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I said it was a mixed bag.
I think this is the right take. He was simply a bad pick by the chiefs. They're not a team that's going to pound the rock so he can get gritty and he's not the kind of back that can burst to the edge on a sweep which is a play they like to run. They also don't give him the ball in space to make the first man miss.
Reminded me of the alley oop scene in "Semi Pro". It just broke people's brains.Colts in that game I believe had around 35pts and had scored TDs on 3 straight drives.
Pats' offense was sadly only lead by the greatest qb ever though.
It was trust your bottom 5 defense to stop one of the top 5 qbs of all time that had just scored 3 straight tds, or trust the greatest qb of all time to get a yard.
I still remember the laughable arguments of the time. "You can't send a message to your D that you don't trust them to make the stop. Think of how that will affect them mentally".
Execution is like 9/10ths of football.
That was a laugh emoji and cry emoji at the same time. I assume you meant "betting" not "begging," right?
I'm not going to bother to look up the numbers, but I remember at the time lots of stat-heads talking about how that play was very clearly the right call from a WP perspective. It was only incorrect from the perspective of "This feels wrong and football teams never do it".
Yeah, sometimes WP has you out of the playoffs 99% certainty and you make it.
I took me about thirty seconds and I was finally like "aha!"
This is a pretty good take, though I think you're way too optimistic about his talent. I don't think he's a gritty runner. People didn't see him as a real tackle-breaker coming out of college. Reasonable people can disagree on that part of it, though.
I didn't think he was a gritty runner coming out either. But that's what I've seen so far this year. And with his (lack of) size that's what he needs to be - the kind of guy who gets low and pushes.
Interestingly, I remember people saying the same thing about Singletary when he was a rookie. At this point, their career trajectories are looking relatively similar (except that Singletary has more competition for touches). If Moss got cut tomorrow wouldn't we regard them as basically the same low-end RB2/flex?
they might have even gone to 3 straight afc championship games or 2 straight super bowls
If the numbers in a vacuum favored going for it, the fact that the game featured two of the greatest QBs in NFL history in their prime would only strengthen the case (Brady = higher percentage of converting than an average NFL offense; Peyton = higher risk of giving him the ball back).
Hell, if Hunt had done what he did and not lied to the Chiefs about it, they still might have let him stay on the roster while he served his suspension. You can say that the Chiefs acted cynically to avoid the PR hit, and I certainly wouldn't argue with that, but the fact is that the lying was the reason they cited for cutting him, and without that they may have tried to weather the storm.
