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Originally posted by Asela
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As soon as we got into FG range, we did attempt a running play, which got shut down for -1 yards. That put us in a passing situation. Floyd is our best deep option. His size, speed, catch radius and good hands always give us a shot on a deep ball to him even if covered. I don't like deep balls to Royal even though we have hit on a couple of them this year--small, average hands, tiny catch radius.
I did not care for the crossing pattern to Allen because he is not likely to run away from anyone even though he is likely to get open. I would have preferred Royal on that play, but an even better option would have been to have thrown past the sticks with Oliver as an elusive check down option. Still, the other team's players are paid also and it may have been that Rivers went short because everything beyond the sticks was covered.
Realistically, the clock stopped on just one play after we got into FG range. I am not sure there is much to complain about there.
The defense had them at their own 8 yard line on the final drive. At that point I was happy that there was still time on the clock. I was not thinking about us losing, but rather about us winning after we stopped KC deep in their own end and got the ball back around our own 40 with nearly two minutes left in the game. But the defense completely blew the last drive. They couldn't even get the Chiefs into a third down situation until the play before the game deciding FG.
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