Darrell was open in the flat all night

I noticed it also. He kind of lifted his leg and winced like he was in pain. Then started trying to work it out and limped the first few steps as he went back to the huddle. I was surprised the announcers didn't mention it.

I take it back on this. I actually think he made a pretty smart play. Barring an obvious TD completion, or easy pass in bounds, the next best thing BY FAR was going down in bounds. An incomplete pass or going OOB w/o scoring was a disaster there. NY was out of timeouts and going down in bounds allowed us to run 45-50 seconds of the clock, which was huge because it put a ton of pressure on Jones that he didn't handle well.

Under normal circumstances Mahomes should stay in the pocket and wing it to Pringle coming open by the pylon. But he'd have to put that in a tight window and there's a high % of incompletion. Or he could throw it to Kelce coming across, but the spy was effectively clogging the passing lane - meaning Mahomes would have to do some kind of side-arm magic or jump pass, which is also not high probability.

So by rolling out he could try to maybe run it in, or find a more high % completion either to Kelce (which is fine if he doesn't score as long as he stays in bounds) or Pringle with a much better angle. Or worst case scenario just eat it, like he did.

You can tell Mahomes knew all this by the way he went down under pressure. Even if NY had one timeout it's a very different situation than knowing you can run that much time off the clock. Dude is just a genius about situational football. Sometimes I wonder if Reid or Bienemy even tell him this stuff before the play - or he just knows.

Mahomes went out of his way in a presser a few weeks ago to praise Tyreek for not trying to reach for the pylon. I feel like he's coaching the offense as much as Reid and Bienemy sometimes. Dude called the biggest play in modern Chiefs history himself, then coached Hill and Watkins in the huddle on how to play it.

Very Alex Smith like.


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I was glad he took the sack and avoided a turnover or incomplete pass. He's an aggressive player, so it was nice to see him play it much more safe in this particular situation. Allowed them to run another 30+ seconds of clock and seriously hurt the Giants' chances. Sure enough, Giants were completely screwed on that final drive with no timeouts and very little time on the clock.

After he signed his 500m contract he went out and led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl