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Originally Posted by O.city
Maybe roll a safety every once in a while, but man, Chase just made catches that last game that were improbable. If he makes them again, tip your hat.
It's gonna be a mad house in there Sunday. If they get after Burrow early and get a lead, I dunno.
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Yeup.
Hey, maybe Chase does it again. Maybe he's just THAT good. But Randy Moss, the single most dangerous WR this game has ever seen, has 9 games in his career of 3 TDs or more. He has
one game w/ 200+ yards (oddly, zero scores in that game). Calvin Johnson has 2 games w/ 3+ scores and 5 w/ 200+ yards (he once had a 329 yard game - wow).
Jerry Rice, he of roughly a billion games played, had
two games on par w/ Chase's 266/3.
The very greatest to ever play this game have monster games like that once every year or two - if that. And a mere 190 yards and 2 scores from Chase would've yielded a loss. Shit, 220 and 3 scores might have been a loss. The Bengals needed every single yard and every single point. And he's NOT playing like that again.
You can't gameplan out of fear. You can't convince yourself that Chase is some fire breathing monster unseen in the league. He's a very VERY good football player. And if he goes for 150 and 2 scores but you do your job elsewhere, the Bengals may get 24.
Patrick Mahomes isn't losing to 24 at Arrowhead in the post-season.
Don't sabotage yourself planning for a contingency that's about as likely to occur as a solar flare wiping out the earth between now and Sunday.