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Originally Posted by rabblerouser
Speaking of energy, I LOVED the shot of Vrabel right after Mahomes hit Watkins with the 60-yarder. You could see the lifeforce leave his body as the one eye rolled back into his head...it crushed his spirit. I almost felt some empathy, because I've been there - we've ALL been there - but they thought they were still in that game until that point. It was right then that Vrabel knew he'd been Mahomesed. It was glorious.
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And I think it's because he knew how well they were playing.
To that point he could sit there and say "man, we just need ONE break..." and be confident that his guys were playing at a level that might actually allow them to get it.
When you're only half thinking a thing is possible and it slips away from you, well you aren't really all that crushed because you weren't convinced it was likely anyway.
But I think Vrabel's watching that game and he's proud as hell of his guys and he's seeing them stay within a haymaker of maybe stealing this thing....
....then it happened. Only the 2nd real mistake his team made all day and it resulted in the 2nd crippling touchdown of the afternoon. At that point he understood that for everything they'd done and for as hard as they'd tried, it just wasn't going to happen. And because he'd had himself convinced that it could, it hurt all the more.