Patrick Mahomes: Game Manager

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by jd1020

I just dont understand the thought process behind "not needing to."

This team should never be content. Too many games reach uncomfortable stages because we get content. The game was only ever 10 points of separation for 3 quarters. I can't imagine a world in which that little of a lead should ever be considered "enough."

It's not that they weren't scoring because they didn't need to.

They weren't scoring because they put the risk knob to 0. And the Ravens defense is very good.

If you're going to score on them, you're going to have to make higher risk plays (the flip to Kelce on 3rd, for example). But the squad seemed to understand that the Ravens, if given a long field, were going to make a mistake before they score. They knew the Ravens couldn't drive a long field.

So rather than risk giving them a short field, they chose to play the field position game, force them to execute for a full drive and get it into the end zone.

And Baltimore simply never could. Every time they got to the red zone required a big play. We went into a shell on defense AND offense. Because it's pretty damn hard to do one but not the other. If you're going play the way we were playing defensively, you need to complement that offensively and continue to force them into long drives.