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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink
Look in the mirror my friend. Obviously you have never played the game. Did you love those 3rd and 4th down conversion to 1st down runs by Allen that kept them alive so he 'could' make those rope TD passes that eventually surpassed us in the score of the game ??? Get back to me when you finally realize what a safety does when a QB decides to run and make no mistake Josh was not hiding the fact he was an actual RB on a lot of those plays as well especially in the first half.
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I played for two and a half years before blowing out my knee. Albeit that was just two seasons in HS and a few months in college before I realized that my knee just wasn't going to support that level of play and i had to leave the team. But before that I also separated my right shoulder (type 3 sep) and partially dislocated my left shoulder, and sprained both ankles in that 2.5 seasons. I missed just four games prior to blowing out my knee, all due to my separated shoulder; couldn't wear pads with it for three weeks. I finally stuck a towel in there and took 4-5 Tylenol and bout the same amount of Advil just to get back on the field with my team.
Mostly I played in the secondary as a coverage CB, occasionally as a deep safety. Of course, none of that really qualifies me as any kind of expert on safety play at the NFL level, but your accusation was simply that I'd never played football or safety at any level, which I have.
Note: the above summary of my experience is basically why TM might not try to fly into every tackle with his head on fire. He is undersized, not much bigger than I was in HS, and one thing I learned in my short football career was that smaller guys flying full speed into bigger guys inevitably ends with the smaller guy getting hurt eventually. Picking your moments is definitely a better strategy. And just about every vet player does it/has done it, so I really never saw a problem as long as he was making tackles and playing big in the biggest moments in the playoffs.
And where are these 3rd and 4th down runs you speak of? Because as I recall Mathieu was injured during the first series, right? On a 4th-and-2 (3?) designed run play? Something like that? You'll have to give us a link or at least the drive number if you want to talk about some 3rd down play Mathieu was involved in.
So what you're saying is that Tyrann, who's played in all but two Chiefs games since coming over, started and played in 63 out of his last 65 possible games, played sick and hurt multiple times, suddenly decided to call it a day just minutes into the Divisional game. He just suddenly decided he'd had enough, that's your argument.
Yeah, I feel pretty confident calling BS on that.
