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The Kansas City Chiefs have a problem.
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It's called 0 and2. And there is only a
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finite amount of teams that have dug out
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of 0 and2 to win a Super Bowl. It has
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happened. It can happen. There's four
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teams in NFL history that have done it.
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But it is a tall task. 0 and2 is no
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joke. And the reason the Chiefs are 0
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and2 is that they haven't played
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particularly good football.
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As we all know, I am a history major
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when it comes to the NFL and I swear by
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the truth that is if you lose the Super
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Bowl, you don't get back to win it. I
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know it has happened. It happened in
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recent times with the 2018 New England
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Patriots. But by and large, there's a
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reason it is so hard to climb that
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mountaintop that when you get knocked
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off that mountain top of the final game,
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it takes you a while to reboot. Now, if
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there is a team, a coach, a quarterback
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that would be well suited to reboot,
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it'd be this team. But it's hard. And
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note that the Chiefs play in almost
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every AFC Championship game since
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Patrick Mahomes got into the league.
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They do. They have. and had played in
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three consecutive Super Bowls. So, there
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is a lot of taxation. There's a lot of
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exhaustion. There's a lot of a a lot of
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things that happen when you go that deep
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into the playoffs. The the fact is also
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that you can dismiss going to to Brazil
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because it's a long trip, but they
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didn't play good football, at least not
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offensively. And against the Eagles,
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once again, we saw how hard it is for
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this team to jerryrig long drives and
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scoring drives. And when that ball goes
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off of Travis Kelce's hands, it's like
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this is the new Chiefs where it's a
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labor to get down the field and then you
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can't even count on one of the greatest
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tight ends of all time to haul in a pass
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at the end zone. kind of everything's
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Even on that final scoring drive when
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Momes missed his wide open receiver down
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the near sideline, ultimately they would
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score on that drive, but that's a throw
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that Momes usually makes 99 out of 100
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times, maybe a 100 out of 100 times, but
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this year it feels off. Xavier Worthy
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out. Rei Rice suspended.
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A team that is relying on Kareem Hunt
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for significant rushing yards. It's just
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an offense that it takes too much energy
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to move the football. And that has
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bitten the Chiefs. Am I going to kick
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dirt to them? Absolutely not. If there
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is a team that overcomes 0 and2 that can
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look this bad, they looked bad at times
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last year as well. the Chiefs would be
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the team that would buck the trends.
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But last year, what they did was they
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didn't play great football, but they
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kept winning games. A lot of one score
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games that they won, quirky plays at the
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end of the games, deflected field goal
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kicks, no the opponent doesn't get two
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feet inbound in the end zone, an errant
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snap that an opponent doesn't fall on.
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These things kind of all came to
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fruition for the Chiefs last year and
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because of it they never had to dig
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themselves out of a hole despite playing
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not great football. This year now they
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do. Now they have to dig themselves out
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of 0 and2 in a much improved division
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where the Chargers already have a win
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over them where the Broncos have some
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momentum coming out of the off season
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last season and the Raiders should be
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improved. It is not a good spot to be in
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for the Chiefs at the moment at 0 and2.
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From an Eagles standpoint,
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you know, hey, is that a great football
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game for the Eagles? It is not. And I
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absolutely cannot stand the fact that
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you have the tush push that cannot even
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be officiated correctly. I mean, no one
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is going to play the violins for the
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Chiefs who were the beneficiaries of
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many, many calls last year and through
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the years. But, I mean, we're going to
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have the tush push. We're gonna keep it
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legalized. Can we at least officiate it
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correctly to where the the Eagles don't
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have a double advantage where they've
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got guards jumping into the neutral zone
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before the snap? That would seem to be
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the most basic of ways to officiate this
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play. You're looking down the line, you
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know exactly what the Eagles are doing.
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They don't fake that snap or fake that
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hand off and bootleg. They don't fake
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that hand off and play action throw it.
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They always just grind it up the middle.
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we just look down the line to make sure
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guys are not in the neutral zone cuz
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that's a pretty massive miss twice by
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the officials in this game.
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But the Eagles have done enough in these
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first two games to be 2 and 0.
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And much like I was saying, the Chiefs
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did this this way last year to keep
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their head above water even when they
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didn't play great football. The Eagles
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have done that. And championship teams
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in today's NFL work out the kinks on the
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fly. There's an old adage where you're
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trying to fix the plane as you're
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flying. That's kind of what happens
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today's NFL because there's so little
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reps with the ones in the preeason.
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There's so few moments of real action
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until you get to week number one that
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you really work out the kinks in
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September. and you just want to win
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games before you actually hit your your
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best selves. And the Eagles have done
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that through the first two weeks.
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They've gotten the wins. They've looked
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You know, Jaylen Herz was okay in this
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game. He was really great against the
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Dallas Cowboys. This was just a day
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where the Eagles defense made it hard on
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the Chiefs and ultimately that was the
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difference in the game. Chiefs falling
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And if you are in the AFC as a
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contender, the Bills, the Ravens, you
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are licking your chops. Look at the
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Bills. They're 2 and 0. The Chiefs are 0
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and2. There's already a jump that the
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Bills are getting on seating in the
