NFL Divisional Round Playoff Takeaways.

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The Reason Why Playoff Experience Doesn't Count For Much In The As In The NBA Or Even baseball. Both Teams Facing Have One Game To Make All Their Adjustment, Diagnoses, Strategies, And Recognizance, And Information Gathering That's Put Into Play. No Seven Game Series To Rewatch The Tape— I Can't Imagine Having stomach the Tape From A Playoff Lost Must Be For Players. Maybe Thats The reason Why Stefon Diggs Ran Out of The Stadium After the Bills. Few Things In Life Are As Tough As Having One Shot To Get Your Best Correct All Game Long.

Only The 17 Game Regular Season-So Drawn Out As It Becomes— Can Prepare An NFL Team For The Playoffs. Only NFL Teams Who Have Put Themselves Or Wander Into Every Circumstance Are Condition To Make The Journey Over Three weeks To The Super Bowl. "You have To Condition your Mind, Your Body, Your Everything To Play Ball In January." Jags Head Coach Doug Pederson.

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With Most Of The Strategy But Execution and Who's The Best Team That Day. The Playoffs Are A One-Time Opportunity For NFL Teams To Get Everything They've Executed Over The Season Correct. These Players Won't See Too Many Chances To Overcome The Day. "Chances Are Never Given They Took Like Interceptions." —Meek Mill.

"I've Been Playing In Big Moments all My Career. dating back To College." Tee Higgins Said, Referring to His Days With The Clemson Tigers, Who Played Back To Back National Championship Games, "Just Gotta Go In With Confidence." Nothing Gets The Job Done Like Confidence.

Bengals Vs. Chiefs

The Bengals Played The Final Game Of Wild Card Weekend. I Believe They Had A Chance, if Only Briefly, To let Their Minds Wonder over The Wall Of The Wild Card Weekend And Onto The Yonder Of The Larger AFC Juggernauts. The Bills Came Out Slinging That Rock(Is That A Good Thing To Say) And By No Means Do In Believe Josh Allen Broke Out that Down Field Ballistics Array Just For The Dolphins Starting Their Third String. The Dolphins Gave The Bills A Scare, But Josh Allen's 23/ 39 passing for 352 remains impressive. The Bills Didnt Earn More Yardage In The Passing On The Field Because Of Big Drops By Kahlil Shakir And Dawson Knox. If the Bills Can clean that Aspect Of Their Game Josh Allen Will Run This Offense To The Super Bowl. Drops Are Also Where The Bengals Have A Point Of Reference By Which They Can Win This Game.

Even Without Watching The Game, They know The Defense Has Their Hands For And Bills Are Coming Out Of The Gate, Looking To Ballistic. The Standards And Expectations for This Bengals Team Rise, But They're Not Quite Bills Chiefs Level yet. Then Again, The Bills Aren't Quite Starting On The Defensive Side Of The Ball.

The Bills They Used The Bills Defense Intends To Limit big Plays, Stalk Underneath, and A lot Of Bail Technique Over Trail Technique. Last Season The Bills Defended the Deep pass the Best In The NFL; this Season, Not So Much. The Bills Rank 20th On Deep Passes. According to football Outsiders' DVOA Metric, A Massive Drop off Most Likely A Product Of Attrition, Age, and Turnover. No Team Can Pull Off Historically Good Results in Back To Back Season. Plus, The Bills Didn't Face Tyreek Hill Twice A Year ago.

With Improve Health, The Bills May Take To A Revival Of Sorts, A rededication For What Work So Well Last year. The Bills Invite offenses To Gauge On The Underneath, Then Suffocate Them with The League Best Red Zone Defense. There is A Venus Fly Trap On Defense, Using Sweet Nectar To Lead Prey Along, Then snap Shut. That's What The Bills Attempted In Their initial Matchup With the Bengals. Ted Nuygan Of The Athletic Chronicled The now Lost Tapes Of The Bengals First drive Against The Bills. A deep Attempt From Joe Burrow Forced A I'm Pas Interference Call That Set The Bengals Up In Bills' Territory. What Happens Next, An Artful Demonstration From The Team With The Best Drive Success Rate In The League. A Flurry of Short Yard Gains Included A Short run For Two Yards. Two Joe Burrow Passes 35 Yards Later, The Bengals Are In The End Zone. Burrow Took The Efficiency And Manipulation Of Defenses. He's So Known Up A Notch. The Bengals Aren't The Explosive Fireworks Team From Last Year; they're Surgical, Knowing The Forecast Calls For Heavy Cloud Coverages. Also, The Bengals's Defense Will Get Rained On.

If Josh Allen Focuses His Efforts On His Receivers Who Are Prepared To Bring The Down, The Bills Can Easily Go Toe To Toe, Blow For Blow With The Bengals.

In The Swirl Of Snow Flurries, A Hollering Joe Burrow Swings His Hands Passionate, Almost A Call To The Wild, To Get the Ball Spiked For One Final shot At The End Zone. I've Seen Brady Take The Seem Alacrity On So Many Of His Marches. The Scoreboard Reads 17–7, In Favor Of The Bengals; Time To Throttle Back, MAybe? The Bengals Had 274 Yards At The Half Compared To The Bill's 134 Total Offense. The Bengals Recorded More Yards In The Half Than They Record All Game Against The Ravens. Joe Burrow And Jamar Chase Lost A Touchdown Within The Endless Labyrinth Of Text Known As The Catch Rules(He Didn't Complete The Catch), But The Sense Of Urgency Remains atmospheric. Burrow 18/27, Two Touchdowns Zero Interceptions, But He Risks A Blemish. Burrow Understood A Two Score Game, Against The Best Team In Football With Two Quarters to, That's Tantamount To Playings Down Three. By The Time The Bengals Kick Their Third Field Goal To Go Up 17 Points With A Little Over 11 Minutes In The Fourth Quarter, The Bengals Total Yard Hit 380. The Bills Red Zone Defense Tightened Up, But The Offense Couldn't Convert Drive To Touchdowns The Other Way. There's Temptation To Call The Bengals 27–10 Over The Bills An Upset, Just Like The Temptation To Call LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out." a Comeback But Don't. The Bengals Are Two Years Deep Into One Of The Most Impressive Short Rebuilds In History. Back To Back AFC Championship Appearances, And I Think Cincy Has Only Registered As Favorites Twice In These Past Two Season Playoff Runs. The Odds Are Going To Change As They Prepare To Face The Chiefs For The Second Year In The Row. The Bengals Offense Finished with 412 yards Of Total Offense.

The Bills Won't See The Chiefs In This Year's Playoffs.

They Arrive At The End Of Their Journey In The Divisional Round For The Third Year In A Row.

The Buck stops In The Divisional Round After A Season Of Hype, Promise, And Somewhat Dubiousness.

"I Feel Like We Have Multiple Chances at a Super Bowl," Von Miller said in a surprising press conference. I Can't Say Whether He's Confident Or Self Diluted. Championship Window In The NFL Don't Just Close. They Collapse And Crumble. Von's Injury Already Proved Critical For The Bills Today, Who couldn't Produce Any Pass Rush Against A Very Vulnerable Bengals Offensive Line. The Bills Also Suffered Critical Injuries In the secondary, A Secondary bound for a make-over this offseason. The Bills Offense Will Also Go Under The knife This Off Season. That's Before The Most Critical Element Of competing Arises.

"That's The Reality Of It. Anybody Can Beat Anybody. All Four Team; Jags, Bengals, Chiefs. Any Of Those Could Have Won. Yesterday Wasn't Our Day." Miller Continued.

49ers Vs. Cowboys

Are You In The Purdy Party? Brock Purdy Has Entered The Chat. The Rookie Had The Second best Game Of Any Passer During Wildcard Weekend. He Registers The Third Highest Yardage, But How He Played The Quality. He Got The Ball Downfield With Committing Any Zach Wilson Like Head Hurting Decision. Plaudits No Longer seem To Treat Purdy "Mr. Irrelevant" As A Revelation Borderline Miracle Of A Last Pick. He's Experience Some Success, and Now He's A Target, A taking Point. All Of His Accreditations are filed and ascertained for discredited just as the media did Tim Tebow. He's Polarizing Pistol, A Product Of A System, The Play Calling, And The playmakers. "He's Not Missing The Stuff Kyle Shanahan Schemes Up For Him." (PFF). His Number Are warp By Deebo Samuels Extraordinary Talent Multiplication Effect And Seattle's Failures To Match Crossing Route Over The Middle(Over And Over Again)

Then there are Those In That Party who contrast The View Of Purdy As This Altruistic, "Crazy Good Quarterback," According To JT O'Sullivan From The Qb School. Purdy Has The Capability of Making all The Throws. I'll Side With the Former NFL Quarterback On This Note. Purdy Can Achieve The Immeasurable In This Offense Because Of The Abilities He Brings To The Party. "It's the West Coast system," Mike Lafleur Explained "…we fit it to our players." The System And Talents Allow the coaches To Cycle Aromg Players, "All These Different Guys Who Are Interchangeable ." What Purdy adds To Shanahan's Embarrassment Of Riches At Skill Position Play, His Incredible Agility And Anticipation, Mature, And Makes Good Decisions. Tua In Similar(Twins Really) System has A Similar Skill Set.

He Doesn't Miss A Chance to Strike open.

Purdy Finished The Season With A Passer Rating of 122.7 On Intermediate Throws. Against Seattle Purdy Threw Into Open Windows That Would Make Any Burglar Salivate. Don't Blame Him, Because The Shanahan West Coast System Worked, and the Seattle Defense Didn't Show On All Phases. The Niners Are A Rare Team. At Times I'm Reminded Of The '07 Patriots. Their Offense Unfolds Right Out Of The Box, and Limited Adjustments are Needed Because The Offense Adjustment In On Itself Like A Regenerative Namekian. No Team In Football Has Enough Of A Kitchen Sink To Throw In A Solve The Niners Rubik's Cube Of An Offense. How I See Things, If The Cowboys want Any Chance To Loss a Game Clock Blunder Or A Special Team Faux Pas Mike McCarthy's Offense Has To Match Energies With The Niners. The Raiders Are The Only Offense To Even Rival The Niners In a Game Since Week 4, And They Are Still The Best Model For A Game-plan Approach. The Cowboys Are Going To Have to Use Heavy Formations and a lot of Run Sets. Scratch That, They Need To Use Heavy Formations With Their Three, Two, Maybe Three Tight ends, Get The Quarterback On The Move, Lots Of Play Action, And Trust Your One On One Matchups To The Outside. The Cowboys Have Lots Of Bits And Pieces To Their Offense; that's An Element Not Entirely Unique To Them but Why They're Fun To Watch When they Utilize All Their Toys.

Toys With Bits and Pierces Are Also Choking Hazards.

George Kittle Didn't Let Travis Kelce Finish Alone as The Only Tight End With A Big Catch Weekend. As The Game Progressed And The Drag Wore On, The 49ers Called On George Kittles's Route Running To Make A Play. On A Night When Dallas Cut The Lights Out On Deebo Samuel And Brandon Aiyuk For Most Of The Day, Their Linebackers And Nickels Had To Face Kittle. He GOT down Field From The In Line Match One On One With Anybody. He Showed A Little Hand-Eye Coordination.

Kittle Said He Showed Off For The Camera's Catching That Juggling Pass For Purdy.

Deep In The Fourth Quarter, With The Niners Eager To close Out The Game, Kittle Used A Platform shifting Juke Move To Get Open On The Opposite End Of Dallas's Penultimate Drive. His Final Catch Gave The Niners The First Down, And a Chance To Run The Clock. An Elijah Mitchell 17 Yard run Nearly Clear The Hurdle Of The Cowboys. Mitchell Broke Free On the Edge Thanks To A Block By Kittle But Stepped Out Of Bounds. He Left Everyone flabbergasted By Not Sliding and Staying In Bounds. Still, Fortunately, The cowboys Couldn't make One Last Drive To Save Their Season.

Kittle Had Five Catches(5) For Ninety-Five(95) Yards. Mitchell finished 14 Carries and 51 Yards To Lead The Niners. Brock Purdy Had A Backup Level Game, He Finally, In My Opinion, Showed Some Sign Of the Mr. irrelevant Marks. He Finished 19/29 214, 7.4 Pre Throw. The Cowboy's Defense Got sacked on Him Twice, But Not much after The Second Half. The Cowboys Still Got Pressure On Him Consistently. "credit Dallas for Playing Physical." Brock Purdy Said After The Game.

"Make Them Run AS many Plays As You Can." The Announcer For Fox Enunciates Towards The Niners As Strategy. This Season The Cowboys Again Ran One of The Highest Amount Of Plays, Snaps, and Dropbacks. McCarthy Has The Offensive Talent To Feed The Meter, But They Can Get Induced By Their Love, Their Need For Speed Sometimes. I Believe Lust Get The Best Of Us All, But When The Cowboys's Needed their Gamma Quadrant Deep Play sheet, They Could Summon Any Movement Against The Niners.

"I like to be in those positions," Dak Prescott said After The Game. "We just weren't able to get anything going." (ESPN)

With The Cowboys Pressed Against Their Own End Zone With 50 Seconds On The Clock In A Niners's Defense Could Play Zone, Watch Dak's Eyes Play The Ball As The Cowboys Quarterback Tried To Move Too Fast. The Faster, The Cowboys, Wanted To Run Plays, The More Apt Cowboys Quarterback Dak Prescott Became To Error. The More The War Of Attrition Set In, Through Pressure And Frustrating Miscommunications, The More His Dropback Started To Tilt In San Fransisco's Favor.

He Nearly Dodges A Game Ending Interception To Dre Greenlaw, Who Just Jumps The Route Dak Had His Eyes On. What More Other Routes Came Open as Dak Began To Extend The Game And His Abilities By Scrambling? The Passing Game Always Seem To Revolve, Orbit Around Micheal Gallop This Season. Ceedee Has A Few, But Dak Never Got On the Same Page With Gallop, Even In The Best Of Situations.

Nearly An Eighth Of Dak Interceptions Are miscommunications. Whether They're Reading Zone Or Man, Gallop Just Stops On A Route When Dak Expects Him To Keep Going. Dak, For As Talented As He Can Play, Has A Tendency To Turn Wide Eyed Like He Needs His RAM And Processor Cleared. When McCarthy Plugs In The Flash Drive To Go Faster, He And Dak Aren't on The Same Bandwidth.

Cederian Had A Big Game, Almost Despite The Cowboy's Offense, It Seemed. The Niners Have Obvious Vulnerabilities.

On The Outside, And That's Where CeeDeee Did The Glut Of His Damage.

The Cowboys Scored Their first Touchdown Mostly As A Product Of Ceedee Catches Over The Middle. He Picked 3 Catches For 18 Yards On The Drive, Ending With A Stat-line Of 10 Catches and 117 Yards, On Thirteen Targets. Dak's Threw One Touchdown Targeting CeeDee But That Came On A Tip Ball Over The Middle. The Middle Never Gave Dak Anything Today, All Of The Problems Started Over The Middle, The Fred Warner Domain.

No One Ever Takes Inventory of Dak's Limit Arm Talent. The Interception he Threw To Gallop Look Desperately Under Thrown. Dak Threw The Ball Off Balance A Little.

I'm Not Talking Solely About The Force with Which He Throws, With But The Limited Touch And Arm Angles. The offense Has Far Too Much To Score Just 12 Points. They Crash Landed From A 30-point Average At The End Of The Season, Recovered Then Entered remission. In Era Of Cowboy's Play, The Head Coaches Job Has Had His Job Dangled Over Him Like A Piece OF Cheese To A Experimented On Starving Rat. Another Thing That's Alarming About The Cowboys is that Their Routes Seem To Have A "Predetermined" Aspect To Them. Sometimes You Can See Guys Not Run Routes Because They Know The Ball Goes Elsewhere. Quarterbacks Choose Matvhups They Like, But The Players Still Néed To Sell Their Route.

McCarthy Will Retain The Job Despite The Perceived Let Down Of a team Just One Or Two Pieces short.

Chiefs Vs. Jaguars

Despite The universal and The Veneration, All of Patrick Mahomes Anticipated Accolades (NFL MVP 2022), The Secured One (Total Yardage Record, Near Unanimous Pro), I Never Got The Sense That Patrick Mahomes Had one Of The Best Season Of His Career. The Counting Stats And Metrics Attest a Different View Mahomes’s Transformative 2022. He Finished Number One In Passing Yards 5,251, 8.1 Per Attempt, 41 Touchdowns To 12 Interceptions, and A Passer Rating Of 105.2. He Rushed For Another 358 with Another 4 Touchdowns On The Ground. Mahomes Also Finished With The Best EPA Per Drop back A Healthy Margin. What’s Wrong, Mahomes Played A Rather “Bland” Style Of Football. Call The Influence That Brought Me To That Conclusion “Greatness Fatigue,” an Ideation Thag Posit We, Or Detractors Of Mahomes, Are All Tired Of Seeing His Generational Talent Perform Better Than Everyone Else as A Result When He Doesn’t, or Acts In Ways Less That Are Less Than Expectations.

Speaking Of “Expectation,” His Completion Percentage Above Expectation(Next Gen Stats) Has Fell Into The Negatives Since His MVP Taking The League By Storm Player. Simple Put He Mahomes, Has Performed, as Far The World Of Completing Passes May Concern, Below Expectations. Last Season Mahomes’s Erratic, Volatile Explosions Of Drop Backs May Have Caused The Chiefs A Super Bowl. Andy Reid and Eric Benimy Have Made Concerted Efforts(It Seems)To Turn Down The Dial On Mahomes. Quarterback And Offensive Conductor Got Into An “Altercation” Because the Offensive Brain Trust Want A More Controlled pursuit Of Points, Not To “Go, Go, Go.”“I mean, at the end of the day, I wanted to go try to score,” Mahomes said, “That’s just who I am. We were in a tough situation. I believe it was second or third-and-20 … and probably the smart decision was to just take it [and know] we got the ball out of the half, let's just go into halftime.

“I’m always going to be wanting to score… ‘Let me have a chance at it.’ He was like, ‘Let’s just get back in our locker room, and we’ll get something going for the next half.’ Even When Things Are Going well Mahomes Has A Tendency To Live Dangerous, Like A Drop ‘Fiend.’

For The Chiefs Taking The Erratic Nature Or At Least Medicating him Takes Away A Lot The “Spectacular” Aspects Of His Game. In The Divisional Round The Chiefs won't Need The Spectacular To Beat The Jaguars. THe Jags Are ON the Hottest Run Of Two-Quarter Of Football Any Playoff Team Will See, But The Run Stops Here. The coaching staff Hopes They Won’t Need Another High Octane Turnaround To Make a Game Of Things. “We’d Love To Start Fast and Finish Faster.” jags Head Coach Doug Pederson Said, Recalling the Turnaround That Launch The Young Jags Into A Team To Watch Going Forward In The AFC. Pederson, He’s A Gem, A Diamond in RoughOf A Coaching Signing.

Doug Pederson Has One Of His Story Arch Face-Offs Today. Doug Will Face His Old Coach, His Old Boss, Andy Reid. Pederson Succeeded Reid In Philly After Andy’s Long tenured Time with The Team Couldn’t Bring In A Championship. Reid won One in Kansas City, and Pederson Won In Philly. Dougey Brought the dynamic offensive Wizardry He Learns From Reid tO Jacksonville. A lot Of Trip Sets, Motions, Jet Sweeps, and RPOs.

"If You’re A Fan You Of Any team, You Never Want To Hear The Phrase:” The Last Time *Insert Name Of Said Player Here* received Meaningful snaps Goes Back *Insert Length Of Inactivity*”

Nothing Sinks The Float Of Expectations Like Losing The Best Player At The Most Important And The Cloud Of Uncertainty Summoning Over The horizon As His Replacement Steps In A Playoff Game. Its Tantamount To That Time As A Kid You Got Lost In The Mall, With No Certainty Or Security.

Yet that’s The Reality Chiefs’ Fans Brave As Chad Henne Warmed Up To Takeover For Patrick Mahomes In The Second Quarter For What Like, At The Moment, Possibly for The rest Of The Game. "

Most Plaudits, Coaches, and Player Would attest To This Broad Statement About Patrick Mahomes In A Game of Football “There is no one that I’d rather have under center right now.” What About A unmistakably Hobbled Mahomes? That’s The Winds, The Predicament The Chiefs Found Them Caught In. A Serious Looking Ankle Injury, which We Won’t Discuss The Nature Of How The Injry Came About We won't Discuss. Some How The Cheifs SURVIVED a Drive, A Sequence Without The League’s Best Player By All cAccounts. Andy Reid’s Squad Didn’t Just Survive The Scored and Pull Away. Chad Lead A 12 Play 98 Yard drive That Required Several Crucial Third Conversions, The End Of Which Read As If Mahomes Had Authored The Drive Himself Under The Pen Name ‘Chad Henne.’ Travis Kelce Grabs A Touchdown Pass In The Back Of The End Zone. A lot Of Henne’s Play Boiled Down To The Jags Defense Just Playing Sorrowful. The Training Staff Secure Patrick Mahomes’s Ankle, And The Chiefs secure Their Fifth AFC Championship Bout In A Row. On Offense In This Game, It Didn’t Matter Who Threw You, Kelce The Ball. The All World Tight Caught 14 Passes on 17 targets, 10 Catches In The First Half, Two Touchdowns And Several crucial Thrid Down Conversions. He Caught Three Of Henne’s First six Passes On The Chief's final Scoring Drive Of The First Half. Throughout The regular Season, Kelce’s Passer Rating Lived Over The Hills Of 100 Or Better, Settling At 118.7 passer rating O The Season. “if Anybody Goes Down Its Next Man Up. “ Kelce Said After The Game. For A Backup Quarterback That’s A Far More Endearing Proposition When You Have Kelce To Throw The Ball To.

Patrick Mahomes Entered The Game Because, Of Course, He Would. All Of Your Season Work Come Down To The final Two Quarters Against A Jags Team With Their Fangs Out. Obviously, Mahomes Didn’t Look like his “Inevitable” Self. “Im Not Coming Out Of Playoff Game Unless They Make Me.” Patrick Mahomes Said After The Game.

If You Ever Wonder What A Un-NineTails-Cloak Patrick Mahomes Looked Like, Noticeable Limping And Having Trouble Planting His Base Right Foot And Ankle Into The Turf To Generate, Power But He Could Put The Ball In Play And Spin It Again, And Again. The Foot Injuries really Prevented Him From Making The Throws He routinely Completes. Still, Mahomes Said Nothing Scares Him Away From Going Deep.

After The Jags Puled The Game Within Three Points, 20-17, With The Chiefs Open The Case For Old Faithful And Broke Out The Shot Gun Formation Again, And Again. The Chiefs Have Over Relied On Shot Gun Before, and No More Could That Dependency Hurt Them Than With A Nursing Lead and A Nursing Quarterback. So Many Situations Where Things Could Go Wrong came To Mind. Instead, They Worked Things Out. Mahomes Led a 10 Play 75 Yard Drive, with No Third Downs or Penalties And Goal Situations, Stop The Chiefs From Transitioning From First and Ten, Second And Ten Consecutively. Suddenly A Flicker Of A Short Pass Gives Mahomes His Second Touchdown Pass Of The Game. The Score Put The Chiefs At That Magical 27 Point Number, Sealed The Jags Coffin; so To Say, The Chiefs Defense Closed The Game Out From Then On Out. The Jags Wouldn’t Survive Their Proclivity For carelessness In This One. Jamal Agnews’s Crushing Fumble at The Goal Line, Doomed Any Chance The Jags Had Of Furthering Their Magical Run. “we’re Going To Learn From This,” Doug Pederson assured The Press, The Public, and The Football Community. No Team Wants To Have Their Season End Short Of A Championship Goal. Trevor Lawrence Didn’t Ascend Into That Mahomes-Ian, Allen Level Star. His Offensive Line(And The referees) Did Him Dirty With This One. The Initial Numbers Releases Are Just Two Sacks And seven QB Hits, But The Pressure Came Right up The Gut. Im Surprise Doug Pederson Doesn’t Run Lawrence More Often Given His Athleticism. Regardless A Careless

Fumble And An Impressive Interception Seal The Tomb.

Despite The universal and The Veneration, All of Patrick Mahomes Anticipated Accolades (NFL MVP 2022) And The Secured One (Total Yardage Record, Near Unanimous All Pro), I Didn’t Get The Sense That Patrick Mahomes Had one Of The Best Season Of His Career. The Counting Stats And Metrics Attest a Different View Mahomes’s Transformative 2022. He Finished Number One In Passing Yards 5,251, 8.1 Per Attempt, 41 Touchdowns To 12 Interceptions, and A Passer Rating Of 105.2. He Rushed For Another 358 with Another 4 Touchdowns On The Ground. Mahomes Also Finished With The Best EPA Per Drop back A Healthy Margin. What’s Wrong, Mahomes Played A Rather “Bland” Style Of Football. Call The Influence That Brought Me To That Conclusion “Greatness Fatigue,” an Ideation Thag Posits We, Or Detractors Of Mahomes, Are All Tired Of Seeing His Generational Talent Perform Better Than Everyone Else as A Result When He Doesn’t or Acts In Ways Less That Are Less Than Expectations. Speaking Of “Expectation,” His Completion Percentage Above Expectation(Next Gen Stats) Has Fell Into The Negatives Since His MVP Taking The League By Storm Player. Simple Put He Mahomes, Has Performed, as Far The World Of Completing Passes May Concern, Below Expectations. Last Season Mahomes’s Erratic, Volatile Explosions Of Drop Backs May Have Caused The Chiefs A Super Bowl. Andy Reid and Eric Benimy Have Made Concerted Efforts(It Seems)To Turn Down The Dial On Mahomes. Quarterback And Offensive Conductor Got Into An “Altercation” Because the Offensive Brain Trust Want A More Controlled pursuit Of Points, Not To “Go, Go, Go.”“I mean, at the end of the day, I wanted to go try to score,” Mahomes said, “That’s just who I am. We were in a challenging situation. I believe it was second or third-and-20 … and probably the smart decision was to just take it [and know] we got the ball out of the half, let's just go into halftime.

“I’m always going to be wanting to score… ‘Let me have a chance at it.’ He was like, ‘Let’s just get back in our locker room, and we’ll get something going for the next half.’ Even When Things Are Going well, Mahomes Has A Tendency To Live Dangerously, Like A Drop ‘Fiend.’

For The Chiefs Taking The Erratic Nature Or At Least Medicating him Takes Away A Lot of The “Spectacular” Aspects Of His Game. In The Divisional Round, The Chiefs won't Need The Spectacular To Beat The Jaguars. The Jags Are ON the Hottest Run Of Two-Quarter Of Football Any Playoff Team Will See, But The Run Stops Here. The coaching staff Hopes They Won’t Need Another High Octane Turnaround To Make a Game Of Things. “We’d Love To Start Fast and Finish Faster.” jags Head Coach Doug Pederson said, Recalling the Turnaround That Launch The Young Jags Into A Team To Watch Going Forward In The AFC. Pederson, He’s A Gem, A Diamond in RoughOf A Coaching Signing.

Doug Pederson Has One Of His Story Arch Face-Offs Today. Dougey Will Face His Old Coach, His Old Boss, Andy Reid. Pederson Succeeded Reid In Philly After Andy’s Long tenured Time with The Team Couldn’t Bring In A Championship. Reid won One in Kansas City, and Pederson Won In Philly. Dougey Brought the dynamic offensive Wizardry He Learns From Reid tO Jacksonville. A lot Of Trip sets, Motions, Jet Sweeps, and RPOs.

If you’re a Fan You Of Any team, You Never Want To Hear The Phrase:” The Last Time *Insert Name Of Said Player Here* received Meaningful snaps and Goes Back *Insert Length Of Inactive*. The Duration Doesn’t Matter; The Statement Alone Pencils In A Period of Ominously Confusion, Like When You Take Two Wrong Turns and Get Lost In an Area You’re Not Familiar With. That’s The Feeling the Chiefs Had To Figure Themselves Out Of On Sunday.

Most Plaudits, Coaches, and Player Would attest to One Point About Patrick Mahomes In A Game of Football “There is no one that I’d rather have under center right now.” What About A unmistakably Hobbled Mahomes? That’s The Winds, The Predicament The Chiefs Found Them Caught In. A Serious Looking Ankle Injury, which We Won’t Discuss The Nature Of How The Injury Came About We won't Discuss. Some, How The Cheifs SURVIVED a Drive, A Sequence Without The League’s Best Player By All Accounts. Andy Reid’s Squad Didn’t Just Survive The Scored and Pull Away. Chad Lead A 12 Play 98 Yard drive That Required Several Crucial Third Conversions, The End Of Which Read As If Mahomes Had Authored The Drive Himself Under The Pen Name ‘Chad Henne.’ Travis Kelce Grabs A Touchdown Pass In The Back Of The End Zone. Many of Henne’s Plays Boiled Down To The Jags Defense Just Playing sorrowfully. The Training Staff Secure Patrick Mahomes’s Ankle, And The Chiefs secure Their Fifth AFC Championship Bout In A Row. On Offense, In This Game, It Didn’t Matter Who Threw You, Kelce, The Ball. The All World Tight Caught 14 Passes on 17 targets, 10 Catches In The First Half, Two Touchdowns, And Several crucial Third Down Conversions. He Caught Three Of Henne’s First six Passes On The Chief's final Scoring Drive Of The First Half. Throughout The Regular Season, Kelce’s Passer Rating Lived Over The Hills Of 100 Or Better, Settling At 118.7 passer rating O The Season. “if Anybody Goes Down, Its Next Man Up. “ Kelce Said After The Game. For A Backup Quarterback, That’s A Far More Endearing Proposition When You Have Kelce To Throw The Ball To.

Patrick Mahomes Entered The Game Because, Of Course, He Would. All Of Your Season Work Come Down To The Final Two Quarters Against A Jags Team With Their Fangs Out. Obviously, Mahomes Didn’t Look like his “Inevitable” Self. “Im Not Coming Out Of Playoff Game Unless They Make Me.” Patrick Mahomes Said After The Game.

If You Ever Wonder What A Un-NineTails-Cloak Patrick Mahomes Looked Like, Noticeable Limping And Having Trouble Planting His Base Right Foot And Ankle Into The Turf To Generate Power But He Could Put The Ball In Play And Spin It Again, And Again. The Foot Injuries Prevented Him From Making The Throws He routinely Completes. Still, Mahomes Said Nothing Scares Him Away From Going Deep.

Only Penalties And Goal Situations Stop The Chiefs From Transitioning From First and Ten, Second And Ten Consecutively. Suddenly A Flicker Of A Short Pass Gives Mahomes His Second Touchdown Pass Of The Game. The Score Put The Chiefs At That Magical 27 Point Number, Sealed The Jags Coffin; so To Say, The Chiefs Defense Closed The Game Out From Then On Out. The Jags Wouldn’t Survive Their Proclivity For carelessness In This One.

Jamal Agnews’s Crushed The Jags Season With Fumble at The Goal Line. The Season Never Comes Down To One Play.

But His One Extra Moved Doomed The magic. Any chance Of The Jags Had Of Furthering Their Season Fell Into The Hands Of The Chiefs. “we’re Going To Learn From This” Doug Pederson assured The Press, The Public, and The Football Community. No Team Wants To Have Their Season End Short Of A Championship Goal. Trevor Lawrence Didn’t Ascend Into That Mahomes-Ian, Allen Level Star. His Offensive Line(And The referees) Did Him Dirty With This One. The Initial Numbers Releases Are Just Two Sacks And seven QB Hits, But The Pressure Came Right up The Gut. Im Surprise Doug Pederson Doesn’t Run Lawrence More Often, Given His Athleticism. Regardless A Careless Fumble And An Impressive Interception Seal The Tomb.

If you’re a Fan You Of Any team, You Never Want To Hear The Phrase:” The Last Time *Insert Name Of Said Player Here* received Meaningful snaps and Goes Back *Insert Length Of Inactive*. The Length Doesn’t Matter In Any Regard The Statement Alone Pencils In A Period Ominously Confusion Like When You Take Two Wrong Turns and Get Lost In Area, You’re Not Familiar With. That’s The Feeling the Chiefs Had To Figure Themselves Out Of On Sunday.

Most Plaudits, Coaches, and Player Would attest To This Broad Statement About Patrick Mahomes In A Game of Football “There is no one that I’d rather have under center right now.” What About A unmistakably Hobbled Mahomes? That’s The Winds, The Predicament The Chiefs Found Them Caught In. A Serious Looking Ankle Injury, which We Won’t Discuss The Nature Of How The Injury Came About We won't Discuss. Some, How The Cheifs SURVIVED a Drive, A Sequence Without The League’s Best Player By All Accounts. Andy Reid’s Squad Didn’t Just Survive The Scored and Pull Away. Chad Lead A 12 Play 98 Yard drive That Required Several Crucial Third Conversions, The End Of Which Read As If Mahomes Had Authored The Drive Himself Under The Pen Name ‘Chad Henne.’ Travis Kelce Grabs A Touchdown Pass In The Back Of The End Zone. Many Henne’s Play Boiled Down To The Jags Defense Just Playing Sorrowful. The Training Staff Secure Patrick Mahomes’s Ankle, And The Chiefs secure Their Fifth AFC Championship Bout In A Row. On Offense, In This Game, It Didn’t Matter Who Threw You, Kelce, The Ball. The All World Tight Caught 14 Passes on 17 targets, 10 Catches In The First Half, Two Touchdowns, And Several crucial Third Down Conversions. He Caught Three Of Henne’s First six Passes On The Chief's final Scoring Drive Of The First Half. Throughout The Regular Season, Kelce’s Passer Rating Lived Over The Hills Of 100 Or Better, Settling At 118.7 passer rating O The Season. “if Anybody Goes Down, it Its Next Man Up. “ Kelce Said After The Game. For A Backup Quarterback, That’s A Far More Endearing Proposition When You Have Kelce To Throw The Ball To.

The Jags Wouldn’t Survive Their Proclivity For carelessness This Round. Jamal Agnews’s Crushing Fumble at The Goal Line, Doomed Any Chance The Jags Had Of Furthering Their Magical Run. “we’re Going To Learn From This,” Doug Pederson assured The Press, The Public, and The Football Community. No Team Wants To Have Their Season End Short Of A Championship Goal.

Giants Vs. Eagles

Any Thought Of The Giants Heating Up Vanished In A Puff Of Smoke. With One Lofty Swing Of His Arm Jalen Hurts dropped A Dime In The Hands Of Devonta Smith. The Eagles Quite Frankly Extinguished Giants And Establish The Cut And Dry Fact That The Giants Weren’t in The Same Class As The NFC’s Top Dog. That 40-Yard Strike Set The Eagles Up Giant's Territory And Flipped The Field Just Two Plays Into The Game. That First Drive That Ended With A Masterful One-Handed Dallas Goedert Catch And Tumble Touchdown Set The Temperature. The Void, The Fissure Became Palpable Between The Two Teams.

The Giants Would Begin Their Own Drive That Also Set The Tone. Jones Completed Some Impressive Throws, Converted A Few, And Flipped Field. The Eagles Had Two Weeks To Prepare, And They Looked Every Part Of That Rested.

One Hasson Riddick Sacks Would Turn Daniel Jones’s Pocket Into A Pressure Cooker. Where Internal Pressure And External Pressure Would Meet, Calcifying The Invisible Depths In The difference Of Their Ability. Stressed By A fourth And Eight Near Mid Field, The Giants Pressed To Respond and At Least Not Over Expose Their Defense and Took Their Shot. Jones Drops back, Either To Shift the Tone Or Plunge The knife. The Giants’s and Their Celebrated Acts Of Aggression Started To Look More Like Acts Of Desperation. After Two Drives For The Giants, Both That End In Touchdowns, Two Drives For The Eagles, Both That End In Two Touchdowns, You get The sense The Giants Could Only Call On “Desperation” From The Play Book Of Dreams. Where Some Expected Grimaces and Confusion On The Eagles Sideline Only Smirks And Jubilation.

The Eagles Intentions Early Were Clear. Nick Siriani Play Calling Erase any Questions About Hurts Injury Status. The MVP skipped The “Rah-Rah” Speech a Left Everything On The First Few Drives. He Got Off To Hot, Going 7/ 7 for 89 yards in the first quarter. Two Touchdowns On His away To Finish 16/24 154. The Eagles Running Game Took From The Second Quarter With Kenneth Gainwell And Miles Getting In Fun. The Two Leading Back Finished 12 Carries, 112 Passing Yards, 1 Touchdown, 9.3 And 17 Carries, 90 Yards, 5.3 Per Rush, respectively. Jalen Hurts and Boston Scott Joined In On The Rushing Party, Both Registering A Rushing Touchdown In This First Half 28-0. Hurts Added 34 Yards On The Ground, “A Couple Of Kneel Downs Hurt HisAverage.”

This Ended Well Before The 38-7 Final.

Giants Head Coach Brian Daboll Described The Drop Off As A “Crash Landing,” Giving The Giants Were Riding Such Unbelievable Highs He Didn’t hold back his candid. Interpretation Of What Transpired In the Aftermath Of “Getting Beat Soundly.” The One Giants Score Looked Cute. A Wildcat Direct To Snap To Saquon Barkley—NOTHING Screams Desperation Like A Wild Cat Formation— He Fakes A Tosses To Runningback

“We Got Beat On All Facets.” Daboll Said. “it Hurts When You Lose.”

The Eagles Finished With 268 Yards On The Ground. “they Had It Rolling tonight Give Them Credit.” Said Giants Head Coach Brian Daboll.

Hurts Didn’t Finish With The Best Stat Line. The Eagles Dial Him Back, Obviously Not Wanting To Stress His Injury And not Allowing Him To Fall Into Over Aggression, “Fury Road” Style. “ We Just Want To Go Out There And Play Our Best Ball.” Hurts Said After The Game. “As You Climb That Mountain, It Gets More Treacherous.”

Jason Strachan

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