**Official 2018-19 NFL Post Season Trilogy: CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY!!**

[darkswordsman17]

I'm not expecting much, but guess we'll see if Spagnuolo can improve the defense.

While I feel bad for the guy, was glad that Mahomes made it clear that the Chiefs were better off for moving on from Smith. As good as Brady, Brees, and others were, Mahomes clearly was by far the most valuable player for any team this year. Without him, even with a solid QB, they probably wouldn't have made the playoffs, let alone the AFC Championship game. With him they were a play away from the Super Bowl. If I were the Chiefs I'd try to lock him up to a 10 year $300 million deal.

Also, unless he retires and they do an injury settlement, the Redskins are fucked on Smith's contract. Think they're already on the hook for like $55million guaranteed, and if they don't cut him in like April then it'll go up to $70million and it'll probably be almost 2 years from his injury before they even have an idea if he'd be worth it.

Yea, that offside's cost KC the game but it was legit. I've heard some say it was a "tic-tack" call and I disagree, you can't expect the ref's to discern how much it's going to impact a specific play as in "oh, he got blocked anyway so a flag's not needed", bullshit, offside is offside. Outside of the phantom bogus roughing call KC actually did well with the Ref's, the Pats got 3 PI called while KC defenders were mugging ?Gronk at will. The 100% illegal block of a Patriot defender that sprung Watkins did not get called either.

From what I saw, I think the complaint is that the refs usually warn a player the initial time so he knows that he was and the Chiefs don't feel that they got one of those. Its on Ford though, and while that's brutal that it cost them what would've been a game ending INT, I'd have been fucking pissed if an opposing team got away with something that blatant. He was way offsides in the Pro Bowl too (didn't watch, saw screenshot of it), so he didn't learn a lesson (unless it was supposed to be an intentional joke).

As I've said before, good teams overcome the refs even when they're getting screwed (unless its a total screw job on the level not seen in any NFL game that I'm aware of, yep including the Rams-Saints shit). And good teams that benefit from it, well that's just usually the Pats, doesn't change that they're a good team that is capable of winning without it. I'm also sure they're not the first team that happened to be good and also benefit from several high profile officiating calls over an extended period of time.

Imagine if this happened at Gillette against Mahomes. But KC won't do anything about finding this guy which they should easily be able to do with stadium security cameras.

To add to the game, I believe Brown, Mason, Cannon, Gronk and White got blocking grades of 100% holding their blocks for 2.5 secs which is all they need to do since Brady throws it in under 2.5 secs. They had Bosa mic'd in the LA game and at one point in the game, he told Brady if he could hold the ball a little longer and he was on the bench talking to Ingram saying if Brady keeps getting rid of the ball under 2.5 secs they won't even be able to get a hit on him.

And KC on their second to last drive passed the whole drive instead of running the ball a few times to force NE to use Time Outs. They scored to take the lead but gave NE over 2 mins and 3 time outs. Not sure if I'd change the OT rules as I can't think of a better way to handle it. Don't like the college rules.

Oh bullshit, its being investigated. Pats (and seemingly Brady) didn't seem like they gave much of a shit (think they just said they were aware of reports of it so they seemingly didn't even notice it when it actually happened), so fuck off with that horseshit. I'm not sure why you think this would be that easy to find either, its a laser pointer not a fucking spotlight. Its not like the guy threw beer right in Brady's face after he ran in a TD.

The thing is if you're moving the ball you better just score. You can chew up clock when passing too, but you shouldn't try to just run it just because if you're working over their defense. Chiefs had not been running well all game and they trust Mahomes with the ball in his hands (as they clearly should). I think they expected the Pats to possibly score again so were wanting enough time for themselves to have another shot as well. And if they'd chewed up time it probably means they wouldn't have had the chance to kick the field goal to force overtime.

I do. During the playoffs, each team gets at least one possession regardless of scoring a TD. If the second team fails to match (be it FG or TD) or gets a TD when the first team got a FG, then game over. If they match, then its about who is on top at the end of the OT.

My mistake, I thought there was, I guess incidental contact is allowed as long as it's brief, that one looked over the threshold though. Honestly, the Saints won the toss in OT and wound up with a turnover, perhaps they got caught up in the missed PI call and lost focus. The LA pass rush was pretty severe all game long. Brady won't have that problem though, they have no legit down-field threat for him to wait to get open 🙂

There did used to be one I think (think there used to be 5 and 15 yards, then they changed incidental to just a full 15 yard, and then I think now they just plain don't call facemask unless its a pretty blatant grab and hold or causes the players head to get jerked). Or maybe there was something about incidental being called as "hands to the face"?

Seems like the 5 yard is just high school now. I swear there was a year they tried 5 yards for incidental, but then scrapped it after. Or maybe they were just considering it or something.