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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Except that's not entirely true.
In the Charger game, at the same point where Alex Smith would have checked to a screen and made them punt, Mahomes hit Sausage on a wheel route for a TD.
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It's never entirely true.
You always just go drive by drive and you can probably find something where the gameplan was identical but the execution faltered. The 2nd quarter in the Steelers game, for instance, is an example.
The wheel route to the flippin' fullback is another one. They get within 11 after a RRPP drive designed to eat clock and we're going bombs away to the FB to push it back to 18. Then after the Chargers score to bring it back to an 11 pt 4th quarter lead came Andy's Cardinal Sin -- He ran the ball on 2nd and 6. NOBODY EVER DOES THAT!!!!! It gets stuffed - shit happens. If he picks up as much as 2 yards your likelihood of success on 3rd is a lot higher. And the odds of him picking up 2 yards are damn good. But even on 3rd down he tried to pass the ball. He didn't abandon his gameplan and try to button it down - still went for the 1st. That's the horrifying play that Reid made - running on 2nd down and 6. What a stupid asshole.
They fumble, we score, we go up 18. The Chargers score to get it back to 11 and again - stupid braindead bastard ran the ball
on first down. NOBODY DOES THAT UP 11 IN THE 4TH WITH THE CLOCK WINDING DOWN!! NOBODY!!!!11!!1
I mean sure, he passed on 2nd and 3rd, but what a jackass for running on 1st and taking his foot off the accelerator. And then up 2 scores with like a minute left on the clock he ran it three times to get the Charger to burn their timeouts and need to score 2 touchdowns in under a minute with no timeouts.
I tell you what, had the roles been reversed and Reid been tasked with scoring 2 touchdowns with no timeouts to close a 10 point lead in under a minute, the usual suspects would be sitting here chewing his ass for not having enough urgency. I mean how unreasonable of him to put the Chargers in a virtually impossible situation there!
In virtually every single one of these games you can just point to the damn drive charts and show how goddamn ridiculous the complaints are. People are emotional during the game and I get that, that's what cements in their head that "Andy obviously ****ed up!!!" But they never take a step away AFTER the emotion subsides and look at what actually happened.
Reid's game/clock management in the Chargers game was absolutely fine. There just isn't an objective complaint that can be made about it apart from the fact that the defense didn't cover anyone.