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Originally Posted by Indian Chief
I understand. But you just made the argument that the plan was to give Brady lots of time to score. I wasn't on that sideline but I will say with 100% certainty that the plan was not to give Brady plenty of time. It was to score -- to take the lead. And they did that. Everyone arguing that Reid/Mahomes were too aggressive are all ignoring the fact that you don't screw around when you're losing. If it was so easy to just take as much time as you want while still scoring, every team would do that. It's not. It's intellectually dishonest to claim that simply taking more time while doing exactly what they did was somehow a foregone conclusion. I'll say this again -- the Chiefs could have just as easily tried to take time off the clock and ended up not scoring.
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You are right that it ups the degree of difficulty to run out the clock, because our normal offense really doesn't ever play that ball control style of offense. If we run the ball a couple of times on that second to last drive then that does put a lot of pressure on Mahomes. But I'd still rather have the ball in Mahomes' hands at the end rather than trusting our D. I think the winning teams really do play to get the last possession, I've seen Brady and Manning both do it. I'm sure that Brady was salivating when he saw how much time he had left to score at the end of the game.