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Originally Posted by crayzkirk
The thing about Josh that I think will be more difficult to deal with is that he is beginning to understand that he doesn't have to be superman. Like Patrick has learned, take what's there, limit the mistakes and make the occasional amazing play. Stopping Cook and the TEs is going to be the key to this game.
I still don't understand why people think that the Chiefs are holding back anything. It's like people saying that Wile E Coyote was holding back all of his great ideas. This is the Chiefs offense; long drives, chew the clock, don't make mistakes and get points. The league has decades of seeing Andy Reed and seven years of Patrick. Just what sort of magic are you expecting? An end around in the red zone that loses 10 yards? Refusing to throw the ball into the endzone immediately after a huge return? Football seems pretty simple however as the Ravens showed us the last two years, trying to do the unexpected instead of what you are good at doesn't seem to work out very well.
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You don’t understand? When the Chiefs have shown a history of holding back plays and unleashing them in the playoffs?
Did we see the Chiefs spamming Tom and Jerry/Corn Dog in the regular season to pump up red zone conversions during the regular season the past two years? Or did they break those out for key spots in the playoffs?
Did we see the Chiefs spamming run-pass options with Mahomes before the playoffs, ever?
You’re going to tell me they haven’t worked out a counterpunch to the “crash the line with power rushes to the QB’s left hand, spy prepared to chase Mahomes when he scrambles right” tactic the Chargers pioneered and the Bills used in many key spots in the regular season?
It’s one of the reasons KC has been able to amp up its red zone efficiency so much in the playoffs, even back to the 2019 run. They had what was, to some, concerning “conversion rates in the red zone, and then in the playoffs they turn into an ultra efficient red zone TD machines while breaking out shit from a Rose Bowl in the 1940s.
Spagnuolo has done it, too - saving a major tendency breaker look for a must-have spot in the postseason.
People expect some new wrinkles because new wrinkles have come out every year.