What I Saw

['Hamas' Jenkins]

There isn’t a way to quantify a loss like that. There isn’t a way to describe it someone, even if they saw it. There is only the experience of having your guts ripped out.

It feels like a fugue state. The sides of your vision get fuzzy, footsteps and breaths feel artificial, forced.

It’s easier to blame particular whipping boys, but I think that is a half-assed analysis.

Here’s what I saw:

I saw an opposing QB sandwich three interceptions around play that is as good as I’ve ever seen from any quarterback. Andrew Luck was absolutely brilliant. That wasn’t just great quarterbacking, it was all-time pantheon quarterbacking.

I saw a wide receiver we didn’t have an answer for, regardless of which corners were in or out of the game.

I saw an artificial surface that should be nuked from orbit. Head injuries on incidental contact like that is somewhat of an aberration, but that many should not happen. I wonder if they replaced the rubber filling with tungsten before the game.

I saw a defense that made a number of excellent plays yet was completely eviscerated. It’s hard to put it all on the D when they gave the offense 17 points via turnovers and won the battle 4-1

I saw an offense score 27 points on its own, and convert another 17 points via turnovers, without its best player for the entirety of the game.

I saw a rookie RB with ball security issues play his ass off as a worthy replacement for our best player.

I saw a quarterback whom many, myself included, derided as a game manager play at a level that no Chiefs QB has in the playoffs in my lifetime. Alex Smith was absolutely magnificent in that game. He did not deserve that loss. He beats almost any QB in history on any day except that QB on that day.

I saw a wide receiver, who is the second best in franchise history and who gets crapped on like he’s Jonny Morton, play a brilliant game.

I saw a free safety who shouldn’t start in the UFL commit the cardinal sin of playing that position.

I saw a head coach whose biggest knack was time management and whose offense was built upon efficiency waste all of its timeouts on offense which turned a 4^th and 11 into a 4^th and the season.

I saw a head coach go for a field goal at the one yard line when every statistical metric says you go for it. Had they converted, the Chiefs would have won the game. Had they not, they still would have had a chance to win that they had at the game’s end.

But what I didn’t see makes me feel just as shitty.

I feel bad for Jamaal, Bowe, Smith, Hali, and others, but I feel terrible for fans that had to experience that.

Sorry milkman, Reaper, OTW, ChiefsCountry, Flopnuts, Rainman, Bob Dole, and countless hundreds of others that populate this site. You didn’t deserve that experience.

I feel like the football antichrist dragged his carcass from the bowels of Hell to smite us one more time.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

Totally different when they've seen 2 Super Bowl wins in their lifetime.

While true, I just don't care about playoff wins that result in nothing.

I would have felt the same about this team today win or lose.

I think we can win a playoff game, and potentially a Super Bowl, next year. I didn't feel that before today.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

At the end of the day, we lost to the team with the superior quarterback just like every other playoff loss we have had in franchise history.

"Nope, not good enough to win"

FULL OF SHIT, just chock full of SHIT.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

At the end of the day, we lost to the team with the superior quarterback just like every other playoff loss we have had in franchise history.

Luck played a great game. I would attribute this a shitload more to horrible defensive scheming and incredibly unlucky injuries than I would a qb battle.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

While true, I just don't care about playoff wins that result in nothing.

I would have felt the same about this team today win or lose.

I think we can win a playoff game, and potentially a Super Bowl, next year. I didn't feel that before today.

.

You really are the penultimate internet troll, aren't you Wendler?

[mnchiefsguy]

Originally Posted by scott free

So what else did you want, from a Drew Brees or even aTom Brady?

Nearly 400 yards, 4 touchdowns and O picks, would that about cover it?

56% on third down?... NO?, well then just what the hell DO you want... 44 points shouldn't be PLENTY enough to run away with a playoff game?

You're apparently just one of "those guys" who will never be happy with Alex Smith, you seem to hide it well... but even after losing all of his top playmakers... nope, just not good enough... well, **** you too, sorry i'm being that way, but not really... that's how everyone else here is these days, so why not join the club.

I hated the Alex Smith trade because of the compensation. But he earned his pay today. Trent Green did not have this good of a game in the 03 playoff game, but I don't recall him getting blamed for the loss.

The defense today was just as bad as that day in Jan 04. Only difference was that it forced a few turnovers, and had a good 2nd qtr which allowed the Chiefs to get a big lead.

35 points allowed in the second half is why the Chiefs lost. Period.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

While true, I just don't care about playoff wins that result in nothing.

I would have felt the same about this team today win or lose.

I think we can win a playoff game, and potentially a Super Bowl, next year. I didn't feel that before today.

How are you thinking Superbowl after watching what our defense just did?

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Luck played a great game. I would attribute this a shitload more to horrible defensive scheming and incredibly unlucky injuries than I would a qb battle.

Luck played a legendary game, one in which we will see for years to come on NFLN and ESPN NFL films shit. Alex Smith essentially is now Warren Moon. No real shame in how he played but that is what he will go down as.

[mnchiefsguy]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Luck played a legendary game, one in which we will see for years to come on NFLN and ESPN NFL films shit. Alex Smith essentially is now Warren Moon. No real shame in how he played but that is what he will go down as.

And if you put Warren Moon in his prime on the 95 or 97 Chiefs, with those defenses......well, one can dream I suppose.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Luck played a legendary game, one in which we will see for years to come on NFLN and ESPN NFL films shit. Alex Smith essentially is now Warren Moon. No real shame in how he played but that is what he will go down as.

I don't have the numbers on me. But even among elite qbs, the win % for qbs who score 40+ points and only commit one turnover has to be insanely high. Even Brees. Even Rodgers. Now try asking them to do that with the crew we has minus Charles and Avery.

What this will go down as is yet another embarrassing collapse on one side of the ball for the chiefs. But it sure isn't the offensive side.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Luck played a legendary game, one in which we will see for years to come on NFLN and ESPN NFL films shit. Alex Smith essentially is now Warren Moon. No real shame in how he played but that is what he will go down as.

Legendary game while throwing 3 INT's against a shit ass defense?

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Legendary game while throwing 3 INT's against a shit ass defense?

Winners get to write the history books.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Legendary game while throwing 3 INT's against a shit ass defense?

Exactly. And so the building of the Luck brand continues...

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

Winners get to write the history books.

The "Luck-y" bounce TD. The 4th and 1 scramble.

He'll be talked about as a reason to waive the 5 year waiting period for the HOF with the amount of media love he's going to receive.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

How are you thinking Superbowl after watching what our defense just did?

I have faith Dorsey will bring in talent upgrades.

[Fritz88]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Oh man that sucks.

I was in Indy, (was it 2008 or 06?) for that playoff loss. That sucked ass. We had like no offense the entire game.

Halftime we were walking high fiving each other, then the meltdown.

It sucks. But I am more hopeful. Davis, Smith, free agency and the draft, we'll be fine.
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