The AFC Just Went Top See Turvy.

Week 15.

Now We're Hitting a Stride. "Going Back-to-Back." The Chiefs Took A Break From Their Winning Ways Now it is Back To That.

If You watched  The Thursday Nigh Broadcast Of Charger Vs. Chief, You Know Just One Of Few Pivotal Matchups On The Horizon In The Mercurial And Ever Crowded AFC This Weekend. Then You Heard The Buzz.

The Critical Decisions Of Charger's Coach Brandon Staley, “Be Aggressive”, That For Better Or worse Made The Difference Of The 34-28 Win For The Chiefs. Before Star Tight end Travis Kelce Broke Through The Charger's Secondary, Barrelling Downhill Like Some Out of Control Golem, Stomping Home The Exclamation Mark Of The Chiefs Come Back Win.  On The Opposite End Of The End, A Place At The Onset, There Happened, Another Play Of Similiar Form. Unpronounced TO Those Watching And The Enterprising, That Play Set The Stage.

The Chargers Left More Than Points On The Field.

They Left A Symbol.

At The Point Of No Return When The Kickoff Went off, Charger's Return Man Took Off.  Some Quick Insight Into The Outcome Of The Game Came Flashed Within The Excitement Of The Game And That Moment The Clock Breaks Hold. It's A Twitch Of Light, There, A Microcosm For The Game The Chargers Played, Found In The 75 Yard Kickoff Returned That Got The Divisional Matchup Started.

Perhaps An Omen. One Of The Rare Moments In The Sport.  Happening To Epitomize So Much Of What Had Yet To Come In The 4 Quarter And Overtime That Followed It. Watching It, All Unfold.

H. Butker kicks 64 yards from KC 35 to LAC 1. A.Roberts to KC 24 for 75 yards. You Kind Of Knew Or At Least Got The Sense; The Chargers would Fail To Seize This Game When The Moments Arise. A Caravan Of Blockers formed Around Ward. He’d Already TAken Chase, To return The Game Ball From Whence It Came.  

Ward Spilt The Containment Of would be Tacklers. Cut Across A defender. Exhilarating as The Sea of Bodies In His Wake Mounted and Mounted In A Deluge of Waves desperate Deterrents.

Then Open Fields Sprung Loose Before Ward. The Final Line Of opposition Approached.

The Kicker. No fret. So Too Had Extra Blockers.

With One Man To Beat. Preparations For a Raucous Home Celebrations Begun To Materialize. Never Mind The Redzone. Ward Saw the Endzone. In Weighted Division Matchups, Special Team Can Mean All The Difference. Cautious Steps Became Confident Ones.

Then Ward Just Kind Of Stumbles And Trips Down, Yeah...

They were bringing An Mostly Anticlimactic End To A Play That brought Life To The Charger's Team Need Sumptuous Momentum With The Climbing Chiefs Ahead And The Rest of The AFC Tethered To Their Spot in The Playoffs.

Ward Sprung Up.

He And His Teammates Into  Frenzying With  Excitement.  What Had they  Accomplished? Had Ward Been Aware Of What He had Just Achieve?

Thursday Night Could Have Been  The Biggest Game of The Season. For the Chargers. This Opening May Be Look Back Upon As The Game, Season, Division, Conference Shifting Moment. Erupting Out of The Least Likeliest of Places. Kick Return Yards Across The NFL Were Down. The Chargers Offense(6th), Amongst the Best Before Two Drop, Passes On Third And Fourth Down Near The Endzone, Left The Charger Drive Dead On Arrival And  The Offensive Series Ending With Zero Points For The Chargers. This Result Would Be Only More Foreshadowing.

 On Three Separate occasions In The Game, The Chargers Drove The Ball Down Into the Chief's territory twice inside the Kansas City 5-yard-line; the Results; two Failed fourth down Conversions and  One fumble, Zero conversion.

The Analytic And Situation Jargon That Underscore The 4th And Goal To Go Is Always Opaque. Had Mike Williams Not Dropped A Pass On Third Down And Darnold Parham Jr. Not Suffer A Hazardous Fall. How would We Have Judge Brandon Staley?

The Chargers Lost To Come Down To An Overtime Touchdown, That Mostly Rest On The Shoulders Of An Inept Defense. The Chargers Lead By A Touchdown Heading Into The final Minutes of The The Game. That's When The Defense Caught A Bid With the "Frights." Missed Tackles. Blown Assignments. The Chargers Defense Wanted Absolutely Nothing To Do With Mahomes On Those Final Drives, And It Showed. Mahomes, Finished The Night with three scores,  31-of-47 passing for 410 Yards; 12 of Those went To Tyreek Hill, Who Finished With 148 yards and a touchdown. All Of Mahomes Touchdowns Came In the Second half, Including The Game winner. He Completed The Game With A 116.4 passer rating, Per ProFootballFocus.

"It didn't go down for us today, but we gave ourselves an opportunity," said Staley.

In Football,  Opportunities To Win Are All A Coach Can Ask Opportunities Are what Employ Some Coaches Over Others Because Some coaches Are Better At Creating "Opportunities" Than Others. Therefore Coaches  Scheme.  Minus the Inerrant fourth Downs, Add One Tackle.  We Could Be Having A  Different Conversation Right Now.  

Staley's Temerity Shouldn't be To Blame. The Chargers Have Lost A few Close Matchups' This Season, And It All Comes To Execution. 

Once The Play Turned to Overtime. It Took The Chiefs 4 Play. 3 Completion. Numerous Missed Tackles An missed Opportunities to Surrender The Game

Justin Herbert didn't Have A "spectacular" Game. He Finished With 236 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception on 22-of-38 passes. Head-to-head And Mahomes Weren't So Far off From One Another In Performance. Mahomes' Had A 66% completion Percentage with An Average depth of Target Of 6.7. The Chief's Quarter Back's Teammates Made The Difference for Him. Travis Kelce Finished with 104 Yards After The Catch.

 To Locate The Critical Point of His Game And for The Charger  Aim At the completion Percentage. Herbert Got His primary Target Keenan Allen Back. They Hooked Up six times for 78 Onn 10 targets. What Earnestly Hurt  The Chargers, The Chargers And May have Made the Differences; Drops. The Scoreboard counted Two, But Those Were Crucial.

 Herbert Completed 57.9 %, With An Average Depth Of Target Being 9.9. He Shot His Shot Across The Line of Scrimmage More Than Half the Time. But His Adjusted Completion Percentage of 70.6% Tells A Different Story. Adjusted Takes Drops into Account. That Nearly A 14% Percentage Difference in Efficiency And A One Score difference in the end.

The Chargers Defense Got Eviscerated. Pressuring Mahomes 15 times But Only coming Away with One Sack (6.7). Not To diminish Anything The Chiefs Accomplished, but The Chargers Lost This Game.

The Win Keeps the Chiefs Overtook the Patriots In The AFC Playoff Picture After The Aftermath Of Saturday's Affairs. The Chiefs Have Moved Into place as The Favorite To Represent The AFC As A Result. How "Good" Are The Chiefs? That's a question Of Situation, Perspective.

Judging Based On Thursday Night Against the Chargers, a Game The Chiefs  Should Have Lost. But Some Of The Sour Luck Mahomes Ran Into earlier In the Season Has Now Turn To Favor. The Defense Has Climbed From Being One The Worst in The League History, Giving up Thirty or more five Of The First 6 Game. The Other Game, Opening Night, held The Browns To Just 29. They've Surrendered twenty Or more Twice Since. Moving  Into The Middle Of This Year Pack . Defensive Tackle Chris Jones Has Mounted The Most Pressure In The NFL Since week 7. Patrick Mahomes Put a Safety On The Rifle So To Say. Just Three Interceptions in His Las Six, After Having At Least One In first Eight. Both Travis Kelce And Tyreek Hill Are Over A Thousand Yards On The Season, But It's Been The Product of A Mix Bag. Of Explosive Game, Kelce 191 Yards Thursday, And Somnolent  Ones, Kelce's Back To Back 27 yard Games The Week Prior.  The chiefs Are Built To Thrive On The Missteps of Other Teams, Who Haven't Reached KC's level Of As Experience Yet. That 24% Percent chance, They Share With The Patriots To Make It To The Superbowl Is Miles Above Anyone Else In The AFC, But There will Have To be More  Convincing On The Part Of The Chiefs.  This Team Hasn't Moved  Miles Above Any Other Potential Contender In The Conference. Especially considering The Colts Have A Rushing A Attack That The Charger's Lack. So Do The Pats. In A Shootouts, It Would Be Reckless To bet Against the Chiefs But Head To Head, Its Anyone Conference To Lose In The AFC.

Speaking Of: Hitting A Wall.

Mac Jones Threw A Pass And Then Another. That's When Things Became Sketchy. Would They Do It? A run. Then The Ball Hit the Dirt, And Then another Pass—a Run and The Another Pass for Good Measure. The Patriots Return To Modern Football In A few Drives, But Even without The Anachronism Of Play C, coach Bill Belichick And Co. couldn't Score Enough Points In Enough Time To Save The Game.

 The Patriot's Drives Never Came Together. Mac Jones Through Two Interception Over The Middle Of The Field. Over The Middle Happens To Be Where The Colts Stud Linebacker Darius Leonard Lurks. His Pick, Along with fellow Prowler Bobby Okereke had interceptions That Kept The Patriots Scoreless Through Three Quarter. The duo allowed Only  47 yards and two first downs In coverage. The former Defensive Rookie Of The Year, Leonard Became The Benefactor of An Aggressive Of Timed Pass Over The Middle Of The Endzone. Okereke Play A Ball Thrown Well Into The Flat, As Jones Sought To connect with His Check Down.

At That rather Sums Up The Offense For The Pats, It Never Seemed To come Together for Them. Mac Jones Finished 26/45 for 299 The Most Passing Attempts Of His Career With His Arm Well Rested.  A 56.4% On An average Depth of Target Of 11.2, Second Highest This Season. Jones took Looks Down Field Often This Game. He Connected with Tight End Hunter Henry 6 Times For 77 Yards A 6 first Downs, But As Corp, Patriots receiver Only Accrued 31 Yards After Catch. The Colts' defensive backs Stymied the Patriots' downfield passing attack. They were allowing a few big plays. Turnovers Force The Pats Away from The Run. 17 Points In The fourth Quarter Made The End Result More Cosmetic Than A True Representation of The Game. The Patriots Out Gained The Colts By 90 Yards (365 To 275), But The Minus One turnover Differential Made The Difference, And A Block Punt Recovered for Touchdown That Put the Colts Up Two Scores Before The Half 14-0.

The Colts Run Game, Better Regarded As "the Positive Yard Steamroller," Continued To Churn, And Trudge For Yardage The Team To Another Win. Producer Bottle Up. As It's Been For Seven Straight weeks Now.

The Colts Utilize Their Stable Of running Back In A Number A Variance.

Jonathan Taylor Took Control of The  Colts Offense. He Singlehandedly  Manned The Carrie against New England. Another Sterling Game Of production Rushing for 170 yards, including the game-clinching 67-yard touchdown, on 29 attempts. A Sumptuous  120 after contact and  1.5 yards before contact.

The Highlights Of Taylor Just Nose Diving, Plowing Through Holes Or Making Holes Where Ones Wouldn't Open in Pats Wall of The Defenders; A herculean performances. When Taylor wasn't engaged In Making Holes For Himself, He Was Blocking For His Running Back Mate

Backup Nyheim Hines. Hines Got forced Off Of Carrying Duties But Picked A touchdown In The. Receiving's Game. With Taylor As The Lead Blocker.

The Patriots Fascinated the football world With Their three Passing Attempt Game. The Colts Took Up A Similar Banner.

Carson Wentz Who Is Having A Quietly Exceptional Season. Twenty -two Touchdown, Five Interceptions. Nothing Rousing of Stimulating But The Former First Round Pick Knows His Role Now. Against The Patriots, He only completed 5-of-12 passing attempts for 57 yards and an interception, and he completed just one pass that traveled more than 10 yards in the air.

Number 1 wide Receiver Michael Pittman Jr. Went Out Of the Game Early.

The Aftermath: Playoff Picture.

The Colts have All But Secured A Playoff Spot, Winners Of seven of their past nine games. They are going Two For Three In The coming Weeks. With The Titans Falling On Sunday, The Colts Have Momentum And A Shot To win The Division. The Charger Will Most Likely Keep Their Spot And Their Aggressive ways. The AFC Wild Card Race Is No Place for The Timid. The Patriots Fall from Atop Of The Mountain. Fortunately, The Depth of the Fall Can Only Be Concluded Once Most Of The Week 15 Final Game  Assessments Are Complete.  The Chiefs Reign Supreme, And Now Mahomes And Reid Can Run Away With Conference For The Third Straight Season.