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Agree. Plus, he understands the offensive side. He might be the only coach in the NFL who is adept at both of those phases and he is a great strategist. It is on the other team to become aware of, and counteract his strategy. Too many cannot do this, including Andy Reid, who didn't really adjust until the second half but didn't have the personnel to cover Edelman and Gronk. The rest of your post was well said.

Tom Coughlin and Steve Spagnolo had two weeks to prepare. Sean McVay and Wade Phillips have two weeks to prepare. Wade has had to prepare for Brady (and was successful) when he was the Broncos DC. Hope he has the personnel he needs to execute his plan to stop Brady. I wouldn't count the Rams out so quickly.

Yeah, the neutral zone infraction, for one, on Dee Ford was a killer. Without that, we could be seeing a KC vs Rams SB. Have to hope the Rams will be good enough, and smart enough to take care of business.

Agree the game could have gone either way; the Chiefs could have won. Mahomes and the Chiefs have the potential to put up a ton of points as we've seen during the season. But this fails when the other team can play defense; NE is not known for having a smothering D, but somehow they are good enough when it counts and this is important. Defense (and coaching) does matter as last night demonstrated. I don't think relying on winning a shoot out all the time is a viable strategy to building a winning team. You need to be balanced in all three phases, and KC is not since their D is a glaring weakness.

Which means KC will have to invest in defense this off season, especially the secondary. They built the offense first, which is fine if that is the way they want to do it; but in the end, they never were going to win this game since they are not a balanced team at this point (weak defense).

It started in the 1st quarter, when KC demonstrated that they couldn't stop the run. NE saw that and really didn't deviate from this.

Good post. Helps explain "The Process" in a way that makes sense.

Yep. I think NE gets a ton of calls that go their way during the regular season, and certainly more than other teams to the point where it almost looks like the league is trying to help them. I do not believe the conference championship or SB are games where the league will show any type of favoritism. The roughing the passer call in the 4th Q was a bad call that the official shouldn't have made since he was not in the right position to see it, though he apparently thought he was. Just a bad call. The Chiefs have only themselves and their poor defense to blame for this loss.

Can't disagree with this. I wish I knew the answer to this. Pretty uncanny how they do seem to get a lot of calls go their way.

As far as I know, he didn't say anything; he just stopped posting around New Years

Possibly so. It was a bad call, but I really don't think they saw the play clearly. Unfortunately those calls are not challengeable.

If this game doesn't change their mind, nothing will.

I'll watch, but will miss the start of it. Traveling that Sunday.

No doubt they made a horrible call on that roughing call against Brady, though I don't think they saw the play clearly. The bottom line is the Chiefs didn't play a very good game defensively. They couldn't stop the run and the Pats kept exploiting that.

That and Belichick out-coached Reid; like he does so many other coaches.

Meh. I'm tired of NE, along with most of the nation. I hope the Rams absolutely dominate.

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Rams have a much better D than KC.

Lets' go Rams. Wade Phillips was the DC for Denver three years ago. He came up with the plan for that team to beat Brady in the AFCC.

That means that neither team played much in the way of defense. You need a good D and a good O, plus competent ST to win. Can't win if you're not balanced.

lol @ the posters who think defense isn't important

welp. Defense matters.

Such a low probability event. Not sure it's worth trying.

That sucks. NE gets the ball