Originally Posted by RunKC:
Posted this in another thread. Andy hears that shit. You think Andy isn't a cocky, vengeful sonofabitch when he needs to be? Bc he sure is.
He purposefully won the game by pantsing Ward. He embarrassed him and made sure he'll never forget it. The Tom and Jerry playcall purposefully put Mecole on Ward's side. The play design pulled the LB's up for a QB run that Patrick did a few plays earlier in the drive. Andy put Ward in the impossible spot of 2 vs 1. He stayed with Kelce so Mecole was wide open. If he went to Mecole, then Kelce would be wide open to win the game.
That's why Kelce didn't even look at Mecole when the play happened. He knew it was over the second Ward followed him. And then Kelce laughed in Ward's face.
That play just keeps working and its starting to make me wonder if there's really any way to defend it with man coverage.
I mean I guess Bosa could go blast Hardman out of the route but really, what else can be done?
And Richard Sherman made an excellent point - Ward probably didn't know where Hardman even was. When the CB sees a guy go in motion and then kinda disappear behind the line, he just has to guess where the guy is going. With as often as Reid has that motion continue, Ward HAD to guess that Hardman would keep going and Kelce was his guy. If he guesses that Ward is going to come across and leaves Kelce, he's equally dead to rights.
And by the time he sees Hardman pop back out of the formation on his side, it's too late to do anything about it.
It was as close to an indefensible play as you'll see against that coverage. I mean - what the hell do you even do to stop that play? [Reply]
Logan Ryan (who was playing NCB all night) is the only guy that I think can defend that play and that's where the confusion between him and Ward comes in. It looks like Logan took one little false step trying to see through the traffic and that was all she wrote.
So I guess that's the answer - your NCB has to be Trent McDuffie and power through that traffic without missing a beat to bring him down as he makes the catch. But it looks like Ryan takes just a half a heartbeat when Kelce looks like he may be throwing a block and that was enough to let Kelce get to Ryan's outside, forcing Ryan to go inside and around Kelce and create the space needed for Hardman.
All that could've stopped that play was Ryan completely selling out at the snap to get outside, coming over top of Kelce and into that space. Warner never had a chance (and appeared to maybe be spying Mahomes anyway) so it came down to Logan Ryan. [Reply]
Fucking Kelce, man - just pure decoy and knows it as soon as Ward slides over to him. He throws his hands up at the snap to deke Ryan into thinking run then takes two strides before he watches it unfold on the jumbotron.
That guys a football savant. More than even Lamar Jackson. [Reply]
****ing Kelce, man - just pure decoy and knows it as soon as Ward slides over to him. He throws his hands up at the snap to deke Ryan into thinking run then takes two strides before he watches it unfold on the jumbotron.
That guys a football savant. More than even Lamar Jackson.
3 steps into is route he was pointing to MVS on his TD , his knowledge ,vision and feel for the game is remarkable. It is even more noticeable next to guys like Skyy who can even run a 5 yard out without fucking up [Reply]
Originally Posted by Monticore:
3 steps into is route he was pointing to MVS on his TD , his knowledge ,vision and feel for the game is remarkable. It is even more noticeable next to guys like Skyy who can even run a 5 yard out without fucking up
Skyy Moore getting lost on a bubble screen will always be peak 'tard for me.
I've never seen anyone meander in space on a screen pass like he did there. And so Mahomes had to just dirt the ball because they were about to end up with an ineligible man penalty since the OL had started blocking downfield and the ball had to come out.
When you can't even be trusted to run a !@#$ing screen correctly, you really can't be on the field.
Thankfully the staff finally realized that. Because if he were out there for Hardman on Sunday, we very easily could've lost that game. [Reply]
