Today's game is that extra game they added to make the season's total 17, here right smack in the middle of the season.
I'm pounding out this post right at the beginning of the game, not sure how much I'm going to write here about the actual game. Just thinking about the controversy right now, much of it related to what happened with Aaron Rodgers this week.
Rodgers told the truth about Covid realities and he has been effectively ostracized. This is a guy who is a huge part of the NFL's success. The NFL is demonstrating its prolific idiocy yet again by benching him when the matchup between Rodgers and Mahomes is a marquee event. The last time these two teams met we didn't get that matchup because the Packers game was the one right after Mahomes messed up his knee in 2019 and had to sit out a couple games.
This time the NFL didn't like that Rodgers refused to get vaccinated, and anyone of entertainment must be on board with their marketing designs, and let's face it, the NFL is just entertainment with a bit of bone-crunching. If you are high-profile in the popular culture eye, you'd better be in with the hegemony's orthodoxy no matter how destructive it is.
I could spend some time getting into it, would love to do so even here, but I'm just going to go ahead and upload the post I wrote a couple weeks ago. It is my consideration of why the Chiefs are struggling. From the little that I see from the Chiefs web remarks, the reason we are not doing on the field what our talent should bring is any number of meaningless reasons.
In fact right now as I watch this game, here in the middle of the 2nd quarter, the Packers are just better. They are not better with their talent or anything else except that are just that intangible kind of better. And it is my consideration that the reason is in the post that I'm putting in right now.
We may indeed win this game on the talent merits alone. Not because we're better but because they are and we just have this thing hovering over us.
Right there, there's a play that exemplifies why I feel the way I do. Mathieu had a pick-six right in his hands, and let it slip through his hands only to have the ball bounce around and drop into the hands of the receiver anyway.
This is just a fine example of the team just not quite being right there where we should be. We're still committing penalties. Missing marks. Stumbling about. Appearing very unsharp. Letting the other team make crazy plays. Just not looking on-track at all in any way. You could even say the most important one of all: Patrick just regularly throwing the ball all over the place instead of into receivers' welcoming arms.
I have a theory.
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Before sharing that, I'm now at the end of the game. We did pull out the win.
Be honest, give the Packers credit, their defense was terrific. Our Chiefs bumbling about can be largely due to our opponent's fine defensive play.
L'Jarius Sneed made plays. That interception when he really just snatched the ball right out of the grip of All-Stud receiver Davante Adams was amazing.
Our kickers were also making plays. Butker had a key 50+ long field goal, and because of our generally inept offense Tommy Townsend was punting a lot today. That'd be bad, but he himself was booming them. One he got at the two yard-line, and twice their guy muffed his punts -- can't beat that as a punter.
The play of the game, however, was just a testament to the talent we have at QB and WR. On 3rd-&-10 at midfield only up 13-7 with just a couple minutes left, Mahomes had to scramble hard right and found Hill for the game-closeout first down. It was very reminiscent of the 4th-&-9 play against Baltimore three years ago.
But again, there we were, this talented offense only mustering 13 points.
I have a theory...
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The image is from Chris Donahue at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.
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