It's possible that the Chiefs felt they could have run two plays in five seconds, although those plays would have needed to happen very quickly. After a Mahomes throwaway, they faced a second-and-goal from the 1 with five seconds left and no timeouts. Tyreek Hill then drew a pass interference call in the end zone, giving the Chiefs the ball at the 1-yard line with nine seconds to go. The Chiefs' offense had been unstoppable to that point and kept it up, driving 66 yards in five plays before using its final timeout with 13 seconds left. Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor was certainly thinking about it, as the Bengals were trying to bleed clock on that final drive before Perine scored "too early." With just over a minute to go and two timeouts in hand, Kansas City was in great shape to answer. After Samaje Perine ran away from a Charvarius Ward tackle and took a 41-yard screen to the house with 1:05 to go in the first half, pretty much everyone who watched that classic Bills-Chiefs game thought the same thing: The Bengals scored too early. The Chiefs fail to score on the final play of the first half. And while they didn't do much on defense during the Bengals' comeback, so many of the subpar plays came on the offensive side of the ball: They have nobody but themselves (and the efforts of a never-say-die Bengals team) to blame. They made mistake after mistake, and while they were almost able to overcome those issues with a late drive, no salvation was coming.
On a long enough timeline, they almost always seem to overcome their mistakes by producing something special when it matters.īut after jumping out to a big lead on Sunday, the Chiefs couldn't capitalize. When they couldn't stop Josh Allen and the Bills with the game on the line last week, the big three came through to bail them out. The Chiefs have been the poster children in the postseason for surviving sloppy football and mental mistakes, owing to the overwhelming talent and creativity of their superstars. What happened? How did the Bengals claw their way back? And how did the Chiefs blow a three-possession lead and miss out on a chance to make their third consecutive Super Bowl? Mistake after mistake for the Chiefs' offenseĮven a cat uses up its nine lives eventually, and that day came for Kansas City. Chiefs fans were frantically trying to log onto the in-stadium Wi-Fi to buy plane tickets to Los Angeles. The Chiefs topped out with a win expectancy of 95% after building that 18-point lead, meaning they had a better chance of winning than the Bills did after either of their late touchdowns in the divisional round. We've seen heavy pregame favorites lose before, of course, but this has to be one of the most shocking defeats in recent memory. The Bengals promptly rolled off 24 consecutive points to take the lead, and while the Chiefs tied the game at the end of regulation and won the coin toss, a Patrick Mahomes interception and an Evan McPherson field goal sealed a stunning trip to Super Bowl LVI for the Bengals. While the Rams were finally able to overcome their six-game losing streak against the 49ers and became the second team in two years to advance to a Super Bowl in their home stadium, the shocking result from Sunday's conference title games was unquestionably what we saw in the afternoon.Īfter coasting to a 21-3 lead in the second quarter, the Chiefs utterly and completely collapsed against Cincinnati. NFL, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs
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