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Why did we kick the field goal with 11 seconds left? (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=320764)

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Originally Posted by SAUTO (Post 14062021)

I got the rando guy next to me. Ended up holding him in the air while my wife and the little kid in front of us were both hugging me. Lol.

So why did dumbass line up OFFSIDES? That’s somthing I’ve pounded into my grandsons head the last 6 years!!! Here’s your sign!!! WTF?????

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Originally Posted by Tigers1fan (Post 14062038)

So why did dumbass line up OFFSIDES? That’s somthing I’ve pounded into my grandsons head the last 6 years!!! Here’s your sign!!! WTF?????

? No idea what this has to do with the post you quoted

With only 11 seconds on the clock the field goal was the right way to go. The only play you have is to throw it in the end zone. The Pats would have just put everyone in the endzone and just out of the endzone. It's too dangerous to throw it into that much traffic. If you have a penalty against you, a 10 second run off would end the game. If you take a sack, you end the game.

The best thing was to get the points and go into overtime. Unfortunately we didn't win the toss. Unfortunately we couldn't stop the Pats or at least hold them to a field goal.

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Originally Posted by TwistedChief (Post 14061654)

This is classic Monday morning quarterbacking. For Mahomes at that point, the priority is getting the game to overtime when you’re at that stage with no time outs left. If you can take a shot at the end zone and win, you do it. But you don’t let a mistake beat you. So let’s say he hits Williams. Two possibilities: 1/ Williams ****s up and stays in bounds, gets tackled, game over. Or 2/ Williams gets out of bounds and then you’re still at the 10 and need to be throwing into what’s likely double or triple coverage in the end zone again, risking a pick and the end of the game.

Had Mahomes thrown a pick to end the game there, Reid would’ve been castigated and Mahomes probably would’ve been mentally crushed through the entire offseason. We have the single most aggressive QB in the NFL who has 3rd and short and chucks it 40yds downfield. There’s no part of me that will ever question his or Reid’s aggressiveness in a situation like this.

You must not have been in the chat, plenty of us were "Sunday-during-the-game quarterbacking"...

But many will try to cope with this loss by saying hindsight's 20/20...