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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
This loss is 80% on Patrick.
At one point he couldn't hit a ****ing flat route to Clyde.
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Yeah, Pat gacked this one.
But Andy didn't help. McKinnon wasn't just getting 5 yards/carry on average - he was just flat getting 5 yards damn near every carry. I mean he was gouging Cincinnati and the Bengals did nothing to adjust.
Andy did what dozens if not hundreds of managers/coaches have done before him. He fell victim to 'Great Man Syndrome'. He was convinced his guy would figure it out before it was too late. He was certain that when the chips were down, his star player would stand tall and make the one play he needed to make to pull it from the fire.
This time he was wrong. I understand why he did it, but it was a choice Andy made and one he has to live with.
It was a rough game by the two guys we could least afford having bad games. One or the other could struggle, but when Mahomes is off his game and Reid isn't reacting aggressively out there, we're just gonna lose. It is what it is.