drives. Yeah,
we get to fast forward. Now, he's 27 35:27 there 35:27. Hey,
you know, I was thinking of you,
I'd mentioned your name, your ears may have been burning.
I said go for two after that. Touchdown
after the sky more touchdown, make it a nine-point game. Make
it a two score game. Go for to go for to they didn't now and
I heard you in.
My other ear saying they still have to essentially score twice
because they need the touchdown and then they have to convert
4th and goal from the to basically the two-point
conversion, play
to make it a tie game but I still thought they should have
gone for two.
I mean listen, I it crossed my mind
but at the same time they had momentum and you make that team
go down and score a touchdown and then scored another
touchdown from, you know, the the
the the 2-yard line I'm always in favor of that I am, you
know, I
I hear what you're saying, I do.
But, you know, gosh, you do that. I'd also be worried
about, okay. Yeah, all right, we're, you know, we're
we're up. We're up
seven now instead of eight,
right? And now they go down and what do they might go for to?
They're crazy enough. And they could have got to go engine.
I oh wait. Now, we're not even in the lead or tied or anything,
you know, we're losing.
So I had, you know, I'm glad they didn't, I guess is what
I'm saying. But either way
Eagles, got the ball.
And did some work on this next drive and then you started to
go. Alright, wait, they regain their Mojo. And here we are.
It's going to be a dogfight and we're at 35 35, because that
was a great Drive. The Eagles answered
with, you know, few short passes, a few runs and
the wide-open Devante Smith down the left sideline, where
Chiefs of just luxurious need blew a gasket covering out in
the left side. And man, this is this set us up for
an unbelievable ending.
And there it is. From the 2-yard line that quarterback sneak
He's really, if you can get whatever you already, did you
need with that thing and then the two-point conversion or run
to the left by Jaylon hurts to tie it up.
One last point, though, you know,
and this is another argument to consider going for two. After
that Chiefs. Touchdown your kicker
earlier in the game. Stoic. The yeah, we are. No, that's still
a 33-yard field goal. Line for that extra point. That gets
lost. We still we still when we do the numbers and run
the analytics, we just assume that one point is automatic. It's
not Because we know
that's part of the overall analysis and I'm always the guy
that's like I, you know, the analytics have a place let's
not get too crazy with it but I love that idea of going up two
scores and forcing the other team to get the touchdown. Get
the one pointer. Try to get the ball back and then a field goal
would potentially win it for them. Let's do this, because
we've been going for 53 minutes. Yeah, we'll focus on
that final drive. Yeah. For the Chiefs, the one that resulted
in the game-winning
field goal after So we take a quick break and we continue
with this post Super Bowl edition of PFT live. We'll be
right back.
All right, so we continue our breakdown of Super Bowl 57 and
we've kind of methodically worked our way through it. It
may seem like we're all over the place, but if you go back
and watch it again and we encourage you to do. So we have
tracked the game, the whole way, through
all relevant, moments, all big spots all key decisions that
were or weren't made up until the moment when it's 35. 35,
and here we are at 70 total points,
five short of the all-time scoring, During record four,
Super Bowls set in Super Bowl 29 when the 49ers beat
the Chargers 49 226.
The number two all-time scoring. Super Bowl was five
years ago. When the Eagles beat the Patriots 41 233. We're
sitting at seventy
one more touchdown breaks the record, but we weren't going to
get one more touchdown. We almost got one more touchdown.
We got a field goal to cap this effort by the Chiefs and we
showed this play earlier
Patrick while Holmes. Hang on the injured ankle. That was
the moment for me. It's like unbelievable. They're going to
win this game finding a way to weave through traffic and we
showed it earlier and I'm sure it's going to pop up here.
Again, if I
talk about it long enough,
you can see the look on his face
from The End Zone. Look at it, you can see he's in pain. Yes,
he's right, right. You can see it. You I mean, and but this is
how you cement your legacy. You make your Legend.
He's getting chased by three guys,
I know, and he's running on a bad ankle.
It gets into clear field goal range at a time when they were
on the fringes. Yeah. Let's keep showing this play guys.
Get a div 1 that you're right.
Look at his face.
Look at his face, right?
Yeah, he just gotten it out. He's just gotten it out. He's
a gym rat. He's the lover of football. He's a lover of
competition. He's the greatest of one of the greatest we've
ever seen in the sport and the history of American Sports.
He's, he's a sports. God, it's offical, everybody 15.
Then red is amazing.
I mean again he he beat the best team in football unless
than 100%
with a leg, he went through the playoffs, the AFC the great AFC
with all these studs goes through, it
only gets to play a corner healthy
and the AFC playoffs wins the Super Bowl.
I mean, it's phenomenal.
And that play guys to if we could show it, even one more
time we might as well, it's a magical moment. I mean, it was
one of the first time Mike's. I text you during the game one of
The first time in a long while the Eagles went. Wait let's
Rush 5. They got their 5 D lineman in the football game
and went. Okay, let's take one less guy out of the middle of
the field and they lost their Gap Integrity here
and when you have now, five people that have gone by
Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, there's not that linebacker or safety
in the middle of the field. Now to have eyes on them and make
the play. So
the Eagles took a little gamble there,
which I don't, I'm not, I don't fault them for,
you know, they were kind of dying a slow death
But within that gamble
the play of the day happened and
again what's amazing, Mike? Right to? I think, both of us,
we had a big run by Pacheco on Third and short. The Chiefs are
one of the
worst third and short teams in football this year.
If not the worst, they were the second to worst
and it was a
strength for them. In this little ball game, they had
the Pacheco run on Third and one right around the Left. End
where
Chauncey, Gardiner Johnson made an unbelievable, nobody's left
on the field. Tackle right? And you went man, projectile
usually got more than that but what a great tackle
and then came that play right there where you went. Oh man,
now they're in field goal range. I don't think Harrison
bucker can even mess this one up from here. We'll see.
But you know and then we got a few more things to talk about
as far as the rest of this drive goes.
It all happened so fast. I really did that moment and you
know, you're witnessing football history, the Pacheco
run. Almost busted open for a touchdown Mahomes wasn't going
to score there because you could see on that graphic.
There were two
Eagles Defenders waiting to get to him if Kaiser white hat and
tracked, him down from behind, but
in hindsight, because
once once Muhammad gets tackled
at the 17 with,
255 the place started at 255. The next play was snapped at
2:07, took it down to the two-minute warning,
that's when we got into this kind of awkward clumsy,
anti-climactic. Unfulfilling
Eagles, would love you to score.
Chiefs are going to manage it,
so they avoid scoring so they can run the clock down as far
as possible. It's kind of like what happens if you're playing
mad and you get into those spots where you control
the game, so you
Control the clock, you control
the possession and you make sure you score as late as
possible so the opponent doesn't get a chance. That's
what it became at that point.
I'm sure the Eagles would wish that
Pacheco hadn't been tackled on Third and one. And then my
home's hadn't been tackled on that run because at least they
would have had time to try to get down the field and tie
the game. Yeah, that's right. You know, at that point, they're
thinking, okay.
Yeah, he made a big run, right?
But there's 255 left and
you know, we should be able to
To get the, we got two timeouts and the two-minute warning,
we should be able to get the ball back with plenty of time
here and be able to make this happen. So I can't fault them.
You're certainly not thinking that at that moment right
there, going. Wait, so what will they kick a field goal?
And there's a minute 40 left beer, where the Eagles,
we've run the ball
and big moments and minute, 40 yard and minute. You know, 40
second
type of drives all year long.
So I'm not mad at those decisions.
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