Chiefs What I Saw

'Hamas' Jenkins · 01-04-2014, 07:26 PM

There isn’t a way to quantify a loss like that. There isn’t a way to describe it someone, even if they saw it. There is only the experience of having your guts ripped out.

It feels like a fugue state. The sides of your vision get fuzzy, footsteps and breaths feel artificial, forced.

It’s easier to blame particular whipping boys, but I think that is a half-assed analysis.

Here’s what I saw:

I saw an opposing QB sandwich three interceptions around play that is as good as I’ve ever seen from any quarterback. Andrew Luck was absolutely brilliant. That wasn’t just great quarterbacking, it was all-time pantheon quarterbacking.

I saw a wide receiver we didn’t have an answer for, regardless of which corners were in or out of the game.

I saw an artificial surface that should be nuked from orbit. Head injuries on incidental contact like that is somewhat of an aberration, but that many should not happen. I wonder if they replaced the rubber filling with tungsten before the game.

I saw a defense that made a number of excellent plays yet was completely eviscerated. It’s hard to put it all on the D when they gave the offense 17 points via turnovers and won the battle 4-1

I saw an offense score 27 points on its own, and convert another 17 points via turnovers, without its best player for the entirety of the game.

I saw a rookie RB with ball security issues play his ass off as a worthy replacement for our best player.

I saw a quarterback whom many, myself included, derided as a game manager play at a level that no Chiefs QB has in the playoffs in my lifetime. Alex Smith was absolutely magnificent in that game. He did not deserve that loss. He beats almost any QB in history on any day except that QB on that day.

I saw a wide receiver, who is the second best in franchise history and who gets crapped on like he’s Jonny Morton, play a brilliant game.

I saw a free safety who shouldn’t start in the UFL commit the cardinal sin of playing that position.

I saw a head coach whose biggest knack was time management and whose offense was built upon efficiency waste all of its timeouts on offense which turned a 4^th and 11 into a 4^th and the season.

I saw a head coach go for a field goal at the one yard line when every statistical metric says you go for it. Had they converted, the Chiefs would have won the game. Had they not, they still would have had a chance to win that they had at the game’s end.

But what I didn’t see makes me feel just as shitty.

I feel bad for Jamaal, Bowe, Smith, Hali, and others, but I feel terrible for fans that had to experience that.

Sorry milkman, Reaper, OTW, ChiefsCountry, Flopnuts, Rainman, Bob Dole, and countless hundreds of others that populate this site. You didn’t deserve that experience.

I feel like the football antichrist dragged his carcass from the bowels of Hell to smite us one more time.

Three7s · 01-04-2014, 07:29 PM

Would you say they're cursed, or no?

'Hamas' Jenkins · 01-04-2014, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Three7s

Would you say they're cursed, or no?

Absolutely. There is a scene early in the documentary The King of Kong where resident video game overlord and uber-douche Billy Mitchell crows about his success and says, "If all this good stuff is happening to me, there is some poor bastard out there getting the screws put to him."

The Chiefs are that poor bastard.

**Reaper16** · 01-04-2014, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Three7s

Would you say they're cursed, or no?

No. The idea of curses just makes it easier to take all of the losing. It's a narrative we tell ourselves to make the pain bearable.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 01-04-2014, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

No. The idea of curses just makes it easier to take all of the losing. It's a narrative we tell ourselves to make the pain bearable.

Only if you accept the consequences of the curse and roll over. It takes a Quixotic mind, but I guess it's one I have.

"God hates me, that's what it is."
"Hate him back, it works for me."

kcxiv · 01-04-2014, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

No. The idea of curses just makes it easier to take all of the losing. It's a narrative we tell ourselves to make the pain bearable.

not really.. Call it a curse, call it, thats who the Chiefs are. It doesnt make it any better. Quite possibly it makes it worse.

**Reaper16** · 01-04-2014, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

not really.. Call it a curse, call it, thats who the Chiefs are. It doesnt make it any better. Quite possibly it makes it worse.

Those are two different things. See, with a curse? The blame is cosmic. It's not our fault as fans. We happen to root for a cursed team. Nothing we can do. Sigh.

But with the mindset of this is just who the Chiefs are as a franchise? Then the blame isn't with some spiritual power. It's with humans. It's with dozens of small mistakes that together add up to poor results.

You can do everything to support a cursed team but they'll still lose. There's actually comfort in that. You know the outcome. You can more easily accept the outcome.

But if you don't believe in curses, then you know that your support is for a team that still can win, and just fails time and again to do so. The outcome is in question. Hope is alive, which means so is disappointment.

**Rausch** · 01-04-2014, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Three7s

Would you say they're cursed, or no?

Do actually believe in magic?...

Prison Bitch · 01-04-2014, 07:30 PM

Andy was too afraid to go for it on 4th and goal from the one. Just like he did in Denver. He's a morbidly obese gutless coward.

Simply Red · 01-04-2014, 07:34 PM

yeah man.

Hammock Parties · 01-04-2014, 07:31 PM

We lost our best player on the first drive and lost by 1 point.

I'm very proud of my football team and excited for next season.

Prison Bitch · 01-04-2014, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

We lost our best player on the first drive and lost by 1 point.

I'm very proud of my football team and excited for next season.

That's really your takeaway? It was Jamaal? That's all you got?

'Hamas' Jenkins · 01-04-2014, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

We lost our best player on the first drive and lost by 1 point.

I'm very proud of my football team and excited for next season.

I'm really proud of a lot of those guys, Smith especially. Goddamn, Luck was exquisite, though.

mnchiefsguy · 01-04-2014, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I'm really proud of a lot of those guys, Smith especially. Goddamn, Luck was exquisite, though.

Luck was very good, no doubt....but it is easier to engineer a comeback when your WR's are wide open by five yards on every play, and the defense does not blitz at all in the second half.

'Hamas' Jenkins · 01-04-2014, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

Luck was very good, no doubt....but it is easier to engineer a comeback when your WR's are wide open by five yards on every play, and the defense does not blitz at all in the second half.

If you blitz you're going to have to play Cover 1 or Cover 0. Surely you saw what happened on the Colts' final offensive play, and that wasn't the only time it occurred.

The safeties are just not good enough for the Chiefs to blitz. Unless they get preposterous pressure from the base front they are going to get torn up.

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