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Originally Posted by Why Not?
The "problem" with exercises like these, both in thinking about sports or life in general, is that people tend to post script to get the result they wanted. For instance, to use one of your examples, what you are or at least could be alluding to is that if Eric Fisher doesn't tear his tendon, the Chiefs win the SB that year. The reality is, we have no way to know if that was true or not. We know that a healthy Fisher would've given us a better chance, but that's all we really know.
So basically the one thing we pretty much know for sure is that if Dee Ford isn't offsides, we win that AFCCG. However, contrary to popular (around these parts, anyway) theory, there is no guarantee that we beat the Rams.
And, just to cover your top 3 examples, Tyreek wasn't particularly close to scoring even though the play started close to the end zone. Playing with that one is akin to "Gordon should've been sent home " in '14. Nothing good came or would've come out of those scenarios.
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Yep, this is another issue.
Personally, that 2020 Super Bowl in Tampa would have been tough with or without Fisher. Our defense clearly wasn't going to stop them. They put up 31 points on us essentially just running out the clock the entire second half.
I would like our chances in a rematch just hoping our guys didn't choke (we had so many drops that game), but it's far from a forgone conclusion that we'd have won with Fisher in the lineup.