The 4th quarter has just started and we're up 16-6. Our offense played pretty crappily in the 1st half but our defense has done well enough to keep the Giants at six points so far.
Mahomes has been nothing short of amazing, yet again, making plays over and over and over again. One play, insanely enough, was when he tossed a goofy backwards pass that bounced around until a Giants guy picked it up, yet just before he headed off for the end zone Mahomes came from nowhere and snatched it right back.
Saved a touchdown.
Otherwise we were also getting hammered by the officiating. Any surprise? I've taken a few notes so far and there are five questionable instances of officiating that went against us. To be fair there were two calls that favored the Chiefs when they shouldn't have, but the ones that obviously should or shouldn't have been called that favored the opponent are far more. I could list them, but I'm tired. It's been done before. Ugh, just tired of it.
Several other calls are extraordinarily ticky-tack -- against the Chiefs. Just now Trent McDuffie was called for pass interference -- a horrible call because he barely touched the receiver coming off the line. Right after that the receiver caught the ball, got up to run, then fumbled the ball to us.
Nope.
Another officiating call that goes against us when it shouldn't have been made. The NFLers really do not want us winning.
So yeah, over and over and over again the officiating afflicts our chances. Some of them in major ways. Again, not going to get into it. Not going to neglect to call it out because, yeah, it'd be nice if others would mention it. A critical mass of mentioners even, that'd be nice. It was actually nice how many did call out the favors given the Eagles last week.
And yeah, the Giants did get points, a field goal, from what they did after the shouldn't-have-been-made call on McDuffie. It is now 16-9.
Mahomes gets the ball again, and while Hollywood, JuJu, Tyquan, Travis, and Noah have been balling out there, we do so need Rashee and Worthy back out there. Travis had come back to doing okay, Noah Gray has made some nice plays, and Tyquan has our touchdown making a solid grab of a Mahomes bullet in the back of the end zone.
Also, again, while Isiah and Kareem have done okay, we do need that more-solid go-to RB. We need to at least get Brashard Smith more involved! We'll see where we go, how this game goes...
Until it's done...
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Nkay it's done. We win 22-9, thanks to a very nice Patrick bomb and Tyquan catch right at the goal line after which Kareem punched it in.
Aside from all the usual aggravating officiating stuff, our defense was fine, Mahomes was fine, or backs and receivers were okay, and the Giants generally did not play well. It was a win we needed because we've got the Ravens next week.
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The posted image is from the official Chiefs site, taken by Steve Sanders. Thank you.
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