Conference Championship Preview And Prediction.
It Takes Some Time, But We'll Get There. Where We Belong. Where We’re Supposed To be.
One Team Has A Must Win. The Others Weren’t Supposed To Be Here For One Reason or The Other. One Defied Expectations, The Other Two Had Their Expectations Turn To Doubt, And Those Doubts Turn To Bitter Pills For The Mouth Of Detractors.
Now They All Have Enduring Performances Shadowing Them.
This Weekend’s Championship Games could Be The Grandest Serving solid Football Ever Conceived. We’re Going To Witness One Of The Rarest Balancing Acts The World Of Professional Sports. This Conference Round Will Comes Locked Between Two Voids of Football. The Best Weekend And The Bore: It’s the Middle Child, At The End.
The Ending Of Each Game Will is Judge In Light Of These Results And These Results Alone. Not That The Rematches. But They’ll Be Defined By The Course That Put each Game And each Team In Their Respective Positions.
For Starters, the Most Malign Weekend In Foot Ball(Wild Card Round) And The Most Gratifying (Divisional Weekend).
The Championship Round Cannot Deflate In The Way Wild Card Weekend Got The Playoffs Rolling On A “Dud” So To Say.
The Divisional Weekend Breathe Life Into high Octane Football. Three Games. After A Entry of Sordid Blowouts. All Divisional Games Ended On The Final Possession. Three Critical Feild Goals. Shot Three Teams Forward And The Legs Of Their Once Obscured Kickers Into Fame
.The Final Game, Bills, And Chiefs, Ended In Overtime, But if Left To the Will of Man, Mahomes, And Allen Would Still Breaking The Pocket And Puncturing Their Opposing Secondary With Needle Like Precision.
Shallow Ripples To Begin Follow By Thunderous Waves To Propel. Four Teams Remain Not Swallowed By The Sea.
The Most Poignant And Powerful Phase Of The Potent High Comes With Towering Tumble Afterward.
The Divisional Round Had Near palpitating pulsar highs That In The Greatest Moments Sweep Over In Football Organism(no, Yes) that Breathe The Sense Of Endless Euphoria in The Highest Moments Of Football Greatest Weekend Of The Season. It Couldn’t Last Forever. The Descend From Lofty Heights Would Coincide With Travis Kelce Fall on The Back Of The End Zone For The Final Score Of A 25 Point Flurry.
I Wrote a 4000-word Shakespearean theme Review of divisional around a Moment Ago. That Whirlwind Of Words And Verbiage Inspire By The Chill Of The Weekend Shivers strained Out. Somehow I Failed to delve into the upcoming championship around.
It's Never A Conclusive View Of A team’s Effectiveness In Football. If This Column’s only Breaks Down Wins Or Losses To Oversimplified Verbiage, One Team scores More Than The Other, Then Bengals Verbiage Writes In Even More Simpler Than That. What Are Jamar Chase And Joe Burrow Going To Do?
After seismic Toss Level Beat Down In The Pocket, Curtesy of the Tennessee Titans, Questioning The Share conscious Level Of One Joe Burrow would Be where One would Think To Start. But Burrow remained a Cool Cat. After Dawning shades In His Post Game Interview for The Raiders. After Ending Cincy Three Decade long Playoff Winn Drought.
Found The Stones to Stand up Right in the Podium and Jovial Proclaim The Bengals Are No Longer The Underdogs We Seek To Supine In Place As. “it was an intense Hard Game.” Burrow said. “It’s what Playoff Ball This Late in January is Really Like. It was Hard.” Challenging, But You couldn’t Tell By The silver-tongued, Unwavering Infliction Of Joe’s Tone And Demeanor.
You Forget for A Moment That These Were His Christenings In NFL Playoff Play And Banter.
“Every Body Playing With The Same Intensity.” Joe Describing The Feels Of Thrust In Battle. “You Feel The Moment.” The Moment Never Seems To escape Joe.
Tennessee Gave Joe A Tough Time. Switching up Coverages And Pressure schemes. Cover 1, man. Cover two, Man. Cover 3 cloud Flats.
The Titans Secondary Stole The Vertical Pass But couldn’t Keep In Tuck When The Bengals Came Back Late.
Forcing Joe To go Horizontal To Move The Offense Forward Only Proved An Exceptional Stratagem For Dying Slow. His Offensive Line Let him Down, But Never Burrow Never Bailed Out. He And Instead Commended The Titans For Striking a Vulnerability. After He’d Open A Wound In Them vertically.
Watching The Bengal Play Ball, This Deep In The Playoffs Has Had Some Justifiably Shocked. Other Excited. For Joe Burrow
let's Not Be So Quick To Jump To the Expected Shootout
Cincy’s Revamped Secondary Had The Deep Middle And Boundary Froze On Sunday. Jessie Bates, Who Snagged An Early Intervention And the Rest Of The Bengals Coverage Unit Fell Back Into A Lot three Deep Cloud Shells.
“Whether you Like Or don't Like, Sit Down And Watch Cause It’s the Best Thing Going.”
The Niners Have Won Three Straight Underdog Matchups. All while Neutralizing Jimmy G’s “invariance.” In the Passing Game, They Haven't Need Thus Far Jimmy G’s Imprint and Impact To Some Degree. Back In Week 7, The Niners Had to lose four Straight, And Except the Jags in Week 10, Their Schedule appeared Maddening Adversarial. But A When Over The Bears Gave The Niners a Faint NFC pulse. Garoppolo Second Game Back From Injury And Re-Install As The Starter. His 300 Yard Affair And The Niners First Win Since Week 2 Taking Down The Eagles.
But finding Winning Streaks In The NFL Takes A Greater Quest, A Harder Fought Journey Than Taking A Win Away From A Divisional Rival. The Following Week, A Loss To The Cardinals.
Niners were Back Under The Lost Model, Then Entered The Rams.
The Niners Losing Streak Began Against The Packer. Who Needed A Field Goal To Finish The Niners Late. Garoppolo Got Injured. The First Glimpses Of The Niners Future with Trey Lance Under Center Came into Picture. But The Loss Keep Coming That future With Lance Appear Sooner Than Expected. A lot That Came Out further than Expected. A lot That Didn’t want To wait To happen. The Niners Turned Their Lost season Around Against The Rams
The Niner’s Pressure Fronts Had their way Collapsing the Pocket on Rodger’s And The Coverage Unit Took On A Ameba Like strategy, changing Formation and Coverage Alignments at the Snap. In Hopes Of Confusing If Not Slowing Rodgers Down. Forcing The Packer’s quarterback To Hold And Stunt on Reads or Have His Pocket Blown Up Right Under him.
Niner’s Coach Kyle Shanahan Achieved Acclaim For Stacked Approach To The Game. “He plays a weak hand to maximal tactical advantage, and, now, his high cards.” That’s A Quote About Russian President Vladimir Putin But Shanahan As Well.
Under Strenuous Conditions In Green Bay, Shanahan Played The Underneath Game, Being Conservative With his Best Players Until Late.
The Rams Have Courted Their Hollywood Ending all Season And Now Stand Face-To-Face with An Arch Rival, Quite Literally, Away From finishing A Script Of redemption And Finding Oneself. The trilogy To End All Trilogies.
The Avengers Of So-Cal. StarStudded Cast Gathered By The Call And Spell Of the Big Moment. Reviving The Awe Of A City That Lost Its Vibe In The Flashing Lights And Bright Star.
Sofi Stadium, which Takes Its Name From a Financial Company, Located In the worlds Fifth Largest Economy, Has its Own Story To Tell.
It's Home To The Rams And The Chargers, That Bit A Trivia Too Became an Issue In Itself. Beyond These Two It Shouldn’t Be Home To Anyone, At Least Not Fir The Team That’s Garner All of Its recent Acclaim For It. Whether A Consequence Of TheCity Or The League, Los Angeles Got Dusted Clean Of Footballs For A Variety Of Reasons, None Of Which Have To Do With The Gang Endemic. The Rams We're Illegally Pooched Out Of St Louis if You Believe The Reports Back In 2016 After 21 Year In Missouri. The Team Took Residence In The Midwest Since the Mid ’90s After A Group Of Lawyer And Brokers Lure The home strike Franchise Into A Double Decide Courtship. The ”Lou” As It's Referred to By Some Locals Won A Super Bowl in ‘00.
If You Believe Stanley Kroenke, A MISSOURI native, Owner of The Rams. He Simply Acquiesced To The League’s nondescript Agenda Of Winning Back LA. “the league gave Kroenke the greenlight to move” A New York Times Article On The Matter Disclosed.
Even If, Said Taking Over Of LA, Meant Subverting Its Own By-Laws.
The Consequences For Such Found The NFL And Kroenke In Court And Ultimately Meant A Crushing Financial Kick Back For Kroenke. Who Earned Settlement Of Some 790 Million Dollar Lawsuit With The City Of St. Louis Midseason. But Not Before The Matter Disseminated Across The Collective Of “Oligarchs” who All incurred Fines From Missouri Judge. The Business of The NFL In So Cal HAsnt Been All Billionaires, Bel-Air, And Beach Houses.
Kroenke Has His 5 Billion Dollar Stadium To Look Over As Commiseration. Sofi Stadium Faces Some Tough History Ahead.
Now A Bid To Be the Second Team to be Home For A Superbowl Has, But California is Centered Between Two Competing Forces. California Owns The United States' Largest Populace. A melting pot of demographics and a state perpetual riding the waves of disaster. It's Also Notorious For Its In-State Sports Rival, especially North-South. A State So UniFormed In Geography But Polar Opposites In Fandom.
It's A Scripts So Bland, Yet So Brilliant, You’d Think It Contrived.
The Lakers-Kings Early 2000s. The Warriors-Clippers A Decade Ago. The Ineffable Magnificent Of Dodgers-Giants.
The plentiful and Raucous Groups Of Cali Have a Borderless propensity For lifting The Scales Of the Sporting Complex National Vision of Levels And Degrees Of Sucess. Now Los Angeles And Sofi HAve To Prepare Themselves For Two of The Biggest Games This Season, In A Balancing Act Out Of Circus Olay.
Back To The Game.
One Minute To Go.
The Niners Found Themselves Moments away From The Golden gates Closing In On The Season. Some Would Call it An “Early Vacation,” But Vacations, That’s For The Office Folk. From the Feild, It's Back To The Board Room. Back To The Physiotherapy. Back To The Film. Back To The Crushing, You Get Coming up Short
Everybody Thats Every Fought And A MOMENT of High-Level Competitive Sports Knows It's The Tough One's That No Vacation Can Ever Dispell.
One Field Goal And Overtime Later; To Keep The California Dream Beaming.
Well The Other California Dream.
North and South Are More Than Just Transcription-Geographical Facades. It's How This Game May Play Out.
Kyle Shahan Instructs An offense Thats a rush HEAVY hybrid Unit.
Lead Rusher Elijah Mitchell Likes To Get In Between The Tackles And On To The Second Level He’s a bull. He is physically assertive, imposing, aggressive.
In The Aftermath Of The Niners Taking Down The Rams 31-10.
The Two Team Went sputtering in two distinct different Directions. 49ers' three-game winning streak A Consequence Of Their decided And Methodic Range To Risk The Season reinvigorated Run.
That Mid-Late Season Stretch, Offensive Play Script Tone Down The Passing And Began Accumalted Rushing yardage In Booms. totals of the season -- 156, 171 and 208, for an average of 178 per game, up from the 113 they averaged during the first eight games According To ESPN.
In Frigid January Weather And A QUARTERback Just As Cold, The Niners Kept Ringing that Tune.
Mitchell Has The Most Yards this Postseason On the Ground and 204 In January. Hard To Tackle, But He Got Slowed Against The Packers and Now Has Nagging Injury Concerns
Despite being the team's top one of the most efficient in the league Elijah Hasnt Absorb the Fame Of Jonathan Taylor or The Panish and Fear Of Derrick Henry. That's because the Niner’s Offense Doesn't Have a Lead Anything. It's A Staple Of Some Of the Most Polish And Versatile Skill Position Player.
Mitchell Get his work In As 204 Pound Hammer Downhill. He averages Just Under Four Yards Per Carry after Contact This Season.
The Niner’s Also Line Him Up In The Slot In Some Formation Because His 4.3 Speed Makes Elijah The His Priority For Garoppolo On A Check Down. Also Creating Leans For Deebo, Who Spells Mitchell In The Backfield Because Teams Can't Simply Ignore Mitchell As A None Threat.
Rams Continued To Win Games, But Matthew Stafford’s Play And Control Genuinely Degraded. It's No Secret That The Rams Offense Works Best When Stafford Work. That’s The Only Time The Offense Can Win When Stafford’s QBR Jumps To 100 Plus.
He’s Not Playing “Really, Really Good” He’s Just Not Self-Destructing. More Often He, Stafford, Finds Himself Pitted as Just An Accomplice To Cooper Kupp’s Exploits Of Greatness. Sean McVay Acuity And OBJ’s Assumed Resurgence. And A Scapegoat Of All.
The Rams Offense Excels On Nearly Every Facet Of The Game. As Noted By Football Outsider. It's An Offense That Doesn’t Yield Or Pull Under Any Circumstance. That means down and Distance, not to mention field position. Stafford and Kupp Are peddling top efficiency in Nearly every major statistical category
They Weren't Shy In Demonstrating Their Propensity For Flipping Field position On The Penultimate Sunday Pass.
Jimmy G Continues To Hold Guard As The X-Factor For Niners This Season And May Have To Hold Rank As The Fall Guy. If Niners End This, Another Promising Era, Without A Trophy. Questions about His Skill Cane Up After The Super Bowl, But No One Bother To Question Whether The Niners Would Be Better Off Without Him. Now With Trey Lance, Another Young Quarterback Capable Of Running Kyle Shanahan’s Illustrious Offense. Those Questions Are Upfront.
Not So Much For The Sub 200 Yard Games.
They’ve Won Without Them.
It's the Invariance Of Jimmy G.
Profootballfocus Focus Notes That “G” Has One Of The Lowest Big Time Throw Rate But One Of The Highest Turnover Rates. He’s Judicious And Accurate, But He’s hapless and Mishap Prone. Its A Dizzying Conundrumed.
Thankfully, The Offense Doesn't Call On Him To Be The Hero Or MacGyver A Offensive Set Or Two.
The Offenses Principles Are Ground On The Ideal of staying Ahead Of The Chains On Downs, Take What The Defense Surrenders And Make More.
It's The Niners Are Designed To Exploit The Rams Vulnerabilities.
Jimmy G’s Stateline Suffered In Part due to Drops, Not necessarily His Prowess.
Of The Three Time Division Foes Have Met Each Other In The Playoffs, The Sweeping Victor Has Won Three-Time.
49ers 30
Rams 20.
13 Second, say It Loud.
“13 Seconds”
Don't Be Shy About It. Even Shouted at The Top Of Your Voice, it doesn't Sound Like a Remarkable Amount Of Time.
Research as Revealed That “Binary” Decisions, Red Or Blue, Those Oh So Critical Choices We Never Make Day to Day. Those Can Collapse From thought decision and into action In The Briefest Moments, 200-250 Milliseconds.
In Thirteen Second You Could Run 100 Hundred Meters—the Average Olympic Sprinter Finishes At Around ten Seconds. The Average person could clock in around 15.
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You can Send Risky DM To Your Future Soulmate. OR not, Don’t Rush Into It, Son.
All Of These Life-Altering Choice Can be Yours In A BLINK. Also, You can win the latest, most significant game in NFL History(again).
We live in a world Where Everything Important Must Be “Hyper.” Hyperinflation, Hypertension, hyperbole, Hyper intensive, hyper Beam, Hyperdrive.
When It Came Time To Force the Late Sunday Game Into Extras, The Chiefs Broke The Class. They Had To Be Hyper efficient.
Machine, I Mean, Mahomes, Put The Passing Offense Into warp—Hyperspace Flux Capacitors Ceumbled at His Will.
The Suddenness Of This Passing Offense More Than Anything Else Can Be It's actual Lethality Rather Its Weapons And Schematics.
Lets See. We Had The Overtime Coin Flip And Then Suddenly The Longest Two Minutes of Football Ended.
Then the weapons and the schematics take effect, and it’s another level. When Mahomes Connected Tyreek Hill On The Penultimate Touchdown Hills Converted A Ten Yards To 64 In The Blink Of An Eye. It’s And Unsurprising But Unexpected Occurrence. “Hill’s the only receiver in the NFL who can consistently go from 0 to 10 mph in less than one second. Hill's average top speed within the first second of a route (10.19 mph) is faster than any route runner.”
That’s Easy To State, Incomprehensible to Put In Frames. The Dynamics Of How Hill works, That Motioning, it's Agape-Ing.
He’s A Bee In Bottle With A Stick Of Dynamite stuck to its. He Kind Of Flitters Around, Sparks And Then Combust. According To Next Gen Stats Hill Clock 20 Plus Miles Per Hour Twice On Catch A Run. Good For Fifth and Third Fastest Over The Weekend.
In The School Of a Counter Punches, Being Methodic And Poised Are a wise And Astute Recommended Measure For Winning. Control Your opponent's Explosiveness would Seem Prudent.
But Explosive Team with Greater Weapons, They Tempt Teams into Playing Their Style.
It's A Greater Excercise Of Will To Force A High Power TEAM to Slow Down In playoffs Thats TrueIn Basketball And Football. ITS THE Philosophy The Titans Employ And It's Worked, But It's tenuous Formula For Late In games.
One high Octane Influencing Another Team To Speed Up. Easily Achievable. It's Because Of style Points. Explosive plays demoralize one team and Inspire Another.
Teams Are Keener To Respond In Similiar fashion Even If It Subverts The Traditional Game. Similar To High School And College Basketball Teams Used TheFull Court Press To Scatter And Daze opponents Into High Paced Reckless Basketball. Which Plays To The Aggressors Advantage.
The Cheif Plays This Style Because It Disoreintates a Defense LAte In the Game When Their Offense Still Has Enough charges In Their BAck Pocket. Not To Mention A Rocket Taking A 8 Yards Drive Route To The House.
But Few Team In The NFL is Build Like The Bengals, who Can, Turn Bursts Of Energy To The End-zone Explosion With Equal Elite suddenness as The Cheifs.
Two Players Bested Tyreek’s Speed This Week. One Bills Running Back Isaiah McKenzie and NumberOne, Bengals Wideout Jamar Chase(21.07)
Quarterback Joe Burrow had 12 completions of 50 Plus yards This Season, According To An Article Written In The Athletic. Five Of Which Belong To Chase, Another Two Belong To Tee Higgins. Not only can Chase Be as Excitable, but He Can also Be As Elusive.
On A Design bootleg, Roll-Out Burrow Hit Chase On A Two Yard Check Down Rolling To His Right As Chase Slips Across The Two By Two Formation With Chase In the slot And Out of The backfield. It’s A play Designed more To Amileorate Pressure On Burrow An Attack An Aggressive Pass Rush, More Than To Get Chase The Ball In Open Feild.
The Bengals Succeed On Both Fronts But Chase Finds Trouble Waiting.
The Titans 1st Level(Lineabkers And Nickels Not in Drop Coverage) Sniffs It Out Because Its Chase, They Know The Assignment Here. They Descend On Chase Before He Can Turn Up Feild, Only To Have The Bengal’s Rewciver Slip Through Two Tacklers, Who Themselves Collapse On Each Other, And Glide Up Feild For another 10 Plus Yards.
Ignore The Crudely drawn Arrows. Mindful Art
Burrow’s Unlocked Proficiency With The Deep Ball Puts The Bengals Offense In Rarified Air.
It’s a Fact That’s Both Incredible And Dissembling. On the Play In Question. Chase took a two Yard Route, If That, and Turned Up Field For 57 Yards. It's the Trend. The same Song Ripped Through The winds When Chase Took Off for 72 against the Chief’s Week 17.
Not That Burrow hasn't Accomplished Deep Thrower. HE has A LONGEST completed Air Yards Of 55.6.
Air Yards Are the Amount Of Yards The Ball Travel.
His Proficiency Dips With Distance. He’s Below 50% In Completion Percentage On Passes 20 Plus Yards Or More, what Pro Football Focus Defines as Deep.
Burrow Averages Over 30 Per Target On Such Throw But Failed To Record Any Against The Titan’ 3 Deep Scheme. Not the favorite Of the Chiefs, their Man To Man Remains Exploitable.
The Bengals Are No Longer The Underdogs. Joe Burrow made Sure To Extinguish That Distinction And Its Misnomer(Bengals Are Cats). To dissuade him of the miracle he’s pursuing In, Beating The Chiefs Twice in Five Weeks, would be Taller Order Than What’s He Has For Him—Besting The Cheifs Under Any Circumstance.
These Chiefs Aren't The Chiefs Of Old. But They're The Best Replica Of Themselves Anyone Has Ever Produced, Not since the Patriots. No Other Franchise Has Built An AFC Dynasty.
They May Have Their Toughest Challenge On This Round To Patrick Mahomes’s Second Ring At Hand. The Bengals Don’t Have The Secondary The Bills Have, But That Didn't Save Buffalo From A Crushing defeat . They do. However, Cincy Have A Pass Rusher. Chubba Hubbard and Trey Hendrickson.
Not To Mention, The Chiefs Deployed A Lot Of Man Coverages And Bracketed Stephon Diggs To Keep Him Quiet.
Gabriel Davis Thrive As Consequence. Playing Man At That High Rate Against Jamar Chase, Tyler Boyd, And Tee Higgins Could Prove Disastrous.
An argument can be made The Chiefs Offense Won Out Because Of The Coin Toss. A stroke Of Luck, Even chance. You Could Feel The Deflated Disposition In Josh Allen Who Had The Call. “Tails.” forget The Math: the Wrong Answer, No Answer.
When The Judge Said Heads Not Tails
Allen Slumped. Perhaps, Prescient. He Wouldn’t Get The Ball Back. We Knew How It Ended.
These Are Both Top Ten Offense, Peaking As The Season Sets. Both Defensive fronts are formidable; offensive Lines Can Be Vulnerable.
Assume A Shootout. Chiefs And Bengal Are Another Rematch Game That Carried Over From The Season. In the Week 17 Matchup, Burrow went 30-for-39 for 446 yards, four touchdowns, and no interceptions. Chase had 11 catches on 12 targets for 266 yards and three touchdowns. It was an all-out offensive explosion.
Entering A Shootout With The Mahomes That’s tantamount to Playing Russian Roulette with Joker. Your Best Bet. Keep The Game and Running Until The Cylinder breaks.
Steely Nerves. The Stomach To Press Through Precarious Matters, Joe Burrow.
“He’s so accurate. He sees things so well.”
Joe Mixon Would Be The X-factor. Buffalo Got Early Effectiveness Out Of Their Rushing Offense, But Later It Got absorbed As An Ancillary Augmentation For Josh Allen.
After heading the Bengal’s Offense into the Season, Joe Mixon Quickly Became An Afterthought After Chase and Burrow Took Off. Mixon Had Enough To Finish Third In Total Rush Yards But Remained An Afterthought In These Playoffs, Just Barely Over 102 Yards. The chiefs' secondary has soft spots, but the rush defense is Wounded. Mixon had A Touchdown Against Tennesee But Remained Quiet Most of the Game.
The Chiefs Rushing Offense has been the best al postseason In Yardage. That’s More A Credit To Creative Play Design As Opposed To Stifling Talent Coming Out Of The Backfield.
The Chiefs are sizable Favorites Despite The Outcome Of The Previous Matchup. But I Think No Two Teams are this Evenly Matched.
In The Words if Urban Philosopher Young Thug
“hustlers don't stop; they keep goin' (yeah)
You can lose [it All], but it gon' keep goin'
Why not risk life when it's gon' keep goin'? (Yeah)
When you die, somebody else was born
But at least we got to say”
Bengals 24
Chiefs 30
