NFL Conference Finals Review.
The 49ers Got Their 12 Game Winning Streak Snap By A Hyper-flexed Elbow. The Bengals Had Their Tale End Of 10-Game Winning Streak Pulled.
"- Jen Yu: It must be exciting to be a fighter, to be free.
- Yu Shu Lien: Fighters have rules, too. Friendship, trust, integrity. Always keep your promise. Without rules, we wouldn't survive long." (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.)
How Jalen Hurts Targets The Middle Of The Field On Drop Backs Will Have A Monstrous Effect On The Eagles Success Against.
When Hurts Dropsback In Shotgun Or Empty, He Crouches Down, Knee Bent Like A Squat, Almost To Hidden Until He Spring Up. Most Quarterbacks Stand Tall—because They're Tall—Like Giraffe So They Can Glean Information From The Defense; Hurts Doesn't Seem To Take This Approach. Depending On The Depth Of His Drop, He Might Have A View Over His Center, Jason Kelce But Not a Strong One. This Style Intimates All Or The Lion Share Of Hurts's Processing Happens Post Snap After He Springs Up Right And Ready To Throw. Hurts can Also Scramble Or Hit Design Runs From That Position, But In Neither Case Will He Avoided Confronting With All-Pro Fred Warner On The Field Or In His Psyche. He Hasn't Sat Down Well, Still Wiping His Eye And Fitting His undergarment When A Reporter Posts A Question For Hurt.
Every Throw Jalen Hurts Attempts Ways Heavy On His Team Chance to Go Forward. This Sunday Against The Niners.
The Niners Have Predators Scouring And Lurking Over The Middle Of Field, Real Great White Shark Types In Fred Warner and Dre Green Law.
Those are Atlas's Shoulders. "It's my opportunity; it's my team," Jalen Hurts said. He's The Switch, The Fulcrum, The Ignition. He's The Alchemist That Binds Everything Together For This Team. No Matter How The Eagles Want To Go About Tackling The Opposition.
Hurts Fell From Atop The National MVP Race, But In That Locker, he's The MVP. Now To whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected.
Through The Doubts, The Eagles Have Given Hurts All The Required Of Any "Style" Of Quarterback To Succeed.
The Offensive Line forms Like Voltron To "Defend" Hurts In The Pocket. The Wide Receivers Unit That Now Includes AJ Brown Rolls Out Like Autobot Around Optimus Prime. The Running Game, The Forgotten Focal Point Run Circle Around Defense. He's had Games Stripe Almost Bear Of Passing Attempts, And It's Not Just A Concepts or Game-plan Specific Tailoring. He's Short For A Quarterback, Standing In At Only 6'1. His Arm Length is average For Anybody, Really. Seeing Throwing lanes Open Whiles peaking Over 6'5 Or Better Offensive Lineman is Hard To Fathom, Much Less Have Success. Hurts to Improve On His Mechanics This Offense. He And I Assume His Quarterbacks Coach Work On Open His Shoulder A lot More.
His Throwing Motion is Lift Up, Set, Then Release Almost Catapult Like Only With Two Motion Not One. One Motion Puts The Shaft In Place Another That activates The Catapult.
The adjustments Added More Arch and Thrust To his Beautiful Deep Ball Pass. Hurts Has Surpassed "The Work" Stage Of Becoming a Polished Passer and Entered The Routine Stage Of Just Acting On All Of the Reps The Knowledge, The Coach-ability. According To Jalen Hurts, The Truth To Elevating Your Play In Big Starts And ends In Settling Into What You've Done Through Every Game Prior.
Brock Purdy Stood On The Sideline with A Disposition Of One Draped in Patience, Eyes Fluttering Left And Right, Waiting For His Chance. Jalen Hurts leads THe Eagles On An early Drive To A Touchdown. The Eagles Mounted The First Seven Points on The Board.
The Patience Veneer Evaporated For Only A Moment. All The Wild Speculation About Purdy First NFC Championship Game, No One Would Fathom Purdy Would Go More Than Two Hours Between Pass Attempts. "After The First Drive, I Just Felt Frustrated." Brock Said After The Game. The Usual Quick-Footed Purdy Had No Chance Against This Eagles Front. The Niners Quarterback Situation Took Another Turn. Something Like One Of Those Carnival Rides That Take Another Dip Or Swerve Or A Kanye West Beat That Switches Pace Mid Way Long after You Thought The Twist Ans Turn Had Subsided. The True Test Of Kyle Shanahan's Augmenting Green Lantern Ring Would Land In The Hands Of Josh Johnson. With Jimmy G and Trey Lance looking into Another Week Another Game On The Sideline, The Niners Offense struggle. The Play Calling Produce One Touchdown, Mostly Spearheaded By Christian McCaffrey And The Run Game. The Niners' Offense Produced 164 Total Yards, 84 BelongTo McCaffrey On The Ground. The Niners Moved From A Quarterback Who Hadn't Thrown A Pass All Season To A Quarterback Who Couldn't Throw A Pass Once He is Entered The Game. Between Brock And Josh Johnson, The 49ers Completed One Pass That Traveled Over 10 Or More Yards. When Johnson Connected With George Kittle For 22 Yards Before A Concussion Would Up End His Day. Reports Eventually Came Down That Purdy Suffered A UCL injury And Could No Longer Throw The Ball. "Just Pain All Over His Elbow," Purdy Said After tHe Game. The Niners Felt The Pain All Over On the Scoreboard. The Eagles, For The Second Week in A Row, Take Off And Build A Lead Higher Than A Sequoia Tree. With Lingering Questions At Quarterback, The Niners Wanted To Play A More Condense Game. Allow The Defense To Control The Board And Possibly Generate Missteps. For A While the Strategy Worked. Despite The Eagles Dominating Time Of Possession, they had 25 More Plays. An Injured Quarterback Who Could Throw A Pass But Played Questionably Conservative; Nick Siriani's Offense Only Generated 3.8 Per Play (.2 More Than The Niners.) Jalen Hurts Passed For 121 Yards, 15/25 0 Touchdown 8.1 Per Completion 72.3 Rating. Hurts Has Needed to Play Good Football Since The Injury. In This Game, Outside Of That one Controversial Explosive Play To Devonta Smith, He Didn't Need To Achieve Much. Hurts added 39 Yards On The Ground and One Touchdown.
" They Didn't give Us Too Many Opportunities To Take Shots Down The Field," Hurts Said Of The Niners Defense. "We Work Hard To Earn This Opportunity. Definitely Some Things We're Going To Learn From." The Running Game Found enough Success To Play The Clock And Keep The Scoreboard At An Intimidating Enough Height To Hold The Niners. "As The Times change, The Character Remains The Same." Jalen Hurts said.
The 49ers Struggle With Turnovers(3), Fumbles—Two Sack Fumbles. Given The Niners Could Throw A Pass, Interceptions Were Off The Table. The Niners Fumble Blessed The Eagles With Excellent Field Position, and Before The Half, The Eagles Took The Lead Up 21–7.
A First Quarter Sack By Hasson Riddick—Who Crushed The Giants First Drive Last Week—Hyper Extended Brock Purdy's Arm. The Other Half To AJ Brown In The Eagles Golden Offseaon Finished With two Sacks And Three Pressures(Which Includes The Sacks) Total. The Play In Which Purdy Suffered The Injury May Have Forced The Eagles Off Of More SackS After The Niners Switch To A Run-Focused Attack. Regardless, The Eagles are Stuck With What Brought them Here. Passing The Ball Hurt, At 1.5, Including A Couple Of Screens. They Helped Very Little. No bandages For A Beat Of This Caliber. Christian McCaffrey Produced Most Of The Niners Offense, And He Looks Like The Only Threat On This Powerful Roster. Brandon Aiyuk Caught One Pass. Deebo Samuel Had No Way in No Way Out On Anything The Niners Tried To Achieve With Him In The Back Field Or Out comprehensive Or Any Other Wide-back Scenario. If Anything, I think we understand That Purdy Might Have More To offer The Niners Than Just Another Cog In The System.
The Niners Defense Played A Strong First Half, almost Holding The Eagles To 7 Points Before The Trouble Struck.
"Self-Inflicted Wounds. "All Pro Linebacker Fred Warner said. Those Wounds Came In The Form Of Penalties. A Number According To ESPN Referee John Hussey's Crew issued The Third fewer Penalties This Season. Still, Sundays Affair Contradicted That Matter. It Sees Those Struck Hard AgainsT The Forty Niners Who Lost A Couple Of Stops Thanks To Back End Penalties.
"Wasn't Our Day." Warner Continued.
Chiefs Vs. Bengals
I Don't Know If You're Like Me—Probably Not— And Hate Injuries Or Anything Of The Sort. I Play Basketball, And I'm Not Injury Prone at All, But If I do Or When I Get Sick, I'm A Baby About. That New Adage About Guys Who Can't Take A Little Cold Or Flu Without Wrapping Like A Child, That's Me. (Just So You Know, Ladies.) Patrick Mahomes Suffered Sustained A Gruesome High Ankle Sprain On Sunday. He Returned To Field And Sealed The Feal Dor. The Chiefs, But Everybody Understands the MVP won't Have Two Good Legs To Stand On Sunday. How God/Evolution Structure The Body a High Ankle sprain Injury Also Has Ramifications on The knee And Support. The Injury Looked Fatalistic At The Time Of The Sack Play. High Ankle Sprains Regularly Cost Two Weeks To Recovery. Mahomes Will Turn To Treatment And Adrenaline For An Resembling "Regular Mahomes If You Can get Mahomes's Play Regular In Any Way.
"I Felt Better Than I Thought Would After The Game." Mahomes Said," I've Done Limited Stuff. In A Small Box Of What I Can Do".
According To Lore, Quarterbacks Have Wolverine Like Healing Properties. Watching Mahomes Already Walking After A 250 Guy Crash Landed On his Ankle doesn't Come as A Surprise. How He Performs With the gimpy Foot might Surprise. He's receiving Hours Of Treatment. He's As Healthy Wednesday As He'll Become Heading Into Sunday.
I'm Not ratifying A New Suppository When I Say Mahomes Doesn't Play Football In A Traditional Sense. His arm angles Are Unique To Him, And By Extension, His Foot Work—When you Throw All Of The Body Works Together— I Won't say He Has Bad Foot Work, But It's More Fluid. His Feet Work Almost Independent To His Body. Mobility, Creativity, And Ad-Libbing Are Integral Parts Of Mahomes's More Than Any Technical Recognition Or Teaching Tape.
From What I Can Tell, He'll Have To Stay In The Pocket And operate using anticipation and processing with much of his patent-scattering histrionics. No Matter How Reid, Benimey, Or Nagy Want To Call The Game, Mahomes Will Have To Play Clean. The Chiefs, In The Words Of DmX, "Baby, I am what I am, I'm gon' be who I will be (uh)" (Back In One Piece). Everything The Team Practiced This week. They've Practice Before. On Top Of The Fact That They've Seen The Bengas's Approach To Winning, The Strategy Doesn't Change Only The Execution. Jessie said that The NFL is a Billion Dollar Industry, and The Chiefs Would Exhaust Every Means At Their Disposal To Put Mahomes On The Field.
In The Battle Of The Best Banter, Things Turned In Favor Of The Hunted, Not Hunter. This Rendition Of The Chiefs Has Never Beaten These Bengals. With One Drive And The Two Minute Drill In Effect, Joe Burrow Had one More Drive To Extend Their Lease For The Rights To "Burrowhead." A Chiefs' Punt Planted The Bengals Near Their Own End. The Bengals Offense Had Two Choices Before The Half. Play With Ruthless Aggression. Use Burrow And surgically Move The Ball Through The Air(Accordingly As The Chiefs' Defense Responds) And Go For The Win.
2, Play Conservative Burn Clock, Mix Run, And Pass Options A d Prevent The chiefs From Securing Another Possession.
The Bengals Tried To Play The Game Both Ways, Almost To Perfection, And Got Caught In The Middle. The Benga Secured One First Down On A Third Pass From Burrow to Hayden Hurst, But Pressure Penalties And a Closed window Scrambled The Rest Of The Drive. The Bengals Called Zone timeout That Stop The clock, Then Joe Burrow Took A Sack Beck. That's what Joe Burrow's Wired To Do In Those Situations. The Bengals Punted Without Crossing The Half Field Line Nor Killing the Clock. Two Critical Plays Later For The Chiefs, Including some Special Teams Heroics And A Crucial Scramble and Penalty, Gave The Chiefs The time and Yards Necessary To End The Nightmare And Get Joe Burrow Off Their Backs. That Personal On Osai As Mahomes Trekked Out Of Bounds. You Could See From The Angles That Number 21 Tried To Stop Him From Running Into Mahomes.
Outside of a Slight Limp, Mahomes Showed Little Ill Effects From His Injury. If You'd Woking Up From A Coma Yesterday, You Wouldn't Have Know He We were injured— Obviously, Other Than When The Announcers Mention The Matter. I Think This Game Represents The Most Composed I've Seen Mahomes Play. He Suppressed The Inclination To Switch To Violence Mode; he Even Threw A Check Down. A Check Down. He Still Found Time To Perform Some Mahomes Stuff, Rolling To His Left, Throwing Across The Field, In The Middle Of Traffic.
Mahomes Still Managed To Average 10.9 Yard. He Registers A Passer Rating Of 104.3, Allowed The Commerce Of The Game-plan Over The W. Mahomes Found Time To Navigate Within The Confines Of What's Expected Of A Quarterback In The Traditional Sense. He Finished With 2.94 Seconds, And On 43, He Collected 326 Yards— I dont Think Anyone Saw That Much Coming— To Go Along With Two(2) Touchdowns.
The Chiefs Offense Used Travis Kelce Like The Glorified Jumbo Slot Receiver. Kelce Caught 7 passes, And The Bengals, Who Usually Have The Answer For The Chiefs, Didn't Matchup Too Well With Kelce Down The Field.
The Presumptive MVP Will Face The Man Most Thought Could Take The MVP Away From Mahomes. Joe Burrow Didn't Have His Cool On Throughout This One. Not Cool Enough. He Took The Glut Of Sack Early In the First Half, Four Before The 10 Minute Mark And Finished With Five(5) Total. He Looks Frigidity Almost In The Pocket. He Threw Away A Couple Of Balls Over The Middle.
Nevertheless, Sacks Don't Sink Burrow. Even In A Wreckage, His Ship Sets Sail For The Promise Of Paradise. he Kept Coming Connecting with Tee Higgins On A Shaq-Like Jump Ball Passes To Cross The End Zone. Cincy Ties The Game 13-13. The First Complete Drive For The Bengals Coming After The Intermission.
Another Bu Pass To Jamar Chase, who Had a Quiet Game By His Standards, Set The Bengals Up At The Edge Of The End-zone. Chase Leap Over Two Chiefs to Take In A 35 Yard Pass By Burrow. The Chiefs Left Some Points On The Board Before The Half, had To Settle For A Field Goal, And Simply Didnt Make Plays Down The Stretch. "you Always Go Out There Expecting To Win The Game." Joe Burrow Said, "That's Not Always How It Turns Out."
Joe Burrow Stated In A Press Conference This Week that When He Watches Games On TV, He Can't Recognize The Defensive Coverages; Me Either. Unlike Burrow, Though, The Angles On the Screen Don't Create My Visual Dissonance; I Just Can't Read Coverages. You're Most Likely In The Same Boat. No shame About it, Especially If You're Watching The Bengals; very Few Quarterbacks Register The Coverages Responsibilities Of The Bengals Secondary Before The Walls Cave In. The Bengals Are Masters Of Disguise Or, better stated, Master Of Rarely Giving the Same coverage From The Same Look. Mahomes Had Some Trouble On Occasion Reading The Defense, But He Managed Quite Nicely.
He Sails A Few Balls Into The Small Creases The Sunlight Broke Through. He Connected Well With The Out Stretch Of Marquez Valdez-Scantling. The Former Packer Scantling Caught 6 Passes For 116, 19.3 Yards Per Reception, and One Touchdown and Lead The Chiefs Remolded Receiving Unit. Scantling Caught The Chiefs Responding Touchdown Out Of The Half To Put The Chiefs up 20-13, A Lead They Wouldn't Relinquish. The Bengals Would Ultimately Toe The Game 20-20.
The Chiefs Deny The Bengals Back To Back Super Bowl Championships, Back To Conference Championships, and Another Storyline Another Press Release About The Bengals Having The Chiefs Number. Mahomes Had To Win One Of These Matchups, Right.
