Chapter 790 Exactly the same
"Grass!"
After all, Mahomes couldn't hold back and cursed.
He took a deep breath and tried his best to take a deep breath, but the anger was still burning. Under the helmet, his brows were furrowed, and you could see the solemn atmosphere.
In front of the TV, Aaron Donald also saw it, "He is under too much pressure. The more he wants to express himself, the more he can't stretch his hands and feet."
After a pause, Donald turned his head and looked aside, "Same as Jared."
Jared Goff, a handsome boy, was nicknamed a Hollywood star by his teammates because he looks like Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling. He finally proved himself at the quarterback position this season, but in the just-concluded National League finals However, his performance was far from outstanding.
Goff was slightly embarrassed and cleared his throat, "But they don't have Aaron Donald."
Donald chuckled, did not respond, and looked at the TV screen again.
The American League finals have begun.
The Los Angeles Rams players are now surrounded in the hotel. There are a huge crowd of fans in New Orleans outside, excited and angry. They cannot leave the hotel for the time being, so a group of people gathered in the room, turned on the TV, and watched the New England Patriots and Kansas City. Chief's duel——
The winner is their Super Bowl opponent.
In the sixth week of the regular season, the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs played a wonderful offensive battle at Gillette Stadium. It was undoubtedly one of the most exciting and exciting games of the season; they met again in the conference finals. , everyone in the league is looking forward to it.
Moreover, judging from all the signs off the field and on the field, this will be an exciting matchup, and the Kansas Chiefs are united and motivated from top to bottom.
However, reality is not like this.
The thing about competitive sports is that the more you want to express yourself, the less likely you are to perform at your normal level; the more you want to win, the more you hover on the edge of victory. If you are too nervous, you may perform abnormally; if you are too excited, you may perform abnormally.
There is a delicate balance between tension and excitement. Only by finding this balance can you give full play to your abilities.
The most difficult part in reality is that players often cannot do this. Even passing players who have reached the top of various sports may not be able to do it every time; therefore, competitive sports is a competition with opponents, but It’s more of a contest with myself.
In front of you, that's it.
The Kansas City Chiefs are too eager and eager to perform well. They are sitting at home, fighting for revenge, and witnessing fan activities before the game. Everyone in the team hopes to bring a beautiful performance at Arrowhead Stadium; however, This feeling has become a burden that restrains my hands and feet.
Since the beginning of the game, Mahomes' pass completion rate has been very poor, not even 40%. There is no doubt that this is his worst performance all season.
As the first full season starter in his career, Mahomes completed a season worthy of an MVP, replicating the miracle of Levi's emergence last year. He is worthy of being the most popular player in the league. It is precisely because of this that he is even more eager to play in the league. The outstanding performance continued in the playoff stage.
But this idea has become a curse, fully exposing the shortcomings of lack of experience and being prone to impatience at critical moments.
An old fox like Belichick will naturally not miss it.
The Kansas Chiefs' passing offense has been unable to open up the situation, so that all the pressure fell on the ground attack. Levi's performance was still remarkable; but the problem was that when all the pressure fell on the running ball, the tactics were exposed early. Li Wei fell into positional battles again and again, unable to use his advantages.
Reed made timely adjustments to allow Damien, who is good at positional warfare, to take on more ball-running tasks. However, the advancement efficiency was not high and the entire offense was fragmented. To make matters worse, the weather didn't help either.
The body temperature is approaching minus 15 degrees Celsius. The players waiting next to the court all put on long down jackets and turned on the heaters. Only in this way can they ensure that their bodies are warm and will not be injured when they play again.
As a result, the football leather becomes harder and control becomes more difficult, whether it is the quarterback or the wide receiver, including the running back.
Just when I thought things couldn't get any more chaotic, a third of the way into the second quarter, the sky started to rain, and it kept falling. As time went by, the light rain tended to intensify.
The cold and biting rain penetrated into the body along the jersey, and the remaining heat was quickly extracted. In an instant, it froze into ice. Soon, I could no longer feel my toes, and then my fingers. The connection between the brain and the body seemed to be stretched. , and then stretched, so that control becomes more and more difficult.
Chaos, disaster, mud.
Not only Mahomes, Levi also faced such a bad game environment for the first time in his career, and the entire Arrowhead Stadium was shrouded in rain——
The game still continues.
All these circumstances combined, and the Kansas Chiefs' invincible offense in the regular season was in deep trouble, stumbling from the first minute of the game.
And chaos is exactly what Belichick and Brady are best at.
On the one hand, experience is a treasure that cannot be exchanged for money; at the same time, the New England Patriots have been able to firmly stand on the top of the American League in the past few years because they are good at chaos and good at handling such chaos. The team's lineup may not be the most talented or powerful, but Belichick and Brady know how to make full use of the resources they have and win in chaos.
In addition, in the last divisional game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the New England Patriots' ground attack made a great contribution. This game continued to be strong and became the key to taking the initiative in bad weather.
Then, the New England Patriots took the lead.
"14:0".
With a passing touchdown and a running touchdown, the New England Patriots took the lead on the road in the freezing rain and firmly seized the initiative.
This situation can't help but remind people of last season's American League Division Series.
Exactly a year ago, the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs met in the divisional round. The defending champions at that time faced the challengers at home. They led by 0:21 in the first half. Almost everyone thought that the outcome was no longer in suspense. The Kansas Chiefs will once again stop in the divisional round.
However, Levi came out of nowhere and completely rewritten that game. In the end, he reversed the situation with a Hail Mary and defeated the New England Patriots to advance to the American League Finals.
Today, a year later, the familiar situation happened again.
Originally, people were expecting the strong showdown in the sixth week of the regular season to be staged again, with the two teams joining forces for a scoring battle; but in fact it was a repeat of last year's divisional round. If the Kansas Chiefs need to continue their hopes of defending the title, they need Another miracle of reversal——
I'm really tired of seeing reversals, okay? It's really boring to fall behind and catch up again every time.
this……
Sure enough, the Kansas Chiefs are still not good. They look very good on the surface, but they turn out to be paper tigers. They show their true colors in front of a truly strong team. The three losses in the regular season are ironclad evidence. Will the disaster happen again now?
After all, the New England Patriots firmly remember the lessons of last year's divisional round, and there is absolutely no way Belichick and Brady will repeat the same mistakes.
So, the Kansas City Chiefs are ready to go to sleep?
(End of this chapter)