Travis Kelce makes all kinds of very nice catches across the middle of the field, and often he tries out a juke move but almost always he gets tackled right away.
Except that there are those single times they work. Kelce had two of them work last night, one a long 50+ yard catch-&-run down to the one yard-line to set up a late touchdown, then another that went the distance to win the game in overtime.
Then there are our two punching-bag players, D-back Daniel Sorensen and LB Ben Niemann. Both were in there long and often because there was no L'Jarius Sneed or Willie Gay, two key players who've helped revitalize our defense over the past several games. Sure enough they were being pushed all over the place as the Chargers offense had its way with us.
But there are those impact plays. Sorensen batted down a 4th-down pass that saved a Chargers score -- why does it seem there is just that one play he makes in every game that makes a huge difference? Ben Niemann had a phenomenal stop on a Chargers back at the goal line setting up a Turk Wharton strip and fumble recovery by, yes, Ben Niemann. Another Chargers score critically averted.
Thing is our defensive line was also without Chris Jones, and it showed. Our run defense was horrific. Chris Jones himself is not the best run defender, but his presence in the middle mucks things up and puts our other fine defenders in great position to make plays.
One of those guys is Nick Bolton, by the way, and if people like those over at Arrowhead Pride would stop their obsessive and completely unjustified dissing of Mecole Hardman for two seconds (yes, they did it again after last night's game), they might take some of that web space to instead give Bolton his due. The knock on him is he doesn't cover well, but besides making all kinds of major hits and stops, he did have a terrific pass defense on one short ball. He's all over the field in some way or another and is arguably the best rookie linebacker in the league.
Another thing the people at most of these Chiefs sites like Arrowhead Pride will not do because they are so kowtowed to the NFL and other powers-that-be is call out this Covid hysteria lockdown insanity for what it is -- idiocy that led to seeing these strong Chiefs players sidelined.
The reporting is always "Oh what an unfortunate turn of events that ___ Covid thing [likely they have no idea what it is] that is keeping ___ off the field." Sadly, no one tells the truth that there is no reason whatsoever for the NFL or anyone to keep anyone off the field for whatever Covid thing they concoct. Virtually all of the Covid protocol absurdity is ineffective, unnecessary, and even dangerous. Chris Jones, L'Jarius Sneed, and Willie Gay should have been out there playing ball and not being an unwitting part of the NFL/powers-that-be's propaganda machine. This applies just as much to any player on the opposing team.
Really, to some extent, I just have some serious consideration that the Chiefs Super Bowl win was the last legitimate one. A month after our glorious championship, potentates the world around started to virtue-signal out of their rear-ends trying to convince us that they could eradicate all bad things with the wave of the mask wand, or the vaccine wand, or the testing-distancing-whatever wand. And yes, it is has horribly infected our fine sport and the Chiefs Kingdom. How can we count anything that happens on the field as legitimate now when they unnecessarily jerk the game around like they have. But then, really, the NFL has been jerking it around for some time now, with all the racialist plap as well as its now quite openly broadcasted connections with gambling organizations.
I was going to remark more on some of the amazing game we got to enjoy last night, such as how good the Chargers QB Justin Herbert is -- how good it'd be to talk about the new Mahomes-Herbert rivalry we'll get to enjoy for the next several years except, yeah -- what Covid insanity will ensue to wreck it all then?
::Sigh::
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The photo above is from Andrew Mather at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.
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