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Originally Posted by Spott
That one sucked, but Pitt would have gotten the ball back with about 2:45 left only needing a FG to win it. I definitely wanted the opportunity to stop them, but our D had been doing the bend and don’t break thing the whole day and I don’t know if we would have kept them from at least getting a FG try at the end.
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Those teams were always so hard to keep healthy into the playoffs and their runs were dependent on our defenses staying 100% off the IR.
DJ's absence in that game made such a huge impact in our inability to stop Bell. Just like Houston's absence did against Brady in the year previous, and Berry's absence did the following year.
Chris Jones being absent in the 2019 divisional match would have previously spelled a similar doom for KC. Or half the offense getting injured in the 2022 AFCCG (like the 2013 playoffs).