Livinginthepast

I'm confused about the photo you attached. Were you thinking Beavers for the team name?

He reminds me a lot of McCauley Caulkin!

You would think, but the Bengals are on a roll. Both teams are gaffe prone though. I think its a toss up.

And the 49ers complete the collapse. Pathetic

SF is choking this game away.

Wow brutal helmet to helmet hit on the punt would have put the Rams in huge hole. Instead they are driving for the win!

There have been at least 3 plays so far in these 2 games where I have said "i could have caught that" . That play by Tartt was easily the worst of the bunch!

The Bengals D in this game and defensive coaches did basically everything that we didnt do last week: 1. They sacked Mahomes 2.They double covered Hill and Kelce on many plays, shutting them down 3. They tackled Hill and Kelce before they could get going. (the play before the half was superb on Hill). 4. They held the Chiefs in the red zone to no points before the half to save the game. 5. They held the Chiefs in the highest pressure situation possible within the redzone at the end to a FG to stay alive 6. They didn't crumble in OT and intercepted Mahomes. 7. Played gutsy defense and didn't quit at 21-3 They were the difference in this game. As much as I am happy for them. It really sickened me with old green eyed jealousy that we failed to do most of those things in the game. Its just insane to me with 13 seconds to kill, our coaches and players completely sht the bed. Then given a chance to redeem themselves in OT and save the season, the coaches just froze and our D just lay down butt in the air.

Irv its 11 o clock , do you know where your mighty prediction went?

Too much time for Mahomes to come back. After all he only needs 13 seconds!

Well imagine that! And the bumbling oafs on our D line managed to whiff on him within a yard on probably 5 occasions in that game last Sunday. Give the Bengals Dline some props, they have actually sacked Mahomes and not be suckered by his Salsa moves!

The Bengals INT was the huge play that we didnt get from our D last week!

3 plays of mild interest at the end of the 1st half in this game for me compared to the Bills game. 1) Cinci squibed it to the 10 yard line with 1 min left in the half. I counted the seconds and it was I think 3 seconds that ran off the clock. The Chiefs started the possession from the 20. So had we done that successfully vs KC a similar start may have occurred with 10 seconds left for Mahomes 2) Down in the end zone, the Cinci player successfully held Hill, for an incompletion but got a penalty. Once again 4 seconds was killed off the clock. Once again why on earth did we not do this within 13 secs on that first or 2nd down? 3) On the last play of the half the chiefs double tackle hill within a couple of yards of getting the pass and .......actually tackle him!! Unbelievable!

If it is from the 15 yard line normally, thats a 32 yard kick (10 for the endzone and 7 yards back from the line). Move it 15 yards back and that makes it a 47 yard PAT!! That is huge and the KC kicker had already missed a PAT in the game from the 15!! Not a gimme at all!. That being said McD may have made the call and had tacked to the kickoff

This is an excellent point and yet another possible twist in this game on the lack of call. I appreciated that the refs took a step back in this game and didnt call the usual BS or ticky tack calls for EVERYTHING. But this was textbook taunting and definitely should have been called as it was ALL season. If KC misses the subsequent extra point then the Bills score their TD then all of a sudden its a 4 pt lead, we kick it deep through the endzone and play the same defense that we did (now actually appropriate to the situation) and its game over. So many what ifs in this game!

Hills gesture is more like a "oh know you dont" to Milano. He knows how fast he is and Milano has no chance despite a decent angle. It was a good non call. Doesnt excuse that call on Marsh of the Bears back in November, which is the stupidest call of all time in my opinion.

Like Boomer and Tom Jackson used to say on Primetime, KNOCK IT DOWN!!! Time does heal all wounds but SB 25 left a nasty scar. If they had won any of the 3 SBs following or any SB after that it would have been cleansed but they failed.

It may not be the cakewalk you think. I can still see the Bengals getting an upset because they can match the Chiefs in scoring but the huge advantage the Chiefs have is that the Bengals O line appears to be utter garbage and Burrow moves about as fast as tortoise when he is under pressure. Bigger question is, how much trouble would KC have with the Rams? McVey got horribly outcoached in that snoozer SB against Bellichick. Can he rise to the occasion like the TB coaches did in the SB and thwart Mahomes?

Weird I swear I read it differently on SB Nation Monday but looking for that same article today, I cannot find it. But you are right, incredibly there was NO VOTE at all on the issue!!!! I guess a lot of owners just are lame! https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/chiefs/2022/01/24/chiefs-tried-to-change-ot-rules-beat-bills/6634070001/

And in a colossal feat of stupidity that off season, the NFL owners (including the Bills) voted down a KC proposal for BOTH teams to have one possession in OT guaranteed without any intelligent rationale for doing so!! You want both teams to have a chance in OT what? NFL owners " BUT, BUT We are tired and it might be past our bedtime! We just need the game to end, its too long........"

McD has brought a great system , "process" to this team and even in the Tyrod era set us up to at least fight for a playoff spot. By the same token he also had some strange idea that Nathan Peterman was a viable QB and started him vs San Diego for 5 Ints which almost killed our hopes that year. Fast forward to 2021 and yes Allen is the star of the team and McDs role has been reduced to more of a manager. That being said he caused us to lose on Sunday and ruined one the greatest performances by QB ever in the playoffs by not doing his job in the last 13 secs. McD needs to evolve a bit more and learn from this incredibly awful teachable moment and finish the job next year.

Mahomes footwork when he is in the pocket and his ability to avoid pressure is the best I have ever seen in 40 plus years of watching football. Josh is able to get out of sacks by using his size and strength but Mahomes seems to salsa out of there without even being touched.

In some instances they should have rushed 2 and dropped 2 back into coverage. One could have been the spy. They really needed to mix it up out there. That is what worked for the Bucs in the SB. But the Bills were way too conservative. Being that way only worked when the Chiefs dropped the ball or made their own unforced mistakes and that wasnt often. The Bills had decent pressure at times in that game but everytime they were within tackling distance the Bills player whiffed and Mahomes got out unscathed. They needed an unconventional game plan because Mahomes is so different from your average QB but unfortunately we got the "low fat" vanilla version of Fraziers traditional vanilla defense.

Another thing while I am venting. KC had just been scored on, the stadium was hushed and they must have been crushed knowing that they were going to lose. If you squib kick off or pop it up, chances are the returners are going to be so down, upset or discombobulated by what has just happened they may screw up, fumble try something stupid like a forward lateral and forget any possible script that their coaches MIGHT and I stress MIGHT have had planned for the return. We simply do not know if the Chiefs would have crumbled or what they still had left because we removed that stressful option for them by being scared on the kick off and putting it through the endzone. If you take a look at the Kick off AFTER the MCM miracle TD when the Bills got the ball kicked to them (and the resulting pathetic play that followed) you get an idea of what Im talking about. No doubt about it, the KO through the endzone gave them a slight life line because it guaranteed Mahomes got back on the field one last time. Just a complete failure of strategy by the Bills .

KC would have had a huge conundrum on the kickoff if we had squibbed it or popped it up. 1. If they fall on it right away to avoid clock burning, they are stuck between the goal line and the 25, way worse field position for Mahomes and co to do anything. 2. If they return it, the seconds burn off. So they would have had to do Home run throwback play or something special. or get the hell out of bounds and that would have left 7 seconds likely on the clock Instead of forcing them into these two bad scenarios. The Bills removed any stress by kicking through the end zone. Then they gift wrapped the game by playing the stupidest possible defensive strategy on two plays in a row. Amateur hour coaching at its finest!