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Originally Posted by GoForIt
You can take this for what its worth from a Bucs fan but the Chiefs offense is very limited after Hill and Kelce. Your 3 and 4 options are WR are not good. The Oline I would imagine would be better when healthy but the defense is barely average. The secondary is pretty awful with Breeland being a liability and the LBs are not very good either. I would think Patrick would benefit greatly from an improved D and a decent option at the 3rd WR spot.
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I can see where you come to this opinion from the Super Bowl. However, you're completely wrong about the KC secondary.
KC's secondary is really quite good, which drove their no. 6 defensive ranking against the pass in 2020. They absolutely blanketed Bills receivers in the AFC championship (Chris Simms has a very good video on this).
So, what happened in the Super Bowl?
1) Brady got the best protection of any QB in SB history. That's supported by the only 4 times he was pressured by later film examination. Brady faced less percentage of pressure than ANY QB IN SB HISTORY. Give Brady a quality receiving corps like the Bucs have and that protection, and he'll torch any secondary.
I don't care if you have Deion Sanders and Revis Island at corners, he'd still torch that D because Brady would find the mismatch with that much time.
2) The refs gifted TB with VERY favorable PI calls. That's not just Chiefs partisans saying that. Terry McAulay torched the calls in the SB, saying that they were completely out of line with how PI was called all season and in the NFC championship game. McAulay wasn't an "average" ref btw. He officiated 3 Super Bowls and 7 Conference Championship games bf retirement in 2017. In particular, he blasted the PI call that took away Brady's interception.
3) As others have mentioned, Sammy Watkins is the 3rd option, and he wasn't healthy this year. Look at the Chiefs prior two playoff runs, where Watkins produced big numbers bc everyone was focused on Hill and Kelce. And yeah, Hardman and DeMarcus Robinson just didn't get it done in the SB.
4) Yeah, the LBs are the weakness on D. But, KC's most athletic linebacker missed the game (Willie Gay).
What produced Tampa's blowout win was the perfect storm of injuries, favorable penalty calls, the fortuitous match between KC's injury weakened line with TB's strength, and a meh game plan from the Chiefs. That wasn't Reid at his best.