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 Discuss Thrower

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

I'm not trolling. Alex appears to have something I previously thought he did not.

Hope...is kindled.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

I have faith Dorsey will bring in talent upgrades.

Because that 2013 draft contributed so much beyond Knile Davis' half of a game.

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

I'm not trolling. Alex appears to have something I previously thought he did not.

Hope...is kindled.

Then you're a bigger dumbass than I ever thought possible.

May God, or Shiva or whatever, have mercy on your soul.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

I have faith Dorsey will bring in talent upgrades.

So you blaming this on Pioli?

[Fritz88]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Because that 2013 draft contributed so much beyond Knile Davis' half of a game.

He did well in FA. I won't hold him accountable for a draft he had no time to prepare for.
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[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

So you blaming this on Pioli?

Sure. This roster is not complete.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Sure. This roster is not complete.

I agree.

One really solid draft, a new DC, a couple FA upgrades, we might be a contender next year. AS is peaking in his prime and next year should be a go given the front office executes things properly.

[dirk digler]

Dorsey's first draft class so far is shit

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Sure. This roster is not complete.

Yep. Need a LT and another DE to replace Albert and Jackson.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

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

Guess Joe Montana's Catch game isn't legendary now if throwing 3 INTs matters. Nobody remembers that shit now. Big lead, big comeback will be what the history books will tell.

[Bewbies]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Yep. Need a LT and another DE to replace Albert and Jackson.

I've always figured Albert was gone. BUT, if you don't pay him you'll be paying Stephenson next year. Which guy is the better option to pay $30,000,000?

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

I agree.

One really solid draft, a new DC, a couple FA upgrades, we might be a contender next year. AS is peaking in his prime and next year should be a go given the front office executes things properly.

It's gonna be hard for the Broncos to replicate what they did this year, too.

I honestly think we can steal the division.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

It's gonna be hard for the Broncos to replicate what they did this year, too.

I honestly think we can steal the division.

10-6 and a first round playoff loss! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

10-6 and a first round playoff loss! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We have to keep trying brah

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

We have to keep trying brah

[mnchiefsguy]

Just read that Alex Smith is the first qb in nfl history to throw for 4+ TD's, and no INTS in a playoff game and lose.