dave mcbride

My theory as to why Mahomes went completely ballistic over this open-shut-case of an obvious penalty: it nullified an "all-time signature Mahomes-Kelce play” that the Chiefs' two biggest stars could monetize down the road via commercials etc., especially given the presence of Taylor Swift, who is inarguably the biggest star in the world. For people who are buying Mahomes’s line about "game integrity," there's a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them. Also, if you read what Mahomes actually says in that tweet, he's basically advocating for NBA-style star-favoring officiating. Lord knows the NFL has officiating problems, but the NBA is FAR worse.

See the second tweet here. I felt this deserved its own thread given the fact that this lie is spreading. The other tweet here is interesting too - toney never looks to the sideline for guidance.

He forced two incompletions late with near sacks, one on a third down in the red zone, forcing a fg. The one on second down on the final possession would have been a sack vs a normal qb. Was he not wearing a brace yesterday? I couldn’t see one.

Dee Ford wants to have a word with you.

He CLEARLY got 3 feet down and the hold was a freaking bearhug. Just obvious. I agreed with the no-call on kincaid.

No, it was clearly 3 steps. Not even remotely questionable when you look at the replay

I know you’re kidding, but many others won’t!

Call me crazy, but Toney was offside. And anyway it wadn’t a normal play - it was coming off a catch in bounds and KC was hurrying. Refs can’t intercede there. He and Reid should be embarrassed for KC now losing two big games because players lined up offside at the crucial moment.

LOL. They called in the 2019 AFC championship game vs dee ford and it cost KC a trip the to the SB. They didn’t warn Ford either.

Shades of Dee Ford. The refs didn’t warn Ford either. How about not lining up Offside.

It’s in bad taste.

Two minute warning

He was obviously offside.

The coverage was great. No chance there.

He didn’t fumble. That is no way no how a catch.

God their punter sucks. There is no reason why they should have a punter this bad. No reason.

Meh. It was minor and not a good throw anyway.

Yup, because it is clear that the defense cannot get a stop to save its life. The only thing stopping the kc offense is the kc receivers.

Mcdermott second half defense in effect. It looks terrible — again, no answers once teams adjust.

Mcdermott second half defense in effect. It looks terrible — no answers.

He should have run it.

It seems to me that the BN reporters are stuck on the al qaeda story, which frankly is a nothing story to me. It’s what they’re asking the players about, which is why we’re seeing the player responses and quotes about it. They can only answer what they’re asked about. But honestly, who really cares about that long-ago pep talk outside of the Peter Kings of the world? My view is that there are a lot of incentives among sports reporters to focus on a thread that makes a story “bigger than sports.” That’s because at the end of the day the sport itself is fundamentally meaningless — it really is just a game. However, sports reporters at credentialed media outlets ARE reporters and their whole identity is bound up with that professional credential. If they can craft a story into something that reaches beyond sports and reflects on social and political issues, they get plaudits. They can also tell themselves that they’re doing something important — real reporting, as it were. Peter King, a soppy-eyed sentimentalist who incidentally wrote nothing about the brewing CTE scandal early on (presumably because he didn’t want to lose access; it took a non-sports NY Times writer to break the story because no NFL beat journalists were willing to take it on), is a classic version of this sort of sportswriter.

King’s melodramatic comments about how New Yorkers will be so deeply offended and hurt by the comments because of where 9/11 happened is SUCH corny BS. I lived in NYC then and still live there now, and I can’t imagine anyone feeling stung or angered by McD’s AQ motivational speech. King has a real weakness for hackneyed, middlebrow cultural analysis and sermonizing about it. Stick to football.

None of this is wrong, but I am not talking about the entire games. There was no bigger critic of Dorsey in the Jets game than me either. I am really talking only about what I specified at the beginning of this thread: the defense falls apart late once an opponent has figured out the schemed game plan, which most teams do after three quarters. To reiterate, there is so much parity in the league that you need to be able to score late and defend late. The defense has been very poor in the fourth quarter too many times this season, particularly when teams start playing with four downs instead of three. Also: yeah, Carr looks like crap this year. Calls to mind Bill Walsh's comment about Steve DeBerg: he's just good enough to get you fired. Winston sucks too.