I still consider the number one factor in us winning this game is the total absence of the terrifically awful ding-dong thing happening to our team. This requirement is doubled, tripled, quadrupled or more simply because of the absolute charmed way the Patriots have streamed through postseason after postseason ravenously devouring anything the other team may do to give up the game.
The very little that I've read and heard people say about this affair is that the Chiefs are favored and justifiably so. I too believe, from what I've seen, that the Chiefs are the more talented team, but remember, the Patriots are coached and quarterbacked by two of the very best ever, and are both right now scouring all things Chiefs to exploit any advantage they can get.
And they will, for sure. So here's to Andy Reid and his staff countering that with their own ingenious game plan, and they are very capable of that.
A few days ago they were saying it'll be 0 degrees after a couple days of heavy snow. The latest weather report, however, has got temps up in the 20s, still sunny. I'd like to think that'll help the Chiefs explosive offense. I was thinking about Mahomes frequent longer pass ducks from the game Saturday, and thinking it was probably a very good thing.
It made us take our time matriculating the ball down the field before scoring touchdowns. If we get those long sustained drives on Sunday, we'll be keeping Brady off the field like we did Andrew Luck, and our defense will be more rested. I do think having our defense off the field for long periods of time kept our guys fresh to play as exceptionally well as they did in the divisional game.
I saw very briefly that Eric Berry had a full practice today. Wow, if he could play that'd just be phenomenal. When the Chiefs defeated the Patriots in the season opener last year, Berry completely shut down Rob Gronkowski. Late in that game he had his Achilles tear. Remember recently, too, Berry was so instrumental to throttling the Chargers offense when he played the first half of that game on December 13. Here's to that rest he's had since then having him out there playing full throttle for the duration this Sunday.
Other than that, yeah. It is simple, once again.
Can the crazy-ass stupid thing not happen to us, can we consistently play to our strengths throughout the game, and can we exhibit enough got-it to match a team that always has a sickening abundance of it?
If those three things happen, we'll win.
Oh, and by the way, I have to add this. On Sunday night right after the game -- and yeah, we got the prime-time game, how about that -- a "Super Wolf Blood Moon" will rise over Arrowhead and be seen by the rest of the western hemisphere. I wrote a brief fanpost about it at Arrowhead Pride, and one of the writers there wrote a longer piece that included a note about how some societies have considered such a celestial phenomenon a sign of profound transformation.
Yeah, that's it.
Could it be the mantle of domination in the AFC is transferred from one team to the other this Sunday?
Go Chiefs!
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