I'll never understand why you cherry pick plays when trying to explain (or put blame on) an L. What our D was able to do to KC for 3 and a half quarters was MUCH better than any of us expected. Yes, if they get 1 more stop we win (that's obvious) but considering who we were playing against and how our offense was able to move the ball and suddenly stopped for 3 straight drives by going away from what was working, that's a much bigger factor than Ward getting beat on 1 fukking play.
Should we have stopped them on 3rd and long? Yes. Is that one play the key of everything and should be our main focus/takeaway from that game? Hell no.
What you are doing in this post could be done with Jimmy G and that overthrow to a wide open Sanders in the redzone. "If he hits that pass, we win". Well, yeah, but that 1 play isn't the reason we choked.
fukk, now I'm back to being depressed, thanks breh.
We all been cherry picking though, but everyone or a lot love to put the blame ALL on Jimmy when in reality if we close that 3rd and 15, we would’ve never been in that position in the first place.
No one gives Jimmy credit for playing well for 3.5 quarters and we got people in here ready to drop him now or one some “if he don’t improve next year we need to cut him and save the cash.” (Up to that play him and Mahomes play was on par with each other as Mahomes had about as many yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs)
This helped get us to the Super Bowl, which only Montana, Young and Kaep can lay claim too. Yes he had a great defense (like the others) but that shouldn’t diminish his accomplishment but people let it do.
Now back to Ward, that wasn’t a play where Hill just all out BEAT him, it was blown coverage and even the commentators in real time and in the instant replay called him out for it. Hill was IN FRONT OF HIM. He made a weird spin away from Hill and that’s what allowed that shyt happen, then came a PI call the next play.
Even if say I don’t blame Ward, that’s still on the DEFENSE to close the game out.
Y’all expect or expected him to play great for 4 quarters, y’all expected Kyle to coach great for 4 quarters, well it’s fair that we should also expect the DEFENSE to play well for 4 quarters.