the Raiders at that point down seven, right?
They drive down the field rights. 3223 they score
the touchdown. Yeah. There's four minutes and 30 seconds left
when they score. Right? The Chiefs, there were seven minute
of Montana's, right. Exactly.
So,
and this this, this dovetails was something that Mi Simmons
and I were talking about yesterday because I think
the Bengals would have been better off. If they had missed
the extra point late,
when the Evan McPherson, Ball goes over the top of the goal
post and it just looked no good but it was good technically
because it
I still don't understand why it was good if it looks like it's
no good. It should be no good right but you're a different
mindset late in the game if you're down a point versus if
it's tied. So they go for two with well more than enough time
for the Chiefs to get down the field and win the game.
I don't know why you go for to hear because the Chiefs have
a completely different mindset. If they're losing by a point
then if it's tied, if it's tied, they're more inclined to
be a little careful,
maybe the drive Peters out and you get the ball back and you
can win it. If they're down they put the foot back on
the gas and they Mash in there and four down territory. That's
the complaint we always hear
about to possession. Guaranteed second possession over time
while the team that gets it first. As playing three down
football, the team that gets it s and knows that they need to
feel. Go a touchdown of playing for down football.
That's not fair.
And that's the situation. The Raiders were trying to create
instead of the Chiefs being in three down football there in
for down football. If they go down 3130, I don't like that.
With that much time. Left
that to me is a win or lose avoid over time or take
the victory
moment. You do it with four seconds left, not four minutes
left in my in my opinion. I I hear you there. I think that
would be the one thing I would question. I mean to I don't
have as much of a problem with this decision, as I do
the Chiefs decision,
I don't. But at the same time, I did
the point you're making, I think, is the thing that you
least second-guess? Yeah. There's a lot of time left
there in the football game, you're right. It doesn't, it
doesn't matter here right now, this moment, but I also think
there's understand that you can understand their logic
in the fact of, okay, you know what,
we are on the road. Our defense has played good tonight, right?
And we've been running the ball, but running the ball.
Well and even if we do You get a stop here, right? We might be
able to run out the clock and the football game that way too.
So, that's where I don't think it's as crazy. And of course,
their defense is, we talked about this game played really
well and did some good things in this will ballgame to, to
give them the confidence to go. You know what, not in
the second half. Well, okay, they still had drives where they
stopped
Kansas City and made a tough. I mean, nothing was easy for
Kansas City throughout the football night. I mean, they
had a work for every Drive they made. It wasn't big plays. Oh
wait. Look at this.
So you know, again I don't mind. The decision is much.
You're right. It's a little early in the fourth quarter,
I understand that, but
I can understand that logic and I have less of a problem with
that, then being the better team was seven and a half
minutes to go
and trying to go up by 9 that to me does not make sense at
all. We know you're going to get two more possessions, all
right. And they've been moving the ball on your defense
the whole night. So it makes no sense to me there.
And you were in danger of losing the game because Cuz of it.
And that's not worth it. When you're the better team, you
just continue to play and they're usually the better team
as the game plays on the cream. Rises to the top there and they
win the football game
and you gave them a chance there, an opportunity to
you know, steal it and if one bounces the ball happens,
the wrong way. You win the football game.
That last view we saw was from the side of the field where
the official came in adamantly doing this. I don't know how he
saw it, the other one, had the view of it and it was a great
job. Real-time naked eye full speed
to see that Josh Jacobs knee was down before the ball, got
across. Now, you know, you always have the backstop of
Replay but in a play like that you may never get
clear and obvious Visual Evidence, but we did get clear
and obvious confirmation knee, was down ball, wasn't to
the front of the goal line, but it's from this angle,
when you're looking down the line that it's obvious, guy up
top thinks he sees it clearly, see that anytime that and they
always tell the officials, I'll never
do a very aggressive call because it reflects a level of
confidence
that your other calls don't have when you don't do that,
always do your calls the same way when you do that like you
know, I see it this time. You know don't never do that
officials always do your calls the same way and I don't know
why he was so confident because I don't know what he saw
from that other angle.
You couldn't clearly see. The knee was down
before. Were the ball crossed the plane. It was the other
side where you could see it but that that look
well we don't know you don't know that he has a different
vitamin camera. So you know that is Title Here you see
clearly I don't see how you
can
get an eye on it. That vividly through all those bodies where
you're doing the Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun, you know,
moonwalk. And you know the over-the-top anytime the over
the officials, do the over-the-top signaling, I just
at that.
I just think that's a bad idea. I don't know what that guy saw
that made him so confident, the other guy, I get it. But again,
replay
could have cleaned it up one way or the other. All right, so
they Cubs was running. Well, Heroes was running. Well, they
made a great play. I still
I still don't like it with four minutes left. I just don't well
a little bit. See here, here's your. My other thing to to
I understand and I'm not, you know, totally anti what you're
saying there on this one. Again, I'm usually the guy that
goes,
let's just tie the game
and continue to play and see where it goes from there and
you're playing good football. As a football team running
the ball. You know, we've seen we saw the defense by really well
and
like we said make things hard on Kansas City.
I mean, it wasn't easy. I know that it's Kansas City
nothing's ever easy against them.
But you know that
to me the, you know, and and this is a good conversation but
you know you use the logic to
well. Now Kansas City's going to be down and they're going to
be in for down mode. Well what well what Kansas City went up
by nine, the Raiders were going to be in for down mode to
the that didn't change.
To position two possessions. So now they're going to
map push the envelope and maybe go for it on fourth down and do
that, you know? So I don't like the decision from Kansas City
at all. It's to me it is it is video game
analytics BS that it did
to me, does not make sense
in this day and age in the NFL.
It does not. Okay? And then the other side of that is, yeah,
when the Raiders go down, do that,
I understand your point is real, but I don't think it's as
egregious to me to go. Hey, let's go over the
Lead right now. Let's go over the lead right now. Our defense
has been doing good things we given pressure on Mahomes,
maybe we get the stop here and then we run the clock out with
Josh Jacobs because they were moving the ball consistently to
so that one to me is
not as egregious
and I think Kansas City, you know, skirt it out there. Luckily
with a bad decision trying to go by nine. At least that's my
take on it. I met maybe we were watching two different games
Chris because I've out the defense for the Raiders after
they were up 17, nothing fell off there like
Five straight drives where the Chiefs had a touchdown or
a field goal, they were moving the ball at will and at one
point after they went for two
after the Raiders went 4-2,
I think it was Troy Aikman that said, well, you know, the
they don't want to get in a situation where they give
the Chiefs the ball and they just kind of methodically drive down
the field. The final four minutes, kick the field goal
and win the game. Although that's what you're doing
anyway,
they were trying to explain it in real time and look we're
struggling to explain it eight hours later. I didn't really
understand what they were saying in real time, but I had
an idea of Flash Ash in my head and it
reminded me of an old
Colts Chiefs playoff game, where the Chiefs just couldn't
stop the cult, so they eventually did an onside kick.
Here's what the hell, they're going to score anyway.
I mean, I would have rather in that moment,
tie the game up and then do a surprise onside kick. If you
really want to go all in and try to win the game and you
fear that the Chiefs are going to get the ball back with four
minutes and change,
and just work it down the field,
and smother, you,
and get a field goal.
Walk off. And yet, even that
out of me, I'm Matthew Wright. Who knows? Who knows, if he's
gonna make it or not? I mean, he misses an extra point, he
misses a field goal or makes a 59-yard. You don't know what
you're going to get with him
but
it's sometimes I think. And this is a product of analytics,
I think coaches over think
on both ends last night. Yeah, I think they were thinking too
much. Just go play football and see how it all plays. Oh, they
chase points too early in the game. I think that's the bottom
line where we go. There's so much.
Much left to that goes on. That's going to dictate
the final under this game. Why are we making about this play?
Right here, right now at this moment and that's, I guess
where we don't understand it. And
listen, I know, I think,
yeah, we got a way to shed some light on it. Josh, McDaniels
tried to explain his decision to go for two after the end.
Let's have a listen to what he said about that fateful call.
But like, in that situation, you know, we hadn't, you know,
we hadn't really, they had kind of had a lot of momentum
offensively obviously in the second half. And
Just, you know, we had a play that we felt really good about
thought we would get a look that give us a shot at it for
sure. We had a chance. We had a fair fight at it you know. They
played it a little bit better than we did and
give ourselves an opportunity to take the lead there and you
know, and then maybe put a little extra pressure on them
when I had the ball, you know,
nothing more, nothing less. Just trying to be aggressive
trying to win a game and I know is four and a half or whatever
the time was, but just, you know, our team felt good about
it
and just, you know, felt like that was the right call at
the right time.
I know you love it when coaches save try to be aggressive for
the sake of being aggressive, right? That isn't a reason to
be aggressive. Although he said something there. Yeah, that we
always try to emphasize. We liked the play. That's the key.
That's one of the big factors in the decision. Do you have
a play that you like
now, they shouldn't have
but they almost really loved it because they almost got it. But
that's the key. Do you have a play that you really like in
that spot and and
you can't fault him? Know you can that judgment that he liked
the play? And you know, they've been dominating them up
the middle run the football, right? I mean so they've been having
their way running the
ball with Josh Jacobs. You said it, you started the show. He
was running with an intensity and anger that you'd never
really seen out of the guy before. So I get that
but I also think like he's sitting there to your point.
Mike, he's kind of second-guessing himself right
there to like wait, we hadn't really stopped them. We had
the they had great offensive momentum
and you know, here we are. Okay, we're going for the win
even though.
Okay, there's four and a half minutes left and we haven't
stopped them. And like you said, it's gonna put them in
four down territory typo. Play that way, you know. But but at
the same time to
Mike, I know why I keep saying, I understand. Kansas City March
down and score touchdown. Nothing was easy, though.
That's a, I mean, it was, it was long drives. It was a lot
of unbelievable plays. It was a lot of
whole. Wow, he got out of pressure and made a great throw
their. So that's where I mean, gosh Mahomes that, I don't
understand that. Well, yeah, it is, every week until it's not
until we have,
We sit here on a Monday or Tuesday and go. Wait. Oh, what
happened to Kansas City in the the second half of this game or
three or four drive so you know, but I understand your
point but I don't understand really
and he's decision and Josh's questionable as well to with
four minutes and 30 seconds left in the football game.