RB mesh. Ol’ faithful. Beautiful call.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Samaje Perine picks up clutch the first down!<br><br>��: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BUFvsKC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BUFvsKC</a> on CBS<br>��: Stream on <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLPlus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFLPlus</a> and Paramount+ <a href="https://t.co/s8PD07o4ux">pic.twitter.com/s8PD07o4ux</a></p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1883709123268845865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

averaging 30 points in the playoffs. I think there is truth to saving shit for the playoffs.

Just ****ing remember that next time you're bleating about our mid regular season offense, fellas LMAO

I'm not exactly sure however this play looked a lot like the Hunt run earlier in the game; the defense crashed down on Hunt and Patrick had an open lane to the endzone.

Mahomes said in the press conference after the game that one of his rushing TD's was the same play as Hunts TD. It's all about reading the RPO correctly.

Love love how they threw it for a 1st down to ice it instead of just run it, then punt, and still give Buffalo a small amount of time. And there was never a really a galaxy Im kicking a 50 yard FG instead of punting and giving them less time and more yards to overcome with like 20 seconds.

We RPO’d the ever living shit out of those ****ers LMAO

Andy baited them over and over again since they bracketed Kelce. Already had a LB and DB on Kelce so he motioned Worthy to draw the other LB outside and killed then with Hollywood.

Then when they adjusted and flooded the middle Andy called a fake RPO with Juju wide ass open behind the LB’s flooding the zone to cover Hollywood.

Goddamn I bet that felt good for Andy to unleash after holding it all year LMAO

Hmm. Code got all wonky there. Can y’all see it or nah?

Football is so strange.

As soon as I saw they'd brought Perine in for the play, I knew what the play was. It was going to be one of those patented, "If it isn't there, run it" plays for PM where you give him the option to pass for the first down or go down to keep the clock running.

The only question was left or right. And then when you saw Perine cut across the formation at the snap, you knew that the rollout was gone so you KNEW where Mahomes was going with the ball.

Maybe if Elam comes off the route, he fires it on the quick slant to Brown, but if that's the case, that defense was in an impossible situation where SOMEONE was going to be wide open.

How? How do you send 4 and still leave the RB uncovered? On the kind of play design that we all knew was coming.

Did Bernard underestimate Perine’s speed (he isn’t THAT fast)? Or just a shit angle?

It looks like he’s about to make the tackle, then had an “oh shit he’s already past me” moment.

Unfortunately, no. Looks like Bluesky's embed code doesn't cooperate with our ancient software. It just shows "placeholder!".

It was man coverage and the Bills defender assigned to Peirine got caught up in traffic. Clearly that was part of the play design.

As soon as he caught it I thought he had the first down. I did have a split second of doubt when the defender came up, but I think it was just a really good play design.

Andy showed these guys nothing in the regular season and then unleashed his bag. He absolutely saved shit for the playoffs

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bills outfoxed on the other side of the ball, too. Greg Rousseau said Chiefs ran plays they hadn&#39;t seen before. Such as pulling a tackle left &amp; running the QB keeper right in this diamond formation. <br><br>“I didn’t see that any of the breakdowns I watched.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/T4qPpthI5K">pic.twitter.com/T4qPpthI5K</a></p>&mdash; Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) <a href="https://twitter.com/TyDunne/status/1883964256099655740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I think he lost where the sticks were.

It was one of those things where he knew it was 'stop him short of the sticks or bust' so I think he cut it at the steepest angle he thought he could get him at and still stop him short of the sticks.

He may not have been wrong. I'm not sure at that point there was a way to avoid him getting the 1st even if he takes a perfect angle because with a full head of steam, he drags Bernard with him and still gets the first.

Think it was a shit angle. He got through the traffic and was going flat and did not change that angle until that ball carrier was by him.

Is this guy going to go down as the best in history? I mean, let’s be serious. He doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The winning seems to drive him even harder. He has the same desire as Mahomes to be an all time great, it means something to both of them way more than guys like Allen and McDermott will ever understand.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Naw fr tho. I said this same thing right as the play happened.. i ain’t never seen a qb keeper with Pat and im talkin bout this is thru 4 years of games AND practice. If you ain’t never seen something in practice then you know it’s never been scouted! AR &amp; spags was in their bag <a href="https://t.co/s1zS9zgw4N">https://t.co/s1zS9zgw4N</a></p>&mdash; Saint Bink Saunders (@khalenNOTkaylen) <a href="https://twitter.com/khalenNOTkaylen/status/1884055109023457424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I miss Khalen... I'd love to save him from the Saints.

And people say Andy is "soft" because he doesn't blow out teams and supposedly is "nice" to coaches that worked under him.

Bullshit. Andy is a cold-blooded killer playing 5D chess while everyone else is playing checkers. Just when you think you've figured him out, he pulls out a new trick you've never seen before, tears your heart out, and shoves it right in your face.

I used to roll my eyes at the saving shit for playoffs comments.

But they were saving shit for the playoffs

The offense hasn't looked that good all season

Smart, wicked smaht

because the regular season doesn't really matter to the Kansas City Chiefs!

I said that the regular season Buffalo/KC matchup it was crazy that we didn't attack the middle of the field or use the RPO.


1st drive RPO RPO RPO, middle of the field, TD.

imagine having the best regular season in Chiefs history while not giving away your offense so you can dominate the playoffs. That's actually remarkable.

Dawuane Smooth was unblocked and still ran himself right into the middle of the pile for Mahomes to go around.

Damn, they REALLY keyed on that pull from Taylor, didn't they? They saw him pulling and completely sold out on the fake up the gut. That's why Kelce was able to get so clean up the field to throw that block at the goal-line. If Smooth (#94) doesn't sell out, Kelce has to seal him and takes Mahomes lead blocker out of play. That probably gets stopped around the 5.

This coaching staff, man...

Same.

It's gonna be hard to complain about anything in the regular season because now there's definitive proof Andy is saving the good stuff for the playoffs. Theres no doubt anymore, Andy treats the regular season like it's preseason, finds the good stuff, stops using it so he can save it for when the "real" games start.

I think 8 years ago if you told me any of this, I'd think it was dumb**** fan fiction. My mind just couldn't process any of it happening.

Tribal Warfare said during the draft in 2017 that Mahomes is "Russell Wilson with Colin Kaepernick's arm strength"

I said "Man, that essentially makes him John Elways -- that's asking a lot, eh?"

And I LOVED Mahomes. Started talking about him in November of 2016. He was my guy in that draft and never in a million years did I think "Okay, this is going to be the best QB of all time..."

Because who ****ing thinks that? Who dares even consider the possibility?

Nothing about this makes any sense at all.

Man this game was about scheme on both sides of the ball. We just gotta be so thankful for Andy and Spags. Article from the perspective of Bills players. And of course the greatness of Patrick Mahomes.
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Start with the fourth-and-5 at the end of the Bills’ final offensive drive. The fact that the ball hit Dalton Kincaid in the hands makes him an easy target for blame. But the only reason Josh Allen was in that position, heaving up a prayer off his back foot, is because of the blitz Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo called. The Bills had seen it on film, but the tendency was different.

“We called protection to slide left,” Bills right guard O’Cyrus Torrence said Monday as Bills players cleaned out their lockers. “From film, they would blitz from where they weren’t showing it from. They showed it from the right, so we were thinking they were doing it from the left. But they actually brought it from the right this time. You could say it was an error, but they just called the better play than we had on offense.”

One of the main differences in the game was the way Patrick Mahomes was able to stress Buffalo’s defense with his legs. The Athletic’s Mike Sando detailed earlier this year how Mahomes scrambles a lot more often in the fourth quarter of one-score games. He’s also added more EPA by scrambles in those situations than any quarterback in the NFL since the beginning of 2023. Mahomes finished the game with 11 rushing attempts for 43 yards and two touchdowns. And 17 of those yards and one touchdown came on two rushes in the fourth quarter.

Bills defensive end Greg Rousseau said some of the situations Mahomes ran in caught them off guard. For instance, Mahomes’ 10-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter came with a formation in which the Chiefs had two tight ends lined up next to Mahomes. Rousseau said he didn’t see that on any of the breakdowns he watched during the week.

“He’s a dual-threat quarterback,” Rousseau said. “Sometimes with him, you look at the film from the regular-season game and he was more so throwing the ball. Then last night he was running the ball a lot more. It was a lot more boots and they kind of changed up the game plan. You kind of don’t know what you’re going to get with a quarterback like him.”

According to TruMedia, this was the second-highest scramble percentage Mahomes has had in a game in his career. The only time he scrambled more was in a 2020 regular-season win against the Bills. He was pressured on 29 percent of his dropbacks. He’s only lost six times in his career when pressured at that rate or lower. This is also the first time in his career he’s had two rushing touchdowns in a game.

“The plays where he got out, it was just Mahomes magic,” Miller said. “He saw a little crease and got out. Whether it was a stunt that we had that way or whether it was a blitz that we had the opposite way. We knew in the playoffs the odds of him running go way up because he’s the guy over there. Just like Josh (Allen). Josh runs a little more in the playoffs. He was just seeing those creases and making it happen. Out of all the stuff that happened, it all came down to just a couple of plays.

But regardless of the ball spot on that quarterback sneak, the Bills had a much tougher time with that play against the Chiefs than they did throughout the season. In the regular season, Allen had 17 rushing first downs on 18 tries on third or fourth down and 1 yard to go. The Chiefs stopped him three different times in those situations. What was often an impossible play for defenses to stop this season became predictable for the Chiefs.

“Those plays you always just have to win your block I would say and hopefully the call is good enough,” Torrence said. “It’s still just a game of inches. You watch film and think you know what the defense is going to do and then they come out and do something different. I think that’s kind of what was getting us a little bit. They slammed a few times and sometimes they didn’t. Crowding the ball real well, things like that.”

Like in other areas, the Chiefs had answers when the Bills didn’t. It’s fair to second-guess offensive coordinator Joe Brady for not adjusting, especially with how well James Cook was running. But that’s also a play that has been Buffalo’s go-to in those spots.

“That has been a staple in our offense when we get to that, we always do that,” Torrence said. “That’s why we never went away from it. If we’re going to get it, we’re going to get it because we’ve been getting it all year. So I don’t feel bad that coach was calling it because he put the game in our hands and gave us a chance to get the first down.”

So Andy isn’t just saving his best stuff for the post season, he is establishing tendencies in the regular season in order to set up plays in the past season.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;This was the best the Chiefs offensive line has looked all season long..<br><br>They set this up all game long&quot; ~ <a href="https://twitter.com/aqshipley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aqshipley</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PMSLive</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChiefsKingdom</a> <a href="https://t.co/dBvrxu36z2">https://t.co/dBvrxu36z2</a> <a href="https://t.co/V7cGpdWokQ">pic.twitter.com/V7cGpdWokQ</a></p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1884688877622837565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's both.

For example, Orlovsky said he saw two plays in the AFCCG that came from the Ravens playbook. He had never seen it on tape from the Chiefs before Sunday.

NOOO

https://scontent-ord5-3.xx.fbcdn.net...mw&oe=67A0F111

You can save it by posting Andy Reid eating Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo.

There was a play early in the game where Justin Reid I think blew up a play in the backfield. I was thinking "That's all film room." He had seen that play before and knew exactly where the ball was going.

But that only goes so far against us in the playoffs. You can watch as much film as you want, but you will still get hit with plays you can't study because no film on it exists. It's such a huge advantage.

That offensive line breakdown on McAfee is a great example of why Andy will run the ball. People complain in every game thread about runs that don't work but sometimes a 3 yard run will set up a TD later. Yeah he's saving plays for the playoffs but even within a single game he's saving plays for the key spots and setting them up. We've seen it both running and passing.

With a historical win next Sunday (refs willing) Andy will have 29 playoff wins. BB has 31. He could take the lead in our 4peat SB next season (refs willing).

That’s why I think they’re gonna show the same set as corn pop, and it’s gonna be a completely different set of routes for the receivers. Which is gonna leave someone wide ****ing open. Hopefully it’s Kelce., and it’s the game winning TD! That’s the ending I’m hoping for. 2 TDs to Kelce to tie the record and give him incentive to come back next year. And hope Mahomes throws at least 3 to put his potentially 46 touchdowns in second place one ahead of Montana and Rodgers, and 43:eek::doh!: from beating Brady. That’s crazy, but Mahome is only in year 7. So possibly around his 14th season if he continues on his current trajectory. Maybe less is Worrhy continues to be the weapon he’s turning into already.

Rep.

We ARE winning 4 straight super bowls.

Yup, that’s why I never really get too worked up about anything that happens during the regular season.


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I don't think I could if I tried at this point. It is meaningless.

They're really expensive practices....

I still say Reid getting Beignets absolutely rocked.

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WTF? I've never heard of these things...

Dude, it's a New Orleans classic. Look up Cafe Du Monde.

its basically a donut

The regular season losses still suck, but not like it used to suck for 50 years. It’s the opposing fans that make it the worst. They hang on to those meaningless (to us) regular season wins as their personal Lombardi, and consistently bring it up, despite the fact we keep winning actual Lombardis.the kind you get when you win the last game of the playoffs, not the ones they apparently give out for week 1-18 games. We’re everybody’s Super Bowl, the Super Bowl is our Super Bowl!

It's not that Andy doesn't want to win regular season games; he does. However, I think he'd be more than willing to take a loss if it meant putting out some tendency breakers and keeping the good stuff for the post season.

It reminds me of a video I watched after the Bills beat us in the regular season. His whole thing was that Reid got badly out-coached. And I was thinking, did he? Or was he simply that much more interested in the long-game.

I made that exact same observation on here, multiple times. While he didn't go completely vanilla against the regular season Bills, he sure as hell kept most of his card close to the vest. He knew we'd see them in the playoffs. This is the genius that is Andy Reid.

Spags too. His regular season gameplan was pretty basic. Especially compared to what he brought for the AFCCG. The team obviously knew they’d win when it mattered most. Even Kelce with the clap he did at the end. The whole team knew this wasn’t the game to empty the clip for. The 2 best things about that loss was we didn’t have to worry about chasing the ghosts of the 72 Dolphins, because they’re going for an even rarer feat that’s NEVER been achieved. And it gave their ****ing neckbeard fans lots of false hope. Which in turn caused them to blame everything for the loss except for the truth. Might be their motto of the McD era.

I wonder how much the Bucs “figuring out the Chiefs offense” in the 2020 regular season matchup and Eli Apple going into great detail how Lou Anarumo had figured out the Chiefs tell after the Chiefs-Bengals regular season matchup in 2021 has inspired Andy to keep things so vanilla in the regular season.

It’s stunning how that strategy has now directly led to us turning the tide against the Bengals and Bills in AFC Championship games.

Hey Vanilla sells more than any other flavor.

I don’t like the losses but I like this

Ugh.

Burn it with fire.

Holthus:

"You're gonna have to decide which face you want to move off the NFL's Mt. Rushmore, and put Andy's on, or add a 5th face."

"If Andy Reid wins this game, and gets a 4th Super Bowl, he's two postseason wins away from Bill Belichick's record. He does it, being the only coach in NFL history to have 100 wins with two separate franchises."

"You better put Andy up on Mt. Rushmore. Who's coming off? Papa Bear Halas? Somebody, or you put a 5th face up there, because Andy deserves to be in the same discussion with Shula, Belichick, Landry, Lombardi and all the others."

I'll go out on a limb and say it: I love Andy Reid

Andy, Walsh, Belicheat, Shula

Done.

I will say nothing but pleasantries about HC Andy Reid, both for his accomplishments and for fear of Chiefspants auditing my posting history.

And then he left Parcells in the dust.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;You&#39;re hiding under your desk aren&#39;t you.&quot;<br><br>Just a classic Andy Reid/Bill Parcells story after a rough first month coaching in Philly �� <a href="https://t.co/O413FdD8oM">pic.twitter.com/O413FdD8oM</a></p>&mdash; NFL Films (@NFLFilms) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLFilms/status/1887141629251014886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Looking back on his career, one thing that I find amazing is how he got his first HC gig with Philly. Rarely does someone go from a position coach to HC without coordinator time first. Not only did he not have that, but he has succeeded well beyond expectations and is now one of the most successful HCs of all time.

You could talk me into opening up that 4th slot for debate as well.

Shula sure seemed to have a lot of 'meh' over the last 20+ years of his career.

I mean Kyle Shanahan is 44 years old right now. We absolutely still think of him as a young coach, right?

Don Shula won his last championship at 43.

From that point on he made the playoffs 12 more times, missed them 10 times.

Of the 12 times he made the playoffs, he went one and done in half of THOSE.

Over the last 2/3 of his career, he went 9-12 in the post-season and really only had 2 'successful' postseasons where he went to (and lost) the Super Bowl. In the other 20 seasons, he either missed the playoffs or went home early.

I've just never been convinced that he's a true 'all-timer'. Good - yeah. Great - probably.

But one of the 4 best coaches in NFL history? Man, I'm just not sure of that.

I think I might just go Belichick, Reid, Walsh and Lombardi. Shula only bests any of those guys on longevity and if you can have Walsh up there through 10 years of dominance and overall impact on the league, I think that exact same argument applies to Lombardi.

I'm pretty sure that's my 4.

Interesting thought exercise -- flip Reid's career on its head to compare it directly to Shulas. I.e. you put Reid's success recently at the beginning of his career and his early years towards the end, similar to Shula.

Reid's resume is still better.

Over the 'last' 20 years of Reids career at that point, he goes to the playoffs 14 times and misses 6 (vs. 12-10 for Shula).

His playoff record is 12-14, slightly better than Shula's. Shula gets an edge in Conference Championships 2-1 but Reid had more deep runs. I think you could say, at worst, that the 'lean years' for the two guys are extremely comparable.

So then you look at the peak to find distinction and Andy's is just better. Andy already has 3 championships to Shula's 2. His 16-2 playoff record of this span is ridiculous -- Shula went 10-5 at his peak.

I mean, Reid just CLEARLY has a better case, even when you try to manipulate the data a bit.

I was perusing wiki last night and goddamn man. The early Eagles staff that Andy constructed might be the best in NFL history as well as guys he added later on.


Spags
McDermott
Harbaugh
Toub
Childress
Shurmur
Rivera
Bowles
Frazier
Pederson-won SB in Philly
Nagy-coach of the year

An early front office guy was Jason Licht who has done a great job as the GM in TB.

This is why he’s better than Belichick. Half the league is from Andy Reid

It's the second, fatter coming of Bill Walsh.

If the Chiefs take care of business Sunday I want Andy Reid and the Pillsbury Doughboy holding the Lombardi next to a plate of 3 donuts.

The biggest stain on Shula is Dan Marino only reaching one Superbowl, and then getting absolutely ass raped in that Superbowl refusing to run the football at the dime defense that the 49ers were content to run as a base defense.

Marino never getting to another Superbowl is mind blowing.

i have created this image for you

Thank You.

The league adjusted to Marino setting the world ablaze and Shula simply didn't have an answer.

Reid, OTOH, has fundamentally redesigned this offense essentially every season to continue to find ways to attack the defenses designed specifically to stop him. This offense is night and day different than the 2018 offense and Reid's still going to SBs with it.

Had Shula even WON that Super Bowl with Marino and then never done anything from that point forward, it would've been akin to Reid beating the 49ers in SB 54 and then being mediocre for the next decade.

He's just so obviously better than Shula when you really start to mine into it a bit.

Being born in 92, Shula was out of the league when I started watching (98). But whenever his name came up on football’s Mount Rushmore, the latter part of his career (as well as Marino’s entire career) was given a lot of grace since their owner was a tightwad and a good chunk of Marino’s career came before the salary cap.

That’s not personally a defense I’d give Shula (because who else gets those kind of defenses in NFL history?) but that talking point is something I remember hearing for a long time.

I just wanna say, on the day before the biggest game in Kansas City Chiefs history:

THANK YOU, COACH REID!

Andy living his best life!

https://scontent-ord5-3.xx.fbcdn.net...fg&oe=6804FDE2

Tammy’s a babe.

Great pic of a great couple...