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Originally Posted by The Franchise
Nobody? Nobody thought that? Is that why talking heads out there we’re talking about that exact thing?
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I just thought Baltimore was a god-awful matchup for them. I figured they'd have no way to get the substantial lead they'd need because Baltimore would come out pounding the ball and it would be grind v. grind. In that scenario, I thought Baltimore would just be better at it than Tennessee.
Then Jackson fires a bit high on a ball that A) Mahomes doesn't miss and B) Kelce doesn't drop, the ball gets intercepted, Tannehill strikes early and the script flipped.
And Jackson had a couple of plays where the moment seemed too big for him - one of the 4th and 1 runs was a TERRIBLE run from him where he just stuttered behind the line before getting taken down. The other interception was a shit pass and then the god-awful strip-sack where he simply demonstrated ZERO pocket awareness. I guess I could've seen that coming, but I didn't.
Bottom line is that I simply didn't see a scenario where a 1 score game more than midway through the 3rd quarter would yield a
SIXTY DROPBACK DAY from Lamar Jackson. Kinda feel like Harbaugh just ****ed that up quite a bit and Lamar Jackson simply isn't equipped for the direction the game (inexplicably) took.
So yeah, I'll say that I saw only a very narrow window for the Titans to win that game because I thought the matchup was rough for them. But I think this one is WORSE because even IF the Titans get a nice lead, that's simply going to push the Chiefs to do what they're best at and that's attack downfield.
Get ahead of Baltimore and they have to fall back to what they're pretty lousy at. Get ahead of KC and you force them to do what they should probably be doing most of the time anyway.