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Originally Posted by OneWinningDrive
It hurts the Ravens, sure. As it would literally any team? The Bills, the 9ers, you can say this about most teams.
My contention is just that it should hurt the Chiefs too if they want to be considered the best ever. The best ever would defend their title, dethrone the MVP, erase the “road playoff game” narrative, overcome a lack of roster talent.
No shame in not being able to do that. Those are lofty goals. No one is infallible. But it’s a double standard to expect others buy into the inevitability of the Chiefs as the best ever even if they lose when not one person here will buy into the inevitability of the Ravens eventually breaking through even with their consistency/talent.
Just to be clear, I’m not singling you out. You’ve been fair/balanced. It’s more so the people who want to insist the Chiefs are in a different universe even if they lose. Well, no. If you want that treatment, win.
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It's a team game. Mahomes could play a perfect game and still lose. His receivers have proven it this year. Hardman damn near gave the game away last week on a fumble at the Buffalo goal line to lose 7 points. Hardman had another fumble inside the Buffalo 10 yard line that potentially cost 4 points for the Chiefs. And Justin Watson had a terrible drop on a perfect 3rd down pass by Mahomes that would have setup KC with 1st down at the Buffalo 10 yard line. The Watson drop potentially cost them 4 points, but at least Watson recovered Hardman's first fumble and saved the team 3 points on that play.
In addition to the receiver mistakes last week, the Chiefs defense got pushed around for 3 quarters of the game and Mahomes was on the sideline for most of it while Buffalo ran 63% of the game clock. When Mahomes actually had a chance to touch the football, he torched Buffalo. I could easily see a scenario in this Baltimore game where Mahomes is great, but gets let down by both the defense and receivers.
Defense gets their butts kicked. Receivers fumble and drop the ball. It's the QB's fault? And don't try to lie by saying Brady overcame that shit. No he didn't. 15 years out of 22 years he failed to win a ring. Lost to shitty QB's like Ryan Tannehill. Failed to make the Playoffs in 2002 right after winning a championship. QB's need help from their teammates, it's really that simple.