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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Respectfully, I'll gladly coach Mahomes out of that last interception.
That was first down. You cannot make that play there and if means missing on the occasional remarkable play on 1st down (that he'll probably just make on 2nd or 3rd instead), so be it.
But the issue with that play isn't that it happened, its that it happened on 1st down with a minute left and 2 timeouts. Just throw the damn ball away.
Allen would've...
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That’s fair.
I’m guessing it’s semantics we disagree on. I don’t want to coach him out of making those type of plays or even looking for that play in that situation. You can coach him on game situation and what to look for with routes. I’m
Not worried about overloading that dudes brain. But I under no circumstances want him to stop escaping and looking to make a play when shit breaks down. Those are what makes him great and if you have to eat some of those to get the 4 AFCCG Mahomes let’s roll.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And think of how much the offense could've helped the defense out.
The drive before the Bills long score at the end of the half was held back by a taunting penalty and then snuffed out entirely by a sack. Don't commit that penalty or don't get sacked on 2nd down and Buffalo probably doesn't bother using timeouts and doesn't get the ball back with any time at all. Could the defense have done better? Sure - but that gets back to the 'hey, the DL sucks and those guys are good'. They made a play. Shit happens.
And like you said, 3 and out with a 3 point lead and 7 minutes left....you've just gotta be better there on offense. It still took Buffalo 12 plays to get down the field there, including a 3rd and 4th down conversion. We were trying to force them to do what teams do to us - execute a dozen times to drive the field. They did.
With a chance to do the same the drive before it, we didn't.
And that was the difference in the ball game.
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Yep. This game was super winnable. But I’m not going to cast a bunch of stones at the offense because they’re good too.
Much like you can’t dog the defense for not shutting out Allen I’m not going to assert that the offense should have been flawless against the Bills D.
This was pretty much a coin flip game. A couple plays here or there and it’s a different outcome both ways. And that’s what we can expect after the last playoff game and our losses. Besides it’s optimistic because we have fixed our cap problems and they’re all in and have to make hard decisions moving forward.
I’m guessing you’re not making the points I’m trying to refute, but I haven’t participated in most of the postgame meltdown, so I’m getting it out there.
I just have a hard time making grand proclamations (again, not saying you are just responding to the group) about two evenly matched teams. Plays happen in sports. Nobody is undeafeated.