A Few Thoughts about the Chiefs Game - Community Edition

[BearNorth]

35 minutes ago, 3rdand12 said:

Two of the best bringing their A games.

 

Certainly Josh brought his A game.  Mahomes had a rough day and this probably wasn't one of his best efforts.  

[ganesh]

12 hours ago, Pete said:

Every time an opposing kicker need to make a kick under pressure- they make it.  It don’t matter if it’s 50+ yards and raining hard- they hit it.  Now Prater misses it 

He almost made it.  Also he was on the injury report with a Groin injury.  That might have affected his angle of kicking. 

6 hours ago, Ralonzo said:

Ok. But the eye-test matched the stat-test which says the Bills were easily the better team, but neither lined up with the scoreboard which said the Bills were only just the better team (1-score game). My perception is that for once it wasn't the refs throwing the lifeline to the Chiefs to keep them in it (well, a little bit early) as much as the Bills game management, which is on the head coach. On the whole most of the infamous defensive timeouts worked out, but I simply LOATHE giving an opponent's offense time to settle themselves and come up with their best play - and when it's the Chiefs it's egregious. Time pressure leads to poorer decisions, and Reid doesn't need any unnecessary advantages.

On the other hand,  if we didn't take those timeouts, those would have been easy completions due to the mismatch.  For example, the timeout at the 1 yard line was done because the Chiefs OL had the big bodies and our DL had lighter guys...the Chiefs would have walked in. 

[Ralonzo]

37 minutes ago, ganesh said:

On the other hand,  if we didn't take those timeouts, those would have been easy completions due to the mismatch.  For example, the timeout at the 1 yard line was done because the Chiefs OL had the big bodies and our DL had lighter guys...the Chiefs would have walked in. 

 

Right, I was saying that most of the defensive timeouts, the ones in the first half, worked out because the Bills were all fubar trying to line up. That's a different thing than the 4th-and-17 which was the more "classic" McD defensive TO variety where he wanted to see the formation and then adjust the defense, which mostly just lets the offense get on their best play and on the same page and it's usually not the thing they were gonna run the first time, so it gives a bigger advantage to the offense than the defense. As it was a late timeout we saw enough of the original 4th down play in motion to show enough that it would have been a dead desperation heave.

[Freddie's Dead]

1A and 8 - It was Hancock that batted down the Hail Mary at the end, but don't let that slow your roll....  😁

[GunnerBill]

8 hours ago, GaryPinC said:

Prater was sitting at home because his ability to connect from 50-55 probably hovers around a coin flip at best.  But he's so experienced I believe the FO chose to give up some long distance range/reliability for being able to consistently make shorter and high pressure kicks.

 

He's 1/3 so far on kicks over 50.  I think the FO would be foolish to expect him to make those.  Maybe 5-8 years ago.

 

Then he can't be the kicker by the post season. Simple.

[Pete]

5 hours ago, ganesh said:

He almost made it.  Also he was on the injury report with a Groin injury.  That might have affected his angle of kicking. 

On the other hand,  if we didn't take those timeouts, those would have been easy completions due to the mismatch.  For example, the timeout at the 1 yard line was done because the Chiefs OL had the big bodies and our DL had lighter guys...the Chiefs would have walked in. 

Norwood almost made it.  Bills almost beat KC in 13 seconds game.  Almost means nothing in the NFL and Life