February
8, 2021
Sunday
Game Review
By
Jim Culp
I am not a Chiefs fan.
In fact, I don’t even watch more than about ten NFL games a year. The whole
thing is just cliché to me most of the time. It can also get monotonous when
teams just seem to do that same old shit every year. Then they cry and moan
because they don’t get into the playoffs.
I am a lifelong
Steelers fan, and have been since about 1973. Back in those days (I know,
ancient history) the game of professional football was rougher, less refereed,
and there was way less technology. We watched games on black and white TV; and
it wasn’t on 2, 4, 9, or 13, you weren’t gonna watch it unless you went to a
rich kid’s house. Up to now, the Steelers are one of the few that have six
Super-bowl wins, and I still like to watch them. However, they are a shadow of
what they were twenty years ago.
Fast forward to now;
the Chiefs have had a big re-start with new people. A kid like Patrick Mahomes
(25 years old) taking a team to a Super-bowl his first year was unheard of, but
he and the Chiefs did it in 2020.
When last night’s game
started, we watched for about half a quarter, and I said “they are going to
have to play better than this, or they are gonna lose big time.”
Well, I am no
Nostradamus, but here we are. The Chiefs lost big (36 – 9), and NFL “experts”
had predicted that they would win 25 – 9. It was a crushing defeat, and here’s
why according to me.
The Chiefs went into
this with big heads. They didn’t have a strategy to contain Brady, and they
sure as hell didn’t have the means to control Gronkowski. When the Buccaneers
started scoring (as Tom Brady always does) the Chiefs’ defenders started
playing “grab the hands” and “trip him up.”
This led to the Chiefs
receiving 11 penalties that costed them 120 yards of the game. Some of those
were at very critical times. Why am I so adamant about this? Because it’s the
same thing the Steelers did when they had a big head and started losing.
History doth repeat itself…not every time…but often.
Brady is a veteran
football player, and a proven winner. He’s paid $25 million a year because of
it. Do you like him? Maybe not…but you damn sure better respect his ability to
win games. It’s like being a tanker in the desert and going up against Erwin
Rommel. You might hate the bastard, but if you don’t respect his abilities…
your tank is going to be a smoking pile of scrap before you can sing Glory
Hallelujah.
Till next time,
-Jim
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