The Butterfly Effect- Chiefs Edition

[Brooklyn]

Okay, simple rules to this bud week thought exercise. Change any one single play in a game to affect a better/different outcome for the Chiefs. Curious how many plays it would take to get a theoretical dynasty, or just a view to how close to dominant we’ve been. I’ll start:

1. Dee Ford lines up onsides ‘8 AFCCG
2. Eric Fisher’s Achilles doesn’t tear ‘20 AFCCG
3. Tyreek Hill makes the end zone at half ‘21 AFCCG

Not hard to argue the Chiefs are going for SB win #5 in a row if those 3 plays just ended a little different. Of course the butterfly effect could also have negative impact as a result but let’s assume not to change too much other history and keep it light and fun.

Some more plays to think about,

- no end zone PI call vs the Raiders in their walk off win
- Kelce doesn’t fumble in Q4 vs the bengals this year

What else ya got?


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[Rain Man]

I think it was a well-known secret that Sutton was "retiring" after that season. So in my universe, either Dee Ford moves back six inches or tom brady's referee girlfriend doesn't try to impress him by throwing a flag, and we go to the Super Bowl. The Rams survived on defense, and the only way to beat the 2018 Chiefs was with a high-powered offense. The Chiefs would have dominated the game for their first Mahomes-era Super Bowl win.

The 2019 Super Bowl would have gone as normal. We had time to run Wasp.

The 2020 Super Bowl. The Fisher injury was the most fluky of flukes, a non-contact injury on a routine stride at the end of a routine play at the end of a strong Chiefs AFC Championship game win. That injury required the following:

Our second-RT had to move to LT.
Our starting RG had to move to RT
We brought in a backup RG who had only been with the team a month.

If Fisher didn't have that fluke, three offensive line spots would have been upgraded. Even with tom brady's referees attempting to swing the game in the first half, the Chiefs would have taken control of the game. The ONLY reason we lost was that our offensive line was in a shambles due to the injury to Fisher (and the earlier injury to Schwartz).

Super Bowl 55 was an easy win.

Super Bowl 56? If Tyreek had gotten into the end zone it would have been a different game. Even if that didn't happen, we were a bizarrely flukey 4th-down sack from taking the lead late in the 4th quarter. We can blame this loss on execution, but it was a coin flip on that 4th-down play. I think we were trying to score while killing clock, and accidentally outsmarted ourselves.

So in my mind, the Chiefs have been indisputably the best team in football for each of the past four seasons. Change a couple of coin flips and we would be rightfully recognized as the greatest NFL team of all time. And we would be (are) bulldozing our way now to a fifth straight championship.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think it was a well-known secret that Sutton was "retiring" after that season. So in my universe, either Dee Ford moves back six inches or tom brady's referee girlfriend doesn't try to impress him by throwing a flag, and we go to the Super Bowl. The Rams survived on defense, and the only way to beat the 2018 Chiefs was with a high-powered offense. The Chiefs would have dominated the game for their first Mahomes-era Super Bowl win.

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So in my mind, the Chiefs have been indisputably the best team in football for each of the past four seasons. Change a couple of coin flips and we would be rightfully recognized as the greatest NFL team of all time. And we would be (are) bulldozing our way now to a fifth straight championship.

I can fap to this.

It might be an angry fap, but those are fun too...

[Balto]

What if Lamar Kept the Texans in Dallas and the Cowboys moved to KC? Would we all be wearing blue and silver right now?

[irafreak]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Would not have mattered, I think. The lined up offsides play was with less than a minute to go, iirc, because I was watching that game at Santisi Bros. with my buddies and i went ballistic when Ward intercepted Brady; we thought the game was over before we saw the flag.

We were winning that game 28-24 with less than a minute to go. Even Bob wouldn't have been able to **** that up.

That's my point. Could they fire a dc on a superbowl team?

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by irafreak

That's my point. Could they fire a dc on a superbowl team?

yes.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by Gary Cooper

The 1995 Chiefs were not beating the Cowboys in the Super Bowl. You're talking about Steve Bono and no offensive weapons versus a dynasty full of Hall of Famers.

We would have won it based on that 95 defense. The Bono "led" offense would have been ground control only and scored based on turn overs giving great field position.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by Balto

Scott Pioli’s Dad wears a condom.

Honestly I am glad we brought in Pioli. Not because he was actually a good GM, but because he was so awful that CHunt went out of his way to rid this team of Pioli and led us to Reid, Dorsey, Veach, and Mahomes. Without Pioli this team would still be in a 50+ year purgatory watching Reid, Veach, and Mahomes tearing it up for another team and thinking “What If”.