Super Bowl prop bets contest (awaken wins)

awaken said:

Until this game, the belief was KC had too many weapons. TB showed how to take away Hill and Kelce and make another WR beat you. For KC to win, Mecole Hardman and Sammy Watkins would have to have big games. TB's deep safeties should have let KC run the ball often, especially with those OT's. But Andy Reid, or Bienemy, loves calling passing plays for Mahomes. Needlessly one dimensional.

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How do you run the ball with 3/5 of your starting offensive line playing out of position against a top level defensive front?

RJKarl said:

How do you run the ball with 3/5 of your starting offensive line playing out of position against a top level defensive front?

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Game was decided right there. Back-up left tackle. Right guard playing right tackle. Career backup playing right guard for KC against the Tampa Bay front four on defense that was as healthy as they've been all season. Thus no running game for KC and Mahomes running for his life on a bunch of plays.

Everybody's probably seen this by now but Mahomes ran 497 yards before a pass/sack, more than any QB in any game ever.

Deaconblue said:

Game was decided right there. Back-up left tackle. Right guard playing right tackle. Career backup playing right guard for KC against the Tampa Bay front four on defense that was as healthy as they've been all season. Thus no running game for KC and Mahomes running for his life on a bunch of plays.

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Agreed. It made me wonder how the Chiefs beat the Bills to get here. Generally speaking, OL prefer/are more successful with run blocking than pass blocking as they prefer to be aggressive/attacking than protecting. Since the Chiefs were set up in a deep Cover 2, the Chiefs pretty much had to try to run and HOPE to get into the second level where safeties usually provide support. Since they were stuck with subs, they probably were not going to be successful either way. It would take a special and inventive game plan that acknowledged their weakness and worked around it (such as designed roll-outs, flooding a zone defense, quick passes after Hill and Kelce clear out the middle, for example).

Chief's starting left tackle was hurt late in game against the Bills. His loss made dominos fall across the O-line.

Ah, thanks. I did not catch that during the game or just glossed over it.