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Yes. They could have. If they won last night, they absolutely could have beaten the Ravens or either one of the NFC teams. Forget about the execution part of it and just look at talent alone. I believe we were better than the Chiefs but we didn't play like it last night. Execution can be corrected, talent can't. Let me ask you, have you looked at the Chiefs at any point this season and said "that's a team that can win a title right there"? A team that has looked dreadful and had a hard time scoring and had a bad loss to the Raiders on Christmas Day where they got man handled. Guess what...they're right back to being one game away from the Super Bowl again. I never thought ince this season that the Chiefs were a better team than us. They are beatable and had we executed like we should have, would have beaten them like we should have.

Brady did kinda implement his own system. I haven't seen us run as much as we have since the bye week. Daboll has more of a pass heavy system

No one said that championship games were the goal. The point is, the guy had more success with Mediocre QBs than McDermott has had with a generational QB. He made 5 NFC championship games and a Super Bowl with McNabb who was average. He had playoff success with Alex Smith who was even farther below McNabb. He still had a ton of success. In my opinion, he may be the best coach in NFL history. Belichick hasn't done a damn thing without Brady going back to his days in Cleveland and Reid had multiple playoff seasons and a Super appearance without Mahomes.

The only other one was Manning in 2004. He had 53 TDs and only got to the divisional round

The Chiefs did make the championship round that year. They lost to the Patriots in that game so that would not be the other one

Yes, the offense was the one giving up 7 yards a pop to Pacheco. Freaking offense needs to play better

Get ready for it. Because we will have a bunch of guys hurt again next year. It happens every damn season

Yes, the Chiefs were lucky that we didn't keep doing what worked all night long on offense. Which was taking what they gave us and going down the field. If Allen hits Diggs underneath, keeps running clock, and we get into the endzone with little time left, odds are we win the game. The Chiefs were also lucky we were missing Bernard and Benford which would have made a little bit of a difference. Bottom line, yes. This team should have won last night and could have beaten Baltimore as well as either the 49ers or Lions. You're telling me they couldn't?

Why couldn't they win it all? You do realize all it takes is to get to the playoffs and have some luck, right? I understand this wasn't our best team. But they absolutely should have won that game last night and absolutely could have beaten the Ravens and either one of the 49ers or Lions. We were good enough to do it. I think you're looking too deep into this. There have been many teams that have won Super Bowls that probably weren't as good as other teams that should have

We would. But the result would be the same. It's amazing that fans still think after one regime losing 4 straight Super Bowls, another having the music city miracle, a bunch more missing the playoffs for nearly 20 years and then getting another regime that makes it every year just to lose in the divisional round is some how gonna go win one with the next guy. Lol. We can fire McDermott but the results will stay the same

Why are we even talking about this? McDermott isn't going anywhere unless he resigns and that's not gonna happen

Would they have? I don't know. Could they have? Absolutely

Andy Reid went to 5 championship games and a Super Bowl in Philly. He just got unlucky in those championship games. The guy went to 4 in a row there, I believe. We can't even get that. The guy also had tons of success with Alex Smith. He was still better than McDermott at this point. It's not like Mahomes made Reid

I understand eventually we have to score. That's not lost on me. But I would rather score with as close to one minute left as possible and try to have Mahomes drive down with only one minute of time instead of nearly 2 whole minutes

Ok. But you still take the clock down as far as possible and TRY for a TD. Then if it doesn't work. Kick the field goal. This isn't hard. You can't let Mahomes have that kind of time Stop being afraid? What did the defense the whole game that said we would stop Mahomes with 1:55 left?

No one said to play for overtime but take the clock down and score a TD so that Mahomes had to drive the whole length of the field with very little time left

If you need to tell yourself that

It's not Brady. It wouldn't matter

It was play calling. Too stupid and conservative at times. We should have thrown and kept doing the stupid side run with Cook

Hire the guy that's done NOTHING without Brady. Great call

The thing I would hate is taking the ball first and going 3 and out to start. I say Defer if we win the toss and set the tone early with the crowd. Make them get a 3 & out and keep the momentum on our side

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If the 49ers lose this game. It will be either the Lions, Buccs or Packers in the Super Bowl for the NFC. I don't see the Buccs getting past the Lions, so we could be seeing Packers at Lions next week. Who would have thought that could have even been possible? I know the 49ers can still win but they look rough right now

Yeah, but the Texans would have been 10 point road dogs no matter who they played

And they played the Texans. The Texans even if they won, no matter who they played next week were gonna get rocked