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[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

That’s as silly as when people say the Chiefs are “playing down” to their competition. That’s not a real thing in professional sports.

Originally Posted by tredadda

I think it is to a point. Take a look at how KC plays against lesser teams versus better teams. The play calling is more vanilla or they experiment more. Look at the Watkins pass to Mahomes against the Falcons. I highly doubt they make that kind of play in the playoffs.

Yeah, I think it gets blown out of proportion and turned into a black and white extremes (shocking for CP, I know)... playing down to competition doesn't have to mean "don't try".

Reid and Mahomes have already talked about putting in some new plays and what not... and yeah, they do a little bit of that in the regular season, but a more vanilla playbook is literally playing down to the competition or the situation. The Colts were doing all kinds of stupid shit this past weekend because it's the playoffs.

In last year's SB, Mahomes was diving head first into defenders on multiple occasions.... that doesn't mean he "doesn't try" in the regular season, but he definitely threw caution to the wind against the 49ers.

And when they look like complete shit against the Dolphins and then score 4 touchdowns in 8 minutes, or when they need that one drive to beat the Falcons, score a million times against the Texans in the playoffs.... call it whatever you want, lack of focus, playing down to competition, flipping a switch, beast mode...