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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I'm not bashing him dude. It is intergallactically stupid to play at an altitude like that.
But what was remarkable to me was after the play SNR referenced, he wrecked fools.
I'm quite obviously not a world class athlete, but any sport I've ever played where I was as spent as he looked, there was no wrecking shit the next play. That's all I was saying.
Now it's possible he has insane recovery, or its possible he was trying to conserve energy to catch his breath.
All I know is I thought we were done after seeing the play SNR referenced. Clark came through and wrecked fools after that.
That's really all there was to it. No need to suggest that I was bashing Clark.
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As a fellow 'not a world class athlete' I can vouch for the idea that sometimes a 90 second blow can make a huge difference.
It doesn't show up often in the sports I was actually okay at, but in basketball (and ultimate frisbee...because college), when you're near the end of the tank but not exactly on E, you start picking plays. You see a ball rotate away from you and think "okay, gonna have to half-ass this one..." because you know that the legs are damn near jelly and if you're going to be effective at all, you have to get that burn out of them.
So you can play 5 plays at 50% speed and make zero difference or you can play 2 plays at 25% and 3 at 80% and make an impact.
Seemed to me like a lot of guys were doing that. Honestly, I think that's where losing Hill hurt so badly. Think of how frequently we've heard guys in the secondary talk about how gassed they were after chasing Hill around. We see them with oxygen masks on in the 4th quarter.
Because Tyreek Hill has the most supernatural endurance I think I've ever seen from a football player. It isn't just the go routes, it's all the full-speed motion and loooooong drags. And I think Andy builds gameplans with that in mind. I think he absolutely expected to have big plays opening up in the 2nd half because guys would be chasing Hill around all day and have jelly legs by the 4th.
Because Hill's gonna last MUCH better than anyone else in that altitude - guy's a freak. And when he went down, the Chiefs lacked the depth and their top guy that would allow them to actually execute that plan. So they had to scrap it on the fly and their replacement plan...wasn't great. But they never are, really.
I think Hills absence hurt a lot more than people realize. Apart from losing the talent, I think it probably torched Andy's entire gameplan.