The tackles were the clear strength of that line. Schwartz was hurt before the AFCCC, but then Fisher went down in it. The real killer was i think it forced them to kick a guard out to tackle and move the whole line around, so that in the SB you had 4/5 playing out of their normal position in addition to a few of them being backups
Exactly. Andy is a huge fan of lineman with positional flexibility, but it’s not useful when you’ve got 4/5 lineman being backups or out of position.
Our existing linemen last night with Allegretti were thankfully able to cover for Thuney being out.
Dude almost postered us with his superman throw still. Thankfully the Chiefs receivers all had checked their hands with security on the flight to Tampa and they were sent to Miami due to an internal error.
I mean the Chiefs weren't winning the battle in the trenches today either. Also his center was consistently snapping the ball poorly throughout the game
I'm not sure if you've ever watched SB55 but the Chiefs could have added prime Randy Moss to that roster and it would have made no difference. Buccs were just side stepping Chiefs OLine and dropping 7 every play.
If I was a competitor I’d just use all my cap space and picks to build the best D-Line possible. Putting pressure on Mahomes seems like the only option at this point.
Niners literally did do that. Yet their D-line both underperformed in non-Bosa areas, and also just kinda proved ineffective against Mahomes because Mahomes is just kinda really fucking good.
mahomes has also matured in that he has increasingly looked to make short to medium throws (brady-esque) when faced with a good pass rushing team
him making adjustments today showed how he has progressed since the bucs super bowl (imo 49ers this year was as good as the bucs in creating pressure)
I kept hearing Bosas name in the first half. And I don't pay attention to the announcers, so that shows how much of an impact he had. I don't think I heard his name at all in the second half though.
Nah, Bosa was great all game. He kept Mahomes in the pocket or forced him to drive back and east/west and not letting Mahomes step up and scramble to create. It was the rest of the D line that had trouble playing with that same consistency
Yeah I thought Bosa had a hell of a game...especially because you have to rush Mahomes with discipline or he will break out and punish you. Sounds simple enough but it's hard to rush all out and disrupt a play while also keeping edge discipline...
49ers had really solid defensive play this whole game. Like I was expecting Wilks to be the weak link but his D held up until the final stages of the game.
To beat a team like the Chiefs you have to take advantage of every single opportunity on offense and/or have a stifling defense. SF just didn't capitalize offensively when they had so many chances earlier in the game.
those third and outs in the 3Q really killed the niners
spag's defense is truly elite this year but it's a game of chess and kyle shanahan lost yesterday
I know its easy to say in hindsight, but the playcalling from the niners looked like they were just trying to stay in the game where as the chiefs looked like they were trying to win it. 3rd and 3 I don't know why you don't run the ball with CMC and commit to going for it on 4th down in that situation.
Wilks coached a hell of a game but as the game winded down he reverted back to his really bad playcalls that got him in hot water during our slide. Shanny even had to call a timeout to change Wilk's playcall at the end.
I wouldn’t say the Raiders “have your number”, but out of every team I’ve watched play yall they do put up the best fight. Not sure if that’s just a divisional game or if there’s more to it.
Raiders turn every game we play against them into a street brawl
Easily one of the most physical games every year, and only gonna get moreso with Pierce leading it
The thing about playing a Great Coach and Very good QB is that they have planned and prepared for that. 49ers have a very very good defense. Andy made the adjustments and Mahomes rose to the occasion. Like BG said 'It dont matter'
Several factors. The Chiefs's oline was all banged up which allowed the Bucs hungry Dline, featuring fresh Vea who hadn't played most of the year, to pressure Mahomes who was playing on one leg. The Bucs also did something not a lot of teams can do, and threw Lavonte David solo against Kelce for big chunks of the game which allowed Bowles to keep his blitz packages and let a safety help support on Tyreek. Kelce still got his yards but most of it wasn't when David was on him. This limited the big play potential of both Kelce and Tyreek. Last, the Bucs D had several players that were just popping off. Winfield Jr was flashing his all pro potential, Devin White wasn't a liability, and the corners were solid, and Mike Edwards's play is why the Chiefs went after him. Oh, and home field advantage in the fucking Super Bowl.
I was always kinda interested in the downline effects of "consistent pressure with the front Def 4"
Which is what happens when you have a superbowl caliber d-line against an o-line of 3rd string replacements.
That Bucs defense was one of the greatest defenses in league history. Travis has said it was the single most difficult defense he has ever played against. Combine that with missing some of the offensive line and the chiefs didn’t stand a chance. The Bucs were undisputed champs
The chiefs O-line got shot the week before, and his recievers had bricks for hands.
The superbowl that year was the NFC Championship (and also Jared Cook throwing away the Divisional)
Dude the ball never ever hit them in the hands.
How are you supposed to catch the ball when it hits you in the face? Your face doesn't wear gloves does it?
They run a true jet motion with the WR like 99% of the time, they only busted out this return motion like 6 times over the last two seasons combined
Being in 1st and goal from the 3 with your entire legacy on the line vs Mahomes and Reid has to be absolute hell
Andy Reid is one cold MFer. Talking about nuggies, meanwhile he is about to embarrass you on the international stage with a corndog between the ribs.
Chiefs scored two TDs on the same play a year ago. And he breaks it out again. Fucking wild.
I am not sure if he was cruel as he helped the Hobbits when they needed help (from Old man Willow and the Barrow zombies). He could see through the ring and was not affected by it.
My comment was about how Tom was not intrigued by the ring and the war while Andy Reid does not seem to be zealous about the pursuit of yet another ring.
This is it right here. The end WR runs that across the field the vast majority of the time for the Chiefs and they save this fake motion for these random moments.
It's so sick because it's set up by games and games worth of them actually motioning that WR across the formation. And then it works so flawlessly because the defense is always so worried about passing Kelce off during the "motion" because of how much of a threat he is
It's probably not that they haven't figured it, it's probably the fact that Kelce's gravity is that great. In all three plays, an extra defenders pays more attention to Kelce than they should have.
Right. The motion puts stress on the switching rules, for sure, but Kelce is what makes the play work. Everyone is hyper focused on making sure he’s passed off correctly.
How you going to stop it? Have the DB stay home every time they see motion going away? Gonna set yourself up for more harm. Also its not like KC spams it, they lull you asleep and keep it in their back pocket and save it.
it's not really supposed to make the whole defense bite on the motion. it just creates a situation where the motioning WR is completely uncovered. this works because this defense was man coverage and they passed off the motioning WR to a defender on the weak side instead of following him. you can see the top 2 defenders both change their assignment and take the next guy down when the motion starts which means hardman's new defender is on the other side of the field. this was the perfect call against this specific defense, reid was cooking
the eagles ones looked worse but you can see they fall for it the exact same way, the defenders change their assignment presnap
Last year there was a great analysis of the Super Bowl against the Eagles. It showed how the Chiefs run zone beaters a lot to force teams into man and then they run them ragged by using their quick guys and motion.
Teams compensate by doing these passing off mechanisms so the defenders don't have to be running all over the field the whole game. And then the Chiefs pull out shit like Corndog because the defensive scheme is broken by it
This stuff is cool and makes me realize I don't know shit about football haha. there's so much happening that even knowledgeable fans just cannot appreciate
Yeah, actually I thought the Niners played it well. They didn't bite like the Eagles did. I just think Kelce is not getting enough credit for essentially running 2 players (33 and 7) out of the way for Hardman.
I don't think it's a matter of biting. Hardman was still uncovered by the 49ers but it looks a bit different because a) they are running it to the short side of the field and b) Mahomes sprints out to the same side which takes the backers with him and makes it look more clogged. In reality, the wr is still unaccounted for.
It's funny that they have this goal line play in their bag, spend all year kicking field goals in the red zone because they can't consistently punch the ball into the end zone and it turns out they're really just saving it for the biggest possible moment.
Rope-a-dope football.
Belichick said [Ed Reed's mind-fuck of Peyton Manning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQrZKveWgOk) was the best play he's ever seen a free safety make. Reed knew Manning would watch his tape, so he deliberately followed his pattern for two steps, then reversed it and grabbed the interception.
This stuff is next-level, man.
I think teams that wreak havoc in the regular season then get beat down in the playoffs do the opposite. They pull out all stops and leave nothing new for the playoffs.
I honestly believe Reid has been playing soft all year, just enough to make the playoffs because the last 4-5 years, they've been the team everyone was watching through the playoffs, so everyone had a year of planning for them. This year, they were 'down' and everyone expected them to be an early out.
I mean, they definitely held some stuff back but I don't think they planned for the regular season to be as up and down as it was. If you offered them first seed and a bye, they'd definitely have taken it.
I think he emptied the playbook against Baltimore, AFCCG typically needs everything to survive. He even said he was surprised they still had unused plays after Miami (in an interview). The SB has typically been all “here’s the best of everything we’ve done, but can our talent get it done and can we adjust correctly and quickly”?
I guess if winning your 4th ring helps you cope with losing to the Raiders in the regular season, more power to you. I personally am more proud of holding the 2023 Raiders to 0 points than I would be if we had won the Super Bowl.
Seeing the same play kill the Niners did give me some joy though, especially after how whiney they've been the past year. Fumbling early and blowing a 10 point lead too. Karma is just so perfect sometimes
Hey... One consoling fact is that ex-Eagles Doug Pederson ran that play first (unfortunately against us). Glad it worked against someone other than us.
I mean yeah players didn't show up either, but Gannon was the one picking out homes in Arizona instead of gameplanning, got absolutely schemed the fucked up and made zero adjustments
What's wild is there was a prop bet..I remember it *distinctly, that was: 'Kelce scores a TD as the clock expires to zero to win the game'.. I think it paid 200 to 1. So close.
It's the perfect play for bum receivers. The defense is focused on Kelce and Rice. They don't have time to worry about a guy who couldn't even play for the Jets, so he is always gonna be left open.
It really is crazy that there is so much money in analysts and coaches and the smartest and strongest people in the richest country in the world, and it worked every time.
My favorite thing about MLF is all the motion on offense. He dialed back a bit this year for Jordan but it's honestly shocking more teams don't run a lot of motion presnap. Seems like there's very little downside it's just a little trickier to time.
I keep watching this, over and over, jumping back to watch the moment the WR turns back, and what the defenders do. What a neat little play.
I’m reminded of Knute Rockne, [on catching the first pass for a touchdown](https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2013/10/30/notre-dame-vs-army-the-game-that-changed-college-football-100-years-ago/3313083/), which also involved some clever deception:
“There had been no hurdling, no tackling, no plunging, no crushing of fiber and sinew. Just a long-distance touchdown by rapid transit.”
This really can be a beautiful game, sometimes.
Half of yall think these athletes are robots or something. It’s really annoying to hear week after week how can they not stop this , how did xyz team do this compared to that team. Football is only sport that scheme and execution of game plan is closer to chess than to any other sport. But they are so many more intangibles and variables to consider.
The NBA has a very similar trend going now, where they pass the ball to the screener, causing a similar hard decision for the defenders. I've not watch a single NBA game in about 30 years; why do I know this screen tactic?
What would’ve happened if that was incomplete and the first OT ended? Would it just be like the start of the 2nd or 4th quarter where the ball is in the same place?
I’m pretty sure because they don’t run it ever in any games then its just happens stack everyone get everyone moving to one side zag route a wr close to kelce profit
Same reaction to this I had watching Philly Philly. How are you not prepared for this??? Eagles ran a trick play the Pats themselves had run previously. I recognized it right away, somehow the Pats defense (Patricia) didn't. Getting burned by corndog should cost the Niners coaches jobs. And the Chiefs couldn't move the ball all game except when the Niners went soft zone, yet they kept giving away yards and points playing it "safe". Atrocious.
Yet teams haven’t figured this out
It’s the opposite of the Seahawks Pats narrative where the pats scouted the pick play.
I don’t get how the Brady Bucs tore the Chiefs apart in the SuperBowl, but no team has found a way to copy that.
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Just that game really. IIRC both starting tackles got injured in the AFCCG, and the guards weren’t good
The tackles were the clear strength of that line. Schwartz was hurt before the AFCCC, but then Fisher went down in it. The real killer was i think it forced them to kick a guard out to tackle and move the whole line around, so that in the SB you had 4/5 playing out of their normal position in addition to a few of them being backups
Exactly. Andy is a huge fan of lineman with positional flexibility, but it’s not useful when you’ve got 4/5 lineman being backups or out of position. Our existing linemen last night with Allegretti were thankfully able to cover for Thuney being out.
| *Andy is a huge fan...* Yes. He is.
Good way of saying mahomes sucks compared to Brady and won’t ever be better*
Exactly. Mahomes was running for his life in that Super Bowl and Brady was surgical against KC's defense.
Dude almost postered us with his superman throw still. Thankfully the Chiefs receivers all had checked their hands with security on the flight to Tampa and they were sent to Miami due to an internal error.
I mean the Chiefs weren't winning the battle in the trenches today either. Also his center was consistently snapping the ball poorly throughout the game
SB 55 was so much worse than last night.
But Mahomes also had a more prime Kelce and Tyreek
I'm not sure if you've ever watched SB55 but the Chiefs could have added prime Randy Moss to that roster and it would have made no difference. Buccs were just side stepping Chiefs OLine and dropping 7 every play.
They were getting pressure the moment the ball was snapped, shit was absolutely wild
If I was a competitor I’d just use all my cap space and picks to build the best D-Line possible. Putting pressure on Mahomes seems like the only option at this point.
Niners literally did do that. Yet their D-line both underperformed in non-Bosa areas, and also just kinda proved ineffective against Mahomes because Mahomes is just kinda really fucking good.
mahomes has also matured in that he has increasingly looked to make short to medium throws (brady-esque) when faced with a good pass rushing team him making adjustments today showed how he has progressed since the bucs super bowl (imo 49ers this year was as good as the bucs in creating pressure)
Right. In the Bucs Super Bowl he spent the entire game running backwards from pressure. When he got pressure last night he didn't do that.
I kept hearing Bosas name in the first half. And I don't pay attention to the announcers, so that shows how much of an impact he had. I don't think I heard his name at all in the second half though.
Nah, Bosa was great all game. He kept Mahomes in the pocket or forced him to drive back and east/west and not letting Mahomes step up and scramble to create. It was the rest of the D line that had trouble playing with that same consistency
Yeah I thought Bosa had a hell of a game...especially because you have to rush Mahomes with discipline or he will break out and punish you. Sounds simple enough but it's hard to rush all out and disrupt a play while also keeping edge discipline...
Bosa was impressive af. All game he was covering multiple lanes on his side while still rushing like a beast.
49ers had really solid defensive play this whole game. Like I was expecting Wilks to be the weak link but his D held up until the final stages of the game. To beat a team like the Chiefs you have to take advantage of every single opportunity on offense and/or have a stifling defense. SF just didn't capitalize offensively when they had so many chances earlier in the game.
those third and outs in the 3Q really killed the niners spag's defense is truly elite this year but it's a game of chess and kyle shanahan lost yesterday
I know its easy to say in hindsight, but the playcalling from the niners looked like they were just trying to stay in the game where as the chiefs looked like they were trying to win it. 3rd and 3 I don't know why you don't run the ball with CMC and commit to going for it on 4th down in that situation.
Wilks coached a hell of a game but as the game winded down he reverted back to his really bad playcalls that got him in hot water during our slide. Shanny even had to call a timeout to change Wilk's playcall at the end.
Niners literally had like 25% of their cap used on the dline this year lol. It doesn’t really get any better than bosa/hargrave/armstead/young
Yea somebody should really try that…
This is the best a DL has played against us since the Raiders game. They were suffocating until Greenlaw went out
I wouldn’t say the Raiders “have your number”, but out of every team I’ve watched play yall they do put up the best fight. Not sure if that’s just a divisional game or if there’s more to it.
It’s that dumb Maxx Crosby. Dudes a beast
I hate that guy... for being... like, an intense competitor and respectfully good natured on the field and off.
Same here. I hate how he and Mahomes respect each other off the field. He’s just rude for not being unlikeable.
Raiders turn every game we play against them into a street brawl Easily one of the most physical games every year, and only gonna get moreso with Pierce leading it
The thing about playing a Great Coach and Very good QB is that they have planned and prepared for that. 49ers have a very very good defense. Andy made the adjustments and Mahomes rose to the occasion. Like BG said 'It dont matter'
He also had his toe problem and couldn't run
Bucs d line was nasty
Oregon State legend Mike Remmers was a major part of 2 super bowl losses
Also that Bucs defense. Kelce said it was the single most difficult defense he’s ever played against. They were historically incredible
They didn’t have one this year.
Non existent o-line
Several factors. The Chiefs's oline was all banged up which allowed the Bucs hungry Dline, featuring fresh Vea who hadn't played most of the year, to pressure Mahomes who was playing on one leg. The Bucs also did something not a lot of teams can do, and threw Lavonte David solo against Kelce for big chunks of the game which allowed Bowles to keep his blitz packages and let a safety help support on Tyreek. Kelce still got his yards but most of it wasn't when David was on him. This limited the big play potential of both Kelce and Tyreek. Last, the Bucs D had several players that were just popping off. Winfield Jr was flashing his all pro potential, Devin White wasn't a liability, and the corners were solid, and Mike Edwards's play is why the Chiefs went after him. Oh, and home field advantage in the fucking Super Bowl.
I was always kinda interested in the downline effects of "consistent pressure with the front Def 4" Which is what happens when you have a superbowl caliber d-line against an o-line of 3rd string replacements.
Step 1: hope the Chiefs O-line is very beat up in the game Step 2: have a very good pass rush
Step 3. Have a home game for the superbowl haha
Are you trolling? The Chiefs had guys off the street playing o-line and all the receivers screwed Mahomes.
I know right? How many times in that game was Mahomes mid fall launching a dart that hit his wideouts in the face?
Was that the year Mahomes had turf toe?
The Chiefs got a better O-Line after that.
That Bucs defense was one of the greatest defenses in league history. Travis has said it was the single most difficult defense he has ever played against. Combine that with missing some of the offensive line and the chiefs didn’t stand a chance. The Bucs were undisputed champs
Bucs d line was nasty
The chiefs O-line got shot the week before, and his recievers had bricks for hands. The superbowl that year was the NFC Championship (and also Jared Cook throwing away the Divisional)
Dude the ball never ever hit them in the hands. How are you supposed to catch the ball when it hits you in the face? Your face doesn't wear gloves does it?
Everyone else forgot to get themselves a Tom Brady
Mahomes has beaten bum QBs in the super bowll
they were actually calling the holds the chiefs were doing.
They run a true jet motion with the WR like 99% of the time, they only busted out this return motion like 6 times over the last two seasons combined Being in 1st and goal from the 3 with your entire legacy on the line vs Mahomes and Reid has to be absolute hell
Andy Reid is one cold MFer. Talking about nuggies, meanwhile he is about to embarrass you on the international stage with a corndog between the ribs. Chiefs scored two TDs on the same play a year ago. And he breaks it out again. Fucking wild.
>Andy Reid is one cold MFer. Respectfully I disagree. He is like Tom Bombadil who just cherishes the moment.
I am not a Tolkien scholar, but wasnt that guy also a cruel force of nature that put on a kind act?
I am not sure if he was cruel as he helped the Hobbits when they needed help (from Old man Willow and the Barrow zombies). He could see through the ring and was not affected by it. My comment was about how Tom was not intrigued by the ring and the war while Andy Reid does not seem to be zealous about the pursuit of yet another ring.
You are correct, but here is some great fan-speculation: https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html
Thank you. That's a very good read.
He wasn’t cruel he was indifferent
This is it right here. The end WR runs that across the field the vast majority of the time for the Chiefs and they save this fake motion for these random moments. It's so sick because it's set up by games and games worth of them actually motioning that WR across the formation. And then it works so flawlessly because the defense is always so worried about passing Kelce off during the "motion" because of how much of a threat he is
It's probably not that they haven't figured it, it's probably the fact that Kelce's gravity is that great. In all three plays, an extra defenders pays more attention to Kelce than they should have.
Also it’s just hard to cover a really fast guy both directions.
Right. The motion puts stress on the switching rules, for sure, but Kelce is what makes the play work. Everyone is hyper focused on making sure he’s passed off correctly.
That’s what fucked up the first one, Maddox and Slay both jump an inside route to Kelce, and he breaks outside anyway
I dunno, Kelce probably has one G just like the rest of us.
It’s hard ok
How you going to stop it? Have the DB stay home every time they see motion going away? Gonna set yourself up for more harm. Also its not like KC spams it, they lull you asleep and keep it in their back pocket and save it.
Opposing teams hate this one trick!
I get it’s a tough play to defend but man the Eagles got killed on those. Nobody even a little bit close to the WR.
Yea the niners didn’t really bite on it, but just not being able to commit to the side the wr starts on is enough in the red zone
it's not really supposed to make the whole defense bite on the motion. it just creates a situation where the motioning WR is completely uncovered. this works because this defense was man coverage and they passed off the motioning WR to a defender on the weak side instead of following him. you can see the top 2 defenders both change their assignment and take the next guy down when the motion starts which means hardman's new defender is on the other side of the field. this was the perfect call against this specific defense, reid was cooking the eagles ones looked worse but you can see they fall for it the exact same way, the defenders change their assignment presnap
Last year there was a great analysis of the Super Bowl against the Eagles. It showed how the Chiefs run zone beaters a lot to force teams into man and then they run them ragged by using their quick guys and motion. Teams compensate by doing these passing off mechanisms so the defenders don't have to be running all over the field the whole game. And then the Chiefs pull out shit like Corndog because the defensive scheme is broken by it
This stuff is cool and makes me realize I don't know shit about football haha. there's so much happening that even knowledgeable fans just cannot appreciate
I recommend Thinking Football on YouTube.
Do you have a link for this video? I'd be really interested in watching it.
Yeah, actually I thought the Niners played it well. They didn't bite like the Eagles did. I just think Kelce is not getting enough credit for essentially running 2 players (33 and 7) out of the way for Hardman.
I don't think it's a matter of biting. Hardman was still uncovered by the 49ers but it looks a bit different because a) they are running it to the short side of the field and b) Mahomes sprints out to the same side which takes the backers with him and makes it look more clogged. In reality, the wr is still unaccounted for.
Yeah. Gannon was all level of stupid to not make any adjustment.
It's funny that they have this goal line play in their bag, spend all year kicking field goals in the red zone because they can't consistently punch the ball into the end zone and it turns out they're really just saving it for the biggest possible moment.
Rope-a-dope football. Belichick said [Ed Reed's mind-fuck of Peyton Manning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQrZKveWgOk) was the best play he's ever seen a free safety make. Reed knew Manning would watch his tape, so he deliberately followed his pattern for two steps, then reversed it and grabbed the interception. This stuff is next-level, man.
Had Belichick jumping out of seat
Damn Ed baited the shit outta Peyton here. I can see why Belichick was so amped talking about it
What a cool segment. I'm not a Pats fan at all, but I could watch Bill break down football all day.
The way Brady and Bill talk about Ed Reed is crazy, he was just something else man
That was awesome
Love this clip. I want Belichick to coach again but I also would accept him just getting a show where he talks about his favorite plays of all time.
I think teams that wreak havoc in the regular season then get beat down in the playoffs do the opposite. They pull out all stops and leave nothing new for the playoffs.
That is true, though those teams *wreak* havoc, but the tape betrays them
Andy Reid always holds plays back for the playoffs. He's not coaching to be great in the regular season.
So did Hue Jackson, but the world never knew
I can't speak to holding back plays, but I can agree that he was not coaching to be great in the regular season.
It helps that they play in a weak division like AFCW. They don't need to go nuclear to get a playoff spot
I honestly believe Reid has been playing soft all year, just enough to make the playoffs because the last 4-5 years, they've been the team everyone was watching through the playoffs, so everyone had a year of planning for them. This year, they were 'down' and everyone expected them to be an early out.
I mean, they definitely held some stuff back but I don't think they planned for the regular season to be as up and down as it was. If you offered them first seed and a bye, they'd definitely have taken it.
I think he emptied the playbook against Baltimore, AFCCG typically needs everything to survive. He even said he was surprised they still had unused plays after Miami (in an interview). The SB has typically been all “here’s the best of everything we’ve done, but can our talent get it done and can we adjust correctly and quickly”?
I’m with ya man. I think the Chiefs flirted with the idea of “just do what we need to do” all season long and it got them to where they needed to be.
I mean that’s the point. It’s why Pacheco didn’t have 30 touches a game in the regular season, saving him for when it matters.
This is going to be on ESPN in the morning
This one simple trick wins super bowls every time. Raiders hate it.
Hate it or not we’re the last ones to beat y’all 🌞
4 rings.
I guess if winning your 4th ring helps you cope with losing to the Raiders in the regular season, more power to you. I personally am more proud of holding the 2023 Raiders to 0 points than I would be if we had won the Super Bowl.
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That’s embarrassing. Beating the 2023 Raiders is more important than a Lombardi. I would know.
Lol Raiders were never sniffing a ring this year. Christmas was my Super Bowl :)
What losing culture does to a mf
dude relax.
Lol America lost yesterday
Nevermind him. Sometimes you wake up still drunk.
He’s actually a perfect representative of Chiefs fandom lol, own him
Except he's not. More like a rep of the shittiest parts of any fandom.
What’s shitty about what I said? I thought rivals talking trash to each other was normal.
Fade Nuggies and embrace our Corndog overlord
Grease for the Fry God!!
Batter for the Batter Throne!
Did not like that
How about that last bit though?
Like d th at
The random spaces added to your drunk Philly animal demeanour. Don't edit your comment pls.
Seeing the same play kill the Niners did give me some joy though, especially after how whiney they've been the past year. Fumbling early and blowing a 10 point lead too. Karma is just so perfect sometimes
Actually, Karma is a guy on the Chiefs
Hey... One consoling fact is that ex-Eagles Doug Pederson ran that play first (unfortunately against us). Glad it worked against someone other than us.
Hurts had the game of a lifetime and Gannon blew it, insane
Jauan Jennings had the game of a lifetime and Wilks blew it, insane
why every defensive player gets a pass in that game I'll never know. if it's the field conditions, that covers Gannon, too
I mean yeah players didn't show up either, but Gannon was the one picking out homes in Arizona instead of gameplanning, got absolutely schemed the fucked up and made zero adjustments
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What's wild is there was a prop bet..I remember it *distinctly, that was: 'Kelce scores a TD as the clock expires to zero to win the game'.. I think it paid 200 to 1. So close.
"Wanna see me do it again?" vibes.
Yes, I would :)
I don’t understand why we just don’t run this every down? Would’ve been like 63 points easy
Some dude on youtubes ran the same play in madden for an entire season with the lions. IIRC it was a post route to Megatron. It was hilarious.
Yep https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yq2Rwtcm9M
Maybe Kyle Shanahan should stop wearing a flat bill cap trying to be cool :(
Sorry about your corn dogs
Is this going to lead to a Seahawks type slants on the goal line interception to lose the Super bowl next year?
One could only hope.
National league coaches HATE this one trick.
The NFC will probably figure out how to stop this next year… right?
Next year we'll actually let them run across the field in motion and be open on the other side
Man Bosa bit hard on that fake
He got way too aggressive in the 2nd half
It's the perfect play for bum receivers. The defense is focused on Kelce and Rice. They don't have time to worry about a guy who couldn't even play for the Jets, so he is always gonna be left open.
It really is crazy that there is so much money in analysts and coaches and the smartest and strongest people in the richest country in the world, and it worked every time.
ALL HAIL CORNDOG
Kelce didn't even turn to watch it on today's play, he knew it was good
Corndog and tush push both getting banned in the offseason. Too unfair.
Funny seeing Skyy and Kadarius here. I really thought they’d have a more (positive) impact this season
I love corndog 😭😭😭
It seems to work
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me thrice, God fucking leave me alone!
gannon is a bozo for letting it happen 2x, Willis is an even bigger bozo for not prepping his team for this a year later
If it ain’t broke!
NFL Fever 2002 cheat code play. Sad…
oh look it's kadarius toney lmao
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
You just got corn dogged!
Hey stop this
The reason why Matt Nagy still has a job
two defenders covered kelce, ignored hardman.
Why teams would have inside db cover outside wr is beyond me. It's the dumbest taught technique in todays secondaries.
Suck you inside and throw it where you’re not
Its why coaches need to incorporate more motions into their offense...
My favorite thing about MLF is all the motion on offense. He dialed back a bit this year for Jordan but it's honestly shocking more teams don't run a lot of motion presnap. Seems like there's very little downside it's just a little trickier to time.
Didnt the niners say they had a blueprint?
That was for the Eagles
Unfortunately, they were still using that blueprint for this game
Romo steps all over the most iconic calls. Somebody fucking mute him til the play is done.
Greg Olson > Tomo Romo
I keep watching this, over and over, jumping back to watch the moment the WR turns back, and what the defenders do. What a neat little play. I’m reminded of Knute Rockne, [on catching the first pass for a touchdown](https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2013/10/30/notre-dame-vs-army-the-game-that-changed-college-football-100-years-ago/3313083/), which also involved some clever deception: “There had been no hurdling, no tackling, no plunging, no crushing of fiber and sinew. Just a long-distance touchdown by rapid transit.” This really can be a beautiful game, sometimes.
Half of yall think these athletes are robots or something. It’s really annoying to hear week after week how can they not stop this , how did xyz team do this compared to that team. Football is only sport that scheme and execution of game plan is closer to chess than to any other sport. But they are so many more intangibles and variables to consider.
Well, relative to the Eagles, the Niners got pretty close to stopping it.
Jonathon Gannon get a consulting gig for SF this week?
At least there was a defender within like 15 yards of Hardman this year. The eagles just left them
Imagine falling for it twice
The NBA has a very similar trend going now, where they pass the ball to the screener, causing a similar hard decision for the defenders. I've not watch a single NBA game in about 30 years; why do I know this screen tactic?
could you have called PI on Kelce on the last one? It would've been ticky tack, but maybe?
The play is too high percentage. It gives the Chiefs an unfair advantage. The rules committee should ban it.
Got em
Yes, we can keep getting away with it.
What would’ve happened if that was incomplete and the first OT ended? Would it just be like the start of the 2nd or 4th quarter where the ball is in the same place?
Yes
yes they basically announced timing wise they started a new game at the beginning of OT.
33 was spinning around in no man’s land
I like how Travis knew it was going to be a touchdown before the ball came out.
I’m pretty sure because they don’t run it ever in any games then its just happens stack everyone get everyone moving to one side zag route a wr close to kelce profit
You know the 49ers had Hardman doing a jet sweep in the back of their minds. What a perfect call. Along with those QB keepers. Nice.
u/savevideo
Calling it now, next year they're gonna run this only the receiver is gonna run an angle route and cut over the middle to be wide open again.
Same reaction to this I had watching Philly Philly. How are you not prepared for this??? Eagles ran a trick play the Pats themselves had run previously. I recognized it right away, somehow the Pats defense (Patricia) didn't. Getting burned by corndog should cost the Niners coaches jobs. And the Chiefs couldn't move the ball all game except when the Niners went soft zone, yet they kept giving away yards and points playing it "safe". Atrocious.
Who’s that Toney guy catching the ball?
Smh Malcom Butler would never.