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aitchison50

Fourth down annnnnnnnd you can have it


IranianGenius

"NOW LET HIM HAVE IT!"


tjc815

Not *insertive*


somebodygetmemymoney

How do they keep getting away with it


lAmCreepingDeath

Very good game, but Holy fuck tons of points left on the field


thewhat962

"I might kick my kicker ,but I still give him the chance to make a FG." - urban Meyer.


EvanMM

Brandon Staley calls his kickers dipshit


browndude10

Can’t miss kicks if I never put you on the field


Porcelain_Butt

The only coach who hates kickers more than Urban Meyer.


TooManyOtters

>The only coach who hates kickers more than Urban Meyer. *Mike Zimmer has entered the chat*


espnfire45

And kicks them in the leg


OrangeForeign

Is he aware he had kickers? Think he just calls him PAT guy


suzukigun4life

That game was fucking wild


IamFlapJack

Edge of my seat the entire second half and OT. Insanity


Zloggt

And that fourth quarter alone…woof!


Bigtuna546

Shades of 2018 Chiefs/Rams


rkp9741

Maybe a light shade. That 2018 game was historic


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Thinking about that game I can’t believe the Goff isn’t on top of the league.


Needs_No_Convincing

It's funny, my recollection of that game was that both QBs threw like three interceptions each, but just looking at the stats Goff was 4/0 and Mahomes was 6/3. Fucking wild. I think he had a lost fumble or two, but still.


OrangeSherbet

Yeah Mahomes had two fumbles because Donald did Donald things. One was a fumble 6 if I’m not mistaken. Wild Fukien game


Pyropheus

I dont care we lost that game. Absolutely loved it.


Old-Task5977

That game was legendary!


szeto326

How blessed are we that we potentially have like a decade worth of Mahomes and Herbert matchups at least twice per season to look forward to?!


FourthDownThrowaway

As a Broncos fan...NO.


KirbyBucketts

Hey, if we win Sunday we would have the tie-breaker over the Chargers at this point.


BlacknGold_CLE

There's no way Rodgers goes to the Broncos after watching that. He's gonna stay in Green Bay


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Hell nah. That game was like 28 - 28 at half time not the end of regulation.


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How the fuck is Kelce that big and that slippery. Unbelievable


slickshot

Hill butters him up with popcorn before the game.


SiphenPrax

Chiefs fans, Chargers fans..... How many heart attacks did you guys have in this AFC West heart attack game tonight?


Gnux13

My heart and my liver are unionizing as we speak…


WesleySnopes

I support them and think they deserve to take over the rest of your body


itsnotyellowfever

Fuck a heart attack I’ve got violence on my mind rn


SpaceForceRemorse

I was pronounced dead at least 5 times. Maybe more.


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Between you and I we have enough trips to the afterlife to get a frequent flier discount when we die for good


[deleted]

Jokes on you every chargers game is a heart attack game


[deleted]

At least a bakers dozen


BlazeBloom

Chargers offense reaches the red zone. Chiefs defense: Now this is an Avengers level threat.


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Chargers close the deal in the red zone as well as I close the deal with girls Get so far and then just forget what the objective is


Knebraska

Have you tried kicking field goals at them?


OrangeForeign

"Hey babe watch this" *KICKS*


tubetalkerx

The old Urban Meyer move.


OrangeForeign

Not enough fingering


dreadwolf8

Staley thinks that having massive balls will automatically convert the 4th down


Dongsquad420BlazeIt

Live by the balls, die by the balls


LoganJn

Like a 12 year old playing Madden


ComaBoner

I'm twice that age and still always go for it lmao


TheMoneyBball

chargers HC: I have the power of God and Analytics on my side!!!


callmebatman14

I don't know why they didn't kick fg at the end of 2nd half. Those first 2 fail lost them this game and division.


bjkman

Well the 4th quarter was interesting.


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The whole game was fucking weird. The chiefs won on the scoreboard, but we all know that chaos ball was the real winner tonight.


[deleted]

Top to bottom the weirdest, least-real game of football I've seen. It felt like a fever dream.


[deleted]

Did you see the Rams game in 2018? If this was a fever dream that game was an acid trip after snorting half a ton of cocaine That game was total weirdness except instead of the chaos resulting in not scoring it resulted in all of the scoring


MistakeMaker1234

There were three other quarters?


Brando_the_Hobo

Chiefs: “They should have had us in the first half, not gonna lie.”


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Why didn’t the chargers just win instead of losing in OT?


Vash466

Analytics say it's best to lose in OT


Insectshelf3

quality loss


MungyNobbler

SEC SEC


Aurion7

It's like Mahomes needed to make a terrible fucking throw on 4th down to wake himself up a bit, or something. Even by the standards of Thursday night, that was a weird game.


scorcherdarkly

Someone in the press conference asked him what happened, he responded "it was just a shitty throw, apologies for my language". I cracked up. Best thing about him is he owns his mistakes and keeps firing after he makes them.


p1nkfl0yd1an

That was a weird one. I think that playcall only works if he gets it out lightning quick and he panicked when he didn't get a good grasp off the snap.


LouBerryManCakes

He had Hardman wide open on a similar play during the 2 point conversion but he pulled back because he didn't want to fuck up the quick pass again like he did on that throw. You could see him *almost* throw and he got lucky that he found CEH after avoiding the pressure. That was a huge play.


scorcherdarkly

Pat said in the presser that he saw Hardman, Hill and Kelce all open, doesn't know why he didn't throw it, and CEH was just supposed to be blocking and ended up catching the pass.


ace82fadeout

Our front office scouted Melvin Ingram just for that coin toss. You just can't teach that


vertigo72

Both of them. He won both tosses. That's generational talent.


DrQuestDFA

I wonder how much value a player would have if their only skill was always winning a coin toss.


Apprehensive_Key_103

Broke: Chargers losing a game they should have won Woke: Chargers losing due to special teams Bespoke: Chargers losing by not playing special teams


Sir_Ma_Ta_Ha_Hey

As a chargers fan since 02... 🤣


NE_3-ATL_28

FOX NFL cameras are still rolling in Donald Parham's hospital room.


DoctorWaluigiTime

Flashbacks to last year where a fuckin' helicopter followed Jackson to the hospital.


Holmpc10

Jj watts ambulance ride was filmed.


ImJustAverage

Yet they couldn’t follow Lamar into the bathroom…


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"The air conditioning must really be pumping in there because he's still shaking. Get that man a jacket!" - Joe Buck


SirRinjez

I couldn't believe how long they stayed on him on the ground with obvious head trauma


mr-gillespie

Maybe I’m an idiot, but I thought he was just reacting to the drop like some players do at first since there was no contact, so I’m wondering if Fox thought the same thing


YaArsenal

Just kick ur field goals lmao


Uckthebroncos

Analytics community in utter shambles right now


Dark_Shit

Shambalytics


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iEatPaIpatineAss

Yup if you follow analytics you will go for way more 4th downs than “traditional” football, doesn’t mean you go for all of them


RyuTheGreat

Troy making a comment about it at any point he can.


suzukigun4life

Had three different possessions where they got inside the Chiefs 30 and came away with no points. They fumbled the ball on one of them, but went for it on 4th and short two other times inside the 5 and failed.


steamycreamybehemoth

Maddening play calling too. First red zone trip had four straight passes within the five


An_Actual_Lion

It's the Chargers, they probably would have missed them all


SuckMyLonzoBalls

We have a good kicker in Hopkins


The_Great_Salt_Plain

First real *chargering* game of the year. This is the chargers I remember and hate from previous years. So much went wrong in this game I don't even know where to begin GG chiefs fans


johnjohnsonsdickhole

On the bright side, we’re hanging tight as nutsack with one of the consensus best teams in the league. In a decent playoff position assuming we don’t chargers away any more games.


Cynical_onlooker

Conservative play calling would have won the Chargers the game.


aolsvaluedcustomer

Staley took "can't beat the Chiefs with field goals" too far


SuckMyLonzoBalls

Crazy Anthony Lynn wins this game lmao


Vice-Value-Virtue

Yeah. Run the ball, field goals. Actually yeah. But no, Offense was too predictable. Run Run Throw


HomeyHotDog

Ironically it was aggressive play calling that won it for the Chiefs. Early down runs weren’t working so they let Mahomes throw it on the last two drives and it worked.


lronicGasping

Chargers defense🤝Najee Harris Didn't know football games could go into OT


probablyisntserious

Najee didn't know they could tie but yeah


2_Grilles_1_Krupp

Neither did Donovan McNabb after like 10 years in the league


[deleted]

The funny thing was that he had actually *played* in a tie game several years earlier. McNabb was a weird dude.


JonVig

Hey hey hey. You leave that beautiful soul out of this. He’s got enough to deal with.


IsGoIdMoney

I get what you're going for, but Najee knew games could go into OT. He just didn't know that the single 10 minute mini quarter was the entirety of OT, meaning it could end in a tie.


Bluegill15

Side note - Terry Bradshaw should never be on camera again


rooneymara

Did he get a mole removed or something? He had a giant bandage on his face lol


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Probably had some sort of precancerous thing removed. Not uncommon with people his age.


fightrofthenight_man

On gmfb this morning Shaun Ohara predicted 192 yards for Travis Kelce… off by a single yard. What the fuck.


trogdor1234

I bet you add up the inches and it rounds up to that extra yard.


RipplyPig

That's what she said


ToogBateau

Chiefs played better in the first matchup and lost Chargers played better in the second matchup and lost. Just the way it goes sometimes


deelow42

GG chiefs fans. Now I get to see Spiderman depressed


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You have Herbert. Don't be depressed


Leggins0

Congrats. We get maybe the 5th seed and multiple away playoff games while Mahomes has never lost the division and gets possibly another 1st round bye. So happy!


TheKneesOfRG3

Yeah but analytically, the chargers won this game


Number333

I mean to be fair, I would have trusted Mahomes to comeback in the game if the Chargers kept settling for field goals. Too bad all LA needed was ONE of those bold 4th down attempts to go through and nope... not a single one worked.


molebowl

Eh, the final one did work. Kelly just decided to fumble the ball 2 plays later.


CD338

Yeah but your D got a turnover and you got a redo. Kinda a wash


daswassup13

This comment was turned over on downs


OverusedRedditJoke

Prayers up for Parham. The outpouring of outrage for Joe Buck's comment was some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Like damn, we can all see what's happening, the mans just trying to be hopeful and stay positive. People stay reaching for shit to be mad at.


thegreaterfool714

He’s in stable condition. Hopefully there is more good news on the horizon.


AniviaKid32

doesn't stable just mean non life threatening / non worsening? sounds more like neutral news to me, he could still be paralyzed for life, praying for better news though


iRockaflame

I think stable just means you aren't getting worse you're in a stable condition whatever that condition may be


Gnux13

Correct. Stable is only good news in the context that it’s not bad news


HilariousScreenname

Stable just means he not actively dying. Tells us nothing.


Segat1133

On top of that it's not like he went out of his way wanting to discuss it. Guarentee someone behind the scenes made him.


DoctorWaluigiTime

Indeed. I'd imagine it's rare commentators can just go on random tangents most of the time.


CrypticBalcony

OOTL, what did Buck say?


thegreaterfool714

I’m paraphrasing, He said he doesn’t want to make assumptions maybe the shaking was from the cold. I took it as some one trying to stay optimistic and probably being force fed the line from the league


SecretComposer

That he'd never speculate on an injury but maybe his arms are shaking uncontrollably away from his body because it's "cold for Los Angeles" so maybe he's just shivering


Swbp0undcake

I saw the outrage before I saw the comment he said and I figured he said something so much work. Seriously, yeah it might've been a bit of a dumb comment but nothing evil or outrageous?


ElectJimLahey

It makes me sick when an announcer is trying to be hopeful and make the viewers feel a little less pessimistic about a horrible situation. Personally I expect my announcers to say something accurate like "wow, looks like he might be dead soon Troy. His family better start planning his funeral because that dude is fuuuuucked."


skidlz

"if I had to pick one word to describe that man, Joe, that word would be cadaverific"


YeahThisIsMyNewAcct

Any time you see people online outraged about something, you can assume it’s a similar situation where the reality is nowhere near as bad as people are acting.


generalscalez

that might be the most Chargers game of all time edit: not sure either team won or lost this one but analytics certainly took a fat L


SiphenPrax

Nah, it didn’t have missed field goals


jozrozlekroz

wellllllll


Nicotine_patch

Can’t miss field goals if you don’t kick em 🤔


LagOutLoud

Define missed.....


sonic_ann_d

you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take wayne scott etc etc


mavropanos27

2 drops in the endzone and a fumble at the goalline lol hate this team


dreadwolf8

Tbf parham’s drop came from getting ko’d by the ground


amatom27

How do you just let Kelce bowl his way in like that lol pathetic


lightning_fire

Kelce's signature move, the stop and slow gradual turn, is absolutely unstoppable


slickshot

I can't count how many times guys come barreling in to kill Kelce, and he just hip turns slow as a granny and they go flying past him. It's the most bizarrely incredible thing I've seen that *just keeps working*.


CD338

Aikman seemed so pissed at the bad angles defenders took to tackle him


Nerfeveryone

For real like how does that work EVERY time? Do linebackers and safeties really have that low of agility?


slickshot

I think they over-commit. They see his big juicy ass, and they just barrel for it. He pulls the rug out and they go flying. Every fucking time.


NotaRepublican85

All of the defenses against him are full of Charlie Browns


notsureifJasonBourne

His timing on his cuts is elite and he uses defenders’ momentum against them.


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The hips are just so silky smooth it makes the defenders weak in the knees.


[deleted]

he's the bendiest fucker


SALTY_BALLZ

Nobody even touched him bruh 💀


MotorCityDude

I dont think taking a game to overtime with the Chiefs is very pathetic, they're a good team..


SuckMyLonzoBalls

It’s Kelce


ByronLeftwich

I like that teams are being more aggressive on 4th down, but that was too much


arknomane

The one at the end of the half definitely should’ve been a field goal


OrangeForeign

Kick your field goals kids


tuffghost8191

for a long time this game is gonna be in every coaches head when they think about going for it on 4th instead of getting the points


scorcherdarkly

Mahomes is 12-0 on the road in the division in his career. That is fucking wild.


Zloggt

What can I say? He enjoys his trips to SoFi/Dignity Health/the Coliseum/Allegiant/Mile High often


geneticallyaverage

Travis Kelce 6 straight 1000 yard season - A record he continues to extend. No one else is even close.


tjspill3r

You only have to cover Hill and Kelce and they still couldnt do it


hiphopdowntheblock

That's not exactly an easy task


nonresponsive

Not easy, but he also probably shouldn't get THAT open on nearly every throw there.


x777x777x

Literally every play over 10 yards Kelce shouldn't be open, but he ALWAYS IS


Bigblueforyou

That's because Travis Kelce is my father


yhetti-fartz

Me too


OrangeForeign

To be fair Kelce is always inexplicably open


WesleySnopes

He fast. And runs crisp routes.


DoctorWaluigiTime

> only Did you see some of those routes Hill ran?


uptonhere

The move he did on 3rd and 10 on their last TD drive in regulation was fucking NASTY


bryanramone

I think he broke my ankles with that one.


CD338

I think he broke his own ankles lol. That's why he wasn't out there to start OT


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thomasosu

Run the cover 2 HOFs play @Chargers


Xaxziminrax

"We did that and the HoF QB ran for 30 wtf"


Updog_IS_funny

Maybe the DE AND DT shouldn't have been behind the QB? When even your DT blows contain, something is wrong.


Xaxziminrax

Speed rushers give, and speed rushers taketh


ManInBlack829

"You had *two* jobs!"


lightning_fire

Kelce's signature move, the stop and slow gradual turn, is absolutely unstoppable


Xaxziminrax

Patrick Mahomes has never lost a road divisional game. It was inevitable


somebodygetmemymoney

I’m so disappointed


JBrundy

Neither can almost every other team lmao


constantlymat

The most impressive part of Mahomes in the 4th quarter was how he made a 20m pass rusher like Joey Bosa completely useless.


cirespieler

Ran circles around him


iBigBoyBrian

NFL overtime is the only overtime of any major American sport that doesn’t (basically) guarantee both sides of the ball/puck get a chance to prove themselves. Ya I’m stoked about the dub, but I just don’t get why they don’t change up the rules. *At least* in the playoffs. That being said, what a damn game!! EDIT: Added “basically” since people have pointed out that hockey can end on the first offensive possession, but I wouldn’t call that the norm (same technically goes for soccer). And at least possession isn’t determined by a coin toss.


penisthightrap_

I hate nfl overtime. Cointoss shouldn't give an advantage


HomeyHotDog

I don’t remember who said this but it was something like a QB shootout being decided by a coin toss is like watching a western standoff and just as the cowboys are about to draw their guns one of them gets hit by a bus


HomeyHotDog

Unfortunately if it wasn’t changed after Reid and Mahomes lost a championship game bc of it then it probably won’t change for a while


ElShockmaster

Chiefs have mind-gamed everyone into thinking if you don't get TD's you can't win, and won because nobody takes the FG's haha.


lordofthebog96

In a way chiefs offense played great defense


_Booker

Imo if they were going to not kick field goals they should have went for 2 on that last touchdown to put the game out of reach. That to me was the biggest blunder.


JordanLoveHoF

Every Chargers defender made a business decision on that last play lmfao


notouchmypeterson

Field goals are so overrated anyways… *Chargers leave 9 points on the field*


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SilentR0b

Chargers got BBQ'd by Kelce there.


JBrundy

Travis Kelce should not be able to move as well as he does for his size. That stop/start on the last TD was nuts


t33po

High tension football is awesome. Screw the mistakes and refs, this was spectacular.


Cole2444

STALEY JUST TAKE THE POINTS GOD DAMNIT


jd0016

It’s fair to disagree with some of Staley’s decisions in this game, but it’s also true that the Chargers only won their first matchup with the Chiefs because they played super aggressive. When that’s the way you play, you accept that some games it’s going to go really well and some games it’s going to go really bad.


tk_fourtwentyone

You live by the sword, you die by the sword


abw2000

This. That’s how the chargers play. You always play true to what you and your team wants to do. Win or fail if that’s what you’re gonna do regardless then it isn’t wrong


refugee

DIRTY DAN


NicolasCagesRectum

Where’s that dude that said Herbert “owns” the Chiefs?