Yeah running around to keep drives alive is the kind of things game managers do

Not sure about his actual arm talent


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Pretty bizarre second half play from him. I’m interested to see what, if anything, the Bengals were doing differently defensively.

At least he got that 1 Super Bowl. What a choke job.

They figured out the refs weren't going to call them holding the receivers.

Henne probably would have played better

I feel way worst for Josh Allen than any of our players.

He is human. That is all.

Would've just taken the L on a coin toss last week over this embarrassing pants shitting.

That would be my guess as well.

NFL is 100% fixed. The Chiefs got the call at half time to let the Bengals win this one. Just like the Biils got the call with 13 seconds left last week.

Well whatever they did differently obviously we did not adjust and it seemed we were trying to pound a square peg into a round hole along with bad decisions from PM.

Thank God for Jimmy G. What a choking piece of crap.

The Bills OT doesn't cause Reid to call a fake running play on 1st and goal. You're trying to consume time. The only play is a run on first down, second down, third down, and probably fourth down.

It was a carbon copy of the Week 17 game with the roles reversed and Andy just goofed the play call completely. Mahomes scrambling for a loss didn't help, but if it is a run then everything is going forward and worst case we go up 4 with 1:30 left. Maybe that's too much time for Burrow but the alt was awful.

That last drive I think was a reaction to scoring I quickly initially against Buffalo (Hill 60 yard td)


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Reid said they went man coverage, that is all

Didn't expect the way this game played out. My condolences to y'all.

Big time choke job by Mahomes during the 2nd half. That was bad.

I'm not blaming this on Patrick, it was playing calling ole Marty " playing not to lose" schtick

I wonder if something happened between Mahomes and Andy Reid after that failed play to end the first half.

Andy bypassed a FG at the urging of Mahomes, trusting him to make the right decision there and he didn’t.

When Tracy Wolfson reported that Andy told her the play call there was to be a pass immediately in the end zone… that was a rare moment when Andy didn’t give his standard “I am to blame” answer when covering for his players’ mistakes.

Mahomes played like a QB with zero confidence in the second half… have to think that final play of the first half had a lingering impact.

Yeah. Talent shit finally caught us. Our wr core is crap.

Listening to him post game, he reverted the the impatient Patrick trying to go deep instead of taking what was there....

I think Patrick was concussed and just didn't look right at all. There was a lot of contact and holding on both sides of the ball; one on Pringle slowed him enough that it caused an incompletion.

If you have told me that the defense gives up 24 points in regulation at the start of this game, i would have said the Chiefs win by at least 10. Something happened and the team just was flat in the second half.

No one was open, Bangles played stellar D

That was kind of my take. Mahomes didn't recover from getting chewed out by Reid and was tentative the whole second half. Just ****ing bizarre.

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At least Charles going into concussion protocol was an excuse.

Yes, and it was like he wanted to get the points back that he gave away, and was never right in the second half.

Edit: Felt that he let the coach and team down and he could never get back into rhythm.

Mahomes lost this one 5 ways
 

Looked like Jamarcus Russel out there. From last play in first half throughout second half Mahomes was terrible. This was the Mahomes from last Super Bowl, completely lost.

It was a bizarre transition, for sure.

I have a hard time believing our offense couldn’t beat man defense.

In the game chat I said at the start of the 3rd that he needed to let that play go and move on....I was afraid it was going to eat at him and I think it did

Sometimes your best just get beat.

Kelce was wide WIDE open on the huge sack and loss right before we kicked the field goal. Hardman too, I believe. No idea what he was doing on that play.

You've been saying this same dumbass **** since you were calling for Matt Moore to start over Mahomes in 2019.

Find a new line.

Meant to upvote

That second half was nothing resembling their best

Pat can't be that mentally weak.

Mistakes happen. You were on fire the rest of the half.

How do you let one play linger like that? It's just unfathomable.

Bullshit.

Yeah, first time I've ever seen Andy throw one of his QB's under the bus, Alex included.

Wasn't a good look, at the end of the day Andy's the head coach and responsible for those playcalls.

He tried to do it all and failed.

Throw the ****ing ball away, dude. Still love you.

lol at depression planet right now

Mahomes has gone to 4 afccgs and won half and 2 Superbowls and won half and he's entering into his prime

He's already a HOF QB and you've got at least another 10 years of him

Losing sucks but we're going to be back next year

Yeah, I'd have felt like that if he had lost to Buffalo, which actually I think was a better all-around team, but to lose to an inferior in this fashion, harder to swallow.

And sometimes you beat yourself.....which is what happened in this case. I don't think Cinci beat us as much as we choked.

We left too many opportunities to score. Why? COASTING to 21 points, and then what? Let's turn the spigot off....damn I'm tired of that shit.

Yep. When we didn't score at the end of the first half, I figured it would come back to haunt us. But then at the end of regulation when we didn't run it down close, I figured it would cost us the game. Just run the ball three times from the 6 yard line, and we win. It's that simple.

Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase have never lost a playoff game together in college or NFL.


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Nothing is guaranteed. You have to seize the opportunity when you have it.

I blame Reid more than Mahomes. Too many bad things can happen with only 5 seconds left in the half so take the 3 points. Not only was it a bad decision by Reid but the play call was horrific. The pass should be either in the endzone or out of the back of the endzone not a swing pass in the flat at the line of scrimmage.

I wish someone would take a look at the re-plays of the game before the half. The way Mahomes played the last two plays and then the entire second half, he looked confused. I'm wondering if he was concussed at the end of the first half.

There was something "not right" with him. And it started with him trying to call a time out (which not only didn't he have but it was after time ran out) after the botched throw to Hill. Plus with all the crazy running around with being unable to find a receiver makes me wonder too.

If that was Mahomes best in the 2nd half…he would have been cut a couple of years ago.


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They lost this game with 5 seconds to go in the 1st half.
This isn't the regular season. You kick the ****ing field goal.

1 more thing. Every game seemed like the last game.
This team struggles big time at keeping the pedal to the floor and not allowing teams back into a game.

Spags is the reason for that.

Completely agree.

Cincinnati reference?

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Not taking points that are given is not a new problem either.

That's been Andy Reid's playbook all of his career. Get a big lead and then sit on it, hoping the defense holds back the other team.

He did it at Philly. He does it at KC. And when he does this against a talented opponent he always loses.

I wouldn't be surprised if Pat was told to use up the clock rather than make scores. Squirrely plays certainly do that.

I blame those stupid State Farm Commercials. Look what they did to Rodgers.

Should had settle for a FG in the end of the first half there.

Patrick needs to lay off the commercials, tell his fiancé' and brother to sit the **** down and STFU. He gets paid plenty by the Chiefs to focus on one job.

Wtf are you blathering on about?

Did Andy throw that ill-advised INT? Did Andy stop reading the field? Did he throw a bunch of inaccurate/poorly timed passes in a row? Did he flat miss Kelce wide open in the middle of the EZ on the final drive in reg? Which of those things was Andy's fault? I thought for sure Patrick Mahomes was the starting QB on the field today . . .

Without our SuperQB the Chiefs are just another 9-8 team.
So when Patrick is on fire we are Super Bowl bound.
And when he's squirrely, we're another mediocre team with a lousy defense.

I seriously doubt his 2 hour commercial session on his time off have anything to do with this loss. They adjusted their game plan and played great defense is why the Chiefs lost

Yep.

Patrick shoulders a lot of blame for this one, but this was a total team collapse. The defense had plenty of opportunities to wrap up Burrow, and this was Andy's third postseason loss after having an 18+ point lead in the game.

It sucks, but I wouldn't trade this team for the world.

Yep, for as good as Mahomes is (and was this game early on), from the last play of the first half onward, he's why we lost. It's just that simple.

Mahomes Meltdown

https://youtu.be/l8wiQ-TgZaw


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CJ missed several sacks. That hurt. Think even ingram missed one. Ward played a couple bad snaps. Hill dropped a couple balls.

it was a team effort.

But Spags Defense is pure shit and can only be counted on to allow other teams back into a game.

And the running game is nothing to write home about either.
The holes are there for some long yardage home runs. But they are few and far between from the running back position.
I think Gore had one. Only remember one long run from the running backs all year

Despite our team having some successes we were on life support much of the season. Reid and mahomes made keep work like the badasses they are. But there was always the sense all season long that we were just bandaiding it.

No worries. We have a full off-season to beat our beaters. We will be a way better offense once we specifically focus on beating this specific game plan. Including hard decisions about what WRs and RBs we keep around.

Yep. We had multiple star players who had an opportunity to win this.

None of them came through in the second half.

That was so poorly played from the end of the 2Q it almost felt like an exhibit on what point shaving would look like in real time.

:rolleyes:
Spags defense allowed just 2 TWO ****ING TDS, PEABRAIN.

otherwise CIN punted, turned the ball over or kicked FGs. The Bengals scored just 24 points in regulation, and one TD was due to Patrick throwing an INT on his own 30 yd line.

Please explain in detail just how Spags' D is at fault for this loss.

It looked like a masterclass of point shaving and following ba script.

Exactly.

What do we always say whenever we run the ball, or play conservatively and it bites us in the ass?

"Why did we take the ball out of Mahomes' hands?"

Andy trusted Patrick today and kept the ball in his hands. And Patrick failed him over and over again.

It's a BITTER pill to swallow. But the fact of the matter is that Patrick lost this game.

Of course Mahomes deserves blame I said he does. Reid deserves more, if he kicks the FG before half then it's a tie game at the end and a FG wins it and it doesn't go OT.

Cowherd clearly reveling in the Chiefs loss. Almost giddy about it. Good for him. Glad he can find some joy in it along with all the Bengals fans.

This is silly. We know how to beat these defenses. Mahomes just decided to play hero ball proceeded to choke and the play calling was suspect at critical moments. This wasn’t a defensive game plan issue.

This entire off-season will be about how Mahomed choked, they'll have him like 5th on QB lists.

Yeah, the sports media will crucify Mahomes and the Chiefs after this loss.

They should….

That, plus if he runs it more than once, when it's 1st and goal from the 6, at the end of regulation, I think we score a TD and win. He got cute down near the goal lone, just like the Bengals expected him to.

Yep. That's part of it.

That's because the telecast never showed the secondary in the second half. In the first half there was A LOT of defensive holding not being called. I wonder if it got even worse in the second half but you couldn't see it because they weren't showing any footage of the secondary. Mahomes scrambling as long as he did as often as he did without finding anyone open is an anomaly. Have to wonder if the refs swallowed their whistles just let people hold and hold.

Why? That’s absurd. Brady has had a million bad games. They will destroy mahomes over it because they’re desperate to find a rival.

This was an iconic playoff for mahomes capped off by one half of bad performance. That’s absolute bullshit to interpret as anything else but an elite qb having a bad stretch.

I’d still take him over any qb out there. It’s not even close.