Could somebody (anybody) explain in 2 sentences why itās referred to as American football?
I watched 5 minutes of this media phenomenon and their wasnāt a ball kicked. Hapes of charging and mullocking and tea-breaks and selectors meetings.
One ape was number 87 - they seemed to have rakes of subs. Strange sport.
youāre a year early with your question Boxty. Come back at about 11pm next February 6th and youāll get your answers on the biggest night of the year.
What was this?
A few of the Buccs lads were emotional after winning the conferenceā¦ Brady set them straight.
Going for home runs from the off was a huge mistake amplified as the game went on, eventually it was clear they were going to try a big pass almost every second play, later probably more. Buccs ball movement and clock movement won it as the ticking clock got into the chiefs heads and they panicked really. Fournette was a massive addition. Reid canāt have been right after what happened his son, kinda tarnishes Bienemy too in a way. Mahomes just tried to do too much.
He needs to learn how to check down more often, incorporate that into his game, CEH open in the flat all season ling and heās not getting a look, and heās a real shifty back, heās a great QB, heāll be in the conversation for GOAT someday but heās not perfect, they need to keep a defence honest by running the ball more often
Does he run many audibles? Heās still very young experience wise despite the ring. The falcons threw it too much and stopped the clock for the pats, the buccs were never going to make that mistake and could let the clock roll in the second half especially.
Mahomes has every skill, the ultimate five tooler which Iām sure you know the meaning of. But he doesnāt have belichick so heāll never get near 6 wins I think. He still might be the goat. Rodgers only has one thanks to years of McCarthy mismanagement and is as good a GB as anyone who has ever played.
As much as I despise Brady for his ball tampering etc, I liked this one
Fournette busting runs and then Jones coming in and finishing them off was a lovely 1-2 punch they had in their armour. Like I said earlier, they just played smarter on both sides of the ball.
Hard to know how much of an effect Reids sons crash had. I doubt it affected things too much, there was nothing they were going to be planning 2 days before the game that would have made any difference. It may have cast a bit of a downbeat mood over them but in terms of football, it would have had little or no impact.
Bienemy was being talked up for head coaching spots, but that definitely took a hit last night. Some really bad play calling and as @johnnysachs and other prominent commentators pointed out, leaving their two inexperienced tackles with no edge protection from TE or RB/FB, was just foolish at best, or arrogant at worst.
Bienemy doesnāt call plays
Andy Reid teams have always had discipline issues. The refs came into the dressing room pre game and said they would be clamping down on holdingā¦ They still went out and held repeatedly. Thatās nothing to do with Reidās son, just poor coaching and discipline. I think the call on Honey Badger / Evans was poor tho.
You also have to give Todd Bowels some props here. It was an outstanding game planā¦ I posted elsewhere that Mahomes was made scramble all over the field for nearly 500 yardsā¦No QB survives that. A big learning curve for him and heās still a pupā¦ but I thought the limp got a little bit more pronounced as the game was slipping away. Paddy letting the world know he was hurtā¦ His ego was hurt I think. But he will have a lot more big nights where heās gonna have to carry the load as the cap space catches up with the team. He has freakish talent, some of his passes are insane how he throws itā¦ Itās upstairs he has to master now. He seemed rattled from the off for whatever reason.
You canāt fault mahomes, he ran some crazy concentric circles the second the ball was snapped near the end but he had to he had rushers untouched coming straight for him. And these are athletes who canāt be easy sidestepped, he took massive punishment.
I just think the mood etc is massive before a SB. Buccs defenders were flying around, wasnāt that energy in KC maybe the crash etc affected that maybe not
is he not the OC who helps the game plan for the game? Having their front lined up is not something that is just on a whim. He also clearly does some of the play calling too, but Reid handles the majority of them.
He got creamed a few times, I donāt think he was faking it
Never once blamed Mahomes. I dont think he played well regardless, but he was under pressure all night and the Chiefs did absolutely nothing to try stop it. They had enough issues everywhere other than him. Bucs just played really well on defence.
Yeah hard to know on the crash and what role it played. It certainly didnt help anyway.
Reid is the play caller and the offensive schemer there. Iām sure EB has an input but it is Reidās offence
so last night doesnt tarnish Bienemy?
There was talk after the AFC divisional game that Bienemy was calling some plays but he wouldnāt admit that he did. Or fully deny it.