returns it to the 30 (ish) and burns 6 seconds (we'll go low end). Now, instead of 1st and 10 from the 25 with 13 seconds, it's 1st and 10 from the 30 with 7 seconds. Game's over, even with the defense we played. There's not enough time for 2 plays and a FG.

Also, talk about a 180 from the lunatic dictator Urban Meyer! LOL Leftwich would have plenty of time to get himself established there, plenty of good will. Yup. About 1/2 HC the coaches in the NFL aren't really that good. Teams are interviewing offensive assistants who haven't even been coordinators for HC jobs just because they work in a room with a good QB. Then you've got the Eagles coach mumbling on about dirt and roots and flowers. It's freaking hilarious that he is a HC.

Fearing Tyreek scoring a TD there is just crazy. If he starts trying to be a hero after catching the ball the game is over is he is tackled. That's GREAT! If Kelce gets a little greedy after catching the second one the clock runs out. KC was NEVER going to go for a TD. Both Hill and Kelce got what they could and immediately went down. That's not a team that is trying to get 7. So the defense made no sense.

I just want an entertaining Super Bowl filled with twists, turns, drama, big decisions, crazy moments Because I don't really have a rooting interest. No Brady means it's just fun, no stress, and I want an entertaining game. I would like to see Stafford get a ring, that would be cool, but I am a big Andy Reid fan and would like to see his critics choke on some more crow. Aaron Donald winning a ring would be cool to see as well, as good as he has been for so long. Bengals and SF have no chance. This weekend's games will probably both be blowouts. But the SB should be really good if it's Rams/Chiefs.

Exactly! They only had 3 seconds for the FG. So find a way to make them take 3 more seconds over the course of 2 plays. A jam costs at least a second.

That makes sense, but the Chiefs were never going to throw deep to anyone, because if it went wrong the game is basically over. Now you burned 7-8 seconds and there's 6 seconds left and you're still at your 25. Now it's desperation hail mark from 75 yards away. You know that's not their plan. Their plan is going to be to get a quick hitter out to the 40-45 so that a hail mary is possible. Whoever catches it is instructed to go down immediately to avoid running out the clock. That's the big difference between the series before and the 13 second series. IF Tyreek catches it and starts running the game is over unless he scores a TD. As it was, they kicked the FG with 3 seconds left. They almost ran out of time immediately going down. Run around and it's game over.

Normally my suggestion wouldn't work, because it would give Mahomes all day and the WR would just run down the field. However, the Chiefs had a strategy and it had to be a quick hitter. So maybe you go 2 DL just to keep things honest and have a line of guys ready 10 yards downfield and another deep. The DL aren't getting there anyway, so you use those chess pieces in a smarter way to clog the middle. If Mahomes takes off and runs his WR aren't going to be in position to block and nobody would have expected that, because the ball needs to come out quick and it needs to be a throw. AT LEAST you pressure them to make a decision, instead of it looking like catch in the park.

Not liking the shift in momentum of reports... Get this done Jags!