[KCTitus]

[i]We played conservative football and that was good enough to win some regular season games against shitty teams[/i]

[i]Let me remind you that we won 4 or 5 games on the final play or two in 95, and at least 3 maybe 4 in 97.[/i]

Excluding the 'shitty teams' comment, these are true statments, KC did play very conservative football which kept the game close and then won it in the end of the game. The PROBLEM that some dont wish to remember was that KC didnt do that in the playoffs.

In 1995, Marty decided to throw the ball rather than run. Regardless of the talent level, he went away from his gameplan, and as I later heard, was notorious for changing his playbook going into the playoffs. At the very least, KC should have played the same game that they did in the playoffs, EVERYONE knew that Elliott was struggling going into the last 2 weeks of the regular season. He was missing xtra points with regularity those last two weeks--a good sign that you're not going to win with your FG kicker if he cant make 20yd fgs. Again the talent that was on the field for Indy and Pitt that year was not 'great' either. KC could have competed against those teams and won had KC played it's game that they played during the season.

In 1997, KC had beaten that team before at home. Same place, same team, different day. Greg Hill rips off a 25yd run to begin the game and doesnt touch the ball again until inside 2 minutes left in the game. Regardless of what you say about Hill, he started hot and they should have kept giving him the ball until Denver stopped him.

What was painfully obvious to me while watching those games was how differently KC played in the playoff game as opposed to the regular season. Is that saying KC should have won the SB those years, definately not.