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Originally Posted by Megatron96
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regardless, whether they're 'exactly the same' isn't really the point. The point is that losing more than half your starting OL will make a difference in how well your offense executes, n'est-ce pas?
CIN went into the AFFCG last year without the OL they had when they played us in the regular season, fact. it probably made a real difference in how they executed.
Just as losing 4/5 of our OL in 2020 changed how our offense operated. Fine, maybe not in exactly the same way, but in both cases the loss of several starters on the OL hurt each team's ability to execute as well as they did when they had those starters.
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Tampa Bay. Also when KC lost to the Bucs, they were playing a team at full strength with three top WRs of which one is a HOFer and the other would have gone down as a Top 5 WR ever if he wasn't insane (Evans, Brown, Godwin). They also had one of the greatest TEs ever (Gronkowski), a top 5 pick RB who's career had been resurrected (Fournette), and an elite OLine.
Cincinnati lost to a QB who was hobbled by a high ankle sprain, a TE dealing with back issues, and by the end of the game, MVS, Moore, and just brought up from the practice squad Kemp with two turnstiles at T. Oh and a 7th round RB dealing with two injuries. Cincy still had a healthy QB that most consider to be the second best in the NFL, two #1 WRs, Mixon, Perine, and Henry and still lost.
KC played a much stronger overall team in that SB than Cincy did in the AFCCG. The Chiefs offense had to fire on all cylinders to keep up with that Bucs team. Cincy could not outscore a KC offense decimated by injuries and yet them being down three linemen was the equivalent to KCs SB loss?